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Love is not for me, but if marriage is what it takes to become my father’s successor and save my family’s fortune from ruin, so be it. This is all for show. I just need to play it safe until the fake wedding fuss is over. But then she shows up. The cute pianist, hired to play at my engagement party. Sweet Elodie. Shy, innocent, and virtuoso - off limits and impossible for me to claim. Elodie is a sweet risk and a challenge like no other. Her weak attempts at fending me off only fuel my greedy hunger.

La historia de nuestra historia, en tiempo presente, pensada desde ahora e interpelando las verdades de manual. Conducido por Felipe Isidro Pigna: historiador, profesor y escritor argentino especializado en la historia de Argentina. Realiza trabajos en diversos formatos, y es considerado por el programa "Ver para leer" como el historiador con más difusión en la Argentina después de Félix Luna.​

Candide is a French satire first published in 1759 by Voltaire, a philosopher of the age of enlightenment. It begins with a young man, Candide, who is living a sheltered life in an Edenic paradise and being indoctrinated with Leibnizian optimism by his mentor, Professor Pangloss. The work describes the abrupt cessation of this lifestyle, followed by Candide's slow and painful disillusionment as he witnesses and experiences great hardships in the world.

La historia de nuestra historia, en tiempo presente, pensada desde ahora e interpelando las verdades de manual. Conducido por Felipe Isidro Pigna: historiador, profesor y escritor argentino especializado en la historia de Argentina. Realiza trabajos en diversos formatos, y es considerado por el programa "Ver para leer" como el historiador con más difusión en la Argentina después de Félix Luna.​

Demons, Mortal Enemies, and a Shared Quest! Paranormal paramedic Dean Flynn doesn't know he's being hunted by demons. Demon hunter Jaz Errington hunts the creatures he heals? In this case opposites do not attract. When paramedic and hunter are thrown together on a quest to rescue a kidnapped angel, who also happens to be Dean's missing girlfriend, sparks fly. Throw in a powerful teenaged witch to join the quest, and they have a recipe for disaster, not a rescue.

El doctor Alex Pattakos, a quien Frankl instó a escribir Prisioneros de nuestros pensamientos, y Elaine Dundon, un referente intelectual en la innovación personal y organizacional, nos muestran cómo la sabiduría de Frankl puede ayudar a los oyentes a encontrar el sentido en cada momento de su vida. Inspirándose en toda la obra de Frankl, identifican siete «principios básicos» y demuestran cómo pueden aplicarse estos en la vida cotidiana y en el trabajo. Esta tercera edición revisada y ampliada incluye nuevas historias, ejercicios, aplicaciones e ideas.

An artifact is creating hordes of mindless undead minions in Elk City. Paramedic Dean Flynn once again gathers his human and supernatural friends to band together and find the source. With the future of the city at risk, failure is not an option for Dean and his comrades. Dean's friends have their own problems. His ex-partner is struggling with her recent change into a vampire. She has to find a way to overcome her bloodlust if she's ever going to return to the streets again as a paramedic. If she doesn't find a way to succeed, it could be a matter of life and death.

Technological advancement is now carefully planned, and the concept of individuality has been eliminated. A young man known as Equality 7-2521 rebels by doing secret scientific research. When his activity is discovered, he flees into the wilderness with the girl he loves. Together, they plan to establish a new society based on rediscovered individualism.

"Common Sense" was a pamphlet written by Thomas Paine in 1775-1776 advocating independence from Great Britain to people in the 13 Colonies. Writing in clear and persuasive prose, Paine marshaled moral and political arguments to encourage common people in the Colonies to fight for egalitarian government.

Joanna Errington-Flynn is a normal 15-year-old, except that she's a witch from the future. Since she was sent back from her parents' future, she has saved both their lives and the world itself. Now she wants nothing more than to return home to her own time. When a pair of demon-summoning idols goes missing, her mother needs Jo's help to recover them. If the demon lord succeeds in his plans to collect the complete set, Elk City is doomed.

La manovra infinita (e buon Natale). I lavori per la finanziaria in sei articoli di Repubblica: La posta in gioco sulla manovra, di Marcello Messori; Manovra, lo scatto dei tecnici salvavita, di Roberto Mania; Politici e tecnici, l'asimmetria del governo, di Stefano Folli; Stangata sui pensionati, tagli per 2,5 miliardi, di Roberto Petrini; Le Camere trasformate in una sala d'attesa, di Sebastiano Messina; Sondaggio: La Lega stacca i 5 Stelle: il divario è ormai di 7 punti, di Ilvo Diamanti; Buon Natale non buonista, di Stefano Massini.

I racconti qui presentati, "Tè verde", "Il giudice Harbottle" e "Carmilla", appartengono alla raccolta "In a Glass Darkly". Composti in momenti differenti e pubblicati su varie riviste e poi riuniti nel 1872, i singoli racconti, benché diversissime siano le storie ivi riportate, possono essere considerati parti di un'unica narrazione, fatta di oscure risonanze e di sinistri riflessi. Elemento esterno unificante è la figura-cornice del Dottor Hesselius, medico, psicologo, mistico e metafisico tedesco, primo "detective dell'occulto" della letteratura europea.

Uscito a puntate, nel 1865, sulla rivista "Epocha" (Epoca), "Ricordi dal sottosuolo", scritto sotto forma di un monologo-confessione, è uno dei più terribili e impietosi viaggi all'interno della coscienza umana della letteratura europea. Il protagonista è un ipocondriaco che vive ai margini della società, scrutandola (e scrutandosi) con odio e sospetto. È il romanzo della svolta artistica e filosofica dello scrittore russo.

Josh Kaufman ha creado su propio negocio, que se basa en condensar los principios básicos del management y hacerlos fácilmente accesibles para todo tipo de profesionales, sea cual sea su nivel de responsabilidad o el sector en que trabajan. En MBA personal comparte con sus oyentes los conceptos esenciales en todas las áreas de la gestión empresarial.

Alle soglie della follia, Nietzsche sosterrà di aver fatto all'umanità, con lo "Zarathustra", il più grande dono che essa abbia mai avuto: "Questo libro, una voce che passa sui millenni, non solo è il libro più alto che esista [...], ma anche il più profondo, generato dalla più intrinseca ricchezza della verità, una fonte inesauribile dove non si può calare il secchio senza farlo risalire colmo d'oro e di bontà". Perciò Nietzsche gli assegnerà una posizione preminente fra tutti i libri.

Paramedic Dean Flynn works every day to heal the creatures of myth and legend in Elk City. When a human hate group declares war on his patients, Dean, with his angel girlfriend and the vampire lord of Elk City, must work with all the forces of good to fight terrorists hidden in their midst. Even after getting framed for murder, Dean uses magic, prophecy, and all his paramedic skills to save his patients. With his lifelong dreams shattered and taken away from him, will he have the strength to make the choice when the time comes to fulfill his destiny?

Paramedic Dean Flynn is finally getting used to his unusual ambulance patients. But with werewolves, vampires, fairies, and more, as his 911 patients, is he ready for an unusual in his personal life? Ashley Moore is not just an ER nurse. She is a heavenly angel on earth. Can she protect Dean and help him stop the hate crime attacks on his patients? Someone is determined to start a race war, and only Dean stands in the way.

The stories in this book are simple little snapshots of the lives of the slaves owned by Howard Stephens. These stories are a counterpart series to the novel The Princess Slave: Mei's Song. Many of the stories include characters that were featured within The Princess Slave. Some of these characters are Najeeba, Peyonee, and Tatyana.

The Legend of Sleepy Hollow is a horror story by American author Washington Irving. Written while Irving was living abroad in Birmingham, England, The Legend of Sleepy Hollow was first published in 1820. It is among the earliest examples of American fiction with enduring popularity, especially during Halloween because of a character known as the Headless Horseman believed to be a Hessian soldier who lost his head to a cannonball in battle.

A trentacinque anni G.H. Hardy, accademico di Cambridge, è considerato uno dei più brillanti matematici del suo tempo. Una mattina del 1913 riceve una lettera da un oscuro contabile indiano che afferma di avere la soluzione a un complesso quesito matematico impostato dallo stesso Hardy. Il professore si reca quindi in India per conoscerlo, e trova un giovane dotato di un genio assoluto per il calcolo. Tra i due nascerà una proficua collaborazione destinata a sfociare in una difficile e contrastata storia d'amore.