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From Halloween costumes to patriotic parades to belly-busting meals, every holiday tradition tells a unique story—one encoded in symbols and layered meanings that stretch back over the centuries. In 19 lectures, professional storyteller Dr. Hannah B. Harvey takes listeners through the seasons and investigates the surprising stories behind seemingly odd holiday traditions.

After ten years of loyal service, Daisy Butterworth has been made redundant. Like any clever woman, she knows the cure to redundancy is a little too much wine and her best friend. Only the next morning, Daisy has more than a hangover...she has a whole new house—in France! Seeing this as an opportunity instead of a disaster, she’s excited about finally moving to France, just as she and her husband always dreamed of. However, Daisy is in for another surprise. Despite planning to move there for over 20 years, her husband never actually intended to go.

Click buy: a French chateau. Condition: ‘may require improvement'. It seemed like a good idea. Selling everything we owned. Just Mark and me, swapping our tiny, little terraced London home – and the heartbreak of not being able to start a family – for an entire chateau in the middle of France… It’s everyone’s dream. And now it’s coming true for us. As I use the rusty key to open the big creaking wooden door of the tumbledown fairytale chateau that’s officially our new home, I wonder: what could possibly go wrong?

During the Global Financial Crisis in 2008, our financial infrastructure failed. Governments bailed out the very institutions that let the economy down. This episode spurred a serious rethink of our financial system. In DeFi and the Future of Finance, Campbell R. Harvey, Ashwin Ramachandran, and Joey Santoro introduce the new world of decen­tralized finance. The book argues that the current financial landscape is ripe for dis­ruption and we are seeing, in real time, the reinvention of finance.

It is customary, when referring to the life and work of a poet, to speak in academic terms. But with Jalal-ud-Din Rumi, this custom does not apply. His direct and indirect influence on both our spiritual lives and world literature over the past seven centuries has been immeasurable. Not only does his writing continue to set sales records, he is also remembered as the founder of Mevlevi Sufism—the whirling dervishes—whose followers in this century have numbered in the millions.

This audio recording rescues ambition from suspicion by putting it to work for the glory of God. Many think of ambition as nothing more than the drive for personal honor or fame. As a result, ambition, the God-implanted drive to improve, produce, develop, and create, is neglected and well on its way to paralysis. For some, dreams are numbed. For others, there are no dreams; life just happens. And for those who are dreaming, motives are often confused. One thing is certain: ambition needs help.

Doctors don't "implement medicine," they practice medicine. Lawyers don't "implement cases," they practice law. Shouldn't Lean facilitators, consultants, managers, and the like, also "practice Lean?" When most of us start with Lean, the practices and principles are new. We might struggle to make change happen. I know I did. Our initial clumsy efforts hopefully turn into proficiency and mastery over time. We shift from "doing Lean" to "being Lean" and teaching others how to be Lean.

It's Jake's birthday. He is sitting in a small plane, being flown over the landscape that has been the backdrop to his life - his childhood, his marriage, his work, his passions. Now he is in his early sixties, and he isn't quite the man he used to be. He has lost his wife, his son is in prison, and he is about to lose his past, for Jake has Alzheimer's.

The medieval humoral system of medicine suggested that it was possible to die from having too much - or too little - sex, while the Roman Catholic Church taught that virginity was the ideal state. Holy men and women committed themselves to lifelong abstinence in the name of religion. Everyone was forced to conform to restrictive rules about who they could have sex with, in what way, how often, and even when, and could be harshly punished for getting it wrong.

Sechs Astronauten schweben in einer Raumstation durchs All. Den Planeten Erde umkreisen sie in 90 Minuten, sechzehnmal in 24 Stunden. Die zwei Frauen und vier Männer aus ganz unterschiedlichen Nationen arbeiten, essen und schlafen auf engstem Raum – und doch ist alles losgelöst vom Alltag, Schwerkraft und Zeitempfinden sind außer Kraft gesetzt. Was passiert, wenn man seine Heimat nur aus weiter Ferne durch ein kleines Fenster sieht? Wie verändern sich Denken und Fühlen?

Søstrene Meredith og Nina Whitson er meget forskellige. Da søstrenes far pludselig bliver alvorligt syg, vender de tilbage til barndomshjemmet. Her bliver de konfronteret med deres kølige mor, som de aldrig har følt sig tæt knyttet til – undtagen når hun igen og igen fortalte et bestemt russisk eventyr om stor kærlighed og mørk ondskab.

Ruth and Simon’s romantic break is shattered by the news that their daughter, Heather, on holiday in Cornwall, has disappeared. The loss is more than they can bear and they separate. In time Ruth remarries and has a second daughter, Beatrice. Then Beatrice goes missing. While DI Grayson leads the search for Beatrice, DS Helen Walker re-examines what happened to Heather years before.

A dispute between rival gangs escalates into violence. One teenage girl is left dead, another injured and a police officer is caught in the crossfire. DI Resnick is hauled back to the front line to help deal with the fallout. But when the dead girl's father seeks to lay the blame on his colleague, Resnick finds the line between personal and professional dangerously blurred.

Only in 1995 did the United States government officially reveal the existence of the super-secret Venona Project. For nearly fifty years American intelligence agents had been decoding thousands of Soviet messages, uncovering an enormous range of espionage activities carried out against the United States during World War II by its own allies. This extraordinary book is the first to examine the Venona messages.

Temper tantrums in the supermarket. Tears that seem to come out of nowhere. Battles over homework that are more like wars. When your child has problems regulating his or her emotions, there's no hiding it. Children with intense emotions go from zero to 100 in seconds and are prone to frequent emotional and behavioral outbursts that leave parents feeling bewildered and helpless. Other parents may have told you that it's just a phase or that your child needs discipline.

24-årige Saeris Fane er god til at holde på hemmeligheder. Da Saeris en dag står ansigt til ansigt med Døden selv, åbner hun ved et tilfælde en portal mellem verdener og bliver transporteret til et rige af is og sne. Som det første menneske til at sætte fod i Yvelias frosne bjerge i over tusind år binder Saeris sig ved et uheld til Kingfisher, en elverkriger med sin helt egen dagsorden og sine helt egne hemmeligheder.

London Kelly is in love with her best friend and has been for years. Too bad he’s an adorably clueless, handsome-as-hell idiot who a) just doesn’t see what everyone else sees and b) abides by the rule of ‘don’t screw the crew’s sisters, daughters, or exes.' And since London’s dad is his fire captain, that puts her firmly in the do not touch category. Then one night, London decides to throw caution to the wind and kisses him, finding her unequivocally placed in the friend zone.

Cornwall, 1910. På en afsides tidevandsø, hvor godset Tithe Hall troner, forbereder herskabet sig på verdens undergang. Greven Conrad er overbevist om, at Halleys komet vil udslette alt liv på Jorden, og han beordrer godset forseglet fra kælder til kvist. Men han overser én afgørende ting: faren, der lurer indenfor… Næste morgen bliver Conrad fundet myrdet bag låste døre – dræbt af sin egen armbrøst. Mistanken falder straks på den unge butler Steven Pike.

En sen aften i 1987 sidder Leif på 18 år og spiller matador med sin far Uff'. Leif taber. Og det får store konsekvenser, for som spillets vinder bestemmer Uff', at Leif skal i trøjen, selvom han har trukket frinummer. Ja, faktisk har han allerede meldt Leif til marineinfanteriet på Bornholm. Men under en øvelse kommer Leifs deling ud for en ulykke. Han knækker og indlægges på militærpsykiatrisk. Og deserterer, da han udskrives.

Et s'il était temps pour une maman en crise de changer de vie ? Un feel good amusant et réconfortant pour rêver d'autre chose que d'une « vie parfaite ». La vie de Clara Bailey est merveilleuse. Une carrière réussie, un mari aimant, deux enfants et une superbe maison de ville. Parfait ! Du moins, ce sont les apparences. En fait, elle ne s'est jamais sentie aussi invisible. Son patron se souvient à peine de son nom, son mari est occupé par son nouveau job à la télévision et sa fille ne l'a jamais trouvée si embarrassante !