Hľadanie: Nine Perfect Strangers
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Of Fear and Strangers
Over the last few years, it has been impossible to ignore the steady resurgence of xenophobia. The European migrant crisis and immigration from Central America to the United States have placed Western advocates of globalization on the defensive, and a 'New Xenophobia' seems to have emerged out of nowhere.
In this fascinating study, George Makari traces the history of xenophobia from its origins to the present day. Often perceived as an ancient word for a timeless problem, 'xenophobia' was in fact only coined a century ago, tied to heated and formative Western debates over nationalism, globalization, race and immigration. From Richard Wright to Sigmund Freud, Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir, writers and thinkers have long grappled with this most dangerous of phobias. Drawing on their work, Makari demonstrates how we can better understand the problem that is so crucial to our troubled times.
Saratoga (Star Trek Deep Space Nine)
Když Borgové zničili hvězdnou loď Saratoga v bitvě u Wolfu 359, zabili přitom i Benjaminovu milovanou ženu Jennifer, čím jedna jeho životní kapitola došla hořkému konci.
Defiant nyní převáží ty, jež přežili děsivou katastrofu, na důležitou událost Hvězdné flotily. Siskovo hořkosladké shledání se starými kolegy je ale narušeno nečekaným selháním systému transportní lodě, které ohrožuje jak integritu trupu, tak životy cestujících uvězněných uvnitř.
A jelikož špatných zpráv není nikdy dost, ukazuje se, že nečekané selhání mohlo být něčím mnohem horším sabotáží.
Zradil Siska jeden z jeho nejstarších přátel? Společně s Dax musí odhalit pravdu dřív, než přeživší ze Saratogy zaplatí tu nejvyšší daň.
The Perfect Tonic
Shortlisted for the Andre Simon Food & Drink Book Award
An intoxicating interconnected history of booze and medicine, from one of the world's foremost cocktail writers.
Consider the Negroni. The bittersweet cocktail dating to the early 1900s is made of equal parts gin, sweet vermouth and Campari. Gin takes its name and flavour from the juniper tree, which medieval doctors burned to ward off bubonic plague and other miasmas. 'Vermouth' comes from the German word for wormwood, a herb famous for its ability to rid the body of intestinal parasites. Campari is a brand of liqueur dating to 1860 with a secret recipe probably containing gentian (effective against indigestion) and rhubarb root (used as a laxative). The perfect cocktail of curative ingredients is now self-prescribed as an aperitif.
The intertwined stories of medicine and alcohol stretch back to the ancient world, and involve alchemy, madness and monks, not to mention microbiology, biochemistry and germ theory. Now, in The Perfect Tonic, Camper English reveals how and why the contents of our medicine and liquor cabinets were, until surprisingly recently, one and the same.
The Perfect Fit (EN)
Audiobook The Perfect Fit written by Mary Jayne Baker. 'A rollicking romantic read!' Phillipa Ashley Escape to the frost-sparkling Yorkshire Dales for some festive fun under the mistletoe! It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas for costume shop owner Becky Finn. Leaving London to move back home to the twinkly rural village of Egglethwaite, she plans to build a new life for herself with fiancé, Cole.
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Perfect Parent Project
From the award-winning author of THE BUBBLE BOY comes a heart-warming and unforgettable story that follows one boy's search for the perfect family, with surprising and unexpected results. Perfect for fans of Onjali Q. Rauf and Lisa Thompson.
'Friendship, laughter, suspense and more!' - Ross Welford, author of TIME TRAVELLING WITH A HAMSTER and THE 1000-YEAR-OLD BOY
THINGS MY PERFECT PARENTS MUST HAVE:
1. A mega mansion like the ones footballers live in
2. A garage wall with a basketball hoop
3. No gerbils
4. Holidays to Disneyland
All Sam wants is a family of his own, a home instead of a 'house' and parents he knows will still be there when he wakes up. Because Sam has been in and out of foster care his whole life and he can't imagine ever feeling like he truly belongs.
Then his best friend Leah suggests that rather than wait for a family to come to him, he should go out and find one. So begins The Perfect Parent Project ... But Sam may just discover that family has a funny way of finding you.
The Perfect Hideaway (EN)
Audiobook The Perfect Hideaway written by Alys Murray. Annie Martin is thrilled to have moved from the hectic buzz of L.A. to the small town of Hillsboro, Northern California, where the most happening bar only plays honky-tonk and nowhere does a good matcha latte. But the best thing about Hillsboro? The Anderson sisters. At their noisy family dinners, Annie can almost forget the mistakes she made back in the city, trying to fit in.
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The Three Strangers
The Three Strangers was written in the year 1883 by Thomas Hardy. This book is one of the most popular novels of Thomas Hardy, and has been translated into several other languages around the world.This book is published by Booklassic which brings young readers closer to classic literature globally.
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Aerosmith - Nine Lives (Remastered) 2LP
Aerosmith je americká rocková skupina z Bostonu pohybujúca sa v rozpätí žánrov hardrocku a bluesrocku. V hudobnom biznise sú označovaní aj ako „The Bad Boys from Boston“, prípadne „America´s Greatest Rock and Roll Band“. Aerosmith vznikli v 1970 a sú 30-ročnou kapelou, hrajúcou v pôvodnej zostave. Sú taktiež najpredávanejšou americkou hardrockovou skupinou so 150 miliónmi predaných nosičov v rámci celosvetového meradla a 66,5 miliónmi predaných nosičov v rámci Spojených štátov amerických. Rekord držia aj v počte získaných zlatých a multiplatinových platní pre americkú skupinu. Kapela sa tiež umiestnila na 21. mieste v rebríčku „Top 40 hitov v horúcej 100 Billboardu“, devätkrát na prvom mieste v rebríčku „Mainstreamových rockových hitov“, získala štyri ocenenia Grammy a desať ocenení MTV Video Music Awards. V roku 2001 bola uvedená do Rock and Rollovej siene slávy a piesne „Dream On“ a „Toys In The Attic“ boli zaradené na zoznam „500 piesní, ktoré formovali rock“.V 2005 ju časopis Rolling Stone umiestnil na 57. miesto v rebríčku stovky najvýznamnejších umelcov všetkých čias. Už od začiatku kariéry bola skupina známa aj svojou ťažkou drogovou závislosťou a alkoholizmom, na základe čoho si získala prívlastky „jednej z najrozhádanejších kapiel svetovej rockovej scény", ale aj „nezničiteľnej skupiny s deviatimi životmi“, ktorá sa dokázala dostať z dna opäť na vrchol.
v roku 2023 Aerosmith vydávajú nové reedície ich štúdiových a Live albumov, väčšinou z éry Columbia Records. Neexistujú žiadne bonusové skladby, ale všetky piesne boli pre tieto vydania nanovo remastrované. Väčšina albumov vyjde aj na LP.
Tracklist:
A1 Nine Lives
A2 Falling In Love (Is Hard On The Knees)
A3 Hole In My Soul
A4 Taste Of India
B1 Full Circle
B2 Something's Gotta Give
B3 Ain't That A Bitch
B4 The Farm
C1 Crash
C2 Kiss Your Past
C3 Pink
C4 Falling Off
D1 Attitude Adjustment
D2 Fallen Angels
D3 I Don't Want To Miss A Thing
How to be Perfect
How can we live a more ethical life?
This question has plagued people for thousands of years, but it's never been tougher to answer than it is now, thanks to challenges great and small that flood our day-to-day lives and threaten to overwhelm us with impossible decisions and complicated results with unintended consequences.
Plus, being anything close to an 'ethical person' requires daily thought and introspection and hard work; we have to think about how we can be good not, you know, once a month, but literally all the time.
To make it a little less overwhelming, this fascinating, accessible and funny book by one of our generation's best writers and adept minds in television comedy, Michael Schur, boils down the whole confusing morass with real life dilemmas (from 'should I punch my friend in the face for no reason?' to 'can I still enjoy great art if it was created by terrible people?'), so that we know how to deal with ethical dilemmas. Much as Chidi used humour and philosophy to make Eleanor a less selfish person, Schur takes us on a journey through the 2,500-year discussion of ethics, sketching a roadmap for how we ought to act along the way.
By the time the book is done, we'll know exactly how to act in every conceivable situation, so as to produce a verifiably maximal amount of moral good. We will be perfect, and all our friends will be jealous. OK, not quite. Instead, we'll gain fresh, funny, inspiring wisdom on the toughest issues we face every day
With contributions from Professor Todd May of Clemson University, who served as an advisor on The Good Place, this is a brilliant, clever and hugely entertaining book about one of the most important topics in the world.
The Perfect Golden Circle
England, 1989. Over the course of a burning hot summer, two very different men - traumatized Falklands veteran Calvert, and affable, chaotic Redbone - set out nightly in a clapped-out camper van to undertake an extraordinary project.
Under cover of darkness, the two men traverse the fields of rural England in secret, forming crop circles in elaborate and mysterious patterns. As the summer wears on, and their designs grow ever more ambitious, the two men find that their work has become a cult international sensation - and that an unlikely and beautiful friendship has taken root as the wheat ripens from green to gold.
Moving and exhilarating, tender and slyly witty, The Perfect Golden Circle is a captivating novel about the futility of war, the destruction of the English countryside, class inequality - and the power of beauty to heal trauma and fight power.
The Perfect Find
She's finally found her soulmate. But he's completely off-limits . . .
Former fashion editor Jenna Jones is forty, broke and starting over. Dumped by her fiance and fired from her job, Jenna begs her arch nemesis, Darcy Vale, for a role at her new online magazine. Surrounded by digital-savvy millennials who all speak fluent Twitter, it's soon clear that Jenna is in way over her head. And, to make matters worse, her ex has a new girlfriend.
But things get even messier, and a whole lot more interesting, when Jenna meets Eric Combs, the film graduate tasked with shooting her new web series. Totally gorgeous and completely off-limits, Jenna knows she should know better - but there's something about Eric she can't resist. And what is worth risking everything for, if not love?
Unsuitably Perfect
Perfection is way overrated! Opposites not only attract, but sometimes the unsuitable love interests turn out to be the perfect, explosive match for each other.
There may be a whole lot of conflict between these three heroes and heroines, but in the end, love and romance wins the day!
Unsuitably Perfect includes the USA Today Bestseller Her Heart for the Asking by Lisa Mondello, Loves Me, Loves Me Not by Karen Sandler, and Bluebells on the Hill by Barbara McMahon.
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Strangers in the Night - Ava Gardner és Frank Sinatra viharos szerelme
Az egyikük kisvárosi szépségből lett hollywoodi szerelemistennő. A másikuk legendás énekes, akinek hangja megbabonázta az egész világot. Ava Gardner és Frank Sinatra külön-külön ellenállhatatlan személyiségek, együtt viszont robbanékony párost alkotnak.
A 20. század közepén Ava csillaga egyre fényesebben ragyog, Frank karrierje azonban hanyatlik – az ellentét féltékenykedést szül közöttük, a vágyakozás dühbe csap át, és a boldogságuk lépten-nyomon veszélybe kerül. Miközben a szerelmespár a siker és a kudarc, a szenvedély és a harag hullámvasútján utazik, azon tűnődnek, vajon melyik fordulat okozza a karrierjük, valamint az egymással megosztott élet végét.
A magával ragadó, kontinenseken és évtizedeken átívelő Strangers in the Night a huszadik század legizgalmasabb szerelmi történetét eleveníti meg.
Orochi The Perfect Edition 2
A deluxe edition of Orochi, featuring all nine of the classic interconnected short stories by horror master Kazuo Umezz, the creator of The Drifting Classroom!
The second volume of Umezz's classic horror manga begins with "Prodigy," in which Orochi watches from the shadows while a baby boy matures and proves that you never know who someone will grow up to be. In "Home," Orochi accompanies a man home after an accident-but as they say, you can never go home again... Finally, in "Key," the rules of good and evil are blurred for two families when Orochi moves into a new apartment.
Occultic;Nine: Volume 3
From the mind behind Steins;Gate, Chaos;Head, Robotics;Notes, and Chaos;Child! Now a hit anime, too! --Q: Do you believe in ghosts? A: Of course not! Yuta Gamon, a young boy who lives in Kichijoji, runs an Occult-related blog called "Kirikiri Basara". He spends his days dreaming of making a fortune off his affiliate links. Suddenly, Yuta's blog brings together the fate of nine strangers, as what starts off as a tiny feeling that something's wrong develops into a case that goes beyond imagination. Black magic, the afterlife, psychics, fortune-telling, other dimensions, prophecies, hypnosis, urban legends... The world is filled with flim-flam! The third book in the Paranormal NVL Occultic;Nine series.
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Perfect Leader! Leidenschaft gewinnt
Das bringt Ihnen dieses Buch: Sie unterstützen zertifizierte Klimaschutz-Projekte, erhalten schnell kompakte Informationen und Checklisten von Experten (Übersicht und Pressestimmen in der Buchvorschau) sowie in der Praxis erprobte Ratschläge, die auch dank AddOn Schritt für Schritt zum Erfolg führen. Denn wie sieht der Perfect Leader der Zukunft aus in einer Welt, in der sich das Verständnis von Führung gerade grundlegend ändert? Agiler, Flexibler, weniger Hierarchien. Doch worauf es wirklich ankommt: Leidenschaft. Wer als Chef oder Chefin seine Mitarbeiter inspiriert und begeistert, kann sich jedes mühsam antrainierte Motivationstool schenken. Ein weiterer wichtiger Aspekt: Diversität in gemischten Führungs-Teams, so genannte Mixed Leadership. Exzellente Personalführung und Personalentwicklung hat nämlich auch viel mit Psychologie zu tun. Chef und Chefin fungieren dabei als Mittelding zwischen Regel-Geber, Organisator und Animateur, die für ihre Mitarbeiter zwar stets ein offenes Ohr haben, diese aber auch anleiten. Und dieser Spagat gelingt einfach besser, wenn das gemischte Doppel an der Führungsspitze ganz unterschiedliche Positionen, Einstellungen und Kompetenzen abdeckt. Nur mit diesen Fähigkeiten ausgestattet ist die Führung auch perfekt aufgestellt für eine Zukunft, in der sie auf Veränderungen und Krisensituationen jederzeit flexibel reagieren müssen. Doch nur so kann eine produktive, fruchtbare Führungsarbeit überhaupt entstehen. Dieses Buch zeigt, worauf es ankommt. Unsere Ratgeber richten sich vor allem an Einsteiger. Leser, die vertiefende Informationen suchen, können diese umsonst als AddOn mit individuellen Inhalten nach Wunsch erhalten. Möglich wird dieses Konzept durch ein besonders effizientes, innovatives Digital-Verfahren. Der Verlag engagiert sich auch gemeinnützig in zahlreichen, gut dokumentierten Projekten, z.B. zum Klimaschutz, und unterstützt durch seine Übersetzung vom Deutschen ins Englische die Qualität von neuronalem Maschinenlernen und die Völkerverständigung. Herausgeberin Simone Janson ist Vorständin, Verlegerin und Bestseller-Autorin. Sie war außerdem eine der 20 wichtigsten deutschen Bloggerinnen und Kolumnistin renommierter Medien - mehr zu ihr in Wikipedia.
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Letting Go Into Perfect Love
Inspiring and unforgettable, Letting Go into Perfect Love is a riveting account of a journey through the terror of domestic violence to a faith that transforms all. As a college administrator, Gwendolyn M. Plano lived her professional life in a highly visible and accountable space--but as a wife and mother, behind closed doors, she and her family experienced unpredictable threat. Every nine seconds in the United States, a woman is assaulted or beaten--but to Gwen, this was her secret; it was her shame. Alternately heart-wrenching and joyful, this is a story of triumph over adversity--one woman's uplifting account of learning how to forgive the unforgiveable, recover her sense of self, bring healing into her family, and honor the journey home. Accompanied by glimpses of celestial beings, Gwen charts a path through sorrow to joy--and ultimately, writes of the one perfect love we all seek.Gwen's story is heartbreakingly familiar. It provides insight into the phenomenon of domestic violence. Understanding that murky world may provide the reader with the skills to help his or her sister or friend or neighbor. Whether victim or friend, readers will be inspired by the author's courage.
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Wake Me Up at Nine in the Morning
An electrifying story about the explosive power of secrets, from a celebrated Chinese novelistInfamous local thug Hongyang is found dead by his lover after a night of debauched drinking. Hongyang is a man with plenty of enemies, any one of whom could be responsible for his death... Piecing together the story of Hongyang's violent criminal past through the voices of his friends, family, and his former lover Aiwan, Wake Me Up at Nine in the Morning is a breathless and immersive journey into China's criminal underworld.It is also a terrifying snapshot of a society in which cynicism and suspicion reign supreme. Written with Yi's trademark confident prose and taut, suspenseful style, this is an unmissable read from a star of Chinese literature.
Fuck you, Perfect
This is what this book brings you: You support certified climate protection projects, quickly receive compact information and checklists from experts (overview and press comments in the book preview) as well as advice that has been tried and tested in practice, which also leads to success step by step thanks to AddOn. Because the ideal of perfection rules our working world as well as society and especially the Internet constantly provides us with images of successful, ambitious and happy people. But this often leads to pressure, stress, problems and overload, even anxiety and depression. The unfortunate result: false ambition has many people too firmly in its grip: they want too much and too quickly the wrong thing, but at the same time they lack the ability to develop their own potential. Often it would be enough to take a step back and change ingrained behavior patterns, but often enough aggression, fears and other negative emotions block the way. The good news is that self-efficacy can make many things easier for us than we think. For example, by setting priorities when making decisions, detaching ourselves from our own exaggerated demands for perfection, becoming aware of blockages such as procrastination traps, avoiding insecurity through unproductive brooding, learning to deal with loss of control in a relaxed manner, and thus gaining the ability to react more flexibly even to unforeseen events. This book shows you how. Good luck and have fun reading. We give you the best possible help on the topics of career, finance, management, personnel work and life assistance. For this purpose, we gather in each book the best experts in their field as authors - detailed biographies in the book - , who give a comprehensive overview of the topic and additionally offer you success planner workbooks in printed form. Our guidebooks are aimed primarily at beginners. Readers who are looking for more in-depth information can get it for free as an add-on with individual content as desired. This concept is made possible by a particularly efficient, innovative digital process. The publisher is also involved in numerous, well-documented charitable projects, e.g. on climate protection, and supports the quality of neural machine learning and international understanding through its translation from German into English. Editor Simone Janson is chairwoman, publisher, and best-selling author. She was also one of the 20 most important German bloggers and columnist of renowned media - more about her in Wikipedia.
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