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The Development of an Extraordinary SpeciesWe human beings share 98 percent of our genes with chimpanzees. Yet humans are the dominant species on the planet -- having founded civilizations and religions, developed intricate and diverse forms of communication, learned science, built cities, and created breathtaking works of art -- while chimps remain animals concerned primarily with the basic necessities of survival. What is it about that two percent difference in DNA that has created such a divergence between evolutionary cousins? In this fascinating, provocative, passionate, funny, endlessly entertaining work, renowned Pulitzer Prize–winning author and scientist Jared Diamond explores how the extraordinary human animal, in a remarkably short time, developed the capacity to rule the world . . . and the means to irrevocably destroy it.

Contra those proclaiming the end of philosophy, Badiou aims to restore philosophical thought to the complete space of the truths that condition it.

When Robert Pirsig’s Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance was first published in 1974, it caused a literary sensation. An entire generation was profoundly affected by the story of the narrator, his son, Chris, and their month-long motorcycle odyssey from Minnesota to California. A combination of philosophical speculation and psychological tension, the book is a complex story of relationships, values, madness, and, eventually, enlightenment.Ron Di Santo and Tom Steele have spent years investigating the background and underlying symbolism of Pirsig’s work. Together, and with the approval of Robert Pirsig, they have written a fascinating reference/companion to the original.Guidebook to Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance serves as a metaphorical backpack of supplies for the reader’s journey through the original work. With the background material, insights, and perspectives the authors provide, Guidebook to Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance is destined to become required reading for new fans of the book as well as those who have returned to it over the years.

Abraham H. Maslow was one of the foremost spokespersons of humanistic psychology. In The Farthest Reaches of Human Nature, an extension of his classic Toward a Psychology of Being, Maslow explores the complexities of human nature by using both the empirical methods of science and the aesthetics of philosophical inquiry. With essays on biology, synergy, creativity, cognition, self-actualization, and the hierarchy of needs, this posthumous work is a wide-ranging synthesis of Maslow's inspiring and influential ideas.

Der Kult-Bestseller endlich im Taschenbuch.Millionen Frauen überall auf der Welt wollen so sein wie sie: die Pariserin. Denn nur sie schafft es, mit Stil, Charme und beneidenswerter Lässigkeit durchs Leben zu gehen. Sie sieht immer gut aus - obwohl sie sich keine Gedanken darüber macht, was sie morgens aus dem Kleiderschrank zieht. Sie ist eine liebevolle Mutter - und fährt trotzdem auch ohne Anhang an die Côte d'Azur. Sie stellt toujours strikte Regeln auf - nur um jede einzelne von ihnen mit Genuss zu brechen ...In How to be Parisian enthüllen vier Pariser Lifestyle-Ikonen mit viel Selbstironie und Witz den Mythos der Pariser Frau: ihre Allüren, ihre Nonchalance, ihren Style, wie sie liebt und wie sie ihre Tage und Nächte verbringt. Ihre wichtigste Lektion: Um eine echte Pariserin zu sein, kommt es nicht auf die Herkunft an - sondern allein auf die Einstellung!

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.

Dark Secrets, Deep Love, and Dangerous MagicSent to a boarding school in Ancelstierre as a young child, Sabriel has had little experience with the random power of Free Magic or the Dead who refuse to stay dead in the Old Kingdom. But during her final semester, her father, the Abhorsen, goes missing, and Sabriel knows she must enter the Old Kingdom to find him. She soon finds companions in Mogget, a cat whose aloof manner barely conceals its malevolent spirit, and Touchstone, a young Charter Mage long imprisoned by magic, now free in body but still trapped by painful memories. As the three travel deep into the Old Kingdom, threats mount on all sides. And every step brings them closer to a battle that will pit them against the true forces of life and death—and bring Sabriel face-to-face with her own destiny.With Sabriel, the first installment in the Abhorsen trilogy, Garth Nix exploded onto the fantasy scene as a rising star, in a novel that takes readers to a world where the line between the living and the dead isn't always clear—and sometimes disappears altogether.

A concise and informative book introducing a simple and unique cranial release technique that can be used to relieve head and neck pain, and to prevent cranial strains from developing after long dental appointments and especially after difficult oral surgery. This technique has been developed and utilized over the past forty five years and will also facilitate tooth and bone movement using removable light-wire orthodontic orthopedic appliances.Written by the acclaimed Dr. Stephen P Broderson, DDS, the book is aimed primarily at dentists, but will also be highly useful for other whole body practitioners to learn this technique of cranial manipulation for patients with pain and dysfunction, for orthodontic and orthopedic patients, and for post-treatment after oral surgery and any long appointments.

'Umwerfend. Ein brillantes, rigoroses Buch' Jennifer Szalai, New York Times Was denken wir über Sex? Wie sollten wir darüber nachdenken? Angeblich ist Sex ganz privat, intim und doch wird er ständig mit öffentlicher Bedeutung aufgeladen und überfrachtet. Wir leben unsere ganz persönlichen Vorlieben beim Sex aus und doch wissen wir, dass er von äußeren, gesellschaftlichen Kräften geformt wird, denen wir nie entkommen. Vergnügen und Ethik klaffen beim Sex denkbar weit auseinander.

Jenseits von Afrika: die Honda Africa Twin CRF1000L in der SchrauberwerkstattDer Name "Africa Twin" hat Tradition. Bis ins Jahr 1988 kann man die Ahnenreihe der beliebten Honda-Geländemaschine zurückverfolgen. Mit ihrer robusten Konstruktion und dem beherrschbarem Fahrverhalten auf fast jedem Untergrund - von Sand und Matsch bis hin zu Asphalt - gewann sie schnell eine große Fangemeinde.Die Honda CRF1000L ist die erfolgreiche Wiederbelebung des "Africa Twin"-Mythos. Inzwischen ist der V-Twin einem Reihen-Zweier gewichen. Zwar gewinnt die Leistungsausbeute keine Ampelrennen, aber die Honda Africa Twin ist eine extrem solide und durchdachte Maschine, die so schnell nichts aus der Bahn wirft. Damit Sie lange Freude an der Fahrt durch jedes Gelände haben, erfahren Sie in diesem Buch alles, was Sie über Wartung und Reparatur von Hondas Dauerbrenner wissen müssen.. Umfassendes Wartungs- und Reparaturhandbuch für die beliebte Honda CRF 1000L Africa Twin. Für Anfänger und Profischrauber: detaillierte Reparaturanleitungen für Motor, Getriebe, Batterie, Elektrik und mehr. Mit farbigen Stromlaufplänen und allen technischen Daten wie Maße, Drehmomente, Füllmengen und mehr. Mit Übersicht der wichtigsten Routinechecks und Service-Intervalle: So wird die regelmäßige Motorrad-Wartung zum Kinderspiel!Auf Asphalt und Offroad: für alle Abenteuer gerüstet mit der umfangreichen Wartungs- und ReparaturanleitungPassionierte Motorrad-Schrauber und interessierte Honda-Fahrer finden in diesem Wartungs- und Reparaturhandbuch sämtliche Informationen, Tipps und Tricks, um selbst Hand anzulegen. Alle Handgriffe werden detailliert dargestellt und leicht verständlich erklärt: von der Getriebereparatur über den Austausch von Federn und Lagern bis zur Pflege. Ob Wartungsabläufe, Reparaturen oder der Aus- und Einbau von Ersatzteilen ins Honda-Motorrad: Mit diesem Werkstatthandbuch gelingt auch Anfängern ohne Schrauberfahrung die Instandhaltung der Africa Twin!In diesem Buch:CRF 1000 A 998 cm³ 2016 bis 2019CRF 1000 D (DTC) 998 cm³ 2016 bis 2019CRF 1000 A2 Adventure Sports 998 cm³ 2018 bis 2019CRF 1000 D2 (DTC) Adventure Sports 998 cm³ 2018 bis 2019

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.

David Tudor (1926-1996) war in den 1950er-Jahren einer der führenden Pianisten und Interpreten zeitgenössischer Musik in Europa und den USA. Seine Fähigkeit, auf die Unbestimmtheit anspruchsvoller Partituren von Komponisten wie John Cage, Karlheinz Stockhausen und Christian Wolff zu reagieren und deren komplexe, manchmal mehrdeutige Anweisungen umzusetzen, war einzigartig und faszinierte seine Zeitgenossen. Ab den frühen 1960er-Jahren vollzog er den Wandel vom Interpreten zum Komponisten-Performer und schuf die Grundlage für eine Praxis, die wir heute als Live-Elektronik kennen."Teasing Chaos" ist die erste umfassende Darstellung seiner Pionierleistung und seiner interdisziplinären Kollaborationen mit bildenden Künstler*innen wie Robert Rauschenberg, Marcel Duchamp oder Jacqueline Matisse Monnier, und würdigt ein Werk, das bisher zu wenig beachtet geblieben ist.

Expanded with never before seen works of art, this new edition delves deeper than ever into the sci-fi saga that changed video games forever.Contains extensive new material from the DLCs for all three games--including the award-winning "Lair of the Shadow Broker" from Mass Effect 2 and the fan-favorite "Citadel" from Mass Effect 3. Experience the evolution of the aliens, planets, ships, and technology that define this iconic science fiction universe, as the developers who brought BioWare's masterpiece to life take you from the earliest design sketches through to the meticulous final renders.Brimming with concept art and commentary, this expanded edition is the ultimate companion to one of the greatest series in the history of gaming!

Die schönsten irischen Tänze, Jig Reels, Hornpipes, Stücke von Carolan und Folksongs laden in die Welt der irischen Musik ein. Informationen über die einzelnen Stücke, zur Stilistik und dem kulturellen Hintergrund ergänzen die stilvollen Bearbeitungen. Passend zum "Irish Flute Book" mit Audio-Downloads gibt es ein Heft für Klavier, das in den Tonarten auf die Flötensätze abgestimmt ist. Beide Hefte eignen sich hervorragend für den Unterricht und das Spiel im Ensemble.Schwierigkeitsgrad: 2

Feuerriesen, Walküren und nordische Götter: Alle Magnus-Chase-Abenteuer in einem Schuber!  Der 16-jährige Magnus Chase lebt seit dem mysteriösen Tod seiner Mutter auf der Straße. Mit Diebstählen hält er sich über Wasser - bis er eines Tages von seinem besonderen Erbe erfährt: Magnus ist der Sohn des nordischen Gottes Frey und soll die Welt vor dem Untergang retten. In dieser Fantasy-Trilogie überführt Rick Riordan alte Sagen und Legenden in moderne Geschichten und schafft es, Leser*innen überall auf der Welt für seine coolen, selbstironischen Figuren und die nordische Mythologie zu begeistern.   Enthält die Bände: Magnus Chase: Das Schwert des Sommers (Band 1) Magnus Chase: Der Hammer des Thor (Band 2) Magnus Chase: Das Schiff der Toten (Band 3)   ***Eine packende Fantasy-Trilogie für Leser*innen ab 12 Jahren und für alle Fans der nordischen Mythologie***

Women around the globe, it’s time to finally speak up, speak out, be heard, become stronger than ever, and live more meaningful lives. Women encounter a myriad of obstacles, from sexual harassment to unequal pay to objectification and discrimination. But there are very specific tips that each woman, no matter her age or her station in life, can follow right now to make important and significant changes. In this book, women will learn to flex their mental muscles and hurdle over the roadblocks that keep them from achieving their greatest goals. While many people focus on what women should do to live their best lives, only one author will tell women in no uncertain terms which behaviors to avoid in order to become mentally strong.Now Amy Morin, psychotherapist and author of 13 Things Mentally Strong People Don’t Do, teaches women everywhere how to fortify themselves and face challenges in this powerful, necessary book for our time, breaking down the thirteen habits and mind-sets that women must avoid in order to master their mental strength. These thirteen tried-and-true principles show women how to tackle problems and tough situations in order to live their best—and most powerful—lives, and there’s no better guide through the process than Morin, the leading global voice on mental strength. Drawing on scientific evidence, case studies from her own patients, and even celebrity stories of hardship and triumph, Morin shows how mental strength can come from anywhere regardless of career, marriage, or family life. From introducing ways to stop blaming yourself to becoming a rule-breaker, Morin demonstrates how to navigate some of the hardest challenges that women face, while proposing experience-based solutions that promote mental fortitude. By integrating these easy-to-follow exercises and practical tips into daily life, Morin shows that mental strength is achievable—and necessary—to become a strong woman. In addition she discusses how mental strength practice can help with the difficult realities of sexism that still exist even in the era of the #MeToo movement and awareness of workplace harassment, providing specific strategies for dealing with these persistent issues. Featuring stories and experiences from dozens of women and offering a timely approach to the hard-hitting difficulties women are facing—including calling out sexism, fighting harassment, and finding confidence—Morin confronts the status quo by giving women the time, space, and energy to prioritize themselves. The end result frees you from the confusing practices and obstacles that women face every day, and helps inspire you to achieve the mental strength you need to create a life of authentic meaning and joy.

"Sequal to the Netflix film To all the boys I've loved before"--Cover.

The bestselling 28-day program to finding happiness through meditation, from expert Sharon Salzberg (195,000 copies in print), now revised and updated with new meditations and downloadable audio.

Erarbeitet im Auftrag des Bayerischen Staatsministeriums für Unterricht und Kultus

Never before has an exhibition moved the public as profoundly and changed the view of personal corporeality as strongly as has Gunther von Hagens BODY WORLDS. Through the aesthetic presentation of real, anatomically prepared human bodies, the exhibition uses death to convey descriptive knowledge about life and lets it become a deeply impressive encounter with ones bodily interior. About 45 million people worldwide have experienced this encounter. This catalog shows the extraordinary: anatomical specimens that have been prepared and preserved with a special technique invented by Gunther von Hagens. In addition to the medical-anatomical description of the human body, the catalog contains contributions to the topics of anatomy and plastination, posed specimens, and mandatory interment, as well as articles written by renowned scientists from the fields of anatomy and medical history, philosophy, aesthetics and art history, biology, and religious studies. The chapter about the anatomy and function of the human body is divided into the following sub-chapters: 1. The Locomotive System 2. The Nervous System 3. The Respiratory System 4. The Cardiovascular System 5. The Digestive System 6. The Urinary Tract 7. Reproductive Organs 8. Prenatal Development 9. Whole-Body Plastinates. New, revised edition with attractive design and color illustrations. A bestseller and standard work!

"Ein glückliches Leben voller Leidenschaft, Neugier und Großmut leben - und die Welt nach Herzenslust erforschen." Mit diesem Credo porträtieren Elena Favilli und Francesca Cavallo weitere 100 Frauen, von Nofretete bis Beyoncé, von Clara Schumann bis J.K. Rowling. 100 Geschichten von Frauen, die etwas wollen und es dann auch tun, ohne die Hilfe eines starken Mannes, einer Fee oder eines Zauberspruchs. Frauen, die ihr Leben selbst in die Hand nehmen und nicht abwartend im Turm sitzen, bis ein Prinz daherkommt und sie rettet. Die Fortsetzung des Bestsellers, der allen Mädchen Mut macht, sich Ziele zu setzen und ihre Träume zu verwirklichen - beeindruckend illustriert von 60 Künstlerinnen aus aller Welt.

Mit den drei Sätzen Pagodes, La soirée dans Grenade (Ein Abend in Granada) und Jardins sous la pluie (Gärten im Regen) lässt Debussy im Zyklus Estampes in Bildern eine poetische Welt aus Landschaften und fernen Ländern entstehen. Er komponierte die Stücke im Sommer 1903 während eines Aufenthalts in Bichain im nördlichen Burgund. Von dort bekräftigt er in einem Brief: "Wenn man sich Reisen nicht leisten kann, muss man sie durch Fantasie ersetzen." Im virtuosen Schlusssatz knüpft er an seine zukunftsweisenden Images aus dem Jahr 1894 (HN 846) an.

"The most important unpublished work on one of the greatest films of all time, The Godfather, written before filming, by the man who wrote and directed it--Francis Ford Coppola, then only thirty-two years old--reveals the intense creative process that went into creating this seminal film. With meticulous notes and impressions of Mario Puzo's novel, the Notebook was referred to by Coppola daily on set while he directed the movie. [This book] pulls back the curtain on the legendary filmmaker and the film that launched his illustrious career. Complete with an introduction by Francis Ford Coppola and exclusive photographs from on and off the set, this is a unique, beautiful, and faithful reproduction of Coppola's original notebook"--Publisher's website.

Add your personal touch to original art inspired by Newbery Medal-winning and New York Times bestselling author Neil Gaiman's stories for children. Each page depicts stunning scenes, quotes, and beloved characters, illustrated by comic luminary Jill Thompson.Printed on sturdy paper, this 96-page coloring book for adults and sophisticated kids will be welcomed by Neil Gaiman fans and artists. Makes an excellent gift for the Gaiman addict in your life. Perfect for at-home creative time.As a 5-star review puts it: "If you are an adult or a child old enough to enjoy some of Gaiman's 'darker' but whimsical work you will love this coloring book." Scenes are inspired by the beloved books Coraline; The Graveyard Book; Fortunately, the Milk; Instructions; and Crazy Hair.With The Neil Gaiman Coloring Book, you too can "make good art.”