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Mona is a smart girl and figured everything out a long time ago. She had to. She didn’t have a choice. When your parents are uber-celebrities and you graduate from high school at 15, finish college at 18, and start your PhD program at 19, you don’t have time for distractions outside of your foci. Even fun is scheduled. Which is why Abram, her brother’s best friend, is such an irritant. Abram is a talented guy, a supremely gifted musician, and has absolutely nothing figured out, nor does he seem to care.

As the "science of humanity," anthropology can help us understand virtually anything about ourselves, from our political and economic systems, to why we get married, to how we decide to buy a particular bottle of wine. This 24-lecture course reveals the extraordinary power of anthropology - and its subspecialty, cultural anthropology - as a tool to understand the world's varied human societies, including our own.

A boy wins $100,000 in a box of Frosted Flakes - only to discover that claiming the winnings may unravel his family. An acclaimed ambulance driver seeks the courage to follow his heart and throw it all away to be a singer-songwriter. A school principal unveils a bold plan to permanently abolish arithmetic. A new arrival in heaven, overwhelmed by infinite options, procrastinates over his long-ago promise to visit his grandmother. We meet a vengeance-minded hare. We learn why wearing a red T-shirt is the key to finding love; how February got its name; and why the stock market is sometimes just...down.

Lojong is the Tibetan Buddhist practice that involves working with short phrases (called "slogans") as a way of generating bodhichitta, the heart and mind of enlightened compassion. Though the practice is more than a millennium old, it has become popular in the West in only the last 20 years or so - and it has become very popular indeed because it's a practice that one can fit very well into an ordinary life, and because it works.

Read by Jenna Fischer and Angela Kinsey with exclusive bonus material contributed by Rainn Wilson, Creed Bratton, Oscar Nunez, Brian Baumgartner, Steve Carell, Ed Helms, Ellie Kemper, Kate Flannery and Jennifer Garner. An intimate, behind-the-scenes celebration of beloved The Office co-stars...

Ava Archer misses her best childhood friend most especially during the month of April. Ask any tax attorney, it's a lonely, grueling time of year. Luckily, Ava has just received a surprising and delectably absurd offer from her posh doppelgänger at work. She must pretend to be the aforementioned posh co-worker for one night at an extremely fancy party; a party so fancy, there exists absolutely no chance anyone will recognize her or suspect her ruse. . .

Der nächtliche Angriff der Drachen lässt nichts zurück als Rauch, Trümmer und leere Throne. Die Ordnung der sieben Reiche zerbricht, und Althorien wird zum Mahnmal eines bevorstehenden Krieges, in dem sich die Drachen gegen ihre eigenen Reiter wenden. Gleichzeitig wächst die Dunkelheit, ebenso wie das Misstrauen innerhalb der Akademie.

Love Gold hat gelernt, sich zu verstecken. Bis Finn auftaucht. Als er eines Nachts sein Notizbuch auf dem Steg zurücklässt, beginnt zwischen ihnen eine Geschichte, die nur sie verstehen. Aus wenigen Zeilen werden echte Gespräche, aus vorsichtiger Nähe Vertrauen, und aus Loves Bucket List ein Plan: wieder singen, einen Jungen küssen, leben statt sich zu verstecken. Doch nicht jede Wunde heilt gemeinsam.

Jake Hayes ist verschwunden. Zuerst glaubt Nina, dass ihr Mann nur eine Auszeit nimmt, nachdem sie sich am Vorabend heftig gestritten hatten. Lily Scott, Ninas Freundin und Kollegin, hat das unbehagliche Gefühl, vielleicht die Letzte gewesen zu sein, die Jake vor seinem Verschwinden gesehen hat. Nina lässt nicht locker. Getrieben von Sorge, Angst und der verzweifelten Suche nach der Wahrheit, stößt sie auf Geheimnisse und Lügen, die niemand hätte erahnen können.

Tira ist inzwischen Teil der Akademie und ihr junger Greif fordert sie mehr, als ihr lieb ist. Während Training, Aufzucht und Lernen ihren Alltag bestimmen, fiebern alle dem jährlichen Ball entgegen. Einer Nacht aus Tanz, Wein und politischen Spielen. Einzig Tira verspürt keine Vorfreude darauf. Denn etwas scheint im Verborgenen zu geschehen. Die Drachen verhalten sich seltsam. Viele verschwinden, niemand spricht darüber und genau das beunruhigt sie. Vaelon geht Tira aus dem Weg, doch jeder seiner Blicke brennt tiefer als zuvor. Eyrik hingegen sucht ihre Nähe immer offener.

Alisia is normal, as far as humans go. She’s a young historian recovering from heartbreak, intent only on settling down and living peacefully. But the gods have different intentions. Alisia and her sister wake up on an alien ship. The merciless Admiral Brutus of the Vudar empire has mistaken the pair for members of the rival Sem’Pari race and plans on using them as spies, controlling them with neural implants. However, Alisia quickly realizes Brutus’s team unknowingly implanted the wrong AI chip in her head.

What do you do when you discover your super-hot blind date from months ago is now your super-hot Russian lit professor? You overthink everything and pray for a swift end to your misery, of course!

What do you do when your freakishly smart and wickedly sarcastic Research Methods professor sees you mostly naked? You befriend him, of course.

Virginia Roberts Giuffre wurde weltweit bekannt als die wohl mutigste Stimme unter den Opfern von Epstein und Maxwell: Sie war es, die an die Öffentlichkeit ging und dadurch letztlich beide Serientäter ins Gefängnis brachte. Ihr Foto mit Prinz Andrew besiegelte dessen gesellschaftlichen Absturz. Doch ihre Geschichte wurde nie vollständig und in ihren eigenen Worten erzählt – bis jetzt. Im April 2025 nahm sich Giuffre das Leben. Sie hinterließ ein Memoir, an dem sie über Jahre gearbeitet hatte, mit dem klaren Wunsch, es nach ihrem Tod zu veröffentlichen.

Mona has learned that she has nothing figured out and plans are meaningless. After leaving her in Aspen, Abram is now breaking sales-records, rising to rock star fame almost overnight. Mona can’t seem to escape him. He is literally everywhere, or at least images of him are. Just when she thinks things can't get any more confusing, Abram returns . . . What happens next? Only TIME will tell.

The crew of spaceship NT4 simply needs one small pocket of the galaxy to recover. But their ship is on the fritz…and they’re being hunted. Alisia Randolf never wanted to be a queen. She wanted to live a normal life as a historian, to fall in love and maybe have a family of her own. On Earth. Instead, she was captured by interstellar slave traders, freed herself with the help of her AI symbiont, became the leader of the ship, and made her fair share of enemies—enemies intent on annihilating her and her subjects once and for all.

'MOONFLOW will sink its tendrils into you and infest you with its spores . . . and you'll enjoy it' Drew Huff Moonflow is three-time Hugo Award nominee Bitter Karella's debut horror novel - a gloriously queer and irreverent psychedelic trip into the heart of an eldritch wood and the horrors of...

Er hat einen Traum. Sie ist seine Rivalin. Mustergültiger Auktionshauserbe bei Tag, Sprayer bei Nacht - damit stößt Luis Herzog vor allem bei seinen Eltern auf Unverständnis. In einer öffentlichen Ausschreibung der Stadt München sieht er endlich die Chance, sich zu beweisen. Dabei gerät er immer wieder mit Malerin Minnie aneinander, die ebenfalls wenig mit seiner Graffiti-Kunst anfangen kann. Notgedrungen müssen Luis und Minnie zusammenarbeiten. Und dabei erkennen, dass hinter dem hitzigen Schlagabtausch vielleicht mehr steckt als bloßer Konkurrenzkampf.

The question-and-answer format makes this introduction to Zen especially easy to understand - and also to use as a reference, as you can easily look up just the question you had in mind. The esteemed Zen teacher Norman Fischer and his old friend and teaching colleague Susan Moon (both of them in the lineage of Shunryu Suzuki, author of Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind) give this collaborative effort a playful tone: Susan asks a question on our behalf, Norman answers it, and then Sue challenges him.

Mona’s meticulously planned allotment of relaxation is thrown into chaos by the unscheduled appearance of her older brother’s band of friends, including the one person she'd hoped to never face again. Abram still makes her feel entirely too much, which is one of the reasons she disappeared after their one week together. But now, trapped on a mountain of snow and things unspoken, Mona will have to find a way to coexist with Abram, chaos and all.