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Alex Capus ist am liebsten zu Hause in Olten. Dort hat er fünf Nachbarn, die alle Urs heißen. An milden Sommerabenden trifft er sich mit ihnen auf dem kleinen Kiesplatz, um Würste zu braten und sich die Welt erklären zu lassen. "Kein Mensch mag Bärlauch", sagt der eine Urs. "Bärlauch isst man nur, weil er halt da ist." Und der andere Urs wirft Capus Halbherzigkeit vor: "Nicht dass mich das etwas angeht, aber dein Haar ist so halb lang und halb kurz." Manchmal hat Capus genug von seinen fünf Ursen.

Once, Sammy Dominguez thought he knew how the world worked. The ugly things in his head—his uncle’s pathetic death, his parents’ mistrust, the twisted horrors he writes for the Internet—didn’t matter, because he and his girl, Ellery, were on track for the good life in this messed-up world. Then a car accident changed everything. Spiraling with grief and guilt, Sammy scrambles for distraction. He finds it in shock-value videos of gore and violence that terrified him as a child. When someone messages him a dark web link to footage of Ellery dying, he watches.

I thought this would be a simple profiling case. Just another Jack the Ripper wannabe, prowling London’s streets, searching for easy kills. I was wrong. This killer is fae, and he’s as elusive as smoke on the wind. But I’m an FBI profiler, and it’s my job to track him down. It doesn’t matter that one of the main suspects - a lethally alluring fae - is trying to seduce me...or kill me, I’m not sure which. I won’t be stopped, not even when panic roils through the streets of London or when the police start to suspect me.

In The AI Con, the renowned AI insiders-turned-critics Emily M. Bender and Alex Hanna, offer a sharp, witty, and wide-ranging take-down of AI hype across all its forms, exposing it for what it really is: a mask for data theft, surveillance capitalism, and the devaluing of human creativity in order to replace meaningful work with jobs that treat people like machines.

Ilya Strebulaev has spent the last two decades at Stanford studying VCs’ counterintuitive approaches to decision-making, and the reasons behind the success and failure of corporate innovation efforts. Alex Dang, a senior leader at McKinsey and Amazon, has seen up close the impact VCs’ thinking and mechanisms can have on a business’ success. Together in The Venture Mindset, they present nine distinct principles that can help anyone looking to transform their business and achieve extraordinary results, no matter the industry.

Tira's dinosaurs now have foes that can match their might. The Amedian's betrayal has rocked the world, and the revelation of their ultimate weapon nearly spelled Tira's doom. As the last surviving dungeon in the kingdom, Tira now finds herself overrun by adventurers and soldiers looking to increase their strength for the coming war. She barely has time to deal with that, however.

Es war ein langer, zermürbender Einsatz, bis die FBI-Profilerin Maggie O'Dell den Serienkiller Albert Stucky überführen konnte - jetzt ist er geflohen und setzt seineBluttaten grausam fort: Frauen werden ermordet und entsetzlich verstümmelt. Als Maggie bei ihrem Boss endlich erreicht, dass sie wieder den Fall übernimmt,scheint Stucky gewonnen zu haben. Denn es gehört zu seinem durchtriebenen Plan, sich ausschließlich Opfer zu suchen, die Maggie kannte.

In 1955, a young TV producer named David Attenborough was approached by six graduates determined to drive the entire length of Eurasia from London to Singapore. It was the "unclimbed Everest of motoring"—many had tried, none had succeeded. The 19,000-mile journey captivated a nation. Fifty years later, Attenborough said he didn't think the journey could be made again today. Inspired and desperate to prove Attenborough wrong, Alex Bescoby contacted Tim Slessor and together they planned to recreate the trip, this time from Singapore to London.

Alex Oberholzer verbrachte seine ersten zwölf Lebensjahre im Kinderspital. Affoltern am Albis bei Zürich, in einer hermetisch abgeschlossenen Welte und ohne Kontakt zu den Eltern. In knappen, berührenden Episoden erzählt der Autor vom Leben mit Behinderung, von Kusiosem und den prägenden Erlebnissen seiner ganz besonderen Kindheit und Jugend. "Erinnere ich mich zurück, so tauche ich ein in ein gigantisches Wechselbad der Gefühle. Von Schmerz, Qual und Ungerechtigkeit über Gleichgültigkeit und Langeweile bis hin zu grenzenlosem Glück, Euphorie und Triumph.

MDMA-assisted therapy for PTSD is in the final stages of FDA testing. Clinical trials are reporting a 70 percent cure rate for a condition that claims thousands of lives globally every day—hundreds in the US alone. But until it’s fully legalized, MDMA is still a Schedule I drug, saddled with years of misunderstanding, misinformation, and misuse. In this groundbreaking, informative, and easy-to-digest book, Dr. Dan Engle shows you the treatment through the eyes of a fictional patient so you can see how it works without ever setting foot in a doctor’s office.

This is the Roots podcast! The roots of a tree are where it gets its nourishment and support, and in a similar way, this podcast aims to give the saints spiritual nourishment and support by exploring foundational concepts about the Christian faith.

Quint magic has never chosen a human before, and the Elders Council is convinced Lera is a mistake. When the quint refuses to be cleaved apart, the enraged elders give them a choice: exile from Lunos or demotion to the lowest of trainees. Subject again to the humiliations and deadly trials they endured centuries ago, the males now face a new challenge - training Lera to survive. River, Shade, Coal, and Tye will do whatever it takes to keep Lera safe. But Lera will do whatever she must to keep them together - even if it means putting herself in mortal danger.

Remarkable new discoveries affirm the octopus as one of nature’s most intelligent and complex animals. This new book brings us closer than ever to these elusive creatures. The companion to the highly anticipated National Geographic television special, this book explores the alluring underwater world of the octopus—a creature that resembles an alien lifeform, but whose behavior has earned it a reputation as one of the most intelligent animals on the planet.

After some rough tours during the Drone Wars, Reggie finds himself visiting a best friend's mausoleum. As he's paying his respects, a visitor from a land of myth and magic offers him a chance to bring Gary back—but there's a catch. He'll become a named character who's capable of magic, destined to lead a small army, and tasked with the unimaginable feat of winning a losing war one fight at a time. The battles will be just as savage as the realm is, but if he commands his troops as a cunning and capable general, he'll unlock the unimaginable.

For superhero Swiftwing, crime fighting isn’t her biggest battle. Nor is it having to meet the demanding whims of Hollywood screen goddess Gwen Knight as her mild-mannered assistant, Ava. It’s doing all that while tracking a giant alien bug, being asked to fake date her world-famous boss, and realizing that she might be coming down with a pesky case of feelings.

Massacres, invasions, plots. An Emperor on the edge. An Empire in peril. Caracalla is on the warpath. Time, he has decided, to put his enemies in their place. To invade the Parthians at the edge of the Empire. To destroy everything in his way. For Imperial Assassin Silus, this is a time of crisis. Forced to guard the Emperor as part of his elite bodyguard, Silus knows that the situation is untenable. As everything threatens to crumble, Silus must make the ultimate choice... and face the ultimate sacrifice.

Fanny a tout pour être heureuse. Une grossesse qui se déroule sans le moindre souci, un mari aimant, un travail qu'elle adore, et une maison lumineuse choisie avec soin dans un quartier sans histoire. Elle qui n'a jamais su se faire des amis a même noué un lien fort avec Marion, la nounou des voisins d'en face. Mais un matin, Marion ne revient pas travailler. Elle démissionne par message, coupe son téléphone, et disparaît sans un mot. Fanny n'en démord pas : son amie ne serait jamais partie sans lui expliquer pourquoi.

Dr. Alex von Frankenberg, Managing Director des High-Tech Gründerfonds (HTGF), spricht in seinem Podcast #ZUKUNFTSREADY mit Menschen, die sich beruflich mit der Zukunft beschäftigen. Es geht um Startups, Mut, disruptives Denken, Innovation und Digitalisierung und wie wir diese Themen in Deutschland an unterschiedlichsten Stellen vorantreiben können. Spannende Einblicke, klare Meinungen, Denkanstöße mit dem Fokus auf OPPORTUNITIES! Zum 15 Geburtstag des HTGF und zum Auftakt dieser Serie gibt es 15 Podcasts mit 15 Stimmen aus dem deutschen Startup-Ökosystem. Ein kurzer Rückblick aber vor ...

Hat Batman tatsächlich eine unschuldige Frau überfahren? Alles deutet darauf hin und die Jagd nach dem dunklen Ritter beginnt. Hat er nun die Seiten gewechselt? Die Stadt kommt einfach nicht zur Ruhe, denn ihre Bewohner beschäftigen sich nicht nur mit Batmans Eskapaden, sondern auch der wahnsinnige Joker und der Feuerteufel Enfer halten Gotham City in Atem!

Ein Podcast über alles, was wir toll finden. Oder auch nicht. Jedenfalls ein Podcast über alles, über das wir reden wollen! Oder zumindest einer von uns …