This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.In the Age of Exploration, the British began building an enormous and highly profitable foreign empire.While the British Empire initially lagged behind other European powers such as Spain and Portugal, it still managed to colonize the New World and discover highly-lucrative trade routes British colonies could be found on virtually any continent. For decades, colonialism was painted as the duty of the more advanc...

Jake and Josh in The Blanket Rescue is a story about the meaning of friendship and overcoming fears. Jake and Josh gave up their cribs for toddler beds and they made it through the first night without calling mom or dad for comfort. Josh made it without help, but Jake needed his Little Blue Blanket. It made him feel safe. In the morning, Jake is shocked to learn his mother is about to send his Little Blue Blanket to the church rummage sale. Jake and Josh call on their friends Ella, Corriga...

Jake and Josh are twin baby brothers who are about to experience their first Christmas. However, their parents are worked up into a frenzy preparing for the holiday, and Josh blames himself. Josh has hydrocephalus, a condition that causes fluid to build up in the brain, and his care adds to his parents’ busy schedule. He wants to ease that burden, but how? Jake wants to help his brother feel better, so he comes up with a plan—cancel Christmas! The boys set out to remove what they think mak...

The Gray is not a book. It's a wake-up call with a pulse.In a world drowning in noise, nuance, and narrative warfare, Joseph Ellsbury rips the blindfold off and shines a light into the fog. The Gray exposes the systems designed to confuse you—education, media, justice, even your own mind—and gives you the tools to cut through them. With first principles thinking, binary clarity, and a relentless call for truth, this book doesn't ask for your agreement. It ...

Bildung, die fit macht für die Zukunft »Lebendiges Lernen« ist ein bahnbrechender und dringender Aufruf an uns alle, die überkommene Fortschrittsperspektive aufzugeben, die den Menschen an die Spitze der Evolution stellt, um alles darunter auszubeuten und zu zerstören. Vielmehr müssen wir sie durch eine neue Ethik- und Umwelterziehung ersetzen, die uns das Verantwortungsbewusstsein lehrt, das wir brauchen, um im Gleichgewicht mit der übrigen Natur zu leben, und es uns ermöglicht, zu überle...

A stunning Italian cookbook collecting 120 recipes from the legendary restaurant that sets “the benchmark for Italian food outside of Italy" (Eater).At the River Cafe in London, Ruth Rogers and her co-founder, Rose Gray, helped to shape the way we eat, trained a new generation of chefs, and, with their best-selling cookbooks, transformed the way we prepare Italian food at home.Now, with River Cafe London, Ruth and her restaurant’s head che...

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'One of the most beautiful hardbacks we’ve ever seen' The Evening StandardSimple, modern, Italian cooking from one of the world's most iconic restaurants on its 30th birthday.This bold and beautiful cookbook shares over 120 simple, modern Italian recipes - revisiting favourites from the first iconic River Cafe blue book, updated for home cooks today, and introducing 30 new recipes, with new tips and anecdotes from Ruth Rogers.Written by Rut...

To preserve the memory of their service during the tumultuous decade since their commissioning as Army officers, members of the West Point class of 2004 have written The Strong Gray Line. This class suffered the highest casualty rate since those that graduated during the Vietnam War. In this book, thirteen of their classmates who lost their lives fighting the Global War on Terror are profiled to help the reader gain an understanding of the bond forged between classmates during time at West...

Imagine a world in which nature has lost patience with humanity. The wild is done waiting for humans to change their ways. Nature is ready to take matters into her own hands…And she is angry.In this new anthology, twenty two diverse authors explore what nature's vengeance might be like, and how humanity could adapt and change, giving these stories of climate change and disasters a center of hope. Within these pages, you will meetA grandmother who promises both bitte...

Die Anthologie "Schuld, Geständnis & Strafe – 7 klassische Kriminalromane" vereint eindrucksvoll die Werke literarischer Meister des 19. und frühen 20. Jahrhunderts, die sich mit dem vielschichtigen Thema der menschlichen Verfehlungen und deren Konsequenzen auseinandersetzen. Diese Sammlung präsentiert eine beeindruckende Vielfalt an literarischen Stilen und kulturellen Hintergründen, die von der russischen Gesellschaftskritik über die psychologische Tiefe deutscher und französischer Erzäh...

'The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it.' When Dorian Gray has his portrait painted, he is captivated by his own beauty. Tempted by his world-weary, decadent friend Lord Henry Wotton, he wishes to stay forever young, and pledges his very soul to keep his good looks. Set in fin-de-siécle London, the novel traces a path from the studio of painter Basil Hallward to the opium dens of the East End. As Dorian's slide into crime and cruelty progresses...