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We are in the midst of a healthspan revolution that will enable us to live vitally beyond 100 years old. Advanced diagnostics are now able to catch any disease at inception, while advanced therapies in clinical trials have the potential to reverse disease while also slowing, stopping, and potentially even reversing aging.

Over the span of 48 lectures, four experienced lawyers and teachers recreate key parts of the first-year law student experience, introducing you to main areas of law most every beginning student studies. Enriched with famous cases from the annals of American law and powerful arguments by some of history's most successful lawyers, these lectures offer access to an often intimidating, surprisingly accessible, and civically important field.

The Mesan Alignment: a centuries-old cabal that seeks to impose its vision of a society dominated by genetic rank onto the human race. Now the conspiracy stands exposed by spies Anton Zilwicki and Victor Cachat - one an agent of Honor Harrington’s Star Kingdom of Manticore, the other a Havenite operative. The outing of the Alignment has turned the galaxy’s political framework topsy-turvy. Old coalitions have disintegrated. New alliances have been born.

Detective-Inspector Napoleon Bonaparte leaves his familiar outback environment for Melbourne and a nearby mountain resort on special assignment for Military Intelligence. Although out of his element among city people, Bony displays his characteristic skills to interpret some puzzling clues and catch a murderer - providing the ingredients for another fascinating Arthur Upfield mystery.

Money's tight and their new home is a fixer-upper. Deep in rural South West England, with an ancient wood at the foot of the garden, Tom and his family are miles from anywhere and anyone familiar. His wife, Fiona, was never convinced that buying the money-pit at auction was a good idea. Not least because the previous owner committed suicide. Though no one can explain why.

For 40 years John Hadden and his father of the same name fought at the dinner table over politics, art, and various issues concerning America. One was haunted by what he had witnessed during his long CIA career, from Berlin to Tel Aviv; the other retreated to the Vermont woods to direct Shakespeare until finally he confronted his father at the table one last time with a tape recorder.

This is the 22nd instalment in Mr. Upfield’s detective series featuring the Australian Detective-Inspector Napoleon Bonaparte. Deep in Australia's outback, a woman has been murdered, her daughter vanished. Yorky, one of the locals and a crazy wanderer, is known to have been in the area, and his footprints have been identified near the body. When he too disappears, even the Aboriginal trackers are baffled. Bony's approach changes everything....

Fury 161 is a wretched planet - a penal colony and an industrial complex manned by violent prisoners. When an escape pod from the USS Sulaco crash-lands there, Ellen Ripley appears to be the only passenger left alive. Then inmates begin to die, all at the hands of another survivor - a creature which encounters Ripley and spares her life! Desperate to know why, she seeks out an answer - and discovers terror unlike any she's ever known.

Traumatic Cognitive Dissonance, when understood, can be overcome. And that’s what this book is for—for you to gain the tools and information so that you’ll be able to reunite with your true sense of self and to move forward in your life with a renewed sense of joy. After all you’ve been through, you deserve it.

Dive into the incisive mind of George Orwell through his most powerful novels, ground-breaking reportage, and unforgettable essays. This collection brings together Orwell’s sharp political insight, moral clarity, and unmatched storytelling, offering listeners a panoramic view of a writer whose work continues to resonate across generations.

As the Warmaster's campaign of galactic domination continues, his generals seek out fresh battlefields to conquer. After leaving the Crone World of Iydris behind, Perturabo strikes for Tallarn. A bitter, vengeful primarch, the lord of the Iron Warriors unleashes a deadly bombardment against the world, killing millions but entrenching the survivors. A brutal, all-consuming armoured conflict ensues, the greatest of the war and one that grinds down all combatants over more than a year of relentless battles.

Here at last is a history of England that is designed to entertain as well as inform and that will delight the armchair traveler, the tourist, or just about anyone interested in history. No people have engendered quite so much acclaim or earned so much censure as the English: extolled as the Athenians of modern times, yet hammered for their self-satisfaction and hypocrisy. But their history has been a spectacular one.

Alby's partner Harry is gunned down in a Double Bay coffee shop. By lunchtime Alby realizes someone wants him dead - and they want him dead now. All Alby wants is some pasta, a good bottle of wine and to know more about the mysterious Grace Goodluck. But he also has to figure out who shot Harry and who wants him dead. Unfortunately for Alby, the answer lies over the razor wire and past mines protecting a top-secret US military facility deep in the central Australian desert. Now that can really ruin your day.

It was supposed to be a simple assignment. Journalist Auralia Rochambeau thought exposing a charity scam would be just another headline—until the con she exposed turned violent, and her world spiraled into chaos. Trapped by a sudden storm and a deadly bridge collapse in rural Virginia, Auralia must rely on her instincts and the man she loves to survive. Honoré "Creed" Duchamp, retired Marine Raider and member of Iniquus's famed Cerberus Tactical K9 Team Charlie, never backs down from danger. Alongside his scent-trained black lab, Rougarou, Creed races against escalating havoc to protect lives.

A refreshing new guide to having the life you want without tiresome struggle and stressing out. Here's a truth that most of us either don't know or may have forgotten: we don't actually get what we want in life, we get what we ARE. So when we become more of what we really are, we get more of what we really want. It's that simple.

Den einen Fall gerade erfolgreich abgeschlossen wartet bereits der nächste auf das erfolgreiche Bakerstreet-Gespann: Der vom Reichtum verwöhnte Howard Robbins wendet sich hilfesuchend an Sherlock Holmes. Das Erbe seines verstorbenen Vaters entpuppte sich leider nicht als das erhoffte Geld, sondern als marodes Schloss, das in einem Sumpf zu versinken droht. Doch laut einer Legende sei dort ein Schatz versteckt, für den bereits jemand sein Leben opfern musste … Holmes nimmt die Herausforderung an.

Nach dem Tod seines Vaters wächst Christopher Gelton in einem Zuhause auf, das keines ist. Seine Mutter ist psychisch krank, tablettenabhängig und unfähig zu Nähe. Chris ist unerwünscht, unsichtbar, allein. Der neue Mann an ihrer Seite macht das Leid vollkommen: körperliche Gewalt, Angst, tägliche Demütigung. Als Christopher plötzlich nicht mehr zur Schule kommt, findet das Jugendamt ihn zusammengekauert unter seinem Bett – versteckt vor einer Welt, die ihn längst aufgegeben hat. Er wird in ein Heim für schwererziehbare Jungen gebracht, wo er dem Jugendpsychologen Bob Koman begegnet.

Ein altes Haus wird Zeuge menschlicher Zerstörung: Der Psychopath und Mörder Dane Gelton wird nach einem Amoklauf in eine Psychiatrie eingewiesen und verstirbt unter eigenartigen Umständen. Niemand ahnt, dass sein Tod nur eine Täuschung ist, um der Klinik zu entkommen. Auf der Flucht begegnet ihm der alte Ragee mit seiner Pflegetochter Julie. Beide nehmen ihn wohlwollend bei sich auf. Während der alte Mann ihm eine vielversprechende Hilfe anbietet, hat Julie ganz andere Pläne mit ihm.

Zehn Jahre sind vergangen, seit die Geschichte begann. Iwan Morozov ist nicht mehr der Gejagte – er ist zum Jäger geworden. Er hat sich nicht mehr an die Umstände angepasst – sein Ziel ist es nun, sich über sie zu erheben und die Welt nach seinem Willen zu gestalten. Doch wird seine neu gewonnene Macht die Grenzen seiner Menschlichkeit auf die Probe stellen? Kann er den Verlockungen der absoluten Macht widerstehen?

From award-winning author Peter Godwin, an “eloquent” (The Wall Street Journal) memoir about his evolving relationships with the women and places that shaped his life. Peter Godwin’s mother is dying. Born in England, and having spent most of her adult life as a doctor in Zimbabwe, she now...