This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.On the far-flung world of Galaxara, Maya is torn from her ordinary life and thrown into a dazzling, dangerous marketplace where pleasure, power, and freedom collide. What begins as a desperate struggle for survival transforms into a passionate fight for liberation, as Maya rises from captive to leader in a revolution that will change the fate of an entire planet.In the aftermath of rebellion, Maya and her allies tear down the ol...

There is no shortage of books on behavioral research, on behavioral research on alcoholism, or on behavioral research on alcoholism treatment. Most of the authors of chapters in this book have been involved in the writing of these books. The books and their authors have played an important role in the dramatic increase in the influence of behavioral approaches to one of our society's most troubling human problems. There are not many books, though, which detail the longitudinal course of th...

WINNER OF THE 2024 PULITZER PRIZE FOR GENERAL NONFICTIONNamed a Best Book of the Year by The New Yorker, The Economist, Time, The New Republic, and the Financial Times.Immersive and gripping, an intimate story of a deadly accident outside Jerusalem that unravels a tangle of lives, loves, enmities, and histories over the course of one revealing, heartbreak...

Rhinovirus Infections: Rethinking the Impact on Human Health and Disease provides a timely review of the impact of rhinovirus infections on human health. It identifies disease mechanisms relating to the virus, human host and environmental factors. This viewpoint allows us to look forward to the development of treatments for a virus for which treatment options are currently non-existent. By providing detailed insights into this virus, its host and the environmental factors that play into rh...

Hitler had never lost. He had also never fought for a city that carried his greatest enemy's name.In the summer of 1942, the German army rolled east toward the Volga, unstoppable and certain of victory. What waited for them in Stalingrad was not a battle but a slaughter without end—two hundred days of fighting in cellars and stairwells, sewers and shattered factories, where the front line moved room by room and a soldier's life was measured in hours.The Battle of Stalingrad...

From the author of the Orwell Prize-winner SHOW ME THE BODIES: HOW WE LET GRENFELL HAPPEN, the gripping story of how housing defines a city's past, present and future'Apps set the gold standard with his Grenfell coverage. With Homesick, he dismantles the sham of UK housing policy – razor-sharp, stylish, and morally unflinching.' Darren McGarveyIn London, only those with vast cash deposits can get on the property ladder, private rents have spiralled...

Journey Back 5,000 Years Into One of the World's Most Fascinating CivilizationsWhat if you could walk beneath the shadow of the Great Pyramids, decipher the secrets of hieroglyphs, witness the rise of powerful pharaohs, and uncover the everyday lives of the people who built one of history's greatest civilizations?Ancient Egypt brings this extraordinary world to life through vivid storytelling, surprising facts, and unforgettable true stories from the land of the Nile.

Empires don't only fall to armies. They fall to the sky.For ten thousand years, the weather has been the quietest and deadliest force in human history. A few degrees of warming built Rome. A few degrees of cooling starved dynasties, emptied cities, and toppled the mightiest empires on earth — and the people living through it almost never knew why.Weather of Empire, Book Two of The Forces That Shaped Us, is the true story of how shifting climate built empires, toppled dynast...

What happens when the greatest civilization in the ancient world turns against itself?Athens was wealthy, innovative, and fiercely democratic. Sparta was disciplined, militaristic, and built upon an uncompromising way of life. Together, they had helped save Greece from the Persian Empire.Then they went to war.What began as a rivalry between two powerful city-states grew into a devastating conflict that consumed the Greek world for nearly three decades. Brothers foug...

The essays in this volume explore how the humanities can contribute to an understanding of a fundamental aspect of human life: work. This volume explores how German literature has grappled with understanding work in times of disruptive change brought about by industrialization, rapid technological advances, and globalization. It adds a cross-disciplinary perspective by including contributions from the field of film studies, on the cinematic treatment of work, and from philosophy, on the no...

In the annals of religious history, few nations have played a more pivotal role than Israel. From the patriarchs and prophets of the Old Testament to the apostles and early Christians of the New, Israel has been a crucible of faith and a beacon of hope for countless millions. In this groundbreaking work, Nathan Solomon Joseph delves into the rich tapestry of Israel's faith, exploring its origins, its development, and its profound impact on the world. Through meticulous research and engagin...

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.This is the Author's Cut — a raw, more explicit, and fully uncensored version of the original story. Scenes have been expanded, boundaries pushed, and nothing held back.A mythical weed. A ruined greenhouse. And a high that doesn't just bend reality—it exposes you to it.Katrina and Michael are friends with too much history and not enough boundaries. When they stumble upon an urban legend about Khronos—a one-of-a-kind stra...