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A modern day classic, The Richest Man in Babylon dispenses financial advice through a collection of parables set in ancient Babylon. These famous "Babylonian parables" offer an understanding of - and solution to - a lifetime's worth of personal financial problems, and hold the secrets to acquiring money, keeping money, and earning more money.

Charlie Wilson's War is the untold story behind the last battle of the Cold War and how it fueled the rise of militant Islam. George Crile tells how Charlie Wilson, a maverick congressman from east Texas, conspired with a rogue CIA operative to launch the biggest, meanest, and most successful covert operation in the agency's history.

Carlin's riffs on religion and terrorism on this album are classic. He even tackles the timely topic of airport security. Nobody dissects untouchable subjects better than the nimble mind of George Carlin. Recorded for an HBO live broadcast stand-up special on February 6, 1999.

The #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Inspector Lynley series, hailed as “queen of the mystery genre” (Entertainment Weekly), brings us back to one of Detective Inspector Thomas Lynley’s earliest—and most personal—investigations. Don’t miss the upcoming BritBox streaming...

Brought to you by Penguin. This Penguin Classic is performed by Juliet Aubrey, who won the BAFTA for Best Actress for her role as Dorothea in the BBC serial Middlemarch. This definitive recording includes an Introduction by Rosemary Ashton. George Eliot's most ambitious novel is a masterly...

Het is 1984 en het leven is onherkenbaar veranderd. In Landingsstrook 1, het vroegere Groot-Brittannië, ziet Grote Broer alles. Niemand is veilig voor zijn blik. Behalve misschien Winston Smith? Op het Ministerie van Waarheid waar hij geschiedenis herschrijft, droomt hij stilletjes van vrijheid. In deze wereld waar liefde en seks verboden zijn en het haast onmogelijk is vriend van vijand te onderscheiden, ontmoet hij Julia en O'Brien en zweert hij in opstand te komen.

With the Dragon Wars over, Creel finds herself bored with life as a seamstress. Then word comes that a bordering country has been breeding dragons in preparation for an invasion. Never one to sit around, Creel throws herself headlong into an adventure that will reunite her with dragon friend Shardas, pit her against a vicious new enemy, and perhaps rekindle a friendship with Prince Luka that seems to have gone cold.  

Chase has two compelling reasons for returning to England—a group walk along the famed Coast to Coast trail in the picturesque Lake District, and a chance to further his relationship with Mike, the handsome Devonshire coroner he met on his last trip. The walkers, including Chase’s dear friend and fellow Anglophile Billie Mondreau, assemble at a Cumbrian hotel and begin their adventure with the traditional “baptism of the boots” in St. Bee’s Bay. But they’ve barely begun traveling eastward with their genial guide than the group dynamic turns unexpectedly rocky.

Energy protection is the art of being energetically authentic. It is about managing your energy interactions with the surrounding world to ensure that your thoughts, emotions, and behavior are aligned with your purpose and authenticity, rather than being influenced by external energy sources. Essentially, energy protection ensures that what's ours is ours and what's theirs is theirs.

Creel can't believe her aunt wants to sacrifice her to the local dragon. It's a ploy to lure a heroic knight so that he will fight the dragon, marry Creel out of chivalrous obligation, and lift the entire family out of poverty. Creel isn't worried. After all, nobody has seen a dragon in centuries. But when the beast actually appears, Creel not only bargains with him for her life, she also ends up with a rare bit of treasure from his hoard: a pair of simple blue slippers, or so she thinks.

This audiobook contains the practical ideas, principles, and teachings of the Rosicrucians and Hermetic masters and the methods that transform the apprentice into the MAGI. This audiobook will rock your consciousness. This audiobook contains the power and spiritual magic that most never find.

1984 spielt in einer Welt, in der ein totalitärer Überwachungsstaat das Leben der Menschen bis ins Letzte bestimmt und die Wahrheit beliebig definiert werden kann. Was Orwell noch als bedrohliche Dystopie verstand, ist heute in Teilen Realität geworden: Sein „Doppeldenk" ist seit Trumps „alternative facts" gewissermaßen salonfähig.

Originally entitled Plunkitt of Tammany Hall (1905) is a classic of American political literature that records the candid, “plain talks” of George Washington Plunkitt, a powerful leader within New York City’s Tammany Hall political machine. Compiled by journalist William L. Riordon, the...

The lead US interrogator of Saddam Hussein George Piro delivers a riveting account of his six months with Saddam, in formal interrogations and unguarded conversations, revealing surprising truths about the dictator’s psyche, the complexity of power, and key decisions that shaped today’s...

Mr. Brooks, in this compilation, has endeavored to select those incidents and practical remarks from Mr. Müller's Narratives, that show in an unmistakeable way, both to believers and unbelievers, the secret of believing prayer, the manifest hand of a living God, and His unfailing response, in His own time and way, to every petition which is according to His will. (From the Preface)

Una cuidada selección de los mejores artículos políticos y de crítica cultural de uno de los escritores e intelectuales más importantes del siglo XX. George Orwell dedicó su vida y obra a la defensa de la libertad del hombre. Como Simone Weil, entendió que su papel de intelectual era...

George MacDonald, a Scottish pastor, wrote these short poems, one for each day of the year, to help him with the severer misfortune he was experiencing. The poems are filled with hope and promises of Christ, yet, he also writes about his doubts. These poems are wonderful to listen to for people of any religion. (Summary by Alisson Veldhuis)

Something has shifted. You can feel it — even if you can't fully name it. The job that felt secure doesn't anymore. The savings that felt like a cushion feel thinner. The systems you were told to trust — the employer, the bank, the government, the plan — are revealing themselves to be far more fragile than anyone admitted. You're not panicking. But you're paying attention. And you're starting to realize that the old playbook — work hard, stay loyal, follow the path — was written for a world that is being dismantled in real time. By AI. By economic upheaval. By a meaning crisis that ...

Advice to young Catholic working women by a nineteenth century parish priest. - Summary by mmelhart

Few people noticed the secret codewords used by our astronauts to describe the moon. Until now, few knew about the strange moving lights they reported. George H. Leonard, former NASA scientist, fought through the official veil of secrecy and studied thousands of NASA photographs, spoke candidly with dozens of NASA officials, and listened to hours and hours of astronauts' tapes.