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The end for Colonel Muammar Gaddafi when it came, after 42 years of dictatorial power, was ignominious and violent. After months of bloody fighting, the Libyan revolutionary forces had driven their former leader from Tripoli before capturing him in a drainpipe in the city of Sirte. The gory images captured on the mobile phones of the victors were reproduced on newspaper front pages around the world, marking the end of a cruel regime. In the capital, ordinary Libyans explored the once forbidden compound that housed Gaddafi and his family.

When Luke Allnutt suddenly found out his father had only a few months left to live, he expected a time of deep conversations and long reflective walks along the beach -- about where they had both been and where they both were going. He expected some sort of denouement, an ultimate reckoning, a performance in which his father would play the dying sage and he would play the dutiful son. In the end, it was nothing like that. But in his father’s silence, he found something surprising -- and, in the end, all the more meaningful.

Qu'est-ce qui est le plus authentique ? Le monde dans lequel on est né, ou le monde que l'on se crée ? Stan Lee, créateur légendaire, conteur hors-pair et figure mythique de la pop-culture nous entraîne dans un nouvel univers, à la recherche de réponses aux questions les plus pertinentes de notre temps ! L'unique question qui demeure est la suivante : le rejoindrez-vous dans cette aventure ? Stan Lee's Alliances : L'Éclair du Génie est l'une des dernières collaborations de Stan Lee et l'un de ses projets les plus novateurs.

Narrado por Wendel Bezerra, uma das vozes brasileiras mais icônicas e que fez parte da infância de milhares de pessoas, Alianças de Stan Lee: Um Truque de Luz apresenta o ouvinte a uma jovem misteriosa chamada Nia, cujo destino é entrelaçado com o de um adolescente aparentemente comum do meio-oeste, Cameron Ackerson. Em sua busca para se tornar uma estrela do YouTube, ele acaba sendo levado ao coração do Triângulo dos Grandes Lagos, onde é imbuído com o poder de "ver" e "ouvir" uma nova realidade.

After 10 years of hard fighting and harder living, Will Danning is coming home to Yellow Jacket. His arrival is anything but celebrated, however - the last time he cast a shadow here, he wasn’t exactly walking the straight and narrow. Danning has returned to buy the Pitchfork Ranch, where he used to work cattle that weren’t always legally his. For his neighbors, that’s cause for concern; Angus Case still remembers when his herds were ravaged. What’s more, Danning’s friends can’t understand why he’d want such a dried-up parcel of land.

A poetic long-form tale of girls, ghouls, and school dances alongside other horrors of adolescence weave a contemporary twist with Edgar Allan Poe and pop culture references.

After 2,000 years, Christianity is the world's largest religion and continues to prosper and grow. What accounts for its continued popularity? In these 24 lectures, Professor Johnson maintains that the most familiar aspects of Christianity-its myths, institutions, ideas and morality-are only its outer "husk." He takes you on a journey to find the "kernel" of Christianity's appeal: religious experience. You'll travel back to Christianity's origins during its first 300 years to identify the elements that first made it appealing and which still hold the secret to its ability to attract new followers.

Provence, 1970 is about a singular historic moment. In the winter of that year, more or less coincidentally, the iconic culinary figures James Beard, M.F.K. Fisher, Julia Child, Richard Olney, Simone Beck, and Judith Jones found themselves together in the South of France. They cooked and ate...

Each of the great three Abrahamic religious traditions holds the seeds for deep mystical contemplation. But what do most of us know about these mystics and the tradition they sustained? Explore this spiritual, literary, and intellectual heritage in these great faiths of the West as it unfolds over three millennia with these 36 enlightening, thought-provoking lectures that offer nearly

Frank Christian and Morg Wheelon were going to build something great. After the two veteran cattle punchers saved up enough to start their own outfit, Frank was to ride down to Texas and buy whatever herd he could, then bring them up the Chisholm Trail through Indian country to the rich grasslands of the Cheyenne in Wyoming. Morg would be waiting with the grazing rights in hand. It was a risky plan, but Frank and Morg weren’t about to give up their dream.

Life may be difficult at times, but when we surrender our ego to the divine, all kinds of wonderful things can happen. This collection of guided meditations and visualizations was created by stress management expert and bestselling author, Brian Luke Seaward. They were inspired by the many people who attended his classes and workshops who repeatedly asked that they be recorded for use at home.

Was passiert, wenn Ottonormalverbraucher in der Küche steht und seine Ergebnisse auf den diversen Hobbykochplattformen hochlädt? Kommen Sachen wie MIT KÄSE ÜBERBACKENER KÄSE, das KETCHUP-EI und BESCHWIPSTER SUPER-DICKMANN heraus. Schön und lecker ist das nicht, aber erfrischend realitätsnah. Schluss mit der schöngefilterten Insta-Realität - was "Worst of Chefkoch" erst auf dem Blog, dann als Buch und nun auf CD zusammensammelt und kommentiert, ist so lustig, dass man auf der Stelle eine Gute-Laune-Cola exen möchte (mit einem Extraschuss Rum).

Celia Bridgeman erlebt den Albtraum jeder Mutter: Eines Morgens liegt ihr kleiner Sohn George nicht mehr in seinem Bett. Sean Corrigan und sein Team werden auf den Fall angesetzt. Noch bevor erste Ermittlungsergebnisse vorliegen, verschwindet ein weiteres Kind. Auf den ersten Blick gibt es keine Verbindung zwischen den Familien der entführten Kinder, keine Spur, die zum Täter führen könnte. Doch Corrigan weiß: Er muss ihn stellen - bevor ein weiteres Kind in seine Fänge gerät.

DI Sean Corrigan ist nicht wie andere Cops. Die Schatten seiner eigenen Vergangenheit machen ihn empfänglich für die Dunkelheit anderer - für die Abgründe von verlorenen Seelen, von Vergewaltigern, von Mördern. Das macht ihn zu einem außergewöhnlichen Ermittler. Als ein junger Mann brutal ermordet aufgefunden wird, geht die Polizei zunächst von einer Beziehungstat aus. Corrigan vermutet jedoch schnell, dass viel mehr hinter der Sache steckt. Die Jagd nach einem überaus cleveren Killer beginnt. Einem Killer, der weder Gnade noch Reue kennt...

Schon als kleines Mädchen hat Rosa ihre Zeit am liebsten mit ihren Schwestern Hannah und Antonia in der alten Mühle am Sternsee verbracht. Jetzt, mit Anfang dreißig, betreibt sie die Mühle mit ihrer Tante Lou - und könnte glücklicher nicht sein. Doch dann muss sie erfahren, dass ihr Freund Julian eine Affäre hat - und setzt ihn kurzerhand vor die Tür. Wenig später taucht Julians attraktiver Bruder David im Mühlenladen auf und wirbelt ihr Leben kräftig durcheinander. Was Rosa jedoch nicht ahnt: David spielt nicht mit offenen Karten.

Als Fotografin um die Welt reisen! Das war immer Hannahs Traum. Und so ließ sie die Heimat hinter sich, um das Leben durch ihr Kameraobjektiv zu entdecken. Doch nun, mit Ende zwanzig, kehrt Hannah traumatisiert nach Sternmoos zurück. Ihre Welt ist nach einem tragischen Unfall in Südamerika nicht mehr dieselbe. Sie hofft, in der alten Mühle ihrer Tante Lou, bei ihren beiden Schwestern Rosa und Antonia, Trost zu finden. Doch kaum Zuhause angekommen, trifft sie auf Jakob, ihre erste große Liebe.

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Robert F. Kennedy Book Award, and the American Book Award, the best-selling Common Ground is much more than the story of the busing crisis in Boston as told through the experiences of three families. As Studs Terkel remarked, it's "gripping, indelible...a truth about all large American cities." 

Doctor Talbot Harrison, a professor in archaeology, receives a phone call one day which will destroy everything he perceives as reality. His brother has been mysteriously killed and within moments, the United States military appear at his door, literally dragging him from his home. Thrown into a helicopter under intense armed guard, it doesn't take long until they are attacked by something which cannot possibly exist, something drawn to destroy the one man who can stop the beasts from a land beyond Hades.

Lazarus Cain is a member of the Grim Shadows, one of the Thieves Guilds in the city of Eberia. Unfortunately, Lazarus is having a bad day. Waking up in a torture chamber, suffering from amnesia, he'd be pretty much screwed if not for the mysterious, magical sigil burned into his chest. Sometimes a really bad day should be shared with others, especially professional torturers.

Considered a sign of the "coming of age" of video games as an artistic medium, the award-winning BioShock franchise covers vast philosophical ground. BioShock and Philosophy: Irrational Game, Rational Book presents expert reflections by philosophers (and BioShock connoisseurs) on this critically acclaimed and immersive fan favorite.