Hillbilly Elegy recounts Vice President J.D. Vance's powerful origin story... From a former marine and Yale Law School graduate now serving as the Vice President of the United States, an incisive account of growing up in a poor Rust Belt town that offers a broader, probing look at the struggles of America's white working class. THE #1 NEW YORK TIMES...

With her pen and her camera lens, popular writer, poet, and YouTube artist Orion Carloto captures the dreamlike beauty of memory. Film for Her is a story book of people, places, and memories captured on film. Through photographs, poetry, prose, and a short story, Orion Carloto invites readers to remember the forgotten and reach into the past, find comfort in the present, and...

Jack Fletcher is on the run. With no sensei to guide him, he has just his wits and his swords against many new and unknown enemies, as he journeys along the treacherous road to the port of Nagasaki and perhaps home. . . But the Shogun's samurai are hot on his trail. Barely escaping their clutches, Jack runs headlong into a trap. Kidnapped by ninja and led to their village deep in the...

In this gripping novel from #1 New York Times bestselling author Danielle Steel, a top Hollywood executive seeks a new beginning when his career takes an unplanned turn. As the head of a prestigious movie studio for nearly two decades, Andy Westfield has had every conceivable professional a stunning office on the forty-fourth floor, a loyal assistant who can all but read his...

Now a major BBC drama starring Forest Whitaker, Jonathan Rhys Meyers and Laurence Fishburne Tracing his ancestry through six generations – slaves and freedmen, farmers and blacksmiths, lawyers and architects – back to Africa, Alex Haley discovered a sixteen-year-old youth, Kunta Kinte. It was this young man, who had been torn from his homeland and in torment and anguish...

In this truly beautiful book, Andrea Zanatelli combines his extraordinary artworks with a selection of classical love poetry by Anne Brontë, William Blake, Christina Rossetti, Emily Dickinson, Percy Shelley and many more. Drawing its inspiration from the past, Love is Enough references the decorative arts of a bygone era, and is a combination of romantic imagery, antique...

Since its first publication in 1960, Maxwell Maltz’s landmark bestseller has inspired and enhanced the lives of more than 30 million readers! In this updated edition, with a new introduction and editorial commentary by Matt Furey, president of the Psycho-Cybernetics Foundation, the original text has been annotated and amplified to make Maltz’s message even more relevant for...

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • From the acclaimed author of The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle and one of the world’s greatest storytellers comes “an insistently metaphysical mind-bender” (The New Yorker) about a teenager on the run and a deceptively simple old man. Now with a new introduction by the author. Here we meet fifteen-year-old runaway Kafka Tamura and the elderly...

The definitive biography of the late Maggie Smith, national treasure and grande dame of stage and screen.

SEASONS 1 AND 2 OF THE ACCLAIMED SILO SERIES ― BASED ON BOOK 1, WOOL ― NOW ON APPLE TV+ “The final book secures the status of the Wool trilogy as a modern masterpiece.”―Sunday Express Now available in a stunning hardcover Deluxe Collector’s Edition, Dust, the final book in the New York Times bestselling Silo trilogy, features fully illustrated endpapers, sprayed...

The companion volume to 12 Rules for Life offers further guidance on the perilous path of modern life.    In 12 Rules for Life, clinical psychologist and celebrated professor at Harvard and the University of Toronto Dr. Jordan B. Peterson helped millions of readers impose order on the chaos of their lives. Now, in this bold sequel, Peterson delivers twelve more lifesaving...

Jamie Olivers 5-Zutaten-Kochbuch à la mediterran5 Zutaten mediterran bringt alles mit, was Fans an seinem Kochbuch-Bestseller Jamies 5-Zutaten-Küche am meisten lieben - aber mit dem einzigartigen "Va-va-voom" mediterraner Aromen, die Jamie auf seinen lebenslangen Reisen rund um das Mittelmeer entdeckt hat.Über 125 leckere, leicht nachkochbare und stressfreie Rezepte machen das tägliche...

Börsen seat, German finance capital, Mainhatt, Airportknotenpunkt - all of this can be linked to the Hessian main metropolis. But Frankfurt offers more than that: In addition to the unique skyline with Main and more than 100 skyscrapers, the Kaiserdom, the old opera, numerous museums and other cultural highlights in Goethe's hometown are waiting for discovery. The inner -city tourist plan...

SEASON 2 OF THE ACCLAIMED SILO SERIES ― BASED ON BOOK 1, WOOL ― NOW ON APPLE TV+ In this Silo series prequel, the second volume in the New York Times best-selling dystopian series, Hugh Howey describes the catastrophic events that led to the creation of the silo― and the beginning of the end In 2007, the Center for Automation in Nanobiotech (CAN) outlined the...

"Book and man are brilliant, passionate, optimistic and impatient . . . Outstanding." —The Economist The landmark exploration of economic prosperity and how the world can escape from extreme poverty for the world's poorest citizens, from one  of the world's most renowned economists Hailed by Timeas one of the world's hundred most influential people, Jeffrey D....

„Meczety” to wyjątkowa publikacja, która przenosi czytelników w fascynujący świat architektury meczetów, ukazując ich bogactwo i różnorodność na przestrzeni wieków. Książka ta jest doskonałym źródłem wiedzy dla wszystkich zainteresowanych kulturą i historią islamu.

Wiederholung und Training gehören zum Lernen einfach dazu, denn nur die Übung macht den Meister. In diesem Heft finden die Kinder einfach verständliche Aufgaben mit liebevoll gestalteten Illustrationen. Gut strukturierte Übungen und ein sich in der Schwierigkeit steigernder Aufbau ermöglichen es den Schulanfängerinnen und Schulanfängern sich Schritt für Schritt das Lesen zu erschließen: von...

Seit dem 7. Jahrhundert dehnt sich die Christianisierung immer weiter uber die noch heidnischen Gebiete Europas aus, wahrend es nach dem Tod Karls des Grossen 814 und dem Zerfall des Frankenreiches zu den grossen Reichsbildungen kommt. In der westlichen Reichshalfte entsteht seither das spatere Frankreich, in der Osthalfte bildet sich das Ostfrankenreich heraus. Wikinger fallen ein, im Suden...

If J.J. Abrams and Margaret Atwood collaborated on a novel, it might look something like 'Annihilation', the first in an extraordinary trilogy. For thirty years, Area X, monitored by the secret agency known as the Southern Reach, has remained mysterious and remote behind its intangible border- an environmental disaster zone, though to all appearances an abundant wilderness. Eleven...

There are no easy decisions in software architecture. Instead, there are many hard parts--difficult problems or issues with no best practices--that force you to choose among various compromises. With this book, you'll learn how to think critically about the trade-offs involved with distributed architectures. Architecture veterans and practicing consultants Neal Ford, Mark...