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Peter Singer is often described as the world's most influential philosopher. Now, in Ethics in the Real World, Singer shows that he is also a master at dissecting important current events in a few hundred words. In this book of brief essays, he applies his controversial ways of thinking to issues like climate change, extreme poverty, animals, abortion, euthanasia, human genetic selection, sports doping, the sale of kidneys, the ethics of high-priced art, and ways of increasing happiness.

Hercule Poirot's quiet supper in a London coffee house is interrupted when a young woman confides to him that she is about to be murdered. She is terrified, but begs Poirot not to find and punish her killer. Once she is dead, she insists, justice will have been done. Later that night, Poirot learns that three guests at a fashionable London hotel have been murdered, and a cufflink has been placed in each one's mouth. Could there be a connection with the frightened woman?

In recent decades, many philosophers and cognitive scientists have declared the problem of consciousness unsolvable, but Antonio Damasio is convinced that recent findings across multiple scientific disciplines have given us a way to understand consciousness and its significance for human life. In Feeling & Knowing, Damasio helps us understand why being conscious is not the same as sensing, why nervous systems are essential for the development of feelings, and why feeling opens the way to consciousness writ large.

Professor Andreas Michalsen ist einer der profiliertesten Ärzte Deutschlands, er genießt international höchstes Ansehen und ist einer der renommiertesten Wissenschaftler auf dem Gebiet der Ernährungsmedizin. Nach mehreren Bestsellern hat der Berliner Mediziner jetzt die Quintessenzen der neusten wissenschaftlichen Erkenntnisse zusammengefügt. Andreas Michalsen klärt darüber auf, wie wir allein mit guter Ernährung gesund, vital und kraftvoll leben können. Was und wie wir essen sollten, um viel länger zu leben, als wir bisher angenommen haben.

Whether you just started your first entry-level job, run the entire company, or just feel trapped by your condo association bylaws, it’s time to it’s time to learn how to get big things done and make a lasting impact. From local government to the White House, Harvard to the world of venture capital, Marina Nitze and Nick Sinai have taken on some of the world’s most challenging bureaucracies—and won. Now, they bring their years of experience to you, teaching you strategies anyone can use to improve your organization through their own stories and those of fellow bureaucracy hacker.

"All die Stunden in der Halle, die Niederlagen und Siege, all die Geschichten und Gedanken - es braucht einen Autor wie Thomas Pletzinger, um die richtigen Worte für meine Welt und mein Spiel zu finden. Ich hätte mir keinen besseren wünschen können." Dirk Nowitzki. Wenn man über Dirk Nowitzki spricht, kommt man an Superlativen nicht vorbei. Er gehört zu den Legenden seiner Sportart, ist ein globaler Superstar - und als Mensch zugleich nahbar und schwer zu fassen. Thomas Pletzinger hat den Ausnahmesportler über viele Jahre begleitet, er wurde Teil von dessen Kosmos.

Principles of Real Estate Practice is a modern learning tool for the student preparing to enter the real estate business as a licensed professional. The textbook contains the essentials of real estate principles, law, and practices taught in real estate schools and colleges across the country, including all those fundamentals that real estate educators, practicing professionals, national testing services, and state licensing officials agree are necessary for basic competence.

The complicated relationship between the poets Elizabeth Bishop and Robert Lowell is revealed in nearly 30 years' worth of correspondence. Taken from their exchange of letters, Dear Elizabeth is a study in friendship, intimacy, and the power of words.

George and Catherine Stewart share not only the burden of Catherine's heart disease, which could cause her death at any time, but the memory of Jerome Martell, her first husband and George's closest friend. Martel, a brilliant doctor passionately concerned with social justice, is presumed to have died in a Nazi prison camp. His sudden return to Montreal precipitates the central crisis of the novel.

Schlipperdibix! Neues Hörspiel mit Charly Hübner, Felix von Manteuffel, Hedi Kriegeskotte u.v.m.Der Bösewicht mit den sieben Messern und der Pfefferpistole hält seit Generationen die Welt in Atem! Seine Räubergeschichten werden nun frisch und fulminant für die Ohren alter und neuer Fans inszeniert. Musikalisch fidel komponiert, knurrig und komisch gelesen von einem Ensemble erstklassiger Sprecher. Ein großartiger Hörspiel-Spaß - mit Original-Kaffeemühlensong, Schnupftabakgetöse und echtem Krokodildackelgehechel.

Journeying 2,000 years into the past, food critic and writer William Sitwell artfully traces the earliest origins of the widespread cultural practice of eating out, from its most basic to most sophisticated forms. Whether he’s traversing the inns and taverns of Pompeii before its destruction in AD 79, witnessing the tumultuous emergence of fine dining during the French Revolution, or recounting the mid-20th-century invention of the taco machine in New York City, Sitwell’s engaging prose gives listeners a front-row seat to the restaurant experience across cultures and millennia.

Police Brutality and White Supremacy demands accountability and justice for those responsible for and impacted by police violence and terror. It offers practical solutions to work against the promotion of white supremacy in law enforcement, Christianity, early education, and across the public sphere.

No doubt, you'll find great value from the words of Steve Pavlina in this book. He has penned some of the most impactful information on these subjects and you will surely find this book to be a source of wisdom that will propel you to improvement. How is silence, the absence of communication, a main factor to you engaging in successful communication? How can you overcome your fear of public speaking? How can you better deal with difficult people in your life? Questions like these will be answered along with many others.

Do you want to learn how to set up your own aquaponic system and grow vegetables, fruit, herbs, and raise fish? This aquaponics audiobook will show you exactly how to go about it like a pro in a step-by-step manner. In this audiobook, you will discover what aquaponics is, how it works, the different aquaponic systems you can use, how to adopt aquaponics, and much, much more.

A girl walks home from school. She's tall for her age. She's wearing her winter coat. Her headphones are in. She's hurrying. She never makes it home. In the aftermath, while law enforcement tries to justify the response, one fact remains: A police officer has shot and killed an unarmed 13-year-old girl. The community is thrown into upheaval, leading to unrest, a growing movement to protest the senseless taking of black lives, and the arrival of white supremacist counter-demonstrators.

During the Second World War, Allied air forces dropped nearly two million tons of bombs on Germany, destroying some 60 cities, killing more than half a million German citizens, and leaving 80,000 pilots dead. But the terrible truth is that much of the bombing was carried out against the expressed demands of the Allied military leadership, leading to the needless deaths of hundreds of thousands of civilians. Focusing on the crucial period from 1942 to 1945, Fire and Fury tells the story of the American and British bombing campaign through the eyes of those involved.

Eleven BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramas telling the stories of Mary Queen of Scots and the Stuart royals. Under the Stuarts, Britain entered the modern world. But with great change came turmoil, and for 111 years, the Stuart monarchs faced dynastic struggles, religious conflict, the rise of parliamentary democracy - and civil war. These dramas chart that turbulent epoch through its royal family, from Mary, Queen of Scots to the ‘last Stuart’, Bonnie Prince Charlie’s daughter Charlotte.

Der Weltbestseller aus Japan. Ein zutiefst unglücklicher junger Mann trifft auf einen Philosophen, der ihm erklärt, wie jeder von uns in der Lage ist, sein eigenes Leben zu bestimmen, und wie sich jeder von den Fesseln vergangener Erfahrungen, Zweifeln und Erwartungen anderer lösen kann. Es sind die Erkenntnisse von Alfred Adler - dem großen Vorreiter der Achtsamkeitsbewegung - die diesem bewegenden Dialog zugrunde liegen, die zutiefst befreiend sind und uns allen ermöglichen, endlich die Begrenzungen zu ignorieren, die unsere Mitmenschen und wir selbst uns auferlegen.

In 1119, the people of the Near East came together in an epic clash of horses, swords, sand, and blood that would decide the fate of the city of the Aleppo - and the eastern Crusader states. Fought between tribal Turkish warriors on steppe ponies, Arab foot soldiers, Armenian bowmen, and European knights, the battlefield was the amphitheater into which the people of the Near East poured their full gladiatorial might. Carrying a piece of the true cross before them, the Frankish army advanced, anticipating a victory that would secure their dominance over the entire region.

Hilary believes fervently that consciousness is more than the sum of our biology. When she receives a position at a prestigious think tank, she develops a novel experiment to prove that humans are intrinsically altruistic, but the results are something she never anticipated.