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Embark on your Vietnamese learning adventure with Vietnamese Short Stories for Beginners (A1) – Food and Cooking Edition. This delightful collection brings you 20 bite-sized, tales set in kitchens, markets, cafés, and family tables—each written at the A1 level to ensure clarity and help you build confidence from the very first story.

Hosted by Glenn Hinds and Sebastian Kaplan, Talking To Change – A Motivational Interviewing podcast, is a series of conversations exploring Motivational Interviewing (MI) and its influence on supporting individuals and groups as they make positive health and lifestyle changes. Guests from across the world discuss their special interest in the research, practice and learning of MI along with its place across health, social care, education and criminal justice.

Italian Short Stories for Intermediate (B1) Skill Level – Romance Edition is a captivating collection crafted for B1 learners who wish to deepen their Italian skills while experiencing the warmth of love and connection. This edition features 25 short stories of chance encounters, heartfelt confessions, and serendipitous meetings—each story written to stir emotions and reinforce your Italian comprehension. Every narrative employs intermediate grammar structures, engaging romantic phrasing, and a rich vocabulary tailored to boost your fluency and confidence as you fall in love with the language.

In Build a Large Language Model (from Scratch) bestselling author Sebastian Raschka guides you step by step through creating your own LLM. Each stage is explained with clear text, diagrams, and examples. You’ll go from the initial design and creation, to pretraining on a general corpus, and on to fine-tuning for specific tasks.

Unlock your German with 25 thrilling Sci-Fi short stories! Designed for intermediate learners (B1 level), this collection combines gripping science fiction adventures with effective language learning. Each story is written with clear German at the right level, making it easy to follow while still challenging enough to boost your skills.

Once beloved by London's fashionable elite, Hartley Sedgwick has become a recluse after a spate of salacious gossip exposed his most-private secrets. Rarely venturing from the house whose inheritance is a daily reminder of his downfall, he’s captivated by the exceedingly handsome man who seeks to rob him. Since retiring from the boxing ring, Sam Fox has made his pub, The Bell, into a haven for those in his Free Black community. But when his best friend Kate implores him to find and destroy a scandalously revealing painting of her, he agrees.

German Short Stories for Intermediate (B1) Skill Level: Mystery and Suspense Edition is an exciting collection crafted for learners at the B1 level who want to elevate their German reading skills while enjoying thrilling tales of mystery and suspense. This edition features 30 short stories designed to intrigue your imagination and strengthen your language abilities. Each story weaves intermediate-level grammar, practical phrases, and diverse vocabulary into compelling plots, helping you deepen your understanding of German while keeping you hooked.

Jack Turner grew up in the darkness of London's slums, born into a life of crime and willing to do anything to keep his belly full and his siblings safe. Now he uses the tricks and schemes of the underworld to help those who need the kind of assistance only a scoundrel can provide. His distrust of the nobility runs deep, and his services do not extend to the gorgeous high-born soldier who personifies everything Jack will never be.

"French Short Stories for Beginners (A2) Skill Level" is specifically designed for learners at the A2 level, offering 30 engaging short stories that gently challenge and enhance your French comprehension. Each story introduces fundamental sentence structures, common idiomatic expressions, and essential vocabulary, helping you solidify your understanding of the language. To support your learning journey, every story is paired with a detailed vocabulary chart that translates key French words into English, ensuring clarity and ease of reading.

When James learns that an uncle he hasn’t heard from in ages has left him something in his will, he figures that the least he can do is head down to Cornwall for a weekend to honor the old man’s parting wishes. He finds the family home filled with half-remembered guests and unwanted memories, but more troubling is that his uncle has tasked his heirs with uncovering the truth behind a woman’s disappearance 20 years earlier. Leo’s of the opinion that rich people aren’t to be trusted where wills are concerned. So he does what any sensible spy would do and infiltrates the party.

To understand world politics, you need to understand how states think. Are states rational? Much of international relations theory assumes that they are. But many scholars believe that political leaders rarely act rationally. The issue is crucial for both the study and practice of international politics. John J. Mearsheimer and Sebastian Rosato argue that rational decisions in international politics rest on credible theories about how the world works and emerge from deliberative decision‑making processes.

Japanese Short Stories for Intermediate (B1) Skill Level: Japanese Reading Practice is specifically designed for learners at the B1 level, offering 30 engaging short stories to strengthen your Japanese comprehension. Each story features realistic scenarios, intermediate-level grammar, and vocabulary to help you build fluency and confidence in the language.

French Short Stories for Intermediate (B1) Skill Level – Mystery and Suspense Edition is a captivating collection designed for learners at the B1 level who want to take their French reading skills to the next level while diving into thrilling tales of mystery and suspense. This edition features 30 short stories crafted to engage your curiosity and challenge your language abilities.

German Short Stories for Intermediate (B1) Skill Level – Romance Edition is a captivating collection crafted for B1 learners who wish to deepen their German reading skills while experiencing the warmth of love and connection. This edition features 25 short stories of chance encounters, heartfelt confessions, and serendipitous meetings—each story written to stir emotions and reinforce your German comprehension.

French Short Stories for Proficient (C2) Skill Level is crafted for advanced learners looking to achieve true mastery in French. This collection features 30 sophisticated short stories designed to deepen comprehension and fluency at the C2 level. Each story delves into intricate sentence structures, idiomatic language, and refined vocabulary, presenting the nuances and subtleties essential for high-level proficiency. To support your learning, each story includes a comprehensive vocabulary list with English translations for challenging terms, ensuring clear understanding.

French Short Stories for Beginners (A1) Skill Level is designed specifically for learners at the A1 level, offering 20 captivating short stories that gently introduce the fundamentals of French comprehension.

A new version of The Epic of Gilgamesh by Sebastian Lockwood. This is the story of Gilgamesh, King of Kings, who brought back knowledge from before the flood - who loved and lost his companion Enkidu and had to find out why we die. The Epic of Gilgamesh was written on clay tablets over 4,000 years ago, in what is today Baghdad Iraq - the Biblical Garden of Eden between the Tigris and the Euphrates. Lockwood gives a passionate reading from a text that faithfully follows the original.

Matthias Hegel ist forensischer Phonetiker und der beste Audio-Profiler Deutschlands. Er ist imstande, nur anhand von Tönen, Geräuschen, Dialekten und Stimmfarben ein psychologisches und optisches Profil von Menschen zu erstellen. Dank ihm sitzen einige der gefährlichsten Straftäter im Gefängnis. Erpresser, Geiselnehmer, Attentäter, von denen die Ermittler oftmals nur kurze Audiomitschnitte hatten. Hegel ist faszinierend, charismatisch, schwer durchschaubar. Und: Er sitzt in Einzelhaft. Vor einem Jahr hat er eine obdachlose Frau bestialisch ermordet.

Kit Webb has left his stand-and-deliver days behind him. But dreary days at his coffee shop have begun to make him pine for the heady rush of thievery. When a handsome yet arrogant aristocrat storms into his shop, Kit quickly realizes he may be unable to deny whatever this highborn man desires. In order to save himself and a beloved friend, Percy, Lord Holland must go against every gentlemanly behavior he holds dear to gain what he needs most: a book that once belonged to his mother, a book his father never lets out of his sight and could be Percy’s savior.

The definitive biography of the most important economic statesman of our time, from the best-selling author of The Power Law and More Money Than God. Sebastian Mallaby's magisterial biography of Alan Greenspan, the product of over five years of research based on untrammeled access to his subject and his closest professional and personal intimates, brings into vivid focus the mysterious point where the government and the economy meet. To understand Greenspan's story is to see the economic and political landscape of our time in a whole new light.