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The average American spends the equivalent of a full 60 days a year looking at their phone. It can become an all-consuming addiction that puts a strain on virtually every facet of our existence from the way we sleep, eat, and exercise to our ability to focus and make new memories. Most importantly, it takes us away from our lives, our relationships, and the real world. But although it may seem impossible, there is always a way to overcome digital distraction: you can always turn off your phone.

The Atheist's Guide to Christmas is a fantastic listen that was edited by Ariane Sherine, who started the Atheist Bus Campaign in response to an evangelical Christian bus ad that gave the URL of a website "telling non-Christians they would spend 'all eternity in torment in hell'." With the backing of Richard Dawkins, Sherine managed to compile a wonderful concoction of the world's most entertaining writers, scientists, comedians, and philosophers to read, perform, and narrate pieces that they had all written for the print book.

Men of a certain age. Guys with baritone voices who speak with the confidence that only maturity imparts. The characters in Daddies take you deep into the world of father figures and the beautiful young men who desire them - from Doug Harrison's leather-loving "Jungle Daddy" to Barry Alexander's boy-into-man "Night Visit" and Jeff Mann's nurturing daddy bear and his cub in "Lost River".

L'histoire vraie d'une jeune femme disparue dans les rues de Tokyo et du démon qui l'a engloutie. Lucie Blackman est grande, blonde et sévèrement endettée. En 2000, l'été de ses 21 ans, cette jeune Anglaise travaille dans un bar à hôtesses de Roppongi - quartier chaud de Tokyo - lorsqu'elle disparaît sans laisser de traces. Ses parents lancent alors une vaste campagne de mobilisation pour la retrouver. Bien vite, l'enquête des autorités japonaises devient sujette à caution : veut-on vraiment savoir ce qui s'est passé ?

The places in this book are shunned, abandoned, and forgotten. They do not exist, and yet here you will find the stories of people who have gone and survived to tell their tales. These are the postcards from the void, frightful evidence of places that should not be, and yet exist in our nightmares. Should you dare to venture into these blighted places, remember: Don't talk to strangers, don't stray far from home, and never, ever go in alone.

Veganism as an ethics and a practice has a recorded history dating back to Antiquity. Yet, it is only recently that researchers have begun the process of formalizing the study of veganism. Whereas occasional publications have recently emerged from sociology, history, philosophy, cultural studies, or critical animal studies, a comprehensive geographical analysis is missing. Until now.

Join Aled Pugh, Richard Elis and Simon Nehan as they quench their thirst for knowledge by chatting to a special guest each week about their life, their work and whatever else comes up. Only thing is, they have no idea who the guest is! It’ll be fun, fascinating and the perfect excuse to dunk an inquisitive biscuit into the lives of Welsh people. So stick the kettle on, sit back and lets have a cuppa tea is it?

An elderly farmer learns the horrifying truth beyond the phrase “True love never dies”. Something sinister lurks behind the distant eyes of a mother’s traumatized son. And a gravedigger slowly descends into madness, as he grows obsessed with the corpse of a little girl.... Scare Street’s latest collection shines a flickering candle on the terrifying forces of darkness that haunt our dreams. Death, madness, obsession.... The darker side of the human psyche is revealed with each bone-chilling chapter of these 14 macabre tales.

Richard Strange's 'A Mighty Big If' event at The Crypt, St Martin in the Fields, London. Writer and adventurer Richard regularly staged entertaining and illuminating conversations with major cultural figures. Comedian Simon Day, most know from The Fast Show, reads from his autobiography, Comedy and Error: They Really Were Marvellous Time, and talks about his work.

Plato imagines a dinner party - a symposium - held in the Athens of the late fifth century BC. He invites seven important historical figures including the philosopher Socrates, the comic playwright Aristophanes, and the notorious military general Alcibiades. As entertainment, each guest gives a speech praising eros (human love or erotic desire). Plato then "collects" these seven speeches into Symposium.

Der Auftakt einer epischen neuen Fantasy-Saga. Im Reich des Wolfes gärt es. Rebellen und mächtige Patrizier gefährden die Macht des kaiserlichen Throns. Nur der Orden der Richter stellt sich dem Chaos entgegen. Sir Konrad Vonvalt ist der gefürchtetste von ihnen, der gemeinsam mit seiner Schreiberin Helena und seinem Vollstrecker Bressinger Recht und Gesetz vertritt. Als die drei den Mord an einer Adeligen untersuchen, kommen sie einer Verschwörung auf die Spur, die bis in die Spitze der kaiserlichen Gesellschaft reicht.

Eine düstere Macht bedroht Recht und Gesetz. Im zweiten Band der epischen High-Fantasy-Reihe "Die Chroniken von Sova" zieht die Gruppe um Richter Konrad Vonvalt in die Hauptstadt Sova. Dort informiert der Kaiser persönlich Vonvalt darüber, dass das Oberhaupt des Richterordens ebenfalls zu den Verschwörern gehört, die das Reich bedrohen. Vonvalt soll die Leitung des Ordens übernehmen und dessen uraltes Magiewissen schützen. Bereits auf dem Weg nach Sova wurde er jedoch von einer mysteriösen Krankheit befallen.

A collection of vampire tales from some of horrors best.

A podcast about painting. Interviews and conversations with top contemporary painters on process, inspiration and what it means to be an artist.

An educative, informative and real inspirational time to share moments and discuss solutions to problems of the world