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Imagine: a fantasy world, but not one based on medieval/Dark Ages European culture and myth, but rather on the tropes of the spaghetti Western and Chinese Wuxia. Add steampunk elements. Mix well.

Michael Schneider leads us on a spectacular journey along the numbers one through 10 to explore the mathematical principles made visible in flowers, shells, crystals, plants, and the human body, expressed in the symbolic language of folk sayings and fairy tales, myth and religion, art and architecture. This is a new view of mathematics, not the one we learned at school but a comprehensive guide to the patterns that recur through the universe and underlie human affairs.

The Lunar colony is a mining colony with only internal security capabilities. Nobody had even considered that there might soon arise a need to defend the colony from the Earth! But that day has come. Something has been uncovered on the moon. Something important. Something...alien.

The Bible is filled with passages that are so baffling we tend to ignore them. Yet the passages that seem weird might be the most important. These essays will shock you, intrigue you, and completely change the way you view the Bible. Dr. Michael S. Heiser visits some of the Bible's most obscure passages, unveiling their ancient context to help you interpret them today. Download this book and you'll never be bored by the Bible again.

Will increased scientific understanding of our brains overturn our beliefs about moral and ethical behavior? How will increasingly powerful brain imaging technologies affect the ideas of privacy and of self-incrimination? Such thought-provoking questions are rapidly emerging as new discoveries in neuroscience have raised difficult legal and ethical dilemmas. Michael Gazzaniga, widely considered to be the father of cognitive neuroscience, investigates with an expert eye some of these controversial and complex issues.

Book three in the Classic Monsters series brings you thirteen new ghost stories. We have a fantastic line up of authors bringing you a mix of styles that will satisfy all your ghostly desires. Dare you join us?

Halley Zwick steckt in Schwierigkeiten. In der Art Schwierigkeiten, bei der falsche Ausweise, mächtige Politiker und mehr als eine Sorte Gesetzeshüter involviert sind. Sowohl die Guten als auch die Bösen sind hinter ihr her, aber Halley kann nicht länger sagen, wer eigentlich wer ist. Um allen zu entkommen, nimmt sie einen Job auf dem Raumschiff "Elysium Fields" an, wo die Reichen und Schönen Seite an Seite in ihren Kälteschlafkapseln liegen – und das seit Hunderten von Jahren.

In this eye-opening work, Graziano accessibly explores how this sense of an inner being led to empathy and formed us into social beings. The theory may point the way to engineers for building consciousness artificially. Graziano discusses what a future with artificial consciousness might be like, including both advantages and risks, and what AI might mean for our evolutionary future.

Discussing Peer-Reviewed Research on the Paranormal

A banquet of seduction, sin, kink, and decadence has been specially prepared by top connoisseurs from the American erotica world for the delectation of your imagination. Brand-new stories from Thomas S Roche, Michael Hemmingson, Shanna Germain, and many other literary talents are collected here to specifically celebrate and eroticise New York.

Nur noch wenige Tage, dann wird Claire Kovalik gefeuert. Sie und ihre Crew reparieren Relaisstationen im Sonnensystem, doch eine neue Kommunikationstechnik macht diese bald obsolet. Bei ihrem letzten Einsatz fangen sie ein Notsignal auf, das von weit jenseits der Plutobahn kommt. Was sie dort entdecken, raubt ihnen den Atem: Es ist die Aurora, das größte Luxus-Raumschiff aller Zeiten, das vor über zwanzig Jahren auf seinem Jungfernflug verschwand. Wenn Claire und ihre Crew das Wrack bergen können, haben sie ausgesorgt.

This mind-blowing audiobook brings together today's most relied-upon tools of market analysis. Michael E. S. Gayed clearly explains how this powerful combination of major schools of thought of market analysis can help investors dramatically improve their judgment on likely market performance and spot important trends, thereby making successful investment decisions.

Wide open spaces. Ancient ruins. Pissed off governments. Five adventurous students. What could possibly go wrong? Tag along as we follow Alpha Class as they study with Jeo, the lead of the Engineering team, and learn about engineering by reviewing important marvels across the earth. Without getting permission. If they thought the moon was dangerous, wait till they return to Earth. A Kurtherian Gambit Adventure for younger listeners...or those who are young at heart.

This new edition - more than 50 percent new and revised - is a significant update from the previous one and reveals how to harness the newest data mining methods and techniques to solve common business problems. The duo of unparalleled authors share invaluable advice for improving response rates to direct marketing campaigns, identifying new customer segments, and estimating credit risk. In addition, they cover more advanced topics, such as preparing data for analysis and creating the necessary infrastructure for data mining at your company.

A short, horrifying tale of the creeping, Gothic variety...except that in this one the monsters are very, very real. Anthology Club single serving selections are meant to be listened to in one sitting.

In an era when people watch more TikTok videos than sermons and doom scroll more than read their Bibles, false teachings and questions about God and the Bible abound. For more than two decades, S. Michael Houdmann and GotQuestions.org have cut through the confusion, answering even the hardest of questions with clarity, grace, and love. GotQuestions.org receives more than 16 million visitors each month and is the most trusted biblically grounded resource online.

In this sweeping book, Michael S. Roth narrates a vivid and dynamic history of students, exploring some of the principal models for learning that have developed in very different contexts, from the sixth century BCE to the present. Beginning with the followers of Confucius, Socrates, and Jesus and moving to medieval apprentices, students at Enlightenment centers of learning, and learners enrolled in twenty-first-century universities, he explores how students have been followers, interlocutors, disciples, rebels, and children becoming adults.

Settling into her new life as the only Diplomatic Spy trainee, Seraphina Waters is blindsided by crisis from every side. Phina uses her unique skills to make a shocking discovery. Drawing on her friends and her own inner strength, Phina has to move fast in order to save an entire species from extinction. Each day that passes brings death one step closer...not just for those she hopes to save, but for herself.

The First Battle of the Marne produced the so-called Miracle of the Marne, when French and British forces stopped the initial German drive on Paris in 1914. Hundreds of thousands of casualties later, with opposing forces still dug into trench lines, the Germans tried again to push their way to Paris and to victory. The Second Battle of the Marne (July 15 to August 9, 1918) marks the point at which the Allied armies stopped the massive German Ludendorff Offensives.

Did you know that your body is home to more than 32 million kinds of germs? They live on your feet, in your nose, and even in your mouth! Learn more about the gross things your body does and why it does them. You'll never look at yourself the same way again!