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Archibald is a changed boy. He stands up to bullies and hangs out with the gargoyles that used to scare him. But for all his new toughness, he’s also a lost boy who misses his friends in Lemurea. When strange footprints are discovered on the manor grounds, he realizes a piece of that world has followed him home. Without golems, witches, or magic, Archibald knows there’s little to stop what’s prowling the London suburbs, which means he’ll have to return to Lemurea to seek Faerydae’s help.

Are you trapped in a never-ending cycle of deadlines and demands, feeling disconnected from the job you once loved? Is your organization turning a blind eye to burnout, despite your colleagues and team experiencing similar struggles? While workplace burnout is gaining recognition, executives remain slow to act, skeptical of the need for change. It's time for you to take meaningful action, not only to prevent burnout for yourself, but also to foster a thriving work environment.

L'histoire de la couleur bleue dans les sociétés européennes est celle d'un complet renversement : pour les Grecs et les Romains, cette couleur compte peu ; elle est même désagréable à l'œil. Or aujourd'hui, partout en Europe, le bleu est de très loin la couleur préférée (devant le vert et le rouge). L'ouvrage de Michel Pastoureau raconte l'histoire de ce renversement, en insistant sur les pratiques sociales de la couleur (étoffes et vêtements, vie quotidienne, symboles) et sur sa place dans la création littéraire et artistique, depuis les sociétés antiques et médiévales jusqu'à l'époque moderne.

Sixième jour de l'Armada 2008. Un marin est retrouvé poignardé au beau milieu des quais de Rouen ! Quel tueur invisible a pu commettre ce crime impossible ? Quel étrange pacte semble lier des matelots du monde entier ? De quels trésors enfouis dans les méandres de la Seine sont-ils à la recherche ? Une implacable machination... qui prend en otage huit millions de touristes, une course effrénée contre la montre avant la parade de la Seine.

Here, in this unusual collection, are some of the greatest essays in Western literature. Witty, informative and imaginative, the topics vary from starvation in Ireland, fine China, the extension of railways in the Lake District, and the tombs in Westminster Abbey. A little like after-dinner monologues, they are passing thoughts expressed as journalism. Neville Jason reads with urbane clarity.

Konrad Michel, a leading psychiatrist and acclaimed expert, draws on decades of experience to offer necessary new ways of understanding—and preventing—suicide. Michel shows that suicide is not just a consequence of mental illness, but an action related to a person’s life story. Drawing on hundreds of interviews with suicidal patients, he argues that suicide and suicide attempts occur when someone experiences extreme emotional pain that severely impairs the ability to think and act rationally.

Après la mort de son père, Michel, fonctionnaire quadragénaire et blasé, décide de partir en Thaïlande pour goûter aux plaisirs exotiques. Il y rencontre Valérie, cadre dans une grande société de voyages, à qui il soufflera sa théorie sur les vraies motivations des Européens en quête de sensations fortes. Embarqué dans la lutte pour le profit à tout prix, où le corps est plus que jamais une marchandise, Michel jette un regard cynique sur la société occidentale.

A staggering examination of how America's wealthiest infiltrated the government and allied with dictators, transforming the U.S. from democracy to oligarchy. For years, a small group of billionaires has amassed increasing power, steering American politics for their own benefit. Many of these...

Tired of living below your hopes, capabilities, and expectations? Should you keep your business or "take the money and run"? What would you have others do? Discover the common mistakes that may have cost you success, happiness, and opportunity in the past...and how you can avoid them in the future. In the dazzling Town Hall discussion you'll learn the unexpected payoffs, prices and possibilities from this distinguished panel of business leaders.

Everyday Wins is a plain-language field manual that turns the best ideas from physics, biology, and decision science into everyday tools for work and life. Learn how to break problems to first principles, size bets with probabilities and base rates, design systems that reduce rework, and harness leverage, inertia, and activation energy to make progress stick. Each concise chapter delivers a single model, a real-world example, red flags to avoid, and a quick practice you can run in minutes. Transfer prompts show you how to carry what you learn into meetings, money choices, product calls, ...

Paris, 2022: Der Literaturprofessor François führt ein einsames Leben. Seine einzige Leidenschaft gilt dem dekadenten Schriftsteller Huysmans. Tiefergehende Beziehungen interessieren ihn ebenso wenig wie aktuelle politische Ereignisse. Doch als in Frankreich gewählt wird, gerät sein ruhiges Leben ins Wanken. Um den als wahrscheinlich geltenden Sieg des Front National zu verhindern, koalieren die bürgerlichen Parteien mit der Bruderschaft der Muslime: Neuer Präsident wird deren charismatisches Oberhaupt Mohammed Ben Abbes.

Une intrigue vertigineuse pour un grand suspense de Michel Bussi. Méfiez-vous des fils invisibles... Un corps est retrouvé dans la vallée de la Meuse, au coeur des Ardennes. Accident, suicide, meurtre ? La révélation de l'identité de la victime plonge la capitaine Katel Marelle dans la sidération. Renaud Duval menait-il... trois vies par semaine ?

Life is great for thick-boned Keisha Jackson. With a good education, well-paying job, and a promising future, she has everything a young woman could ask for, including high self-esteem. But after a chance meeting with Rico, the neighborhood "bad boy", her fairy-tale life is quickly dismantled. Blinded by emotion, she gives in to all his cruel intentions. Having endured physical, mental, and sexual abuse, Keisha finally sees the light, and she's not having it anymore. The tables are turned, and Rico feels her well-deserved wrath.

Urban Books' popular Around the Way Girls series is back, bringing readers more dramatic tales about the lives of some tough, resourceful women who can hold their own when things get rough on the streets. Growing up poor and biracial, Shannon never quite fit in. Not truly accepted by either side of her family, the confused teenager turns to the one thing that loves her back unconditionally - the streets. With a bottle of liquor at her side and a worthless mentality in tow, Shannon allows the local strip club and the pole to become her new family.

A Book for the Fragmented Who Seek to Become Whole by Kevin L. Michel What if the war inside you was not something to win, but something to understand—and to finally end through unity? We all carry inner voices. The logical one, the broken one, the dreamer, the cynic. Sometimes, they clash so loudly that we forget what wholeness feels like. In this transformative and poetic work, A Book for the Fragmented Who Seek to Become Whole, Kevin L. Michel takes readers on an extraordinary journey inward—where neuroscience meets myth, shadow meets light, and healing becomes a sacred alchemy. ...

What you understand, you know; and what you know, you don't forget. - Michel Thomas Experience significant results in a remarkably short period of time thanks to the unique Michel Thomas Method, perfected over 50 years by celebrated psycholinguist, Michel Thomas. The method works in tune with...

Life ain’t never been fair in the treacherous street game. When you play it, you can’t forget there never was and never will be any true honor amongst thieves. It’s do or die. To make major moves and hustle out in the streets, you have zero choices if you want to win. The blueprint is simple: RISE, GRIND, SHINE, and, of course, stay the hell out the way! Between the struggle of avoiding the opposition, law enforcement, and sometimes your own people turning on you, life gets real, and the consequences are even realer.

On a rain-lashed night Matajuro Yagyu loses the duel that should have proved his worth and is banished from his father’s estate. Desperate to reclaim his honor, he sets off to find Banzo, the reclusive sword saint rumored to cut steel with silence itself. What Matajuro discovers is not the clash of blades but years of hauling water, splitting logs, and fending off his master’s sudden wooden-sword ambushes. Each bruise strips away pride, each chore hones awareness, until the young samurai’s spirit becomes keener than any forged edge. When Matajuro finally draws his katana he learns the...

Als der 46-jährige Florent-Claude Bilanz zieht, beschließt er, sich aus seinem Leben zu verabschieden - eine Entscheidung, die auch das neue Antidepressivum Captorix nicht zu ändern vermag, das ihn seine Libido kostet. Er erinnert sich an die Frauen seines Lebens, begegnet einem alten Studienfreund, der als Landwirt im globalisierten Frankreich um seine Existenz kämpft, und er rechnet ab: mit der modernen Gesellschaft, der Wirtschaft, der Politik - und mit sich selbst. Nie hat Houellebecq so ernsthaft und voller Emotion über die Liebe geschrieben.

Lillian Phillips could not imagine how her quiet, simple life had come to this. Blackmailed by the Mad Duke of Thornwood into accepting one wild dare after another...all because of a pocket watch. Desperate to recover her beloved father's pawned timepiece, Lily did something reckless and dangerous and delicious-something that led to a night she'd never forget.