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In a tech-dominated world, the most needed degrees are the most surprising: the liberal arts. Did you take the right classes in college? Will your major help you get the right job offers? For more than a decade, the national spotlight has focused on science and engineering as the only reliable choice for finding a successful postgrad career. Quietly, though, a different path to success has been taking shape. In You Can Do Anything, George Anders explains the remarkable power of a liberal arts education.

Julen närmar sig med stormsteg och i den lilla bokaffären ska ägaren Rune äntligen få ett besök av en känd författare. Han har köpt in massor av böcker som han hoppas få sålt under dagen. Svea och Annie är stamkunder i bokaffären, fast i ärlighetens namn köper de sällan något, men de är ofta där och läser. De älskar nämligen böcker.

Charlotte “Charlie” Chase appears to have everything: a lucrative marketing career, a handsome fiancé, a mansion in Houston. But a chance encounter with the mysterious, and alluring, Paxton Crown (owner of L.O.V.E. enterprises) at a pole dancing studio, is forcing her to admit that she’s disillusioned with her stellar-but-soulless job and frigid fiancé. The world of pole dancing pulls Charlie in, and the passionate, sultry environment has her questioning her life’s direction.

Willkommen zu "radikal anders", dem Podcast der AWO Mönchengladbach über New Work in der Sozialwirtschaft. Tauche mit uns ein in die Welt der Beta-Organisation, in der Hierarchien aufgebrochen und innovative Arbeitsmodelle gelebt werden. Erlebe mit uns spannende Gespräche über transformative Ansätze, die die Zukunft der (sozialen) Arbeit neu definieren. Erfahre, wie radikal anderes Denken die Sozialwirtschaft revolutioniert, welche Rolle lebenslanges Lernen und jede:r Einzelne dabei spielt.

Onetime government agent Piet Hoffmann is on the run: both from the life prison sentence he escaped and from the Polish drug mafia he double-crossed. Only Hoffmann's handler, Erik Wilson, knows he now hides in Calí, Colombia, living under a false identity with his wife, Zofia, and sons Rasmus and Hugo. But life on the run is precarious. And so when Hoffmann, in order to survive, accepts employment as a bodyguard and hit man for the Colombian cocaine mafia and is simultaneously approached by the US DEA to infiltrate the same cartel, he says yes to both.

Meet Cherry, a bandit queen on the run, driving a pink soft-top convertible through the Badlands of Southeast England. She's never felt more Thelma and Louise in her life - except there are three of them in the car and one of them is dead. How did a head nurse and mother of two end up driving a handcuffed policeman and the corpse of a murdered refugee on a journey to find justice? Pursued by a racist, roid-raged, shaven-headed officer of the law - not to mention by her husband and daughter - what else can a woman with a conscience do in modern Britain?

Twenty-eight-year-old Kyla Marshall has desires of advancing her career in public relations at all costs...until she ends up stumbling in on a special ops mission that takes her from her client’s lab in the year 2017 to AD 8 ancient Rome. After learning her new reality, she discovers that the team’s mission is to stop a biochemical scientist from unleashing a deadly virus on the unsuspecting first-century people in order to change history. As Kyla encounters hostility and strife on her journey, she is surprisingly protected by the team's leader, Capt. Christopher Eriksen.

Du bist getrieben und gehetzt. Teil einer Informationsrevolution. Statt dir Zeit zum Denken und Lenken zu nehmen, rennst du um die Wette nach dem neuesten Wissen und dem aktuellsten Trend. Bis alles vor deinen Augen verschwimmt. Manager, Mitarbeiter, Mensch: In der Welt des außer Kontrolle geratenen Wissens lassen wir der Weisheit keine Chance. Wollen wir nicht als Homo obsoletus in die Geschichte eingehen, müssen wir wieder mit dem Denken beginnen. Um uns und unser Business wieder relevant zu machen. Wie du das wilde Wissen zähmst, liest du bei Anders Indset.

Die rasante Entwicklung von künstlicher Intelligenz, die ersten Quantencomputer und die Automatisierung von immer weiteren Lebens- und Arbeitsbereichen wird massive Auswirkungen auf unsere Zukunft und unser Wirtschaftsmodell haben. Algorithmen werden zu Autoritäten und diese werden unvermeidlich im Wettbewerb gegeneinander antreten. Aber Technologie allein kann und wird nicht die Antwort auf alle unsere Herausforderungen sein. Noch sind wir Menschen die Treiber und Bindeglieder, die unsere Umwelt, Gesellschaft, Wirtschaft und Realität steuern können.

Time travel doesn't actually solve problems. It just makes them more complex....

As iconic rock guitarist Yngwie Malmsteen enters his mid 50s, well-respected rock journalist Anders Tengner takes a look back at the Swedish rock god's career and life. Malmsteen's finesse, speed and style took the music world by storm when he first came to international attention in the early 1980s. His talent and personal life have remained at the center of that storm ever since. "As Above, So Below: The Unauthorized Yngwie Biography" reveals how Malmsteen became who he is today, for better or worse. His is a story fueled by fury, extreme passion and determination.

Do you struggle with confidence? Have 1st tee jitters? Get nervous standing over 2 foot putts? If so, you will enjoy Peaceful Golf. Peaceful Golf was written and designed to allow folks the ability to create positive messages to the subconscious to improve their golf game. An explanation is provided of how the subconscious mind works, how it applies to golf, implementing the Peaceful Golf concept, and how to overcome the distracting YIPS.

Presumed dead by the Stockholm police, master criminal and undercover informant Piet Hoffmann is now on the run from the Swedish authorities, living with his wife and two young sons under an assumed name in Cali, Colombia. Only Hoffmann's former police handler, Erik Wilson, knows where he is - and that he has accepted two dangerous new jobs: one as a high-level enforcer for a Colombian cocaine cartel and one as an infiltrator for the DEA, working to bring the cartel down.

The chase continues for the legendary Horns of Osius. Thianna and Karn's quest to retrieve the horns from those who wish to abuse their power takes them to Thica, an ancient land where two tyrant queens reign supreme and where, years earlier, Thianna's mother was labeled a traitor. Soon the two heroes are caught up in an epic battle for control of the kingdom, one that puts their very lives at stake. The only way to overthrow the queens is to beat them at their own game.

Karn Korlundsson is a gamer, not a riddle solver. But in order to rescue his best friend, Thianna Frostborn, he will need to travel to the faraway city of Castlebriar (by wyvern), learn how to play a new board game called Charioteers (not a problem), decipher the riddle of the horn, and tangle with mysterious elves.

For the past year, veteran journalists Anders and Beverly Gyllenhaal traveled more than 25,000 miles across the Americas, chronicling costly experiments, contentious politics, and new technologies to save our beloved birds from the brink of extinction. Through this compelling drama, A Wing and a Prayer offers hope and an urgent call to action: Birds are dying at an unprecedented pace. But there are encouraging breakthroughs across the hemisphere and still time to change course, if we act quickly.

For many, the election of Donald Trump in 2016 was a dream come true. Millions saw him as a redeemer destined to make America great again. For others, his election came as a shock and established forces and institutions immediately began to conspire to wreck his presidency. Now, years after leaving the White House, the frenzy to lock Trump up is turning the U.S. into a banana republic. How can a single event provoke such strong reactions and dangerous outcomes?

When Theo Hesson visits his grandparents for the summer, he has no idea what's in store for him and his new friends. Until they attend the showing of that week's Saturday matinee monster movie. That's when the monsters come out of the woodwork, and it's up to Theo and his friends to save the day!

Als Videospieltester hat man das große Los gezogen. Das glauben zumindest die meisten Spieler, die von der Realität keine Ahnung haben. Sie müssen sich ja auch nicht mit verbuggten Scripts, fehlerbehafteten Charakteren, zahllosen Monstern und reihenweise auftretenden, nervenden Programmfehlern auseinandersetzen. Und außerdem können sie sich jederzeit wieder ausloggen.

In The Viking Code: The Art and Science of Norwegian Success, economic philosopher, entrepreneur, investor, and former competitive athlete Anders Indset reveals how Norwegian performance athletes and other successful figures use ingrained cultural values to achieve outsized influence on the world stage, as well as how we all can learn from and apply this cultural wisdom to create a better world in the future.