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Un journaliste américain sur le terrain de la police japonaise. Quand Jake Adelstein intègre en 1993 le service "police-justice" du plus grand quotidien japonais, le "Yomiuri Shinbun", il n'a que 24 ans et il est loin de maîtriser les codes de ce pays bien différent de son Missouri natal. À Tokyo, il couvre en étroite collaboration avec la police les affaires liées à la prostitution et au crime organisé. Pour cela, il n'hésite pas à s'enfoncer dans les quartiers rouges de la capitale, dans les entrailles du vice et de la décadence.

Knapp drei Wochen vor Heiligabend 1896 wird der Krämer Ezra Tomlin tot in seinem Laden in Bermondsey gefunden, und die Kasse des Weihnachtsklubs, in die rund vierhundert Familien das ganze Jahr eingezahlt haben, ist leer. Inspektor Lestrade übernimmt den Fall; was nach Selbstmord aussieht, klingt ihm zu ordentlich, und bis zur Auszahlung bleiben nur wenig Zeit.

Jake Castle is a 30 year old EASA ATPL and CAA PPL holder from Essex England but currently residing in Malaga Spain. Self described as “not the smartest bloke” they have created a guide to all the exercises in the PPL syllabus to help break down into easy to understand chunks, helping you to maximise your time in your costly flying lessons learning to fly, not remembering how to fly. As an auditory and kinaesthetic learner, they are someone that when driving to the airfields would have a roughly hour long drive to and from, and so would often need something to listen to, and they just ...

L’ancien journaliste d’investigation Jake Adelstein s’est reconverti en détective privé, traquant les yakuzas devenus hommes d’affaires. L’explosion de la centrale nucléaire de Fukushima rendra visible la corruption et la mainmise des yakuzas dans les affaires publiques du Japon. La violence et les menaces reviendront dans les enquêtes d’Adelstein, qui cherchera la vérité à tout prix.

From the New York Times bestselling authors of Sprint comes “a unique and engaging read about a proven habit framework [that] readers can apply to each day” (Insider, Best Books to Form New Habits). “If you want to achieve more (without going nuts), read this book.”—Charles Duhigg...

Jess died in Afghanistan. The system brought her back. Not to the desert. To the brutal fantasy world where she had already lived one full life, hit max level, and burned herself out saving people who took everything she had. Now she's back at Level 1 with every memory intact and every skill path mapped. This time, she has one rule: no more heroes. Jess knows which class builds lead to real power and which ones get people killed. She knows where the dungeons hide their best loot, which faction leaders will betray their allies, and exactly when the wars start.

From the only American journalist ever to have been admitted to the insular Tokyo Metropolitan Police press club: a unique, firsthand, revelatory look at Japanese culture from the underbelly up. At nineteen, Jake Adelstein went to Japan in search of peace and tranquility. What he got was a life...

As creators of Google Ventures' renowned 'design sprint', Jake and John have helped hundreds of teams solve important problems by changing how they work. Building on the success of these sprints and their experience designing ubiquitous tech products like Gmail and YouTube, they spent years experimenting with their own personal habits and routines, looking for ways to help individuals optimise their energy, focus and time. Now they've packaged the most effective tactics into a four-step daily framework that anyone can use to systematically design their days.

Glenn Redwood has longed to become an Adventurer since he was a young boy, and has focused every waking moment since he turned 14 on leveling and growing stronger. Answering the challenge of the Gods of Luxtera, he has fought Monsters to prove himself again and again. He has earned the right to travel the world and protect its people... but the Gods have other plans. After they choose Glenn to become a Town Guard, he is charged with protecting his small town and everyone within.

Makoto Saigo is half-American and half-Japanese in small-town Japan with a set of talents limited to playing guitar and picking fights. With rock stardom off the table, he turns toward the only place where you can start from the bottom and move up through sheer merit, loyalty, and brute force―the yakuza. Saigo, nicknamed “The Tsunami”, quickly realizes that even within the organization, opinions are as varied as they come, and a clash of philosophies can quickly become deadly. One screw-up can cost you your life, or at least a finger.

Brought to you by Penguin. *From the Sunday Times bestselling authors of High Performance* This audiobook includes extensive clips from the High Peformance Podcast and two exclusive chapters containing insight from Dan Burn and John Legend. Discover the tiny changes in behaviour that the world's...

From Anxiety to Awakening is not your typical anxiety self-help book. There are no checklists. No exercises. No gimmicks. Just 11 life-altering insights that will shift your understanding of anxiety at the deepest level—and awaken you to the truth of who you really are.

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. Are you drowning in "context pollution," where your AI assistant forgets your database schema halfway through coding, suggests frontend solutions for backend problems, and generally behaves like an overwhelmed junior developer juggling six different...

THE INSTANT #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Named a Best Book of the Year by The New Yorker, The Financial Times, Kirkus Reviews, and The Associated Press "Superbly reported . . . Reads like a Shakespearean drama on steroids." — Los Angeles Times "Explosive." —The New York Times "[The] most...

Wholeness is about removing invisible boundaries from our lives that keep us from realizing our highest potential. In order to live an outer life without limits, we have to uncover and address the inner limitations that hide in our blind spots. This life-changing audiobook explains that...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER | WALL STREET JOURNAL BESTSELLER Featured on SUPER SOUL PODCAST hosted by Oprah Winfrey. Read by the author. Too often we’ve been taught to view our emotions with suspicion, seeing them as something to be suppressed, managed, or mastered. This isn’t true. Emotions...

Soon after the birth of Mickey Mouse, one animator raised the Disney Studio far beyond Walt's expectations. That animator also led a union war that almost destroyed it. Art Babbitt animated for the Disney studio throughout the 1930s and through 1941, years in which he and Walt were jointly driven to elevate animation as an art form, up through Snow White, Pinocchio, and Fantasia.

We each have a destiny. Finding the courage to drive past the challenges, the pains, and even the shortcuts of life to the deeper purpose of living is to thrive in one's divine destiny. Most people have sensed destiny pulling them to just the right place or person. Whether it is the spouse you meet, the children you bear, or the promotion you receive, everyone has a purpose to pursue. Sometimes it is understanding our destiny that helps us accept what on the surface appears to be failure.

Follow God's process for growth and find hope in life's darkest moments with #1 New York Times bestselling author Bishop T.D. Jakes's uplifting stories and advice from his own faith journey. In this insightful book, T.D. Jakes wrestles with age-old questions: Why do the righteous suffer? Where...