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Debunking the junk science behind health fads, wellness scams and nonsensical nutrition advice.

Edmund Hillary - A Biography is the story of the New Zealand beekeeper who climbed Mount Everest. A man, who against expedition orders, drove his tractor to the South Pole; a man honored around the world for his pioneering climbs, yet who collapsed on more than one occasion on a mountain, and a man who gave so much to Nepal yet lost his family to its mountains.

After seven long years of conflict, the Horus Heresy nears its end. But now, as the Warmaster Horus marches on Terra to rip his father from the Throne, the seat of the arch-traitor’s power lies empty. Cthonia, a world once dominated by brutal murder-gangs, is occupied by the Emperor’s praetorians—the indomitable Imperial Fists. For the Sons of Horus, this outrage demands a reckoning.

For over two decades, Donald Michael Kraig's Modern Magick has been the world's most popular step-by-step guide to working real magick. Tens of thousands of individuals and groups have used this course as their primary instruction manual. Now, greatly revised and expanded, this set of lessons is more complete and relevant to your life than ever. Modern Magick will safely guide you-even if you know little or nothing-through a progressive series of practical exercises and rituals, complemented by the knowledge, history, insights, and theory you need to become a successful ceremonial magician.

Listen to hilarious stories with serious lessons that Michael Lopp extracts from his varied and sometimes bizarre experiences as a manager at Apple, Pinterest, Palantir, Netscape, Symantec, Slack, and Borland. Many of the stories first appeared in primitive form in Lopp’s perennially popular blog, Rands in Repose. The third edition of Managing Humans contains a whole new season of episodes from the ongoing saga of Lopp's adventures in Silicon Valley, together with classic episodes remastered for high fidelity and freshness.

Multiple award-winning author Michael Buckley's New York Times best-selling Sisters Grimm series is phenomenally popular. In their fourth adventure, Sabrina, Daphne, Granny Relda, and Puck hit the streets of New York City to search for Puck's family. They quickly get wrapped up in a murder investigation, however, when a maniacal Everafter is discovered to be on the loose.

Welcome to Babylon, a typical sleepy Alabama small town, where years earlier the Larkin family suffered a terrible tragedy. Now they are about to endure another: 14-year-old Margaret Larkin will be robbed of her innocence and her life by a killer who is beyond the reach of the law. But something strange is happening in Babylon: traffic lights flash an eerie blue, a ghostly hand slithers from the drain of a kitchen sink, graves erupt from the local cemetery in an implacable march of terror.

After a fierce storm, a boy discovers a human skull, buried beneath the roots of an ancient tree. A skull with a legendary story… Vivid re-imagining of the legendary hero Robin Hood by thebestselling author of War Horse. “Tell the sheriff, tell Sir Guy of Gisbourne, tell everyone in...

Travelling to Work is the third volume of Michael Palin's widely acclaimed diaries. After the Python years and a decade of filming, writing and acting, Palin's career takes an unexpected direction into travel, which will shape his working life for the next 25 years. Yet, as the diaries reveal, he remained ferociously busy on a host of other projects throughout this whirlwind period.

When DCI Matilda Darke receives a mysterious telephone call, she immediately dismisses the threat. After all, the Homicide and Major Enquiries team are a regular target for prank calls. But ignoring this warning might soon be the biggest regret of Matilda Darke’s life. A lone gunman is on a deadly rampage around Sheffield, leaving a bloody trail in his wake. Taking his shots with a sickening precision, he’s about to leave his mark on the world and change Matilda and her team’s lives forever.

Professionell auftreten, ­wirkungsvoll überzeugen oder mit Worten führen: Die Rhetorik ist das wichtigste Instrument für jeden, der an seiner Wirkung arbeiten und seine Mitmenschen nachhaltig beeindrucken möchte. Im digitalen Zeitalter hat sich unsere Kommunikation jedoch gravierend verändert. Sie wurde schneller und vor allem mani­pulativer. Wie kann ich diesen neuen ­Herausforderungen begegnen? Und wie bringe ich mein Anliegen, meine Botschaft möglichst optimal an den Mann und an die Frau? Michael Ehlers liebt und lebt Rhetorik... und er kennt die Antworten.

Phantásien ist in Gefahr. Das unheimliche Nichts droht alles zu verschlingen. Um das Reich der Kindlichen Kaiserin zu retten, muss Bastian immer tiefer in das Land der Irrlichter, Schlamuffen, Gnomen und Glücksdrachen eindringen, das er in einem geheimnisvollen Buch entdeckt hat. Gemeinsam mit dem jungen Krieger Atréju macht er sich auf die gefährliche Reise zum Elfenbeinturm und gerät in einen Strudel grenzenloser Fantasie. In einer aufwändigen, mehr als fünfstündigen Inszenierung hat der der Westdeutsche Rundfunk WDR in Zusammenarbeit mit Silberfisch/Hörbuch Hamburg den Weltbestseller von Michael Ende als stimmgewaltiges Hörspiel neu produziert. In einer klug und textnah gearbeiteten Dramatisierung mit mehr als vierzig Sprechern sowie eigens komponierter Musik und raffinierten Klanginstallationen werden die weltweit bekannten Figuren Bastian, Atréju, Fuchur und Karl Konrad Koreander zu neuem Leben erweckt. Ein Abenteuer für die ganze Familie!

In God and the Evolving Universe, James Redfield and Michael Murphy present an important message of hope and a vision for the future. The authors contend that thousands of years of human striving have delivered us to this very moment, in which each act of self-development is creating a new stage in planetary evolution and the emergence of a human species possessed of vastly expanded spiritual experience.

Roland has outwitted the great families of Avilus and resolved the dilemma of his choice of Squire in one fell swoop. But his dreams of a noble quest for his dragon are soon shattered by the reality of managing two beautiful women who hate each other as much as they want to serve him – perhaps even more. The travails of the road and the wilderness soon lay bare both Antonia’s and Laetitia’s shortcomings as Squires and their need for growth before they will be ready for their own quests.

High-performance psychologist Michael Gervais presents a groundbreaking guide for overcoming what may be the single greatest constrictor of human potential: our fear of people's opinions (FOPO).

In The Extratempestrial Model, Dr. Michael P. Masters posits that UFOs and "aliens" are our future human descendants, coming back through time to visit and study their own hominin evolutionary past. As a professor of anthropology, Masters uses an abductive approach to logically infer the best explanation. He examines well-documented abductee experiences in the context of this time travel model, and considers other theories put forth to elucidate this complex and mysterious phenomenon.

In most domains of life, skill and luck seem hopelessly entangled. Different levels of skill and varying degrees of good and bad luck are the realities that shape our lives - yet few of us are adept at accurately distinguishing between the two. Imagine what we could accomplish if we were able to tease out these two threads, examine them, and use the resulting knowledge to make better decisions. In this provocative audiobook, Michael Mauboussin helps to untangle these intricate strands.

Tödliche Grüße aus der Allgäuer Sagenwelt: Ein Ritualmörder geht um und zwingt Kommissar Kluftinger in seinem zweiten Fall zu einem ganz besonderen Lese-Erlebnis: Die Lösung schlummert in der Märchen- und Sagenwelt seiner Heimat. Wolfgang Krebs in der Rolle des Kluftinger überzeugt ein weiteres Mal mit der einzigartigen Mischung aus Humor und Allgäuer Temperament.

Im Alltag sind wir häufig überlastet und überfordert. All der Stress, die Verpflichtungen und täglichen Aufgaben machen uns zu schaffen. Ist es da nicht an der Zeit, durchzuatmen und sich daran zu erinnern, was wirklich wichtig ist? In diesem Hörbuch stellt Bestsellerautor Michael Leister Ihnen 30 Gedanken vor, die Sie daran erinnern, wie man das Leben genießt und von der guten Seite sieht.