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The year is 1984 and the city is Tokyo.

A young woman named Aomame follows a taxi driver's enigmatic suggestion and begins to notice puzzling discrepancies in the world around her. She has entered, she realizes, a parallel existence, which she calls 1Q84 - "Q" is for "question mark". A world that bears a question....

In an exciting partnership with the Smithsonian, The Great Courses presents these 24 lectures that offer an unforgettable tour of Japanese life and culture. Professor Ravina, with the expert collaboration of the Smithsonian's historians, brings you a grand portrait of Japan.

We are living in the computer age, in a world increasingly designed and engineered by computer programmers and software designers, by people who call themselves hackers. Who are these people, what motivates them, and why should you care? Consider these facts: Everything around us is turning into computers. Your typewriter is gone, replaced by a computer. Your phone has turned into a computer. So has your camera. Soon your TV will. Your car was not only designed on computers, but has more processing power in it than a room-sized mainframe did in 1970.

What will your 100-year life look like? Does the thought of working for 60 or 70 years fill you with dread? Or can you see the potential for a more stimulating future as a result of having so much extra time? Many of us have been raised on the traditional notion of a three-stage approach to our working lives: education, followed by work and then retirement. But this well-established pathway is already beginning to collapse.

How can software engineers manage a living codebase that evolves and responds to changing requirements and demands over the length of its life? Based on their experience at Google, software engineers Titus Winters and Hyrum Wright, along with technical writer Tom Manshreck, present a candid and insightful look at how some of the world’s leading practitioners construct and maintain software. This book covers Google’s unique engineering culture, processes, and tools and how these aspects contribute to the effectiveness of an engineering organization.

Tom Hazard has a dangerous secret. He may look like an ordinary 41-year-old history teacher, but he’s been alive for centuries. From Elizabethan England to Jazz-Age Paris, from New York to the South Seas, Tom has seen it all. As long as he keeps changing his identity, he can stay one step ahead of his past – and stay alive. The only thing he must not do is fall in love. But what if the one thing he can't have just happens to be the one thing that might save him?

"Think and Grow Rich" is a motivational personal development and self-help book written by Napoleon Hill and inspired by a suggestion from Scottish-American businessman Andrew Carnegie. While the title implies that this book deals only with how to get rich, the author explains that the philosophy taught in the book can be used to help people succeed in all lines of work and to do or be almost anything they want.

With the same deadpan mania and genius for dislocation that he brought to his internationally acclaimed novels A Wild Sheep Chase and Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World, Haruki Murakami makes this collection of stories a determined assault on the normal. A man sees his favorite elephant vanish into thin air; a newlywed couple suffers attacks of hunger that drive them to hold up a McDonald's in the middle of the night; and a young woman discovers that she has become irresistible to a little green monster who burrows up through her backyard.

Im Grenzland zwischen Dänemark und Deutschland geschehen grausame Morde – der erste Fall für Mads Lindstrøm und Thomas Beckmann und atemberaubender Auftakt der Grenzland-Trilogie. Die Thriller-Sensation aus Dänemark! Es ist früher Morgen, als an der Küste von Nierby eine Leiche gefunden wird. Die Tote entpuppt sich als vermisste Dänin, und der Ermittler Mads Lindstrøm wird zur Identifizierung nach Kiel geschickt. Dort hat die Gerichtsmedizin eine erschütternde Entdeckung gemacht: Spuren an dem toten Mädchen deuten darauf hin, dass sie nicht das erste Opfer eines bestialischen Mörders ist.

Zwei grausame Morde erschüttern das Grenzland zwischen Dänemark und Deutschland – der zweite Fall für Mads Lindstrøm und Thomas Beckmann. Eine Pastorin wird brutal ermordet in der Kirche von Bylderup aufgefunden. Der Mord scheint rituell zu sein, denn das Opfer ist gefesselt, als wäre es gekreuzigt worden. Die Polizei ermittelt fieberhaft, aber alle Spuren enden in Sackgassen. Unterdessen verschwindet ein deutscher Chefarzt, und Thomas Beckmann bittet die Dänen um Amtshilfe. Auch wenn er Mads Lindstrøms eigenwilliges Vorgehen oft nicht billigt, braucht er den genialen Ermittler.

Dunkel, dunkler, Karen Inge Nielsen – der letzte und persönlichste Fall für Mads Lindstrøm und Thomas Beckmann. Die Vergangenheit holt Mads Lindstrøm ein, als er in seinem Gartenhäuschen ein Projektil findet, das mit einem Mord von 1998 in Birkelev im Zusammenhang steht. Damals wurde ein Heimleiter brutal getötet, Mads' Vater überführte den Täter. Jetzt, 23 Jahre später, taucht die Leiche einer älteren deutschen Frau unweit von Birkelev auf. Einziger Anhaltspunkt ist ein halber Fingerabdruck, der dem verurteilten Mörder von damals gehört.

Jack Buckley always admired his father. even after he found out he was a serial killer. As Jack grows older, and he begins helping his father, he begins to develop an unhealthy obsession with him; an obsession that would send both of their lives crumbling into decay.

The tremendous power that is available to every believer is accessed through the supernatural revelation of who we are and what we have have in Christ. Revolutionary revelation produces revolutionary results. This changes everything!

Berman's Lament is the first of a series of three novels featuring intrepid newspaper reporter turned broadcast news anchor, Jed Berman. In part one, Berman is lured from a successful position as an investigative reporter for a regional newspaper to the larger audience and accompanying celebrity of a local TV station. All goes well until a new generation of news directors shows up, focused on ratings, not telling viewers the truth about things that matter.

Are you tired of feeling unfulfilled and disconnected from your true purpose? Do you long to unleash your creativity, ignite your passion, and live a life of profound joy and fulfillment? Then it's time to enter The God Zone.

I need a break. I’ve spent this last year working hard to get my business off the ground and to settle into my new apartment and town. All work and no play though has made me a dull girl. Now I’m looking to change that and I know just how to do it. With Ryder Murray.

It was supposed to be a simple mission—hit the legendary mist-shrouded realm of an ancient people, secure the artifact that can send them back to Earth, and get out—but nothing is simple in the Land of the Black Sun. Corporal Nephi Bennett finds himself lost in a deadly land where time and space behave strangely. Pursued by armies of jaguar-men, cannibal pigmy lizardmen, powerful necromancers, and fallen friends given over to the blackest evil, Bennett must push forward at all costs or risk being trapped forever.

The runaway bestseller with more than four million copies in print! You too can change your life with the priceless wisdom of ten ancient scrolls handed down for thousands of years.

This box set brings the Bard's timeless tales to life for a younger generation, with wit and panache. Samantha Newman's cleverly reworked text retains many of Shakespeare's own inimitable turns of phrase, while simplifying and clarifying the language and plots to make stories accessible to children. Perfect for children aged 7+.

A full-cast BBC Radio 4 dramatisation of Terry Pratchett & Neil Gaiman’s celebrated apocalyptic comic novel, with bonus length episodes and outtakes. According to the Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch, the world will end on a Saturday. Next Saturday in fact. Just after Any Answers on Radio 4….Events have been set in motion to bring about the End of Days. The armies of Good and Evil are gathering and making their way towards the sleepy English village of Lower Tadfield.