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Waypoints

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Eine Liebeserklärung an die raue Schönheit Schottlands von "Outlander"-Star Sam HeughanSam Heughan, auch bekannt durch seine Rolle als schottischer Krieger Jamie Fraser in der Serie "Outlander", nimmt uns mit auf eine ganz persönliche Reise durch die schottischen Highlands. Seine fesselnde Lebensgeschichte ist eine Autobiographie der anderen Art.Fernab vom Film und dem Trubel Hollywoods begibt sich Sam Heughan auf eine Reise durch seine Vergangenheit: Allein läuft er den West Highland Way, den berühmten Fernwanderweg Schottlands, und denkt dabei über die Wegpunkte in seinem Leben nach - seine Träume, seinen Ehrgeiz, die Erfahrungen, die er mit Familie und Freunden gemacht hat. Die Reise wird zu einer intensiven Selbstfindungsreise, die ihm viel über seine Herkunft und seine Heimat offenbart.Aufgewachsen mit seiner alleinerziehenden Mutter und seinem Bruder hat ihn die tiefe Verbundenheit zu Schottland schon immer sehr geprägt. Doch sein Leben als Hollywood-Star ohne Anonymität kann manchmal einen starken Gegensatz dazu bilden.Ein Must-Read für alle Outlander-Fans und alle, die es noch werden wollen!

The New Fear

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Out-of-print for over a decade, Brian Keene’s third non-fiction collection is available once again for a new generation of readers. THE NEW FEAR is an unvarnished, no-holds-barred story of a writer at the height of his fame, and the inevitable burn-out that soon follows. It is also a chronicle of a pre-social media internet, and what horror fiction, politics, entertainment, celebrity, and writing were like at that specific moment in time. Featuring such classics as “Zombie Manilow”, “Of Dragonflies and Other Spies” (originally censored by the U.S. govrnment), and the epic “Five Hundred Words in Five Days” saga, as well as the origins of the novel Ghoul, a cross-country book tour gone terribly awry, writing advice, social commentary, and guest appearances by J.F. Gonzalez, Dave Thomas, and others, THE NEW FEAR is equally heartbreaking and hilarious. THE NEW FEAR: THE BEST OF HAIL SATEN Vol. 3 — The only thing we have to fear is… everything.

A Frozen Woman

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WINNER OF THE 2022 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATUREA Frozen Woman charts Ernaux's teenage awakening, and then the parallel progression of her desire to be desirable and her ambition to fulfill herself in her chosen profession - with the inevitable conflict between the two. And then she is 30 years old, a teacher married to an executive, mother of two infant sons. She looks after their nice apartment, raises her children. And yet, like millions of other women, she has felt her enthusiasm and curiosity, her strength and her happiness, slowly ebb under the weight of her daily routine. The very condition that everyone around her seems to consider normal and admirable for a woman is killing her. While each of Ernaux's books contain an autobiographical element, A Frozen Woman, one of Ernaux's early works, concentrates the spotlight piercingly on Annie herself. Mixing affection, rage and bitterness, A Frozen Woman shows us Ernaux's developing art when she still relied on traditional narrative, before the shortened form emerged that has since become her trademark.

Meeting the Black

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Meeting the Black is a powerful and emotional piece written by Tom Piccirilli describing what he was going through, both mentally and physically, before and after his recent operation. 100% of the sales amounts of this and his other Crossroad Press titles, both eBook and audiobook, will continue to go to Tom to assist with his medical bills associated with his cancer treatment.

Mukesh Ambani Kee Super Success Story

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"मुकेश धीरूभाई अंबानी का जन्म 19 अप्रैल, 1957 में ब्रिटिश उपनिवेश अदन में हुआ था। उनके पिता धीरूभाई अंबानी थे और माँ कोकिला बेन अंबानी। अपने भाई-बहनों के साथ कुछ समय तक वह यमन में रहे। श्री अंबानी के तीन भाई-बहन हैं। छोटे भाई अनिल धीरूभाई अंबानी और दो बहनें—नीना भद्रश्याम कोठारी और दीप्ति दत्ताराज सलगावकर। वर्ष 1958 में अंबानी के पिता ने भारत लौटने और वस्तुओं का कारोबार शुरू करने का फैसला किया। आगे चलकर, उन्होंने मसालों और कपड़ों का व्यापार शुरू किया। उन्होंने अपनी कंपनी को ‘विमल’ नाम दिया। श्री अंबानी काफी दयालु व्यक्ति हैं। वर्ष 2012 में, उन्होंने 240 मिलियन डॉलर के अपने सालाना वेतन को अपने कर्मचारियों को देने का फैसला किया। इस वर्ष आई महामारी (कोविड 19) के दौरान, श्री अंबानी ने देश का पहला कोविड 19 अस्पताल बनाया और मरीजो को ले जानेवाले इमरजेंसी वाहनों को मुफ्त में तेल देने का प्रस्ताव रखा। इसके साथ ही, उन्होंने कोविड 19 के लिए पी.एम. के इमरजेंसी फंड में 500 करोड़ रुपए भी दिए। इसमें कोई शक नहीं कि श्री मुकेश अंबानी इस युग के सबसे सफल व्यक्ति हैं। कॉरपोरेट जगत् में उन्होंने अपनी क्षमता का लोहा मनवाया है और भारत को गर्व का एहसास कराया है। उनकी सफलता यह सिद्ध करती है कि कोई भी लक्ष्य असंभव नहीं यदि आपके पास उसके लिए सही सोच हो। हम पाठकों के लिए उनके सफलता के मंत्र को जानना और उन्हें अपने जीवन में अपनाना आवश्यक है, ताकि हम भी उसी तरह अपने लक्ष्यों को पूरा करें जिस प्रकार श्री अंबानी ने किया है। जीवन में श्री अंबानी के मंत्रों की चर्चा नीचे की गई है। "

Un día en la vida de un editor

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Prólogo de Silvia Sesé.«He tenido la inmensa suerte de haber podido ejercer durante cincuenta años este oficio de locos, como lo llamó Inge Feltrinelli, y que también es el mejor oficio del mundo, como pensamos muchos», dice Jorge Herralde, y el oficio al que se refiere es, claro, el de editor.Este libro arranca precisamente con la minuciosa descripción de un día cualquiera en la vida de un editor. Y, a partir de ahí, una sucesión de textos de origen diverso artículos, discursos, entrevistas, entradas de diario…–componen un completísimo recorrido por los secretos del sector editorial y por la evolución y las entrañas de Anagrama desde su fundación en 1969 hasta el presente.El lector tendrá acceso a una visión de insider –perspicaz y con toques de fina ironía marca de la casa– del mundo editorial; de los primeros años de andadura de Anagrama en el tardofranquismo y la Transición –incluidos los combates con la censura, los secuestros de libros y hasta un incendio provocado en la distribuidora; de la creación y desarrollo de colecciones imprescindibles como «Panorama de narrativas»; de la importancia del humor british en el catálogo; de la intensa relación del editor con Latinoamérica, con especial atención a México y Argentina; de su paso por las ferias del libro –Frankfurt, Guadalajara, París…–; de los contactos con autores y colegas editores, como los que se producen durante un viaje por Estados Unidos con visitas a Grace Paley, Eudora Welty, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Tom Wolfe, Sonny Mehta…; del encuentro con esa insuperable generación de autores ingleses bautizada como British Dream Team; de la intensa vida social y cultural durante una estancia en París evocada en un diario…Además del impagable anecdotario, el libro ofrece una rica panorámica del universo de la edición, retratos de escritores como Luis Goytisolo o Bolaño, de editores como José Manuel Lara Bosch y Jérôme Lindon, y reflexiones muy jugosas sobre la industria del libro: los peligros de la concentración editorial; el futuro cargado de incertidumbres, pero también de posibilidades…Un día en la vida de un editor se suma a libros anteriores de Jorge Herralde como Opiniones mohicanas y Por orden alfabético en la construcción de una suerte de memorias abocetadas mediante la suma de textos diversos que, a modo de piezas de un mosaico, perfilan la trayectoria del fundador de Anagrama, una de las editoriales europeas verdaderamente imprescindibles de la segunda mitad del siglo XX y lo que llevamos del XXI.

Admiral Gorshkov

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Admiral of the Fleet of the Soviet Union Sergei G. Gorshkov was the product of a tradition unlike those of his Western contemporaries. He had a unique background of revolution, civil war, world wars, and the forceful implementation of an all-controlling communist dictatorship. Out of this background of violence and overwhelming transformation came a man with a vivid appreciation of the role and value of navies, but with his own unique ideas about the kind of navy that the Soviet Union required and the role that navy should play in Soviet military and national strategy. Western naval observers have persisted in attempting to define Admiral Gorshkov in Western naval terms. Many of these observers have been baffled when they found that the man and his actions simply did not fit conventional narratives. This book lays out the tradition, background, experiences, and thinking of the man as they relate to the development of the Soviet Navy that Gorshkov commanded for almost three decades and that was able to directly challenge the maritime dominance of the United States—a traditional sea power. His influence persists to this day, as the Russian Navy that is at sea in the twenty-first century is, to a significant degree, based on the fleet that Admiral Gorshkov built.

Jack Kirby

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I Fantastici Quattro, gli X-Men, Thor, l'Incredibile Hulk, Iron Man. sono solo alcuni dei personaggi nati dalla fantasia di Jack Kirby (1917-1994). Nonostante oggi sia universalmente riconosciuto come «The King of Comics», la vita di Kirby fu segnata da alcune delle pagine più brutali della Storia del Novecento (l'adolescenza durante la Grande depressione e la dura esperienza al fronte nella Seconda guerra mondiale) e da grandi difficoltà personali e professionali, prima fra tutte la lunga e sfibrante battaglia legale contro i suoi editori, Stan Lee in particolare, per rivendicare la paternità delle proprie creazioni. Kirby trascorse tutta la sua esistenza al tavolo da disegno, quasi avvolto nell'anonimato: solo negli ultimi anni il mondo del fumetto gli rese gli onori che meritava. Tom Scioli, allievo dello stile di Kirby e profondo conoscitore della vita privata e professionale del suo maestro, ci restituisce un ritratto complesso e sfumato di un autore che ha sempre celato dietro l'imponente semplicità del suo tratto una visione del mondo (e della vita) molto diversa dalla netta distinzione tra giusto e sbagliato che un tempo regolava il mondo dei supereroi. ***********************Questo eBook è ottimizzato per la fruizione su tablet; se ne sconsiglia pertanto la lettura sui dispositivi eReader.

Lord Kitchener

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Horatio Herbert Kitchener was Irish by birth but English by extraction, being born in County Kerry, the son of an English colonel. The fanciful might see in this first and accidental fact the presence of this simple and practical man amid the more mystical western problems and dreams which were very distant from his mind, an element which clings to all his career and gives it an unconscious poetry. He had many qualities of the epic hero, and especially this—that he was the last man in the world to be the epic poet. There is something almost provocative to superstition in the way in which he stands at every turn as the symbol of the special trials and the modern transfiguration of England; from this moment when he was born among the peasants of Ireland to the moment when he died upon the sea, seeking at the other end of the world the other great peasant civilisation of Russia. Yet at each of these symbolic moments he is, if not as unconscious as a symbol, then as silent as a symbol; he is speechless and supremely significant, like an ensign or a flag. The superficial pictures queness of his life, at least, lies very much in this—that he was like a hero condemned by fate to act an allegory.

Nixon Volume III

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In Nixon: Ruin and Recovery, 1973-1990, Stephen E. Ambrose completes his acclaimed biography of the man many historians call the most fascinating politician in American history: Richard Milhous Nixon.Rarely before on the stage of global politics has one man, respected and reviled, blessed and cursed, held us in such rapt attention. Using Nixon’s own words, private writings, and tape-recorded conversations, Ambrose captures the man and all his contradictions as he faces the ordeal of Watergate and its aftermath, the long road back to public life.Watergate is a drama with high stakes and low skullduggery, of lies and bribes, of greed and lust for power. At its center is the obsession of the country and much of the world with President Richard Nixon himself. It is a remarkable play of foolhardy heroism as Nixon risked everything trying to maintain dignity and his job, when he alone had the power to determine the outcome of the scandal, whether by resigning, confessing, destroying evidence or defying the courts and Congress.Ambrose explains how Nixon destroyed himself through a combination of arrogance and indecision, allowing a "third-rate burglary" to escalate into a scandal that overwhelmed his presidency.Yet even after his self-exile from Washington and the Republican Party, even after the national outcry that sealed his shame, Nixon would not go gentle into oblivion. Ambrose provides an unforgettable portrait of the older Nixon in San Clemente, drawing on his seemingly endless reserves of determination, laying the groundwork for yet another comeback, a return to the arena that would defy all odds. Ambrose illuminates all the hidden years, and we see Nixon’s gradual transformation from pariah to valued elder statesmen, respected internationally and at home even by those who had earlier clamored loudest for his head. This is the story of Nixon's final fall from grace and astonishing recovery.

No Shortcuts to the Top

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NATIONAL BESTSELLER • This gripping and triumphant memoir from the author of The Mountain follows a living legend of extreme mountaineering as he makes his assault on history, one 8,000-meter summit at a time.“From the drama of the peaks, to the struggle of making a living as a professional climber, to the basic how-tos of life at 26,000 feet, No Shortcuts to the Top is fascinating reading.”—Aron Ralston, author of Between a Rock and a Hard Place and subject of the film 127 HoursFor eighteen years Ed Viesturs pursued climbing’s holy grail: to stand atop the world’s fourteen 8,000-meter peaks, without the aid of bottled oxygen. But No Shortcuts to the Top is as much about the man who would become the first American to achieve that goal as it is about his stunning quest. As Viesturs recounts the stories of his most harrowing climbs, he reveals a man torn between the flat, safe world he and his loved ones share and the majestic and deadly places where only he can go.A preternaturally cautious climber who once turned back 300 feet from the top of Everest but who would not shrink from a peak (Annapurna) known to claim the life of one climber for every two who reached its summit, Viesturs lives by an unyielding motto, “Reaching the summit is optional. Getting down is mandatory.” It is with this philosophy that he vividly describes fatal errors in judgment made by his fellow climbers as well as a few of his own close calls and gallant rescues. And, for the first time, he details his own pivotal and heroic role in the 1996 Everest disaster made famous in Jon Krakauer’s Into Thin Air. In addition to the raw excitement of Viesturs’s odyssey, No Shortcuts to the Top is leavened with many funny moments revealing the camaraderie between climbers. It is more than the first full account of one of the staggering accomplishments of our time; it is a portrait of a brave and devoted family man and his beliefs that shaped this most perilous and magnificent pursuit.

Winter

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The second volume in his autobiographical quartet based on the seasons, Winter is an achingly beautiful collection of daily meditations and letters addressed directly to Knaugsaard's unborn daughter 2 December - It is strange that you exist, but that you don't know anything about what the world looks like. It's strange that there is a first time to see the sky, a first time to see the sun, a first time to feel the air against one's skin. It's strange that there is a first time to see a face, a tree, a lamp, pajamas, a shoe. In my life it almost never happens anymore. But soon it will. In just a few months, I will see you for the first time. In Winter, we rejoin the great Karl Ove Knausgaard as he waits for the birth of his daughter. In preparation for her arrival, he takes stock of the world, seeing it as if for the first time. In his inimitably sensitive style, he writes about the moon, water, messiness, owls, birthdays--to name just a handful of his subjects. These oh-so-familiar objects and ideas he fills with new meaning, taking nothing for granted or as given. New life is on the horizon, but the earth is also in hibernation, waiting for the warmer weather to return, and so a contradictory melancholy inflects his gaze. Startling, compassionate, and exquisitely beautiful, Knausgaard's writing is like nothing else. Somehow, he shows the world as it really is, at once mundane and sublime.

Option B

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Après le décès soudain de son mari, Sheryl Sandberg était certaine que ni elle ni ses enfants ne pourraient de nouveau être heureux. " J'étais dans un "néant', écrit-elle, un vide abyssal qui envahit votre cœur et vos poumons puis limite votre capacité à penser et même à respirer. " Son ami Adam Grant, psychologue à Wharton, lui a expliqué qu'après un traumatisme nous traversons des étapes pour s'en remettre et renaître. La résilience n'est pas innée : c'est un muscle que tout le monde peut développer.Option B combine l'expérience de Sheryl et les recherches d'Adam sur la façon de faire face à l'adversité. Racontant le moment déchirant où elle trouve son mari, Dave Goldberg, étendu sur le plancher d'une salle de sport, Sheryl ouvre son cœur – et son journal – et met des mots sur le chagrin et l'isolement ressentis après son décès. Mais Option B va bien au-delà du deuil de Sheryl ; par le biais de nombreux témoignages, il explore la façon de surmonter les tragédies de la vie. Ces histoires révèlent la capacité de l'esprit humain à persévérer... et à redécouvrir la joie.La résilience vient du plus profond de notre être et du soutien que l'on trouve autour de nous. Même après les évènements les plus terribles, il est possible de grandir en trouvant un sens plus profond à notre vie. Option B nous apprend aussi à aider ceux qui souffrent, à développer l'autocompassion, élever des enfants forts et faire naître la résilience au sein d'une famille, d'une communauté ou d'une entreprise.Deux semaines après le décès de son mari, Sheryl s'exclama en pleurant : " Je veux Dave ! " " L'option A n'est plus disponible ", lui répondit son ami, qui lui promit de l'aider à tirer le meilleur de l'option B.Nous vivons tous une forme d'option B. Ce livre nous aidera à en tirer le meilleur." Un livre inspirant que je recommande à tous. Personne n'échappe à la tristesse, à la perte, aux déceptions de la vie. Alors la meilleure option, c'est de trouver l'option B. "MALALA YOUSAFZAI, prix Nobel de la paix" Sheryl écrit sur sa déchirante expérience avec une honnêteté rare. Puis, elle et Adam font de son histoire un guide utile et touchant pour tous ceux qui essayent de bâtir leur résilience dans leur vie, leurs communautés, leurs entreprises. Il est déjà difficile de trouver un écho chez les lecteurs, mais ça l'est encore plus de les aider à avancer étape par étape vers un avenir meilleur. Option B réussit les deux. "BILL ET MELINDA GATES, coprésidents de la fondation Bill et Melinda Gates" Édifiant et inspirant, Option B est à la fois une autobiographie passionnante, une façon de panser son cœur, et le récit de ceux qui ont appris à surpasser la perte d'un être cher. Une contribution indispensable aux ouvrages sur le deuil et la résilience. "CHERYL STRAYED, auteure de Wild" Option B est aussi optimiste que poignant. Il retrace des histoires tragiques, mais nous montre aussi comment les humains parviennent malgré tout à faire face et à s'épanouir. Plus que fascinant, ce livre est une leçon que nous devons tous apprendre. "ATUL GAWANDE, auteur de Nous sommes tous mortels" Réfléchi, intelligent et captivant. Individuellement et collectivement, nous avons tous besoin de comprendre le pouvoir de la réadaptation, du rétablissement et du salut si nous voulons surmonter l'adversité. Cet ouvrage n'empêche pas les disparitions ni les tragédies, mais il est animé par une détermination stimulante et enrichissante. "BRYAN STEVENSON, auteur de Et la justice égale pour tous...et fondateur de la Equal Justice Initiative

Life of Antony

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*Illustrated *Includes Table of Contents Plutarch, later named, on his becoming a Roman citizen, Lucius Mestrius Plutarchus, c. 46 – 120 AD, was a Greek historian, biographer, essayist, and Middle Platonist known primarily for his Parallel Lives and Moralia. Plutarch lived most of his life at Chaeronea, and his duties as the senior of the two priests of Apollo at the Oracle of Delphi (where he was responsible for interpreting the auguries of the Pythia) apparently occupied little of his time. He led an active social and civic life while producing an extensive body of writing, much of which survived. By his writings and lectures Plutarch became a celebrity in the Roman Empire. At his country estate, guests from all over the empire congregated for serious conversation, presided over by Plutarch in his marble chair. Many of these dialogues were recorded and published, and the 78 essays and other works which have survived are now known collectively as the Moralia. Plutarch's best-known work is the Parallel Lives, a series of biographies of famous Greeks and Romans, arranged in pairs to illuminate their common moral virtues and vices. The surviving Lives contain 23 pairs, each with one Greek Life and one Roman Life, as well as four unpaired single Lives. Some of the Lives, such as those of Heracles, Philip II of Macedon and Scipio Africanus, no longer exist; many of the remaining Lives are truncated, contain obvious lacunae or have been tampered with by later writers. Extant Lives include those on Aristides, Pericles, Pompey, Julius Caesar, Cicero, Cato the Younger, Mark Antony, and Marcus Junius Brutus. Plutarch also wrote a series of biographies, including the biographies of Demetrius, Pyrrhus, Agis and Cleomenes, Aratus and Artaxerxes, Philopoemen, Camillus, Marcellus, Flamininus, Aemilius Paulus, Galba and Otho. This edition of Plutarch’s Life of Antony is specially formatted with a Table of Contents and is illustrated with over a dozen illustrations.

Truman Fires MacArthur (ebook excerpt of Truman)

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The Pulitzer Prize–winning biography of Harry S. Truman, whose presidency included momentous events from the atomic bombing of Japan to the outbreak of the Cold War and the Korean War, told by America’s beloved and distinguished historian.The life of Harry S. Truman is one of the greatest of American stories, filled with vivid characters—Roosevelt, Churchill, Stalin, Eleanor Roosevelt, Bess Wallace Truman, George Marshall, Joe McCarthy, and Dean Acheson—and dramatic events. In this riveting biography, acclaimed historian David McCullough not only captures the man—a more complex, informed, and determined man than ever before imagined—but also the turbulent times in which he rose, boldly, to meet unprecedented challenges. The last president to serve as a living link between the nineteenth and the twentieth centuries, Truman’s story spans the raw world of the Missouri frontier, World War I, the powerful Pendergast machine of Kansas City, the legendary Whistle-Stop Campaign of 1948, and the decisions to drop the atomic bomb, confront Stalin at Potsdam, send troops to Korea, and fire General MacArthur. Drawing on newly discovered archival material and extensive interviews with Truman’s own family, friends, and Washington colleagues, McCullough tells the deeply moving story of the seemingly ordinary “man from Missouri” who was perhaps the most courageous president in our history.

Summa Theologica

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The Summa Theologiæ (written 1265–1274 and also known as the Summa Theologica or simply the Summa) is the best-known work of Thomas Aquinas (c. 1225–1274). Although unfinished, the Summa is "one of the classics of the history of philosophy and one of the most influential works of Western literature." It was intended as an instructional guide for theology students, including seminarians and the literate laity. It was a compendium of all of the main theological teachings of the Catholic Church. It presents the reasoning for almost all points of Christian theology in the West. The Summa's topics follow a cycle: the existence of God; Creation, Man; Man's purpose; Christ; the Sacraments; and back to God.

Coffee and Chocolate

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A passenger onboard a fast-moving train glimpses a couple of brown horses in an unkempt field. She sees them again the next year, and the year after. She wonders if they are neglected or loved by their owner. That small field may be the horses' last protection against a one-way trip to the slaughterhouse...A short but haunting true story by Michèle Laframboise, Canadian multi-award winner author.A list of horse rescue centers, with sketches made by the author, completes the tale.

The Nicotine Conspiracy

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In 2008 Allen Carr's Easyway to Stop Smoking celebrated its 25th anniversary in the knowledge that it has become the global leader in the field of drug-free smoking cessation. There are currently over 100 clinics in 38 countries and a publishing programme with sales of over 13 million books in 50 countries. The organisation continues to grow rapidly and the method is conservatively estimated to have cured more than 10 million smokers worldwide. Despite the phenomenal success and popularity of the method, Allen Carr's Easyway remains ignored by the Government and unavailable on the NHS which prefers to supply nicotine to addicts at taxpayers' expense via gums, patches etc and so perpetuates the addiction. In fact, the pharmaceutical industry, aided and abetted by the government and other public institutions and funded by the taxpayer, is now competing with the tobacco industry to supply the nicotine-addicted market. In this book, Allen Carr exposes this scandal and reveals the influence that the mind-bogglingly rich and powerful pharmaceutical industry exerts over Government policy, the medical establishment and public health charities. The Nicotine Conspiracy is the book the the Government, the Department of Health, ASH, QUIT, the NHS and the National Institute for Clinical Health and Excellence DO NOT WANT YOU TO READ.

Uno di noi

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Da questo libro il film Netflix "22 luglio". Il 22 luglio 2011, Anders Breivik uccide settantasette persone. Vestito da poliziotto, irrompe tra i giovani che partecipano al meeting annuale dei laburisti norvegesi sull'isola di Utoya, a circa trenta chilometri da Oslo. L'uomo è in divisa, e forse per questo all'inizio nessuno bada al fatto che tra le mani ha una mitraglietta. All'improvviso la impugna e apre il fuoco. Poi usa un fucile da caccia, un'arma automatica e una pistola, mentre attorno a lui i ragazzi cercano inutilmente una via d'uscita. Dopo l'attentato e durante il processo che ne è seguito tutto il mondo ha iniziato a porsi delle domande. Come è potuto accadere? Perché è accaduto? E chi è Anders Breivik?Åsne Seierstad si è trovata in una posizione unica per interrogarsi sulla vicenda: corrispondente di guerra pluripremiata, si è occupata per anni di persone coinvolte in conflitti violenti. Qui, per la prima volta, si interroga su ciò che è avvenuto a casa sua, nel suo Paese, basandosi su un corpus enorme di deposizioni, interviste ad amici e familiari, registri comunali, testimonianze, generando una ricostruzione così precisa che per il New York Times «dovrebbe essere fatta studiare nelle scuole di giornalismo». Descrive un personaggio irripetibile e le sue turbe ma anche il contesto da cui proviene, la famiglia in cui è cresciuto, il sentiero scosceso che lo ha portato a macchiarsi di un delitto che non si può spiegare; ma descrive anche i giovani affascinanti e radiosi che quel giorno hanno perso la vita: come Bano Rashid, figlia di immigrati curdi arrivati a Oslo nel 1999 per sfuggire alle persecuzioni del regime di Saddam Hussein. A mano a mano che seguiamo il percorso dell'inevitabile collisione, ci appare chiaro che cosa è andato perduto in quell'unico giorno. Uno di noi è la storia di un massacro, ma anche una riflessione sul male. È una storia che parla di comunanza contrapposta a isolamento, di speranza contro rifiuto, di tolleranza verso fanatismo. Di amore contro odio.

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Biographies & Memoirs

Hogyan építettem a Walt Disneyből a világ legvarázslatosabb cégét?New York Times No1 bestsellerEgy nagy vízió alapjai: a Disney vezérigazgatója feltárja, milyen ötleteket és értékeket követett, miközben megújította a világ legszeretettebb cégét, és hogyan inspirálta azokat a dolgozókat, akik életre keltik a varázslatot.Robert Iger 2005-ben, egy nehéz időszakban lett a Walt Disney Company vezérigazgatója. A piaci verseny egyre élesedett, a technikai fejlődés gyorsabb volt, mint bármikor korábban a cég történetében. Igernek a jövővel kapcsolatos víziója három gondolatra épült: újra és újra el kell köteleződni amellett az elv mellett, hogy a minőség igenis számít; a technológia változása ellen nem lehet küzdeni, az élére kell állni; nagyban kell gondolkozni - a globális piacban kell gondolkozni - a Disney brandet erősíteni kell a nemzetközi piacokon.Mára a Disney a világ legnagyobb és leginkább értékelt médiavállalata lett, amelynek része a Pixar, a Marvel, a Lucasfilm és a 21st Century Fox - beleértve leányvállalataikat is. Piaci értéke csaknem ötszörösére nőtt azóta, hogy Iger átvette a cég vezetését. Magát Robert Igert korunk legsikeresebb és leginkább innovatív vezérigazgatójának tartják.Hullámvasút egy életen át című könyvében Robert Iger elmondja, mi mindenre jött rá, miközben a Disneyt irányította, sorra veszi, melyek az ideális vezető erényei: soha nem szűnő kíváncsiság, optimizmus, bátorság, fókusz, tiszteletteljes modor, becsületesség, kockázatvállalás, a változás elfogadása, nem pedig megtagadása.Iger azt írja: „Ennek a könyvnek a gondolatait univerzálisnak látom. Remélem, hogy a történeteim révén sikerül átadni a konkrét tapasztalataimat, és közelebb hozni nemcsak a világ feltörekvő vezérigazgatóihoz, hanem mindenkihez, aki szeretne kevésbé félni, mindenkihez, aki szeretne magabiztosabb lenni szakmai téren és a magánéletben egyaránt.”Robert Iger a Walt Disney Company vezérigazgatója és a vállalat elnökségi tagja. Előzőleg, 2000-től 2005-ig az ügyvezető igazgatói tisztséget töltötte be, majd 2005-től elnök-vezérigazgató volt. Pályája elején, 1974-ben az ABC televíziótársaságnál kezdett dolgozni, az ABC Group elnökségi tagjaként felügyelte a vállalathoz tartozó kábel és helyi csatornák működését, levezényelte a Capital Cities/ABC és a Walt Disney Company összeolvadását. Iger hivatalosan 1996-ban került be a Disney vezetőségébe, mint az ABC csoport tulajdonába került vállalat elnökségi tagja, és 1999-ben a Walt Disney International elnöki tisztségével is megbízták. Ebben a minőségében Iger irányította a Disney globális terjeszkedését, amely folyamat minden nemzetközi jelenlétre törekvő vállalat számára példaértékű.„magasabbra emelte a Disney brandet, mint arra bárki is számított volna, és ezt pimasz módon, mégis kecsesen vitte véghez. Ez a könyv bemutatja, hogyan történt mindez.” - Steven Spielberg„Az év üzletembere 2019” - Time magazin

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