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Accepteriez-vous de mourir... dans un jeu ? Ilan et Chloé sont spécialistes des chasses au trésor. Longtemps, ils ont rêvé de participer à la partie ultime. Celle de ce jeu mystérieux dont on ne connaît pas les règles, seulement le nom : "Paranoïa".

Marx hinterm Tresen. Grandios gedacht, glänzend gemacht: "Das Puzzle". "Anfangs klingt alles echt: der "mit sozialistischem Gruß" schließende Bericht der zentralen Auswertungs- und Dokumentationsgruppe des Sicherheitsdienstes an den Minister über die Entwendung zweier Bronze-Figuren mittels unbekannter Technik: "Gewicht Marx inkl. Stuhl: 4353 kg, Gewicht Engels: 4202 kg, inkl. Manifest 4221,8 kg. Marx sitzend, Engels seitlich hinter ihm stehend, rechte Hand auf linker Schulter des Marx."

Getting to the good solutions of complex management challenges can make the difference between fulfillment and frustration for teams, and, ultimately, the success or failure of companies. Will Larson's An Elegant Puzzle orients around the particular challenges of engineering management - from sizing teams to technical debt to succession planning - and provides a path to the good solutions.

The New York Times best-selling author of The Year of Living Biblically goes on a journey to understand the enduring power of puzzles: why we love them, what they do to our brains, and how they can improve our world.

All the world is a puzzle, and Mike Brink—a celebrated and ingenious puzzle constructor—understands its patterns like no one else. Once a promising Midwestern football star, Brink was transformed by a traumatic brain injury that caused a rare medical condition: acquired savant syndrome. The injury left him with a mental superpower—he can solve puzzles in ways ordinary people can’t. But it also left him deeply isolated, unable to fully connect with other people.

Branson loves his job as an analyst for the CIA. Working on the investigation into the assassination of the president is fascinating, and even more so when Ryder, a geeky forensic accountant without a filter, joins the team. But Ryder doesn’t seem to like Branson. At all. And when he explains to Branson why, Branson is forced to face an uncomfortable truth in the mirror Ryder holds up. Somewhere along the way, he lost sight of who he really is.

In this guide to personal success, legendary personal development icon Jim Rohn takes an in-depth look into the reasons certain people succeed and others don't. He covers the key components to success: philosophy, attitude, activity, results, and lifestyle.

The Language Puzzle explains how the invention of words at 1.6 million years ago began the evolution of human language from the ape-like calls of our earliest ancestors to our capabilities of today, with over 6000 languages in the world and each of us knowing over 50,000 words. Drawing on the latest discoveries in archaeology, linguistics, psychology, and genetics, Steven Mithen reconstructs the steps by which language evolved; he explains how it transformed the nature of thought and culture, and how we talked our way out of the Stone Age into the world of farming and into today's Digital Age.

O du tödliche Weihnachtszeit. Es ist kurz vor Heiligabend. Schnee fällt auf die Straßen der englischen Kleinstadt – und auf die Türschwelle von Rätselexpertin Edie O'Sullivan. Dort liegt ein mysteriöses Päckchen: sechs Puzzleteile, die den Ausschnitt eines blutigen Tatortes zeigen. Dazu eine bedrohliche Nachricht: Wenn es Edie nicht gelingt, alle Teile zusammenzufügen und den Absender aufzuhalten, werden bis Weihnachten mindestens vier Menschen sterben.

Do you love thrilling mysteries, unsolved puzzles, and bizarre true stories that leave you wondering? Then get ready for an unforgettable journey into the world's most mind-boggling enigmas! From legendary lost cities to eerie disappearances, from scientific oddities to cryptic codes, this book uncovers 100 of the most fascinating and perplexing mysteries that have baffled historians, scientists, and curious minds for centuries. What really happened to the vanished crew of the Mary Celeste?

England, 1928. When Lord Edgington and his young apprentice Christopher are called to investigate a simple theft at a grand Elizabethan estate, they are soon embroiled in a mystery involving priceless antiques, ancient myths and unscrupulous academics. But when people at Parham House are killed off apparently at random, the detectives must tackle a puzzle that may be impossible to solve.

In this remarkable tour de force of investigative reporting, James Bamford exposes the inner workings of America's largest, most secretive, and arguably most intrusive intelligence agency. The NSA has long eluded public scrutiny, but The Puzzle Palace penetrates its vast network of power and unmasks the people who control it, often with shocking disregard for the law.

Die Stadt der Türme ist ein Ort voller Rätsel. Hier kämpfen Gilden, die über Magie gebieten, gegen Cyborg-Banditen, welche nach Artefakten einer untergegangenen Zivilisation suchen. Jene Schätze befinden sich im Inneren der Stadt der Türme, das von Monstern bevölkert, von Fallen gespickt und voll verschlossener Türen ist. Und genau hier kämpft ein Junge ums Überleben: Rafik ist der einzige Mensch, der die Rätsel der Stadt der Türme knacken kann. Denn er ist ein Puzzler, an dessen Fingern sich wie Schlüssel geheimnisvolle Tätowierungen befinden.

When Miss Catherine Symonds arrives to take up a position as governess at remote Locksley Abbey in the foothills of the Black Mountains, where England bleeds into Wales, she is apprehensive. It is not the echoing, near-empty house with its skeleton staff that frightens her, nor the ancient woods that surround the Abbey or even the dogs that the owner, Sir Rowland, encourages to stalk the grounds, baying for blood. It is Catherine herself who fears scrutiny: her reference and very identity are fraudulent. She is travelling in disguise to investigate the fate of the last governess at the house.

Rafik, der Puzzler, war ein Kind, bevor er sich in die größte Bedrohung seiner Welt verwandelte. Er gab seine körperliche Existenz auf, doch der Tod bedeutet für Rafik nicht das Ende. Dies gilt auch für den letzten Überlebenden der Gilde der Historiker: Funkelauge konnte Rafik im Kampf nicht besiegen, doch nun erhält er eine zweite Chance: Er kehrt von den Toten zurück und reist in die zwielichtige Stadt der Türme, wo schweres Geschütz und eine große Portion Glück vonnöten sein werden, um zu überleben.

Welcome to Eris: an island with only one house, one inhabitant, one way out. Unreachable from the Scottish mainland for twelve hours each day. Once home to Vanessa: A famous artist whose notoriously unfaithful husband disappeared twenty years ago. Now home to Grace: A solitary creature of the tides, content in her own isolation. But when a shocking discovery is made in an art gallery far away in London, a visitor comes calling. And the secrets of Eris threaten to emerge....

Harvard research has reported that more than two thirds of your biggest business problems are with your own employees and colleagues. Solving the People Puzzle will show you how to observe, predict, and control. You will learn how to observe people so well, you will be able to predict how they will behave so you will gain more control.

It’s been an enjoyable and murder-free time for Judith, Suzie and Becks – AKA the Marlow Murder Club – since the events of last year. The most exciting thing on the horizon is the upcoming wedding of Marlow grandee, Sir Peter Bailey, to his nurse, Jenny Page. Sir Peter is having a party at his grand mansion on the river Thames the day before the wedding, and Judith and Co. are looking forward to a bit of free champagne.

Solving the Puzzle with Dr. Datis Kharrazian is based on more than 20 years of Dr. Kharrazian's experience working with autoimmune and brain health patients throughout the U.S. and Europe, exhaustive review of the scientific research, and protocols he has innovated through trial and error in working with complex patient cases.Dr. Kharrazian discusses evidence-based models incorporating diet, nutrition, and lifestyle — protocols hard won through decades of working with tough, complex patient cases. His goal is to help teach you effective models for so-called “mystery” symptoms and ...

Fledging PI Zachariah Davies’s wealthy and eccentric client, toymaker Alton Beacher, wants to hire an investigator who can pose as his boyfriend while figuring out who is behind the recent attempts on his life. And Zach, struggling to save the business his father built, is just desperate enough to set aside his misgivings and take the job.