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Denne bog handler om, hvordan livet er og hvilke regler, der gælder. Den handler om, hvad man skal gøre for at blive glad og lykkelig, og hvad man endelig ikke skal gøre. Man kommer nok til at gøre det alligevel, men så er der heldigvis en regel, der træder i kraft. For livet er et mirakel og vi er her for at være glade og elske hinanden. Det ved jeg helt bestemt. Kærligst, Hella

Remember the '70s? Way back then, IT was a mainframe that sat in some room and only a few people had a key. Flash forward a decade, and IT was a limited set of systems irrelevant to the vast majority of employees and customers. But today, all of the sudden, technology belongs to everyone. Because of the suddenness of this revolution in technology adoption, most IT organizations have not had enough time to evolve into a "comfortable integration" with the rest of the company.

The Education of Little Tree tells of a boy orphaned very young, who is adopted by his Cherokee grandmother and half-Cherokee grandfather in the Appalachian mountains of Tennessee during the Great Depression. Little Tree" as his grandparents call him is shown how to hunt and survive in the mountains, to respect nature in the Cherokee Way, taking only what is needed, leaving the rest for nature to run its course.

In The Politics of Petulance Alan Wolfe argues the core of our problem isn't Trump himself - it's that we are mired in an age of political immaturity. That immaturity is not grounded in any one ideology, nor is it a function of age or education. In 2016, many Americans were offered tantalizingly simple answers to complicated problems, and, like children being offered a lunch of Pop Rocks and Coke, they reflexively - and mindlessly - accepted. The good news is that we've been here before. Wolfe reminds us that we know how to grow up and face down Trump and other demagogues.

July 1967: At the Moscow Air Show, the Soviets unveiled six new state-of-the-art aircraft. From among this lineup of new fighters and interceptors stood the Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-25 - purportedly capable of outrunning and outmaneuvering any aircraft in NATO’s inventory. Yet even before its public appearance in Moscow, the MiG-25 had been a grave concern for Western analysts.

In the mid-20th century, Michael S. Gazzaniga made one of the great discoveries in the history of neuroscience: split-brain theory, the notion that the right and left hemispheres of the brain can act independently from each other and have different strengths.

The Go-Go Years is the harrowing and humorous story of the growth stocks of the 1960s and how their meteoric rise caused a multitude of small investors to thrive until the devastating market crashes in the 1970s. It was a time when greed drove the market and fast money was being made and lost as the "go-go" stocks surged and plunged. Included are the stories of such high-profile personalities as H. Ross Perot, who lost $450 million in one day.

A major historical biography of George C. Marshall - the general who ran the U.S. campaign during the Second World War, the Secretary of State who oversaw the successful rebuilding of post-war Europe, and the winner of the Nobel Peace Prize - and the first to offer a complete picture of his life.

An icon of the environmental movement outlines a provocative approach for reclaiming our planet. According to Stewart Brand, a lifelong environmentalist who sees everything in terms of solvable design problems, three profound transformations are under way on Earth right now. Climate change is real and is pushing us toward managing the planet as a whole. Urbanization - half the world's population now lives in cities, and 80 percent will by midcentury - is altering humanity's land impact and wealth.

A tyranny stretching over thousands of worlds. The grand dreams of the founders are a joke. The Thousand Families, the rulers of the Empire, care nothing for anything save their own power. From the undercity of Earth to the new colonies at the Rim, discontent, anger, and rebellion seethe, but there is no hope of breaking the power of the Empire and freeing the trillions of enslaved humans and aliens.

Written by Jack Foster, a creative director for various advertising agencies with more than 40 years experience, How to Get Ideas (over 90,000 copies sold and translated into 15 languages) is a fun, accessible, and practical guide that takes the mystery and confusion out of developing new ideas.

Shannon is a wild child who lives life by the seat of her pants. In her mid-thirties, she is living it up and is not near the point of settling down. Cody is a professional who puts his career and financial stability before anything else. He has given up on relationships at this point in life. They are two emotionally unavailable strangers who live nearby and seem to have little in common other than loneliness. They both start having vivid, realistic dreams of an attractive person. These attractive people turn out to be more than either can handle.

In the fall of 1969, a public execution in an Italian restaurant in Brooklyn earned Joey a mention in the New York Daily News and a twenty-grand payout from the mob. On the surface, his next job seemed just as routine: The bosses suspected their trusted numbers controller, Joe Squillante, was skimming the nightly bets to settle personal debts. Joey gave Squillante two weeks to live.

After an accident, Laran wakes up in a strange fantasy world governed by a System, with his only knowledge coming from his fiery tutorial assistant, Toot, a faerie who is more snarky than helpful. Even worse, the Undying Empire is hunting him for reasons he doesn’t understand. That means hordes of undead soldiers, dark assassins lurking in every shadow, and worse. The good news is that apparently he is considered a Glory Seeker here, meaning he's able augment almost anything he does by using points of Glory, a resource earned through actions in the world—heroic or villainous.

Kis er den bedste i verden. Hun laver yndlingsmad, hun trøster, og hun har dejlig hud på albuen. Og så er der Snitten. Han er den dejligste dreng med det lillebitte smil og det sorte strithår, der står lige op i luften. Kis hentede ham fra den anden side af jorden, fordi han var det barn, hun havde ønsket sig hele sit liv. Og sådan er det. Børn og forældre møder altid lige præcis dem, som det er allerbedst at være i familie med.

Jannes bedste veninde, Sille, skal flytte og begynde på en ny skole langt, langt væk. Det er Janne meget ked af, men heldigvis er hun god til at digte rim og remser, der kan trøste, og så har hun en skør mormor, der holder juleaften en hel måned for tidligt. Og selvom hun bliver drillet i skolen, fordi hun går med stok og har skinne på benet, er det ikke umuligt at få nye venner. Janne på otte år har skinne på benet og går med stok, hendes forældre er skilt, og hun bliver drillet i skolen.

ÅRETS BØRNEBOG 2014 - BMFs Børnebogspris! Hella Joof har selv indtalt den forunderlige historie om Snitten og Kis og en mand på strømpesokker. En sludrende og hjertevarm historie om nogle af de følelser, der kan ligge og kæmpe inde i kroppen, når man er et barn. Snitten er så uendelig bange for at miste sin Kis. Hver gang telefonen ringer, og en stemme spørger om Kis er hjemme, siger Snitten nej, selvom hun står lige ude i køkkenet og laver hans yndlingsmad.

"Der er en øm plet i min sjæl, og mine hverdage har slået knuder, så jeg har svært ved at komme videre i livet lige nu. Jeg er dumpet ned i et hul, hvor jeg ligger hjælpeløs og spræller. På den ene side er jeg som en sangfugl, der har fostret en redefuld gøgeunger - på den anden side som en skrukhøne, der er ved at mase sine kyllinger ihjel. Det er nødvendigt, at jeg forlader dem. Jeg må lære at klare mig uden dem. De må lære at klare sig uden mig. De bukker under for min trang til at styre deres liv. Jeg er for meget for dem. For stærk.

Virgil Erath is on death row for a crime he didn't commit. But he gets a new beginning when he is mystically transported to a planet of hallucinatory landscapes, warring humanoid races, and a cloud-filled sky that has never seen the sun. Its inhabitants of this world call it Amtor—others have called it “Venus.” Captured by a clan of winged warriors, Virgil is brought before the great Jong Kum Kloojong. But this “king of kings” is under attack by a deadly terrorist sect, and Virgil may be his only hope of saving Amtor from an apocalyptic war.

Northern Russia, 1924: The Red Army is eliminating those who resist the fledgling Soviet government. At the Battle of the Plutonian Plain, the White Russian forces do not fall, but instead retreat into the dangers of Pellucidar. Mikhail Kirillovitch Kirov, a young conscript caught up in this mad scheme, is fascinated by this new world. He finds Pellucidar’s Stone Age landscape and inhabitants a revela­tion—until he’s grabbed by a mammoth Skal and flown back to its aerie to feed its offspring. Thus begins Kirov’s astounding adventure in the Northern environs of Pellucidar.