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From finding a spouse to finding a parking spot, from organizing one's inbox to understanding the workings of human memory, Algorithms to Live By transforms the wisdom of computer science into strategies for human living.

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September, 1356. Poitiers. The greatest knights of the age were ready to give battle. On the English side, Edward, the Black Prince, who'd earned his spurs at Crecy. On the French side, the king and his son, the dauphin. With 12,000 knights. And then there is William Gold. A cook's boy - the lowest of the low - who had once been branded as a thief. William dreams of being a knight, but in this savage new world of intrigue, betrayal and greed, first he must learn to survive.

This delightful collection of 13 children’s classic stories features Alice in Wonderland, The Bell, A Christmas Carol, Cinderella, Emily of New Moon, The Little Match Girl, The Little Mermaid, Little Red Riding Hood, Scourge of the Desert, The Secret Garden, Sleeping Beauty, Snow White, and The Wonderful Wizard of Oz.

Dix histoires spécialement choisies pour les enfants de 6 à 10 ans : de quoi les faire rêver, développer leur attention, leur offrir de belles histoires pour s'endormir et leur permettre de partager la culture qui nous a façonnés. Leur imaginaire va profiter de ces histoires qui marquent durablement, font rêver, frémir, sourire. Lue par Fabienne Prost, cette sélection rassemble les plus beaux contes classiques : "Ali Baba et les 40 voleurs", "Conte des mille et une nuits" ; "Le vaillant petit tailleur" (Grimm), "Barbe-Bleue" (Perrault), "Le stoïque soldat de plomb" (Andersen).

As a boy, Alexander dreamed of matching the heroic feats of Achilles. At 18 he led the Macedonian cavalry to a stunning victory against the Greeks. By 25 he had crushed the Persians in three monumental battles and was the master of the greatest empire the world had ever seen. Men began to call him a god. But behind the legend was another, more complex story.

Aplomo y Poder es una obra que explora el arte de lograr la confianza y el poder personal. Larson presenta métodos prácticos para desarrollar una presencia imponente, argumentando que el aplomo no solo proviene de la confianza en uno mismo, sino también de una comprensión profunda de nuestras capacidades y potencial. El libro anima al lector a superar limitaciones y miedos, utilizando herramientas como el pensamiento positivo, la autoafirmación y el control emocional.

Cuando el impulso es más fuerte que la razón y el corazón late fuerte y confundido, cuando la sangre corre por las venas y los amores se confunden con la pasión y el deseo, cuando las decisiones se toman desde la emoción y los errores se pagan con sufrimiento, solo queda intentar una vez más luchar por ese amor que te hace levantarte todos los días. Así le pasa a Adrián, un joven solitario que, por causas del destino, conoce a dos mujeres tan diferentes y atractivas que lo llevarán a tomar las decisiones más alocadas y a sufrir las consecuencias de sus resoluciones apasionadas.

Stand Strong in the Faith! It should be obvious to every Christian who has read Matthew 24 and Mark 13 that we are living in the beginning of the end times. My goal is simply to encourage every believer to contend for the faith (Jude1:3). Jesus told us in the book of Matthew 24:12 the love of many will wax cold before the end comes. Christians I don't want this to happen to us. I am a laywoman who has been saved for almost 20 years. I cannot brag about any accolades or accomplishments outside of JESUS CHRIST. I want every believer, no matter where you come from, to keep your eyes on JESUS and ...

Winnie Wildkatze sehnt sich nach körperlicher Nähe mit Willy Wildkater. Doch Willy hat nur die Arbeit im Sinn und möchte sich konzentrieren. Winnie ist verunsichert: Findet Willy sie überhaupt noch attraktiv? Bevor es Beziehungskrach gibt, taucht Giovanni Giraffe auf. Was für ein Glück! Giovanni Giraffe erklärt Winnie Wildkatze und Willy Wildkater ihre Bedürfnisse. Auch Raffaela und Radu Ratte, Harry und Hazel Haselmaus, Muna und Munira Mufflon sowie andere Tierpaare kommen sich in Liebesdingen in die Quere.

Christian Cooper is a self-described “Blerd” (Black nerd), an avid comics fan and expert birder who devotes every spring to gazing upon the migratory birds that stop to rest in Central Park, just a subway ride away from where he lives in New York City. While in the park one morning in May 2020, Cooper was engaged in the birdwatching ritual that had been a part of his life since he was ten years old when what might have been a routine encounter with a dog walker exploded age-oldracial tensions. Cooper’s viral video of the incident would send shock waves through the nation.

In this highly intoxicating original series, researchers Brian Christian and Tom Griffiths, authors of the best-selling smash hit, Algorithms to Live By, tackle some of the biggest ideas in computer science today - and, in the process, illuminate cutting-edge ways of understanding how we live, work and play.

Plus de 3 heures d'écoute pour découvrir ou redécouvrir les contes et fables de notre enfance.

Un informaticien orphelin aspirant à une vie plus palpitante, qui ne trouve le réconfort que dans les jeux vidéo. Une intrigante voisine aux mystérieuses sorties nocturnes. Une bande de marginaux dirigée par un personnage controversé se faisant appeler Démon. Un nightclub clandestin recelant un passage vers l'antichambre de l'enfer.

The Chivalry series follows young William Gold, who runs away from London to follow the Black Prince, from the killing fields of France, through life as a routier and criminal, and to redemption with the Knights of Saint John, further disillusion and an eventual career as a professional soldier and knight. Rich in the details of life in the High Middle Ages, the series also deals with modern issues about the role of violence in society, rules of conflict and war, and the price that people pay for using violence.

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ RATED IN THE TOP 1.5% OF PODCASTS IN THE WORLD . Are you going through a family estrangement from your adult son or daughter, where there’s little contact or no contact at all? Do you wonder why your child cut you off and if there’s a way to save the relationship? Is your heart breaking from seeing other people’s happy families, while yours falls apart? Maybe your life has become a rollercoaster ride cycling between anger, sadness, guilt and tears. . You can only distract yourself and avoid thinking about it so much, and then it hits you all over again: You have become an...

Dans une véranda cousue de courants d’air, en retrait d’un village sans électricité, s’organise la vie de Matthias et d’un homme accidenté qui lui a été confié juste avant l’hiver. Telle a été l’entente: le vieil homme assurera la rémission du plus jeune en échange de bois de chauffage, de vivres et, surtout, d’une place dans le convoi qui partira pour la ville au printemps.

Never told in detail before, this is the account of how, for four years, British and Allied codebreakers decrypted secret SS and Gestapo messages detailing the mass killings of the Holocaust, and how the Germans in turn deployed cryptanalysis to try to conceal their persecution of Europe's Jews. The compelling and fast-paced narrative is told from the perspectives of two central and opposing characters, who never meet. The account of how Nigel de Grey cracked the Enigma-coded signals of SS Major Hermann Höfle is one of the greatest untold stories of the Second World War

Rien de mieux pour s'endormir qu'une sélection de contes par les plus grands auteurs, pour emporter l'imagination vers le monde des rêves. La voix accueillante de Fabienne Prost installe les enfants dans un moment de calme et de sérénité, et les contes, entre classiques et pièces plus rares, les introduisent au plaisir de la narration.

Dix contes spécialement choisis pour les petits enfants de 3 à 6 ans : de quoi développer leur imagination et leur faculté d'attention, leur offrir de belles histoires pour s'endormir et leur permettre de partager la culture qui nous a façonnés. Lue par Fabienne Prost, cette sélection rassemble des contes classiques de Charles Perrault, des frères Grimm et d'Andersen : "Boucle d'or et les trois ours", "Raiponce", "Le maître chat ou le chat botté", "Cendrillon", "La plus belle rose du monde" (Andersen), "Le petit chaperon rouge", "La princesse et le porcher" (Andersen), "Les lutins" (Grimm), "Le loup et les sept chevreaux" (Grimm), "Les fées" (Perrault).