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Sparks fly between the handsome descendant of a snow spirit and the oblivious coworker he has a crush on! A romantic comedy in an office setting that takes coworkers to lovers to new heights within a winter wonderland of emotions! As winter gives way to warmer months, the snow melts...and Himuro and Fuyutsuki are ready to take the next big step in their relationship: meeting the family! Fuyutsuki introduces Himuro to her cousin during a festival, and they make plans to visit Himuro’s ailing grandmother. Fuyutsuki can’t wait to see where he grew up and to possibly meet a real snow spirit in the flesh, yet Himuro seems nervous for some reason. Will the two of them survive this avalanche of a family reunion, or will it be a freefall down a snowy, slippery slope?

'Godfather of Swedish Crime' (Metro), Hakan Nesser, is back with the second installment in the Inspector Barbarotti series, The Root of Evil.July 2007. A letter arrives on Inspector Barbarotti's doorstep detailing a murder that is about to take place in his own quiet Swedish town. By the time the police track down the subject of the letter, he is already dead.So when a second letter arrives, then a third, and a fourth, it's a game of cat and mouse to stop the killer before he can make good on all of his promises.Meanwhile, an anonymous diary is unearthed depicting the incidents of a two week holiday in France five years earlier, and it doesn't take Barbarotti long to realize the people populating the diary are the ones whose lives are now in the balance . . .

Ella has spent the last two summers exploring her sexuality and getting to know herself. This summer, she takes the final step in her journey to find herself—although she has just graduated as a social worker Ella takes on show business as a dancer in a Burlesque club. In the spotlight, she comes alive, and when the show is over, she reaches new levels of pleasure with her new friends... Reality feels distant, but when it knocks on the door one night, Ella is forced to make a decision. Will she continue to lie to her family and her friends—to herself? Showgirl is the third short story in the series about Ella, a young and inexperienced woman who explores herself and her sexuality. Showgirl is the free-standing sequel to Camgirl and Sugargirl.

I really cannot tell you how I come about writing 48 Hours. I just sat down at my computer and started to write, and the story unfolded. You have to believe me. I did not have a start, a plot, or an end. I just kept writing what came into my head. The story is about an ordinary man aged fifty-seven who becomes involved with a terrorist organization and ends up in Spain where his life would change forever. It was a difficult decision for him, and he only has two choices. The choice he takes is to give up his family and his normal life. He joins MI5, which takes him on various missions; and on the way, he meets three beautiful ladies that play a very important part in his new life.

Nothing can touch you unless you let it. That is the most dangerous idea ever written down - and the man who wrote it was born a slave, crippled by his master, exiled by Rome. His name was Epictetus, and his short handbook, the Enchiridion, has been the entry point to Stoicism for nineteen centuries. The trouble is, almost every edition is unreadable - archaic, stiff, and never telling you what any of it actually means. Two things make this book different. The text is clean and modern - three classic translations (Oldfather, Long, Higginson) read line against line and resolved into one clear rendering. No fog. No academic hedging. And after every one of the fifty-three chapters comes a short interpretation - in the tradition of The 48 Laws of Power. Not a summary. The logic exposed, the application made concrete: what the chapter says, why it works, and what to do with it before the day is over. This is what no free edition gives you - and the reason to own this one. What you'll learn: How to stop wagering your happiness on things you don't control How to take an insult without flinching How to want what actually happens - so nothing can disappoint you The one discovery behind both Stoicism and modern cognitive therapy: it is never the event that breaks you, but your judgment of it - and your judgment belongs entirely to you Two thousand years ago, a slave figured out how to be freer than his masters - and this is the manual he left behind. Rendered and interpreted by Robert Whitfield.

This essay considers the work of two French New Wave auteurs, Chris Marker and Alain Resnais. It focuses on a discussion of Marker's film La Jetée (1962) and Resnais' L'Année Dernière à Marienbad (1961) and makes a comparative analysis of the ways in which these films take the theme of Time and the processes of memory as the subject of the films themselves. Both films reject established 'découpage classique' model of Hollywood film construction in favour of an understanding of time which is free to skip parts, loop and repeat sections, to make jump cuts and transcend time. Time is understood, in Bergson's terms, as "multidirectional, in which past, present and future time are fused and continuous." As Resnais has said: "If cinema is not a method of juggling specifically with time, [it is] in any event the method of which it is best adapted to..."

An indispensable guide to understanding the Israel–Palestine conflict, and how we might yet still find a way out of it. 'Ilan Pappe is the most original, radical and hard-hitting of Israel’s "new historians".' Avi Shlaim, author of Three Worlds The devastation of 7 October 2023 and the horrors that followed astounded the world. But the Israel–Palestine conflict didn’t start on 7 October. It didn’t start in 1967 either, when Israel occupied the West Bank, or in 1948 when the state of Israel was declared. It started in 1882, when the first Zionist settlers arrived in what was then Ottoman Palestine. Ilan Pappe untangles the history of two peoples, now sharing one land. Going back to the founding fathers of Zionism, Pappe expertly takes us through the twists and turns of international policy towards Israel–Palestine; Palestinian resistance to occupation, and the changes taking place in Israel itself.

All parents wish their children happiness. But how differently they imagine it! Parents-"tigers" see happiness in the success, by which they mean only a future prestigious job and high status. In order to achieve the goal, they stop at nothing. Excessive workload, constant parental control and strict diktat - this is the way the childhood of a child who decided to be "happy" at any cost. But is it really the case that a full-blooded life with its joys is incompatible with high achievements, and we have to choose either one or the other? Is it not possible to raise children who are healthy, harmonious, and truly prosperous at the same time? We can, says Shimi Kang, child mental health specialist and mother of two sons and daughters, and offers her own method: the "dolphin way. She has taken this path many times with her patients and is taking it with her children. Now she is opening the path to us and is ready to be our guide and mentor.

This collection of four stage plays, all separately published before, is introduced by an essay on "The Werther Effect". Although linked by a common theme of self-murder they should not be misunderstood as attempts to glamorise the act. The first play, entitled "Hamlet + Ophelia = ?", is deliberately provocative. It is hoped, however, that the protagonists of this angry little piece are seen to be impetuous and childish, rather than noble or deep. The second play, "Games for Married Couples", is less about seppuku than it is about the despair of child-less marriage. It is not much happier than the first, but may nevertheless raise a smile or two. "His ... or Her ... Suicide", on the other hand, is utterly frivolous, and no-one is expected to take it seriously. The last of the four plays is the stage adaptation (and translation) of Goethe''s classic 1774 novella "Die Leiden des jungen Werthers" and was produced as part of the author''s 2005 Master of Creative Arts at the University of Melbourne in Australia.

Bloomsbury presents Princess of the Wild Sea by Megan Frazer Blakemore, read by Emily Eiden.A curse will fall . . .A hero will rise . . .Princess Harbor Rose is cursed. She's lived her whole life hidden away on a remote island with her magical aunts, following all the rules for being a princess. Now it is only one more year until thirteenth birthday, when a hero will finally arrive to save her from her curse.But as with any story, there are two sides . . . and the curse told of much more than a single princess's uncertain fate. It told of a dangerous foe rooted in powerful magic. It told of a terrible war that could destroy everything if a young hero didn't arrive in time. It told of a magic imbued with hope that could save everyone, but only if they believe.With her beloved kingdom and island at grave risk, Harbor Rose has a choice: Should she wait for the hero, or take matters into her own hands?

The story of a man undone by a culture that in part created him, Season of Migration to the North, is a powerful and evocative examination of colonization in two vastly different worlds. When a young man returns to his village in the Sudan after many years studying in Europe, he finds that among the familiar faces there is now a stranger - the enigmatic Mustafa Sa'eed. As the two become friends, Mustafa tells the younger man the disturbing story of his own life in London after the First World War. Lionized by society and desired by women as an exotic novelty, Mustafa was driven to take brutal revenge on the decadent West and was, in turn, destroyed by it. Now the terrible legacy of his actions has come to haunt the small village at the bend of the Nile.

The story of a man undone by a culture that in part created him, Season of Migration to the North, is a powerful and evocative examination of colonization in two vastly different worlds. When a young man returns to his village in the Sudan after many years studying in Europe, he finds that among the familiar faces there is now a stranger - the enigmatic Mustafa Sa'eed. As the two become friends, Mustafa tells the younger man the disturbing story of his own life in London after the First World War. Lionized by society and desired by women as an exotic novelty, Mustafa was driven to take brutal revenge on the decadent West and was, in turn, destroyed by it. Now the terrible legacy of his actions has come to haunt the small village at the bend of the Nile.

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My husband. My tormentor. The most notorious man in the city offers me a job. Act as his dead wife. Adrian Volkov isn't the type of person who takes no for an answer. He commands with an iron fist and all his orders are met. When he approaches me with the offer, I have two options. Go to prison or put myself under his wrath. I choose to have a roof over my head. What's so hard about acting, right? Wrong. The moment I step into his wife's shoes, everything spirals out of control. My only way of survival is through Adrian. Or is it?

When a shattered kayak and camping gear are found on an uninhabited island in the Pacific Northwest, they reignite a mystery surrounding a shocking act of protest. Five months earlier, logger-turned-activist Grant Hadwin had plunged naked into a river in British Columbia's Queen Charlotte Islands, towing a chainsaw. When his night's work was done, a unique Sitka spruce, 165 feet tall and covered with luminous golden needles, teetered on its stump. Two days later it fell. As vividly as John Krakauer puts readers on Everest, John Vaillant takes us into the heart of North America's last great forest.

In this 1994 classic work on student retention, Vincent Tinto synthesizes far-ranging research on student attrition and on actions institutions can and should take to reduce it. The key to effective retention, Tinto demonstrates, is in a strong commitment to quality education and the building of a strong sense of inclusive educational and social community on campus. He applies his theory of student departure to the experiences of minority, adult, and graduate students, and to the situation facing commuting institutions and two-year colleges. Especially critical to Tinto's model is the central importance of the classroom experience and the role of multiple college communities.

Neil Simon takes a good look at apartment life, career and role reversals, a nervous breakdown, and the love, torture, care, or inertia that somehow keeps a couple in a relationship for many years. At points, it's laugh-out-loud funny; at other times, it offers sensitive insight into the human condition. Fast-moving dialog with nonstop Simon quips and jokes performed extremely well by two fine actors: who could ask for more? This is classic American comedy produced, acted, recorded, and packaged in an exemplary manner.An L.A. Theatre Works full-cast performance featuring Annie Abbott, Lorin Dreyfuss, Richard Dreyfuss, Betty Garrett, Sharon Madden and Marsha Mason.

The true, harrowing story of the ill-fated 1913 Canadian Arctic Expedition and the two men who came to define it. In the summer of 1913, the wooden-hulled brigantine Karluk departed Canada for the Arctic Ocean. At the helm was Captain Bob Bartlett, considered the world's greatest living ice navigator. The expedition's visionary leader was a flamboyant impresario named Vilhjalmur Stefansson hungry for fame. Just six weeks after the Karluk departed, giant ice floes closed in around her. As the ship became icebound, Stefansson disembarked with five companions and struck out on what he claimed was a 10-day caribou hunting trip. Most on board would never see him again. Twenty-two men and an Inuit woman with two small daughters now stood on a mile-square ice floe, their ship and their original leader gone. Under Bartlett's leadership they built make-shift shelters, surviving the freezing darkness of Polar night. Captain Bartlett now made a difficult and courageous decision. He would take one of the young Inuit hunters and attempt a 1000-mile journey to save the shipwrecked survivors. It was their only hope. Set against the backdrop of the Titanic disaster and World War I, filled with heroism, tragedy, and scientific discovery, Buddy Levy's Empire of Ice and Stone tells the story of two men and two distinctively different brands of leadership-one selfless, one self-serving-and how they would forever be bound by one of the most audacious and disastrous expeditions in polar history, considered the last great voyage of the Heroic Age of Discovery.

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„Der Komponist lässt es klingen, wie es in seiner Vorstellung aussieht. Der Opernregisseur geht den umgekehrten Weg und lässt es aussehen, wie es klingt. Wenn beide sich treffen – welches Glück!“ Nach diesem Motto lebt und handelt der deutsche Schauspiel- und Opernregisseur Michael Hampe (geb. 1935). Er ist einer der führenden internationalen Größen der Opernszene mit Inszenierungen bei den Salzburger Festspielen, in London, Paris, Mailand und Tokio. Als künstlerischer Gesamtleiter der Kölner Oper und Professor der Staatlichen Musikhochschule Köln prägte Hampe nachhaltig die Kulturlandschaft der Stadt. Anlässlich seines 80. Geburtstages erscheint diese Publikation und bündelt ein lebensumfassendes Kompendium an Reden, Briefen und Aufsätzen zum Musiktheater. "The composer makes it sound like it appears in his imagination. The opera director takes the opposite route and makes it appear like it sounds. When the two come together – what great fortune!" The German opera director Michael Hampe (b. 1935) lives and acts according to this motto. He is one of the world's leading opera directors with productions in London, Paris, Milan and Tokyo, as well as at the Salzburg Festival. Published on the occasion of his 80th birthday, this book brings together a compendium of speeches, letters and essays on musical theatre spanning a lifetime.

When it comes to building a brand, logo design is often one of the first few important steps in the creative journey. In addition to encapsulating what the business stands for and making an impactful first impression upon launch, it has to be instantly recognisable and stand out amid other similar offerings in an often saturated market. With so much more competition to contend with today, how can designers help start-ups and evolving brands put their best foot forward visually? A key branding element used by many of the biggest companies around the world, a logotype revolves around a company's name or initials and features typography as the main design approach. Often the starting point before it is further refined into a purely symbolic image or icon, it combines two distinct design disciplines to differentiate brands from one another - a process that takes acumen, skill and empathy. FROM TYPE TO LOGO details some of these processes in a compelling book of case studies that make an inspiring reference point for budding and working branding professionals alike.

For the people who live on the banks of the Thames, the river is a living, breathing thing. It can take your treasures. It can hide your treasures. And, sometimes, it can give them back. Bo and Billy are two children who have never met. Billy is an orphan. Bo's dad died when she was small and now her brother is off to war. Both children are poor, but they have each found half of a priceless treasure, given up by the river. A treasure which - when the pieces are reunited - holds the power to give back to one of them the most precious thing they have ever lost. But should the treasure be put back together again? And why has the river given it up now? For fans of Katherine Rundell and Philip Pullman's The Ruby in the Smoke, Hidden Treasure is a classic in the making, with a rip-roaring plot, spine-tingling twists and an unforgettable cast of characters.

For more than two decades, legendary trainer Tim Grover has taken the greats-Michael Jordan, Kobe Bryant, Dwyane Wade, and hundreds of relentless competitors in sports, business, and every walk of life-and made them greater. Now, for the first time ever, he reveals what it takes to achieve total mental and physical dominance, showing you how to be relentless and achieve whatever you desire. Direct, blunt, and brutally honest, Grover breaks down what it takes to be unstoppable: you keep going when everyone else is giving up, you thrive under pressure, you never let your emotions make you weak. In "The Relentless 13," he details the essential traits shared by the most intense competitors and achievers in sports, business, and all walks of life. Relentless shows you how to trust your instincts and get in the Zone; how to control and adapt to any situation; how to find your opponent's weakness and attack. Grover gives you the same advice he gives his world-class clients-"don't think"-and shows you that anything is possible. Packed with previously untold stories and unparalleled insight into the psyches of the most successful and accomplished athletes of our time, Relentless shows you how even the best get better . . . and how you can too.

In Taking Religion Seriously Across the Curriculum, Warren A. Nord and Charles C. Haynes chart a middle course in our culture wars over religion and public education—one that builds on a developing national consensus among educational and religious leaders. While it is not proper for schools to practice religion or proselytize, it is not permissible to make them into "religion-free" zones either; schools must take religion seriously. Unfortunately, religion is taken far from seriously in the K-12 curriculum, as the authors’ review of textbooks and the new national content standards makes clear. In Part One Nord and Haynes explain why schools should take religion seriously, and they outline the civic, constitutional, and educational frameworks that should shape the treatment of religion in the curriculum and classroom. In Part Two they explore the major issues relating to religion in different domains of the curriculum--in elementary education, and in middle and high school courses in history, civics, economics, literature, and the sciences. They also discuss Bible courses and world religions courses, and they explore the relationship of religion to moral education and sex education. The result is a book that is unique in the scope of its consideration of the relevance of religion across the curriculum. Anyone interested in the future of public education will find much that is worth considering in this timely, thoughtful, and provocative volume.

Nothing can touch you unless you let it. That is the most dangerous idea ever written down - and the man who wrote it was born a slave, crippled by his master, exiled by Rome. His name was Epictetus, and his short handbook, the Enchiridion, has been the entry point to Stoicism for nineteen centuries. The trouble is, almost every edition is unreadable - archaic, stiff, and never telling you what any of it actually means. Two things make this book different. The text is clean and modern - three classic translations (Oldfather, Long, Higginson) read line against line and resolved into one clear rendering. No fog. No academic hedging. And after every one of the fifty-three chapters comes a short interpretation - in the tradition of The 48 Laws of Power. Not a summary. The logic exposed, the application made concrete: what the chapter says, why it works, and what to do with it before the day is over. This is what no free edition gives you - and the reason to own this one. What you'll learn: How to stop wagering your happiness on things you don't control How to take an insult without flinching How to want what actually happens - so nothing can disappoint you The one discovery behind both Stoicism and modern cognitive therapy: it is never the event that breaks you, but your judgment of it - and your judgment belongs entirely to you Two thousand years ago, a slave figured out how to be freer than his masters - and this is the manual he left behind. Rendered and interpreted by Robert Whitfield.

"The Conversation of Eiros and Charmion" is a short story by Edgar Allan Poe, an apocalyptic science fiction story first published in Burton's Gentleman's Magazine in December 1839. Two people, who have been renamed Eiros and Charmion after death, discuss the manner in which the world ended. Eiros, who died in the apocalypse, explains the circumstances to Charmion, who died ten years previously: A new comet is detected in the Solar System; comets are well understood by astronomers, who believe that, being very tenuous, they could have no effect on the Earth, and are not related to ancient prophecies of the destruction of the world. Astronomers calculate that the comet is approaching the Earth; as it does so, they study it, and people increasingly take an interest.

The three volumes of the “Années de pèlerinage” belong to the core of Liszt’s piano oeuvre. In the first volume, “Suisse”, the composer realised impressions of an extended sojourn in Switzerland in 1835/36. The pieces, for the most part published already in 1840/41, were later substantively reworked by Liszt, and the collection enlarged by two numbers, until it received its final form in 1855. For the revision of the Henle Urtext edition, it was possible for the first time to also take into account the engraver’s copy of the first edition that was once again accessible. The resulting modification in the weighting of the sources and further important new findings in Liszt research are presented in detail in the preface and the comments. We were able to enlist the Swiss pianist Francesco Piemontesi for the fingerings.

The three volumes of the “Années de pèlerinage” belong to the core of Liszt’s piano oeuvre. In the first volume, “Suisse”, the composer realised impressions of an extended sojourn in Switzerland in 1835/36. The pieces, for the most part published already in 1840/41, were later substantively reworked by Liszt, and the collection enlarged by two numbers, until it received its final form in 1855. For the revision of the Henle Urtext edition, it was possible for the first time to also take into account the engraver’s copy of the first edition that was once again accessible. The resulting modification in the weighting of the sources and further important new findings in Liszt research are presented in detail in the preface and the comments. We were able to enlist the Swiss pianist Francesco Piemontesi for the fingerings.

Two of the government's most lethal assassins scour rural Colorado to find their missing handler--and discover an insidious and lethal threat along the way in this New York Times bestselling thriller. Will Robie and Jessica Reel are two of the most lethal people alive. They're the ones the government calls in when the utmost secrecy is required to take out those who plot violence and mass destruction against the United States. And through every mission, one man has always had their backs: their handler, code-named Blue Man. But now, Blue Man is missing. Last seen in rural Colorado, Blue Man had taken a rare vacation to go fly fishing in his hometown when he disappeared off the grid. With no communications since, the team can't help but fear the worst. Sent to investigate, Robie and Reel arrive in the small town of Grand to discover that it has its own share of problems. A stagnant local economy and a woefully understaffed police force have made this small community a magnet for crime, drugs, and a growing number of militant fringe groups. But lying in wait in Grand is an even more insidious and sweeping threat, one that may shake the very core of America. And when Robie and Reel find themselves up against an adversary with superior firepower and a home-court advantage, they'll be lucky if they make it out alive, with or without Blue Man...

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