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Few outside the security services have heard of 14 Company. As deadly as the SAS yet more secret, the operators of 14 Company are Britain's most effective weapon against international terrorism. For every bomb that goes off, 14 Company prevent 12. The selection process is the most physically, intellectually, and emotionally demanding anywhere in the world. This is the true story of one operator and of some of the most hair-raising military operations ever conducted on the streets of Britain.

Widowed Lady Sylvia Elton is out to save young ladies from the terrible fate of love and marriage. Her former husband has retained his reputation as an honorable and loving man in death, but Sylvia has privately mourned his lies and infidelity. Joined by two equally scorned and cast-off friends, Sylvia establishes the Mismatch Society. With each new liberated member, the scandalous circle wreaks havoc on the romantic prospects of London’s frustrated male peerage. But nothing prepares Sylvia for the Viscount St. John, a familiar face and her most formidable challenger.

Luckily for humanity, scientist Marie Curie applied her brilliant mind and indomitable spirit to expanding the frontiers of science, but what if she had instead drifted toward the darkness? At the cusp of between child- and adulthood, at the crossroads between science and superstition, a teen Marie Curie faces the factual and the fantastic in this fabulous collection of stories that inspire, delight, and ask the question: What if she had used her talents for diabolical purposes?

El acto de resistir trasciende por mucho la indignación que le dio origen. Es un encuentro con el destino, la última y desesperada exhortación de justicia. Los migrantes que llegan a la gran ciudad escapando del hambre y la carencia, los estudiantes del movimiento del 68, la huelga de hambre de las madres de los presos y desaparecidos políticos, la sorprendente hazaña del Güero Medrano y la colonia Rubén Jaramillo; las crónicas reunidas en este libro son el testimonio de una lucha inclemente, de una historia escrita desde abajo con la convicción de que la libertad y la igualdad son valores presentes que se renuevan todos los días.

Everyone knows something of Shakespeare's sonnets, even if only in memorable fragments like "the darling buds of May", or "remembrance of things past", or "the marriage of true minds". For centuries these wonderfully crafted, intense lyrics have stood for something valued about youth, love, and the emotional complexities belonging to that time of life. This new recording presents all 154 of Shakespeare's sonnets, using the New Cambridge Shakespeare texts.

Shakespeare's Sonnets, one of the most remarkable collections of poetry, was first published in 1609, 400 years ago by Mr Thomas Thorpe. Naxos AudioBooks marks the occasion with a selection of 80 of the finest, read by leading actors. The selection includes famous ones such as 'Shall I compare thee to a summer's day' as well as lesser well-known sonnets though of equally fine stature.

You can get 2x, 10x, or 100x more leads than you currently are without changing anything about what you sell… This book contains the playbooks that took me from sleeping on my gym floor to owning a portfolio of companies that generate $200,000,000 per year in under a decade. Wanna know the biggest difference between those two time periods? How many leads I was getting.

Dos voces se intercalan en este libro que describe encuentros entre jóvenes que han empezado a trabajar y no saben lo que la vida les depara una vez abandonado el mundo universitario, tan abierto a todo y, al mismo tiempo, tan previsible. El amor quedó atrás, en aquellos que marcharon lejos, o quizá solo está agazapado esperando su momento. Todo es posible cuando no nos cerramos en nosotros mismos.

"Breviario de pequeñas traiciones" es un demoledor relato de los turbulentos cambios que sacudieron la sociedad peruana a principios del S. XXI. En ella se dan cita el dinero, la frivolidad, las abismales diferencias de clase y la consecuencia de todo lo anterior: la soledad. Una novela a medio camino entre el deseo y la traición, un retrato tan amargo como lúcido de una generación entera.

Benaimed rehúye de la fortuna familiar y se refugia en el desierto en búsqueda de su identidad personal. Nadie sabe a ciencia cierta de dónde viene; algunos dicen que es un nómada, otros que es un ladrón que buscó refugio fuera de la civilización. Benaimed sufre un accidente en el desierto y está a punto de morir, de no ser porque Ashmayd se lo encuentra y, tras considerar qué hacer con él, decide rescatarlo. Y es que unos años atrás, él mismo se había retirado a la soledad del desierto para no influir en la vida de los demás.

Exploring the boundaries of the genre, Bova not only writes of spaceships, aliens, and time travel in most of his titles, but also speculates on the beginnings of science fiction in “Scheherazade and the Storytellers,” as well as the morality of man in “The Angel’s Gift.” Stories such as “The Café Coup” and “We’ll Always Have Paris” dip into speculative historical fiction, asking questions about what would happen if someone could change history for the better. This expansive collection is a key addition for Bova fans and sci-fi lovers alike!

The third and final volume of the very best of Ben Bova, creator of the New York Times best-selling Grand Tour science fiction series, six-time Hugo award winner, and past president of the National Space Society - a grand master of science fiction storytelling. These stories span the five decades of Bova's incandescent career.

Frontiers can be found in all directions - frontiers of timeand space, as well as frontiers of courage, devotion, love, hate, and the outer limits of the human spirit. This outstanding collection of stories by one of science fiction's premier talents spans the length and breadth of history and the universe while exploring thought-provoking new ideas and dilemmas.

A dialogue between Socrates and Meno probes the subject of ethics. Can goodness be taught? If it can, then we should be able to find teachers capable of instructing others about what is good and bad, right and wrong, or just and unjust. Socrates and Meno are unable to identify teachers of ethics, and we are left wondering how such knowledge could be acquired. To answer that puzzle, Socrates questions one of Meno’s servants in an attempt to show that we know fundamental ideas by recollecting them.

Una fotógrafa comprende algo que hubiera preferido no comprender. Un veterano de la guerra de Corea se enfrenta a su pasado durante un encuentro que parecía inofensivo. Tras el hallazgo por internet de un libro de 1887, un escritor acaba descubriendo la vida de una mujer apasionante.

Este es un audiolibro sobre un profesor de matemáticas que se convirtió en youtuber, y ahora compartirá todos sus secretos para resolver y comprender las matemáticas a través de estas páginas.

El originalísimo debut en la novela del guionista de cine Daniel Remón. Una noche, Teo, un niño de tres años, le pide a su tío Daniel que le cuente un cuento. Pero no cualquier cuento, sino uno que incluya a un niño llamado Teo, un coche rojo, una bruja buena y una mala, un monstruo, una maleta y un montón de dinero. Mezclando el Madrid del confinamiento con elementos propios de los clásicos infantiles, el narrador invita a su sobrino a un viaje formidable que le llevará hasta Londres, a una isla perdida en Filipinas y a una aldea despoblada de Aragón.

After a mysterious sojourn in Paris, Beryl Burnham has returned home to the village of Shepton Worthy, ready to resume the life she left behind. Betrothed to the wealthy Sir Henry Rivenhall, she has no reason to be unhappy or so people keep reminding her. But Beryl's life isn't as perfect as everyone believes.

Los Sabuesos vuelven a Londres para conocer el famoso papiro de Hunefer (famoso, claro, para sus padres, que son arqueólogos). Pero nuestros amigos tienen una extraña habilidad para estar en el sitio apropiado en el momento oportuno, ya que solo ellos se percatan de que una extraña pareja ha cogido una pieza que se exhibe al lado del papiro, el cofre de Anubis, y se la llevan...¡con el monito Toth dentro!

It's been three years since Laura Hayes' father died, leaving her and her invalid brother to subsist on the income from the family's failing perfume business. But time is swiftly running out. What she needs is a husband, and fast. A noble gentleman who can rescue them all from penury. When a mysterious stranger arrives in the village, he seems a perfect candidate. But Alex Archer is no hero. In fact, he just might be the opposite.