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Im Jahr 2116: Nachdem die Menschen zahlreiche Schwierigkeiten überwunden haben, hoffen sie nun auf eine friedliche Zukunft. Sowohl auf der Erde als auch auf den Kolonial­welten arbeitet man vertrauensvoll an gemeinsamen Projekten, häufig mit den Partnern aus anderen Sternenreichen zusammen.

Theirs was an unlikely life together. Sheila gave birth to Josephine on 11th May 1993 and for twenty-three years they co-existed in a loving mother-daughter relationship, but one with a difference. Josephine suffered catastrophic brain injury at birth, never spoke to Sheila, rarely smiled and was barely able to see the faces of the people who loved her.

It’s 1971, and Joan Dumann fears her former business partner wants her dead—but her anxiety is less about dying than it is about feeling disrespected and invalidated. As she constructs a letter about her predicament, she revisits her past. Born into a prominent Philadelphia Quaker family in 1915 and raised with privilege and opportunity, Joan wrestles with her turbulent thoughts and unfulfilled desires—an internal battle that often results in self-destructive tendencies.

How did we become a world where facts—shared truths—have lost their power to hold us together as a community, as a country, globally? How have we allowed the proliferation of alternative facts, hoaxes, even conspiracy theories, to destroy our trust in institutions, leaders, and legitimate experts? Best-selling journalist Steven Brill documents the forces and people, from Silicon Valley to Moscow to Washington, that have created and exploited this world of chaos and division—and offers practical solutions for what we can do about it.

Als Perry Rhodan von einer langen Reise zurückkehrt, stellt er fest: Das Solsystem ist von der Außenwelt ab­geschottet. Nur mit größter Mühe kann er den Sperrschirm überwinden. Auf der Erde sind acht Jahrzehnte vergangen. Die meisten Menschen sind an der Aphilie erkrankt, empfinden keine Emotionen wie Mitleid oder Freude mehr. Eine Diktatur der reinen Vernunft unterdrückt die wenigen Immunen.

Ever since its initial publication in 2008, The Transgender Child has been lauded as the most trusted source of information for families wanting to understand and affirm their transgender, gender-expansive, or nonbinary child. Utilized around the world and translated into multiple languages, The Transgender Child has won accolades from medical and mental health professionals, teachers, and, most especially, from parents. Authors Stephanie Brill and Rachel Pepper have now thoroughly revised and updated their ground-breaking classic.

With the challenges the world is facing today, the humanities and social sciences are needed and more relevant than ever to help us understand what it means to ‘lead a good life’. The authors and editors, with whom Brill collaborates, dedicate their academic life to asking critical questions on globalization, the rise and fall of societies, migration, the functioning of our democracies, the history of conflicts and international relations, inequality, water security or climate change, to name just a few. In this year’s article we let our authors and editors explain – from their ...

Nel Grand Tour, intrapreso per oltre due secoli da intellettuali e rampolli dell'aristocrazia europea, l'esperienza del viaggio diventa strumento di formazione. Si partiva per confrontarsi con l'ignoto, per "strofinare il proprio cervello contro quello degli altri", come diceva Montaigne, per conoscere le vestigia delle civiltà antiche.

Gut 8000 Jahre vor Beginn der christlichen Zeitrechnung: Auf einer großen Insel im Atlantischen Ozean haben die menschenähnlichen Arkoniden eine Kolonie errichtet, die den Namen Atlantis trägt. Von dort aus starten Raumschiffe ins All, von den steinzeitlichen Menschen als göttliche Erscheinungen bestaunt. Dann strandet ein Mann aus der fernen Zukunft auf Atlantis. Sein Name: Perry Rhodan. Der Raumfahrer wurde von einer Zeitmaschine in die Vergangenheit versetzt. Er muss einen heiklen Auftrag erfüllen und darf dabei nicht erkannt werden.

A hilarious satire of today's media wars set in 1773 Boston. A conservative newspaper printer and a feisty American prostitute use their unique skills to uncover government corruption and scandals in colonial Massachusetts in the hopes of igniting an American Revolution.

Als die Menschen ins All vorstießen, gelangten sie zuerst ins System der blauen Sonne Wega und ihrer 42 Planeten. Dort trafen sie nicht nur auf Außerirdische, sondern auch auf das Galaktische Rätsel. Nach vielen Abenteuern konnten sie es lösen. Mehr als 3600 Jahre später sind die Bewohner des Wegasystems und die Menschen von der Erde längst gute Freunde. Doch als Perry Rhodan den Planeten Ferrol besucht, entwickeln sich auf einmal Raum-Zeit-Anomalien. Das gesamte System wird in einen undurchdringlichen Schirm gehüllt. In seinem Inneren sind Milliarden von Lebewesen gefangen.

When several commercial airliners are brought down on the same day by terrorists in the year 2025, the world is reminded once again of 9/11. It all begins a year before the 25th anniversary of America's worst nightmare delivered by Osama bin Laden. Al Kabul, an American-born, homegrown terrorist is at the heart of it and plans to strike an even bigger blow to honor Osama.

In the follow-up to The Prescott Affair, Lancer, Hero of the West is summoned to Broken Bow, Nebraska, by the local Cattleman’s Association to solve a case of cattle rustling. The Tombstone-based Lancer heads to the plains in the heart of Nebraska’s cattle-ranching territory. Along the way our hero meets famous legendary characters including some very strong ladies. The tangled web he discovers and the trail of dead bodies during his investigation into the rustling will intrigue you and keep you listening to see who might be implicated next. 

At this moment, rogue waves are forming under your business. Emerging technologies, changing demographics, the data economy, automation, and other trends are crashing into each other. When they converge, they’ll produce sea changes that sink companies and wash away entire industries overnight. If your competitor can’t ride out the next wave and you can, you win. Jonathan Brill - a renowned expert on resilient growth and decision-making under uncertainty - shows you how to prepare your business to survive and thrive through the most radical upheavals.

Zwischen Kosmokraten und Chaotarchen - Perry Rhodan und die Besatzung der SOL streiten für die Menschlichkeit. Im Jahr 1552 Neuer Galaktischer Zeitrechnung ist Perry Rhodan, der die Menschheit von Beginn an ins All begleitet hat, in eine ferne Galaxis versetzt worden. Dort hat er die seit Langem verschollene SOL und ihre Besatzung aus einer Chaoszone gerettet. Eigentlich wollen die Menschen an Bord nun so schnell wie möglich in die heimatliche Milchstraße zurückkehren. Aber ein Bote der Kosmokraten macht ihnen klar: Sie können nur nach Hause, wenn sie zuvor eine wichtige Aufgabe für die Hohen Mächte erfüllen.

Bliss Camden didn’t know what she was signing up for when the employment agency sent her to the Wylder Colt Ranch as a live-in housekeeper for best friends and ranch owners Levi Colt and Wylder Madison. The two rough, ready, and wild cowboys make her feel things she’s never felt before...things she shouldn’t feel about her employers. Wicked things.

I knew the moment I saw her bent over the hood of her car on the side of the road that Layna was trouble. It looked like the opening scene from a porno. A shapely blonde in a short skirt waiting for me to tow her sports car out of a ditch and dirty up that sweet, pure body with my filthy mechanic hands. I could hear the bow-chicka-bow-wow soundtrack in my head. Then, she opened her sassy mouth, and everything about my reclusive, sensible, quiet life changed because Layna is not reclusive, sensible, or quiet.

After ten long months away on a dig, archaeology professor Dr. Nick Sanders comes home to Brazen Bay, surprised to find that his house is still standing since he left his irresponsible younger brother in charge. Tired, dirty, and hungry, he collapses into bed sans pajamas, only to wake up wrapped around a luscious, fuming woman. She says she’s just the house sitter and that he pulled her into bed when she was trying to wake him up. He says he’s just found his future wife.

What is your subconscious telling you - and why? In his groundbreaking 1899 work, the founder of psychoanalysis, Sigmund Freud, explores the mysteries of dreams. According to Freud, dreams are puzzles to be solved, with their manifestations of everything from long-forgotten memories to unspoken, hidden desires. Including dozens of case histories and detailed dream analyses, The Interpretation of Dreams remains a fascinating and revealing exploration of the vast and enigmatic human mind.

What would you do if the boyfriend you totally made up to get your sister off your back showed up at your place of employment? Free-spirited Stella Stone has always been the wild child in her family, but even she is surprised at the amount of trouble she's found herself in this time. Now she somehow has to keep the uptight, tie-wearing, self-contained Christopher from figuring out that the whole town thinks they are dating, and somehow also keep the whole town from figuring out she's a pathetic liar with a fake boyfriend.