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What is parapsychology? What are the explanations for extrasensory perception? Hans Holzer has compiled this definitive survey of parapsychology for the layman based on lectures he delivered at the New York Institute of Technology. Professor Holzer traces the history and development of parapsychology from the Stone Age to the present and explains the terminology, various forms and basic techniques of ESP.

Here are four of Hans Christian Andersen’s best-loved short stories, specially adapted for young children and read by some of Britain’s most well-known actors. The Brave Tin Soldier: A one-legged toy soldier falls in love with a paper ballerina. Thumbelina: A tiny but beautiful girl grows from a barleycorn which has been enchanted by a witch. The Nightingale: An emperor prefers a sparkling mechanical bird to the song of a real nightingale. The Ugly Duckling: A little bird is called ugly by others until he matures into a swan.

The disciplines of biblical studies and theology should serve each other, and they should serve both the church and the academy together. But the relationship between them is often marked by misunderstandings, methodological differences, and cross-discipline tension. New Testament scholar Scot McKnight here highlights five things he wishes theologians knew about biblical studies. In a companion volume, theologian Hans Boersma reflects on five things he wishes biblical scholars knew about theology.

A collection of stories that children absolutely adore. The brilliant Robin and Brenda Markwell voice a fabulous retelling of classics, from The King's New Clothes to the story of Black Beauty and much more. So go on and delve into a series of enchanting worlds that we all know and love.

Dix histoires spécialement choisies pour les enfants de 6 à 10 ans : de quoi les faire rêver, développer leur attention, leur offrir de belles histoires pour s'endormir et leur permettre de partager la culture qui nous a façonnés. Leur imaginaire va profiter de ces histoires qui marquent durablement, font rêver, frémir, sourire. Lue par Fabienne Prost, cette sélection rassemble les plus beaux contes classiques : "Ali Baba et les 40 voleurs", "Conte des mille et une nuits" ; "Le vaillant petit tailleur" (Grimm), "Barbe-Bleue" (Perrault), "Le stoïque soldat de plomb" (Andersen).

Over the years, color has dazzled, enhanced, and clarified the world we see. The experimental palettes of painting, the advent of the color photograph, Technicolor pictures, color printing, and so on have created a vivid and vibrant continuum. These ways of representing reality in “living color” echo our evolutionary reliance on and indeed privileging of color as a complex and vital form of consumption, classification, and creation. It’s everywhere we look, yet do we really know much of anything about it?

安徒生是丹麦著名童话作家，世界文学童话创始人。《安徒生童话》中闪耀着的人性光辉，超越了国家、种族与文化的界线，是世界各地一代又一代读者的挚爱。…… 安徒生是丹麥著名童話作家，世界文學童話創始人。《安徒生童話》中閃耀著的人性光輝，超越了國家、種族與文化的界線，是世界各地一代又一代讀者的摯愛。

A peasant girl named Karen is adopted by a rich old lady after her mother's death and grows up vain and spoiled. Before her adoption, Karen had a rough pair of red shoes; now she has her adoptive mother buy her a pair of red shoes fit for a princess. After Karen repeatedly wears them to church, they begin to move by themselves, but she is able to get them off. One day, when her adoptive mother becomes ill, Karen goes to attend a party in her red shoes. A mysterious soldier appears and makes strange remarks about what beautiful dancing shoes Karen has.

Fanget i en rigmands soveværelse overværer indbrudstyven Luther Whitney et brutalt overfald og mord på millionærens unge kone. Overfaldsmanden er USA's præsident. Whitney flygter med en blodig papirkniv, der kan forbinde præsidenten til mordet, og snart er han jaget vildt. Jack Graham er en succesrig advokat for finansverdenens top. Alligevel bliver han blandet ind i den lyssky affære, da Whitney kontakter ham. Med kontakten følger et møde med Whitneys datter, en idealistisk kvinde og Jacks tidligere forlovede. Jack kastes ud i et kapløb mod tiden for at afsløre magtens korruption.

Conni kann ihr Glück kaum fassen! Sie darf mit ihrer besten Freundin Anna über Silvester auf den Ponyhof. Dort treffen sie nicht nur Liska, Celina, Lars und Moritz wieder, sondern lernen auch ein neues Mädchen kennen: Verena. Leider entpuppt sich die Neue allerdings sehr schnell als ziemlich zickig und macht Conni und ihren Freunden das Leben ganz schön schwer. Als sie dann mit ihrem Pferd "Prinzessin" auch noch allein einen Ausritt wagt, obwohl ihnen das wegen des Schnees streng verboten wurde, bringt sie nicht nur sich in große Gefahr.

What would life be like for a Black boy growing up in Nazi Germany? This unprecedented autobiography answers that question with the spellbinding true story of Hans J. Massaquoi’s life in Hamburg during the height of Hitler’s regime. Hans is the son of a Black Liberian diplomat father and a white German mother. His father returns to Africa at the beginning of the war, leaving them behind in poverty without the means to flee. Within this tense atmosphere, increasingly violent Nazi policies and Allied bombing raids make Hans and his mother’s lives a day-to-day survival struggle.

The Thinking Toolbox has been the best selling text for teaching critical thinking skills and introduction to logic for over 15 years. This book is like a toolbox, full of different kinds of tools you can use for different thinking tasks. Just as you use the wrench in a regular tool box to fix the sink, so you can use the tools we give you in this book to solve thinking problems.

In June 2004, Professor Hans-Hermann Hoppe visited the Mises Institute to deliver an ambitious series of lectures titled Economy, Society, and History. What followed was an intellectual tour de force few academics would even attempt. Over 10 lectures, one each morning and afternoon for a week, Dr. Hoppe presented nothing short of a sweeping historical narrative and vision for a society rooted in markets and property. Delivered only from notes, to an audience of academics and intellectuals, the lectures showed astonishing depth and breadth.

The Super-Afrikaners, originally published in 1978, scandalised a nation as it exposed the secret workings of the Broederbond. Out of print for over three decades, this edition with an introduction by Max du Preez is available for a new generation. Political journalists Hans Strydom and Ivor Wilkins traced, at great personal risk, its development from the earliest days to the present. The book includes the most comprehensive list of Broeders ever published.

La espera se ha acabado: Vuelve Sebastian Bergman. Vuelve la adicción. Déjate sorprender por la serie de novela negra que ha conquistado a más de 7.000.000 de lectores en todo el mundo. La Unidad de Homicidios de Estocolmo se halla en una profunda crisis desde que se reveló que uno de sus colegas es un asesino en serie. Vanja Lithner lucha por salvar su departamento cuando una mujer es encontrada asesinada en una granja de cerdos a las afueras de Västerås. Los indicios apuntan que el acto se realizó pensando en una persona en concreto: Sebastian Bergman, el psicólogo criminal más cínico y arrogante de Suecia.

An anthology of time’s most beloved stories, written and adapted by the world’s most well-known fairy tale authors, and narrated by a variety of great storytellers.

Wahrer Reichtum definiert sich nicht durch den Kontostand oder materielle Statussymbole. Zu viele finanziell wohlhabende Menschen sind erstaunlich arm, wenn es um die Dinge geht, die für ein Leben voller Glück, Vitalität und Gelassenheit wirklich wichtig sind. Die Gesellschaft hat uns dazu erzogen, nach einer Version von Erfolg zu streben, die bei vielen Menschen zu Frust, innerer Leere und Bedauern führt. In diesem Hörbuch zeigt der internationale Bestsellerautor und Leadership-Experte Robin Sharma eine völlig neue Sichtweise auf Erfolg und Reichtum.

With 11 chapters by top libertarian scholars on all aspects of defense, this book edited by Hans-Hermann Hoppe it represents an ambitious attempt to extend the idea of free enterprise to the provision of security services. It argues that "national defense" as provided by government is a myth not unlike the myth of socialism itself. It is more viably privatized and replaced by the market provision of security.

For 40 years, the Silva Method has earned its reputation for being the most successful method for personal empowerment by helping millions of people achieve greater fulfillment in their lives. In this audio edition, America's top Silva trainer takes you step-by-step through the Silva Method. It's an audio program that will enhance your self-control, self-confidence, and personal power so that success becomes natural and easy.

Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen (Volume 1) is a collection of fairy tales by Hans Christian Andersen. Contents: A Story / By the Almshouse Window / The Angel / Anne Lisbeth / The Conceited Apple-branch / Beauty of Form and Beauty of Mind / The Beetle Who Went on His Travels / The Bell / The Bell-deep / The Bird of Popular Song.