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Loose Balls is, after all these years, the definitive and most widely respected history of the ABA. It's a wild ride through some of the wackiest, funniest, strangest times ever to hit pro sports -- told entirely through the (often incredible) words of those who played, wrote and connived their way through the league's nine seasons.

A Brand New You is a collection of insights designed to give you the tools that you need to quit porn for good and provide you with the formula to transform yourself. Condensed into its simplest form for easy consumption and digestion, A Brand New You shares wisdom to help arm you with  everything you need to regain your wonder, joy, and love for life, as well as rediscover who you are on your deepest level.

Following his good fortune in Pazzio, Lawrence is confident that he is on the path to realizing his dream of becoming a town merchant. One ill-informed business decision, though, leaves him teetering on the brink of bankruptcy and ruin! With no assets to his name—other than the cunning of his fetching traveling companion, Holo the Wisewolf—Lawrence may need to resort to illicit means to put his affairs in order. With all of the merchant's plans hinging on one beautiful young shepherdess—for whose vocation Holo holds no affection—Lawrence's prospects are looking grim!

Listen to the audio summary of The Culture Code. Over the course of five years, Daniel Coyle visited and studied some of the world’s most successful organizations in the fields of education, entertainment, professional sports, military, and even crime. He offers insights from these world-class leaders and practical ideas for action.

Nicole Richardson is a woman with a purpose—prove herself worthy of her place in a male-dominated field. Fiercely competitive, wielder of tough love and motivation, and terrible at dealing with things outside of her control. Between making sure the players are thriving, and coping with a changing family dynamic, a relationship isn't even on her radar.

Was wäre, wenn es wissenschaftliche Lösungen gäbe, die Ihre tiefsten Ängste vor einer Krankheit, einer lebensbedrohlichen Diagnose oder den Auswirkungen des Alterns auslöschen könnten? Life Force zeigt Ihnen, wie Sie jeden Tag mit mehr Energie, einem starken Immunsystem und dem Know-how aufwachen können, um Ihre biologische Uhr zurückzudrehen. Dieses Buch ist für jeden geeignet, vom Hochleistungssportler über den Durchschnittsmenschen, der seine Energie und Kraft steigern möchte, bis hin zu Menschen, die Heilung suchen.

Als FBI-Agent war es 25 Jahre lang Joe Navarros Aufgabe, Spione, Mörder und Verbrecher anhand ihrer Körpersprache zu entlarven. Denn nur 20 Prozent unserer Kommunikation laufen über das gesprochene Wort. Zu 80 Prozent kommunizieren wir nonverbal und unbewusst. In diesem Hörbuch erklärt Navarro, wie man sein Gegenüber durchschaut, wie man Gefühle und Verhaltensweisen präzise entschlüsselt, Fallstricken ausweicht und souverän Körperhaltung und Mimik entlarvt, die in die Irre führen sollen.

Goalie Brad Spencer is flying high after his team clinches the Cup and names him their MVP. Like his teammates, he’s ready to celebrate - ideally with someone in his bed. When he slips off to a gay bar, he meets someone who’s gorgeous, willing, and...absolutely the last man he should be touching. Head coach Anthony Caruso just wants to have a few drinks and get laid to soothe the sting of his team losing the Cup.

"CASHFLOW Quadrant", der zweite Teil des Bestsellers "Rich Dad Poor Dad" von Robert T. Kiyosaki, deckt auf, warum manche Menschen weniger arbeiten, mehr Geld verdienen, weniger Steuern zahlen und sich finanziell sicherer fühlen als andere. Bill Gates, Steve Jobs und Richard Branson haben die Schule ohne Abschluss verlassen und haben dennoch extrem erfolgreiche Unternehmen aufgebaut, für die viele der intelligentesten Absolventen der Universitäten arbeiten wollen.

Through the rising action of his life in literature, Lennon’s remembrances track the influence not only of his literary pater familias, Norman Mailer, but his actual father, a booze-bitten blue-collar bibliophile with his own reputation for genius, and how together these mentors forged and focused the 20/20 literary vision Lennon takes to the work of some of the greatest writers of the Twentieth Century, from Baldwin and Bishop to Didion and DeLillo and, not least, Mailer himself.

Warum bleiben die Reichen reich und die Armen arm? Weil die Reichen ihren Kindern beibringen, wie sie mit Geld umgehen müssen, und die anderen nicht! Die meisten Angestellten verbringen im Laufe ihrer Ausbildung lieber Jahr um Jahr in Schule und Universität, wo sie nichts über Geld lernen, statt selbst erfolgreich zu werden.

Uralte Geschichten aus aller Welt beschreiben Wesen, die wir heute als Außerirdische bezeichnen würden. Welche Geheimnisse verbergen sich sonst noch in den Erzählungen unserer Vorfahren in aller Welt? Von Senatsbesprechungen in Washington/DC bis hin zu geheimen Zeremonien im südlichen Afrika, von seltsamen Phänomenen in Australien und im Irak bis hin zu mysteriösen Begegnungen im modernen Brasilien und im antiken Griechenland.

Hearing rumors of a "leg bone of the wolf" being used as an artifact of the Church to showcase its power, Lawrence and Holo head to the site to gather more information. Holo can't just turn away from what might be a relic of her own kind, after all. Of course, upon arrival, the travelers find that the town is the center of a giant trade dispute! Seems that Col will be getting a lesson in microeconomics!

Die Inschrift auf dem Orakel von Delphi lautet: »Nichts im Übermaß«. Das ist leicht gesagt, aber schwer zu praktizieren – und wenn es schon 300 v. Chr. schwer war, so ist es heute fast unmöglich. Und doch ist die Selbstdisziplin die stärkste und wichtigste Tugend, die jeder von uns lernen kann. Ohne sie können wir unsere Lebensziele nicht erreichen. Ryan Holiday beschreibt im 2. Band der Reihe über die vier stoischen Tugenden, wie wir Willenskraft, Mäßigung und Selbstkontrolle – also Disziplin – in unserem Leben kultivieren können.

The Seven Levels of Communication tells the entertaining and educational story of Rick Masters, who is suffering from a down economy when he meets a mortgage professional who has built a successful business without advertising or personal promotion. Skeptical, he agrees to accompany her to a conference to learn more about her mysterious methods. Rick soon learns that the rewards for implementing these strategies are far greater than he had ever imagined.

When a Category 5 hurricane is poised to hit their coastal Florida town, the Davies family takes refuge in their waterfront manse. Marlowe, Lee, and their teenage twins invite their close friends to wait out the storm in comfort and style. Uninvited are the three strangers who dock on the family’s shore right before the storm descends. Brothers Jason and Bo—and Bo’s girlfriend, Darcy—are a charming, helpful trio in need of a safe haven that the Davies are only too happy to provide. But as the storm outside grows more threatening, so does the tension in the house.

The Three-Body Problem is a series of science fiction novels written by Cixin Liu. The trilogy contains Book I: Remembrance of Earth's Past, Book II: The Dark Forest, and Book III: Death’s End. The initial novel covered the developing relationship between the alien Trisolaran civilization and humankind. The Dark Forest followed Earth’s compounding troubles as they grappled with the looming Trisolaran invasion as well as internal political turmoil. Death’s End marks the finale of the Three-Body Problem Trilogy.

Wie findet man das wahre Glück? Wie lässt sich Erfolg wirklich bemessen? Und wie geht man mit den Herausforderungen des Alltags wie Wut, Trauer und der Frage nach dem Sinn des Ganzen um? Was große Geister wie George Washington, Friedrich der Große, Weltklassesportler oder Top-Performer längst für sich entdeckt haben, liegt mit "Der tägliche Stoiker" erstmals gesammelt vor.

Battle Mage or Magical Engineer? Like that was even a real question. Battle Mage...obviously. Magical Engineers live quiet, boring lives. I crave excitement. And as an agent for the Arcane Mage Intelligence Agency, that’s exactly what I get. It’s a pretty great life. I go on solo missions, kicking ass and taking names, I hook up with men whenever I want to blow off some steam, and I hang out with my family if I’m ever after company. Everything changes when my psycho uncle fails in his attempt to kill my father. Now, I’m in charge of the manhunt against him.

In these moving and revealing personal stories, 18 Obama staffers bring us deep inside the presidency, offering intimate accounts of how they made it to the White House, what they witnessed, and what they accomplished there. In each one we see the human face of government, staffers devoting themselves to the issues that have defined their lives.