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A Short History of Nearly Everything is Bill Bryson's fascinating and humorous quest to understand everything that has happened from the Big Bang to the rise of civilization. He takes subjects that normally bore the pants off most of us, like geology, chemistry, and particle physics, and aims to render them comprehensible to people who have never thought they could be interested in science. In the company of some extraordinary scientists, Bill Bryson reveals the world in a way most of us have never seen it before.

Anni '70, una città industriale sull'orlo del collasso fatta di fabbriche chiuse, disperazione, piazze di spaccio. Sotto l'eterna pioggia nera che la flagella, il poliziotto migliore che si muove per le sue strade è Macbeth. Un ex tossico, un uomo fragile dal passato turbolento, abbandonato da bambino, uno sbirro incline alla violenza. Ma è lui, con la sua squadra, a gestire con intelligenza una retata nell'area del porto, un'azione in grande stile che, finalmente, gli fa intravedere la possibilità di ottenere una promozione.

Sono passati tre anni da quando Harry Hole è andato via. Via da Oslo, via dalla polizia, via dalla donna che amava. Ma ora ha un valido motivo per tornare: Oleg, il ragazzo che ha cresciuto come un figlio, è in carcere, con l'accusa di aver ucciso il suo migliore amico. Secondo gli investigatori è un regolamento di conti nel mondo della droga, ma Hole non ci crede. E per dimostrare l'innocenza del ragazzo deve lottare contro il tempo, in cerca di una verità diversa da quella già decretata.

Humans have kept honey bees in hives for millennia, yet only in recent decades have biologists begun to investigate how these industrious insects live in the wild. The Lives of Bees is Thomas Seeley’s captivating story of what scientists are learning about the behavior, social life, and survival strategies of honey bees living outside the beekeeper’s hive - and how wild honey bees may hold the key to reversing the alarming die-off of the planet’s managed honey bee populations.

Fraa Erasmus is a young avout living in the Concent of Saunt Edhar, a sanctuary for mathematicians, scientists, and philosophers, protected from the corrupting influences of the "Saecular" world by ancient stone, honored traditions, and complex rituals. Over the centuries, cities, and governments have risen and fallen beyond the concent's walls. Three times during history's darkest epochs, bloody violence born of superstition and ignorance has invaded and devastated the cloistered mathic community.

Una notte, dopo la prima neve dell'anno, il piccolo Jonas si sveglia e scopre che sua madre è sparita. La sciarpa rosa che lui le aveva regalato per Natale è avvolta al collo del pupazzo di neve che, inspiegabilmente, quel giorno è apparso nel loro giardino. Ma quando anche una seconda donna scompare nei dintorni di Oslo, i peggiori presentimenti dell'ispettore Harry Hole sembrano prendere davvero corpo. È evidente che si trova a fronteggiare un serial killer per la prima volta in Norvegia.

The first novel to articulate the rage and pain of life in "the other America," Hubert Selby Jr.'s Last Exit to Brooklyn is a classic of postwar American writing. Selby's searing portrait of the powerless, the homeless, the dispossessed, is as fiercely and frighteningly apposite today as it was when it was first published more than fifty years ago. This explosive, transgressive best-seller created shock waves upon its release in 1964 with its raw, vibrant language and startling revelations of New York City's underbelly.

American Book Award-winning author Tananarive Due's second collection of stories ranges from horror to science fiction to suspense. From the mysterious, magical town of Gracetown to the aftermath of a pandemic to the reaches of the far future, Due's stories all share a sense of dread and fear balanced with heart and hope. In some of these stories, the monster is racism itself; others address the monster within, or other universal struggles set against the supernatural or surreal. All of them are written with Due's trademark attention to detail and deep characterization.

In the third and final book, Monty and Henry finally get answers to their questions and the shocking truth will change everything. Black Star is a cinematic science fiction thriller, a fantastic but at the same time realistic space adventure. No Way Back is the last book in this entertaining...

Divided into four sections - Status, Spontaneity, Narrative Skills, and Masks and Trance - and arranged more or less in the order a group might approach them, the audiobook sets out the specific techniques and exercises which Johnstone has himself found most useful and most stimulating. The result is both an audiobook of ideas and a fascinating exploration of the nature of spontaneous creativity.

Il corpo massacrato di un poliziotto è ritrovato alle porte della capitale norvegese, sulla scena di un crimine rimasto irrisolto e su cui lui stesso aveva indagato. Qualche tempo dopo viene scoperto il cadavere di un suo collega: stesse modalità di esecuzione, stesse coincidenze. A questo punto non può essere un caso, ed è chiaro a tutti che l'assassino ha appena cominciato. Fermarlo è un lavoro per Harry Hole. Ma di Harry Hole non c'è traccia. Nesbø utilizza tutti gli ingredienti chiave di un thriller mozzafiato con saggezza e vivacità. Smettete di diffidare, immergetevi e godetevi la corsa.

This book introduces important concepts in philosophy through the vast array of provocative issues raised by the series, such as the ethics of the Prime Directive, Star Trek's philosophy of peace, Data and Voyager's Doctor as persons, moral relativism and the Federation's quest for liberation, the effect of alternate universes on reality and identity, the Borg as transhumanists, Federation Trekonomics, Star Trek's secular society, and much, much more!  

Cinque famiglie legate l'una all'altra il cui destino si compie durante la metà del ventesimo secolo, in un mondo funestato dalle dittature e dalla guerra. Berlino nel 1933 è in subbuglio. L'undicenne Carla von Ulrich, figlia di Lady Maud Fitzherbert, cerca con tutte le forze di comprendere le tensioni che stanno lacerando la sua famiglia, nei giorni in cui Hitler inizia l'inesorabile ascesa al potere. In questi tempi tumultuosi fanno la loro comparsa sulla scena Ethel Leckwith, la formidabile amica di Lady Maud ed ex membro del parlamento inglese, e suo figlio Lloyd.

There are two little words every small-town man dreads: She’s back. Harper Sanders, the girl who was supposed to be my forever, has returned to Port Snow, Maine, for good - and she’s bringing back memories of our shared past. We once had a bright future together, but when tragedy struck, I threw it all away and pushed her out of my life. People in our small town think I’m cursed, but I know better. I did it all to myself.

In 2008, almost two decades after the Cold War was officially consigned to the history books, an average American guy helped to bring down a top Russian spy based at the United Nations. He had no formal espionage training. Everything he knew about spying he'd learned from books, films, video...

A sex slave. For most the thought is one of horror. The degradation, the humiliation and desperation. To use another to satiate your own kinky sexual needs. You are the Master in total control of their mind and body, of their will. To command them and they obey. Naked. On their knees. Sprawled face down. Tied up. Gagged. Any way you desire them. Their body ready and compliant. They are yours. A sex slave. Be honest. Haven’t you ever dreamed of having one?

First published in 1859, the classic and influential essay On Liberty was written by John Stuart Mill. An English philosopher, Mill painstakingly expounded upon his ideas of liberty, individuality, and authority through the lens of utilitarianism.

Falar sobre a nossa jornada é falar também sobre aquele medo de dar os primeiros passos pra seguir em frente, sobre tudo o que a gente sente ao longo da nossa caminhada de mudanças: insegurança, saudade, machucados. Sobre todos os sentimentos que a gente encontra dentro da gente e sobre como é difícil o processo de ressignificar alguns e se desfazer de outros. Sobre o processo de se curar, de amadurecer, e de entender o momento em que a gente precisa da gente. Porque todo mundo fala ''vai ficar tudo bem'', mas o que ninguém fala é o quanto você vai se sentir insuficiente até ficar tudo bem.

The "blasted heath" they called it. Five acres of grey desolation, like a sore eaten into the land. West of Arkham, the hills rise wild. There are dark little glens where the trees hang precariously and where thin brooklets trickle, never having been touched by sunlight. There was once a road over the hills and through the valley, but people ceased to use it. The old folk have died or gone away, and the farms and villages are slowly decaying back into dark woods and narrow clearings. A family died up there.

"Call me Ishmael." Thus starts the greatest American novel. Melville said himself that he wanted to write "a mighty book about a mighty theme" and so he did. It is a story of one man's obsessive revenge-journey against the white whale, Moby-Dick, who injured him in an earlier meeting. Woven into the story of the last journey of The Pequod is a mesh of philosophy, rumination, religion, history, and a mass of information about whaling through the ages.