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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - INSTANT #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER! The beach-read master hooks us again.' People Named a Most Anticipated Book of 2023 byBuzzFeed Paste Magazine Elle Southern Living SheReads Culturess Medium Her Campus Readers Digest Zibby Mag and more!A couple who broke up months ago pretend to still be together for their annual weeklong vacation with their best friends in this glittering and wise new novel from #1 New York Times bestselling author Emily Henry. Harriet and Wyn have been the perfect couple since they met in college they go together like salt and pepper, honey and tea, lobster and rolls. Except, now for reasons they re still not discussing they don t. They broke up five months ago. And still haven't told their best friends. Which is how they find themselves sharing a bedroom at the Maine cottage that has been their friend group's yearly getaway for the last decade. Their annual respite from the world, where for one vibrant, blissful week they leave behind their daily lives; have copious amounts of cheese, wine, and seafood; and soak up the salty coastal air with the people who understand them most. Only this year, Harriet and Wyn are lying through their teeth while trying not to notice how desperately they still want each other. Because the cottage is for sale and this is the last week they ll all have together in this place. They can't stand to break their friends hearts, and so they ll play their parts. Harriet will be the driven surgical resident who never starts a fight, and Wyn will be the laid-back charmer who never lets the cracks show. It's a flawless plan (if you look at it from a great distance and through a pair of sunscreen-smeared sunglasses). After years of being in love, how hard can it be to fake it for one week in front of those who know you best 405 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'The first novel by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Trust, an exquisite and blisteringly intelligent novel of a young Swedish boy, separated from his brother, who becomes a legend and an outlaw A young Swedish immigrant finds himself penniless and alone in California. The boy travels East in search of his brother, moving on foot against the great current of emigrants pushing West. Driven back again and again, he meets naturalists, criminals, religious fanatics, swindlers, Indians, and lawmen, and his exploits turn him into a legend. Diaz defies the conventions of historical fiction and genre, offering a probing look at the stereotypes that populate our past and a portrait of radical foreignness' 256 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - What should have been a family celebration of Chinese New Year descends into chaos when longtime foes crash the party in this hilariously entertaining novel by Jesse Q. Sutanto, bestselling author of Dial A for Aunties.After an ultra-romantic honeymoon across Europe, Meddy Chan and her husband Nathan have landed in Jakarta to spend Chinese New Year with her entire extended family. Chinese New Year, already the biggest celebration of the Lunar calendar, gets even more festive when a former beau of Second Aunt's shows up at the Chan residence bearing extravagant gifts he's determined to rekindle his romance with Second Aunt and the gifts are his way of announcing his courtship. His grand gesture goes awry however, when it's discovered that not all the gifts were meant for Second Aunt and the Chans one particular gift was intended for a business rival to cement their alliance and included by accident. Of course the Aunties agree that it's only right to return the gift after all, anyone would forgive an honest mistake, right But what should have been a simple retrieval turns disastrous and suddenly Meddy and the Aunties are helpless pawns in a decades-long war between Jakarta's most powerful business factions. The fighting turns personal, however, when Nathan and the Aunties are endangered and it's up to Meddy to come up with a plan to save them all. Determined to rescue her loved ones, Meddy embarks on an impossible mission but with the Aunties by her side, nothing is truly impossible 288 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - New York Times bestseller David Arnold's most ambitious novel to date; Station Eleven meets The 5th Wave in a genre-smashing story of survival, hope, and love amid a ravaged earth.When a deadly Fly Flu sweeps the globe, it leaves a shell of the world that once was. Among the survivors are eighteen-year-old Nico and her dog, on a voyage devised by Nico's father to find a mythical portal; a young artist named Kit, raised in an old abandoned cinema; and the enigmatic Deliverer, who lives Life after Life in an attempt to put the world back together. As swarms of infected Flies roam the earth, these few survivors navigate the woods of post-apocalyptic New England, meeting others along the way, each on their own quest to find life and love in a world gone dark. The Electric Kingdom is a sweeping exploration of art, storytelling, eternal life, and above all, a testament to the notion that even in an exterminated world, one person might find beauty in another. 448 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'After breaking a curse on the imperial heirs, a palace servant with training in herbal medicine is promoted up the ranks to food taster.and right into the thick of palace intrigue in this lushly illustrated period mystery series! Having figured out the trick to navigating the corridors of the ancient mausoleum found within the Inner Court, Maomao does an admirable job solving the current mystery in front of the emperor and Jinshi. And then the Empress Dowager comes to Maomao, asking her to investigate the late Emperor's curse. Jinshi's past and parentage are revealed!' 160 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - A young woman claims the throne of a realm inspired by Filipino mythology in this YA romantic fantasy, the first in an enchanting new duet by #1 New York Times bestselling author Melissa de la Cruz.MJ Rodriguez has spent her life hiding in the human world and guarding a heavy secret: She is half-encanto, a fairy from a hidden realm, and as the only child of King Vivencio, she s also next in line for the throne. Now, upon her father s sudden death, MJ must take her place as the king s rightful heir.In wondrous Biringan, the road to the throne is paved with thorns. MJ has to navigate a backstabbing council that objects to a half-human ruler. And when an ancient curse starts wiping out creatures across the land, she must find and stop the sorceress behind this merciless magic.To succeed, MJ forges an unlikely alliance with the dashing Sir Lucas of the feared Sigbin Court, and soon, she starts falling deeply for the mysterious knight. But with peril looming over the kingdom, the princess must decide if she can open her heart to love and prove she can carry the weight of the crown. 302 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Lee, Youngcheol (illustrator). Neuware - Forbes' 'Greatest Self-Help Books of All Time'The multimillion-copy bestselling book of spiritual wisdom about the importance of slowing down in our fast-paced world, by the Buddhist author of Love for Imperfect Things"Wise advice on how to reflect and slow down." ElleIs it the world that's busy, or is it my mind The world moves fast, but that doesn't mean we have to. This bestselling mindfulness guide by Haemin Sunim (which means "spontaneous wisdom"), a renowned Buddhist meditation teacher born in Korea and educated in the United States, illuminates a path to inner peace and balance amid the overwhelming demands of everyday life.By offering guideposts to well-being and happiness in eight areasincluding relationships, love, and spiritualityHaemin Sunim emphasizes the importance of forging a deeper connection with others and being compassionate and forgiving toward ourselves. The more than twenty full-color illustrations that accompany his teachings serve as calming visual interludes, encouraging us to notice that when you slow down, the world slows down with you. 265 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Shirotaka (illustrator). Neuware - THE LAST PAGE OF RUDEUS S TALEThe final disciple of the Man-God appears alongside the treacherous Geese: Badigadi. Equipped with Laplace s Fighting God Armor and an unparalleled ability to regenerate his body, Badigadi promises a vicious, no-holds-barred fight to the death like Rudeus s team has never seen before. Rudeus s lifelong war against the Man-God is almost over what will be left when the dust clears The final volume!.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - A spellbinding new novel from 'one of the greatest crime novelists writing today.' (Vox)It s a blazing summer when two men arrive in a small village in the West of Ireland. One of them is coming home. Both of them are coming to get rich. One of them is coming to die.Cal Hooper took early retirement from Chicago PD and moved to rural Ireland looking for peace. He s found it, more or less: he s built a relationship with a local woman, Lena, and he s gradually turning Trey Reddy from a half-feral teenager into a good kid going good places. But then Trey s long-absent father reappears, bringing along an English millionaire and a scheme to find gold in the townland, and suddenly everything the three of them have been building is under threat. Cal and Lena are both ready to do whatever it takes to protect Trey, but Trey doesn t want protecting. What she wants is revenge.From the writer who is in a class by herself, (The New York Times), a nuanced, atmospheric tale that explores what we ll do for our loved ones, what we ll do for revenge, and what we sacrifice when the two collide.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - One woman s worst fears come to life in the third novel of the Devil s Night dark romance series by New York Times bestseller Penelope Douglas, now with bonus material. Sending Damon to prison was the worst thing Winter could ve done. It didn t matter that he did the crime or that she wished he was dead. Winter thought he d cool off in jail and be anything but the horror he was, or that at the very least she d have time to disappear before he got out. But she was wrong. Three years came and went too fast, and prison only gave him time to plan. And while Winter anticipated his vengeance, she didn t expect this. He doesn t want to make her hurt. He wants to make everything hurt. Damon knows he needs to get rid of Winter s father, giving her, her sister, and her mother nowhere to run. The Ashby women are desperate for a knight in shining armor. But that s not what s coming. It's time Damon took control of his future. It s time he showed them all that he will never stop being the nightmare they think he is. Damon won t have to break into her home to do it. As the new man of the house, he has all the keys.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The TikTok sensation Addicted Series concludes with Some Kind of Perfect, now in a print edition with special bonus material! Falling in love was just the beginning. Lily and Lo are childhood best friends and soul mates. Ryke and Daisy are wild risk-takers and flirty adventurers. Connor and Rose are genius rivals and intellectual teammates. After ten years of laughter. Of heartache. And love. They re all back one final time.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'One year after the fall of Starlight Beacon, the galaxy is in chaos. An anarchistic group known as the Nihil has taken over a section of space now known as the Occlusion Zone. Jedi Knight Vernestra Rwoh and scientist Avon Starros team up in an attempt to find a way through the Nihil Stormwall to save those on the other side. But what are the Nihil's real plans And what of the nameless creatures that can destroy the Jedi Order The battle has just begun.'.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'A personal memoir in which Lyn Slater, known on Instagram as 'Accidental Icon,' brings her characteristic style, optimism, forward-thinking, and rules-are-meant-to-be-broken attitude to the question of how to live boldly at any age. When Lyn Slater started her fashion blog, Accidental Icon, at age sixty-one, she discovered that followers were flocking to her account for more than just her A-list style. As Lyn flaunted gray hair, wrinkles, and a megadose of self-acceptance, they found in her an alternative model of older life: someone who defied the stereotypes, refused to become invisible, and showed that all women have the opportunity to be relevant and take major risks at any stage of their life. Youth is not the only time we can be experimental. How to Be Old tells the ten-year story of Lyn's sixties, the sometimes-glamorous, sometimes-turbulent decade of Accidental Icon. This memoir is about the hopeful and future-oriented process of reinvention. It shows readers that while you can't control everything, what you can control is the way you think about your age and the creative ways you respond to the changes in your mind and body as they happen. Rather than trying to meet standards of youth and beauty as a measure of successful aging, Lyn promotes a more inclusive and empowering standard to judge our older selves by. In this paradigm-shifting memoir, Lyn exemplifies that even with its unique challenges, being old is just like any new beginning in your life and can be the best and most invigorating of all of life's phases, full of rebellion and reinvention, connection and creativity'.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - ~ Do Fewer Things. Work at a Natural Pace. Obsess over Quality. ~ From the New York Times bestselling author of Digital Minimalism and Deep Work, a groundbreaking philosophy for pursuing meaningful accomplishment while avoiding overloadOur current definition of productivity is broken. It pushes us to treat busyness as a proxy for useful effort, leading to impossibly lengthy task lists and ceaseless meetings. We re overwhelmed by all we have to do and on the edge of burnout, left to decide between giving into soul-sapping hustle culture or rejecting ambition altogether. But are these really our only choices Long before the arrival of pinging inboxes and clogged schedules, history's most creative and impactful philosophers, scientists, artists, and writers mastered the art of producing valuable work with staying power. In this timely and provocative book, Cal Newport harnesses the wisdom of these traditional knowledge workers to radically transform our modern jobs. Drawing from deep research on the habits and mindsets of a varied cast of storied thinkers from Galileo and Isaac Newton, to Jane Austen and Georgia O Keefe Newport lays out the key principles of slow productivity, a more sustainable alternative to the aimless overwhelm that defines our current moment. Combining cultural criticism with systematic pragmatism, Newport deconstructs the absurdities inherent in standard notions of productivity, and then provides step-by-step advice for cultivating a slower, more humane alternative.From the aggressive rethinking of workload management, to introducing seasonal variation, to shifting your performance toward long-term quality, Slow Productivity provides a roadmap for escaping overload and arriving instead at a more timeless approach to pursuing meaningful accomplishment. The world of work is due for a new revolution. Slow productivity is exactly what we need.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Authentic and practical teachings on what lies at the heart of Tibetan Buddhism, including karma, renunciation, bodhichitta, kindness, preparing for death, and much more.Perfect for practitioners, meditators, and anyone who wishes to better understand their own mind, this is an important message froma fresh voice within the tradition.Discover thoughtful advice and applicable practices for following a genuine Buddhist path and living a meaningful life in this succinct book. This profoundly graspable introduction to the heart of Tibetan Buddhism comes from a fresh voice within the tradition who has a growing online teaching presence. Khenpo Sherab Sangpo studied for decades with some of modern history's greatest teachers in the Dzogchen lineage of Tibetan Buddhism, achieving impressive theoretical knowledge and experiential realization.This wide-ranging book offers easy-to-follow teachings and practices to cultivate a kind mind bodhichitta in order to enter and progress along the Buddhist path toward death, rebirth, and enlightenment.Included are: Guided meditations on love; compassion; forgiveness; the three precepts of body, speech, and mind; and moreGuided practices of tonglen, phowa, vase breathing, and moreAdvice to handle difficult emotions in relationships like jealousy, loneliness, and attachmentTeachings to develop love, kindness, and compassion for yourself and othersInstructions to prepare you for death, rebirth, and enlightenmentThis is a book you will want to always keep with you as a reminder that this wisdom can ground you in daily life and beyond whether you're Buddhist or not.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - From the acclaimed authors of the runaway New York Times bestseller 2034 comes another explosive work of speculative fiction set twenty years further in the future, at a moment when a radical leap forward in artificial intelligence combines with America s violent partisan divide to create an existential threat to the country, and the worldIt is twenty years after the catastrophic war between the United States and China that brought down the old American political order. A new party has emerged in the US, one that s held power for over a decade. Efforts to cement its grip have resulted in mounting violent resistance. The American president has control of the media, but he is beginning to lose control of the streets. Many fear he ll stop at nothing to remain in the White House. Suddenly, he collapses in the middle of an address to the nation. After an initial flurry of misinformation, the administration reluctantly announces his death. A cover-up ensues, conspiracy theories abound, and the country descends into a new type of civil war.A handful of elite actors from the worlds of computer science, intelligence, and business have a fairly good idea what happened. All signs point to a profound breakthrough in AI, of which the remote assassination of an American president is hardly the most game-changing. The trail leads to an outpost in the Amazon rainforest, the last known whereabouts of the tech visionary who predicted this breakthrough. As some of the world s great powers, old and new, state and nonstate alike, struggle to outmaneuver one another in this new Great Game of scientific discovery, the outcome becomes entangled with the fate of American democracy.Combining a deep understanding of AI, biotech, and the possibility of a coming Singularity, along with their signature geopolitical sophistication, Elliot Ackerman and Admiral James Stavridis have once again written a visionary work. 2054 is a novel that reads like a thriller even as it demands that we consider the trajectory of our society and its potentially calamitous destination.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Providing guidance throughout, Dabbs prompts the reader with questions. She believes a better understanding of past experiences and how society has established systemic barriers to entry can help people design their future. The Financial TimesIn a world overcrowded with labels, don t allow your identity to be defined by other people. Learn how to take back your power, choose to feed the aspects of your identity that serve you, and let go of those that don t.Everyone feels like an outsider at some point in their life when we walk into a room and think to ourselves, I don t belong here. To avoid these feelings of exclusion, many of us hide our authentic selves and allow others to define our identity.You Belong Here offers a new framework that allows each of us to define how we want to be seen, heard, and valued on our own terms so we feel a sense of belonging in any situation. Further, it serves as a launchpad for organizational leaders and culture builders to create safe spaces for individuals to show up as their authentic selves.Readers will exploreour four identities:OurLived Identityis made up of the aspects of our identity we inherit when we are born into the world.OurLearned Identityincludes the parts of our identity that we ve chosen or claimed as we make our way through the world.OurLingering Identityis the identity we default to when we feel like an outsider and fall back into as a survival mechanism.OurLoved Identityis where we find our authentic selves and see ourselves through a lens of empowerment.In the journey to understand our past experiences and how society has established barriers to entry, we can design our own future, rooted in our Loved Identity.We learn to rewrite the stories that aren t serving us and embrace the ones that do. Rather than look for a seat at someone else s table, we find the tools to build our own.When we fully leverage this and live with authenticity and purpose, we can be seen, heard, and valued in a way that gives us a sense of belonging at home, at work, and in society.Belonging is realized when we understand everyone is an outsider and it s the power to create space for those differences that unite us all.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The INSTANT New York Times bestseller Instant Los Angeles Times bestseller In Nuclear War: A Scenario, Annie Jacobsen gives us a vivid picture of what could happen if our nuclear guardians fail Terrifying. Wall Street Journal There is only one scenario other than an asteroid strike that could end the world as we know it in a matter of hours: nuclear war. And one of the triggers for that war would be a nuclear missile inbound toward the United States. Every generation, a journalist has looked deep into the heart of the nuclear military establishment: the technologies, the safeguards, the plans, and the risks. These investigations are vital to how we understand the world we really live in where one nuclear missile will beget one in return, and where the choreography of the world s end requires massive decisions made on seconds notice with information that is only as good as the intelligence we have. Pulitzer Prize finalist Annie Jacobsen s Nuclear War: A Scenario explores this ticking-clock scenario, based on dozens of exclusive new interviews with military and civilian experts who have built the weapons, have been privy to the response plans, and have been responsible for those decisions should they have needed to be made. Nuclear War: A Scenario examines the handful of minutes after a nuclear missile launch. It is essential reading, and unlike any other book in its depth and urgency.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Her husband s cheating on her. She hates Boca. Sylvia is mad and she isn t going to take it anymore. She s moving back north, to the city of her dreams with her best friend, Evie, in tow. Think a screwball comedy featuring a sophisticated Thelma and Louise with martinis in hand . . .When sixty-three-year-old Sylvia finds her husband in bed with the floozy of their Boca retirement community, she s shocked and furious . . . at first. By the time her head stops spinning, Sylvia realizes that actually, this isn t what she wants anymore anyway.So she enlists her best friend, the glamorous older widow Evie, to join her in setting up a new life in Manhattan. Sylvia s ex-husband may have lost her life savings, but Sylvia and Evie are scrappy and determined, unopposed to pawning jewelry and roughing it in tiny apartments. And before long, Sylvia signs on to revive her decades-old wedding planning business with a former professional rival.Sylvia has a lot to prove, and beneath it all, she can t help but wonder: Will she ever be able to get back into the dating game Sylvia doesn't want to be twenty-five or thirty again.Her age gives her wisdom, experience, and perspective. A career, sex, fun, and a new romance her entire second act is stretched out in front of her, beckoning to her. It s her time, and watch out, world, Sylvia is coming!.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - NAMED A VOGUE BEST BOOK OF 2024'Adventurous. . .gritty and refreshingly girl-centric. . . lingers in the imagination.' The New York Times Ko draws characters with such deftness that they feel wholly alive.' The Washington Post'It belongs to an American literary tradition that includes Dana Spiotta, George Saunders, and their patron saint, Don DeLillo.' The AtlanticThe award-winning author of The Leavers offers a visionary novel of friendship, art, and ambition that asks: What is the value of a meaningful life In the early 1980s, Giselle Chin, Jackie Ong, and Ellen Ng are three teenagers drawn together by their shared sense of alienation and desire for something different. Allied in the weirdest parts of themselves, they envision each other as artistic collaborators and embark on a future defined by freedom and creativity.By the time they are adults, their dreams are murkier. As a performance artist, Giselle must navigate an elite social world she never conceived of. As a coder thrilled by the internet s early egalitarian promise, Jackie must contend with its more sinister shift toward monetization and surveillance. And as a community activist, Ellen confronts the increasing gentrification and policing overwhelming her New York City neighborhood. Over time their friendship matures and changes, their definitions of success become complicated, and their sense of what matters evolves.Moving from the predigital 1980s to the art and tech subcultures of the 1990s to a strikingly imagined portrait of the 2040s, Memory Piece is an innovative and audacious story of three lifelong friends as they strive to build satisfying lives in a world that turns out to be radically different from the one they were promised.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Named most anticipated by: Barnes & Noble, Goodreads, BookRiot, BookBub, The Nerd Daily, Shelf Reflection, Novel Suspects, Borrow Read Repeat, The Everygirl, The Scout Guide, The Real Book Spy\*\*\*A GMA Buzz Pick!\*\*\*One of Jimmy Fallon's favorite books for Spring 2024 The Top LibraryReads pick for March 2024A Publishers Marketplace 2024 BuzzBook For fans of Knives Out and The Thursday Murder Club, an enormously fun mystery about a woman who spends her entire life trying to prevent her foretold murder only to be proven right sixty years later, when she is found dead in her sprawling country estate. Now it's up to her great-niece to catch the killer. It s 1965 and teenage Frances Adams is at an English country fair with her two best friends. But Frances s night takes a hairpin turn when a fortune-teller makes a bone-chilling prediction: One day, Frances will be murdered. Frances spends a lifetime trying to solve a crime that hasn t happened yet, compiling dirt on every person who crosses her path in an effort to prevent her own demise. For decades, no one takes Frances seriously, until nearly sixty years later, when Frances is found murdered, like she always said she would be. In the present day, Annie Adams has been summoned to a meeting at the sprawling country estate of her wealthy and reclusive great-aunt Frances. But by the time Annie arrives in the quaint English village of Castle Knoll, Frances is already dead. Annie is determined to catch the killer, but thanks to Frances s lifelong habit of digging up secrets and lies, it seems every endearing and eccentric villager might just have a motive for her murder. Can Annie safely unravel the dark mystery at the heart of Castle Knoll, or will dredging up the past throw her into the path of a killer As Annie gets closer to the truth, and closer to the danger, she starts to fear she might inherit her aunt s fate instead of her fortune.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Celebrate Robert Frost's 150th birthday with a deluxe keepsake edition featuring 16 of his greatest poems with brilliant essays highlighting his special genius and the power of memorization to unlock the magic of his languageDuring a public reading Robert Frost was once asked why he so frequently recited his poems from memory. With typical wit, he replied: If they won t stick to me, I won t stick to them. Remarkably among the modern poets, his poems stick to the reader:'Mending Wall,' with its famous invocation of the rural maxim 'Good fences make good neighbors''The Road Not Taken,' about the beguiling possibilities of life'Birches,' which reminds us that 'One could do worse than be a swinger of birches'Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening,' with its unforgettable final line: 'And miles to go before I sleep.'Here, poet and Frost biographer Jay Parini presents these and 12 other Frost poems to learn by heart. In short accompanying commentaries, Parini illuminates the stylistic and imaginative features of each of the poems, drawing in biographical material from Frost s life to provide further context. The goal of this little book is to encourage readers to slow down to listen to Frost s words and phrases, to locate their deepest rhythms, and hear the tune of each poem as it unfolds. . . . Memorizing a poem can teach us much about a poem s structure and argument, and about the resonance of particular words. And best of all, memorization makes a poem part of our inner lives. Once committed to memory, a poem is available to us for recall at any time and the occasions for remembering it will make themselves known to us. It isn t something we have to work at. Anyone who has read and loved Frost s poetry will want to own and treasure this little gift edition. Those reading Frost for the first time or those wishing to become better acquainted with one of America s greatest poets will not find a better, more insightful guide than Jay Parini.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - A fascinating guide to the mental, physical, and esoteric spiritual transformative Taoist practices designed to increase longevity and unity with the world with commentary and interpretation on the traditional text by a contemporary academic and meditation practitioner.Taoist alchemical practices are renowned for their mental, physical, and spiritually transformative benefits including longevity and increased connection to the world around us. In this guide to Master Huang Yuanji s Taoist classic, Ge Guolong presents the basics of inner alchemy and the tradition s most essential meditation practices along with explanations of the fundamental theories and methods one needs to actually start walking the path.Historically, Taoist teachers borrowed complex terminology from astrology, numerology, and metallurgical alchemy to describe the process of individual transformation that occurs as a result of long-term meditation practice. Ge Guolong demystifies that classical terminology, illuminating Taoism s straightforward and eminently practical philosophy. These vivid explanations of Huang Yuanji s discourses a Taoist master from the late-Ming, early-Qing Dynasty (1636 1912) are particularly striking for their clarity, relevance to day-to-day life, and close relationship to the philosophy of such works as the Tao Te Ching and Chuang-tzu. Synthesizing numerous streams of Chinese philosophy and elucidating their lived practice, Taoist Inner Alchemy is as an excellent entry point to discover the riches of traditional Taoist thought and meditation.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - A paradigm-shifting book looking at the pervasive influence of silence and how we can begin to dismantle it in order to find our voices at home and at workHaving a seat at the table doesn t mean that your voice is actually welcome. Knowing something is wrong doesn't mean it's easy to speak up. In fact, there are incentives for many of us to stay silent. Why speak up if you know that it won t be received well, and in fact, often makes things worse In Unlearning Silence, Hering explores how we ve learned to be silent, how we ve benefited from silence, how we ve silenced other people and how we might choose another way. She teaches how to recognize and unlearn unconscious patterns so we can make more intentional choices about how we want to show up in at home and at work. Only by unlearning silence can we more fully unleash talent, speak our minds, and be more complete versions of ourselves and help other people do the same.With compassion, clarity, and understanding, Hering guides readers through real-life examples and offers a concrete road map for doing this vital and challenging work.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - From the New York Times bestselling author of Boy Erased, an electrifying, deeply moving novel about the love story between two men in Puritan New England.Cana, Massachusetts: a utopian vision of 18th-century Puritan New England. To the outside world, Reverend Nathaniel Whitfield and his family stand as godly pillars of their small-town community, drawing Christians from across the New World into their fold. One such Christian, physician Arthur Lyman, discovers in the minister s words a love so captivating it transcends language.As the bond between these two men grows more and more passionate, their families must contend with a tangled web of secrets, lies, and judgments which threaten to destroy them in this world and the next. And when the religious ecstasies of the Great Awakening begin to take hold, igniting a new era of zealotry, Nathaniel and Arthur search for a path out of an impossible situation, imagining a future for themselves which has no name. Their wives and children must do the same, looking beyond the known world for a new kind of wilderness, both physical and spiritual.Set during the turbulent historical upheavals which shaped America s destiny and following in the tradition of Nathaniel Hawthorne s The Scarlet Letter, All the World Beside reveals the very human lives just beneath the surface of dogmatic belief. Bestselling author Garrard Conley has created a page-turning, vividly imagined historical tale that is both a love story and a crucible.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Do we still need physical places like grocery stores, restaurants, and office buildings Or will the Replacement Economy led by the tech titans and retail giants wipe out these venues in their rapid ascent to unicorn status What about museums, universities, and performing arts venues Considering the power of technology today, can t we replace these relics with faster, cheaper, and more efficient online tools, apps, and AI Through engaging storytelling, human behavior insights, and proven design techniques, Kevin Kelley an attention architect and cofounder of Shook Kelley, a strategic design firm that pioneered the field of convening unfolds why physical places are essential to civil society, business, and community.In these pages, he reveals what it takes for brick-and-mortar establishments to attract an audience and maintain a competitive edge in our increasingly digital world, whether you re a:Retail leader or institutional manager trying to attract people to your offering while keeping the disruptors at bayStudent of design who values social facilitation over object-oriented designConcerned citizen worried about the loss of community and civilityIrreplaceable offers a welcomed antidote to the anti-human digital future crushing our main streets and infiltrating every corner of our lives. It provides a comprehensive roadmap for creating human experiences that have the power to convene and bring friends, neighbors, and strangers together in prosocial environments in ways the digital replacements can t replicate.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Aglorious debut.it will rouse your deepest well of empathy. Adriana Trigiani, bestselling author of The Good Left Undone This novel will live alongside classics of young womanhood. Susan Straight, author of bestsellers Mecca and In the Country of WomenIn this unforgettable debut novel, twenty-seven-year-old Tessa, pregnant with her third child and living in a trailer on her mother-in-law s property, encounters the woman she used to love leading Tessa to question the very foundations of the life she s builtAbandoned first by her father and then her mother, as a girl Tessa is left to live with her abusive stepfather and stepbrother. She survives by finding reserves of strength in herself, and by the surprising, transformative love of another teenage girl, Mel, who sees through Tessa s tough exterior to the vulnerable, scarred, loving woman inside. When she suddenly loses Mel, too, Tessa stumbles into a saving grace of a different kind with Henry and his mama, Angie, becoming a mother and finding herself in a familial existence that somehow carries her into adulthood until the day she runs into Mel, who has just returned to Perris after years away.Filled with violence, tragedy, tenderness, longing, and the unvarnished courage of women living in a mostly unseen America, Perris, California is the utterly gripping story of Tessa s journey from trauma to healing, and it introduces us to one of the most indelible female characters since Bone Boatwright in Dorothy Allison s Bastard Out of Carolina or Ruth Langmore in Ozark.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - THE INSTANT #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER \* New York Times Book Review Editors' ChoiceFrom New York Times bestselling coauthor ofThe Coddling of the American Mind, an essential investigation into the collapse of youth mental health and a plan for a healthier, freer childhood. Erudite, engaging, combative, crusading. New York Times Book Review Words that chill the parental heart thanks to Mr. Haidt, we can glimpse the true horror of what happened not only in the U.S. but also elsewhere in the English-speaking world lucid, memorable galvanizing. Wall Street Journal'[An] important new book.The shift in kids energy and attention from the physical world to the virtual one, Haidt shows, has been catastrophic, especially for girls.' Michelle Goldberg, The New York TimesAfter more than a decade of stability or improvement, the mental health of adolescents plunged in the early 2010s. Rates of depression, anxiety, self-harm, and suicide rose sharply, more than doubling on many measures. Why In The Anxious Generation, social psychologist Jonathan Haidt lays out the facts about the epidemic of teen mental illness that hit many countries at the same time. He then investigates the nature of childhood, including why children need play and independent exploration to mature into competent, thriving adults. Haidt shows how the play-based childhood began to decline in the 1980s, and how it was finally wiped out by the arrival of the phone-based childhood in the early 2010s. He presents more than a dozen mechanisms by which this great rewiring of childhood has interfered with children s social and neurological development, covering everything from sleep deprivation to attention fragmentation, addiction, loneliness, social contagion, social comparison, and perfectionism. He explains why social media damages girls more than boys and why boys have been withdrawing from the real world into the virtual world, with disastrous consequences for themselves, their families, and their societies.Most important, Haidt issues a clear call to action. He diagnoses the collective action problems that trap us, and then proposes four simple rules that might set us free. He describes steps that parents, teachers, schools, tech companies, and governments can take to end the epidemic of mental illness and restore a more humane childhood.Haidt has spent his career speaking truth backed by data in the most difficult landscapes communities polarized by politics and religion, campuses battling culture wars, and now the public health emergency faced by Gen Z. We cannot afford to ignore his findings about protecting our children and ourselves from the psychological damage of a phone-based life.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'The fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 dawned what Francis Fukuyama called 'The End of History.' Three decades later, Jim Sciutto said on CNN's air as the Ukraine war began, that we are living in a '1939 moment.' History never ended-it barely paused-and the global order as we have known it is now gone. Great powers are reinvigorated and determined to assert dominance on the world stage. And as it escalates, this new order will affect everyone across the globe. Peace has been shattered by Russia's invasion of Ukraine, but in reality, this affects every corner of our world-from Helsinki to Beijing, from Australia to the North Pole. This is a battle with many fronts: on the Arctic floor, in the oceans and across the skies, and in cyberspace. Sciutto argues that we are witnessing the return of great power conflict, 'a definitive break between the post-Cold War era and an entirely new and uncertain one.' The world order that marked the last thirty years is shifting, and Sciutto details the realities of this new post-post-Cold War era, the increasingly aligned Russian and Chinese governments, and the flashpoint of a new, global nuclear arms race. With savvy, thorough reporting, he follows-up his 2019 bestseller, The Shadow War: Inside Russia's and China's Secret Operations to Defeat America, which focused on the covert tactics of a hidden conflict. The Return of Great Powers is an analysis of a historic and visible shift in real time. And it poses a question: that as we consider uncertain outcomes, we ask whether the West and Russia and China can prevent a new World War'--]cProvided by publisher.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The national bestseller! A superb book.[Kaplan is] a master biographer, a dogged researcher and shaper of narrative, and this is his most ambitious book to date. Los Angeles TimesFrom the author of the definitive biography of Frank Sinatra, the story of how jazz arrived at the pinnacle of American culture in 1959, told through the journey of three towering artists Miles Davis, John Coltrane, and Bill Evans who came together to create the most iconic jazz album of all time, Kind of BlueThe myth of the 60s depends on the 1950s being the before times of conformity, segregation, straightness The Lonely Crowd and The Organization Man. This all carries some truth, but it does nothing to explain how, in 1959, America s great indigenous art form, jazz, reached the height of its power and popularity, thanks to a number of Black geniuses so legendary they go by one name Monk, Mingus, Rollins, Coltrane, and, above all, Miles. Nineteen fifty-nine saw Miles, Coltrane, Bill Evans, and more come together to record what is widely considered the greatest jazz album of all time, and certainly the bestselling: Kind of Blue. 3 Shades of Blue is James Kaplan s magnificent account of the paths of the three giants to the mountaintop of 1959 and beyond. It s a book about music, and business, and race, and heroin, and the towns that gave jazz its home, from New Orleans and New York to Kansas City, Philadelphia, Chicago, and LA. It s an astonishing meditation on creativity and the strange hothouses that can produce its full flowering. It s a book about the great forebears of this golden age, particularly Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie, and the disrupters, like Ornette Coleman, who would take the music down truly new paths. And it s about why the world of jazz most people know is a museum to this never-replicated period.But above all, 3 Shades of Blue is a book about three very different men their struggles, their choices, their tragedies, their greatness. Bill Evans had a gruesome downward spiral; John Coltrane took the mystic s path into a space far away from mainstream concerns. Miles had three or four sea changes in him before the end. The tapestry of their lives is, in Kaplan s hands, an American odyssey with no direction home. It is also a masterpiece, a book about jazz that is as big as America.