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Having a strong mindset and valued sense of self can make a world of difference in how you experience your daily life and combat negative energies. But there is one ultimate key that can help you unlock a powerful and unstoppable frame of mind to get you on the right path toward achieving your goals and desires. Affirmations are powerful--they can help you challenge and conquer negative thinking so you can move forward in life and become your best self.

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The Muungano empire strived and struggled to form a utopia when they split away from old earth. Freeing themselves from the endless wars and oppression of their home planet in order to shape their own futures and create a far-reaching coalition of city-states that stretched from Earth and Mars to Titan. With the wisdom of their ancestors, the leadership of their elders, the power and vision of their scientists and warriors they charted a course to a better future. But the old powers could not allow them to thrive and have now set in motion new plots to destroy all that they've built.

Les Poisons de la Couronne ressuscitent, presque jour par jour, les conflits, les intrigues, les haines et les crimes du règne de Louis X le Hutin, qui ne dura que dix-huit mois, mais dont les conséquences seront capitales pour la monarchie française. Lorsqu'il meurt empoisonné, en juin 1316, c'est la première fois depuis plus de trois siècles qu'un roi de France décède sans laisser un héritier mâle. Les "Rois maudits", célèbre fresque historique en sept volumes, font revivre le XIVe siècle, entre le procès des Templiers et les débuts de la guerre de Cent Ans.

At age thirty-three, Maurice Ashley became the first African American to attain the rank of International Grand Master of Chess. Since that historic moment, he has brought his love of the game to a wide audience as an educator, innovator, and motivational speaker.

Maurice Leblanc, a writer of detective fiction during the same period as Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, created Arsene Lupin, a sort of French Robin Hood. An inventive genius, a master of disguise, and an accomplished actor, Lupin operates in the choice chateaux and salons. He scorns sham and with great disdain leaves his card in a baron's residence. The card reads, "Arsene Lupin, gentleman-burglar, will return when the furniture is genuine."

Un intervalo de seis años separa La ley de los varones y La loba de Francia. Durante esos años, de 1318 a 1324, el país ha sido sabiamente gobernado, aunque azotado por diversas calamidades: la cruzada de los campesinos, la rebelión de los leprosos, agitaciones y masacres. El tercer hijo del Rey de Hierro, el débil Carlos IV, sucede a Felipe V, que muere sin dejar descendencia masculina. Durante su reinado, Francia será gobernada por representantes de la alta nobleza, Carlos de Valois y Roberto de Artois. El nuevo y dramático giro de la historia se originará en Inglaterra.

Préface de G.R.R. Martin, lue par Lemmy Constantine. Les Rois maudits, célèbre fresque historique en sept volumes, font revivre le XIVe siècle, entre le procès des Templiers et les débuts de la guerre de Cent Ans. Traduits dans le monde entier, "Les Rois maudits" ont remporté un succès exceptionnel et sont considérés comme un des modèles contemporains du roman historique. "Le Roi de fer", premier volume du cycle, a pour figure centrale Philippe IV le Bel, roi d'une beauté légendaire qui règne sur la France en maître absolu.

A legendary CEO tells the inside story of building the world's largest insurance company - and the dramatic tale of its near-destruction after he left in early 2005, as successors transformed AIG and drove it to the center of the financial crisis of 2008.

Grandmother sends a kiss for little bear - via the hen, frog, cat, and two skunks.

Arsène Lupin, gentleman-cambrioleur, publié en 1907 par Maurice Leblanc, introduit l’un des personnages les plus charismatiques de la littérature française : Arsène Lupin, un voleur brillant et audacieux, doté d'un charme irrésistible et d'une intelligence hors du commun, qui s'attaque aux riches et aux puissants avec élégance et finesse. Surnommé le « gentleman-cambrioleur », il use de déguisements et de ruses pour accomplir ses exploits, volant avec style tout en respectant un certain code d’honneur.

The Arsène Lupin Collection: Books 1-10 contains the first ten collections in the Arsène Lupin series, read by Rupert Degas. In the course of these ten novels we are introduced to Lupin and see him practice his own moral form of detection and recrimination, helping those who have been left behind in twentieth-century France.

North America's biggest cat was once killed for bounty dollars, slaughtered with impunity and driven toward extinction. But today's cat of intrigue, despite our lingering fears and misconceptions, has returned to much of its native range in the western United States and gained respect as a predator integral and necessary to wild ecosystems. This turnaround was triggered by one man: Maurice Hornocker. Cougars on the Cliff recounts the early years of his research when he tracked lions following a dog's nose and footprints in the snow—before telemetry was available.

The first of Maurice Leblanc's collections about his devilish, debonair rogue, Arsène Lupin, Gentleman-Burglar presents eight dazzling short stories that display some of Lupin's greatest thefts and escapes. Lupin robs from within prison, leaves its walls with ease, steals priceless diamonds from the rich and outwits the greatest detective of all: Sherlock Holmes. Witty, cunning, and taunting, Lupin is a genius on the wrong side of the law, although his noble code of ethics and Robin-Hood-like ways often see him use his talents for good.

Fine-art aficionado. Master of disguise. Jewelry expert. Historian. Gentleman. Burglar. Arsene Lupin is all of these and more. In 1905, Maurice Leblanc introduced his gentleman-burglar in the story "L'Arrestation d'Arsène Lupin". Shortly thereafter, the stories were collected as one single volume. In these charming adventures, Lupin orchestrates a myriad of extravagant heists in the very face of the determined Inspector Ganimard.

El desgraciado destino de la hermosa Clemencia de Hungría, llamada a ser reina de Francia y repentinamente viuda; los destinos truncados del joven lombardo Guccio Baglioni y de María Cressay, cuyos amores debieron enfrentarse a las prohibiciones sociales; los destinos violentos de la condesa Mahaut de Artois y de su sobrino Roberto, separados por un odio acérrimo, y, por fin, el trágico destino del rey Luis X, que en pocos meses lleva la obra del Rey de Hierro al borde de su destrucción.

From the publishers that brought you A Game of Thrones comes the series that inspired George R.R. Martin’s epic work. France became a great nation under Philip the Fair - but it was a greatness achieved at the expense of her people, for his was a reign characterised by violence, the scandalous adulteries of his daughters-in-law, and the triumph of royal authority.

In Friend and Foe, researchers Galinsky and Schweitzer explain why this debate misses the mark. Rather than being hardwired to compete or cooperate, humans have evolved to do both. It is only by learning how to strike the right balance between these two forces that we can improve our long-term relationships and get more of what we want.

Francia, desgarrada por luchas entre clanes y facciones, mientras los impuestos aplastan a la población y la peste asuela el país, se ve amenazada por Inglaterra, que apresa al monarca en la batalla de Poitiers.

Charles IV is now king of France and his sister is Edward II of England’s Queen. Having been imprisoned by Edward as leader of the rebellious English barons, Roger Mortimer escapes to France, where he joins the war against the English Aquitaine. But it is his love affair with Isabella, the ‘She-Wolf of France’, who has come seemingly to negotiate a treaty of peace that seals his fate…