Your teenager's brain is being hijacked — not by laziness, not by attitude, but by systems engineered specifically to make self-regulation neurologically impossible.The Hijacked Brain draws on 144 peer-reviewed studies, conducted across dozens of countries and involving tens of thousands of adolescents. It explains precisely what social media algorithms do to the developing reward system, why peer pressure literally rewires teenagers' beliefs, what social compariso...

A soldier turned educator embarks on a perilous mission to rescue allies in Afghanistan, battling both external threats and his own inner conflict, as he fights to ensure that education triumphs over terror and shapes a brighter future for a nation.In The Last Lesson, Ben Cole navigates the complexities of his dual identity as a U.S. Army special operations officer and a dedicated educator. Years after the chaotic withdrawal of U.S. troops from Afghanistan...

SHE LOST HER WAY. HE RISKED HIS HEART. TOGETHER THEY LEARN HOW TO LOVE AGAIN.Betrayed by the two people she trusted most, Natalie Clarke returns home shattered, questioning her judgment, her worth, and whether love is anything more than a beautiful lie.Until one night pulls her into a world she never expected.Dragged to an underground club where desire is honest and boundaries are sacred, Natalie steps into a world that demands truth. No pretending....

That familiar heaviness settles in before you even begin. The email inbox, the spreadsheets, the stacks of laundry, the forms, the dishes. It's not that the task is hard; it's that it feels meaningless, a repetition that drains rather than builds. You feel a resistance that seems out of proportion to the work itself, a quiet inner argument that leaves you exhausted before you've done anything at all. This is not laziness. This is a signal from a part of you that craves purpose, even in the...

What happens when a founder stops scrambling for new leads and focuses entirely on the customers who already pay? This book documents the surprising results from startups that made the switch from acquisition obsession to retention-first strategy. Founders who embraced this shift saw profit margins expand by 30% or more within a single quarter. The book presents a step-by-step framework for identifying your most valuable customers, creating retention triggers that cost almost nothing, and ...

Joseph Conrad’s last completed novel is a masterpiece of narrative tension and psychological insight. Set in the late eighteenth century and centred around the morally ambiguous figure of Captain Peyrot—a seafarer returning to France in the wake of the revolutionary Terror—The Rover presents a compelling vision of a life lived outside of law and social convention. Like much of Conrad’s greatest work, this once-neglected text is shot through with its author’s hard-won insights into...

Joseph Conrad's first collection of stories, written while he was still deciding whether he was a sailor who wrote or a writer who had sailed. Five early tales carry us to where the empire runs out: a Dutch trader married into a Malay family and despised by both sides, a colonial agent going to pieces alone at a river station, a Breton farm where the peasants must deal with a fool. The lagoon and the outpost are already unmistakably his. This edition presents the complete and unabridged co...

Sherlock Holmes is the world's greatest detective. Holmes has solved some of the toughest cases out there, but this may be the most difficult yet.When a wealthy dowager is found dead in a locked room with only a single red rose beside her, Sherlock must team up with Doctor John Watson to discover who is responsible and why. But Holmes has secrets that Watson accidentally uncovers during the investigation. And some secrets are never meant to be revealed. And what connection does the...

Heart of Darkness is a novella written by Polish-born writer Joseph Conrad (born Józef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski). Before its 1902 publication, it appeared as a three-part series (1899) in Blackwood's Magazine. It is widely regarded as a significant work of English literature and part of the Western canon. This highly symbolic story is actually a story within a story, or frame narrative. It follows Marlow as he recounts, from dusk through to late night, his adventure into the Congo to a g...

This book contains the following works arranged alphabetically by authors last names - The Divine Comedy [Dante Alighieri] - Emma [Jane Austen] - Persuasion [Jane Austen] - Pride and Prejudice [Jane Austen] - Father Goriot [Honoré de Balzac] - Jane Eyre [Charlotte Brontë] - The Tenant of Wildfell Hall [Anne Brontë] - Wuthering Heights [Emily Brontë] - The Way of All Flesh [Samuel Butler] - Don Quixote [Miguel de Cervantes] - Heart of Darkness [Joseph Conrad] - Nostromo [Joseph Conrad] - Mo...

Darci and Benni are about to embark on an adventure of a lifetime when they find themselves investigating the mysterious disappearance of Professor Summerset.Darci and Benni's summer program experience is about to teach them more than they had bargained for when a professor at the university mysteriously disappears. Upon finding Professor Summerset's journal, they are thrust into a world beyond anything they could have imagined – an eighth continent known as Akiyama. However, Darcy...

Captain Charlie Marlow travels to the Congo on behalf of a Belgian trading company. His journey turns into a voyage into the darkest depths of colonialism and, at the same time, explores the fundamental questions of human existence.Conrad wrote his magnificent novella in just a few weeks, reflecting on his own journey on the Congo, which left him deeply scarred.Englischsprachige AusgabeHochwertig ausgestattetes TaschenbuchMit einem persönlichen deut...