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Low-level dishonesty is rife everywhere, in the form of exaggeration, selective use of facts, economy with the truth, careful drafting - from Trump and the Brexit debate to companies that tell us 'your call is important to us'. How did we get to a place where bullshit is not just rife but apparently so effective that it's become the communications strategy of our times? This brilliantly insightful book steps inside the panoply of deception employed in all walks of life and assesses how it has come to this.

In one of Sherlock Holmes' most harrowing cases, the crown jewels are stolen from the Tower of London just days before Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee. In the race against the clock to retrieve the precious gems to save from national embarrassment, Holmes finds that the case to be more complex and infinitely more dangerous than it first appeared.

Thirteen-year-old October Schwartz is new in town, short on friends, and the child of a clinically depressed science teacher. Naturally, she spends most of her time in the Sticksville Cemetery, which just happens to border her backyard. And that backyard just happens to be the home of five dead teenagers, each from a different era of the past.

Weight loss doesn't have to be a difficult journey that makes you unhappy. Say goodbye to fad diets and short term results. What you want is a healthy, fit body for life that gives you more energy and more confidence. Raising the quality of your life in this way can be simple and desirable with the right mindset. This hypnosis program is designed to help you achieve your weight loss goals in an easy, natural way that stays with you for life.

Every woman is beautiful, no matter her shape. But, it doesn't matter who tells you that if you don't believe it yourself. It is you that needs to feel confident in your own skin. It is you that needs to know you are beautiful, attractive, and have every reason to be confident. Mental blocks and unhealthy beliefs about ourselves often keep us from realizing our full potential, and that includes getting to your ideal weight. This hypnosis is designed to help you remove those negative mental blocks that prevent you from sticking to a healthy lifestyle.

Having a body you love and are proud of can change your life drastically while skyrocketing your confidence - so what is stopping you? The thoughts you have on a daily basis about your body, your habits and what you deserve could be severely limiting your potential to get the body you really want. This hypnosis is designed to stop your limiting beliefs from sabotaging your weight loss and fitness efforts. It is a way for you to rapidly fuel your desire to stay on track with your fitness and weight loss goals.

Have you ever wanted to start your own business? A lemonade stand is a great start, but did you know there are other ways a young, driven individual can earn money? This guide will help you get ideas to start your own business and get it up and running quickly.

Got five minutes? Great! Listen to this book to get ideas on how to get your voiceover business going.

Would you give up the love of your life on the advice of a stranger? When our hero meets Q one Monday morning at a cinema in New York City, he has met the love of his life. Their romance quickly blossoms: in the rowboats of Central Park, on the miniature golf course of Lower Manhattan, under a pear tree in Q's inner-city Eden. Nothing, it seems, can disturb the lovers or prevent their approaching wedding. Until one day a man claiming to be our hero's future self tells him he must leave Q....

Trwa wojna ludzi z Sojuszem obcych. Sorilla i jej zespól podejmuja sie niezwykle trudnej misji uwolnienia zakladników przetrzymywanych na jednej z wrogich planet. Pomimo ze odbudowano orbitalne lacze na Swiecie Haydena, w dzungli nadal grasuja Straznicy, prowadzac partyzancka walke z oddzialami ludzi. Tymczasem w przestrzeni kosmicznej pojawia sie nowy gracz, który zachwieje ukladem sil - ale Ziemianie tez maja w zanadrzu niejedna niespodzianke.

Jesse Evans' most recent mission turns deadly when Colombian mercenaries ambush her and her informant. She races across the jungle to warn the Special Ops team she sent to save an American senator's young daughter, but arrives just as the team is slaughtered by drug runners. Within the hour, branded as the traitor who leaked the mission intelligence, Jesse Evans is now the most wanted woman in the world.

Rob 'Hood' Huntington was an easygoing 20-something kid who loved house parties with good friends and bad jokes. He never thought about a life of survival. Then in one day everything he knew was gone. Lucky for him, he learned quickly he is a truly gifted marksman. Learning to live with pulling the trigger is something else entirely. Two years have passed since the fall of civilization. Hidden away in the mid-Atlantic countryside rests the small town of Clearwater.

A collection of 10 new essays from some of our finest Civil War historians working today, Gateway to the Confederacy offers a reexamination of the campaigns fought to gain possession of Chattanooga, Tennessee. Each essay addresses how Americans have misconstrued the legacy of these struggles and why scholars feel it necessary to reconsider one of the most critical turning points of the American Civil War.

At first, Kelly Davis can't believe Hudson Industries is coming to her small town of Cedar Grove. But the rumors are true. Luke Hudson, roguish son of billionaire Crawford Hudson, has invaded her little city with his infuriating swagger and a profiteering style that could change her beloved community forever. Luke Hudson doesn't only have his eye on Cedar Grove, though. Kelly has also caught his attention. And it doesn't bother him one bit that she already has a fiancé.

W swiecie bestsellerowej serii "Odessey One" rozgrywaja sie nowe przygody. Po inwazji Drasinów Ziemia staje w obliczu kolejnego przerazajacego wyzwania. Ludzie, dotychczas podzieleni na wrogie nacje, musza wspólpracowac, aby odbudowac swój zniszczony swiat i przygotowac sie na mozliwy powrót dronów. Nie wiedza jednak, ze nowy, o wiele grozniejszy wróg, inny niz wszystko, z czym ludzkosc miala dotychczas do czynienia, szykuje sie juz do wojny.

Inwazja obcych na Ziemie skapala miasta w ogniu i krwi. Niektórzy ludzie w panice rzucili sie do ucieczki, inni chwycili za bron, aby stawic czola Drasinom. "Odyseja" wypelnila swoja ostatnia misje - w atmosferze rodzimej planety siala zniszczenie wsród ladujacych dronów. I rozbila sie na Manhattanie. Dla kapitana Westona nie byl to jednak koniec zmagan. Tylko on walczyl z Drasinami w kosmosie. Tylko on tak dobrze znal wroga.

Korzystajac z najnowszej technologii, umozliwiajacej podróze miedzygwiezdne, okret badawczy "Odyseja" wyrusza w dziewiczy rejs. Lecz kosmos nie jest tak pusty, jak moze sie wydawac z perspektywy naszej planety. "Odyseja" trafia prosto w srodek konfliktu miedzy dwoma rasami. Zaloga okretu staje w obliczu smiertelnie groznego, bardzo poteznego i znakomicie wyposazonego przeciwnika. Dysponuje o wiele mniej zaawansowana technologia, lecz musi sobie radzic za pomoca tego, co posiada. Ale czy podola wyzwaniu? I jakie beda konsekwencje poczynan Ziemian? Czy odwaga, poswiecenie i ludzka inteligencja sa w stanie zniwelowac dystans cywilizacyjny?

Okret badawczy "Odyseja" powrócil z dziewiczej podrózy. Powrócil, wiozac zle nowiny oraz ambasadorów - przedstawicieli innej, chodz ludzkiej, cywilizacji kosmicznej, uwiklanej w krwawa wojne z okrutnymi obcymi. Ziemianie musza podjac decyzje, czy angazowac sie w walke, podejmowac ryzyko, czy tez schowac glowe w piasek i udawac, ze odlegly konflikt nie dotyczy Ukladu Slonecznego.

Wrogom zostaje zdradzony pilnie strzezony dotad sekret - wspólrzedne Ziemi. I tym razem to wcale nie zaloga "Odyssei" sprowadzila na Terran nieszczescie. To kapitan Sun z okretu Bloku Wschodniego, wracajac z wyprawy eksploracyjnej, nieopatrznie podaje polozenie ojczyzny. Reakcja nadzorców ze sfery Dysona jest natychmiastowa. Ku Ukladowi Slonecznemu nadciaga prawdziwa potega militarna, zlozona ze zbuntowanych dronów.

Over the past few years, there's been an explosion of interest in good beer. As hundreds of great new breweries have opened across the country and around the world, quality ales and lagers have been given an importance never before imagined. Despite beer's renaissance, however, no one seems to have focused on why beer suddenly matters, or what it is about beer that makes it the drink for our age.