検索キーワード： 著者 "A Adam" すべてのカテゴリー

Intelligence is usually seen as the ability to think and learn, but in a rapidly changing world, there's another set of cognitive skills that might matter more: the ability to rethink and unlearn. In our daily lives, too many of us favor the comfort of conviction over the discomfort of doubt. We listen to opinions that make us feel good, instead of ideas that make us think hard. We see disagreement as a threat to our egos, rather than an opportunity to learn.

Darby Thorne is a college student stranded by a blizzard at a highway rest stop in the middle of nowhere. She’s on the way home to see her sick mother. She’ll have to spend the night in the rest stop with four complete strangers. Then she stumbles across a little girl locked inside one of their parked cars. There is no cell phone reception, no telephone, no way out because of the snow, and she doesn’t know which one of the other travelers is the kidnapper.

After a busy summer carnival season, Robin Wildwood is trying to take it easy. Her job as Head Witch tends to make that challenging, but she's keen to focus on her budding relationship with Harvey and her hopes of getting her dad and brother back in touch with one another. When a sinister new enemy shows up in Wildwood Heath and attacks a group of camping badger shifters, the peace is shattered. Faced with an invisible adversary, Robin is forced to turn to outside help in the form of the mysterious Reaper who just showed up in town.

The Story Ritual is a fully illustrated, deep-dive handbook for storytellers. Writer and Story Artist Adam Argot connects the ancient patterns of ritual to modern story structure. Drawing on ancient tools of exegesis, combined with anthropology, contemporary theories of mind, and Argot’s experience in story development, this manual clearly presents a full picture of the character engine. Loaded with lush illustrations and diagrams, this vivisection of character unlocks the hidden world of story that brews below the surface.

Der ehemalige Metzger Max Saxinger ist zum konsequenten Tierschützer und "Kuhflüsterer" mutiert und will nun alle Unterfilzbacher zum Vegetarismus bekehren. Nachdem Metzger Saxinger plötzlich tot im Stall des Huberbauern gefunden wird, ist die Liste der Verdächtigen dementsprechend lang. Und der erprobte Bauhof-Detektiv Hansi Scharnagl hat sofort das ungute Gefühl, dass der zuständige Kommissar Bernhard Dietl bei seinen Ermittlungen auf dem Holzweg ist.

KAMASUTRA IN UNTERFILZBACH So etwas gab es noch nie im niederbayerischen Dorf Unterfilzbach: Innerhalb weniger Tage ereignen sich zwei Todesfälle, bei denen nicht alles mit rechten Dingen zugegangen sein kann. Doch während die Polizei sowohl beim Dorfapotheker als auch bei der Metzgereiverkäuferin von Unfällen ausgeht, stellt der naive und bodenständige Familienvater und Bauhofangestellte Hansi Scharnagl, der die beiden Leichen entdeckt hat, eigene Ermittlungen an.

In a world overflowing with noise and deception, where truth often feels like a distant memory, Knowledge “They” Don’t Want You to Have invites you to rediscover what’s been hidden from you. It serves as a call to action, calling into question everything you’ve been taught and leading you on a path to clarity and lasting freedom. Through scientific insights, personal stories, and profound reflections, author Adam Herald uncovers the deeper truths that shape our world—truths that have long been obscured by forces seeking to control and manipulate.

Step into a world where words don't just arouse-they command, seduce, and dominate. This is not your typical erotica. This is an immersive, ASMR-infused journey into the deepest corners of desire, where every whisper, moan, and breathless command is designed to make your pulse race and your body ache for more.

From her lookout in the crumbling mansion that was her childhood home, Ginny watches and waits for her younger sister to arrive. Vivien has not set foot in the house since she left nearly 50 years ago; the reclusive Ginny has rarely ventured out, retreating into the precise routines that define her days, carrying on her father's solitary work studying moths.

Aaron Fortin is new in town. He drives a brand-new Acura—a gift from his parents for uprooting him in the middle of senior year. Showing up on his first day at the local public school in that nice of a car? He knows he’ll never blend in, and he doesn’t care to try. The car, the new-kid mystique, he can use all that.... Crystal Giordano carpools to the same school in her friend Trevor’s beat-up van. In the van along with Crystal and Trevor are Paul, Harmony, and Gayle. Crystal’s technically part of their misfit group, but most of the time, she feels like she’s the only one who doesn’t fit.

Evie Jones has dedicated her life and very limited funds working for Southern Service Paws, the company that matched her with the love of her life: Charlie, a service dog trained to assist with her epilepsy. But it’s no secret that the company has been struggling to make ends meet. It’s up to her and her longtime mentor and boss to throw the fundraiser of the century to keep the doors open.

It's an ordinary Thursday lunchtime for Arthur Dent until his house gets demolished. The Earth follows shortly afterwards to make way for a new hyperspace bypass and his best friend has just announced that he's an alien. At this moment, they're hurtling through space with nothing but their towels and an innocuous-looking book inscribed with the big, friendly words: DON'T PANIC. The weekend has only just begun . . .

We're trying to get something done that really matters to us. To do this we need to work with others. But these others include people we don't agree with or like or trust, so working with them seems impossible - like collaborating with the enemy. What can we do?

Seconds before the Earth is demolished to make way for a galactic freeway, Arthur Dent is plucked off the planet by his friend Ford Prefect, a researcher for the revised edition of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy who, for the last 15 years, has been posing as an out-of-work actor.

Academy Award nominee Samuel L. Jackson ( Pulp Fiction) rocks this mock bedtime story, capturing a hilarious range of emotions as the voice of a father struggling to get his child to sleep. Go the F**k to Sleep is a bedtime book for parents who live in the real world, where a few snoozing kitties and cutesy rhymes don’t always send a toddler sailing blissfully off to dreamland.

Explore each organ of the body in this immersive audiobook edition of Kay's Anatomy, read by Adam Kay with a full cast of voices, including Mark Gatiss, Sandi Toksvig, Andy Nyman and Lolly Adefope. Do you ever think about your body and how it all works? Like really properly think about it? The human body is extraordinary and fascinating and, well...pretty weird. Yours is weird; mine is weird; your maths teacher's is even weirder. This book is going to tell you what's actually going on in there and answer the really important questions.

Read by the author, Adam Kay. The multi-million copy bestseller Book of the Year at The National Book Awards ‘Painfully funny. The pain and the funniness somehow add up to something entirely good, entirely noble and entirely loveable.' - Stephen Fry Welcome to the life of a junior doctor...

The foundation for all modern economic thought and political economy, The Wealth of Nations is the magnum opus of Scottish economist Adam Smith, who introduces the world to the very idea of economics and capitalism in the modern sense of the words.

For generations, we have focused on the individual drivers of success: Passion, hard work, talent, and luck. But in today’s dramatically reconfigured world, success is increasingly dependent on how we interact with others. In Give and Take, Adam Grant, an award-winning researcher and Wharton’s highest-rated professor, examines the surprising forces that shape why some people rise to the top of the success ladder while others sink to the bottom.

An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations, in 5 volumes, is the magnum opus of the Scottish economist and moral philosopher Adam Smith. First published in 1776, the book offers one of the world's first collected descriptions of what builds nations' wealth and is today a fundamental work in classical economics.View our full collection of podcasts at our website: https://www.solgoodmedia.com or YouTube channel: www.solgood.org/subscribeThis is a Librivox Recording. All Librivox recordings are in the public domain.