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Facebook, PayPal, Alibaba, Uber - these seemingly disparate companies have upended entire industries by harnessing a single phenomenon: the platform business model. Platform Revolution delivers the first comprehensive analysis of how platforms use technology to match producers and consumers in a multisided marketplace, unlocking hidden resources and creating new forms of value. When a company like Uber connects drivers with passengers, everybody wins - except traditional cab companies, which are scrambling to survive.

Confined to her apartment, a professor falls into an unlikely romance—with a pangolin. Ana, a literature professor, plans her remote classes while confined to her apartment during lockdown. Her lover, Alice, has died of Covid. In her place are a series of animals that demand Ana's care and...

Als die Olchis und das Sams eine ermattete Lehrerin kennenlernen, sind sie - hilfbereit wie sie sind - sofort mit den Wunschpunkten zur Stelle: Alle Kinder werden brav gewünscht. Und die Lehrer? Die könnten dafür etwas lustiger sein. Also zaubert ein Wunschpunkt sie so richtig olchig. Alles gut also? Auf den ersten Blick scheint es so. Doch die Leherschaft treibt sich nun auf dem Müllberg herum und hat nur noch Unfug im Kopf, während die Kinder in der Schule sitzten und still und leise ihre Aufgaben erledigen und nichtmal mehr lachen ...

Der Kampf gegen die Seelenzehrer fordert einen hohen Preis: Tib, Amon und Saphira entfesseln die Triade – drei mächtige Schwestern, die über schwarze Magie gebieten und seit Jahrhunderten gefangen waren. Nun ist die Welt in Gefahr, denn die Schwestern sind entschlossen, ihre Rache zu vollziehen und die Ordnung zu zerstören. Alte Bündnisse zerbrechen, und die Schatten der Vergangenheit erheben sich, um die Gegenwart zu verschlingen.

In Sonnenpass kämpfen Tib, Amon und Saphira verzweifelt gegen die drohende Ewignacht. Gargula und ihre finsteren Schergen stehen kurz davor, ihre bösartigen Pläne zu verwirklichen und die Sonne für immer zu verdunkeln. Um die Stadt und ihre Bewohner zu retten, muss Tib einen gefährlichen Weg beschreiten: Er setzt nicht nur seine Kräfte, sondern auch sein Blut ein, um einen uralten Zauber zu wirken. Während die Finsternis immer näher rückt, wächst die Gefahr mit jedem Opfer. Der letzte Kampf um das Licht beginnt, und es gibt keinen Weg zurück.

Baumgartner’s life had been defined by his deep, abiding love for his wife, Anna, who was killed in a swimming accident nine years earlier. Now 71, Baumgartner continues to struggle to live in her absence as the novel sinuously unfolds into spirals of memory and reminiscence, delineated in episodes spanning from 1968, when Sy and Anna meet as broke students working and writing in New York, through their passionate relationship over the next 40 years, and back to Baumgartner’s youth in Newark and his Polish-born father’s life as a dress-shop owner and failed revolutionary.

Read the novel that ignited the phenomenon!After three hundred years of conflict, a new era begins for the Underworld. The Lost Child of Vecta, who seemed to appear out of nowhere, has defeated the Dark God and given the world its first taste of peace. The human realm and dark realm have begun...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. This is an audio adaptation of the ⁠OpenStax U.S. History textbook⁠. The audiobook is produced by ⁠Audileo⁠. What OpenStax says about their textbook: U.S. History is designed to meet the scope and sequence requirements of most introductory...

Join Kitty and her cat crew on the rooftops for a series of enchanting adventures by the light of the moon. Here, Kitty will discover that being a superhero is about more than using her special abilities-she must learn to be courageous too, scaling the city clock tower to rescue a very...

Stock Investing For Dummies is full of practical and realistic stock market guidance. Today's market is full of surprises, and this book will help you understand all aspects of the investing process, so you can thrive as an investor, come what may. With straightforward direction from a renowned best-selling author and national financial authority, this book discusses the many different ways you can invest in stocks, so you can create a portfolio that works for you. 

Causal Inference provides a brief and nontechnical introduction to randomized experiments, propensity scores, natural experiments, instrumental variables, sensitivity analysis, and quasi-experimental devices. Ideas are illustrated with examples from medicine, epidemiology, economics and business, the social sciences, and public policy.

When 12-year-old Joe and his two younger sisters visit Smugglers Cove for the summer holidays, they get caught up in a thrilling adventure that is beyond their wildest imagination. Follow the children as they flee down a river, are chased by ferocious dogs, get locked up in an old manor, get lost at sea, expose a spy, and more!

The raw, candid, unvarnished memoir of an American icon. The greatest movie star of the past 75 years covers everything: his traumatic childhood, his career, his drinking, his thoughts on Marlon Brando, James Dean, Elizabeth Taylor, John Huston, his greatest roles, acting, his intimate life with...

Over the past decades, Paul McKenna, Ph. D., has made a study of the mindset of people who are rich not only in money but in happiness and quality of life. In this groundbreaking book, he uses proven psychological techniques to help you install that same rich mindset in yourself. In assembling this system, Dr. McKenna has had personal access to some of the wealthiest people in the world. What he's learned is that making money is just a skill, but becoming rich is an art.

Read the novel that ignited the phenomenon! Kirito plunges into a suspicious new VRMMORPG called ALfheim Online to rescue Asuna, who never returned from Sword Art Online. ALO offers many features to entertain players in the wake ofSAO: ultra-high-end graphics, action-heavy gameplay, a choice of...

If you're interested in hearing voices and listening to experiences, stories and knowledge from the arts and culture sector we don't often get to hear, then Audiovisual Cultures is the podcast for you. Learn alongside Paula Blair as she explores different approaches to creative practice and cultural production across film/cinema, theatre, television/streaming, video, visual art, sonic art, radio, audio drama, podcasting, performance, music, the internet, visual culture, museums and galleries and much more with the help of the scholars, practitioners and enthusiasts she meets along the way. ...

Paul Blick a huit ans lorsque son frère meurt brutalement, le jour où la France entérine la Ve République. De Charles de Gaulle à Jacques Chirac, des premiers baisers aux premiers cheveux blancs, Blick hésite entre désir de révolte, confort bourgeois et recherche d'un absolu désillusionné. Cette vie française, à laquelle chacun peut s'identifier, est inscrite dans une Histoire en marche et subit le monde autant qu'elle le construit.

Learn Spanish for Beginners: Over 100 Easy and Common Spanish Conversations for Learning Spanish Language is one of the best and most complete books you can choose to learn the Spanish language using basic, simple, and common conversations. This is because it proposes an entertaining way of learning through the use of conversations and day-to-day examples, so the listener can distinguish the different uses that are given to words and expressions in different fields.

The Old Patagonian Express tells of Paul Theroux’s train journey down the length of North and South America. Beginning on Boston’s subway, he depicts a voyage from ice-bound Massachusetts to the arid plateau of Argentina’s most southerly tip. Shivering and sweating by turns as the...

Ce livre audio est composé des 50 plus beaux poèmes de la langue française.