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Japan is at a crossroads. The postwar economic miracle that brought it unprecedented development and prosperity is over. Since the publication of the first Culture Smart! guide, it has been overtaken by China as the world's second-largest economy. The balance of power in Asia has shifted and new players are entering the field. No one can predict how Japan will rise to the challenge, or what effect the changes will have on how people live, think, and behave.

Sakamori Kagami was one of the top players in the VRMMO Ark Earth Online as Danblf, a veteran summoner with the gravitas to match his elite status. When he falls asleep playing one day, he's transported to a world where the game is reality—but instead of his all-powerful avatar, he's stuck in the body of a cute young girl! He can't let anyone know that this little cutie is really Danblf, so he takes the name "Mira" and claims to be Danblf's disciple. If this gets out, he'll never live it down!

Book 6 in this epic LitRPG Saga from Actus, bestselling author of Return of the Runebound Professor. With nearly 7-million views on Royal Road, this definitive edition is perfect for fans of Seth Ring, Jonathan Brooks, Michael Chatfield and lovers of all things Progression Fantasy and Crafting.

When we avoid taking a decision, what happens to it? In The Unaccountability Machine, Dan Davies examines why markets, institutions and even governments systematically generate outcomes that everyone involved claims not to want. He casts new light on the writing of Stafford Beer, a legendary economist who argued in the 1950s that we should regard organisations as artificial intelligences, capable of taking decisions that are distinct from the intentions of their members.

In this action-packed legal thriller, Defense attorney Mickey Haller and Detective Harry Bosch must either work together—or die—as they investigate a Hollywood lawyer's murder. Inspiration for the #1 Netflix series The Lincoln Lawyer. Things are finally looking up for defense attorney Mickey...

The first-ever popular history of the RAND Corporation, written with full access to its archives, Soldiers of Reason is a page-turning chronicle of the rise of the secretive think tank that has been the driving force behind American government for 60 years

Franziska Möllering, die Patentochter eines Mitglieds des Magistrats von Groß-Berlin, wird eines Nachts von einem Unbekannten verfolgt. Und das, nachdem es schon einige Anschläge auf das größte Gebäude am Spittelmarkt gegeben hat. Ein Warenhaus, das sich im Besitz von Franziskas Ehemann, Gerhard Möllering, befindet. Staatsanwalt Wenk bittet Piefke, als Verkäufer getarnt, die Ermittlungen am Spittelmarkt aufzunehmen.

2019 was the last great year for the world economy. For generations, everything has been getting faster, better, and cheaper. Finally, we reached the point that almost anything you could ever want could be sent to your home within days - even hours - of when you decided you wanted it. America...

Shields and Salerno illuminate most brightly the last 56 years of Salinger’s life: a period that, until now, had remained completely dark to biographers. Provided unprecedented access to diaries, letters, legal records, and secret documents, listeners will feel they have, for the first time, gotten beyond Salinger’s meticulously built-up wall. The result is the definitive portrait of one of the most fascinating figures of the 20th century.

Running from a life she didn’t choose, in a city she doesn’t know, Sukanya, a young Thai girl, loses herself in the vastness of Tokyo. With her Bangkok street smarts and some stolen money, she stays ahead of her former captors who will do anything to recover the computer she took. After befriending Chiho, a Japanese girl living in an internet café, Sukanya makes plans to rid herself of her pursuers, and her past, forever.

Walt Weaver freut sich auf ein ausgelassenes Männerwochenende mit seinen neuen Arbeitskollegen in einer abgelegenen Waldhütte. Was er nicht ahnt: Die Clique hat einen bösen Streich für ihn vorbereitet, der mit einem Toten endet. Einige Jahre später hat es ein mysteriöser Killer auf die Freundesgruppe abgesehen. Genau wie damals spielt er ihnen makabre „Streiche", die allerdings garantiert tödlich enden. Ist es Walt, der sich angeblich in einem Sanatorium aufhalten soll, oder wer steckt sonst hinter der unheimlichen Wolfsmaske?

Sherlock Holmes, Dr. Watson und Bastien Lavache stellen schnell fest, dass sie nicht die einzigen Gefangenen der vermeintlichen Voodoo-Gemeinde sind. Auch der von ihnen gesuchte Mr. Paisley wird dort gegen seinen Willen festgehalten. Während Dr. Watson den verletzten Spediteur notdürftig behandelt, erfahren Sherlock Holmes und Bastien Lavache einiges von Mr. Paisley, was ein völlig neues Licht auf ihre bisherigen Ermittlungen wirft. Und noch während sie sich in Gefangenschaft befinden, kommt es zu einem weiteren, mysteriösen Mord.

Zu Dr. Victor Frankensteins Erleichterung verläuft die Reise nach Bistritz ohne größere Zwischenfälle. Doch die Weiterreise bereitet ihnen große Probleme. Kein Kutscher erklärt sich bereit, die Mitglieder des Zirkels in die Karpaten zu fahren, da die Wetterlage ungünstig ist. Frankenstein, Theodora Sachs, Aleister Crowley und Bastien Lavache ist es jedoch sehr daran gelegen, keine Zeit zu verlieren und Draculas Labor so rasch wie möglich zu erreichen.

Mimi Rutherfurt und Darlene D'Arcy entdecken bei einem Abendspaziergang die Leiche des Hellsehers Samson Fortune. Mr. Fortune ist zweifelsfrei ermordet worden. Verdächtige gibt es so einige: einen verzweifelten Witwer, den Fortune schändlich betrogen hat, eine wohlhabende Uhrmacherin, die von dem Ermordeten um viel Geld gebracht wurde, sowie einen Ehebrecher, den Fortune erpresste. Dennoch lässt eine scheinbare Nebensächlichkeit Mimi keine Ruhe – und plötzlich erscheint der Fall in einem ganz neuen Licht.

The American Classics Collection is a century-spanning collection of 17 classic novels, short stories, essay, and poetry by American authors, read by a cast of incredible narrators including Kobna Holdbrook-Smith; Nathan Osgood; Robert G. Slade; Jonathan Keeble, and more. Included here are stories by some of the greatest writers of all time, including Ernest Hemingway; Mark Twain; F. Scott Fitzgerald; Edith Wharton; Frederick Douglass; and H.P. Lovecraft, amongst a host of others.

When someone thinks of Jesus, “genius” is not likely the first word that comes to mind. But when studied in detail, Jesus’s teachings and interactions with others combined high levels of knowledge and insight, verbal skill, and simplicity—showing his genius. In The Surprising Genius of Jesus, Peter J. Williams examines the story of the prodigal son in Luke 15 to show the genius, creativity, and wisdom of Jesus’s teachings. He used simple but powerful stories to confront the Pharisees and scribes of the day, drawing on his knowledge of the Jewish Scriptures to teach his audience.

A wide-ranging selection of George Orwell's essays, written in the clear-eyed, passionate and uncompromising style that has earned him a reputation as one of Britain's greatest writers.

An adventure story primarily concerned with themes of hope, justice, vengeance, mercy, and forgiveness, The Count of Monte Cristo focuses on a man who is wrongfully imprisoned, escapes from jail, acquires a fortune, and sets about getting revenge on those responsible for his imprisonment. However, his plans have devastating consequences for the innocent as well as the guilty.

The earth is not a dead, mute landscape but an eloquent, living being. Sometimes it just takes a spade, a packet of seeds, and a pair of sturdy boots to realize it. The philosopher Byung-Chul Han spent three springs, summers, autumns, and winters in his secret garden in Berlin, devoting himself...

When a new dungeon is born, it wants nothing more than to have the most vicious monsters, the most cunning traps and the most shiny of loot. There is only one problem...but it's a rather big one. It finished its first floor years ago, but it still hasn't been visited by any adventurers! In order to find someone—or something—to explore its floors, or perhaps just to find someone to talk to, this dungeon will have to go way off script. But it soon discovers that going off script brings problems of its own, and that adventurers are not the only thing this world is missing.