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At long last, America’s most notorious political operative has released his operating manual! A freedom fighter to his admirers, a dirty trickster to his detractors, the flamboyant, outrageous, articulate, and extraordinarily well-dressed Roger Stone lays out Stone’s Rules - the maxims that have governed his legendary career as a campaign operative for four American presidents, from Richard Nixon and Ronald Reagan to Donald Trump.

Since highland cattle ransacked his grandmother's vegetable patch when he was six, Roger Morgan-Grenville has been fascinated by cows. So at the age of 61, with no farming experience, he signed on as a part- time labourer on a beef cattle farm to tell their side of the story. The result is this lyrical and evocative book. For 10,000 years, cow and human lives have been intertwined. Cattle have existed alongside us, fed and shod us, quenched our thirst, and provided a thousand other tiny services, and yet most of us know little about them.

The Team Deakins Podcast features a series of casual conversation between Roger and James Deakins and filmmaker guests. The podcast focuses each guest's unique approach to their craft. Imagine eavesdropping on a dinner conversation between working professionals in the field. Because it is structured as a conversation and not an interview, it is informal and fun and can go in some unexpected directions!

We are familiar with the medical opinion that a daily glass of wine is good for the health and also the rival opinion that any more than a glass or two will set us on the road to ruin. Whether or not good for the body, Scruton argues, wine, drunk in the right frame of mind, is definitely good for the soul. And there is no better accompaniment to wine than philosophy. By thinking with wine, you can learn not only to drink in thoughts but to think in draughts.

The Underdark: Beneath the surface of Faern lies a whole different world. A world of drow, deep gnomes, and other denizens of the dark. A world of cities like Menzoberranzan and Skullport, of warriors and rogues like Drizzt Do'Urden and Liriel Baenre and numerous others. Leave the security of the surface world and seek out the darkness that lies below. Welcome to the Realms of the Underdark.

The complete BBC Radio 4 series starring comedian Will Smith and John Nettles. Will Smith is obsessed with Bergerac, the classic TV show set in Jersey, and has one guiding force: an audio book of John Nettles reading the ancient Chinese text of the Tao. This helps Will find a way through when...

Get ready to forget everything you know about working your plan. In this counter-intuitive book, innovative university president Roger Parrott turns leadership on its head, and shows you how unexpected opportunities - the ones you may be missing - are the key to your success. In plain language, Dr. Parrott guides you in developing six traits to focus your leadership outlook on untapped opportunities. Not only that, he provides a step-by-step plan for you to create six organization-wide tendencies that enable your team to respond to opportunities with expediency, adeptness, and energy.

Brought to you by Penguin. What could a lacemaker have in common with vascular surgeons? A Savile Row tailor with molecular scientists? A fighter pilot with jazz musicians? At first glance, very little. But Roger Kneebone, an expert on experts, has spent his life finding unexpected connections...

Discover the unbreakable unity of the Holy Scriptures and be free from the cognitive dissonance that plagues modern believers. Discover the encrypted code that runs all through the Scriptures from Genesis to Revelation, the connection between the Old Testament Law and the New Covenant, the difference between legalism and lawfulness, and the Scriptural way of loving God. Apologia for the Law and the Sabbath is an audacious and in-your-faith way of looking at the Bible that causes the heart to burn with passion.

Two teenagers come together in a future where staying alive is the only ambition. Here in a vast lost valley, society has split into two: the Wanderers, who team together to battle against the elements and each other in the harsh world of the desert, and those who live in the pyramid-city of Arcone, whose closed environment and tightly controlled society enable them to maintain a more civilized existence in the face of an environmentally devastated planet. Conflict is inevitable....

Hidden far from sight, deep in the thick underbrush of the North Florida woods are the ghostly graves of more than 30 unidentified bodies, some of which are thought to be children who were beaten to death at the old Florida Industrial School for Boys at Marianna. It is suspected that many more bodies will be found in the fields and swamplands surrounding the institution.

“One thing in particular the high priest wants to make you aware of, no one has ever gotten out of our secret society alive. You and I were brought into it by the special workings of the spirit, and we are to be in subjection to them, not they to us.” With these words Roger’s friend tried to convince him to remain within the camp of the prince of darkness—but Roger had caught a glimmer of Light and was determined to learn more.

Following his highly acclaimed and best-selling book England: An Elegy (Bloomsbury Continuum), Roger Scruton now seeks to assess the basis of national sentiment and loyalty at a time when the United Kingdom must redefine its position in the world. To what are our duties owed and why?

ESTE É UM EPISÓDIO DA OBRA "CARTA PARA O MEU JOVEM EU", DE. JANE GRAHAM, QUE APRESENTAM CARTAS PARA MARIANNE FAITHFULL E MARGARET ATWOOD E SIR ROGER MOORE MAIS JOVENS. SE QUISER LER TODAS AS CARTAS LEIA A OBRA COMPLETA. Se a viagem no tempo fosse uma possibilidade, o que você diria ao seu eu adolescente, caso o encontrasse? Em Carta Para Meu Jovem Eu, personalidades das mais diversas áreas refletem sobre o que teria sido bom saber antes. Elas também lembram aqueles momentos mágicos que gostariam de reviver. O livro inclui a participação especial de personalidades brasileiras.

Hospital Medicine Unplugged delivers evidence-based updates for hospitalists—no fluff, just the facts. Each 30-minute episode breaks down the latest guidelines, clinical pearls, and practical strategies for inpatient care. From antibiotics to risk stratification, radiology to discharge planning, you’ll get streamlined insights you can apply on the wards today. Perfect for busy physicians who want clarity, accuracy, and relevance in hospital medicine.

Continuing the pitch-perfect critiques begun in The Great Movies, Roger Ebert's The Great Movies II collects 100 additional essays, each one of them a gem of critical appreciation and an amalgam of love, analysis, and history that will send readers back to films with a fresh set of eyes and...

Roger Angell, the acclaimed New Yorker writer and editor, returns with a selection of writings that celebrate a view from the tenth decade of an engaged, vibrant life. Long known for his range and supple prose (he is the only writer elected to membership in both the Baseball Hall of Fame and the...

The gritty, riveting, highly anticipated sequel to the national (and international) best seller Ghostman, by the critically acclaimed and award-winning Roger Hobbs It’s just before dawn on the South China Sea when three experienced pirates open fire on a small smuggling yacht. Their target: a...

Chacun le sait, nous vivons l'irruption d'un brouillage généralisé entre vrai et faux ; deepfakes indiscernables, informations manipulées, récits complotistes, réalités virtuelles proliférantes, conversations numériques avec des morts. Mais cette « grande pagaille » ne provient pas seulement des machines. Elle révèle une mutation profonde de l'humanité elle-même. Et si, en fin de compte, il fallait considérer le tri entre vrai et faux comme une affaire avant tout morale ? Une enquête philosophique claire et nécessaire sur l'étrange époque où nous basculons.

In allen Fällen, in denen der bücherlesende Polizist ratlos oder überfordert ist – Philip Maloney klärt alle haarsträubenden und schockierenden Verbrechen auf: ganz gleich, ob es sich um eine verschwundene Leiche, eine ermordete Dame, einen verschollenen Zwillingsbruder oder eine komplexe Ehescheidung handelt. Und das lapidare Fazit ist immer gleich: So geht das!