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I didn’t know I was a witch until a pair of cats started talking to me and I received an official summons to report to a training school for my supernatural abilities. That’s when I’m shipped off to a highly esteemed university for the supernatural, Moongrove Academy. I go to class alongside shifters, vampires, and other creatures straight from the paranormal books I love so much.

This comprehensive series of 84 lectures features three award-winning historians sharing their insights into this nation's past-from the European settlement and the Revolutionary War through the Civil War, 19th-century industrialization, two world wars, and the present day. These lectures give you the opportunity to grasp the different aspects of our past that combine to make us distinctly American, and to gain the knowledge so essential to recognizing not only what makes this country such a noteworthy part of world history, but the varying degrees to which it has lived up to its ideals.

Grasp the important ideas that have served as the backbone of philosophy across the ages with this extraordinary 60-lecture series. This is your opportunity to explore the enormous range of philosophical perspectives and ponder the most important and enduring of human questions-without spending your life poring over dense philosophical texts.

The New Testament for Everyone is an updated translation of the New Testament by renowned biblical scholar and author N.T. Wright, which builds upon on the work done in N. T. Wright’s The Kingdom New Testament. This audio edition read by N.T. Wright himself, features slight translation revisions from N. T. Wright along with new book introductions—providing a fresh and dynamic translation of the New Testament for the next generation.

There’s an apocryphal story that Alexander the Great once captured a notorious pirate named Diomedes. The great conqueror decided to interview the doomed pirate, asking him what he thought gave him the right to seize the property of other people. The pirate responded by asking the emperor what he thought gave him the right to take property that doesn’t belong to him, including entire countries. The story goes that Alexander thought the pirate very clever, granting him freedom instead of execution.

From electric lights to automobiles to the appliances that make our lives easier at work and at home, we owe so much of our world to the Industrial Revolution. In this course, The Great Courses partners with the Smithsonian - one of the world's most storied and exceptional educational institutions - to examine the extraordinary events of this period and uncover the far-reaching impact of this incredible revolution.

What were the forces that thrust the British Empire to its extraordinary position of greatness and then just as powerfully drove it into decline? And why is nearly every nation on earth, in one way or another, the consequence of the British Empire?In these 36 lectures, Professor Allitt leads you through four centuries of British power, innovation, influence, and, ultimately, diminishment-four profound centuries that literally remade the world and bequeathed the complex global legacy that continues to shape your everyday life.

A fascinating personal memoir of underwater combat in World War II, told by a man who played a major role in those dangerous operations. Frank and beautifully written, this book will be of lasting value as a submarine history by an expert and as an enduring military and political analysis.

The construction of the great pyramids of Egypt, the development of democracy in ancient Greece, the glories of ancient Rome-these stories are familiar to students of history. But what about the rest of the world? How do the histories of China and Japan, or Russia, India, and the remote territories of Sub-Saharan Africa and South America fit in with commonly known accounts of Western traditions?Learn the rest of the story with these 36 riveting lectures that survey the expanse of human development and civilization across the globe.

Mein Name ist Laschet. Armin Laschet. Voller Vorfreude auf sein Amt als Bundespräsident bezieht Armin Laschet sein neues Büro im Schloss Bellevue. Die Aussicht auf die bevorstehenden Bankette mit vorzüglichem Wein sowie die Begegnungen mit spannenden Menschen beflügelt ihn. Dass er nicht wie der Kanzler permanent schwierige Entscheidungen treffen, sondern lediglich ein paar hübsche Reden halten muss, ist ganz nach seinem Geschmack.

Wie kein anderer kann Fabio De Masi erklären, warum es in den letzten Jahren immer häufiger Finanzskandale gegeben hat, wie diese Spielarten von Steuerbetrug, Geldwäsche und Finanzkriminalität funktionieren, und wie man dem Einhalt gebieten könnte – wenn man es wollte. Ob Finanzkrise, Wirecard-Skandal oder die Cum-ex-Geschäfte der Warburg Bank – die Politik rollte den Gangstern im Nadelstreifen den Teppich aus. Wie kann das sein?

This book offers a brief introduction to the Acts of the Apostles. Acts is a substantial book, sitting right in the middle of the New Testament, looking back to the four Gospels and ahead to the mission of the early church. It provides a framework for our understanding of the letters; but it does more than that. It offers a sophisticated and nuanced view of what it means to think of the gospel of Jesus, Israel's Messiah, going out into the world over which Israel's Messiah claims the status of Lord.

Step into a captivating world of alien romance and adventure with the thrilling box set of the Captured by Aliens series.

Yao und seine Freunde erleben in der Academy jeden Tag Training, Toreschießen und Türenknallen. Immer ist was los. Eines Tages ist das Fußball-Internat plötzlich voller Mädchen. Ein neues Team von jungen Fußballerinnen aus ganz Europa beginnt die Elite-Ausbildung. Und sie sind starke Spielerinnen! Die Jungs sind verunsichert. Sollen sie gegen Mädchen spielen? Können Mädchen eine Mannschaft sein? Schnell lernen sie Amanda, Maike, Nayara und die anderen kennen und respektieren. Eine schöne gemeinsame Zeit beginnt.

Endlich ist Yao so richtig in der neuen Fußballschule angekommen: Er hat Freunde gefunden, das Training macht ihm Spaß, und der Internatalltag lässt ihn sein Heimweh vergessen. Doch dann rutscht Yao bei einer Wasserschlacht aus und verletzt sich. Und das bedeutet: Trainingspause für die nächste Zeit! Während alle anderen Jungs sich auf dem Platz tummeln, muss Yao sich nicht nur schmerzhafter Gymnastik unterziehen, sondern hockt auch noch allein auf dem Zimmer. Ein Glück, dass sich auf einmal eine große Überraschung ankündigt!

This is the story of an East Texas farm boy, the war in the Pacific, and love. Based on true events, Red Smith leaves his farm, experiences the horrors of war, and returns a man, wanting only to go back to work on the farm.

If you’ve ever wanted to delve more deeply into the mysteries of human emotion, perception, and cognition, and of why we do what we do, these 48 lectures offer a superb place to start. With them, you’ll see the entire history of psychology unfold. In the hands of Professor Robinson, these lectures encompass ideas, speculations, and point-blank moral questions that might just dismantle and rebuild everything you once thought you knew about psychology.

Unlock true peace of mind with our definitive guide to managing and protecting your assets. This isn't just another dry legal book; it’s your all-in-one solution to creating a living trust that ensures your legacy is exactly as you intend it to be.

Here's the hard truth about leadership: It either forces you to get stronger or it slowly destroys your life. There is no in-between. Kevin Lawrence has discovered 17 habits that allow any leader to transcend the perils of success and keep achieving - habits that have already helped hundreds of CEOs and executives become stronger and more resilient.

Learn a proven step-by-step mixing process that's helped thousands of musicians and engineers like yourself make amazing mixes in their home studio, using only EQ, compression, reverb, delay, and saturation.