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An Air Force Loadmaster is menaced by strange sounds within his cargo; a man is asked to track down a childhood friend... who died years earlier; doomed pioneers forge a path westward as a young mother discovers her true nature; an alcoholic strikes a dangerous bargain with a gregarious stranger; urban explorers delve into a ruined book depository, finding more than they anticipated; residents of a rural Wisconsin town defend against a legendary monster;...
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Dieses Fachbuch beschreibt Chancen und Risiken für Mitarbeitende und Führungskräfte in einer modernen Arbeitswelt. Übergeordnete Entwicklungen wie der demografische Wandel, die zunehmende Digitalisierung und Globalisierung sowie der damit einhergehende Wertewandel verändern die Organisationsumwelten und damit auch das Verständnis von Arbeit. Die Beitragsautoren richten ihr Augenmerk auf den Menschen und diskutieren, welche Auswirkungen diese...
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Fraidy Cat Press is proud to present Fraidy Cat Quarterly Volume 1, a new quarterly home for independent horror. Our inaugural issue features stories and art sure to thrill and delight fans of weird and cosmic horror, including:
"Moniker" by Cindy Phan
"The Grudge Ditch" by Paul Stolp
"The Huldra" bu Jennifer Lee Rossman
"The Heart of the Universe Is a Hole" by R.E. Dyer
"The Roar of the Abyss" (art) by Oladosu Michael Emerald
"Hosts and Travelers"...
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Enamorarse en Las Vegas
Alex Lowell había ido a Las Vegas a divertirse con sus tres mejores amigas. Había renunciado al amor y a encontrar al príncipe azul y la única cita que quería tener era ¡una con sus amigas en el spa! Pero los días de descanso y relax de Alex se vieron interrumpidos cuando la recepcionista del hotel se puso de parto y ella acudió en su ayuda, ganándose así una propuesta de trabajo del propietario del hotel, Wyatt McKendrick....
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Künstliche Intelligenz (KI) und insbesondere Algorithmen zum Maschinellen Lernen verändern Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft wie keine andere Technologie. Dieses Buch zeigt Entscheidern in Unternehmen, aber auch allen anderen technologiebegeisterten Leserinnen und Lesern, wie KI heute konkret eingesetzt wird und welche ökonomischen Vorteile erzielt werden.
Nach einer allgemein verständlichen Einführung in die technischen Grundlagen und die wirtschaftlichen...
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Downtown Film and TV Culture, 1975—2001 brings together essays by filmmakers, exhibitors, cultural critics, and scholars from multiple generations of the New York Downtown scene to illuminate individual films and filmmakers and explore the creation of a Downtown Canon, the impact of AIDS on younger filmmakers, community access cable television broadcasts, and the impact of the historic downtown scene on contemporary experimental culture. The book...
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You are being watched.
Your every movement is being tracked, your every word recorded. Your spouse may be an informer, your children may be listening at your door, your best friend may be a member of the secret police. You are alone among thousands, among great crowds of the brainwashed, the well-behaved, the loyal. Productivity has never been higher, the media blares, and the army is ever triumphant. One wrong move, one slip-up, and you may find...
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Published in association with the Library of Congress and edited by the twenty-fourth Poet Laureate of the United States, a singular collection of poems reflecting on our relationship to the natural world by fifty of our most celebrated contemporary writers. In recent years, our poetic landscape has evolved in profound and exciting ways. So has our planet. Edited and introduced by the twenty-fourth Poet Laureate of the United States, Ada Limón, this...
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A detailed examination of the COVID-19 pandemic.
“Down the COVID-19 Rabbit Hole” discusses the widespread misuse of science during the pandemic, the likely origin of COVID-19, the pathophysiology of the disease itself, and the harms associated with the various vaccines that have been produced, particularly those based on the novel mRNA platforms. This book also looks at the widespread failure of the health professions to adequately understand...
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How do people stay true to themselves in times of crisis? Where does anyone find the strength to stand up in the face of oppression? When will the worst side of human nature wither before the best?
Margaret Atwood's dystopian novel The Handmaid's Tale has captivated readers for four decades and continues to stir popular conversation and controversy through the hit Hulu television series. The story has grown into a cautionary tale evoking fear and...
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INVITE GOD INTO EVERY MOMENT. Life is a fabric woven together with small moments. Each day we drive to work, run errands, cook meals, make phone calls, and everything else in between. In the midst of it all, God stays beside us as a partner, protector, and father. In the Patchwork Devotional, 365 days of encouragement, hope, inspiration, and humor will tune our souls to God's presence-even in the small things. Writers include some of today's most...
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The public administration is above all for us, the protection of our rights and the pursuit of the public good.
This handbook will be of interest to all those concerned with the proper functioning of public administration: individuals who apply for public services and action and the public officials who process their applications; lawyers, judges and ombudspersons involved in the review of the public administration's activities; and policy makers...
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Dieses Handbuch versteht sich als Nachschlagewerk und Hilfsmittel zur Einführung in die wichtigsten Sachbegriffe der europäischen Freimaurerei. Darin wird die masonische Bewegung von ihrer Substanz her in kompakter Form erklärt und beschrieben. Das Buch strebt keine lückenlose Aufarbeitung des Themas an, sondern möchte eine wissenschaftliche Orientierungshilfe und Grundlagen für weitere Studien über freimaurerisches Wissen bieten.
Der...
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In August of 1969, a dairy farm in the state of New York hosted a
pivotal moment in the history of pop music. Taking place only two years
after the "Summer of Love" and one year after the tumultuous events of
1968, the Woodstock Music and Art Fair put an exclamation point on the
transformational decade of the 1960s. Joni Mitchell did not attend
Woodstock, but her song of the same name captures an opposition inherent
to the turbulent and divisive...
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For more than two decades at the beginning of the 20th century William S. Sims was at the forefront of naval affairs. From the revolution in naval gunnery that he led as a junior officer, to his advocacy for the Dreadnaught style all-big-gun battleship, to his development of torpedo boat and destroyer operations, he was a central figure in helping to prepare the U.S. Navy for World War I. During the war he served as the senior naval commander in Europe...
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This rich and varied collection of essays addresses some of the most fundamental human questions through the lenses of philosophy, literature, religion, politics, and theology. Peter Augustine Lawler and Dale McConkey have fashioned an interdisciplinary consideration of such perennial and enduring issues as the relationship between nature and history, nature and grace, reason and revelation, classical philosophy and Christianity, modernity and postmodernity,...
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Su hija secreta
Maisey Yates
Una noche... un secreto que lo cambiaría todo...
Seducida por él
Dani Collins
Te deseo, Natalie. Y no después de las cinco de la tarde. Ahora.
Suya por un precio
Caitlin Crews
Esto solo es una partida de ajedrez para ti y yo soy un oportuno peón....
Pasión húngara
Una mujer despechada, un recién descubierto marido, una fogosa reconciliación...
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From Jezebel.com, the popular website for women, comes a must-read encyclopedic guide to pop culture, feminism, fashion, sex, and much more.
Within months of Jezebel's May 2007 appearance on the new media scene, fans of the blog began referring to themselves as "Jezzies" in comment threads and organizing reader meet-ups in cities all over the world. By 2008, the devotion of the self-appointed Jezzies reached such a fever pitch that the New York Times...
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Interaktive Visualisierungen gewinnen in Wissenschaft und Unternehmenspraxis zunehmend an Bedeutung. Neben der Analyse und Darstellung von Unternehmensdaten z.B. mit Hilfe moderner Data Science Methoden werden auch Visualisierungen und Animationen mit Hilfe von 3D und Virtual Reality/Augmented Reality Technologien immer wichtiger, etwa bei der Planung von Industrieanlagen, in der Architektur oder bei der Darstellung naturwissenschaftlicher Prozesse.
Das...
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In this hard-hitting anthology, journalist Shannon T. Boodram collects the compelling and personal firsthand accounts of young people dealing with sex in today's world. Laid covers a range of important topics, from teens' first times to STIs, abstinence to unplanned pregnancies. Boodram, an up-and-coming voice for her generation, engages teens and twentysomethings in honest dialogue and explores how they see and experience sex, how and why it shapes...