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England, 1914. The world is at war. Captain Hastings, injured and shaken, is invited to Styles Court to recover. It’s a grand old country house - the family home of his old friend - and a perfect haven. Or so it seems. But in the blistering summer heat, trouble is afoot. Simmering tensions are tearing the family apart, and it all comes to a head in the most horrifying way.

London, 1851. With the opening of the Great Exhibition at hand, interest in mounting in the engineering triumphs of the railways, but not everyone feels like celebrating. In an audacious attack, the London to Birmingham mail train is robbed and derailed, causing many casualties. Planned with military precision, this crime proves a challenge to Detective Inspector Robert Colbeck who fights to untangle a web of murder, blackmail and destruction.

The second immortal volume in this dark and fantastic series, Fangs is a scintillating and sinister collection of vampire stories and part of the now legendary vampire archives. Including Clive Barker, Anne Rice, Arthur Conan Doyle, and many, many, more...Featuring: Bloody fangs, dark and foreboding crypts, mysterious nighttime apparitions, and languid ladies.

Wilhelm Reich and the Function of the Orgasm; Great Minds Series, Vol. 11 - the 2017 revised, updated and reformatted edition - is a study about one of the greatest authorities on the discovery of the bioenergy for modern science and medical science. The author understands his engagement for Reich as a contribution to the rehabilitation of one of the greatest but also one of the most misunderstood scientists of the 20th century.

Money's tight and their new home is a fixer-upper. Deep in rural South West England, with an ancient wood at the foot of the garden, Tom and his family are miles from anywhere and anyone familiar. His wife, Fiona, was never convinced that buying the money-pit at auction was a good idea. Not least because the previous owner committed suicide. Though no one can explain why.

In 1938, British statesman The Rt. Hon. Winston S. Churchill, a former military officer and member of the House of Commons, penned his Arms and the Covenant, published in the United States as While England Slept; a Survey of World Affairs, 1932–1938. The book is a powerful collection of his speeches warning that England was not at all prepared for the inevitability of war with Germany. While England Slept is published here in its original classic form with the preface and notes by Churchill’s son, Randolph S. Churchill.

BBC Audio presents full-cast dramatisations of Thomas Mann's three bestselling works: Buddenbrooks, Death in Venice and The Magic Mountain.

The Tao Te Ching by Lao-tzu is one of the most translated books of world literature. It is here presented in a translation that deliberately avoids any philosophical commentary and renders the text in English in its most simple and straightforward composure.

Fritjof Capra and the Systems View of Life (Great Minds, Book 3): 2017 Revised, Updated, and Reformatted Edition is a passionate study about the great contemporary physicist and a review of all of his published books, including extensive quotes. The author considers Fritjof Capra as one of the most important authors on new science and systems research and considers as genius Capra's unique gift to formulate and explain complex scientific and philosophical insights and interrelations in a way that the educated listener can understand.

This is an essay on the unique teaching of J. Krishnamurti. It starts with the question "What is consciousness?" - and carefully proposes a holistic definition, after reviewing the various psychological and spiritual theories that deal with this subject. The author actually goes a step ahead and focuses on a more particular issue, a provocative question asked by K: “How to empty consciousness of its content?”

Money's tight and their new home is a fixer-upper. Deep in rural southwest England, with an ancient wood at the foot of the garden, Tom and his family are miles from anywhere and anyone familiar. Tom's wife, Fiona, was never convinced that buying the money-pit at auction was a good idea, not least because the previous owner committed suicide - though no one can explain why.

Hollywood Playhouse - The Humphrey Bogart Collection is a unique compilation of four Oscar-winning films specially adapted for the radio and performed by many of the original film stars in front of a live studio audience. Originally broadcast on the radio, they were to become as popular with the public as the movies themselves.

Globi sitzt gemütlich vor einem Café. Da plötzlich knallt es fürchterlich, und es fliegen Steine und Glas durch die Luft! Was ist denn bloß passiert? Schon hört man das Tatütata der Einsatzwagen. Es stellt sich heraus, dass eine Bank überfallen wurde. Was fehlt? Globi, nicht scheu, schließt sich den Polizisten an, und schon ist er mitten im Geschehen und hört: Es wurden eine Menge Goldbarren gestohlen. Im Laufe der Jagd nach den Räubern taucht Globi auch in die Arbeit der Polizei ein, er lernt interessante Fachleute kennen, die ihm vieles zeigen und ihn oft auch mitnehmen.

On the level of the collective unconscious, this study shows, the historical transition from matriarchy to patriarchy has not taken place. On the contrary, it appears that the intrinsic symbolism of the soul level, the content of the unconscious, the level of spiritual visions, is one of the matriarchal gods and cosmic energy holders, such as the mythic or lunar bull, and the serpent.

Globi trifft auf dem Markt auf einen müden, alten Bauersmann. Er hilft ihm einladen und bringt ihn nach Hause. Und schon ist er mitten in einem neuen Abenteuer. Globi darf den Hof besichtigen und sieht schnell, dass der schon bessere Zeiten gesehen hat. Mit viel Fantasie und Witz und mit Hilfe der Tiere wird renoviert, geflickt und neu gebaut. Als die Schwalben wiederkommen und Globi von einer Bäuerin erzählen, bei der sie überwintern, beschließt Globi, diese zu besuchen. Aus Afrika bringt er eine Idee zur sanften Schädlingsbekämpfung mit. Während Globi weg ist, übernimmt Globine den Hof.

Edward de Bono and the Mechanism of Mind is a study that features one of the greatest think tanks of our time. Born in 1933 in Malta, he has been a training expert, corporate consultant, writer, and philosopher of world renown for decades. He has been a corporate consultant for DuPont, Exxon, Shell, Ford, IBM, British Airways, Ciba-Geigy, Citibank - to name a few. Unlike many other corporate training experts, Dr. de Bono went way beyond the job of a corporate trainer, and is to be considered a true business philosopher and conceptualist. His research on perception and the memory matrix of the human brain has had a decisive impact upon accelerated learning. Dr. de Bono is the creator of many creativity-boosting games and training programs, among them the concept of "lateral thinking" and the "Six Thinking Hats" brainstorming technique. In various countries, governments use his techniques in primary schools and high schools for boosting the creativity and learning skills of their students.

It’s Christmas Eve in the small foothill Village of Shiloh. A father retells the miraculous story that no one will ever forget. A group of young boys lost in a powerful storm fight to survive on that glorious night. The incredible chance encounter with a kind stranger may be their only hope.

Endlich: die besten Kästner-Gedichte und -Geschichten rund ums Reisen und unterwegs sein! Ob am Strand, am Ufer eines Sees, in der Stadt oder in den Bergen - dieses Hörbuch ist der ideale Begleiter: geistreich, witzig und höchst unterhaltsam.

Globis größtes Hobby ist Bahn fahren. Es ist Ferienzeit und diese beginnt mit einer kleinen Einladung am Anfang und endet mit großem Bahnhof zum Schluss – dazwischen gibt's viele Einblicke in die Welt der Bahn. Sogar Lok fahren darf Globi.

The Battle of Life: A Love Story is an 1846 novel by Charles Dickens. It is the fourth of his five "Christmas Books", coming after The Cricket on the Hearth and followed by The Haunted Man and the Ghost's Bargain. The setting is an English village that stands on the site of an historic battle. Some characters refer to the battle as a metaphor for the struggles of life, hence the title. Battle is the only one of the five Christmas Books that has no supernatural or explicitly religious elements. (One scene takes place at Christmas time, but it is not the final scene.)