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Word History is a podcast for people who enjoy words and history. Each episode takes a small set of words linked to a theme. You'll hear what they mean, where they come from and which familiar words share the same linguistic roots, along with stories from the past related to their use. Listen for words that sharpen expression, and brief histories that show how ideas and practices, as well as language, took shape. Across an archive of more than a hundred episodes, you'll find explanations of word, name and phrase origins. The majority of etymologies featured return to Old English, Ancient ...

Caught in the crosshairs of gang violence, a teen girl and her mother set off on a perilous journey from Guatemala City to the US border in this “engrossing” (Kirkus Reviews) young adult novel from the author of Don’t Ask Me Where I’m From. For seventeen-year-old Maya, trashion is her...

In Long Road to Hard Truth: The 100 Year Mission to Create the National Museum of African American History and Culture, Robert L. Wilkins tells the story of how his curiosity about why there wasn't a national museum dedicated to African American history and culture became an obsession - eventually leading him to quit his job as an attorney when his wife was seven months pregnant with their second child, and make it his mission to help the museum become a reality.

When two teenage gangs are arrested after clashing violently in one of Venice’s campi, the son of a local hero is implicated. But when Commissario Guido Brunetti is asked by a wealthy foreigner to vet this man, Monforte, for a job, he discovers that Monforte might not be such a hero after all. This seeming contradiction, and a brutal attack on one of Brunetti’s colleagues by a possible gang member, concentrate Brunetti’s attentions. Soon, he discovers the sordid hypocrisy surrounding Monforte’s past, culminating in a fiery meeting of two gangs and a final opportunity for redemption.

This is the ride of my life, and I've faced every single challenge that came my way by charging in and getting it done. Now, this might be my greatest challenge ever. To save my godson's life, I will have to travel to the unknown world of the Fae and navigate the dark and dangerous halls of the Unseelie King's palace to plant my butt on his throne. If my enemies want to come after me, they better bring a burn kit because my magic is hotter than dragon's fire, hot enough to burn them to cinder and I'm all out of dickens to give.

En español neutro, narrado por un humano selección de cuentos cortos clásicos de la literatura universal pensada para todo público.

En una era donde las redes sociales y la inteligencia artificial nos ofrecen infinidad de nuevas oportunidades, en el amor experimentamos múltiples incertidumbres y sinsabores. La forma de vivir hoy las relaciones de pareja y, por tanto, la sexualidad, el afecto y el erotismo se caracterizan por acuerdos que tienden a ser cada vez más flexibles, por necesidades a veces incompatibles y por deseos eróticos diversos.

La conquista del pan es un clásico del anarquismo ruso y del comunismo libertario escrito en 1892 por Piotr Kropotkin, el «príncipe anarquista», desde el exilio. Este aristócrata de cuna perseguido por el régimen zarista ofrece un retrato terrible y desolador de los años convulsos previos a las revoluciones de 1905 y 1917, en los que la vida en el palacio de Invierno contrastaba con la situación atroz de los campesinos.

Sid Hansen is a remorseless, death-dealing super-soldier - and he works at Gamestop. That’s right. Kill Team One now has a job in a videogame retail store filled with cranky customers, shoplifters, crying kids, and people who just haven't figured out how to use Steam yet. A global organization of radical Islamists have tracked Sid all the way from the mountains of Afghanistan, where he may or may not have been kinda sorta responsible for just some itty bitty little crimes against humanity. Hell-bent on revenge, they’ve planned the largest martyrdom operation ever conducted.

"Hadjí Murat" es una novela histórica escrita de primera mano, ya que Tolstói conoció a algunos de sus protagonistas durante su permanencia en el Cáucaso. La acción transcurre en torno a 1850, bajo el reinado del zar Nicolás I, que se caracterizó por llevar a cabo una política expansionista y de absolutismo represivo. De hecho, el retrato que del zar se hace en la obra nos le describe como un hombre arbitrario, poco justo y demasiado orgulloso.

In the summer of 1889 15 year old Sam Masters rescues 8-year-old Lady Olivia Susannah Charlton from a Cornish cove. He’s only interested in a smuggling mystery, she only cares for her precious doll. Sadness awaits each of them back home for Sam’s father has died in mysterious circumstances and Olivia’s father has disappeared. Sixteen years later, Sam has become a senior customs officer. Olivia’s seemingly conventional life as a writer of children’s fiction masks a secret passion for speed and risk-taking, fed by the devil-may-care Harold Jenkins, whose family now lives in ...

There comes a moment in every life when the world feels far away and the person you once recognized begins to fade. You are present, yet distant. Surrounded, yet unseen. Searching for purpose while wrestling with a silence that grows louder each day. This is the void, the inner place where identity unravels and the deeper self begins to surface. Swimming Through the Void is a guide through that hidden landscape.

“A psychologically incisive novel that compellingly asks whether evil can be eliminated by destroying the very essence of what makes us human.” — IndieReader ★★★★ Dr Caroline Aldridge treats violent men the justice system can’t fix. Her patients don’t relapse. They disappear. In her boutique Sydney practice, court-ordered offenders arrive smug and untouchable—surgeons, executives, repeat abusers who know how to perform remorse. Caroline listens. Diagnoses. Documents. Then she intervenes. When a man in mandated treatment dies in a high-speed crash with no skid marks, no ...

Léon Denis escritor francés, filósofo y espiritista, fue el más destacado continuador de la obra de Allan Kardec. Su prosa poética, llena de inspiración, ha transportado a millones de lectores a las cumbres del sentimiento, del conocimiento y de la razón. Después de la Muerte fue la primera gran obra de Léon Denis y, después de los libros de Allan Kardec, es la obra espírita con más repercusión mediática e internacional de todos los tiempos. Recibió muy buenas críticas de la prensa internacional, pero destacamos esta valoración de un ateo que acababa de perder a su esposa, ...

Step back in time to the early 1900s, a period when life was simpler, free from the distractions of the internet and smartphones. Yet, it was also a time fraught with danger and austerity. Join us on a gripping journey through "The Trail of the Tramp," a tale of adventure, hardship, and redemption. Follow the lives of Joe and Jim McDonald as they navigate the treacherous world of tramps, beggars, and criminals, seeking to reunite with their lost family and reclaim their honor.

La arqueóloga náutica Haven Ambrose acaba de llegar a la soleada ciudad de Positano para investigar los misteriosos naufragios de la costa amalfitana, pero a la vez, en secreto, busca el tesoro de gemas de valor incalculable que su padre descubrió durante su última inmersión. Tras la llegada de Haven, extraños remolinos y desgracias comienzan a encadenarse. En 1821, Mari DeLuca y las mujeres de la ciudad practican el legendario arte de la stregheria, la magia para controlar el poder del mar.

Leadership is a core part of every doctor's day. Still, our common connotation of physician leadership doesn’t recognize that or emphasize its development as a key skill set for all physicians. The Forbes Books Podcast, "All Physicians Lead," reveals how accepting that you are leading and reflecting on it with the intent to improve can transform your impact, relationships, and patient outcomes. Dr. Leon Moores welcomes fellow physicians, scientists, and thought leaders to discuss tangible ways doctors can elevate their ability to care for patients through practical leadership training. ...

In her previous books, Vicki Len put listeners in the sandals of now obsolete laborers, ranging from funeral clowns to armpit pluckers, and untangled the twisted threads of superstition and science in antiquity. Now, in this book of astonishing true tales of love and sex in long-ago Greece, Rome, and other cultures around the Mediterranean, she opens the doors to shadowy rooms and parts the curtains of decorum.

It's crass gun porn filled with fanboy pandering action movie references. Do you like action movies? Do you like dark, edgy, hard-boiled heroes? Do you like fully automatic weapons blasting guys' heads off? How about product endorsements that are awkwardly placed between depictions of intense violence? Yeah? Then this book is for you!

Gael Avallone cree que un hombre puede ser feliz con cualquier mujer mientras que no la ame. Tamara Herrán le demostrará lo contrario. Reservado, arrogante, manipulador y egocéntrico. El encanto de Gael Avallone, no es su cuantiosa fortuna o su facilidad de palabra; mucho menos lo es su sonrisa arrebatadora o su mirada penetrante. El encanto de Gael Avallone, es el misterio que emana. ¿Qué esconde? ¿Quién es realmente?... Tamara Herrán, una ambiciosa estudiante de letras, está dispuesta a averiguarlo.