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Neuroscientist, philosopher, podcaster and best-selling author Sam Harris has been exploring some of the greatest questions concerning the human mind, society and the events that shape our world. Harris’ search for deeper understanding of how we think has led him to engage and exchange with some of our most brilliant and controversial contemporary minds - Daniel Kahneman, Robert Sapolsky, Anil Seth and Max Tegmark - in order to unpack and understand ideas of consciousness, free will, extremism and ethical living.

Romantic love has been one of the most essential elements of storytelling for centuries. But for Black people in the United States and across the diaspora, it hasn't often been easy to find Black romance joyfully showcased in entertainment media. In this collection, revered authors and sparkling newcomers, librarians and academicians, and avid fans and reviewers consider the mirrors and windows into Black love as it is depicted in the novels, television shows, and films that have shaped their own stories.

Sam Harris—neuroscientist, philosopher, and bestselling author—has been exploring some of the most important questions about the human mind, society, and current events on his podcast, Making Sense. For Harris, honest conversation, no matter how difficult or controversial, represents the only path to moral and intellectual progress. This audiobook includes talks with Daniel Kahneman, Timothy Snyder, Nick Bostrom, and Glen Loury, on topics that range from the nature of consciousness and free will, to politics and extremism, to living ethically.

Eine als Wild-West-Banditen verkleidete Bande begeht diverse Überfälle auf Banken und Juweliergeschäfte in und um London. Was von der Presse zunächst noch mit einem gewissen Schmunzeln betrachtet wird, schlägt jäh in Panik um, als es zu den ersten Toten kommt. Fortan geht die Angst vor der "Dalton Bande" um. Inspector Anthony Stafford und sein Partner Graves müssen sich den Banditen stellen, von denen sie noch nicht wissen, ob diese sich nur hinter der Western-Verkleidung verstecken oder inzwischen wirklich in ihren Rollen als schießwütige Reinkarnationen aufgegangen sind.

Niklas, Linus und Melissa - Mitglieder der Pfadfindergruppe "Pollution Police" - retten ein Mädchen namens Karolina, das vor ihren Augen in einer U-Bahn-Station zusammenbricht. Die Diagnose der Ärzte: Überdosis! Karolina gehört zu einer Gruppe von Heimkindern, die gegen ihren Willen von einer skrupellosen Gangsterbande als Drogenkuriere eingesetzt werden. Die kleinen Pfadfinder beschließen, die Kriminalpolizei bei ihren Ermittlungen zu unterstützen, und begeben sich bei der Spurensuche direkt in die Höhle des Löwen.

Der siebenjährige Luca Natale lebt in einem baufälligen Waisenhaus in der Kleinstadt Poggio. Das Leben im Heim ist nicht immer leicht - Schwester Immaculata führt als Leiterin ein strenges Regiment. Und der stille, rothaarige Luca wird oft zur Zielscheibe von Hänseleien. Bei einer Attacke des groben Nico Caputo büßt er zu allem Überfluss auch noch seine Vorderzähne ein. Jetzt sieht er beinahe aus wie ein kleiner Vampir! Doch zum Glück steht ihm Neuzugang Mila bei, ein mutiges syrisches Flüchtlingsmädchen.

In The Other Animals, a worm breaks up with a snail, a vulture contemplates the act of killing, a whale falls in love with a song, and more. This funny, moving collection of stories - written by a crew of scientists, literary writers, and comics, and informed by animal behavioral science - explores what animal perspectives can show humans about the world.

The lights are on at the Singleton vacation home on Lopez Island, Washington, illuminating the horror within. The family is found dead, and the police's main suspect - the property caretaker - has disappeared. In her secluded vineyard home two hours away, Laura Gretchell is on edge. Her husband is out of town on business, and the children are understandably shaken. Laura tries to tell herself there's no reason to fear. Then the door handle rattles, and the real terror begins.

Silvesterabend 1973: Auf der ausschweifenden Neujahrsfeier im Schloss von Lord Burlington kommt es zu einem tragischen Todesfall. Die Anwesenden beschließen das Unglück zu vertuschen. Keiner soll die Wahrheit erfahren. Doch einer weiß Bescheid und lässt exakt ein Jahr später die ersten Köpfe rollen. Inspektor Ryan Porter folgt der Spur des unheimlichen Rächers. An seiner Seite der junge, ungestüme Kenneth Stafford, der mit diesem Fall seine Bewährungsprobe im Yard antritt. Wird er den Erwartungen gerecht?

In Go Long, authors Dennis Carey, Brian Dumaine, Michael Useem, and Rodney Zemmel take you behind the scenes to witness the business decisions that are enabling leading organizations to outsmart and outlast the competition.

The National Football League's current dominance has obscured how professional football got its start. In The League, John Eisenberg reveals that Art Rooney, George Halas, Tim Mara, George Preston Marshall, and Bert Bell took an immense risk by investing in the professional game. At that time, the sport barely registered on the national scene. The five owners succeeded only because at critical junctures in the 1920s, 1930s, and 1940s, each sacrificed the short-term success of his team for the longer-term good of the League.

Tom Daniels and "Cookie" Marsh will be the first to tell you that race isn't everything. But it did shape the way they experienced the world growing up in Detroit in the 1950s and '60s. Tom “Cookie” Marsh grew up in a black neighborhood on Detroit’s west side. Tom Daniels grew up in a mixed working-class neighborhood on Detroit's east side. Both men grew up in strict households, and both saw their city, their country, and their world transform around them through the Civil Rights movement, riots, and the Vietnam War.

Come away with us now to the far off future days of AD 1985, after men have landed on the moon! When Space Marshal Rory Rammer, and his sidekick, "Skip" Sagan, guard the rule of law and the rights of the innocent from the skies of Earth to the orbit of the moon!

A seemingly random murder alerts scientist Dan Clifford to a global conspiracy that stretches from the halls of Washington to the Honduran coast. Illegal undersea activities have unwittingly uncovered a primordial secret that is wreaking havoc on aquatic life and the local human population. When the CDC and the full resources of a US "threat interdiction" team fails to uncover the source of the devastation, Dan and a brilliant marine biologist, Rachel Sullivan, must race to unravel an unimaginable, ancient mystery in the murky depths.

When the cops call me in the middle of the night, I know it's bad. One of their own is dead, strangled in her car by a professional killer, and it's up to me, telepath consultant extraordinaire, to pull the rabbit out of my hat and solve the case. Only this time I'm not so sure I can. Homicide Detective Isabella Cherabino is breathing down my neck. The dead cop's partner is too. And now, the worst - there was a five-year-old kid in the car, a kid no one can find.

This is the story of Ellasif, a barbarian shield maiden who will stop at nothing to recover her sister from a nation of witches, and Decclan, a ne'er-do-well young spellcaster-turned-forger who wants only to prove himself a hero. Together, they'll face monsters, magic, and the fury of Ellasif's own cold-hearted warriors in their quest to rescue the lost child. Yet when they finally reach the ice-walled city of Whitethrone, where trolls hold court and wolves roam the streets as people, will it be too late to save the girl from the forces of darkness?

Being a telepath, I should have seen the hell I was getting myself into - I used to be one of the most powerful telepaths in the guild. That was before my drug addiction and before they kicked me out. But I'm not a bad guy. Now I help the Atlanta PD solve murders. And even though there are only a few people I call friends, I'd do most anything to keep their trust. So when a judge asks me to help investigate a missing college kid, I'm down for it. No questions asked. No problem.

Robbins' New York is the world of big business and the men and women who make it big. Honor and decency are nothing in a city where respect is measured by the size of your expense account. And it's the city that Brad Rowan, a man on the make, hopes to conquer on his climb to the top, bringing with him the women he loves, uses, and destroys.

The year is 1877. Automatons and steam-powered dirigible gunships have transformed the nation in the aftermath of the Civil War. Everything on the other side of the Mississippi has been claimed for Russia. Lincoln is still president, having never been assassinated, but the former secretary of war Edwin Stanton is now the head of the Department of Public Safety, ruling with an iron fist as head of the country's military.

Edward Snowden is experiencing the irony of the whistleblower: a man who released vast troves of secret information and has had his own story redacted. What has been reported on Snowden until now has focused primarily on the damage the American government believes he has done to the intelligence community. But his own message has largely gone unreported.