"Persephone was ready to start a new life when she left the mortal realm for Olympus. However, she quickly discovered the dark side of her glamorous new home--from the relatively minor gossip threatening her reputation to a realm-shattering violation of her safety by the conceited Apollo--and she's struggling to find her footing in the fast-moving realm of the gods. Hades is also off-balance, fighting against his burgeoning feelings for the young goddess of spring while maintaining his lonely rule of the Underworld. As the pair are drawn ever closer, they must untangle the twisted webs of their past and present to build toward a new future."--
An introduction to a martial art recognized as an effective stress reliever and its beneficial effects for health and fitness
Parenti explores the big issues of our time -- fascism, capitalism, communism, revolution, democracy, and ecology.He shows how "rational fascism" renders service to capitalism, how corporate power undermines democracy, and how revolutions are a mass empowerment against the forces of exploitative privilege. He maps out the internal and external forces that destroyed communism, and the disastrous impact of the "free market" victory on Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union. He affirms the relevance of taboo ideologies like Marxism, demonstrating the importance of class analysis in understanding political realities and the ongoing collision between ecology and global corporatism.A bold, entertaining, iconoclastic exploration of the epic struggles of yesterday and today.
Also includes the Bonus Book A Message to Garcia by Elbert HubbardA classic parable of ambition and entrepreneurial spirit that has imparted key lessons in success to generations of readers.First published in 1921, Peter B. Kyne's The Go-Getter: A Story That Tells You How to Be One is a humorous parable of determination and ambition that has proved itself to be a timeless classic, inspiring readers to approach their goals-whether personal or professional-with tenacity and dedication. The Go-Getter tells the story of Bill Clegg, an ambitious young salesman, who is set on a seemingly impossible task when his boss, a crusty old-timer named Cappy Riggs, decides to test his mettle. Charismatic and incredibly determined, Bill charmed his way into Riggs's employment and is resolved to meet his boss's expectations-no matter what may ensue. Along the way, Clegg develops and demonstrates the critical values of drive, determination, honesty, and integrity. With delightfully old-fashioned prose and a modern message of drive and determination, The Go-Getter is a truly timeless illustration of the perseverance and resolve that are required to fuel true ambition.
"Encourages women to own their anger and use it as a tool for positive change"--
40 Jahre lang dominierte der Kalte Krieg das Weltgeschehen. Die DDR und die Bundesrepublik befanden sich in diesem globalen Konflikt an vorderster Front. Symbol dafür war die berüchtigte Berliner Mauer, die Liebende, Freunde und Familien, Kollegen und Mitbürger voneinander trennte.Der Herausgeber, das Wendemuseum im kalifornischen Los Angeles, ist nach dem historischen Zeitraum um den Mauerfall 1989 benannt. Seit seiner Gründung 2002 durch den Amerikaner Justin Jampol widmet sich das Museum der Kultur und Bildsprache des früheren Ostblocks und fördert verschiedene Sichtweisen auf diese vielschichtige Ära, die unsere Welt bis heute prägt.Der enzyklopädische Band zeigt mehr als 2.000 Stücke aus der einzigartigen Sammlung des Museums. Basierend auf unserem XL-Band, bietet dieses Buch einen umfangreichen Überblick über Kunstgegenstände, Archivbestände und Dinge aus der DDR: offizielle Symbole und oppositionelle Ausdrucksformen, Spektakuläres und Alltägliches, Massenproduziertes und Handgemachtes, Witziges und Tragisches.Begleitet werden diese Überreste einer untergegangenen Zeit von grundlegenden Texten, die Akademiker und Experten aus Europa, Kanada und den USA zu Themen von der Stasi bis zur Sexualität, von Denkmälern bis zu mentalen Landkarten verfasst haben. Über 800 Seiten, mehr als 2.000 Gegenstände. Eine kleinere und handlichere Ausgabe unseres XL-Bandes mit dem umfassendsten Überblick über die visuelle und materielle Kultur der DDR.Mit zahlreichen Aufnahmen der berühmtesten DDR-Fotografen aus dem Alltag und von offiziellen Anlässen.Mehr Platz für kalte Krieger: Nach Erweiterung und Umbau präsentiert das Wende Museum ab dem 18. November 2017 seine mehr als 100.000 Exponate umfassende Sammlung von DDR-Artefakten und anderen Relikten des Kalten Krieges auf erweiterter, großzügiger Fläche im historischen Armory Building von Culver City, einem ehemaligen Zeughaus der US National Guard aus der McCarthy-Ära, das von Michael Boyd, Christian Kienapfel und Benedikt Taschen für das Museum umgestaltet wurde.
Without a moment's pause, we share our most intimate thoughts with trillion-dollar tech companies. Their algorithms categorize us and jump to conclusions about who we are. They even shape our everyday thoughts and actions - from who we date to how we vote. But this is just the latest front in an age-old struggle.Part history and part manifesto, Freedom to Think charts the history and importance of our most basic human right: freedom of thought. From Galileo to Nudge Theory to Alexa, human rights lawyer Susie Alegre explores how the powerful have always sought to get inside our heads, influence how we think and shape what we buy. Providing a bold new framework to understand how our agency is being gradually undermined, Freedom to Think is a ground-breaking and vital charter for taking back our humanity and safeguarding our reason.
Your magickal practice has the power to support and guide you through even the darkest of times.We all go through difficult times. We all feel loss and confusion, and we struggle with seeminglyinsurmountable problems. For any witch sitting in the light of a candle flame, at a low place in theirlife, this book shows how magickal practice can be a powerful support.Following on from the hugely successful Rebel Witch, Witch in Darkness offers tons of practical, step-by-step workings to show practitioners how to customise and optimise their craft to use as armourto survive the toughest times you can go through. It offers empathy, encouragement and a hugecollection of ideas ranging from simple mindset shifts to weird, rare workings. The author brings together knowledge from thousands of hours as a spiritual counsellor andwitchcraft mentor using sorcery and spiritual techniques to overcome life’s challenges.From relationships and family ties, to work and money; from bereavement to mental andphysical health issues, and even crises of faith; this book can be referenced over and overagain.Kelly-Ann shares, with radical honesty, her own struggles, resistances and eventualsolutions. Alongside her voice are the experiences of other witches, making this a trulyaccessible and inclusive guide.Each chapter opens with a statement of power to be read aloud as heart-warming remindersof self-belief and confidence.The book reminds you that witchcraft has alchemical power. It can help you find joyful sovereignty inloneliness, and it brings you home to yourself when you’re not sure who you are and where you’regoing. This is a manual for getting back on track, magickally and spiritually.
Accompanying the English for Everyone Junior: Beginner's Course, this beautifully illustrated workbook features more than 1,000 vocabulary and grammar exercises for children starting to learn English as a foreign language. Following the same unit-by-unit structure as English for Everyone Junior: Beginner's Course, this clearly structured workbook provides children aged 6-9 with all the support they need to build their confidence when using the language skills they have learned in the course ebook. Featuring hundreds of exercises, this practice book tests all the vocabulary and grammar structures taught in the English for Everyone Junior: Beginner's Course, making use of a range of both familiar and new exercise mechanisms.Although best used to accompany English for Everyone Junior: Beginner's Course, this practice ebook can also be used independently by children or teachers who are in need of additional beginners-level English practice exercises - particularly in preparation for the Cambridge Pre-A1 Starters exam.English for Everyone Junior: Beginner's Practice Book's dynamic visual approach to language learning and accompanying audio website and app makes it stand out from the competition.
'Words are power. They can bring you down, lift you up, make your heart soar, make you fall in love. Or make you hate.'Paris 1944. Elise Chevalier knows what it is to hate. Her fiance, a young French soldier, was killed by the German army at the Maginot Line. Living amongst the enemy Elise must keep her rage buried deep within. Brittany 1963. Reaching for the old suitcase under her mother's bed, eighteen-year-old Josephine Chevalier uncovers a secret that shakes her to the core. Determined to discover the truth, Josephine travels to Paris where she learns the story of a forbidden love as a city fought for its freedom. Of the last stolen hours before the first light of liberation. And of a betrayal so deep that it would irrevocably change the course of a young woman's life for ever...A powerful portrait of war and its aftermath, THE LAST HOURS IN PARIS is also a story of retribution, atonement and redemption. (Headline Review logo) £14.999781472268037(also available in ebook and audio)Jacket credits...(Author photo)Author photo © Florentia Buckinghamwww.headline.co.uk(twitter logo) @RuthDruart
From the author of the #1 New York Times bestseller This Town, the eye-witness account of how Washington's "swamp", far from being drained, was turned into a gold-plated hot tub by Trump, with the connivance of the GOP political class, out of opportunism and cowardice - because how bad could it get?In the early months of Trump's candidacy, the GOP's most important figures, people such as Marco Rubio, Ted Cruz, and Lindsey Graham, were united - and loud - in their scorn and contempt. Even more, their outrage: Trump was a menace and an affront to our democracy. Then, awkwardly, Trump won. Trump Town is Mark Leibovich's unflinching account of the utter moral rout of one of America's two major political parties, tracking the transformation of Rubio, Cruz, Graham and their ilk into the administration's enablers and alpha lapdogs, and the swamp's lesser lights into chasers of the grift. What will these politicos do to preserve their place in the sun, or at least the orbit of the spray tan? What will they do to preserve their "relevance"? Almost anything, it turns out. Trump is the most unconstrained bully ever to hold the office, and his savage bullying of everyone in his circle, and his singular control of his political base, created a cult of submission, of toeing the Trump line, however obviously untrue. Many of the most alpha of the lapdogs happily conceded to Mark Leibovich that they were in on the joke, so secure were they in the impermeability of the filter bubble. As Lindsey Graham told the author, his people in South Carolina don't read the New York Times, and they won't read this book. Where all that cynicism, even nihilism, led was to a country truly deranged from reality, and to January 6th. It's a vista that makes the Washington of This Town seem like Utopia in comparison. Trump Town isn't another tick-tock view from the Oval Office; it's the view from the Trump Hotel. We can check out any time we want, but only time will tell if we can ever leave.
Brought to you by Penguin. Have you ever been on a disastrous date and vowed never to use apps again?Are you blaming yourself for the things going wrong in your love life?Do you always seem to become attached to people who treat you badly?The sad truth is that when it comes to modern dating, there are a whole host of challenges and hurdles to overcome. From ghosting and negging to gaslighting and abuse, this book teaches you what to look out for, to make sure that you're not accidentally dating men with toxic traits who secretly hate women, or who just want to have sex and run. It will empower you to use your voice and walk away if you spot warning signs in relationships, by highlighting the red flags and the types of fuckboy that you might run into when dating, as well as the green flags and signs that indicate a healthy partnership. This is not a dating book that promises to find you a person to love; instead, it will help you spot the troublesome ones before it is too late. It will help you to recognise that you possess spectacular buff ting energy and that it's perfectly possible to be contentedly single. Most importantly, this book will give you the power to BLOCK, DELETE and MOVE ON with living your best life. (c) Lalalaletmeexplain 2022 (P) Penguin Audio 2022
How a new breed of dictators holds power by manipulating information and faking democracyHitler, Stalin, and Mao ruled through violence, fear, and ideology. But in recent decades a new breed of media-savvy strongmen has been redesigning authoritarian rule for a more sophisticated, globally connected world. In place of overt, mass repression, rulers such as Vladimir Putin, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, and Viktor Orban control their citizens by distorting information and simulating democratic procedures. Like spin doctors in democracies, they spin the news to engineer support. Uncovering this new brand of authoritarianism, Sergei Guriev and Daniel Treisman explain the rise of such "e;spin dictators,"e; describing how they emerge and operate, the new threats they pose, and how democracies should respond.Spin Dictators traces how leaders such as Singapore's Lee Kuan Yew and Peru's Alberto Fujimori pioneered less violent, more covert, and more effective methods of monopolizing power. They cultivated an image of competence, concealed censorship, and used democratic institutions to undermine democracy, all while increasing international engagement for financial and reputational benefits. The book reveals why most of today's authoritarians are spin dictators-and how they differ from the remaining "e;fear dictators"e; such as Kim Jong-un and Bashar al-Assad, as well as from masters of high-tech repression like Xi Jinping.Offering incisive portraits of today's authoritarian leaders, Spin Dictators explains some of the great political puzzles of our time-from how dictators can survive in an age of growing modernity to the disturbing convergence and mutual sympathy between dictators and populists like Donald Trump.
A visually stimulating journey for anyone interested in learning more about the world of the Bible.The Zondervan Illustrated Bible Dictionary offers a wealth of insight into the historical, chronological, archaeological, geographical, social, theological, and biographical aspects of the Bible. Through the articles, sidebars, charts, maps, and full-color images included in this volume, the text of the Old and New Testaments will come alive for you as never before. As a condensation of the Zondervan Pictorial Encyclopedia of the Bible, the information contained within this reference work is solid and biblically sound. The material is based completely on the NIV and cross-referenced to the King James Version.Features include:Over 7,200 entries with up-to-date scholarship, archaeological findings, and more75 full-color maps created with new mapping technologiesOver 500 full-color photographs, charts, and illustrationsUnderstanding the Bible can be difficult. The Zondervan Illustrated Bible Dictionary will help you make sense of the Bible's context, people, places, and objects so you can better understand and apply the scripture. Ideal for pastors, Sunday school teachers, students, and general Bible readers.
In twenty short books, Penguin brings you the classics of the environmental movement.In The Democracy of Species Robin Wall Kimmerer guides us towards a more reciprocal, grateful and joyful relationship with our animate earth, from the wild leeks in the field to the deer in the woods.Over the past 75 years, a new canon has emerged. As life on Earth has become irrevocably altered by humans, visionary thinkers around the world have raised their voices to defend the planet, and affirm our place at the heart of its restoration. Their words have endured through the decades, becoming the classics of a movement. Together, these books show the richness of environmental thought, and point the way to a fairer, saner, greener world.
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