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An unabridged audio collection of the best-of-the-best science fiction stories published in 2015 by current and emerging masters of the genre, edited by Allan Kaster, as narrated by top voice talents.

An entertaining guide to the statistics of personal risk, The Norm Chronicles will enlighten anyone who has ever worried about the dangers we encounter in our daily lives.

Tell me what you like. After a teacher receives a weirdly arousing video, his life descends into paranoia and obsession. More videos follow - each containing information no stranger could possibly know. But who's sending them? And what do they want? The answers may destroy everything and everyone he loves.

Do you want to move up from the elementary to the intermediate level? One of the most effective ways to learn new vocabulary and grammar is by reading. When learning a new language, it's difficult to find real reading material of the right level. Essentially, it needs to be easy enough so you can get started but challenging enough to ensure that you keep learning new and useful vocabulary at a manageable pace.

"Ich kann sie sehen! Wirklich sehen! Geister, Dämonen, Gespenster. Sie lauern in dunklen Nischen und Ecken, treiben ihr Unwesen ... überall. Doch ich stelle mich ihnen entgegen und mache dem Spuk ein Ende. Ich bin Johnny. Johnny Sinclair. Ich bin Geisterjäger." Einmal Urlaub machen von der Geisterjägerei! Auf Einladung des Grafen Albert von Tattenberg sind Johnny und Russell nach Österreich gereist, um das 500-jährige Bestehen von Schloss Tattenberg zu feiern. Doch dann verschwindet auf einmal Sebastian, der Diener des Grafen.

In Go Long, authors Dennis Carey, Brian Dumaine, Michael Useem, and Rodney Zemmel take you behind the scenes to witness the business decisions that are enabling leading organizations to outsmart and outlast the competition.

Lots of intermediate Spanish speakers tend to get trapped using the same vocabulary over and over again. They often only speak about subjects they know the words for and avoid anything outside of their comfort zone. The problem with this is that even though they sound ok, they never really get any better.

Three years ago, an object 100 miles across was spotted on a trajectory for Earth's sun. Now, its journey is almost over. As it approaches, two competing manned vehicles race through almost half a million kilometers of space to reach it first. But when they both arrive on the entity, they learn that it has been sent toward Earth for a reason. An intelligent race is desperately attempting to communicate with our primitive species. And the message is: Help us.

Educating for Purposeful Life documents positive change within the Anaheim Union High School District, whose overarching mission is to prepare high school graduates who possess a clear sense of purpose and the capacity to achieve their goals This work illuminates the district's Career Preparedness Systems Framework, which integrates affective and cognitive development opportunities, trade and professional development programs, and community engagement efforts.

To save her best friend from the horrors of Nazi Germany, an invisible girl must embark on an utterly unforgettable journey of redemption and revenge. The Vanishing is fierce and loving, devastating and compelling, a breathtaking blend of history, fiction, and magical realism.

Throughout his half-century career, self-made businessman David Semas has drawn inspiration from President Theodore Roosevelt’s famous speech on “The Man in the Arena” in 1910, which was about daring to risk everything rather than playing it safe. In the real world, roughly a third of businesses will implode within two years, and half won’t make it past five years. But statistics can’t tell the full story. This memoir provides a detailed road map of trials, challenges, and pitfalls while building a business and offers a case history of achievement and failure.

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Battle lines have been drawn. Only one species will survive. The Primordials are crossing into our universe. Their mission is simple: Burn every planet to ashes. The only hope for all life is the culmination of the Kane bloodline. Prometheus finds his back against the wall. Can he hold off the horde long enough for his grandson to face a god? Or will defending his home require the ultimate sacrifice? Constantine and his warriors are out of options. They must find the alien god-king and kill him before time runs out for everyone.

This book teaches you how to become a successful professional musician, a tried-and-true career musician. What exactly does being a career musician mean? You will earn a living from playing your instrument, writing songs, composing, producing, teaching...you name it....You will learn how to capitalize on your creative talents! Through the author's 30 years of experience as a career musician himself, Nomad walks you through Ethos, a system of guiding life principles that every pro musician should adhere to.

Five men and women venture to another universe to find beings whose power gives them abilities they can’t imagine. Their leader? The greatest warrior produced since Prometheus: Achilles. Young, untested, but with unbridled potential, will his raw talent be enough? Can Achilles fight gods and turn back the tide of fate for the entire universe? Or will he be crushed like an ant beneath the feet of beings who can walk the stars?

Was für ein Lotterleben, denkt sich Yoyo, als er die Bewohner des Dornröschenschlosses sieht. Am helllichten Tag wird hier geschlafen und das, obwohl soviel zu tun wäre! Selbst der Koch verschläft, dass er dem frechen Küchenjungen eine Ohrfeige verabreichen wollte. Doch bald kommen unsere Helden, Yoyo und Doc Croc mithilfe der Fee Bianca hinter das uralte Geheimnis des dornenumrankten Schlosses. Ein schönes Mädchen, eine beleidigte böse Fee und eine vergiftete Spindel spielen dabei eine Rolle.

Although scholars have long recognized that local American parties play an important role in elections, surprisingly little is known about the individuals who lead these typically small, volunteer-based organizations. As Small Power shows, local party leaders influence the electoral process in myriad ways. Drawing from a survey of over 850 Democratic and Republican local party chairs, a nationally representative sample of voters, and dozens of in-depth interviews, the authors describe how parties are organized, who party chairs are, and how they serve the party.

Doc Croc und Yoyo können es nicht fassen: Kaum sind sie von dem schrecklichen Bauernhof geflohen, wollen der alte Esel, der krächzende Gockel, der zahnlose Hund sowie die gebrechliche Katze plötzlich Stadtmusikanten werden. Und dabei singen sie so, dass die Milch sauer wird! Auch die Räuber, denen die Stadtmusikanten ein hübsches Ständchen bringen wollen, sind wenig entzückt. Sie sehen in der Gestalt, die vor ihrem Fenster steht, nur ein kreischendes Monster mit acht Augen. Aber was ist, wenn die Räuber ihren Irrtum erkennen?

Ein seltsames Gefolge, das der verliebte Prinz auf dem Wege zum Schloss seiner Angebeteten einsammelt: Ein Dickwanst, der ganze Meere austrinken kann, ein Horcher, der Gras wachsen hört, ein Seher, der über Tausende von Meilen hinweg auch noch die kleinste Maus entdeckt, und das sind nur drei von sechs seltsamen Dienern! Doch Yoyo und Doc Croc ahnen bereits, dass der Prinz übermenschliche Hilfe braucht, um die unlösbaren Aufgaben der bösen Königin zu bewältigen.

Michael and David are long term friends, who decided to get together and run a podcast series about business and entrepreneurship from a technologist's perspective. Michael has been working within the IT industry for over 25 years now, on an international level. During that time, he dabbled with working for himself. Eight years ago, he took the plunge and started his own company, now known as Teamscal, successfully building a team that helps other companies around the world build and manage their technology, and international teams to support that technology. David Camus comes from a similar ...