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Dr. Henry Lodge provides the science. Chris Crowley provides the motivation. And through their New York Times best-selling program, you’ll discover how to put off 70 percent of the normal problems of aging - weakness, sore joints, bad balance - and eliminate 50 percent of serious illness and injury. Plus, prominent Neurologist Allan Hamilton now explains how following “Harry’s Rules” for diet, exercise, and staying emotionally connected directly affects your brain - all the way down to the cellular level.

On a cold January morning in 1986, NASA launched the Space Shuttle Challenger, despite warnings against doing so by many individuals including Allan McDonald. The fiery destruction of Challenger on live television moments after launch remains an indelible image in the nation's collective memory. In Truth, Lies, and O-Rings, McDonald, a skilled engineer and executive, relives the tragedy from where he stood at Launch Control Center.

Catch the Sky is the first in-depth look at the life of a police helicopter pilot. Kimball pulls no punches, unfolding his nail-biting personal story in enthralling detail. From death-defying rescues to stories both bizarre and humorous, Catch the Sky puts you inside the helicopter cockpit for a breathtaking ride you'll never forget.

Award-winning author and celebrated neurosurgeon Allan J. Hamilton, MD, combines his understanding of the human brain with nearly 30 years' experience training horses to offer wisdom on such universal themes as leadership, motivation, ambition, and humility. The results are showcased in more than 100 thoughtful essays that treat working with horses as a metaphor for personal, professional, and spiritual growth.

Thirteen bibliomysteries by best-selling and award-winning authors are contained in this first of volume of a must-listen collection.

Dominic Porter und die Menschen, die mit ihm von der Erde geflohen sind, haben auf dem fernen Planeten Zeres Zuflucht gefunden. Was auf den ersten Blick wie ein friedliches Paradies wirkt – unberührte Natur, endlose Weiten, ein Neubeginn fern aller Zerstörung – entpuppt sich jedoch bald als trügerische Fassade. Denn unter der stillen Oberfläche dieses scheinbar perfekten Planeten lauern Geheimnisse, älter und dunkler, als es sich jemand vorstellen kann. Und schon bald erkennen die Überlebenden: Hier sind Mächte am Werk, die sie weder verstehen noch kontrollieren können.

It took a brain surgeon who's spent a lifetime in the operating room experiencing the brain's union of form and function to write this book. Cerebral Entanglements, unlike most books on the brain, looks at the intimate and vital emotions in our lives, and shows as well, how neuroimaging studies can transform our understanding of crucial emotional or mental health concerns.

Murder comes in two familiar forms. Whether as a crime of passion with high emotions or a cold dispassionate plot to take life in order to gain in some way, the act strikes us all as somehow inhuman. Beneath us as civilised beings. But however we cloak our animal instincts the need to remove a human being and gain relief from abuse or gain from money, the term is just the same – MURDER. Robert Louis Stevenson, Arthur Conan Doyle, J M Barrie, W W Jacobs and many others bring their literary heft to bear in as calculating a way as any killer could.

Nachdem die riesige Durana in einer Wüstenebene von New Mexico abgestürzt ist, richten sich die Augen vieler Parteien auf das havarierte Schiff und auf die Erde. Machtparteien der Menschen, der Akkato und zahlreiche kleine Gruppierungen, von denen man bisher kaum etwas wusste, treten in den Kampf ein, der gegen die Akkato geführt wird und das Schicksal der Erde für immer verändern könnte. Zudem verfügt Serwan Brooks über ein Geheimnis, das die Zukunft der Menschheit zum Guten wenden und das Sonnensystem von der Herrschaft der Akkato befreien könnte.

In an extensive examination of this impassioned debate, Richard Breitman and Allan J. Lichtman find that the president was neither savior nor bystander. In FDR and the Jews, they draw upon many new primary sources to offer an intriguing portrait of a consummate politician - compassionate but also pragmatic - struggling with opposing priorities under perilous conditions.

What is dreaming, and what causes it? Why are dreams so strange, and why are they so hard to remember? Replacing dream mystique with modern dream science, J. Allan Hobson provides a new and increasingly complete picture of how dreaming is created by the brain. Focusing on dreaming to explain the mechanisms of sleep, this book explores how the new science of dreaming is affecting theories in psychoanalysis, and how it is helping our understanding of the causes of mental illness.

America's political leaders have considered suffrage not a natural right but a privilege restricted by wealth, sex, race, residence, literacy, criminal conviction, and citizenship. Today, voter identification laws, political gerrymandering, registration requirements, felon disenfranchisement, and voter purges deny many millions of citizens the opportunity to express their views at the ballot box. We cannot blame the founders alone for America's embattled vote. Best-selling author Allan Lichtman notes that subsequent generations have failed to establish suffrage as a universal right.

Willkommen beim Alan J. Stark Podcast – deinem Kanal für Bücher, Audiobooks und das Schreiben selbst. Hier geht es um Geschichten, Kreativität, Selfpublishing und den Weg des Autors in einer digitalen Welt. Ob Sci-Fi, Fantasy oder reale Inspiration – ich nehme dich mit hinter die Kulissen des Schreibens. Für Leser, Hörer und alle, die selbst zur Feder greifen wollen.

Join the kids as they embark on their final camping trip from hell. Upon arrival, the usual camp counselors are missing. Alton, a man who no one knows, is there to greet them, and as the night moves on, they start to realize that he may not be all that he seems. Three tales of horror, gore, and gut wrenching await.

Kimberly, a young, attractive 30-something, has just spent the last 16 years locked up for murdering and consuming a man who tried to attack her. Now that she is free, she soon finds old habits die hard.

These eerie tales include "The Murders in the Rue Morgue" by Edgar Allan Poe, "The Adventure of Silver Blaze" by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, "The Old House On Vauxhall Walk" by Charlotte Riddle, "Levison's Victim" by Mary Braddon, and "The Woman With the Yellow Hair" by Anonymous.

A delightful collection of light-hearted classic stories from some of the greatest Victorian and Edwardian-era writers.

A terrifying and macabre collection of anatomically inspired stories by the masters of gruseome fiction.

A rich anthology of forty-five great stories by some of the most renowned storytellers in the world. Saki, O. Henry, Edgar Allan Poe, Barry Pain, Guy de Maupassant, M. R. James, A. J. Allan, Guy Boothby, Jerome K. Jerome and many more giants of the piterary world contribute to this collection of tiny tales which pack a huge punch.

A stunning collection of the most significant short stories by some of the world's greatest writers. Each story packs a great tale into around 20 minutes of concise and evocative narrative. Perfect for the 20-minute commute, the jog around the block, or the bed-time wind down.