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Since its first publication in 1908, Scouting for Boys has been one of the best-selling books in the English language. Subtitled A Handbook for Instruction in Good Citizenship, the book draws on a miscellany of material, including Baden-Powell's own military experiences, and is credited with giving birth to the scout movement. The audio covers the topics of scoutcraft, tracking and observation, woodcraft, camp life, and first aid in addition to suggesting a range of scout activities and games.

Although much is now known about the brain, relatively little has been determined about where consciousness comes from. Dr. Diane Powell, a Johns Hopkins-trained neuroscientist, has brilliantly reassessed the meaning and nature of consciousness by exploring research on the workings of psychic phenomena.

1940 - der Zweite Weltkrieg ist ausgebrochen. Der Kriegsbeginn ist ein Einschnitt im Leben von Nicholas Jenkins und seinen Freunden. Als zweiter Leutnant tritt er einem Regiment in Wales bei, geführt von einem übereifrigen Kommandanten. Der Alltag als Soldat auf heimatlichem Boden schwankt zwischen absurden Manövern und quälender Langeweile, und so verbringen Nick und seine Kameraden die meiste Zeit mit Warten und mit dem Gedanken an Frauen.

From BSFA award-winning author Gareth L. Powell comes the first in a new epic sci-fi trilogy exploring the legacies of war. The sentient warship Trouble Dog was built for violence, yet following a brutal war, she is disgusted by her role in a genocide. Stripped of her weaponry and seeking to atone, she joins the House of Reclamation, an organization dedicated to rescuing ships in distress. When a civilian ship goes missing in a disputed system, Trouble Dog and her new crew of loners, captained by Sal Konstanz, are sent on a rescue mission.

1942 wird Nicholas Jenkins zurück nach London versetzt. Hier begegnet er der aufregenden Pamela Flytton, die bei ihm und seinen Freunden für Unruhe sorgt. Nachdem Nick zunächst fasziniert von ihr ist, verlobt sie sich ausgerechnet mit Widmerpool. Nick lässt seine Beziehungen spielen und steigt gesellschaftlich weiter auf, dabei bergen das Ende des Krieges und der Übergang zum zivilen Leben einige Herausforderungen.

It Worked for Me is filled with vivid experiences and lessons learned that have shaped the legendary career of the four-star general and former Secretary of State Colin Powell. At its heart are Powell's "Thirteen Rules" - such as "Get mad, then get over it" and "Share credit" - that introduce his principles for effective leadership: conviction, hard work, and, above all, respect for others. A natural storyteller, Powell offers warm and engaging parables with wise advice on succeeding in the workplace and beyond.

Im vierten Band des Romanzyklus "Ein Tanz zur Musik der Zeit" folgt ein gesellschaftliches Ereignis aufs nächste. Der Erzähler Nick Jenkins und seine Freunde haben erste Karierreschritte gemacht, erste Liebschaften hinter sich gebracht. Auf einem Fest der titelgebenden Lady Molly Jeavons lernt Jenkins die Tolland Familie kennen und trifft schließlich seine zukünftige Ehefrau Isobel Tolland. Auch Widmerpool verfängt sich in amourösen Verstrickungen, er plant ein romantisches Wochenende mit seiner Verlobten und bittet Jenkins um Rat.

In 1944, as waves of German ninjas parachute into Kent, Britain's best hopes for victory lie with a Spitfire pilot codenamed Ack-Ack Macaque. The trouble is, Ack-Ack Macaque is a cynical, one-eyed, cigar-chomping monkey, and he's starting to doubt everything, including his own existence.

There were three patrols that fateful January 1991 morning: Bravo One Zero, Bravo Two Zero and Bravo Three Zero. It was the opening hours of the Gulf War, and the SAS were flown deep behind enemy lines to hunt down Saddam's Scud missiles. The men of Bravo One Zero stepped off the chopper, took one look at the flat desert devoid of any cover and decided no way were they deploying into all of that. But Andy NcNab's famed Bravo Two Zero patrol did deploy, with fatal results—all bar one being captured or killed. And then there was Bravo Three Zero. These men were different.

Leadership succession made easy. Leaders leave. It's inevitable. It might even happen today. Are you prepared? Every organization needs a plan for leadership succession, but few leaders know how to start the process. Who Comes Next? solves that problem and easily guides you through the steps of creating and implementing a viable succession plan. This essential guidebook simplifies the process and gives you the tools you need to build and activate your leadership succession.

Hawaiian Shamanistic Healing explores the techniques of several renowned healing systems, including Kahi Loa, Heartworks Lomi, Big Island Massage, Traditional Hawaiian Touch Medicine, and Temple Style Lomi. Join authors Wayne Kealohi Powell and Patricia Lynn Miller, longtime students and practitioners of Hawaiian bodywork and shamanism, as they show you how to create space for miracles and open up to the healing energy of the divine.

Tokyo, 1995. Five men meet at the racetrack every Sunday to bet on horses. They have little in common except a deep disaffection with their lives, but together they represent the social struggles and griefs of post-war Japan. Intent on revenge against a society that values corporate behemoths more than human life, the five conspirators decide to carry out a heist: kidnap the CEO of Japan's largest beer conglomerate and extract blood money from the company's corrupt financiers.

Team Impossible: Kim erfährt, dass sie ihren ersten Rettungs-Auftrag einem Tippfehler verdankte – der Hilfesuchende wollte eigentlich das Team Impossible. Dieses Team setzt jetzt alles dran, um Kim aus dem Heldengeschäft zu drängen. Ein ganzer Kerl: In der Middelton Highschool hält Ron einen Vortrag, in dem er beweisen will, dass er ein richtiger Mann ist. Seine Beweiskette hat jedoch eine Lücke – und Ron eine Identitätskrise. Da kommt er mit einem molekularen Muskelverstärker in Kontakt.

Isolated from society, Emily Brontë along with her brother and four sisters spend their days inventing elaborate fictional realms or roaming the wild moors above their family home in Yorkshire. When the time comes for them to venture out into the world to earn a living, each of them struggles to adapt, but for Emily the change is catastrophic. Torn from the landscape to which she has become so passionately bound, she is simply unable to function.

On the day they are born, each Swift is brought before the sacred Family Dictionary. They are given a name and a definition, and it is assumed they will grow up to match. Unfortunately, Shenanigan Swift has other ideas. So what if her relatives all think she's destined to turn out as a troublemaker, just because of her name? Shenanigan knows she can be whatever she wants - pirate, explorer or even detective. Which is lucky, really, because when one of the Family tries to murder Arch-Aunt Schadenfreude, someone has to work out whodunit.

Im Mittelpunkt des zweiten Bandes von Anthony Powells Romanzyklus "Ein Tanz zur Musik der Zeit" steht das gesellschaftliche Leben von Nicholas Jenkins und seinen Freunden. Nick arbeitet nach Abschluss seines Studiums als Lektor in einem Verlag für Kunstbücher in London. Wichtiger als das Berufsleben sind jedoch die Abendessen, Bälle und Partys, bei denen er seinen Freunden aus Schulzeiten wieder begegnet und neue Bekanntschaften schließt. Amouröse Verwicklungen sind dabei natürlich vorprogrammiert.

1941 befindet sich England und somit auch Nicholas Jenkins mitten im Zweiten Weltkrieg. Nicks langjähriger Bekannter Widmerpool ist mittlerweile sein Kommandant. Widmerpools selbstbezogener Führungsstil sorgt für Spannungen im Regiment, sodass Nick mit Hochdruck an einer Veränderung seiner Situation arbeitet. Zunehmend steigt auch die Sorge um Freunde und Familienmitglieder, die in London unmittelbar vom Krieg bedroht sind.

Much of what we hear about who gets to the top, and how, is wrong. Those who become chief executives set their sights on the C-suite at an early age. In fact, over 70 percent of the CEOs didn't have designs on the corner office until later in their careers. You must graduate from an elite college. In fact, only seven percent of CEOs in the dataset are Ivy League graduates - and eight percent didn't graduate from college at all. To become a CEO you need a flawless résumé. The reality: 45 percent of CEO candidates had at least one major career blowup.

Anthony Powell's universally acclaimed epic encompasses a four-volume panorama of twentieth century London. Hailed by Time as "brilliant literary comedy as well as a brilliant sketch of the times," A Dance to the Music of Time opens just after World War I. Amid the fever of the 1920s and the first chill of the 1930s, Nick Jenkins and his friends confront sex, society, business, and art.

The terrifying future of our world after climate change - as predicted by a leading geochemist. As his health begins to fail, a historian in the year 2084 sets out to document the irreparable damage climate change has wrought on the planet over the course of his life. He interviews scientists, political leaders and ordinary people all around the world who have suffered its catastrophic effects, from devastating floods and mass droughts to war and famine.