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Build your mastery of Italian grammar with the most focused review and practice workbook for beginning to intermediate learners-now with audio support from the McGraw Hill Language Lab app!Understanding the rules of grammar is the first step in learning a language, but gaining true mastery requires reinforcing your knowledge with extensive practice. In Italian Grammar Drills, you'll get all the practice you need to build confidence in your Italian language skills.Each chapter in Italian Grammar Drills starts with a review of the concepts at hand, with helpful examples and an extensive progression of rigorous drill exercises. The book includes a final review section, with an additional 50 quizzes available in the McGraw Hill Language Lab app. This on-the-go study aid is newly enhanced in this edition with audio recordings of the answers, helping you improve your skills in both listening and speaking the Italian language.Features:NEW: Audio recordings of the answer key to more than 50 exercises, available through the McGraw Hill Language Lab appNo other book on the market focuses so exclusively on practiceIncludes more than 200 exercisesAccessible style and format: Simple grammar reviews with clear examples are followed by an engaging variety of exercisesIncludes 50 interactive exercises (via app and online) to help you practice what you've learnedTopics include adjectives and adverbs, comparatives and superlatives, present tense versus past tense, prepositions, passive voice, verbal expressions and constructions, and more

"The most trusted explainer of the most mind-boggling concepts pulls back the veil of mystery that has too long cloaked the most valuable building blocks of modern science. Sean Carroll, with his genius for making complex notions entertaining, presents in his uniquely lucid voice the fundamental ideas informing the modern physics of reality. Physics offers deep insights into the workings of the universe but those insights come in the form of equations that often look like gobbledygook. Sean Carroll shows that they are really like meaningful poems that can help us fly over sierras to discover a miraculous multidimensional landscape alive with radiant giants, warped space-time, and bewilderingly powerful forces. High school calculus is itself a centuries-old marvel as worthy of our gaze as the Mona Lisa. And it may come as a surprise the extent to which all our most cutting-edge ideas about black holes are built on the math calculus enables. No one else could so smoothly guide readers to grasping the very equation Einstein used to describe his theory of general relativity. In the tradition of the legendary Richard Feynman lectures presented sixty years ago, this book is an inspiring, dazzling introduction to a way of seeing that will resonate across cultural and generational boundaries for many years to come"--

Pressing RESET for the Everyday Person is written to help people feel better and move better. This booklet will provide you with a simple, fast, and easy way to help you live life better and stronger. Anyone of any age or physical or mental condition may do these simple movements. Change your life starting today by Pressing RESET.This book may be: Used to change your life for the better Given to athletes to help them achieve better results Used by OS Certified Professionals to teach clinics and lunch & Learns of 45-120 minutes Given to clients and patients as a way to help them recover quicker Given to students to help them become better students This booklet will change your life and the lives with whom you choose to share it with. Help us change the world.

"Every Action Matters will lay out the issues facing the planet and offer up 100 important actions that readers can take to help slow the adverse affects of climate change. Each action will get a spread and be accompanied by an infographic, statistic, or display quote to provide visual impact to the topic at hand"--

Endeavors to explain Einstein's general theory of relativity, beginning with the equivalence principle and covering the necessary mathematics of Riemannian spaces and tensor calculus, offering readers a deeper understanding of the universe's real structure.

"Happiness is not an achievement. It is your nature." - OshoHappiness is the twelfth title in the Osho bestselling Insights for a New Way of Living series, and the first new title in the series since 2017.The popular Insights for a New Way of Living challenges readers to examine and break free of the conditioned belief systems and the prejudices that limit their capacity to live life in all its richness. The books shine light on beliefs and attitudes that prevent individuals from being their true selves. The text is an artful mix of compassion and humor, and readers are encouraged to confront what they would most like to avoid, which in turn provides the key to true insight and power.

A vivid and devastating (The New York Times) portrait of an indomitable girl-from Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Andrea Elliott From its first indelible pages to its rich and startling conclusion, Invisible Child had me, by turns, stricken, inspired, outraged, illuminated, in tears, and hungering for reimmersion in its Dickensian depths. -Ayad Akhtar, author of Homeland Elegies ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: The New York Times * ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: The Atlantic, The New York Times Book Review, Time, NPR, Library Journal In Invisible Child, Pulitzer Prize winner Andrea Elliott follows eight dramatic years in the life of Dasani, a girl whose imagination is as soaring as the skyscrapers near her Brooklyn shelter. In this sweeping narrative, Elliott weaves the story of Dasani's childhood with the history of her ancestors, tracing their passage from slavery to the Great Migration north. As Dasani comes of age, New York City's homeless crisis has exploded, deepening the chasm between rich and poor. She must guide her siblings through a world riddled by hunger, violence, racism, drug addiction, and the threat of foster care. Out on the street, Dasani becomes a fierce fighter to protect those who I love. When she finally escapes city life to enroll in a boarding school, she faces an impossible question: What if leaving poverty means abandoning your family, and yourself? A work of luminous and riveting prose, Elliott's Invisible Child reads like a page-turning novel. It is an astonishing story about the power of resilience, the importance of family and the cost of inequality-told through the crucible of one remarkable girl. Finalist for the PEN/John Kenneth Galbraith Award.

Special Operations Fitness is a 12 week unconventional training program designed by a Harvard educated Strategist and Special Forces (Green Beret) Lieutenant Colonel to shred body fat, increase cardio vascular efficiency and muscular strength, teach or reinforce essential self-defense techniques, build confidence, and increase physical and mental performance.Special Operations Fitness includes: Philosophical principles of Elite Fitness The 12-week Special Operations Fitness program A progress tracking check list An exercise demonstration video (on YouTube) A self-defense technique demonstration video (on YouTube) Detailed descriptions for 12 weeks of dumbbell and body-weight boot-camp style workouts, 6 exhausting self-defense kick-boxing workouts, 2 lung crushing swim workouts, 2 unique biking workouts, 2 flexible cross training workouts, and 6 hikes

"Ich sehe Alligatoren mit Posaunen!" - Muhammad Ali; Kinshasa, 1974Die Zutaten hätten dramatischer nicht sein können: Inszeniert von einem kriminellen Boxpromoter mit Sturmfrisur (Don King) im Reich eines Diktators mit Leopardenfellmütze (Mobutu), trafen am 30. Oktober 1974 in Kinshasa im damaligen Zaire zwei Boxer aufeinander, um sich einen epischen Kampf zu liefern. Der eine war Muhammad Ali, der seine besten Jahre hinter sich hatte, aber entschlossen war, den verlorenen Weltmeistertitel zurückzuerobern. Der andere war George Foreman, der so wortkarg war wie Ali wortgewaltig und als klarer Favorit gehandelt wurde. Millionen Fernsehzuschauer auf der ganzen Welt verfolgten diese spektakuläre Titanenschlacht mit überraschendem Ausgang, die als Rumble in the Jungle in die Geschichte einging.In Kinshasa mit dabei war auch das "Enfant terrible" der amerikanischen Literaturszene, der Starautor und Pulitzer-Preisträger Norman Mailer, der seine Eindrücke und Beobachtungen ein Jahr später unter dem Titel The Fight veröffentlichte, eine literarische Reportage von rund 250 Seiten.In unserer Hommage an das legendärste Boxereignis aller Zeiten erscheint Mailers Text in einer gekürzten Fassung, eingeleitet von einem Essay des Mailer-Experten J. Michael Lennon und erstmals bebildert mit Farb- und Schwarz-Weiß-Fotografien jener beiden Männer, die wie keine anderen Ali sowohl im Ring als auch im Privatleben im Bild festhielten: Howard L. Bingham und Neil Leifer.

'One of the most important and timely books I've had the privilege to read' Corinne Fowler, author of Green Unpleasant LandA revelatory historical indictment of the long afterlife of slavery in the Atlantic world To fully understand why the shadow of slavery haunts us today, we must confront the flawed way that it ended. We celebrate abolition - in Haiti after the revolution, in the British Empire in 1833, in the United States during the Civil War. Yet in Black Ghost of Empire, acclaimed historian Kris Manjapra argues that during each of these supposed emancipations, Black people were dispossessed by the moves that were meant to free them. Emancipation, in other words, simply codified the existing racial caste system - rather than obliterating it. Ranging across the Americas, Europe and Africa, Manjapra unearths disturbing truths about the Age of Emancipations, 1780-1880. In Britain, reparations were given to wealthy slaveowners, not the enslaved, a vast debt that was only paid off in 2015, and the crucial role of Black abolitionists and rebellions in bringing an end to slavery has been overlooked. In Jamaica, Black people were liberated only to enter into an apprenticeship period harsher than slavery itself. In the American South, the formerly enslaved were 'freed' into a system of white supremacy and racial terror. Across Africa, emancipation served as an alibi for colonization. None of these emancipations involved atonement by the enslavers and their governments for wrongs committed, or reparative justice for the formerly enslaved-an omission that grassroots Black organizers and activists are rightly seeking to address today. Black Ghost of Empire will rewire readers' understanding of the world in which we live. Paradigm-shifting, lucid and courageous, this book shines a light into the enigma of slavery's supposed death, and its afterlives.

'Absolutely stunning. . . a formidable achievement. A six-part historical thriller that is essential reading for both our politicians and the ordinary citizen' Kai BirdBest-selling historian Serhii Plokhy returns with an illuminating exploration of the atomic age through the history of six nuclear disasters In 2011, a 43-foot-high tsunami crashed into a nuclear power plant in Fukushima, Japan. In the following days, explosions would rip buildings apart, three reactors would go into nuclear meltdown, and the surrounding area would be swamped in radioactive water. It is now considered one of the costliest nuclear disasters ever. But Fukushima was not the first, and it was not the worst. . . In Atoms and Ashes, acclaimed historian Serhii Plokhy tells the tale of the six nuclear disasters that shook the world: Bikini Atoll, Kyshtym, Windscale, Three Mile Island, Chernobyl and Fukushima. Based on wide-ranging research and witness testimony, Plokhy traces the arc of each crisis, exploring in depth the confused decision-making on the ground and the panicked responses of governments to contain the crises and often cover up the scale of the catastrophe. As the world increasingly looks to renewable and alternative sources of energy, Plokhy lucidly argues that the atomic risk must be understood in explicit terms, but also that these calamities reveal a fundamental truth about our relationship with nuclear technology: that the thirst for power and energy has always trumped safety and the cost for future generations.

In this deeply original book, science writer Anil Ananthaswamy sets out in search of the telescopes and detectors that promise to answer the biggest questions in modern cosmology. Why is the universe expanding at an ever faster rate? What is the nature of the "dark matter" that makes up almost a quarter of the universe? Why does the universe appear fine-tuned for life? Are there others besides our own?Ananthaswamy soon finds himself at the ends of the earth-in remote and sometimes dangerous places. Take the Atacama Desert in the Chilean Andes, one of the coldest, driest places on the planet, where not even a blade of grass can survive. Its spectacularly clear skies and dry atmosphere allow astronomers to gather brilliant images of galaxies billions of light-years away. Ananthaswamy takes us inside the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope on Mount Paranal, where four massive domes open to the sky each night "like dragons waking up."He also takes us deep inside an abandoned iron mine in Minnesota, where half-mile-thick rock shields physicists as they hunt for elusive dark matter particles. And to the East Antarctic Ice Sheet, where engineers are drilling 1.5 miles into the clearest ice on the planet. They're building the world's largest neutrino detector, which could finally help reconcile quantum physics with Einstein's theory of general relativity.The stories of the people who work at these and other dramatic research sites-from Lake Baikal in Siberia to the Indian Astronomical Observatory in the Himalayas to the subterranean lair of the Large Hadron Collider-make for a compelling new portrait of the universe and our quest to understand it. An atmospheric, engaging, and illuminating read, The Edge of Physics depicts science as a human process, bringing cosmology back down to earth in the most vivid terms.

Go on a journey with Whisky legend Jim McEwan. Experience the rugged loveliness of the "Isle of his heart" - Islay. A declaration of love to taste and smell, to the beauty of the homeland, to life itself¿... in beautiful pictures. Gehen Sie auf eine Reise mit Whisky-Legende Jim McEwan. Erleben Sie die raue Lieblichkeit der "Insel seines Herzens" - Islay. Eine Liebeserklärung an Geschmack und Geruch, an die Schönheit der Heimat, an das Leben selbst¿... in wunderschönen Bildern.

A MOST ANTICIPATED ROM-COM SELECTED BY * BUZZFEED * LGBTQ READS * BUSTLE * THE NERD DAILY * ENTERTAINMENT TONIGHT * FROLIC MEDIA * AND MORE!A BEST BOOK PICK BY * HARPER’​S BAZAAR * ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY“The Charm Offensive will sweep you off your feet.” —PopSugar​​​​In this witty and heartwarming romantic comedy—reminiscent of Red, White & Royal Blue and One to Watch—an awkward tech wunderkind on a reality dating show goes off-script when sparks fly with his producer.

Vielleicht sind Sie gerade erst dabei, die Polyvagal-Theorie für sich zu entdecken, und Sie fragen sich, wie diese sich auf Ihre therapeutische Arbeit auswirken könnte. Oder Sie sind zwar mit der Theorie vertraut, sehen aber keine Möglichkeit, sie in Ihrer Praxis zu nutzen. Vielleicht beziehen Sie die Polyvagal-Theorie aber auch schon in Ihre Arbeit ein und interessieren sich für Erweiterungen ihrer Anwendung. Das Buch stellt Therapeuten einen Ansatz vor, der ihnen ermöglichen soll, die Polyvagal-Theorie zur Grundlage ihrer Arbeit mit Klienten zu machen. Es enthält eine verständliche Darstellung dieser Theorie und ihrer Prinzipien in einer für Therapeuten und Klienten geeigneten Sprache. Unter Verwendung origineller Mappings der Zustände des Autonomen Nervensystems in Verbindung mit Arbeitsblättern, die helfen sollen, autonome Reaktionsmuster effektiv zu verfolgen, erläutert das Buch praktische Möglichkeiten, an Mobilisierungs- und Kollapserlebnissen von Klienten zu arbeiten und Verbundenheitserlebnisse als Ressourcen zu nutzen. Übungen, die speziell für die Nutzung regulierender Eigenschaften des ventralen Vagus entwickelt wurden, ermöglichen Therapeuten, Klienten bei der Umgestaltung ihres Autonomen Nervensystems zu helfen. Mit Hilfe einer von der Polyvagal-Theorie geprägten Sicht der klinischen Praxis wird das ANS unmittelbar in die therapeutische Arbeit einbezogen, was Klienten darin unterstützt, die Verhaltensmuster ihres Nervensystems umzuformen, Regulationsfähigkeiten neu zu entwickeln und autonome Pfade zu schaffen, die Zustände der Sicherheit und Verbundenheit erschließen.Das Buch sollte für alle Therapeuten, die traumatisierte Klienten behandeln, ebenso Pflichtlektüre sein wie für alle, die einen leichten Zugang zum Verständnis der Polyvagal-Theorie und ihrer Bedeutung für die klinische Arbeit suchen.Zahlreiche Arbeitsblätter aus dem Buch können ergänzend über die Verlags-Webseite bequem ausgedruckt werden.Verlags-Webseite für weitere Informationen: www.gp-probst.de

Marugoto: Japanische Sprache und Kultur", erschienen bei Sanshusha Publishing in Tokyo, ist ein Lehrwerk, das auf dem JF-Standard für Japanese Language Education basiert und sowohl Sprachkenntnisse als auch Wissen über die Kultur vermittelt. Den Vertrieb in Deutschland, Österreich und der Schweiz hat der Helmut Buske Verlag übernommen.Lernziele:Kommunikative Kompetenz in Alltagssituationen, wie z.B. auswärts essen, Ausflüge organisieren oder ein Reiseziel beschreiben, aktiver Sprachgebrauch, Texte allgemeinen Inhalts lesen, und übersetzen können, fundierte Grammatikkenntnisse; Niveau A2 des Europäischen Referenzrahmens.Konzeption:Mit dem Ziel insbesondere die Schrift-, Wortschatz- und Grammatikkenntnisse zu vertiefen, hilft das Kursbuch "Elementary2 A2 Rikai" (Verständnis) in 18 Lektionen, die eigenen Sprachkenntnisse durch systematische Hör-, Lese-, Schreib- und Gruppenübungen zu erweitern und zu festigen. Das Lehrwerk ist mit einigen Ausnahmen, die auf Englisch sind, in der japanischen Schrift und mit Kanjiübungen in jeder Lektion konzipiert, sodass sich der Lerner die japanische Schrift schnell aneignen kann.Zu allen Kursbüchern gibt es ergänzendes Übungsmaterial, das auf https://www.marugoto.org/en/download bereitsteht: unter anderem Audiodateien, japanisch-deutsche Vokabelverzeichnisse und Übungsblätter. Das Buch kann als eigenständiges Hauptlehrmittel in Kursen verwendet werden. Als Ergänzung empfehlen wir das ebenfalls lieferbare Werk "Elementary2 A2 Katsudoo " (Aktivierung), mit dem man sich durch aktive Sprachverwendung zu bestimmten Situationen Kenntnisse über Japans Kultur und Sprache aneignet (ISBN 978-3-87548-752-7).

Why are otherwise smart and competent people such lousy investors? Individual investors give up as much as two-thirds of their potential investment returns in misguided efforts to beat the market—and most don't even realize it.Ashvin B. Chhabra, chief investment officer of one of the world's largest wealth management firms, explains that an important idea has gotten lost amid the relentless pursuit of investment returns. Rather than trying to beat the market, your primary goal should be to construct an investment strategy that creates a solid safety net and enables you to pursue your dreams and aspirations.With no more guarantee of lifelong jobs or pensions, all of us bear the burden of investing wisely. But many of us focus on the wrong set of investment activities, such as identifying the next great start-up or star fund manager, or simply beating a market benchmark. Even the standard framework for investing, modern portfolio theory, offers an incomplete solution. Meanwhile, the grand debates in finance, such as indexing versus active management, prioritize the wrong set of issues.We need a framework that shifts the focus of investment strategy from portfolios and markets to individuals and the objectives that really matter: protection against unexpected financial crises or retirement planning. Whatever matters most to you—paying for your kid's education, starting your own business, endowing your favorite charity, or traveling the world—you need a road map to help you achieve both your essential and aspirational goals.In The Aspirational Investor, Ashvin B. Chhabra outlines a groundbreaking yet intuitive approach to managing wealth, based on the identification of key goals and the careful allocation of resources and risks. The Wealth Allocation Framework will help you connect your investment portfolio with your life's goals, and accommodate the three seemingly incompatible objectives that must underpin every sound wealth management strategy: the need for financial security in the face of unknowable risks, the desire to maintain current living standards despite inflation, and the opportunity for life-changing wealth creation.Chhabra's pioneering work illuminates some surprising facts about how people get very wealthy, and reinterprets the success formulas of investing greats such as Warren Buffett and David Swensen. Chhabra also offers a novel perspective: If the markets don't really care about you, as surely they do not, then why should you spend all your time and effort trying to beat them?Raising the bar for what we should expect from our investment portfolios—and from our investment advisors—The Aspirational Investor is a thoughtful, practical guide for any investor, regardless of income or wealth level.

An Unconventional Guide to Start Speaking a New Language TodayBenny Lewis is the creator of www.fluentin3months.com, the largest language learning blog in the world. His proven techniques break down language learning myths and replace them with practical "language hacks" that take advantage of the skills we already possess. Fluent in 3 Months provides everything you need to make learning a new language fast, intuitive, and fun.

So macht Lesen lernen Spaß: Lustiges Erstleserbuch über den kleinen Siebenschläfer Der kleine Siebenschläfer ist sehr aufgeregt, denn heute ist sein erster Schultag! Zum Glück ist er mit seinem besten Freund, der Haselmaus, unterwegs. Zusammen gehen sie mit ihren prall gefüllten Blättertüten in die Waldschule, wo ihre Lehrerin schon auf sie wartet. Sie lernen die anderen Tierkinder kennen, machen Pause und finden heraus, was jedes Tier am besten kann. Und was kann der kleine Siebenschläfer am besten? Genau, einschlafen! Besonders nach so einem turbulenten Tag wie heute. Das ideale Geschenk für alle Kinder, die die Bilderbücher vom kleinen Siebenschläfer lieben und nun Schulkinder sind. Ebenfalls in der Reihe Kleine Lesehelden erschienen: "Die kleine Hexe" von Otfried Preußler "Der Räuber Hotzenplotz" von Otfried Preußler "Milla und die sehr gefräßige Schule" von Ralph Caspers

A journey around the world begins on a small island. A revolution begins step by step. One man sets out to change an entire industry. This is his story - and with it the story of single malt whisky. A declaration of love to taste and smell, to the beauty of the homeland, to life itself.

An activity book based on Strange Planet, Nathan W. Pyle's #1 New York Times bestseller! Our favorite literal-speaking Beings return in this fun and hilarious activity book for kids 8-12 and fans of all ages.The book, filled with puzzles, games, and activities, features iconic big eyed, blue Beings, a bright pastel palette, and delightfully odd, deadpan humor. There are over one hundred pages to joyfully doodle in and complete, with activities ranging from crossword puzzles, mazes, word searches, matching games, spot the difference, and more.This activity book incorporates absurd "Strange Planet” lingo like "foot fabric tubes” (socks) and "vibrating creature” (purring cat) throughout. This activity book taps into what we love most about Strange Planet: the humor. This book will give young fans of the Strange Planet series yet another opportunity to visit their favorite blue Beings.

The essential companion to the million-copy bestseller The Success Principles, providing readers a practical, step-by-step workbook to transform their lives.