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On a cold January morning in 1986, NASA launched the Space Shuttle Challenger, despite warnings against doing so by many individuals including Allan McDonald. The fiery destruction of Challenger on live television moments after launch remains an indelible image in the nation's collective memory. In Truth, Lies, and O-Rings, McDonald, a skilled engineer and executive, relives the tragedy from where he stood at Launch Control Center. 

Dr. Henry Lodge provides the science. Chris Crowley provides the motivation. And through their New York Times best-selling program, you’ll discover how to put off 70 percent of the normal problems of aging - weakness, sore joints, bad balance - and eliminate 50 percent of serious illness and injury. Plus, prominent Neurologist Allan Hamilton now explains how following “Harry’s Rules” for diet, exercise, and staying emotionally connected directly affects your brain - all the way down to the cellular level.  

Award-winning author and celebrated neurosurgeon Allan J. Hamilton, MD, combines his understanding of the human brain with nearly 30 years' experience training horses to offer wisdom on such universal themes as leadership, motivation, ambition, and humility. The results are showcased in more than 100 thoughtful essays that treat working with horses as a metaphor for personal, professional, and spiritual growth.

Murder comes in two familiar forms. Whether as a crime of passion with high emotions or a cold dispassionate plot to take life in order to gain in some way, the act strikes us all as somehow inhuman. Beneath us as civilised beings. But however we cloak our animal instincts the need to remove a human being and gain relief from abuse or gain from money, the term is just the same – MURDER. Robert Louis Stevenson, Arthur Conan Doyle, J M Barrie, W W Jacobs and many others bring their literary heft to bear in as calculating a way as any killer could.

It took a brain surgeon who's spent a lifetime in the operating room experiencing the brain's union of form and function to write this book. Cerebral Entanglements, unlike most books on the brain, looks at the intimate and vital emotions in our lives, and shows as well, how neuroimaging studies can transform our understanding of crucial emotional or mental health concerns.

Im Auftrag der Zefren Company führt Nea Bergungsoperationen durch, die sie in die entlegensten Regionen der Galaxis führen. Bei ihrer aktuellen Mission trifft sie auf Iona. Die Scavengers. So nennt man die Banden von Glücksrittern und Abenteurern, die in den Hinterlassenschaften zahlreicher Kriege nach Schätzen und Geheimnissen suchen.

In an extensive examination of this impassioned debate, Richard Breitman and Allan J. Lichtman find that the president was neither savior nor bystander. In FDR and the Jews, they draw upon many new primary sources to offer an intriguing portrait of a consummate politician - compassionate but also pragmatic - struggling with opposing priorities under perilous conditions.

Dominic Porter und die Menschen, die mit ihm von der Erde geflohen sind, haben auf dem fernen Planeten Zeres Zuflucht gefunden. Was auf den ersten Blick wie ein friedliches Paradies wirkt – unberührte Natur, endlose Weiten, ein Neubeginn fern aller Zerstörung – entpuppt sich jedoch bald als trügerische Fassade. Denn unter der stillen Oberfläche dieses scheinbar perfekten Planeten lauern Geheimnisse, älter und dunkler, als es sich jemand vorstellen kann. Und schon bald erkennen die Überlebenden: Hier sind Mächte am Werk, die sie weder verstehen noch kontrollieren können.

Beast Nea Diehl gehört zu den fähigsten Scouts, die für die Hafenbehörde auf der Welt Sculpa Trax arbeiten. Allerdings bewegt sie sich auch gerne jenseits der gesetzlichen Pfade. Die Mannschaft des Scavenger-Schiffes Rimmon, unter dem Kommando von Zeb Greenwood, gehört zu ihrem engeren Freundeskreis. Mit dieser Gruppe von Glücksrittern wagt sie sich auch diesmal auf einen abenteuerlichen und vielversprechenden Beutezug. Alles läuft bestens, bis sich Piraten und imperiale Truppen für ihre Schätze zu interessieren beginnen. Die Scavengers.

Nachdem die riesige Durana in einer Wüstenebene von New Mexico abgestürzt ist, richten sich die Augen vieler Parteien auf das havarierte Schiff und auf die Erde. Machtparteien der Menschen, der Akkato und zahlreiche kleine Gruppierungen, von denen man bisher kaum etwas wusste, treten in den Kampf ein, der gegen die Akkato geführt wird und das Schicksal der Erde für immer verändern könnte. Zudem verfügt Serwan Brooks über ein Geheimnis, das die Zukunft der Menschheit zum Guten wenden und das Sonnensystem von der Herrschaft der Akkato befreien könnte.

Kennedy’s Horror Collection series continues with Book 15. Once again, he has collected stories from authors from all over the world, and this time, they have been selected specifically from the LGBTQIA+ community. As always, only the best made the cut, and have been gathered here for your listening pleasure. Sit back, relax, and get ready for some of the best scary stories you will listen to this year.

Professor Allan J. Lichtman, who has correctly forecasted thirty years of presidential elections, makes the case for impeaching the 45th president of the United States, Donald J. Trump. Impeachment will ’proceed from the misconduct of public men, or, in other words, from the abuse or violation...

Catch the Sky is the first in-depth look at the life of a police helicopter pilot. Kimball pulls no punches, unfolding his nail-biting personal story in enthralling detail. From death-defying rescues to stories both bizarre and humorous, Catch the Sky puts you inside the helicopter cockpit for a breathtaking ride you'll never forget.

Thirteen bibliomysteries by best-selling and award-winning authors are contained in this first of volume of a must-listen collection. 

Nachdem Eric und seine beiden Schwestern den Kontakt zu Nea verloren haben, beginnt für sie eine gefährliche Odyssee. Sie werden von einer Gruppe Piraten als Geiseln genommen, die die umkämpfte Hafenwelt Sculpa Trax nach Beute plündern. Mehrere Syndikate und Piratenclans sind gerade dabei, den Planeten unter sich aufzuteilen, als klar wird, dass die Kinder weit wertvoller sind, als sie zunächst erscheinen. Die verschiedenen Parteien beginnen schnell, sich für Eric und seine Schwestern Salaya und Eynie zu interessieren.

America's political leaders have considered suffrage not a natural right but a privilege restricted by wealth, sex, race, residence, literacy, criminal conviction, and citizenship. Today, voter identification laws, political gerrymandering, registration requirements, felon disenfranchisement, and voter purges deny many millions of citizens the opportunity to express their views at the ballot box. We cannot blame the founders alone for America's embattled vote. Best-selling author Allan Lichtman notes that subsequent generations have failed to establish suffrage as a universal right.

What is dreaming, and what causes it? Why are dreams so strange, and why are they so hard to remember? Replacing dream mystique with modern dream science, J. Allan Hobson provides a new and increasingly complete picture of how dreaming is created by the brain. Focusing on dreaming to explain the mechanisms of sleep, this book explores how the new science of dreaming is affecting theories in psychoanalysis, and how it is helping our understanding of the causes of mental illness.

As he traveled through and lived in Ecuador, Bolivia, and Peru, the newly re-named “Doctor” Alonzo found himself surrounded by indigenous peasant leaders and communities in raucous tribal celebrations, social movements for change, wonders of nature, and marvels of human kindness and romance while hitchhiking to the very tip of South America and its glaciers and penguins. But also sometimes unexpected dangers - near-death illness in the jungle, and getting shot at in a police-military crossfire.

Join the kids as they embark on their final camping trip from hell. Upon arrival, the usual camp counselors are missing. Alton, a man who no one knows, is there to greet them, and as the night moves on, they start to realize that he may not be all that he seems. Three tales of horror, gore, and gut wrenching await.

Kimberly, a young, attractive 30-something, has just spent the last 16 years locked up for murdering and consuming a man who tried to attack her. Now that she is free, she soon finds old habits die hard.