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It’s considered a given, once your child hits puberty, that she or he will become uncommunicative, rude, and withdrawn, but there are neurobiological, social, and developmental reasons for these often-frustrating behaviors, and understanding those factors can really help us parent well. Focusing on adolescents (covering preteens, teenagers, and young adults), Christine Carter - the parent of four teenagers, a parenting coach, and author - guides you through some of the most important factors when it comes to raising kids in the modern world.

Book four in the hilarious and action-packed Total Mayhem series from New York Times bestselling author Ralph Lazar, starring Dash Candoo, an ingenious problem-solver, with fantastic friends and a bottomless backpack of brilliant gadgets.

Abandoned by her parents the day she was born and raised by her Sensei, Fin, Sparrow has grown up bitter and doubtful of her identity. Forced to train beside the elite “Anomalies” - a secret society of superhuman fugitives on a mission to rescue a war-torn world from the Reformed Global Militia - Sparrow fights her own powers, desperately wishing she could live like a normal teenager. But her rebellious streak comes to a screeching halt when Fin transfers her to a new school (which just happens to be a cabin in the woods) to train alongside the best of the best.

As the world nears eight billion people, the countries that have led the global order since World War II are becoming the most aged societies in human history. At the same time, the world’s poorest and least powerful countries are suffocating under an imbalance of population and resources. In 8 Billion and Counting, political demographer Jennifer D. Sciubba argues that a deeper understanding of fertility, mortality, and migration trends points us toward the investments we need to make today to shape the future we want tomorrow.

Il est l'un des vingt célibataires les plus convoités de la Silicon Valley, beau, riche et célèbre, mesdames, si vous souhaitez passer la bague au doigt d'Ephraïm Shuster, il vous suffit d'être l'une des dix candidates de The Queen of Hearts ! Peut-être que Virginia, productrice plébiscitée dans le monde de la télé-réalité, a eu raison de rempiler pour une huitième saison. Le but ? Former le couple le plus sulfureux et sexy du moment. Les moyens pour y parvenir ? Tous. Sans exception. Mais cette fois-ci, le prétendant semble plus malin que ses prédécesseurs.

The sky has always held significance for humanity, in both cultural and scientific terms. And yet we persistently pollute it with sometimes unnecessary light in our obsessive desire to chase away the darkness. This effectively switches off the stars, hampering our ability to enjoy one of the most inspiring sights nature has to offer to humankind. In addition, too much light is hazardous to both our health and that of the fauna and flora of this planet.

Life in her traditional Mennonite community is peaceful, if a little dull, for 12-year-old Beth who dreams of being an artist. She goes to school, helps with the cooking and cleaning at home, and works with her parents at the local farmer’s market. One Saturday, however, excitement shows up in the form of a determined lawyer from New York City who insists she needs a family cookie recipe to win a multi-million-dollar lawsuit.

It's early May in the small English village of Finch and the air is crackling with excitement: A newcomer is about to move into Pussywillows, a riverside cottage with a romantic reputation. Will the cottage's newest resident prove yet again its enchanting ability to matchmake? But when Crispin Windle arrives, no one knows what to make of him: Seemingly a loner, he repels every welcoming gesture and appears altogether uninterested in being a part of the community. Soon, the townspeople have all but dismissed him.

Research suggests that we should refrain from screens at bedtime. But it can be hard to give up social media and news without something to take its place. In this book, author Jennifer Grant offers gentle meditations that help you direct your gaze away from screens and uncertainties and toward the natural world. Dimming the Day guides you to focus on the wonders of God's good Earth, from the ordinary head of a dandelion to the exquisite beauty of a fractal. 

When the forces of chaos interrupt the most important meal of Dash's day and conspire against him, his friends, his school, his town, and indeed the entire planet, Dash needs to take things into his own hands, and some crazy stuff starts to happen.

En 1996, la journaliste Laurence de la Baume, auteure dans l'émission "Metropolis" sur Arte, interviewe Mudrooroo, un écrivain aborigène qui se révèle être un "chaman". Le soir même, "en contactant ses ancêtres", il provoque chez elle une expérience qui va bouleverser sa vie. Elle découvre qu'il existe un autre niveau de réalité. Une "conscience" au-delà de notre conscience habituelle.

Quelques mots en conclusion ? "On a beaucoup dit de moi que je n'étais qu'une brute épaisse. Mais là, je vous assure, je ne suis pas si solide que ça..." Allez, Hulk, on se mobilise ! "Le petit insouciant, c'est comme ça qu'on me voit ? Moi qui m'accommodais des orages en dansant sous la pluie, je me suis fait foudroyer." Un coup de pouce du destin, peut-être ? "À ceux qui pensent que je suis naïve, je répondrais qu'ils n'ont pas rencontré un Londonien plus instable qu'une grenade..." Besoin d'un "honey" susurré ?

When Icarus and the other Anomalies of the Dimension reemerge into a war-torn world, they have no idea how to take down the Reformed Global Militia, a military superpower which now rules by force and mind-control. Without Hawk or Sensei by his side, Icarus is haunted by his own self-doubt and questions his ability to lead the sliders into battle. But when he’s captured and inducted into the RGM, Icarus must face his biggest challenge yet: Keep his true identity a secret from the power that wants to kill him.

Et si notre cœur était la clé du changement qui nous est demandé ?Connaissez-vous les pouvoirs réels du cœur sur notre cerveau, nos émotions, notre conscience ? Serait-il la clé de notre évolution ? C'est à partir de ces questions et de ses expériences personnelles que Laurence de la Baume a rencontré des cardiologues d'avant-garde comme Pim van Lommel, Carlo Ventura, le psycho-physiologiste Rollin Mc Craty, des épigénéticiens comme Pier Mario Biava, Bruce Lipton, ou le philosophe des sciences Ervin Laszlo.

"Ma vie a dérapé quand le pouvoir que je croyais détenir m'a échappé. Les petits cons dans son genre... je les bouffe au petit-déj', normalement. Maintenant, je vais devoir rattraper le coup..." Marc Tillard, tourmenté. "Si on m'avait prédit l'enfer qu'il me ferait vivre, je l'aurais fui comme la peste. Mais, c'est fini. Pour faire table rase du passé, je ne m'encombre plus de casseroles - aussi sexy soient-elles !" Simon Fauquet, désabusé.

"Faut se présenter ? Pfff. Marc Tillard. Flic. Râleur. Taciturne. Métro, boulot, dodo... et sexe, évidemment. Ma vie était réglée jusqu'à ce qu'un petit con aux yeux émeraude se pointe." "On parle de moi ? Simon Fauquet. Fun, insouciant et trop mignon. Ma vie rime avec soirées et vodka, jamais sans ma coloc' et meilleure amie. Entre nous, c'est à la vie à la mort, jusque dans les ennuis que j'attire comme un aimant."

When Kate wins an item at her children’s elementary school auction - an all-inclusive trip to SeaView at Sandpiper Bay - she thinks it’s just what her family needs after a decade of career disappointments and a marriage on its last legs. She has no reason to believe that said trip is a Fyre Festival-level fraud and, in fact, the catalyst to her unraveling. But it is. Oh, but it is.

In 1949, during her junior year abroad in Paris, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis bought several inexpensive paintings of Marie-Antoinette by a little-known 18th-century female artist. She also had a romantic relationship with Virginia vineyard owner Lucie Montgomery’s French grandfather - until recently, a well-kept secret. Seventy years later, Cricket Delacroix, Lucie’s neighbor and Jackie’s schoolfriend, is donating the now priceless paintings to a Washington, DC, museum.

So many of us today feel like we’re merely existing instead of thriving - and that’s where a purpose-oriented mind-set comes in. Living with purpose means using your gifts, in keeping with your values, to make a positive impact on the lives of others. But it’s not easy. Half the work of cultivating greater purpose in life involves facing personal and profound questions. What matters most to me? What do I value in other people, and why? What positive change do I want to see in the world?

On a sunny September day in 1931, Soviet spy Stanislav Shumovsky walked down the gangplank of the SS Europa and into New York, concealed in a group of 65 Soviet students. Joseph Stalin had sent him to acquire American secrets to help close the USSR’s yawning technology gap. In this thrilling history, Svetlana Lokhova takes the listener on a journey through Stalin’s most audacious intelligence operation, piecing together every aspect of Shumovsky’s life and character using information derived from American and Russian archives.