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Two abandoned souls are on the hunt for one powerful man. Soon, their paths will cross and lead to one twisted fate. Danny Hansen is a Bosnian immigrant who came to America with hopes of escaping haunted memories of a tragic war that took his mother's life. Now he's a priest. Yet that does not stop him from acting as an avenging angel on those who stay within the criminal law but live outside the laws of love and compassion. Renee Gilmore is the frail and helpless victim of one such powerful man. Having escaped his clutches, she now lives only to satisfy justice by destroying him, regardless of whom she must become in that pursuit. But when Danny and Renee's paths become inexorably entangled, neither of them may make it out of this hunt alive. Autorid: Ted Dekker

The book is the ultimate toolkit for developing a new mindset for success and future-proofing one’s career and personal development. It provides practical strategies that empower professionals, leaders and educators to develop these essential skills and create a lasting impact —both within their organizations and beyond. Technology is transforming every industry and hard skills alone no longer guarantee success. What truly endures are the human skills that no machine can replicate. WINGS revolutionizes the way we look at soft skills, reframing them as the five primary behavioral skills that underpin lifelong growth, adaptability and resilience.These skills – Creative Thinking, Critical Thinking, Personal Leadership, Social Intelligence and Attention Management – form the foundation beneath every future skill identified by global experts. With vivid examples, practical strategies and a clear framework, this book helps professionals, educators and leaders thrive in a world shaped by speed, complexity and disruption.This book is the ultimate toolkit for developing a new mindset for success and future-proofing one’s career and personal development. It provides practical strategies that empower professionals, leaders and educators to develop these essential skills and create a lasting impact. Both within their organizations and beyond.To turn insight into action, WINGS.AID – a free AI-powered companion – offers tools to assess skills, deliver tailored guidance and support the application of the WINGS mindset in everyday work and learning. Autorid: Walter E.G. Vandervelde

Der österreichische Künstler Manfred Wakolbinger arbeitet seit vielen Jahren an dem riesigen Werk seiner untermeerischen Fotografien. Für die vorliegende Publikation versammelt er die Familie der Salpen, winzige, transparente, zugleich hochdifferenzierte Wesen und Formen, die nachts aus der Tiefe des Meeres aufsteigen. Ihre fragile Schönheit ist nicht nur eine Projektion der Betrachtenden, sondern verdankt ihre überwältigende Evidenz den grandiosen Bildern Wakolbingers.Christoph Ransmayrs Sieben Gesänge, die diese Fotografien begleiten, geben den Salpen eine eigene Stimme. Sie sind wie von weit her kommende Zeugnisse eines irritierenden Blickwechsels - der Blick geht nun hinaus aus der untermeerischen Unendlichkeit und unvermittelt ins Universum, ohne sich aufzuhalten bei den Menschen und ihrer Geschichte.

A brilliant, innovative novel, acutely alert to where the sacred lives-and where it does notFirst published in 1960, The Violent Bear It Away is a landmark in American literature-a dark and absorbing example of the Gothic sensibility and bracing satirical voice that are united in Flannery O'Connor's work. In this, O'Connor's second novel, the orphaned Francis Marion Tarwater and his cousin, the schoolteacher Rayber, defy the prophecy of their dead uncle that Tarwater will become a prophet and baptize Rayber's young son, Bishop. A series of struggles ensues, as Tarwater fights an internal battle against his innate faith and the voices calling him to be a prophet while Rayber tries to draw Tarwater into a more "reasonable" modern world. Both wrestle with the legacy of their dead relative and lay claim to Bishop's soul. All this is observed by O'Connor with an astonishing combination of irony and compassion, humor and pathos.

'Sahota knows how to light up a scene, how to make you stay up late at night. A brilliant and beautiful novel' GuardianTochi, Avtar and Randeep have fled India for a new home in England, where, bound by secrets, haunted by history, and in pursuit of hope, they try to find a toehold in a country that seems utterly foreign. Tochi and Avtar have no real papers, but Randeep is the lucky one, married to Narinder, his visa-wife living on the other side of town. She has her own reasons for trying to help him. But what price have they paid for their dreams?'So rich, so absorbing . . . Characters you grow to love and truly care for. You cry because you just don't want this book to end' Spectator'Should be compulsory reading. A magnificent achievement' Daily Mail'A rich, intricate, beautifully written novel, bursting and seething with energy' The Times'Nothing short of an asteroid impact would have made me put the book down'Irish Times

"Written in the same remarkable vein as Getting to Yes, this book is a masterpiece." -Dr. Steven R. Covey, author of The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People• Winner of the Outstanding Book Award for Excellence in Conflict Resolution from the International Institute for Conflict Prevention and Resolution •In Getting to Yes, renowned educator and negotiator Roger Fisher presented a universally applicable method for effectively negotiating personal and professional disputes. Building on his work as director of the Harvard Negotiation Project, Fisher now teams with Harvard psychologist Daniel Shapiro, an expert on the emotional dimension of negotiation and author of Negotiating the Nonnegotiable: How to Resolve Your Most Emotionally Charged Conflicts. In Beyond Reason, Fisher and Shapiro show readers how to use emotions to turn a disagreement-big or small, professional or personal-into an opportunity for mutual gain.

The must-read summary of Kenneth R. Timmerman's book: ¿Countdown to Crisis: The Coming Nuclear Showdown with Iran¿.This complete summary of "Countdown to Crisis" by Kenneth R. Timmerman, a renowned political writer and activist, examines the author's argument that Americäs greatest threat is the Iranian nuclear program and its alliance with international terrorist. He also reveals the truth of the failures of the U.S. in dealing with this threat.Added-value of this summary:¿ Save time¿ Understand American-Iranian relations and the threat of terrorism¿ Expand your knowledge of American politics and international relationsTo learn more, read "Countdown to Crisis" and discover how Iran's nuclear programme could pose a significant threat to America.

The volume combines three chapters from the fictionalised autobiography of Luisa Hewitt with explanatory material highlighting the role Modern Languages played in the formative last decades of the 19th century, before women were formally admitted to study at Oxford. Luisa Hewitt was the only daughter of the German librarian Heinrich Krebs, born and raised in the librarian's basement flat at the Taylor Institution Library, the Modern Languages Library of the University of Oxford. The memoirs were finished in 1931 and cover the years 1885 to 1897. For the first time, readers are able to engage with this highly original take on life in and around an Oxford library as seen from below, through the perceptive eyes of a child living among leading Oxford intellectuals. As Hewitt writes: "The following is a true and accurate account of all that I remember to have seen and done and felt from the age of three approximately to the age of seventeen. (...) If in these pages I have given undue prominence to the appearance of people, especially of those who did not please me, if I have made too many hasty & unkind reflections, I wish to disclaim responsibility for them at this date. If any should happen to recognise themselves under fictitious names, I hope they will be lenient where I have been malicious. Let them feel sure that they could repay spite with spite if they had it in them, but that they are too well-bred, or have at any rate forgotten me. As far as possible I give the actual impressions made on me at the time of which I am writing. My expressions are of to-day; my feelings those of forty years ago." The edition has been prepared by Christina Ostermann, alumna of Modern Languages in Oxford, who collaborated with the current German librarian Emma Huber, the series editor Henrike Lähnemann, and other members of university staff in identifying places and people mentioned in the anonymized account. The edition also includes photographs and drawings of the places and figures discussed in the book from the archival holdings of the Taylor Institution Library. This edition is part of the 'Writers in Residence' series of the Taylor Institution Library in Oxford which publishes literary texts related to the Medieval and Modern Languages Faculty in open access. Previous volumes have included texts by Ulrike Draesner, Yoko Tawada, creative translation of feminist German novellas, and a poetry collection based on the encounter with the German author E.T.A. Hoffmann.