Year House

In this revelatory narrative covering the years 1967 to 2017, Steven Brill gives us a stunningly cogent picture of the broken system at the heart of our society. He shows us how, over the last half-century, America's core values - meritocracy, innovation, due process, free speech, and even democracy itself - have somehow managed to power its decline into dysfunction.

Courtroom 302 is the fascinating story of one year in Chicago's Cook County Criminal Courthouse, the busiest felony courthouse in the country. Here we see the system through the eyes of the men and women who experience it, not only in the courtroom but in the lockup, the jury room, the judge's chambers, the spectators' gallery. From the daily grind of the court to the highest-profile case of the year, Steve Bogira's masterful investigation raises fundamental issues of race, civil rights, and justice in America.

Millions of women and men have restored youthful radiance, smoothness, and suppleness to their skin through Dr. Nicholas Perricone’s advice, care, and transformative eating plan–and all with the welcome yet unexpected benefit of losing excess weight along with the wrinkles! Building on this discovery, Dr. Perricone breaks new ground with his trademark anti-inflammatory program based on the foods, supplements, and lifestyle changes with the proven ability to accelerate fat loss by increasing metabolism and building and maintaining muscle mass.

Sally Urwin and her husband, Steve, own High House Farm in Northumberland, which they share with Mavis the sheepdog, one very fat pony and many, many sheep. Set in beautiful, wild landscape, and in use for generations, it's the perfect setting for Sally's (sometimes brutally) honest and charming account of farming life. From stock sales to lambing sheds, and out in the fields in snow and on hot summer days, A Farmer's Diary reveals the highs, lows and hard work involved in making a living from the land.

A Honeybee Heart Has Five Openings begins as the author is entering her 30s and feeling disconnected in her life. Uneasy about her future and struggling to settle into her new house in Oxford with its own small garden, she is brought back to a time of accompanying a friend in London - a beekeeper - on his hive visits. And as a gesture of good fortune for her new life, she is given a colony of honeybees. This is a subtle yet urgent mediation on uncertainty and hope, on solitude and friendship, on feelings of restlessness and on home; on how we might better know ourselves.

Jonas Jonasson nos regala un personaje maravilloso. Un abuelo sin prejuicios que no está dispuesto a renunciar al placer de vivir. Momentos antes de que empiece la pomposa celebración de su centésimo cumpleaños, Allan Karlsson decide que nada de eso va con él. Vestido con su mejor traje y unas pantuflas, se encarama a una ventana y se fuga de la residencia donde vive, dejando plantados al alcalde y a la prensa local.

Aké. Los años de la niñez es el relato en primera persona de la infancia de Soyinka en una aldea de Nigeria llamada Aké, en los años en torno a la Segunda Guerra Mundial. Allí el pequeño Wole, un muchacho de una curiosidad infinita, amante de los libros y propenso a meterse en líos y aventuras, crece con la doble influencia de los aires occidentales y de las antiguas tradiciones espirituales youruba.

Russia's interference in 2016 marked only the latest chapter of a hidden and revelatory history. In Rigged, David Shimer tells the sweeping story of covert electoral interference past and present. He exposes decades of secret operations - by the KGB, the CIA, and Vladimir Putin's Russia - to shape electoral outcomes, melding deep historical research with groundbreaking interviews with more than 130 key players, from leading officials in both the Trump and Obama administrations, to CIA and NSA directors, to a former KGB general.

When he was elected pope in the fall of 1978, few people had ever heard of the charismatic Karol Wojty³a. But in a very short time he would ignite a revolution of conscience in his native Poland that would ultimately lead to the collapse of European communism and death of the Soviet Union. What even fewer people knew was that the KGB, the Polish Secret Police, and the East German Stasi had been waging a dangerous, decades-long war against Wojty³a and the Vatican itself.

For the past five decades Ms. has been the nation’s most influential source of feminist ideas, and it remains at the forefront of feminism today, affecting thought and culture with a younger-than-ever readership (ages 16-20!). Here are essays, profiles, conversations with and features by: Alice Walker, Cynthia Enloe, Pauli Murray, Nancy Pelosi, bell hooks, Eleanor Holmes Norton, Brittney Cooper, and Joy Harjo, as well as fiction and poetry by Toni Morrison, Joyce Carol Oates, Adrienne Rich, Rita Dove, and Sharon Olds, and many others.

Quince muchachos de distintas edades y nacionalidades han naufragado en una isla desierta del Pacífico. ¿Cómo se las ingeniarán, sin ayuda de ningún adulto, para sobrevivir... y para superar los peligros más inesperados?

Um seinen Traum vom Kauf eines alten Hauses zu verwirklichen, willigt Spencer ein, The Fix gemeinsam mit seiner Ex zu renovieren. Eine explosive Mischung aus Wut und erotischer Anziehungskraft macht die medienwirksam begleitete Renovierung für Spencer zur Herausforderung. Während des Castings für Mr. Februar kommt heraus, warum Brooke ihn damals vor dem Traualtar stehen ließ.

Jenna und Reece sind seit ihrer Kindheit befreundet, doch ein unerwarteter leidenschaftlicher Kuss sorgt für Verwirrung. Als ihrer Lieblingsbar The Fix die Schließung droht, hat Event-Managerin Jenna die Idee eines Kalenders mit zwölf heißen Männern. Am Abend des ersten Castings taucht ein Überraschungskandidat auf: Wer wird (Jennas) Mr. Januar?

Las conferencias matutinas de Andrés Manuel López Obrador se convirtieron en el imperio de los “los otros datos”. El mandatario prometió que las mañaneras serían una herramienta de transparencia, pero desde el día uno de su gobierno devinieron en instrumentos de propaganda y desinformación.

Gardening is becoming popular among people who want to try a relatively low-cost and relaxing hobby at the same time. Greenhouse gardening seems to be becoming ever more popular among most of them. That may be due to the fact that managing a greenhouse garden is quite easy for an average individual. Greenhouses provides gardeners with the ability to properly control the conditions such as temperature and humidity within the greenhouse.

Tyree und Eva waren ein glückliches Paar, bis das Schicksal sie auseinanderriss. Jetzt begegnen sie sich wieder, doch in der Zwischenzeit ist viel passiert. Beide zögern, sich der Vergangenheit zu stellen. Aber Tyree kann von Evas sinnlichen Kurven nach wie vor nicht genug bekommen. Und auch Eva ist von Tyrees heißem Körper bei der Wahl von Mr. Mai mehr als nur angetan.

Shelby und Nolan könnten unterschiedlicher nicht sein. Bei einer Party in der Bar The Fix lässt Shelby sich ausnahmsweise richtig gehen und verbringt eine heiße Nacht mit ihm. Für sie ist es eine einmalige Sache, denn sie ist bereits mit dem perfekten Mann - Alan - zusammen. Doch Nolans Sex-Appeal lässt sie nicht mehr los.

Mina und Cameron kennen sich schon ihr ganzes Leben. Er fand sie schon immer heiß. Und auch Mina konnte sich an Camerons sexy Körper noch nie sattsehen. Erst nach einem gemeinsamen Abend im The Fix kommen sie sich näher - die Luft knistert. Doch Mina hat ein verlockendes berufliches Angebot aus Hollywood und müsste dafür die Stadt verlassen. Wie wird sich Mina entscheiden, und wer wird Mr. März?

When Frank Johnson arrived in Vietnam in 1969, he was 19, a young soldier untested in combat like thousands of others - but with two important differences: Johnson volunteered for the elite L Company Rangers of the 101st Airborne Division, a long range reconnaissance patrol (LRRP) unit, and he kept a secret diary, a practice forbidden by the military to protect the security of LRRP operations. Now, more than three decades later, those hastily written pages offer a rare look at the daily operations of one of the most courageous units that waged war in Vietnam.

La familia que formará Cósima en Veracruz, casada con Felipe, cuya madre era francesa, estará formada también por otras tres mujeres: Hilda, Virginia y Leticia, la madre de Laura. La historia de la protagonista es narrada al tiempo que la historia del país. La intención del autor es recuperar la parte femenina que ha quedado diluida en la historia de un país fundamentalmente masculino, donde la herencia azteca, árabe y española la ha marginado del acontecer histórico.