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A rich and multilayered guide that offers readers accessible wisdom and practical methods to cultivate deeper satisfaction in everyday experiences. In contrast to stimulus-driven pleasure, contentment comes from living a life of meaning that aligns with one's values. The author identifies the common traps people fall into looking for happiness that actually create stress, worries, and fears, and offers authentic mindfulness-based solutions to counteract them.

Haben Sie auch schon mal geglaubt, dass Sie der der Affe laust? Wurden Sie auch schon mal vom Hafer gestochen? Überall begegnen uns tierische Sprichwörter und blumige Redewendungen. Für alle, die sich keinen Bären aufbinden und öfter mal die Katze aus dem Sack lassen wollen, haben Bruno P. Kremer und Klaus Richarz mehr als dreihundert geläufige und nicht selten erstaunliche Redensarten gesammelt. Doch welcher Wolf steckt wirklich im Schafspelz und wo liegt der Hase im Pfeffer?

Einsam ist es auf den heißen Stühlen der Republik: als Gast von Günther Jauch, auf dem Vorstandssessel eines Dax-Unternehmens...

Was ist Glück? Eine einfache Frage, aber die Antwort wird schwierig. Jeder mag seine eigenen Glückserfahrungen haben, doch wo liegt das Allgemeine? Da sind die Philosophen gefordert. Ihre Gedanken helfen, den vielfältig schillernden Sinn des Glücksbegriffs zu klären. So nimmt Bruno Heller die Hörer mit auf einen Streifzug durch die gesamte Philosophiegeschichte, von den Alten Griechen bis in die Gegenwart.

Der Mailänder Polizeipsychologe Matteo Basso ist in sein malerisches Heimatdorf am Lago Maggiore zurückgekehrt, um die Fleischerei seiner verstorbenen Eltern zu übernehmen. Doch schon bald hat er größere Sorgen als die Suche nach dem perfekten Salsiccia-Rezept: Die Leiche seiner Freundin Gisella wird am Ufer des Sees gefunden. Im Gegensatz zur Polizei glaubt Matteo nicht an einen Unfall und beginnt, auf eigene Faust zu ermitteln.

Les Barbares ont une drôle de réputation. Les penseurs de la Renaissance leur imputent le naufrage de la seule véritable civilisation : Rome. Les historiens du XIXe siècle leur octroient volontiers l'origine des nations européennes : les Angles n'ont-ils pas donné leur nom à l'Angleterre, les Francs à la France ?

Der Kühlschrank hat seinen Geist aufgegeben. Es muss ein Neuer her. Ein Sonnenschirm für den Balkon wäre ebenfalls eine sinnvolle Neuanschaffung. Und was unternimmt man an einem Sonntag? Richtig! Man macht einen Ausflug ins Grüne. Auch dem Platzmangel in den Wohnräumen soll abgeholfen werden. Diesen und anderen Herausforderungen des Lebens zu zweit stellen sich unsere Helden mutig und mit Humor.

Ci voleva una donna, costretta a scrivere con lo pseudonimo di un uomo, per cogliere l'essenza della vita e delle vicende delle contadine della Lombardia nella fine dell'800. Uno scorcio davvero avvincente.

Ob Handy oder Verpackungsmaschine, ob Drehtüre oder Gebäudemanagement: Die Konsumenten des 21. Jahrhunderts verlangen individuelle Lösungen. Gute Voraussetzung für die Wissensgesellschaft: Wirklich innovative Produkte werden 'top-down' unter Inanspruchnahme der modernsten Informations-, Identifikations- und Kommunikationstechnologien entworfen. Sie orientieren sich an den Bedürfnissen von Kunden, Benutzern und der Vernetzung von Infrastruktur und Wissen. Damit sichern wir den 'intelligenten' Vorsprung gegenüber Allzweck-Billig-Massenwaren.

Frank Bruni grew up in a big, loud Italian family in White Plains, New York, where meals were epic, outsize affairs. At those meals, he demonstrated one of his foremost qualifications for his future career: an epic, outsize love of food. But Bruni's relationship with eating was tricky, and his difficulties with managing it began early. When Bruni was named the restaurant critic for The New York Times in 2004, he knew enough to be nervous.

Spanish journalist and art historian Jaime Azcárate has always been a magnet for trouble. So when the authorities call on him to help investigate a museum heist while he's enjoying a rare vacation, he is more annoyed than surprised. Jaime brushes off the detectives' pleas to find a missing and reportedly cursed Medusa sculpture, until an attempt on his life pulls him into the investigation.

Alice was a hopeful young graduate student when, on a beautiful August night, her body was found in the woods. She'll always remember the night she was murdered. And she still suffers the grief and rage that destroyed her family. But what Alice regrets most is the last fight she had with her boyfriend, Enrico - and the fact that she never had the chance to tell him something that would have changed everything. A decade later, Enrico has returned to the provincial town where Alice lived and died, to sell his family home.

Jack Beilis once lived the American dream: custom suits, new cars, and the best clubs. But by 1931, he has sunk so low he cannot feed himself or his ailing father. Now he barely has time to wipe the blood from his hands before he finds himself on a ship from New York to Moscow, running from a crime he never intended. Desperate for an escape route, Jack wants to believe stories of a worker's paradise in the Soviet Union. Maybe the distance between Ellis Island and Red Square will let him leave poverty - and his pursuers - far behind.

At home, Richard Kuklinski was a dedicated suburban family man; on the street, he was the Iceman, a professional hit man and lethal scam artist, a man so heartless he kept one of his victims frozen for over two years to disguise the time of death. His personal body count was over 100, but the police couldn’t touch him. Then undercover agent Dominick Polifrone posed as a mobster and began a deadly game of cat and mouse. The Iceman chronicles Kuklinski’s grisly career and exposes his murderous double life.

Levort Aatra is a prospector on the planet Tayoxe. While scavenging the wastes of the abandoned world, he discovers a mysterious starship and stakes his claim on it. Little does he know, he just put a big target on his back.

This book is meant to describe, in an easy to understand way, what happened to me after I died. I don't know who I was, where it occurred, whether I was a man or woman, boy or girl; only that it did, indeed, occur. I have had this memory for almost 40 years now. I used to believe that this was a premonition. I was a very young child, when I began recollecting this, and so I could not explain it to myself any other way.

This audiobook introduces listeners to the study of folk music as a kind of music and as an aspect of human culture. It uses music as an index to understanding American culture while it introduces listeners to various concepts in the field of ethnomusicology.

Marco has one addiction: gaming. He discovered what he thought was going to help him getting his life back on track. The events didn't turned out the way they were supposed to. When the Club introduced him in the V.I.P section, his world turned upside down.

Nine-year-old Josie Garcia is a feisty and optimistic girl from Brooklyn who becomes a crusader for preventing disastrous climate change and other environmental threats. After a summer with Grandma in Ecuador and an enlightening class trip to the zoo, where she encounters Frozey the Polar Bear, Josie decides that it is time to take action to slow global warming. Her first idea for going green is to organize others to drive less by forming the Fourth Grade Bike Brigade.

For the past 50 years, the business world has been dominated by the Milton Friedman financial capitalism economic model, which preaches that it is the "sole social responsibility of business to maximize profit for distribution to shareholders". This one-dimensional focus represents a grossly incomplete view of reality - there are many other factors businesses need to pay attention to if they are to thrive and endure.