A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away. . . . Bestselling Star Wars veteran James Luceno gives Grand Moff Tarkin the Star Wars: Darth Plagueis treatment, bringing the legendary character from A New Hope to full, fascinating life. He's the scion of an honorable and revered family. A dedicated soldier and distinguished legislator. Loyal proponent of the Republic and trusted ally of the Jedi Order. Groomed by the ruthless politician and Sith Lord who would be Emperor, Governor Wilhuff Tarkin rises through the Imperial ranks, enforcing his authority ever more mercilessly . . . and zealously pursuing his destiny as the architect of absolute dominion.Rule through the fear of force rather than force itself, he advises his Emperor. Under Tarkin's guidance, an ultimate weapon of unparalleled destruction moves ever closer to becoming a terrifying reality. When the so-called Death Star is completed, Tarkin is confident that the galaxy's lingering pockets of Separatist rebellion will be brought to heel--by intimidation . . . or annihilation. Until then, however, insurgency remains a genuine threat. Escalating guerrilla attacks by resistance forces and newfound evidence of a growing Separatist conspiracy are an immediate danger the Empire must meet with swift and brutal action. And to bring down a band of elusive freedom fighters, the Emperor turns to his most formidable agents: Darth Vader, the fearsome new Sith enforcer as remorseless as he is mysterious; and Tarkin--whose tactical cunning and cold-blooded efficiency will pave the way for the Empire's supremacy . . . and its enemies' extinction.Praise for TarkinTarkin tells a compelling tale of mystery while revealing much about a character who has fueled debate among fans since 1977, as well as the oppressive regime he represents.
It was a dark time for the rebel alliance...Han Solo, frozen in carbonite, had been delivered into the hands of the vile gangster Jabba the Hutt. Determined to rescue him, Luke Skywalker, Princess Leia, and Lando Calrissian launched a hazardous mission aga
From V. E. Schwab, the No. 1 Sunday Times and New York Times bestselling author of The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue: a new genre-defying, unforgettable novel to sink your teeth into.
Illustré par Alexandre KaramBienvenue au pays des Schtroumpfs ! Au fil de ces illustrations inédites, suis le code couleur et laisse-toi entraîner par ces petits êtres bleus à l’imagination débordante. Rejoins une grande fête dans les bois, prépare une potion avec le grand Schtroumpf, tente d’échapper à Gargamel et vis des aventures merveilleuses avec ces personnages si attachants !
Eight mighty island warriors battle to become king. The deciding factor? The one who comes last, of course!Eight islands represented by their best warriors must battle it out in a tournament to decide their king. To win this battle of endurance, it’s not the last one standing but the last one coming that matters!Matthew is studying at a prestigious college, and his new roommate, Harto, is almost too much to take. Harto hails from the mysterious Pulau Yang Indah and grew up with strange island cultural practices involving, well…the butt. Matthew does his best to shield his new roommate from teasing before it devolves into actual sexual harassment, and Harto isn’t unmoved by Matthew’s kindness—in fact, just thinking of him can bring him to orgasm. But these new developments terrify him too. As his clan’s chosen warrior, he can’t risk growing weak. Will he be forced to choose between his new love and the clan that raised him?
The ninja adventures continue with Naruto’s son, Boruto!Naruto was a young shinobi with an incorrigible knack for mischief. He achieved his dream to become the greatest ninja in his village, and now his face sits atop the Hokage monument. But this is not his story... A new generation of ninja is ready to take the stage, led by Naruto's own son, Boruto!Isshiki finally reveals his true form and takes the fight to Konoha village! His goal is to implant the Karma on Kawaki once again, but he’ll have to find him first. Can Naruto, Sasuke, and Boruto protect Kawaki from this unstoppable monster with godlike powers?!
THE INSTANT #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER!A glorious and tantalizing new escape from #1 New York Times bestselling author Carley Fortune.This summer they ll keep their promise. This summer they won't give into temptation. This summer will be different.Lucy is the tourist vacationing at a beach house on Prince Edward Island. Felix is the local who shows her a very good time. The only problem: Lucy doesn t know he s her best friend s younger brother. Lucy and Felix s chemistry is unreal, but the list of reasons why they need to stay away from each other is long, and they vow to never repeat that electric night again.It s easier said than done.Each year, Lucy escapes to PEI for a big breath of coastal air, fresh oysters and crisp vinho verde with her best friend, Bridget. Every visit begins with a long walk on the beach, beneath soaring red cliffs and a golden sun. And every visit, Lucy promises herself she won t wind up in Felix s bed. Again.If Lucy can t help being drawn to Felix, at least she s always kept her heart out of it.When Bridget suddenly flees Toronto a week before her wedding, Lucy drops everything to follow her to the island. Her mission is to help Bridget through her crisis and resist the one man she s never been able to. But Felix s sparkling eyes and flirty quips have been replaced with something new, and Lucy s beginning to wonder just how safe her heart truly is.
From New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Rina Kent comes a scorching standalone professor/student dark MM romance set in the world of Legacy of Gods.My darkness meets a darker soul.I'm a golden boy.A genius law student, the heir to the Carson empire, and the dutiful son.Or, at least, that's what it looks like from the outside.Deep inside, I have the urge to set the world on fire.I keep these impulses in check, rarely indulging in mayhem.Until one night of debauchery backfires, and I'm caught by a villain.I bury the entire ordeal with the rest of my skeletons.That is, until that night walks into my classroom in the form of my new professor.Kayden Lockwood.A criminal who's teaching criminal law.I can't expose what he's done without unmasking my secret life.What I can do, however, is force him to taste the poison he gave me.In the clash of titans, Kayden and I break and crumble.And I'm starting to realize this dangerous game may have no winners.Kiss the Villain is a dark MM romance. Please check the author's note for content warnings before diving in. While this book can be enjoyed as a standalone, diving into the Legacy of Gods series will give you a deeper connection to the characters.
A new masterclass in historical fiction from literary legend Isabel Allende, this is the extraordinary story of Emilia del Valle - an unforgettable young woman whose tale of love and war, discovery and redemption, takes us from nineteenth-century San Francisco to Santiago
Toshikazu Kawaguchi’s poignant Before We Say Goodbye, translated from Japanese, explores the age-old question: what would you do if you could travel back in time? More importantly, who would you want to meet, maybe for one last time? The regulars at
In Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson's Mentats of Dune, the thinking machines have been defeated but the struggle for humanity’s future continues. Gilbertus Albans has founded the Mentat School, a place where humans can learn the efficient techniques of thinking machines. But Gilbertus walks an uneasy line between his own convictions and compromises in order to survive the Butlerian fanatics, led by the madman Manford Torondo and his Swordmaster Anari Idaho.Mother Superior Raquella attempts to rebuild her Sisterhood School on Wallach IX, with her most talented and ambitious student, Valya Harkonnen, who also has another goal - to exact revenge on Vorian Atreides, the legendary hero of the Jihad, whom she blames for her family’s downfall.Meanwhile, Josef Venport conducts his own war against the Butlerians. VenHold Spacing Fleet controls nearly all commerce thanks to the superior mutated Navigators that Venport has created, and he places a ruthless embargo on any planet that accepts Manford Torondo’s anti-technology pledge, hoping to starve them into submission. But fanatics rarely surrender easily . . . The Mentats, the Navigators, and the Sisterhood all strive to improve the human race, but each group knows that as Butlerian fanaticism grows stronger, the battle will be to choose the path of humanity’s future - whether to embrace civilization, or to plunge into an endless dark age.
This great new introduction to the 6-level Incredible English series is a completely wordless course book. The course supports an aural-oral introduction to English, for children who are not yet ready to start reading and writing in English.With 60 hours of material, Incredible English Starter aims to bridge the gap between pre-school and primary school and develops their understanding of the world and social skills along with their English language learning.Key Features:•60 hours of material; 10 lessons in six units with topics familiar to children of this age.•Resources perfectly suited to young learners: an easy-to-manage combined Class Book and Activity Book and re-useable stickers•Vocabulary and structures are presented and practised using catchy songs and chants.•Well-loved Incredible English characters feature in lively stories designed to engage the children and encourage a response, building confidence with the language.•Variety of activities to suit different learning styles ? action games, observation games, sequencing, self-assessment•The CLIL approach helps learners explore some of their first experiences of English through other subjects - Art, Biology and Maths•Assessment is supported in the test section and with photocopiable record cards.About the AuthorSarah Phillips trained as an English language teacher at the Bell School, Norwich, and took her MA in English Language Teaching at Edinburgh University. She has held various teaching posts in Europe and has taught on primary teacher training courses with Norwich Institute of Language Education. She has worked with the Regional Government of Galicia to prepare training courses and materials for teachers of English.
Penelope Eckhart's fate may seem grim, but she's determined to avoid it by rescuing sympathetic love interest Eckles. Yet when her very way out of death turns out to be more dangerous than she thought, Penelope realizes she needs a backup plan-and a backu
A world-class thinker counts the 100 ways in which humans behave irrationally, showing us what we can do to recognize and minimize these "thinking errors" to make better decisions and have a better lifeDespite the best of intentions, humans are notoriously bad-that is, irrational-when it comes to making decisions and assessing risks and tradeoffs. Psychologists and neuroscientists refer to these distinctly human foibles, biases, and thinking traps as "cognitive errors." Cognitive errors are systematic deviances from rationality, from optimized, logical, rational thinking and behavior. We make these errors all the time, in all sorts of situations, for problems big and small: whether to choose the apple or the cupcake; whether to keep retirement funds in the stock market when the Dow tanks, or whether to take the advice of a friend over a stranger.The "behavioral turn" in neuroscience and economics in the past twenty years has increased our understanding of how we think and how we make decisions. It shows how systematic errors mar our thinking and under which conditions our thought processes work best and worst. Evolutionary psychology delivers convincing theories about why our thinking is, in fact, marred. The neurosciences can pinpoint with increasing precision what exactly happens when we think clearly and when we don't.Drawing on this wide body of research, The Art of Thinking Clearly is an entertaining presentation of these known systematic thinking errors--offering guidance and insight into everything why you shouldn't accept a free drink to why you SHOULD walk out of a movie you don't like it to why it's so hard to predict the future to why shouldn't watch the news.The book is organized into 100 short chapters, each covering a single cognitive error, bias, or heuristic. Examples of these concepts include: Reciprocity, Confirmation Bias, The It-Gets-Better-Before-It-Gets-Worse Trap, and the Man-With-A-Hammer Tendency.In engaging prose and with real-world examples and anecdotes, The Art of Thinking Clearly helps solve the puzzle of human reasoning.
Somewhere in the not-so-distant future the residents of Ennet House, a Boston halfway house for recovering addicts, and students at the nearby Enfield Tennis Academy are ensnared in the search for the master copy of INFINITE JEST, a movie said to be so dangerously entertaining its viewers become entranced and expire in a state of catatonic bliss ...'Wallace's exuberance and intellectual impishness are a delight, and he has deep things to say about the hollowness of contemporary American pleasure ...sentences and whole pages are marvels of cosmic concentration ...Wallace is a superb comedian of culture' James Wood, GUARDIAN
Sequel to the extraordinary "The Name of the Wind", "The Wise Man's Fear" is the second instalment of this superb fantasy trilogy from Patrick Rothfuss. This is the most exciting fantasy series since George R. R. Martin's "A Song of Ice and Fire", and a must-read for all fans of HBO's "Game of Thrones". Picking up the tale of Kvothe Kingkiller once again, we follow him into exile, into political intrigue, courtship, adventure, love and magic ... and further along the path that has turned Kvothe, the mightiest magician of his age, a legend in his own time, into Kote, the unassuming pub landlord.Packed with as much magic, adventure and home-grown drama as "The Name of the Wind", this is a sequel in every way the equal to its predecessor and a must-read for all fantasy fans.Readable, engaging and gripping "The Wise Man's Fear" is the biggest and the best new fantasy novel out there.
A beautifully-illustrated story about a girl who longs for magic in her life and learns that, on the inside, she already is what she wishes she could be. This lushly-drawn story has won an Eisner Award and a Harvey Award, and was voted one of the top 10 manga of the year in 2018 by the Japanese manga industry.FOR THOSE IN NEEDDuring their heated reunion, Custas introduces his old friends to Ininia, a girl who is loyal to one of the Brimmed Caps. Suddenly, the young witch binds Coco and Tartah to a promise: The two must partake in the Silver Eve Procession. But to do so, they must conjure up a new spell, and quickly. As the weight of many secrets bears down on her, Coco cannot turn to Qifrey or her friends. When she happens upon Dagda, she sees his chest is marked with a forbidden magic...
The 2nd edition of Oxford Discover builds on it's tried and tested methodology, developing 21st Century Skills in critical thinking, communication, collaboration and creativity to prepare students for future success at primary school and beyond.
A revised edition of the New York Times bestseller that will help you conquer ADD--from the author of The End of Mental Illness. Attention deficit disorder (ADD) is a national health crisis that continues to grow--yet it remains o
Six full practice tests with tips and training for the 2015 revised Cambridge English: First (FCE) for Schools. First for Schools Trainer offers six practice tests for the revised Cambridge English: First (FCE) for Schools exam combined with easy-to-follow guidance and exam tips. The first two tests are fully guided with advice on how to tackle each paper. Extra practice activities, informed by the Cambridge Learner Corpus, a bank of real candidates' exam papers, focus on areas where students typically need most help. This edition contains teachers notes and a full answer key. Audio for the listening and speaking test activities is available online for download. Audio CDs featuring the listening material are also available, separately.
Objective Proficiency second edition has been fully updated for the revised exam.Its twenty short units provide a wide range of challenging topics, and lively, stimulating exam preparation. Equally, the material presents interesting and motivating material for those studying English at C2-level for career or general purposes.The course covers all parts of the Proficiency exam in detail, providing information, advice and practice to ensure that students are fully prepared for every aspect of the exam. Informed by the Cambridge Learner Corpus, Objective Proficiency includes examples and exercises which tackle typical Proficiency problem areas, making it the most authoritative Proficiency preparation course available.
Goethe-Zertifikat A1 – Fit in Deutsch 1 Das Training zur aktuellen Prüfung für Kinder und Jugendliche Für den Deutschunterricht oder zum allein Lernen Das Übungs- und Testbuch mit 8 Modelltests Die vier Prüfungsteile Lesen, Hören, Schreiben und Sprechen kennenlernen und die Prüfung simulieren Modelltest 1–4 mit vorbereitenden Wortschatz- und Grammatikübungen Deckt den gesamten Prüfungswortschatz ab und wiederholt wichtige Grammatik Mit Antwortbogen zum Trainieren und Dokumentieren des Lernerfolgs Audios, Lösungen und Transkriptionen sind digital verfügbar
Experience the world and characters of the hit video game franchise!When alien forces invade with an army of Machines, the remnants of humanity must depend on Androids of their own design—the placid 2B and the excitable 9S—to survive.From: Pod 042To: Fans of NieR:AutomataRecommendation: The action to finish reading this novel.[ref & NieR:Automata—Short Story Long]Response: A novel is a story that used to be told by humans.Question: The definition of the word "interesting”?Answer: A possible definition is that the ability to continue reading this novel makes it "interesting.”From Pod 042 to 153: We have concluded our promotional duties.
The Three-Body Problem Boxed Set contains all three volumes of Hugo Award-winning author Cixin Liu's bestselling science fiction trilogy - The Three-Body Problem, The Dark Forest, and Death's End - translated by Ken Liu.
The Workbook with answers provides further practice of language and vocabulary introduced in the Student's Book, and includes an interactive eBook. The Workbook comes with access to the accompanying Audio, the COMPLETE grammar reference videos and interactive eBook.
Language: English, Binding: Paperback, Number of pages: 1168, Publishers: Image Comics, Author: Herb Trimpe,Bob Mcleod, ISBN-13: 9781534371507, Date of issue: 2024
This book is designed to help us create a psychological portrait of ourselves with the use of some far more unusual, oblique, entertaining and playful prompts. The questions are designed to help us cumulatively appreciate how rich our identities are and how complicated, beautiful and sometimes painful our experiences have been.
Mushrooms have been used as medicine for thousands of years, in every region of the world where they grow. After decades of study, mycologist and clinical herbalist Christopher Hobbs profiles ten of the most powerful medicinal mushrooms and explains the re
HarperCollins is proud to present its range of best-loved, essential classics. 'The reaches opened before us and closed behind, as if the forest had stepped leisurely across the water to bar the way for our return. We penetrated deeper and deeper into the heart of darkness.' At the peak of European Imperialism, steamboat captain Charles Marlow travels deep into the African Congo on his way to relieve the elusive Mr Kurtz, an ivory trader renowned for his fearsome reputation. On his journey into the unknown Marlow takes a terrifying trip into his own subconscious, overwhelmed by his menacing, perilous and horrifying surroundings. The landscape and the people he meets force him to reflect on human nature and society, and in turn Conrad writes revealingly about the dangers of imperialism.
Part of "Penguin's" beautiful hardback "Clothbound Classics" series, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith, these delectable and collectible editions are bound in high-quality colourful, tactile cloth with foil stamped into the design. When Jonathan Harker visits Transylvania to help Count Dracula with the purchase of a London house, he makes a series of horrific discoveries about his client. Soon afterwards, various bizarre incidents unfold in England: an apparently unmanned ship is wrecked off the coast of Whitby; a young woman discovers strange puncture marks on her neck; and, the inmate of a lunatic asylum raves about the 'Master' and his imminent arrival. In "Dracula", Bram Stoker created one of the great masterpieces of the horror genre, brilliantly evoking a nightmare world of vampires and vampire hunters and also illuminating the dark corners of Victorian sexuality and desire.
Language: English, Binding: Paperback, Number of pages: 300, Publishers: Seven Seas, Author: Hachipisu Wan, ISBN-13: 9781638583943, Date of issue: 2022
From the celebrated poet, speaker, and educator comes Welcome Home, a powerful blueprint for building a strong foundation of self-worth, belonging, and happiness."A master class in self-actualization and compassion.”—Mari Andrew, New York Times bestselling author of Am I There Yet? The powerful metaphor of home provides a structure for you to customize your journey to personal transformation as Najwa Zebian shares her own experiences in building a home within herself, and shows you how to construct the following "rooms”: • Self-Love: Learn how to build an individualized self-care routine to reflect your daily needs.• Forgiveness: Learn how to allow yourself time, reflection, and space to accept and let go of painful events.• Compassion: Discover the three different types of compassion and learn how you can let people in while maintaining boundaries.• Clarity: Learn how to remove the walls you put up around your authentic self.• Surrender: Learn how to lower your defenses and give yourself space to feel and process your emotions.• The Dream Garden: Learn how to nurture your dreams and create an authentic, original path. With practical tools, poetry, and prompts for journaling and meditation to lead to self-understanding in each chapter, Zebian shows you how to build each room in your house. Written with her trademark power, candor, and warmth, Welcome Home is an answer to the pain we all experience when we don't feel at peace with ourselves.
The 2nd edition of Oxford Discover builds on it's tried and tested methodology, developing 21st Century Skills in critical thinking, communication, collaboration and creativity to prepare students for future success at primary school and beyond.
"If men no longer know what they are looking at, there may well be unicorns in the world yet, unknown and glad of it." Living in peace in her lilac wood, the Unicorn didn't know the world had changed, or that anything had happened to the rest of her
A beautiful hardback edition of Huxley's inconic dystopian classic, introduced by Yuval Noah Harari'A masterpiece of speculation... As vibrant, fresh, and somehow shocking as it was when I first read it' Margaret Atwood'If you have time for just one book, this would be my top choice' Yuval Noah HarariWelcome to New London. Everybody is happy here.Our perfect society achieves peace and stability by dispensing with monogamy, privacy, money, family and history itself. Now everyone belongs.You can be happy too.All you need to do is take your Soma pills.This is the brave new world of Aldous Huxley's deeply sinister and prophetic novel, a society based on maximum pleasure and complete surveillance - no matter the cost.'Provoking, stimulating, shocking and dazzling' Observer'Such ingenious wit, derisive logic and swiftness of expression' The TimesVintage Quarterbound Classics: Bound to be beautiful
Navigate is a brand new, six-level General English course tailored exclusively to adults. The course takes an innovative approach to reading and listening based on academic research as to how adults best learn languages. It teaches reading and listening from the bottom up, giving learners the skills they need to understand the next text they will read and hear, not just the one they are reading or hearing now. The content has been extensively piloted and reviewed in ELT classrooms across the world, giving teachers the confidence that it really works.About the course:Innovative skills strand takes a bottom-up decoding approach to listening and reading.Equal weight given to grammar and vocabulary learning with clear on-the-page practice.Vocabulary based on the Oxford 3000 and levelled against the CEFR, giving learners the relevant language they need to communicate in the world today.Clear aims and outcomes linked to the CEFR throughout the course.Learners are immersed in themes and issues from around the world through content-rich, authentic texts that are really relevant to adult learners.Focus on vocabulary systems and vocabulary-building techniques.Real world video content provides integrated listening practice – video lesson in every unit plus vox pops throughout the course.Speaking practice throughout each lesson to help learners become more confident at using new language in the real world.
After his grandfather falls ill, Kasuga goes with his parents back to Gunma—his first trip back to his hometown ever since the incident with Nakamura—and Kasuga must confront the friends and family he hurt in the past. A former classmate gives him a tip regarding Nakamura’s current whereabouts, but will he have the courage to track her down and ask her the question that has haunted him since that day?In this final installment, time passes and people grow, change and heal, and we get a glimpse into the first fateful encounter between Nakamura and Kasuga, from her point of view…
A blend of completely new lessons, updated texts and activities, together with the refreshing and fine-tuning of some favourite lessons from New English File - English File third edition provides the right mix of language, motivation, and opportunity to get students talking. English File third edition offers more support for teachers and students. Teacher's Book provides over 100 photocopiables to save preparation time, plus extra tips and ideas.Classroom Presentation Tool brings your classroom to life with the Student's Book and Workbook, on-screen and interactive.
After the climactic incident during the festival, we are sent to a completely new locale, 3 years later. Takao and Nakamura have been forcibly separated. Takao is now living with his parents in the suburbs of the big city, and they mostly act like a normal
Inspire place l’apprenant au cœur de l’apprentissage et développe son autonomie en françaisLe cahier d'activités :Des activités de réemploi à faire en autonomie : des activités de compréhension et de production, avec des rubriques Vocabulaire, Grammaire, Conjugaison, Phonétique et Culture(s)Des outils pour s’autoévaluer : 2 pages de bilan et un portfolio en fin d'unité, plus une épreuve blanche DELF en annexe
