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This is a collection of the best leadership speeches, gave by the most outstanding leaders of our generation. 

A collection of newspaper articles about Dust Bowl migrants in California’s Central Valley by the author of The Grapes of Wrath.

Far, hvad er det for noget? Dér. På isen. Det er en strålende klar vinterdag. Anders står højst oppe i Gåvasten Fyr sammen med sin seksårige datter, Maja. Snedækket is så langt øjet rækker. Anders kan ikke få øje på det, som hans datter peger på. Maja går ned for at undersøge...

Stockholm midt i august: Det er unaturligt varmt, selv om det er aften, og alle mennesker har hovedpine. Det føles, som om byen er hyllet ind i et elektrisk felt. Omvendt strømafbrud – lamperne kan ikke slukkes, ingen maskiner kan slukkes. Der er panik i luften. Og pludselig er det hele...

LAD DEN RETTE KOMME IND er skrækroman og svensk socialrealisme i ét. Da det utænkelige kommer til Blackeberg, bemærker ingen noget i begyndelsen. Det er sidst på efteråret 1981, og livet i forstaden er som altid. Men da liget af en teenagedreng, drænet for blod, findes i området...

PHP runs more of the web than any other language — and you can be writing it today. If you can spend a focused afternoon, you can go from "what even is PHP?" to building a real, database-backed website. No computer-science degree, no framework rabbit holes, no 900-page reference. Just modern PHP 8, explained plainly, one small win at a time. What's PHP? Learn It in 8 Hours is the sixth book in John Rouda's best-loved "What's…?" series, the same friendly, get-to-the-point style that has taught thousands of beginners HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and SQL.

Two towering figures of American history collide in this riveting account of how the struggle between Lincoln and his defiant general John C. Frémont shaped the Civil War and emancipation. "... a masterwork of history. . .Bicknell deftly interweaves Frémont's story with the grander narrative...

In Diamond Duels: Baseball’s Greatest Matchups, we take a magnifying glass to some of the game’s most entertaining and historic battles between hitters and pitchers, played out over breezy spring evenings, hot summer afternoons, and chilly fall evenings as the long, rumbling baseball season...

Push your mind through double crosses and betrayals, complex multilayered lies and misleading information. Set in a world of deception and manipulation, a publisher is tasked with identifying the author of a mysterious manuscript. But as he delves deeper into its pages, he realizes that the author is not just anyone. It is someone with a dark and twisted mind. As the publisher unravels the stories within the manuscript, he is met with shocking confessions, distorted boasts, and vile truths.

Some places are forgotten for a reason. When historian Amanda Devlin travels to the remote Irish island of Blackcross, she is looking for a missing man and answers about why he came there. Instead, she finds an isolated community in crisis. A violent storm is closing in.

Henry Jensen er politimester i Grindsted. Grindsted er som den største by i Billund Kommune blevet politimæssigt omdrejningspunkt i den nye politikredsinddeling, der skal sikre borgerne mere politi og retssikkerhed i de mindre byer og provinsområder. I politikredsen er der udbrudt kamp...

***** Berlingske ***** Journalisten Elizabeth Holmes (f. 1984) har altid været bange for nåle. Hendes livsmission var at opfinde en nem, smertefri og billig metode til at tage blodprøver, der kunne afdække en lang række sygdomme. Som 19-årig droppede hun ud af universitetet og stiftede...

Ægteparret Luther og Nora Krank står over for en noget anderledes jul i år, da deres eneste datter er bortrejst. Luther foreslår, at de dropper juleriet og i stedet bruger pengene på et krydstogt til Caribien. Men i deres julebegejstrede forstad vækker beslutningen ikke just glæde blandt...

Taking the fall for his younger brother, Richard Candle went from being a cyber cop to a condemned criminal. After four years of "UnMinding"—with his mind suppressed and his body enslaved—he's released to discover his brother has slipped back into the underworld of the V-Rat: the virtual reality addict. Meanwhile, Candle's harried by the murderous Grist, the head of the world's biggest multinational.

A Foreword Book of the Year in Autobiography/MemoirA Publishers Weekly Indie Top 20 selectionA Washington Post Best Book of 2009As Joe Thorndike loses both both memory and language, his son John moves in to look after him. Joe can no longer tell time or make a phone call, and forgets the names of people he has known for sixty years. He’s convinced that the governor of Massachusetts has come to visit and is in the refrigerator. He forgets that his bathroom has a toilet and uses the floor instead. As father and son are thrown together, their troubles draw them close.

You already know exactly what you need to do. You just haven't done it. Start the business. Get in the best shape of your life. Take care of your family the way you always swore you would. You've known for years. You've made the resolutions. You've said "someday" a thousand times. And someday never comes. Just Shut Up And Do It is the kick in the pants—and the hand on the shoulder—for the man who wants more and is tired of watching everyone else live it. No hustle-bro hype. No five-figure course. No 22-year-old "guru" flexing in front of a rented Lamborghini.

Anne Elliot knows a lot about making the best of a bad situation. Babysit her sister’s rowdy boys during their family vacation? Sure. While camping? Sounds great. She’s a little less prepared when the hunky cabin neighbor everyone’s talking about turns out to be Eric Wentworth. Eight years...

Retired NYPD detective Dave Gurney becomes ensnared in a case of murderous political intrigue tearing apart a once bucolic Upstate New York town. The final, thrilling chapter in the fair play Dave Gurney saga finds the storied detective, often compared to Sherlock Holmes, confronted with an...

The quest to understand how memory works and how it fails remains a cornerstone of both psychology and neuroscience; however, defining memory is not easy. At a higher level, memory is sometimes seen as a psychological function for the preservation of information, while other definitions focus on...

In December 2000, Derwin Brown, the newly elected sheriff of DeKalb County, Georgia, was ambushed and murdered in his own driveway just days before taking office. He had run on reform—promising to clean up corruption and restore integrity to the sheriff’s department—defeating the powerful incumbent in a bitter runoff. The case fell to J.Tom Morgan, then the county’s elected District Attorney.