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George Orwell (1903-1950) was an English novelist, essayist, journalist, and critic. Considered a classic of dystopian fiction, 1984 has contributed many terms to common usage, including "Big Brother", "doublethink", "newspeak", and "thoughtcrime", while the adjective "Orwellian" has entered the English language in the context of government deception, surveillance, and misleading terminology. The narrative unfolds in an imagined future when most of the world has fallen prey to omnipresent government surveillance, propaganda, and endless war.

Nikola Tesla (1856-1943) was a Serbian-American inventor, engineer, and physicist. In his work On Electricity, the prodigious inventory describes the development and influence of electricity.

Bingham Foundation field investigator Samuel Todd discovers a conspiracy of silence surrounding the research being conducted by Dr. Telford Gordon Thorndecker, the head of the well-to-do senior care facility Crittenden Hall. Thorndecker is secretly breaking every law of God and man - and faces an ultimate decision. Lawrence Sanders at his suspenseful best.

In these 24 refreshingly balanced lectures, Professor Victor presents a comprehensive examination of American politics in which she demystifies its many puzzles and offers a nonpartisan look at the outcomes it produces.

Capote's previously lost and unpublished tale "Yachts and Things" was recently discovered by Vanity Fair contributing editor Sam Kasher in the Manuscripts and Archives Division of the New York Public Library. Written at the height of his career and socialite life, this short, thinly-veiled work of fiction tells the story of two friends about to take an "idyllic three-week cruise in the Mediterranean aboard a friend's chartered yacht".

In this utterly immersive volume, Mike Wallace captures the swings of prosperity and downturn, from the 1898 skyscraper-driven boom to the Bankers' Panic of 1907, the labor upheaval, and violent repression during and after the First World War. Here is New York on a whole new scale, moving from national to global prominence - an urban dynamo driven by restless ambition, boundless energy, immigrant dreams, and Wall Street greed.

Processus électoraux, sociétés de consommation, marketing, téléréalité et réseaux sociaux, mondialisation, plus que jamais notre époque moderne plonge davantage dans cette "ère des foules" prévue par Le Bon. Un livre audio indispensable pour qui veut comprendre les ressorts des comportements collectifs.

Un virus inconnu et foudroyant a transformé les humains en vampires ! Un homme seul résiste à la nouvelle peste, assiégé chaque nuit dans sa maison transformée en bunker. Reste-t-il d'autres humains sur terre ? Comment tout cela est arrivé ?

Tras siglos de guerras descarnadas, los siete poderes que dividen la tierra se han diezmado unos a otros hasta alcanzar una difícil tregua. Muy pocos reclamos legítimos existen ya por el Trono de Hierro, y la guerra que ha convertido al mundo en poco más que un desierto al fin ha terminado. O eso parece. Pero no pasa mucho tiempo antes de que los sobrevivientes, los proscritos, los renegados y los carroñeros de los Siete Reinos se reúnan.

Los miserables es una novela histórica de Víctor Hugo, publicada en 1862. La historia se enmarca en el período de la restauración de la monarquía francesa, que tuvo lugar en la primera mitad del siglo XIX. Su tema gira en torno al bien, el mal, la ética, la justicia y la fe. El argumento de la novela Los miserables de Víctor Hugo se centra en la historia de Jean Valjean, condenado a prisión por robar una hogaza de pan para sus sobrinos.

The paw of a dead monkey is a talisman that grants its possessor three wishes, but the wishes come with an enormous price.

The unbeatable master of suspense returns, in a wickedly wayward case of artists, models, and murder. If larceny is good for the soul, Palm Beach must be confidence heaven - so discovers Lawrence Sanders's sleuth-about-town Archy McNally in his third boffo baffler, McNally's Risk. Hired by a formidable matron to investigate the shadowy bona fides of her bubble-headed son's beloved, Archy is wowed by the enigmatic innamorata's purity and pulchritude. But when the artist for whom she posed is killed, McNally's job takes on a decidedly dangerous turn, and he begins to suspect the demure damsel might be both a poser and a poseur.

Learn Portuguese for Beginners Easily & in Your Car is perfect for people who have no other time to learn a new language! It contains over 2000 common Portuguese vocabulary phrases and words, that will help you in everyday life and travel! Each word is pronounced slowly and multiple times so that you can really learn the correct pronunciation! Each word's equivalent English translation is also provided! 

Alec de Payns is an undercover operative in the ultra-elusive French Y Division of the DGSE, a foreign intelligence service. Codenamed Aguilar, de Payns is one of the division’s most accomplished agents working to neutralize international threats on a daily basis while simultaneously trying to balance his home life as a husband and father. When a routine mission to infiltrate a dangerous terrorist group unexpectedly goes belly up, Alec is faced with the unthinkable: that he may have been betrayed by someone in his team—and they may be trying to pin the blame on Alec himself.

À la lumière de ses études éthologiques, qui s'attachent à observer le comportement des êtres vivants dans leur univers naturel, Boris Cyrulnik jette un regard nouveau sur les comportements affectifs et amoureux des êtres humains. La compréhension du monde animal et la biologie le conduisent à livrer de nouvelles interprétations sur les liens naturels qui unissent les familles et les couples. On découvre que l'histoire affective du bébé commence bien avant sa naissance et l'influence toute sa vie, que l'amour doit mourir pour devenir sentiment amoureux, que les regards et les attitudes sont un langage silencieux, etc.

Dans la Chine Impériale, un jeune milliardaire désœuvré et blasé, Kin-Fo décide de mourir en apprenant sa ruine. Recherchant dans la mort des émotions absentes de sa vie, il fait promettre à son mentor, le philosophe Wang, un ancien tueur Taïping, de le tuer sous deux mois pour bénéficier de l'assurance qu'il a souscrit à son bénéfice et celui de sa fiancée, la belle Lé-Ou. Un retournement du sort fait retrouver à Kin-Fo sa fortune mais le laisse condamné à mort par la promesse de Wang qui a disparu pour accomplir son forfait.

Como líder en psicología transpersonal, Ken Wilber presenta el primer modelo verdaderamente integrador de la conciencia espiritual oriental y la psicología del desarrollo occidental.

We can all remember a time when we were young and under-the-weather, and Mom soothed and nurtured us back to health with her magical chicken soup elixir. Now we can revisit those cherished moments with a delightful batch of stories for and about mothers. Celebrity contributions include Barbara Bush, Reba McEntire, Erma Bombeck and Montel Williams.

If you have always wanted to Learn the Portuguese language but have no time, keep listening! Portuguese is a beautiful language that is spoken by millions around the world! It is hard to find time to learn a new language however! Language courses at schools and colleges are routine and boring! Learn Portuguese For Beginners Easily & in Your Car is perfect for people who have no other time to learn a new language! It contains over 500 common Portuguese phrases and words, that will help you in everyday life and travel!

Para descubrir eso y más, aquí está Tan poca vida, una historia que recorre más de tres décadas de amistad en la vida de cuatro hombres que crecen juntos en Manhattan. Cuatro hombres que tienen que sobrevivir al fracaso y al éxito y que, a lo largo de los años, aprenden a sobreponerse a las crisis económicas, sociales y emocionales. Cuatro hombres que comparten una idea muy peculiar de la intimidad, una manera de estar juntos hecha de pocas palabras y muchos gestos. Cuatro hombres cuya relación la autora utiliza para realizar una minuciosa indagación de los límites de la naturaleza humana.