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Political violence rips apart several towns in southwest Texas. A far-right militia plots to kidnap the governor of Michigan and try her for treason. An armed mob of Trump supporters and conspiracy theorists storms the U.S. Capitol. Are these isolated incidents? Or is this the start of something bigger? Barbara F. Walter has spent her career studying civil conflict in places like Iraq, Ukraine, and Sri Lanka, but now she has become increasingly worried about her own country.

By the time Henry Kissinger was made secretary of state in 1973, he had become, according to a Gallup poll, the most admired person in America and one of the most unlikely celebrities ever to capture the world’s imagination. Yet Kissinger was also reviled by large segments of the American public, ranging from liberal intellectuals to conservative activists. Kissinger explores the relationship between this complex man's personality and the foreign policy he pursued.

Sometimes I feel like I have walked into the middle of a movie. Maybe I can make my own movie. The film will be the story of my life. No, not my life, but of this experience. I'll call it what the lady who is the prosecutor called me: Monster.

When an unidentified “monster” threatens international shipping, French oceanographer Pierre Aronnax and his unflappable assistant Conseil join an expedition organized by the US Navy to hunt down and destroy the menace. After months of fruitless searching, they finally grapple with their quarry, but Aronnax, Conseil, and the brash Canadian harpooner Ned Land are thrown overboard in the attack, only to find that the “monster” is actually a futuristic submarine, the Nautilus, commanded by a mystical man who calls himself Captain Nemo.

Ainsi, cet ouvrage offre une unique contribution à la connaissance et à la compréhension de la pensée classique et de l'éthique, tout en favorisant un dialogue interculturel plus large et la paix entre les peuples.

It's easy to think that ancient history is, well, ancient history—obsolete, irrelevant, unjustifiably focused on Greece and Rome, and at risk of extinction. In What Is Ancient History?, Walter Scheidel presents a compelling case for a new kind of ancient history—a global history that captures antiquity's pivotal role as a decisive phase in human development, one that provided the shared foundation of our world and continues to shape our lives today.

Ce travail visait à restaurer la doctrine classique de la création et à aborder des questions philosophiques et théologiques complexes liées à la création du monde et à la foi.

Die Bilderbuchklassiker von Michael Ende werden 40 Jahre alt! Zwei Hörspiele für Kinder ab 3 mit Uwe Friedrichsen, Ilja Richter und Klaus Manchen. "Das Traumfresserchen": Angst vor bösen Träumen zu haben und nicht einschlafen zu können ist schon für große Leute schlimm. Für kleine ist es noch viel schlimmer. Aber am allerschlimmsten ist es für eine kleine Prinzessin, die Schlafittchen heißt und in Schlummerland lebt. Ihr kann nur einer helfen - das Traumfresserchen! "Das kleine Lumpenkasperle": Auch das kleine Lumpenkasperle könnte Hilfe gut gebrauchen: Kurzerhand wird es von seinem Spielgefährten, einem kleinen Jungen, aussortiert.

Leonardo da Vinci created the two most famous paintings in history, The Last Supper and the Mona Lisa. But in his own mind, he was just as much a man of science and engineering. With a passion that sometimes became obsessive, he pursued innovative studies of anatomy, fossils, birds, the heart, flying machines, botany, geology, and weaponry.

It’s Paddington’s first Christmas at Windsor Gardens. Jonathan has written a letter to Father Christmas, but unfortunately Paddington has sent it to Aunt Lucy in Peru instead of the North Pole! Can he retrieve the lost letter in time and save Christmas?

Paddington is a polite little bear from Darkest Peru who lives with a family called the Browns at 32 Windsor Gardens. He is kind, curious and rather accident-prone. When Paddington learns all the Browns have a list of jobs to do around the house, he can’t wait to have his own. But chaos follows when he takes the wrong list! Taking a lead from Michael Bond’s original books and the spirit of the hugely successful Paddington movies, each new Paddington story is packed with vibrancy, humour and charm.

It’s Paddington’s first ever Halloween. Instead of trick or treating, Paddington decides it would be nicer to go ‘treat or treating’ around Windsor Gardens dressed up as a pigeon. His grumpy neighbour Mr Curry refuses to join in the Halloween fun...or does he?

As Carl Sagan did for astronomy and Brian Green did for cosmology, Walter Lewin takes listeners on a marvelous journey in For the Love of Physics, opening our eyes as never before to the amazing beauty and power with which physics can reveal the hidden workings of the world all around us. "I introduce people to their own world," writes Lewin, "the world they live in and are familiar with but don't approach like a physicist - yet."

Are mass violence and catastrophes the only forces that can seriously decrease economic inequality? To judge by thousands of years of history, the answer is yes. Tracing the global history of inequality from the Stone Age to today, Walter Scheidel shows that inequality never dies peacefully. Inequality declines when carnage and disaster strike and increases when peace and stability return. The Great Leveler is the first book to chart the crucial role of violent shocks in reducing inequality over the full sweep of human history around the world.

In Leading Matters, current Chairman of Alphabet (Google's parent company), former President of Stanford University, and "Godfather of Silicon Valley," John L. Hennessy shares the core elements of leadership that helped him become a successful tech entrepreneur, esteemed academic, and venerated administrator. Hennessy's approach to leadership is laser-focused on the journey rather than the destination. Each chapter in Leading Matters looks at valuable elements that have shaped Hennessy's career in practice and philosophy.

Written in 1819 but set in 12th-century England, Ivanhoe is a tale of love struggling to survive against a violent backdrop of politics and war. Wilfred of Ivanhoe was thrown out of his father's home when he fell in love with his father Cedric's ward, Lady Rowena. Ivanhoe later returns from fighting in the Crusades and is wounded in a jousting tournament. A series of events follows, including the return of King Richard to England, resulting in Ivanhoe's reconciliation with Cedric and his marriage to Rowena.

In this second edition, Murch reconsiders and completely revises his popular first edition's lengthy meditation on digital editing (which accounts for a third of the book's runtime) in light of the technological changes that have taken place in the six years since its publication.

The Queen is England’s most recognizable symbol. Her Royal Guards stand at attention to protect London’s famous Buckingham Palace. In this book, young listeners will discover the landmarks, traditions, and food of a country known for sophistication and afternoon tea.

In this collection of essays, Walter Isaacson reflects on the lessons to be learned from Benjamin Franklin, Albert Einstein, Bill Gates, Henry Kissinger, Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev, Hillary Clinton and Bill Clinton, and various other interesting characters he has chronicled as a biographer and journalist. The people he writes about have an awesome intelligence, in most cases, but that is not the secret of their success.

This volume explores the variety of business enterprise in the United States and analyzes its presence in the country's economy, its evolution over time, and its meaning in society.