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One of our great contemporary scientists reveals the 10 profound insights that illuminate what everyone should know about the physical world.

Whether it’s your first job in Japan or a plan for career transition, working in the recruitment industry can be extremely rewarding, fun, and lucrative. This guide will walk you through the ins and outs of the Japanese recruitment landscape, provide actionable tips, and set you up for success throughout the entire interview process.

Since man first walked the Earth...in heels, no other art form has wielded as unique an influence on pop culture as drag. Drag artists have now sashayed their way to snatch the crowns as the queens of mainstream entertainment. Through informative and witty essays chronicling over 100 years of drag, listeners will embark on a Priscilla-like journey through pop culture, from television shows like Bosom Buddies and RuPaul's Drag Race, to films like Some Like It Hot and Tootsie, and Broadway shows like Hedwig and the Angry Inch....

"The Adventures of Pinocchio" is a story about an animated puppet, boys who turn into donkeys, and other fairy tale devices. The setting of the story is the Tuscan area of Italy. It was a unique literary marriage of genres for its time. The story's Italian language is peppered with Florentine dialect features, such as the protagonist's Florentine name.

The touching story of a young, mortally ill priest who spends his last days working among the Kwakiutl Indians of British Columbia.

Der Ort ist prachtvoll, die Stimmung aufgeräumt: Renommierte Dante-Gelehrte aus aller Herren Länder tagen im altehrwürdigen Saal der Malteser auf dem römischen Aventin, mit Blick auf den Petersdom. Im Mittelpunkt steht die "Göttliche Komödie", Dantes Einblick in die Welt nach dem Tod. Einer der eifrig Debattierenden ist Gottlieb Elsheimer, Frankfurter Romanist und nach eigener Einschätzung ein Kandidat fürs Fegefeuer.

John Grady Cole is the last bewildered survivor of long generations of Texas ranchers. Finding himself cut off from the only life he has ever wanted, he sets out for Mexico with his friend, Lacey Rawlins. Befriending a third boy on the way, they find a country beyond their imagining: barren and beautiful, rugged yet cruelly civilised.... A place where dreams are paid for in blood.

Although middle-income families don't earn much more than they did several decades ago, they are buying bigger cars, houses, and appliances. To pay for them, they spend more than they earn and carry record levels of debt. In a book that explores the very meaning of happiness and prosperity in America today, Robert Frank explains how increased concentrations of income and wealth at the top of the economic pyramid have set off "expenditure cascades" that raise the cost of achieving many basic goals for the middle class.

Labeled variously a realistic story of whaling, a romance of unusual adventure and eccentric characters, a symbolic allegory, and a drama of heroic conflict, Moby Dick is first and foremost a great story. It has both the humor and poignancy of a simple sea ballad, as well as the depth and universality of a grand odyssey.

Death is not waiting for us at the end of a long road. Death is always with us, in the marrow of every passing moment, a secret teacher hiding in plain sight, helping us to discover what matters most in life. So begins Frank Ostaseski's stirring book, The Five Invitations, an exhilarating meditation on the meaning of life and how maintaining an ever-present awareness of death can bring us closer to our truest selves.

What would your life look like if you could distill the wisdom of the ages and make it your own? Now you can! Far from being "lost classics", this collection of audiobooks offers timeless jewels from some of the greatest names in personal development. Every success fundamental is explored in detail to bring you keen insights to savor - and use! These rare classics are sure to transform your perspective and your life.

Die Familie Thomas Mann hat ein Haus am Tegernsee gemietet. Die Kinder schwimmen und angeln Rotaugen, der Vater rudert, geht spazieren und besteigt erstmals einen Berg, die Mutter kümmert sich um das neue Baby, und Bauschan, der Hund, döst im Schatten, während ihn Thomas Mann gerade zum Helden seiner Erzählung »Herr und Hund« macht. Den Schriftsteller plagen Sorgen. Die deutsche Niederlage im Ersten Weltkrieg steht bevor, Revolution liegt in der Luft, und mit seinem antidemokratischen Manifest »Betrachtungen eines Unpolitischen« sitzt Thomas Mann historisch auf dem falschen Dampfer.

Up All Night not only grips listeners in unrelenting humor, but it offers a fresh voice embracing listeners with graphic injuries, tender recollections, big surprises, and love. Posing nuanced psychological questions while never losing its heart, Up All Night traces the challenges of living with undiagnosed Asperger's syndrome before the social disorder became known in 1992.

Als die Jungs in der Rangelei um das Buch aus Versehen ein paar Seiten herausreißen, hat das fatale Folgen: Vier der Märchenfiguren erwachen zum Leben und stehen plötzlich mitten in der Schulbibliothek. Die Freunde sind sich einig: Aschenputtel, der Froschkönig, Rumpelstilzchen und die Hexe aus „Hänsel und Gretel" – müssen schleunigst zurück in ihre Märchenwelt.

Ethan Blackwood hat sein Leben auf Kontrolle aufgebaut. Als Notfallchirurg rettet er täglich Menschen, während er die Erinnerung an jene Nacht, die sein eigenes Leben unwiderruflich zerstörte, tief in sich vergräbt. Claire Winters lässt ihre Gefühle durch ihre Finger sprechen. Als Konzertpianistin hat sie auf den größten Bühnen der Welt gespielt, doch nach dem Tod ihrer Mutter sucht sie in Providence einen Neuanfang. Was als flüchtige Begegnung beginnt, entwickelt sich zu einer tiefen Verbindung.

It's summer in Memphis. The sweat is sticking to Rudy Baylor's shirt and creditors are nipping at his heels. Once he had aspirations of breezing through law school and punching his ticket to the good life. Now he doesn't have a job or a prayer-except for one: an insurance dispute that leaves a family devastated and opens the door for a lawsuit, if Rudy can find a way to file it. By the time Rudy gets to court, a heavyweight corporate defense team is there to meet him.

Michael was in a hurry. He was scrambling up the ladder at Drake & Sweeney, a giant D.C. law firm with 800 lawyers. The money was good and getting better; a partnership was three years away. He was a rising star with no time to waste, no time to stop, no time to toss a few coins into the cups of panhandlers. No time for a conscience. But a violent encounter with a homeless man stopped him cold. Michael survived; his assailant did not. Who was this man?

Detective Jonathan Bennet hasn’t been the same since a raid that went sideways and left his partner, Riley Chen, dead on the floor of a Haven chapel. Now, when he sleeps, he sees her blood on the blindfolded statues lining Haven’s walls. And when he’s awake? He drinks. But then the bodies start dropping. Fast. Clean. And untraceable. The media calls the killer Death’s Shadow. Their targets? The Haven’s enemies. The department wants Jonathan to stand down. Stay quiet.

In these essays, TV’s Frank Conniff focuses on twenty-five of the Mystery Science Theater 3000 films he found and riffed with his fellow MST3K writers and cast mates. It tells the story of how a comedian who was lucky enough to work on beloved Peabody Award winning TV show was transformed into a comedian who was lucky enough to work on a beloved Peabody Award winning TV show. It’s a story that will stay with you for the rest of your life, if you happen to die just as you finish listening to the book.

Anlässlich des Thronjubiläums von Queen Victoria wird in London erstmals die legendäre Wild-West-Show von William Cody alias 'Buffalo Bill' aufgeführt. Wären da nicht seltsame Todesfälle, eine Attentatsdrohung und ein leibhaftiger Büffel, der ohne jeglichen Grund jemanden zu Tode trampelt. Sir Mycroft Holmes sieht nur einen Ausweg, um einen politischen Skandal erster Güte zu verhindern und einen reibungslosen Ablauf der Feierlichkeiten zu gewährleisten. Sein Bruder muss her: der weltberühmte und eiskalt deduzierende Meisterdetektiv aus der Baker Street.