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Can you name a real spy from history? Meet Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, who were communist spies for the Soviet Union during the Cold War. Learn about their work on the Manhattan Project to build an atomic bomb for the US, and their eventual trial for espionage. Do you think these historical spies were guilty for sharing secrets with the Soviets?

Do You Have An Aging Parent Who — Blames you for everything that goes wrong? Cannot tolerate being alone, wants you all the time? Is obsessed with health problems, real, or imagined? Make unreasonable and/or irrational demands of you? Is hostile, negative and critical? Coping with these traits...

Centuries ago, Iceland cast out Gryla, the Christmas Witch, after her hunger for children became uncontrollable. She fled across the sea and found a new home in the mountains of West Virginia. And every winter since, her rituals have continued. Journalist Paige Warren doesn’t believe in monsters, until she witnesses Gryla’s return. Ranger Eli Davis carries the trauma of a childhood disappearance that Gryla caused.

Tauchen Sie ein in die rosarote Welt der Romantik – in eine Welt mit schönen Heldinnen, bösartigen Grafen, edlen englischen Adelskreisen und einer guten Portion Liebe, die letztendlich doch immer siegt und den Hörern den Genuss eines Happy Ends beschert. Barbara Cartland ist die erfolgreichste Autorin für Liebesgeschichten aller Zeiten.

In 1877 a young man developed a way to reproduce sounds so they could be heard again and again. This young man, Thomas Edison, has since been heralded as one of the world's greatest inventors. This inspiring biography details the creation of Edison's favorite invention, the phonograph. Young listeners will also discover that Edison did not allow his handicap (he was hard of hearing) to slow him down.

Warnung! Dieses Hörbuch ist nichts für Männer, die sich selbst für ein "Alpha-Männchen" halten oder zart besaitet sind. Warum? Weil dieses Hörbuch aufzeigen wird, warum gerade "Alphas", "Hypermännchen", "echte Männer", die Ursache für das immer wiederkehrende Leid von Völkermorden, Kriegen, Zerstörung, Armut, Ungerechtigkeit, Korruption und Wirtschaftskollapsen sind. Genau diese Vorwürfe lassen sogenannte "Hypermännchen" und kritikunfähige "Alphas" erfahrungsgemäß sofort laut aufheulen und reflexartig um sich beißen.

FBI agent Kate Callaway is on her way to San Francisco for a family wedding when her boss asks her to make a side trip to deliver an important message to a rogue ex-agent. Devin Scott wanted FBI resources to find a serial killer who is believed to be dead. Instead he gets a newly minted agent who is a beautiful, idealistic, and irritating distraction. He wants her to walk away, and she knows she should go...but she can't.

1642. The Dutch Golden Age is underway, with rapidly expanding Amsterdam at the height of its powers. Geertje, an impoverished widow from Edam, enters a melting pot of wealth and culture when she becomes nursemaid in the house of renowned painter, Rembrandt. Still grieving the deaths of her husband and stillborn son, Geertje soon bonds with her infant charge, Titus. She makes new friends and her confidence grows.

Most organizations view data monetization—converting data into money—too narrowly: as merely selling data sets. But data monetization is a core business activity for both commercial and noncommercial organizations, and, within organizations, it’s critical to have wide-ranging support for this pursuit. In Data Is Everybody’s Business, the authors offer a clear and engaging way for people across the entire organization to understand data monetization and make it happen.

When the Queen (known as Queenie—she can’t bear starchiness) and her court jester, Chucklegorgon, are threatened by a famine, everything starts to go wrong. Hunted by horrors and unnerved by shape-shifting deceptions, the friends must face their own fears and find a way through shadows from the past. But they are so small and the darkness seems too big for them. How can they save the Kingdom? If you like the Chronicles of Narnia, you will love this world where loyalty and friendship are tested to the limit in a desperate battle against a hidden enemy.

Selskabsdame eller guvernante? Af to onder havde Carina nødtvungent valgt det sidste og påtaget sig det vanskelige hverv at overbringe herren til Clinton Castle den lille søn, hvis eksistens han intet kendte til, men som ikke desto mindre var frugten af et overilet ægteskab med den orientalske danserinde Chi-Yun.

Are today's young adults gender rebels or returning to tradition? In Where the Millennials Will Take Us, Barbara J. Risman reveals the diverse strategies youth use to negotiate the ongoing gender revolution. Using her theory of gender as a social structure, Risman analyzes life history interviews with a diverse set of millennials to probe how they understand gender and how they might change it. Some are true believers that men and women are different and should be so. Others are innovators, defying stereotypes, and rejecting sexist ideologies and organizational practices.

A femboy becomes a girl? A witch offers a potion to a friend to turn him into a woman for a week. If his true inner self ends up relating to the new female body, he’ll stay that way for the rest of his life; if not, he’ll turn back into a male. Will he adapt to a new life with men being interested in him, or will his old paradigms cause him to return to the male form at the end of the week? Will he lose the witch-girlfriend he has always been in love with and end up with a man, or will they come closer together?

What would happen if an ancient Amazon warrior was catapulted into modern America? Follow Antiope as she struggles to understand modern patriarchal society, and help the women she encounters regain their matriarchal heritage.The author, an expert on Pre-Indo-European neolithic matriarchies, uses the story as a vehicle to comment on women's role in modern society.

The Institute team gets its first item from the secret warehouse, another crystal ball, and the team discovers the secret of the crystal balls.

Köyhtynyt Sacha Waverley lähtee samannäköisen serkkunsa sijasta Skotlantiin. Hän esittää serkkuaan Lady Deirdreä pitääkseen huolta tämän onnettomuudessa loukkaantuneesta kihlatusta, Silchesterin kreivistä. Kreivi on onnettomuuden vuoksi tilapäisesti sokeutunut, joten petos on vieläkin helpompi. Sacha pitää mielellään yllään sieviä mekkoja ja ottaa kaiken ilon irti väliaikaisesta rikkaudestaan. Unelmat kuitenkin rikkoutuvat, kun Sacha tajuaa rakastuneensa tähän mieheen, jota ei voisi koskaan saada...

Baseret på den nyeste viden om hjernen. Hvad skal der til, for at forholdet klarer sig gennem lyst og nød? Hvorfor gør mænd og kvinder, som de gør? Er du i tvivl, om du går efter - eller allerede har scoret - den rigtige? Den ultimative guide til det modsatte køn. Til mænd, kvinder, singler og par. Hvad tænder mænd og kvinder på? Er det kun mænd, der har sex på hjernen? Tænker kvinder lige så meget på sex? Hvorfor vil kvinder altid snakke, når de har dyrket sex? Hvorfor falder mænd altid i søvn efter sex?

 PTSD: What Everyone Needs to Know is a scientifically supported yet accessible resource on a disorder that affects up to seven percent of adults during their lifetime. Utilizing a listener-friendly Q&A format, the book demystifies and defines PTSD, explaining that, despite popular opinion and countless media portrayals, this is not simply a disorder for combat veterans. Instead, survivors of any life-threatening event can experience PTSD.  

AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER! In this "sage, valuable volume" (Publishers Weekly), First Lady Barbara Bush shares the best of her adviceto family, staff, and close friends. First Lady Barbara Bush was famous for handing out advice. From friends and family to heads of state and Supreme...

The prize-winning historian’s fresh look at the people and events that decided America’s struggle for independence. Its suspenseful climax is the 500-mile march undertaken by General Washington to surround Cornwallis at Yorktown.