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America’s Romance with the English Garden is the story of tastemakers and homemakers, of savvy businessmen and a growing American middle class eager to buy their products. It’s also the story of the beginnings of the modern garden industry, which seduced the masses with its images and fixed the English garden in the mind of the American consumer. Seed and nursery catalogs delivered aspirational images to front doorsteps from California to Maine, and the English garden became the look of America.

These days, between taxes and consumption, many people have nothing left to invest. Tom Curran will show you that it doesn't have to be that way, and he will advise you on how to change that. That means not just financial strategies but emotional intelligence because if spending and saving money were simply logical matters, most people would have plenty. Regardless of how smart or logical you are, when it comes to making decisions, emotion is the great neutralizer. With Investing Ahead, Curran has spelled out the eight investment essentials that have made him—and his clients—wealthy.

The evolution podcast... Two researchers approach the science of life, debunk myths, and maybe have a few laughs along the way. 

Did you know that most financial advisors - in fact over 80 percent - have no written succession or continuity plan? It’s wild, but true, and The Zen of Business Acquisitions is the answer to a growing concern for more financial preparedness. As the financial advisors of the Baby Boomer generation edge closer to their own retirement, there has been an unprecedented wave of sales, mergers, and acquisitions. This increased surge in activity has created a great deal of valuable insight into the rules for success inside this industry, but it has also muddied the waters.

In The Russian, New Mexico State Trooper Enrique (Ricky) Basurto joins other local, state, and federal agents in the Multi-Agency Human and Controlled Substance Interdiction Task Force. Focused along the desolate NM Hwy. 9 from Columbus to Animas, Ricky and his colleagues face the dangers of the powerful cartels, their heavily armed militias, the Russian Mafia, and the innocent men, women, and children who are their victims.

Hans Joachim Markowitsch, * 1949 Singen, ist Professor für Physiologische Psychologie an der Universität Bielefeld und Direktor des Zentrums für interdisziplinäre Forschung. Harte Naturwissenschaftler stehen Freuds Psychoanalyse eher skeptisch gegenüber. Doch dieser Skeptizismus ist unbegründet: Die modernen Neurowissenschaften konnten zentrale Prinzipien von Freuds Theorie bestätigen. Hans J. Markowitsch, Professor für physiologische Psychologie an der Universität Bielefeld, zeigt die Schnittstellen zwischen Psychoanalyse und Hirnforschung und erläutert die Gemeinsamkeiten an vier zentralen Thesen der Psychoanalyse.

The Los Angeles Times Festival of Books began in 1996 with a simple goal: to bring together the people who create books with the people who love to read them. The festival was an immediate success and has become the largest and most prestigious book festival in the country, attracting more than 130,000 book lovers each year.

England im Jahr 1882: Es ist Nacht, eine junge Dienstmagd ist auf der Flucht vor der Rache ihres Herrn. Mit allerletzter Kraft schafft sie es, sich in den Waggon eines Güterzugs zu retten – nur um dort eine Entdeckung zu machen, die ihr Leben für immer verändern wird: ein Baby, dessen Haut in einem blauen Schimmer leuchtet. Damit beginnt ein Abenteuer, das von England, in den Wilden Westen bis nach Tokio und an die Grenzen des Vorstellbaren führt. Ein Abenteuer voll Magie, Wunder und tödlicher Geheimnisse.

"After Dinner Conversation" Magazine - December 2022 Mrs. Robinson: Set in Elizabethan England, a young woman marries a too-good-to-be-true heir to an estate, only to find out he has a secret. Male Privilege: The narrator is picked by the retiring Mayor to be his successor, but his questionable past catches up to him before election day. The Bargain: Alien real estate developers visit earth to let us know our planet is in a prime development location and set to add 40 billion inhabitants. The Kill Registry: In a world where everyone in society gets "one free kill," the narrator finds out ...

This audiobook examines how summer brings observable changes in weather, nature, and people.

An Irish grandfather's memoir of his childhood in the Connemara region of Ireland from 1936 and beyond to his life as an immigrant coming to America in 1958. His story of the women he loved and lost, the adventures of trying to make it in New York with little formal education and struggling to achieve the American dream. Passionately told with humor, a no-holds-barred story spanning over 70 years, authored for his children and grandchildren, will be greatly enjoyed by everyone.

Willst du die Passagiere retten – oder deine Familie? Coastal Airways Flug 416 hat den Flughafen von Los Angeles gerade verlassen, als Kapitän Bill Hoffman einen Anruf erhält. Ein Entführer hat seine Frau und Kinder in seine Gewalt gebracht und stellt Bill vor eine schreckliche Wahl: Entweder bringt er das Flugzeug mit 149 Menschen an Bord zum Absturz, oder seine Familie wird getötet. Zwar gelingt es Bill, die Crew über die Lage zu informieren, doch irgendwo in der Maschine befindet sich noch ein Komplize des Entführers.

Multiple award-winning author Thomas J. Nichols continues his fact-based accounts of the Border War Series with We Were Young Once following the success of Color of the Prism, this second in the series continues the Castenada/Basurto families’ dedication of stemming the flood of human and drug trafficking. Centered in the near ghost town of Hachita, New Mexico, We Were Young Once, brings the listener into the Chihuahua desert where the federal/state task force comes face-to-face with the victims and perpetrators of the Juarez and Sinaloa cartels.

Innovation means putting ideas to work. It is a discipline that can be learned, practiced, and leveraged to propel meaningful transformation and sustainable success, and it is proving to be the margin of difference in the largest concentrated sector of our economy: health care. This is where the stakes may be highest because the transcendent ideas that come from the patient bedside or laboratory bench don't just translate to a bottom line, they improve and extend human life.

The Russian Mafia picked the wrong girl to abduct. Now Paddy is hunting on British soil, and they are his prey. The dark forces of the Russian Mafia have launched an assault on the underworld of British society, and the very people tasked with the protection of British Isles, are colluding with the Mafia's hostile intent.

This audiobook examines how spring brings observable changes in weather, nature, and people.

It’s the most wonderful time of the year! Unless you’re A Cat Named Sam. Scaredy-cat Sam wants to enjoy the Christmas season, but Liza’s plans for Christmas Eve dinner have spoiled his holiday cheer. Join Sam on this adventure and find out why it is so important to listen closely to others.

In Book 4 of this series we will analyze our further deteriorating positions with regards to politics and the 'pandemic', what has happened, what is happening now and what's coming right up. I'm also including another chapter of the upcoming book 3 of my main book series 'Rise of the New World Order 3: Harmageddon', due to be release early-to-mid next year...if we're still here! This will be a sequel chapter to the Culling of Man's 'Methods of Madness'. I'm also including material in this update related to the End Timetable, material originally in the first publication of 'Rise of the New ...

Arrows of Allah is the second in the Christie Cole trilogy. Following her deep undercover investigation in Voices in the Fog, Arrows of Allah follows the now-married Christie Cole-McCarren into the shadows of the Islamic terrorists' war on infidels.

Mit Herzblut betreibt Esther Dumanski die Pension "Sonnenblume" in der Nähe des Starnberger Sees. Allerdings liegt die Herberge abgelegen in einem Wald und hat alles andere als Seeblick. Als dann noch akute Geldnot bei den Dumanskis Einzug hält, hat die begeisterte Hobby-Gärtnerin Esther die Idee, Landurlaub gepaart mit Gartenkursen anzubieten - als Schnupperkurse für neugierige Städter und Stressabbau für überbeanspruchte Büromenschen. Der Plan scheint aufzugehen: Schon bald tritt die erste Gruppe Garten-Fans ihren Urlaub bei Esther an.