Time Crisis

He was the Western convert who would plunge deep inside al-Qaeda. He named his first son Osama after 9/11 and became a Jihadist. But then - after a sudden loss of faith - Morten Storm made a life-changing decision. He became a double agent and joined the CIA, MI6 and MI5. Filled with hair-raising close calls and deception, Storm's story builds to the climactic finale when he must betray his friend and mentor al-Awlaki - al-Qaeda's biggest threat to the West.

We are experiencing an era of unprecedented cognitive dissonance. Despite incredible advances in our capacity to access information and “truth”, we have reached a terrifying all-time high for apathy. The planet’s existential-level catastrophe is systematically edited out of the news, even as it spirals out of control. This counterintuitive phenomenon, which has taken even the most extreme pessimists by surprise, deserves more than the usual conspiracy explanation of “them” against “us”. A Great Silence appears to have taken hold not only in the media, but in a general ...

Francesca "Chess" Varani is an ultra-bright, sassy, but vulnerable Barnard freshwoman from a blue-collar background in the vibrantly gritty New York City of the mid-'80s. She strikes up a volatile and somewhat toxic friendship with drama-queen classmate Kendra Marr-Löwenstein and falls into the bewitching orbit of her Salingeresque, high-toned family. Upon graduation, she moves into the Marr-Löwenstein house in the West Village as a secretary/girl-of-all-work.

Ten million people had been murdered. For 15 years, atrocities had been perpetrated by King Leopold II of Belgium and his Force Publique in the Congo Free State. By 1909, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle could stand it no longer and felt the need to speak out and inform the general public of exactly what was going on. This new edition of his passionate plea for action includes contemporary newspaper reports and an introduction by Tim Dalgleish. His book is a classic in the annals of genocide and remains a shocking portrayal of humanity’s "heart of darkness".

Si haz escuchado que el dropshipping es muy difícil o incluso que puede verse eclipsado por la economía mundial...entonces sigue leyendo. Hoy cada vez es más común ver gente emprendiendo y muchos tienen miedo al no entender los principios principalmente del dropshipping ya que esto muchas veces conlleva una inversión. Bueno en este audiolibro te mostraré cómo con poca inversión y paso a paso puedes ir forjando ingresos y ganando experiencia en el dropshipping.

Kindness was a lesson worth learning as a child in the 1950s and 1960s - and it is more relevant than ever as the world confronts the COVID-19 pandemic and racial unrest. Jim Boeglin draws on the lessons he learned as a child and throughout adulthood to spread that message in this book of poetry.

In concise, immediate prose, Italian physicist and novelist Paolo Giordano explains how disease spreads in our interconnected world: why it matters, how it impacts us, how we must react. Writing from his home in Rome as Italy implements the largest peace-time lockdown ever recorded in a democratic country, Giordano expands his focus to other forms of contagion linked to this epidemic - fake news, the environmental crisis, nationalism and xenophobia, our lack of imagination in promoting a new kind of global community.

The Greater Depression is what is looming ahead of the World and specifically the United States of America. Nate Plissken delves into the causes of the U.S. Dollar Currency Crisis. Citing experts in business and economics, he pulls back the curtain on The Fed.

Water scarcity is the next big climate crisis. Water stress – not just scarcity, but also water-quality issues caused by pollution – is already driving the first waves of climate refugees. Rivers are drying out before they meet the oceans and ancient lakes are disappearing. It’s increasingly clear that human mismanagement of water is dangerously unsustainable, for both ecological and human survival. In The Last Drop, award-winning environmental journalist Tim Smedley meets experts, victims, activists and pioneers to find out how we can mend the water table that our survival depends upon.

Un nuevo virus irrumpe en un país lejano, aunque no tan lejano. La Tierra se ha vuelto pequeña. Día tras día, billones de impulsos digitales transportan la información a la velocidad de la luz de un punto a otro del planeta; infinidad de aviones surcan los cielos, borrando fronteras a su paso y trasladando sin pausa a millares de personas; y, a menor velocidad, miles de toneladas de mercancías se mueven en todas direcciones en un incesante intercambio mercantil que nutre la economía global.

A decade ago, Tim Flannery's number-one international best seller, The Weather Makers, was one of the first books to break the topic of climate change out into the general conversation. Today, Earth's climate system is fast approaching a crisis. Political leadership has not kept up, and public engagement with the issue of climate change has declined. Opinion is divided between technological optimists and pessimists who feel that catastrophe is inevitable.

When we experience trauma, our suffering can feel as though it will endure forever. We lose faith and become detached from our hopes of a life filled with joy and possibilities. Our feelings lead us into destructive habits that aggravate our emotional wounds and cause the formation of mental scars. In this book, Flaviana shares practical, straightforward advice for tending to our emotional wounds, by showing us how to diagnose the root cause, treat and tend to our wounds, and practice aftercare to prevent any further inflammation. You’ll discover that you’re stronger than you know.

Wenn Sie auf ETFs setzen, dann bedeutet das, langfristige Perspektiven im Auge zu haben. Das Investment in diese Indexfonds erfolgt passiv und nicht in einzelne Aktien, sondern das Portfolio wird möglichst breit gestreut. Damit wird der Markt nicht konzentriert, sondern in seiner Gesamtheit abgebildet. Das gelingt auch Einsteigern, die sich erst einmal an die Börse herantasten wollen. Auch Sie können Ihr Geld richtig anlegen und sich ein passives Einkommen mit verhältnismäßig kleinem Aufwand generieren.

The practice of medicine has never been easy. Years of demanding education. Long hours. Weekend call duty. Stress-laden procedures. Burgeoning regulatory requirements. Even a worldwide healthcare crisis. How is a physician to cope? This indispensable anthology of essential essays offers practical solutions. 'Physician Well-Being During Sustained Crisis' features over twenty authors, including active physician executives, counselors, and healthcare chaplains, addressing three core concepts related to the well-being of physicians.

Bunker Buddy is a simple, family-friendly guide to getting prepared and protected for times of crisis to come. In just eight short, easy-to-digest chapters, you'll get a solid overview of the main areas you need to master in order to ensure your survival and emergency preparedness in advance of any potential crisis or disaster.

Consumers looking to protect their financial future in today's turbulent economy will find all the right advice in Safe Money in Tough Times. Well-known for conveying sophisticated insight in simple and engaging terms, Jonathan Pond explains how readers can take control of their financial lives, overcome any money problems, and develop an all-weather portfolio to last a lifetime.

The apostle Peter described faith as "much more precious than gold that perishes". As gold passes through purifying fire, so Peter says a man's faith must be tried in order that it "might be found unto praise and honor and glory at the appearing of Jesus Christ" (1 Peter 1:7). While we address the crises in our lives that try our faith, we rarely praise God the way Job did, and we rarely submit ourselves to the purifying fire as Peter suggests.

This is a 9/11 book like no other. Masterfully weaving together multiple strands of the events in New York, at the Pentagon, and in Shanksville, Pennsylvania, Fall and Rise is a mesmerising, minute-by-minute account of that terrible day. In the days and months after 9/11, Mitchell Zuckoff, then a reporter for the Boston Globe, wrote about the attacks, the victims, and their families.

The adventure of a lifetime through the eyes of 2 middle-aged men coping with the need to find challenge and excitement. Experience one of North America's top-ten backpacking trails as the author takes you through an ancient rain forest, mud and root covered pathways and along the sandy shore of the Pacific Ocean. The reader feels like they are part of an incredible 7 day adventure full of laughter, insight and danger that keeps us turning pages until the end.

Marcus Goldstein, a photographer and journalist is freelancing for online tabloid news. While staking out a celebrities home in the area where Kobe Bryant's helicopter crashed he's tipped off by an insider at TMZ about it. The trouble is, the tip preceded the explosion by about 33 seconds. This leads him to question whether anybody was in that helicopter at all, and he falls into conspiracy theory rabbit holes, bottoming out at the one about Hollow Earth, the Mars bases, and where the elite will go to escape a coming flood. He gets the story of a lifetime, but placing truth ahead of sanity ...