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The Manipulator. I can manipulate the emotions of anyone who lets me. I will make you hurt, make you cry, make you laugh and sigh. But my words don't affect him. Especially not when I plead for him to leave. He's always there, watching and waiting. And I can never look away. Not when I want him to come closer. The Shadow. I didn't mean to fall in love. But now that I have, I can't stay away. I'm mesmerized by her smile, by her eyes, and the way she moves. I'll keep watching and waiting. Until I can make her mine. And once she is, I'll never let her go.

In an Audible Exclusive performance, Holliday Grainger lends her voice to a new unabridged recording of Lady Chatterley's Lover, a novel that was banned until 1960 and is now considered to be one of the most renowned love stories of all time. This production features an exclusive introduction written and narrated by Fern Riddell, a cultural historian who specialises in sex in the Victorian and Edwardian eras.

In the years following her role as the lead author of the international best seller, Limits to Growth - the first book to show the consequences of unchecked growth on a finite planet - Donella Meadows remained a pioneer of environmental and social analysis until her untimely death in 2001. Thinking in Systems is a concise and crucial book offering insight for problem-solving on scales ranging from the personal to the global. Edited by the Sustainability Institute's Diana Wright, this essential primer brings systems thinking out of the realm of computers and equations and into the tangible world....

'The Country of the Blind' is the strange story of a mountain guide who accidently falls off a cliff ledge in the Andes. He survives the fall unhurt, and finds himself in a remote valley where a tribe lives completely cut off from the rest of the world. A hereditary illness has meant that for 15 generations all the members of the tribe have been born blind. As a result, they now have a highly evolved sense of hearing, scent and touch. 'In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king,' thinks the mountaineer.

This audiobook explains why emotions are contagious, how health behaviors spread, why the rich get richer, even how we find and choose our partners. Intriguing and entertaining, Connected overturns the notion of the individual and provides a revolutionary paradigm - that social networks influence our ideas, emotions, health, relationships, behavior, politics, and much more. It will change the way we think about every aspect of our lives.

A metallic cylinder falls to earth, landing in the sands of Horsell Common, Surrey, generating curiosity and awe. But what's inside soon induces only terror. The story that unfolds is a breathless first-person account of an inconceivable reality: an extraterrestrial war has been waged on the planet.

Having devoted his studies to optics and refraction, an impulsive scientist named Griffin has rendered himself invisible. Unable to reverse the effects, his struggle to survive grows desperate until he realizes that there are benefits to living out of the public eye. Increasingly isolated, he soon spirals into a life of crime and degenerates into madness. He can't see that he has become his own worst enemy.

Most people believe that the best way to motivate is with rewards like money - the carrot-and-stick approach. That's a mistake, says Daniel H. Pink (author of To Sell Is Human: The Surprising Truth About Motivating Others). In this provocative and persuasive new book, he asserts that the secret to high performance and satisfaction - at work, at school, and at home - is the deeply human need to direct our own lives, to learn and create new things, and to do better by ourselves and our world.

ふと流れてくる「冷気」というものに必要以上の恐れを抱く男。寒さに対して人以上に震え、そして軽い寒気を感じるだけで吐き気を覚える。なぜこの男はこんな妙な癖を持ってしまったのか、これからその理由を、彼の人生の中でもっとも恐ろしいというその場面を、お話しよう。雑誌の仕事を持ってはいるがお金のなかった彼は、下宿を探すうちにある建物へとたどり着いた。古くかびくさい匂いに満ちてはいるが、しのぎの部屋としては充分であった。もちろん、わずらわしい近所付き合いなども必要なかった。住み始めて3週間ほど経った頃、上階から床にアンモニアのきつい匂いを放つ、妙な液体がぽたぽたと落ちてきていることに気がついた。上の部屋には、ムニョース先生という腕にいい医者が住んでいるという。ある日、急な心臓発作に襲われた彼は、ムニョース先生の部屋へ初めて足を踏み入れた。その部屋は、6月の後半でかなり暑い日であったにも関わらず、とてもひんやりとしていた。冷気のただよう部屋で、実験器具と薬品に囲まれたムニョース先生は、心臓がなくなっても、意志や意識があればいき続けられるのだと言う。発作のすっかり治まった彼は、それからムニョース先生との付き合いを始めるのだが、しかし何週間も過ぎたある日、恐怖の中の恐怖と呼べる出来事が唐突にやってきた…...

そこに住んだ多くの人が次々と奇妙な死を遂げている“忌まわしの館” 幼い頃からずっと気になっていた私は、大人になったとき叔父からその館にまつわる詳しい歴史を聞き、さらに興味を持った私は、謎の解明のために調査に乗りだすことにした。やがて私は叔父とふたりでその館の地下室に入り、そこで……!?呪われた家には、“何か”が棲んでいる!?現実と幻想が交錯するラヴクラフト独特の世界観から抜け出せなくなる恐怖と怪奇の傑作!

Over 5,000 years, India has been home to a rich tapestry of peoples and cultures. Two of the world's great religions - Hinduism and Buddhism - have their origins in South Asia, and the lands east of the Indus River have long been a central hub for trade, migration, and cultural exchange. Today the subcontinent contains 20 percent of the world's population and is a thriving center for global business, making this region one of most significant economic powerhouses in the world.

There are many stories we can tell about the past, and we are not, perhaps, as free as we might imagine in our choice of which stories to tell or where those stories end. John Arnold's addition to Oxford's popular Very Short Introductions series is a stimulating essay about how people study and understand history.

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.

Revenge, death, and destruction abound in this early short story by H.P. Lovecraft. The story follows Antoine, a count who is last in line to die at the age of 32 due to a curse put on his family hundreds of years prior. His ancestor, being responsible for the death, brought about the curse, and Antoine was left to watch all his family, including his manservant, die an early death. But when his time comes and he is exploring the castle in wait, he manages to successfully end the curse by deflecting the fatal blow of Charles - the son of the man who was killed so many years ago.

ニューイングランドのミスカトニック渓谷で調査のため家々を回る主人公。その最中、嵐に見舞われ、一軒のぼろ家で雨宿りすることに。そこで見つけた一冊の本と、そこに見える一葉の挿絵。恐れを抱く主人公と妖しく微笑むその家の老人……。20世紀最大の怪奇小説作家、H・P・ラヴクラフトがおくる、聴く者の想像力を掻きたてる恐怖作品です。

In this chilling tale of exploration and existential dread, H.P. Lovecraft takes listeners to the frozen wastes of Antarctica—where ancient horrors lie buried beneath the ice, waiting to be unearthed.

This audiobook includes unabridged recordings of 13 of H. P. Lovecraft's most well-renowned stories, read by Audie-Award winner Jonathan Keeble. The stories included here are: 'The Colour Out of Space', 'The Dunwich Horror', 'The Whisperer in the Darkness', 'The Haunter of the Dark', 'Call of Cthulhu', 'The Rats in the Walls', 'From Beyond; Dagon', 'At the Mountains of Madness', 'In the Vault', 'The Shadow Over Innsmouth', 'The Dreams in the Witch House', 'The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath'.

テンペスト山周辺の村落では、“うちひそむ恐怖”のことがまことしやかに噂されている。恐怖の権化のごとき何かが、一帯にひそんでいるという。私は記者であり、奇怪なもの、恐ろしいものが好きで、それが高じて、文学世界や現実世界に変わった恐怖というものをあれこれと探しに出るのが私の仕事であった。空に雷が響くある夜、私は用心棒ふたりを連れて、恐怖の大本とも言われる山頂のマーテンス家の屋敷へ、“うちひそむ恐怖”の正体を探るために向かうが……!!! 聴く者を不気味な暗黒の世界へと引きずりこむ、ラヴクラフトが放つ傑作・怪奇幻想物語!

Known as ‘The Father of Science Fiction’, Herbert George Wells’ writing career spanned over 60 years. He was a writer of novels, short stories, nonfiction books and articles. As a young man, Wells won a scholarship to the Normal School of Science in London, sparking his infamous vocation as a science fiction writer. Introduced by film director and H. G. Wells fanboy Eli Roth, this collection features unabridged recordings of the novels performed by Hugh Bonneville, Jason Isaacs, Sophie Okonedo, David Tennant and Alexander Vlahos.

From making faster, better decisions to automating rote work to enabling robots to respond to emotions, AI and machine learning are already reshaping business and society. What should you and your company be doing today to ensure that you're poised for success and keeping up with your competitors in the age of AI? Artificial Intelligence: The Insights You Need from Harvard Business Review brings you today's most essential thinking on AI and explains how to launch the right initiatives at your company to capitalize on the opportunity of the machine intelligence revolution.