Dorian ist beunruhigt: Sein Vater Vlad Dracula scheint sich ernsthaft von seinem Singledasein verabschieden zu wollen. Warum sonst hat Vlad eine Kreuzfahrt auf der Old Lady gebucht – einem Vergnügungsschiff für Vampire? Vampirjägerin Augusta van Helsing wittert ihre Chance, sich an Dorians Vater heranzumachen – der auch prompt ihrem Charme erliegt. Zu allem Übel verschwindet plötzlich Millionärstochter und Vampinstagram-Star Raphaela del Monte. Wurde sie entführt? Dorians Fähigkeiten als A...

A moving, patient-centered portrait of the social importance of speech, from a medical expert known for his humanizing explorations of health.Language comes to us through culture, environment, and family. Words embed over time, as we use our minds to comprehend them and then our mouths to say, mean, and own them. Without the ability to speak, or when talking becomes difficult, we face a challenge like few others, forced to reconnect with a world that assumes its co...

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.They exhibit all the characteristics, including hypersensitivity, high intuition, and kindness, but they also give off narcissist vibes. What’s going on here? You are most likely dealing with a dark empath. These are very complex and convoluted individuals, and not much is known about them.It was originally believed that dark empaths were the most dangerous personality type because they were difficult to identif...

The Reign of God constitutes the first detailed and systematic critical engagement with Oliver O'Donovan's political theology. It argues that O'Donovan's theological account of political authority is not tenable on the basis of exegetical and methodological problems.The book goes on to demonstrate a way to refine O'Donovan's theology of political authority by incorporating insights from his earlier work in moral theology. This can provide a cogent basis for thinking that t...

What is like to live without touch or movement/position sense (proprioception)? The only way to understand the importance of these senses, so familiar we cannot imagine their absence, is to ask someone in that position. Ian Waterman lost them below the neck over forty years ago, though pain and temperature perception and his peripheral movement nerves were unaffected. Without proprioceptive feedback and touch the movement brain was disabled. Completely unable to move, he felt disembodied a...

Chekhov often said that 'I am a doctor by trade and sometimes I do literary work in my free time', a surprising claim, given his status as a giant of 20th century drama. This literary-biographical study uncovers new sides to him, as both a medical professional and humanitarian, and tells the story of Chekhov's trip to Sakhalin Island in the harsh wastes of Siberia.Anton Chekhov practiced medicine for most of his life and engaged in humanitarian work which took him ...

A moving, patient-centered portrait of the social importance of speech, from a medical expert known for his humanizing explorations of health.Language comes to us through culture, environment, and family. Words embed over time, as we use our minds to comprehend them and then our mouths to say, mean, and own them. Without the ability to speak, or when talking becomes difficult, we face a challenge like few others, forced to reconnect with a world that assumes its co...

Dorian Dracula, Agent auf Probe, soll Dr. Frankenstein ausfindig machen, der ein Mittel gegen Lichtfraß entwickelt hat – eine Krankheit, die für Vampire tödlich enden kann. Zusammen mit seiner Mitschülerin Lilith, einer Halbvampirin, geht Dorian allen Hinweisen nach und begibt sich in brenzlige Situationen. Doch die Konkurrenz schläft nicht: Costin ist jedes Mittel recht, um den Wettkampf zu gewinnen. Denn nur der Sieger erhält den begehrten Profi-Agentenstatus! Dorian gibt alles und kommt...

At a moment in which interest in political theology is rising, acceptance of a public role for religion is declining, and cynicism regarding both political and religious institutions is overflowing, this book investigates the possibilities and constraints of a Christian political theology that can meaningfully mediate Scripture, doctrine, and political reality. In critical dialogue with political theologians and political philosophers past and present, we explore the origins, meaning, and ...

Humanity operates like a force of nature capable of affecting the destiny of the Earth System. This epochal shift profoundly alters the relationship between humankind and the Earth, presenting the conscious, thinking human animal with an unprecedented dilemma: As human power has grown over the Earth, so has the power of nature to extinguish human life. The emergence of the Anthropocene has settled any question of the place of human beings in the world: we stand inescapably at its center. T...

Sparks fly when a romance writer and a documentary filmmaker join forces to craft the ultimate Hollywood love story—but only if they can keep the chemistry between them from taking the whole thing off script—from the “divine” (Jodi Picoult) New York Times bestselling authors of Love and Other Words and The Unhoneymooners.Felicity “Fizzy” Chen is lost. Sure, she’s got an incredible career as a beloved romance novelist with a slew of bestse...

**The seventh novel in the New York Times bestselling Beautiful series—from the authors of Love and Other Words and The Unhoneymooners—follows Max and Sara as they tackle parenthood.In Beautiful Stranger, finance whiz Sara Dillon met the irresistibly sexy Brit, Max Stella, at a New York City club. Through the series we’ve watched them learn to combine commitment with their lessthanprivate brand of playfulness. In Beautiful Beloved