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The Emperor is dead. His final weapon has been destroyed. The imperial army is in disarray. In the aftermath, Yrica Quell is just one of thousands of defectors from her former cause living in a deserters' shantytown - until she is selected to join Alphabet Squadron. Cobbled together from an eclectic assortment of pilots and starfighters, the five members of Alphabet are tasked by New Republic General Hera Syndulla herself. Like Yrica, each is a talented pilot struggling to find their place in a changing galaxy. Their mission: to track down and destroy the mysterious Shadow Wing.

In Understanding Software, Max Kanat-Alexander, Technical Lead for Code Health at Google, shows you how to bring simplicity back to computer programming. Max explains to you why programmers suck, and how to suck less as a programmer. There's just too much complex stuff in the world. Complex stuff can't be used, and it breaks too easily. Complexity is stupid. Simplicity is smart. 

Penguin presents the audiobook edition of The New Jim Crow written by Michelle Alexander, read by Karen Chilton. Once in a great while a book comes along that radically changes our understanding of a crucial political issue and helps to fuel a social movement. The New Jim Crow is such a book...

2020 Audie Awards Finalist - Young Reader Newbery Medalist Kwame Alexander narrates the audiobook version of his How to Read a Book, a poetic journey about the experience of reading. Find a tree—a black tupelo or dawn redwood will do—and plant yourself. (It’s okay if you prefer a stoop...

Social science is the study of human behavior. It offers the tools to understand and explain people's choices and actions, and how they live in communities. With insights from social science, organizations and individuals may be persuaded to change their behavior, making a difference in addressing societal challenges. Social science can offer us the answers to key questions, such as why do some people gamble, eat unhealthy foods, or hold racist beliefs?

Neste audiolivro, o ouvinte encontrará inúmeros exercícios e técnicas de psicoterapia corporal que objetivam aliviar as tensões musculares e restaurar a fluidez natural do organismo. Partindo de sua vasta experiência clínica, Lowen apresenta casos de pacientes com sérias dificuldades emocionais que resultaram em dores e em problemas de cunho afetivo, os quais foram resolvidos pela bioenergética. Mostra, assim, que quando atingimos o estado de graça conseguimos nos conectar com todas as criaturas vivas e reconhecer nossa ligação com o mundo.

With over 1 million copies sold worldwide and translated into 29 languages, Dr. Alex Loyd's international bestselling book is a life-changing program that uses energy medicine to heal mental and physical challenges. The Healing Code is your healing kit for life-to recover from the issues you...

The #1 New York Times bestselling account of a neurosurgeon's own near-death experience—for readers of 7 Lessons from Heaven. Thousands of people have had near-death experiences, but scientists have argued that they are impossible. Dr. Eben Alexander was one of those scientists. A highly...

The Napoleonic Wars saw fighting on an unprecedented scale in Europe and the Americas. It took the wealth of the British Empire, combined with the might of the continental armies, almost two decades to bring down one of the world's greatest military leaders and the empire that he had created. Napoleon's ultimate defeat was to determine the history of Europe for almost 100 years. From the frozen wastelands of Russia, through the brutal fighting in the Peninsula to the blood-soaked battlefield of Waterloo, this book tells the story of the dramatic rise and fall of the Napoleonic Empire.

*Named one of TIME magazine's Most Anticipated Titles of 2022* From a Pulitzer Prize finalist and New York Times bestselling author and poet comes a galvanizing meditation on the power of art and culture to illuminate America's unresolved problem with race. In the midst of civil unrest in the...

What can birds teach us about growing, finding food, making homes, and God? In Behold The Fowls of the Air, children meet birds from chickadees and gulls to larks, swallows, robins, sparrows, eagles, and ravens. These stories by Edith M. Patch, Lenore Elizabeth Mulets, and Mary Graham Bonner...

Seven hundred thousand years after humanity disappeared, Earth is alive again — but humans are gone.The world now belongs to the descendants of the machines humanity created.At the center of their civilization stands ORION, an ancient machine whose memory reaches back to the final days of...

Ein Blechnermeister legte 24 Frauen in Fässern ein, die er selbst verlötet hatte. Ein Krankenhaus-Elektriker nutzte 15 Jahre lang seine Zugangskarte zur Leichenhalle, ohne dass jemand die Protokolle las. Ein Doktorand der Kriminologie forschte darüber, wie Mörder überführt werden – und...

Van Helsing hat mit eigenen Augen Draculas Untergang gesehen. Er war sein hartnäckigster Widersacher, sein größter Feind. Der Jäger! Seine Studien über das Böse sind in den Van Helsing Archiven festgehalten. Adam Van Helsing, sein Sohn, und Johana Van Helsing, seine Großnichte, gehen diesen Spuren nach.

Ivan is a solitary man in his seventies, set in his ways and haunted by the failures of his past. His smart and cynical daughter, Nina, is in the twilight of her twenties and has long kept a distance from her sentimental father. But when Ivan proposes a trip to Europe in hopes that it will bring them closer together, Nina reluctantly agrees. They meet at LAX, where their departure is delayed. And delayed again. And again. As the hours drag on, their sharp, caustic and wide-ranging conversation reveals a lifetime of misunderstandings, unhealed wounds, and stubborn love.

Are you tired of the endless background noise of anxiety, road rage, and doomsday thinking? The Unshakeable Mind: A Practical Guide to Consistent Happiness. Hosted by David Alexander Palahnuk, this podcast delivers practical, secular tools to help you reclaim your inner sovereignty. Discover why your mind defaults to doom, how to reframe daily friction, and why radical, joyful cluelessness is your ultimate superpower. Stop letting external chaos steal your peace. Subscribe today and learn how to make consistent happiness a logical, effortless choice.

Ein verschwundener Leichnam auf der berühmten Ponte Vecchio führt Sonderermittlerin Giulia Ferrari in die verschwiegene Welt der Florentiner Goldschmiede. Da sie allein nicht weiterkommt, holt sie sich ungewöhnliche Verstärkung: den Ex-Kripo-Chef und jetzigen Gastwirt Luigi sowie Spürhund Tulipan.

The “blockbuster” (The Guardian) New York Times bestseller, a shocking, definitive account of the 2020 election and the first year of the Biden presidency by two New York Times reporters, exposes the deep fissures within both parties as the country approaches a political breaking point. This...

Beloved and bestselling author Alexander McCall Smith lends his delightful touch to EMMA, the next book in The Austen Project.Prepare to meet a young woman who thinks she knows everything.Fresh from university, Emma Woodhouse triumphantly arrives home in Norfolk ready to embark on adult life with a splash.

True Crime Extreme: Serial Killers, Cannibals, and the Authorities Who Looked AwayA metalworker who sealed women inside barrels he soldered shut himself.A hospital electrician with a keycard to the morgue.A criminology PhD student who studied murderers — and became one.Inside This BookDennis...