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Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Your young chld will soon learn their first numbers, shapes and colors with this bright board book from Priddy Books. There are 100 color pictures which they will love to look at, and 100 simple first words to learn, too. The pages are made from tough board for hours of fun reading, and the cover is softly padded for little hands to hold.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - A post-apocalyptic thriller of the after effects in the United States after a terrifying terrorist attack using electromagnetic pulse weapons. New York Times best selling author William R. Forstchen now brings us a story which can be all too terrifyingly real.a story in which one man struggles to save his family and his small North Carolina town after America loses a war, in one second, a war that will send America back to the Dark Ages.A war based upon a weapon, an Electro Magnetic Pulse (EMP). A weapon that may already be in the hands of our enemies.Months before publication, One Second After has already been cited on the floor of Congress as a book all Americans should read, a book already being discussed in the corridors of the Pentagon as a truly realistic look at a weapon and its awesome power to destroy the entire United States, literally within one second. It is a weapon that the Wall Street Journal warns could shatter America. In the tradition of On the Beach, Fail Safe and Testament, this book, set in a typical American town, is a dire warning of what might be our future.and our end.The John Matherson Series#1 One Second After#2 One Year After#3 The Final DayOther BooksPillar to the Sky48 Hours.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Brandon Sanderson, widely acclaimed for his work completing Robert Jordan's 'Wheel of Time saga', begins a grand cycle of his own, with The Way of Kings, Book One of the Stormlight Archive.Roshar is a world of stone and storms. Uncanny tempests of incredible power sweep across the rocky terrain so frequently that they have shaped ecology and civilization alike. Animals hide in shells, trees pull in branches, and grass retracts into the soilless ground. Cities are built only where the topography offers shelter.It has been centuries since the fall of the ten consecrated orders known as the Knights Radiant, but their Shardblades and Shardplate remain: mystical swords and suits of armor that transform ordinary men into near-invincible warriors. Men trade kingdoms for Shardblades. Wars were fought for them, and won by them.One such war rages on a ruined landscape called the Shattered Plains. There, Kaladin, who traded his medical apprenticeship for a spear to protect his little brother, has been reduced to slavery. In a war that makes no sense, where ten armies fight separately against a single foe, he struggles to save his men and to fathom the leaders who consider them expendable.Brightlord Dalinar Kholin commands one of those other armies. Like his brother, the late king, he is fascinated by an ancient text called The Way of Kings. Troubled by over-powering visions of ancient times and the Knights Radiant, he has begun to doubt his own sanity.Across the ocean, an untried young woman named Shallan seeks to train under an eminent scholar and notorious heretic, Dalinar's niece, Jasnah. Though she genuinely loves learning, Shallan's motives are less than pure. As she plans a daring theft, her research for Jasnah hints at secrets of the Knights Radiant and the true cause of the war.The result of over ten years of planning, writing, and world-building, 'The Way of Kings' is but the opening movement of the 'Stormlight Archive', a bold masterpiece in the making.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The groundbreaking National Book Award Finalist and Michael L. Printz Honor Book with more than 3.5 million copies sold, Speak is a bestselling modern classic about consent, healing, and finding your voice.'Speak up for yourself-we want to know what you have to say.' From the first moment of her freshman year at Merryweather High, Melinda knows this is a big lie, part of the nonsense of high school. She is friendless, an outcast, because she busted an end-of-summer party by calling the cops. Now nobody will talk to her, let alone listen to her. As time passes, Melinda becomes increasingly isolated and practically stops talking altogether. Only her art class offers any solace, and it is through her work on an art project that she is finally able to face what really happened at that terrible party: she was raped by an upperclassman, a guy who still attends Merryweather and is still a threat to her. Her healing process has just begun when she has another violent encounter with him. But this time Melinda fights back-and refuses to be silent.From Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award laureate Laurie Halse Anderson comes the extraordinary landmark novel that has spoken to millions of readers. Powerful and utterly unforgettable, Speak has been translated into 35 languages, was the basis for the major motion picture starring Kristen Stewart, and is now a stunning graphic novel adapted by Laurie Halse Anderson herself, with artwork from Eisner-Award winner E.M. Carroll.Awards and Accolades for Speak:A New York Times BestsellerA National Book Award Finalist for Young People's LiteratureA Michael L. Printz Honor BookAn Edgar Allan Poe Award FinalistA Los Angeles Times Book Prize FinalistA TIME Magazine Best YA Book of All TimeA Cosmopolitan Magazine Best YA Books Everyone Should Read, Regardless of Age; Ausgezeichnet: Kentucky Blue Grass Award, 2001.Ausgezeichnet: NYPL Books for the Teen Age, 2007.Ausgezeichnet: California Young Reader Medal, 2003.Ausgezeichnet: Golden Kite Award Winner, 2000.Nominiert: School Library Journal Best Books of the Year, 2004.Ausgezeichnet: PA Carolyn W. Field Award, 2000.Nominiert: National Book Awards - Finalist, 1999.Empfohlen: Michael L. Printz Award - Honor, 2000.Nominiert: Horn Book Magazine Fanfare List, 2000.Ausgezeichnet: BCCB Blue Ribbon Award, 1999.Nominiert: ALA Best Books for Young Adults, 2000.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The first book in an exciting new paranormal YA series about a girl who's sent to a camp for teens with supernatural abilities.Kylie Galen's about to spend the next three months trapped with a bunch of freaks. After getting caught at a party with alcohol, shes shipped off to Shadow Falls Camp - a camp for troubled teens. And these kids arent normal freaks, either. As Kylie discovers, theyre freaky freaks - witches, vampires, werewolves, fairies and shapeshifters - and the camp is a training ground where theyre taught to harness their powers.All Kylie wants to do is finish out her sentence at the camp . but everything changes when she meets Derek and Lucas. Derek is a smokin' hot guy with magical powers who's making it painfully clear that he wants to be more than just friends. And Lucas is a werewolf pack leader with whom she shares a secret past. Lucas has always made Kylies insides melt - unfortunately, he wants nothing to do with her.Now Kylie's got two boys playing tug of war with her heart - and a sneaking suspicion that she has magical powers of her own. After Shadow Falls Camp, how will she ever be able to go back to her normal life again.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Return to the world of Shadow Falls, a camp for supernatural teens. Romance may be in the air, but a dark, paranormal presence has come to Shadow Falls and is about to make itself known. From the moment Kylie Galen arrived at Shadow Falls, she's had one burning question: What am I Surrounded by vampires, werewolves, shapeshifters, fairies and witches, Kylie longs to figure out her own supernatural identity.and what her burgeoning powers mean. And now she'll need them more than ever, because she's being haunted by a new spirit who insists that someone Kylie knows-and loves-will die before the end of the summer. If only she only knew who she was supposed to save. And how. But giving Kylie the most trouble is her heart. Gorgeous werewolf Lucas left camp with another girl, but he's still visiting Kylie in her dreams. And Derek, a sexy half Fae who's always been there for her when she needed him, is pushing to get more serious-and growing impatient, especially when Lucas returns. Kylie knows she needs to decide between the boys, and it's tearing her up inside. Yet romance will have to wait, because something from the dark side of the supernatural world is hiding in Shadow Falls. It's about to threaten everything she holds dear.and bring her closer to her destiny. C. C. Hunter brings readers back to Shadow Falls in the second thrilling installment in the New York Times bestselling series with, Awake at Dawn.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The modern world has given us stupendous know-how. Yet avoidable failures continue to plague us in health care, government, the law, the financial industry - in almost every realm of organized activity. And the reason is simple: the volume and complexity of knowledge today has exceeded our ability as individuals to properly deliver it to people - consistently, correctly, safely. We train longer, specialize more, use ever advancing technologies, and still we fail. Atul Gawande makes a compelling argument that we can do better, using the simplest of methods: the lowly checklist. He explains how checklists have made possible some of the most difficult things people do - from flying airplanes to building skyscrapers. He takes us from Austria, where an emergency checklist saved a patient who had spent half an hour underwater, to Michigan, where a cleanliness checklist in intensive care units virtually eliminated a type of deadly hospital infection, and to the flight deck of a crashing plane. Along the way, he reveals what checklists can do, what they cant, and how they could bring about striking improvements in fields well beyond medicine, from disaster recovery to investment banking, to professions and businesses of all kinds.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - '[Nelson Mandela] has done so much to change his country, and the world, that it is hard to imagine the history of the last several decades without him.' -from the foreword by President Barack Obama Foreword by President Barack ObamaNelson Mandela is one of the most inspiring and iconic figures of our age. Now, after a lifetime of recording thoughts and events, hardships and victories, he has opened his personal archive, which offers unprecedented insight into his remarkable autobiography.From letters written in the darkest hours of his twenty-seven years of imprisonment to the draft of an unfinished sequel to Long Walk to Freedom, Conversations with Myself gives readers access to the private man behind the public figure. Here he is making notes and even doodling during meetings, or transcribing troubled dreams on the desk calendar in his prison cell on Robben Island; writing journals while on the run during the anti-apartheid struggle in the early 1960s, and conversing with friends in almost seventy hours of recorded conversations. Here he is neither icon nor saint.An intimate journey from the first stirrings of political consciousness to his galvanizing role on the world stage, Conversations with Myself is a rare chance to spend time with Nelson Mandela the man, in his own voice: direct, clear, private.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Die New Yorker Dichterin Mia und der Neurowissenschaftler Boris haben eine Ehekrise. Boris möchte eine 'Pause'. Mia stellt fest, dass die Pause viel vollere Brüste hat als sie und überdies Boris Laborassistentin ist.Nach einer klinischen Depression braucht sie eine Pause, fährt allein in ihre Geburtsstadt in Minnesota und verbringt den Sommer in der Nähe ihrer Mutter, die, mit neunzig noch recht aktiv, im Heim lebt.Ansonsten brütet sie über den untreuen Boris und die Männer im Allgemeinen. Mit Wut im Bauch und dem Herzen auf der Zunge notiert sie zum Thema Liebe, Ehe und Sex, was ihr einfällt. (Und das ist, neben Gedichten und einem erotischen Tagebuch, eine Menge!)Die Kur schlägt an, und siehe da, langsam entdeckt sie sich und das Leben neu. Was für ein Genuss, was für eine Befreiung! Selbst Boris merkt das in der Ferne und schickt zerknirschte Mails.Siri Hustvedts neuer Roman ist ein hinreißendes, blitzgescheites Buch über das Leben von Frauen heute. Von der Geburt über den Sexus bis hin zum Tod, die scharfzüngige Mia nimmt kein Blatt vor den Mund. So erfrischend, so komisch kann Beziehungsanalyse sein und das ganz ohne Männer.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -A post-apocalyptic thriller of the after effects in the United States after a terrifying terrorist attack using electromagnetic pulse weapons. New York Times best selling author William R. Forstchen now brings us a story which can be all too terrifyingly real.a story in which one man struggles to save his family and his small North Carolina town after America loses a war, in one second, a war that will send America back to the Dark Ages.A war based upon a weapon, an Electro Magnetic Pulse (EMP). A weapon that may already be in the hands of our enemies.Months before publication, One Second After has already been cited on the floor of Congress as a book all Americans should read, a book already being discussed in the corridors of the Pentagon as a truly realistic look at a weapon and its awesome power to destroy the entire United States, literally within one second. It is a weapon that the Wall Street Journal warns could shatter America. In the tradition of On the Beach, Fail Safe and Testament, this book, set in a typical American town, is a dire warning of what might be our future.and our end.The John Matherson Series#1 One Second After#2 One Year After#3 The Final DayOther BooksPillar to the Sky48 HoursLibri GmbH, Europaallee 1, 36244 Bad Hersfeld Englisch.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -A new epic fantasy series from the New York Times bestselling author chosen to complete Robert Jordan's The Wheel of Time® SeriesPetersen Buchimport GmbH, Weidestraße 122 a, 22083 Hamburg Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -The groundbreaking National Book Award Finalist and Michael L. Printz Honor Book with more than 3.5 million copies sold, Speak is a bestselling modern classic about consent, healing, and finding your voice.'Speak up for yourself-we want to know what you have to say.' From the first moment of her freshman year at Merryweather High, Melinda knows this is a big lie, part of the nonsense of high school. She is friendless, an outcast, because she busted an end-of-summer party by calling the cops. Now nobody will talk to her, let alone listen to her. As time passes, Melinda becomes increasingly isolated and practically stops talking altogether. Only her art class offers any solace, and it is through her work on an art project that she is finally able to face what really happened at that terrible party: she was raped by an upperclassman, a guy who still attends Merryweather and is still a threat to her. Her healing process has just begun when she has another violent encounter with him. But this time Melinda fights back-and refuses to be silent.From Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award laureate Laurie Halse Anderson comes the extraordinary landmark novel that has spoken to millions of readers. Powerful and utterly unforgettable, Speak has been translated into 35 languages, was the basis for the major motion picture starring Kristen Stewart, and is now a stunning graphic novel adapted by Laurie Halse Anderson herself, with artwork from Eisner-Award winner E.M. Carroll.Awards and Accolades for Speak:A New York Times BestsellerA National Book Award Finalist for Young People's LiteratureA Michael L. Printz Honor BookAn Edgar Allan Poe Award FinalistA Los Angeles Times Book Prize FinalistA TIME Magazine Best YA Book of All TimeA Cosmopolitan Magazine Best YA Books Everyone Should Read, Regardless of AgePetersen Buchimport GmbH, Weidestraße 122 a, 22083 Hamburg 197 pp. Englisch.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -Return to the world of Shadow Falls, a camp for supernatural teens. Romance may be in the air, but a dark, paranormal presence has come to Shadow Falls and is about to make itself known. From the moment Kylie Galen arrived at Shadow Falls, she's had one burning question: What am I Surrounded by vampires, werewolves, shapeshifters, fairies and witches, Kylie longs to figure out her own supernatural identity.and what her burgeoning powers mean. And now she'll need them more than ever, because she's being haunted by a new spirit who insists that someone Kylie knows-and loves-will die before the end of the summer. If only she only knew who she was supposed to save. And how. But giving Kylie the most trouble is her heart. Gorgeous werewolf Lucas left camp with another girl, but he's still visiting Kylie in her dreams. And Derek, a sexy half Fae who's always been there for her when she needed him, is pushing to get more serious-and growing impatient, especially when Lucas returns. Kylie knows she needs to decide between the boys, and it's tearing her up inside. Yet romance will have to wait, because something from the dark side of the supernatural world is hiding in Shadow Falls. It's about to threaten everything she holds dear.and bring her closer to her destiny. C. C. Hunter brings readers back to Shadow Falls in the second thrilling installment in the New York Times bestselling series with, Awake at Dawn.Petersen Buchimport GmbH, Weidestraße 122 a, 22083 Hamburg 390 pp. Englisch.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -\*Major New York Times Bestseller\*More than 2.6 million copies sold\*One of The New York Times Book Review's ten best books of the year\*Selected by The Wall Street Journal as one of the best nonfiction books of the year\*Presidential Medal of Freedom Recipient\*Daniel Kahneman's work with Amos Tversky is the subject of Michael Lewis's best-selling The Undoing Project: A Friendship That Changed Our MindsIn his mega bestseller, Thinking, Fast and Slow, Daniel Kahneman, world-famous psychologist and winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics, takes us on a groundbreaking tour of the mind and explains the two systems that drive the way we think.System 1 is fast, intuitive, and emotional; System 2 is slower, more deliberative, and more logical. The impact of overconfidence on corporate strategies, the difficulties of predicting what will make us happy in the future, the profound effect of cognitive biases on everything from playing the stock market to planning our next vacation-each of these can be understood only by knowing how the two systems shape our judgments and decisions.Engaging the reader in a lively conversation about how we think, Kahneman reveals where we can and cannot trust our intuitions and how we can tap into the benefits of slow thinking. He offers practical and enlightening insights into how choices are made in both our business and our personal lives-and how we can use different techniques to guard against the mental glitches that often get us into trouble. Topping bestseller lists for almost ten years, Thinking, Fast and Slow is a contemporary classic, an essential book that has changed the lives of millions of readers.Petersen Buchimport GmbH, Weidestraße 122 a, 22083 Hamburg 499 pp. Englisch.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -The New York Times bestselling author of Being Mortal and Complications reveals the surprising power of the ordinary checklist.We live in a world of great and increasing complexity, where even the most expert professionals struggle to master the tasks they face. Longer training, ever more advanced technologies-neither seems to prevent grievous errors. But in a hopeful turn, acclaimed surgeon and writer Atul Gawande finds a remedy in the humblest and simplest of techniques: the checklist. First introduced decades ago by the U.S. Air Force, checklists have enabled pilots to fly aircraft of mind-boggling sophistication. Now innovative checklists are being adopted in hospitals around the world, helping doctors and nurses respond to everything from flu epidemics to avalanches. Even in the immensely complex world of surgery, a simple ninety-second variant has cut the rate of fatalities by more than a third.In riveting stories, Gawande takes us from Austria, where an emergency checklist saved a drowning victim who had spent half an hour underwater, to Michigan, where a cleanliness checklist in intensive care units virtually eliminated a type of deadly hospital infection. He explains how checklists actually work to prompt striking and immediate improvements. And he follows the checklist revolution into fields well beyond medicine, from disaster response to investment banking, skyscraper construction, and businesses of all kinds.An intellectual adventure in which lives are lost and saved and one simple idea makes a tremendous difference, The Checklist Manifesto is essential reading for anyone working to get things right.Petersen Buchimport GmbH, Weidestraße 122 a, 22083 Hamburg Englisch. …

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -'[Nelson Mandela] has done so much to change his country, and the world, that it is hard to imagine the history of the last several decades without him.' -from the foreword by President Barack Obama Foreword by President Barack ObamaNelson Mandela is one of the most inspiring and iconic figures of our age. Now, after a lifetime of recording thoughts and events, hardships and victories, he has opened his personal archive, which offers unprecedented insight into his remarkable autobiography.From letters written in the darkest hours of his twenty-seven years of imprisonment to the draft of an unfinished sequel to Long Walk to Freedom, Conversations with Myself gives readers access to the private man behind the public figure. Here he is making notes and even doodling during meetings, or transcribing troubled dreams on the desk calendar in his prison cell on Robben Island; writing journals while on the run during the anti-apartheid struggle in the early 1960s, and conversing with friends in almost seventy hours of recorded conversations. Here he is neither icon nor saint.An intimate journey from the first stirrings of political consciousness to his galvanizing role on the world stage, Conversations with Myself is a rare chance to spend time with Nelson Mandela the man, in his own voice: direct, clear, private.Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, 36244 Bad Hersfeld Englisch.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -A post-apocalyptic thriller of the after effects in the United States after a terrifying terrorist attack using electromagnetic pulse weapons. New York Times best selling author William R. Forstchen now brings us a story which can be all too terrifyingly real.a story in which one man struggles to save his family and his small North Carolina town after America loses a war, in one second, a war that will send America back to the Dark Ages.A war based upon a weapon, an Electro Magnetic Pulse (EMP). A weapon that may already be in the hands of our enemies.Months before publication, One Second After has already been cited on the floor of Congress as a book all Americans should read, a book already being discussed in the corridors of the Pentagon as a truly realistic look at a weapon and its awesome power to destroy the entire United States, literally within one second. It is a weapon that the Wall Street Journal warns could shatter America. In the tradition of On the Beach, Fail Safe and Testament, this book, set in a typical American town, is a dire warning of what might be our future.and our end.The John Matherson Series#1 One Second After#2 One Year After#3 The Final DayOther BooksPillar to the Sky48 Hours Englisch.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -The groundbreaking National Book Award Finalist and Michael L. Printz Honor Book with more than 3.5 million copies sold, Speak is a bestselling modern classic about consent, healing, and finding your voice.'Speak up for yourself-we want to know what you have to say.' From the first moment of her freshman year at Merryweather High, Melinda knows this is a big lie, part of the nonsense of high school. She is friendless, an outcast, because she busted an end-of-summer party by calling the cops. Now nobody will talk to her, let alone listen to her. As time passes, Melinda becomes increasingly isolated and practically stops talking altogether. Only her art class offers any solace, and it is through her work on an art project that she is finally able to face what really happened at that terrible party: she was raped by an upperclassman, a guy who still attends Merryweather and is still a threat to her. Her healing process has just begun when she has another violent encounter with him. But this time Melinda fights back-and refuses to be silent.From Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award laureate Laurie Halse Anderson comes the extraordinary landmark novel that has spoken to millions of readers. Powerful and utterly unforgettable, Speak has been translated into 35 languages, was the basis for the major motion picture starring Kristen Stewart, and is now a stunning graphic novel adapted by Laurie Halse Anderson herself, with artwork from Eisner-Award winner E.M. Carroll.Awards and Accolades for Speak:A New York Times BestsellerA National Book Award Finalist for Young People's LiteratureA Michael L. Printz Honor BookAn Edgar Allan Poe Award FinalistA Los Angeles Times Book Prize FinalistA TIME Magazine Best YA Book of All TimeA Cosmopolitan Magazine Best YA Books Everyone Should Read, Regardless of Age 197 pp. Englisch.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -Return to the world of Shadow Falls, a camp for supernatural teens. Romance may be in the air, but a dark, paranormal presence has come to Shadow Falls and is about to make itself known. From the moment Kylie Galen arrived at Shadow Falls, she's had one burning question: What am I Surrounded by vampires, werewolves, shapeshifters, fairies and witches, Kylie longs to figure out her own supernatural identity.and what her burgeoning powers mean. And now she'll need them more than ever, because she's being haunted by a new spirit who insists that someone Kylie knows-and loves-will die before the end of the summer. If only she only knew who she was supposed to save. And how. But giving Kylie the most trouble is her heart. Gorgeous werewolf Lucas left camp with another girl, but he's still visiting Kylie in her dreams. And Derek, a sexy half Fae who's always been there for her when she needed him, is pushing to get more serious-and growing impatient, especially when Lucas returns. Kylie knows she needs to decide between the boys, and it's tearing her up inside. Yet romance will have to wait, because something from the dark side of the supernatural world is hiding in Shadow Falls. It's about to threaten everything she holds dear.and bring her closer to her destiny. C. C. Hunter brings readers back to Shadow Falls in the second thrilling installment in the New York Times bestselling series with, Awake at Dawn. 390 pp. Englisch.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -A new epic fantasy series from the New York Times bestselling author chosen to complete Robert Jordan's The Wheel of Time® Series Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -The New York Times bestselling author of Being Mortal and Complications reveals the surprising power of the ordinary checklist.We live in a world of great and increasing complexity, where even the most expert professionals struggle to master the tasks they face. Longer training, ever more advanced technologies-neither seems to prevent grievous errors. But in a hopeful turn, acclaimed surgeon and writer Atul Gawande finds a remedy in the humblest and simplest of techniques: the checklist. First introduced decades ago by the U.S. Air Force, checklists have enabled pilots to fly aircraft of mind-boggling sophistication. Now innovative checklists are being adopted in hospitals around the world, helping doctors and nurses respond to everything from flu epidemics to avalanches. Even in the immensely complex world of surgery, a simple ninety-second variant has cut the rate of fatalities by more than a third.In riveting stories, Gawande takes us from Austria, where an emergency checklist saved a drowning victim who had spent half an hour underwater, to Michigan, where a cleanliness checklist in intensive care units virtually eliminated a type of deadly hospital infection. He explains how checklists actually work to prompt striking and immediate improvements. And he follows the checklist revolution into fields well beyond medicine, from disaster response to investment banking, skyscraper construction, and businesses of all kinds.An intellectual adventure in which lives are lost and saved and one simple idea makes a tremendous difference, The Checklist Manifesto is essential reading for anyone working to get things right. Englisch. …

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -\*Major New York Times Bestseller\*More than 2.6 million copies sold\*One of The New York Times Book Review's ten best books of the year\*Selected by The Wall Street Journal as one of the best nonfiction books of the year\*Presidential Medal of Freedom Recipient\*Daniel Kahneman's work with Amos Tversky is the subject of Michael Lewis's best-selling The Undoing Project: A Friendship That Changed Our MindsIn his mega bestseller, Thinking, Fast and Slow, Daniel Kahneman, world-famous psychologist and winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics, takes us on a groundbreaking tour of the mind and explains the two systems that drive the way we think.System 1 is fast, intuitive, and emotional; System 2 is slower, more deliberative, and more logical. The impact of overconfidence on corporate strategies, the difficulties of predicting what will make us happy in the future, the profound effect of cognitive biases on everything from playing the stock market to planning our next vacation-each of these can be understood only by knowing how the two systems shape our judgments and decisions.Engaging the reader in a lively conversation about how we think, Kahneman reveals where we can and cannot trust our intuitions and how we can tap into the benefits of slow thinking. He offers practical and enlightening insights into how choices are made in both our business and our personal lives-and how we can use different techniques to guard against the mental glitches that often get us into trouble. Topping bestseller lists for almost ten years, Thinking, Fast and Slow is a contemporary classic, an essential book that has changed the lives of millions of readers. 499 pp. Englisch.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -'[Nelson Mandela] has done so much to change his country, and the world, that it is hard to imagine the history of the last several decades without him.' -from the foreword by President Barack Obama Foreword by President Barack ObamaNelson Mandela is one of the most inspiring and iconic figures of our age. Now, after a lifetime of recording thoughts and events, hardships and victories, he has opened his personal archive, which offers unprecedented insight into his remarkable autobiography.From letters written in the darkest hours of his twenty-seven years of imprisonment to the draft of an unfinished sequel to Long Walk to Freedom, Conversations with Myself gives readers access to the private man behind the public figure. Here he is making notes and even doodling during meetings, or transcribing troubled dreams on the desk calendar in his prison cell on Robben Island; writing journals while on the run during the anti-apartheid struggle in the early 1960s, and conversing with friends in almost seventy hours of recorded conversations. Here he is neither icon nor saint.An intimate journey from the first stirrings of political consciousness to his galvanizing role on the world stage, Conversations with Myself is a rare chance to spend time with Nelson Mandela the man, in his own voice: direct, clear, private. Englisch.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -Welcome to Shadow Falls, nestled deep in the woods of a town called Fallen. Kylie Galen has never felt normal. One night she finds herself at the wrong party, with the wrong people, and it changes her life forever. Her mother ships her off to Shadow Falls-a camp for troubled teens-but within hours of arriving, it becomes clear that her fellow campers aren't 'troubled.' Here at Shadow Falls, vampires, werewolves, shapeshifters, witches and fairies train side by side-learning to harness their powers, control their magic, and live in the normal world. They insist Kylie is one of them, and that she was brought to Shadow Falls for a reason. As if life wasn't complicated enough, enter Derek and Lucas. Derek's a half Fae who's determined to be her boyfriend, and Lucas is a brooding werewolf with whom Kylie shares a secret past. Both Derek and Lucas couldn't be more different, but they both have a powerful hold on her heart. Even though Kylie is uncertain about everything, she starts to realize that Shadow Falls is exactly where she belongs.Don't miss this spectacular, New York Times bestselling, young adult paranormal romance series from C. C. Hunter! Born at Midnight will steal your heart and haunt your dreams.Petersen Buchimport GmbH, Weidestraße 122 a, 22083 Hamburg 406 pp. Englisch.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -Welcome to Shadow Falls, nestled deep in the woods of a town called Fallen. Kylie Galen has never felt normal. One night she finds herself at the wrong party, with the wrong people, and it changes her life forever. Her mother ships her off to Shadow Falls-a camp for troubled teens-but within hours of arriving, it becomes clear that her fellow campers aren't 'troubled.' Here at Shadow Falls, vampires, werewolves, shapeshifters, witches and fairies train side by side-learning to harness their powers, control their magic, and live in the normal world. They insist Kylie is one of them, and that she was brought to Shadow Falls for a reason. As if life wasn't complicated enough, enter Derek and Lucas. Derek's a half Fae who's determined to be her boyfriend, and Lucas is a brooding werewolf with whom Kylie shares a secret past. Both Derek and Lucas couldn't be more different, but they both have a powerful hold on her heart. Even though Kylie is uncertain about everything, she starts to realize that Shadow Falls is exactly where she belongs.Don't miss this spectacular, New York Times bestselling, young adult paranormal romance series from C. C. Hunter! Born at Midnight will steal your heart and haunt your dreams. 406 pp. Englisch.…