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Have you ever wondered how to measure your pizza, or how much ice cream is in your ice-cream cone? Basic principles of geometry, including measuring two-dimensional and three-dimensional shapes, attributes of various shapes, and formulas for finding area and volume, are explored through informative and engaging text in this newest addition to the How Do series.

All her life, adrenaline junkie Keelie Lin-Sykes has known what she wants: to protect her brother and sisters by killing as many of the soulless Enhanced Ones as she can. Oh, and to have fun while she's doing it. After all, hiding in a secret Untamed community, while the group's Seer warns them of danger, shouldn't mean that life can only be serious, right?

Have you ever wondered how molecules form groups or how forces in chemistry interact? Basic principles of chemistry, including atoms, the elements, compounds, reactions, and more, are explored through informative and engaging text in this new addition to the How Do series. The How Do series is a great introduction to various STEM topics, each written in a format that encourages audiences to ask questions and guess the answers before exploring the science behind them.

Welcome to Crimeatorium, the place where crime lives.I’m your host, Madeline O’Brien, and each week I cover lesser known true crime cases, stories of murder, abduction, missing persons, and more. These are the cases you don't often hear about, told with no banter, just the facts.If you’re interested in exploring lesser known true crime cases, then take the next step and subscribe to Crimeatorium on your favorite podcast platform.Step inside, and join me in the place where crime lives.

Deciding on a point of view is one of the hardest tasks a writer faces. Here is expert advice on discovering whose story you are telling, and on point of view as seen by the characters, the audience, the writer, the camera, and more. And you'll hear DiMaggio's own point of view on what it means to be a writer - passion for the process, learning about yourself, scaling the wall of rejection and growing with your characters.

In Nottingham, England, widow Emma Taylor finds herself in desperate need of a job to provide for herself and her beloved daughter, Olivia. But with the legal restrictions prohibiting widows with children from most employment opportunities, she’s left with only one option: persuading the manageress at Boots’ Booklover’s Library to take a chance on her.

When an acorn falls on Henny Penny’s head, she assumes the sky must be falling! This classic children’s tale—sometimes known as “Chicken Little”—is full of humor and delightful farm characters, including Rooster Wooster and Ducky Daddles.

If you're feeling overwhelmed about learning German or you feel like you tried, but nothing seems to stick, then you've come to the right place. If you're a beginner of German or if you’ve studied it before but need to go back to basics, then this audiobook will assist you on your studies and is great to have whilst your travelling.

Have you ever wondered how astronauts float in space, or how your pizza gets from your plate to your mouth? Basic principles of physics, including learning about distance, displacement, speed, velocity, acceleration, forces, friction, gravity, and Newton’s laws of motion, are explored through informative and engaging text in this newest addition to the How Do series.

Nador, son of the demon king, has ended up somewhere he never thought he’d be: the human world. Bound in a contract to serve a human, all he wants is to go home. A human soul seems a small consolation for a human lifetime spent obeying Paul, the human who holds his contract. Paul doesn’t want to be in a contract, either. All he wants is to live a quiet life with his wife, Melody, but born into a notorious criminal syndicate, he is unlikely to get his wish. The contract he has with Nador is his only hope to protect his wife and unborn child from his own family’s cold machinations.

Depuis l’Antiquité, le mythe de Pygmalion et Galatée n’a de cesse de fasciner et d’inspirer des artistes. Mais ce récit millénaire du sculpteur misanthrope, épris de la statue qu’il vient de réaliser, demeure inachevé : lorsque Galatée est transformée en être vivant par les dieux, elle est réduite au silence par les hommes. Enfin, il est temps pour elle de devenir la narratrice de sa propre histoire et ainsi de choisir elle-même son destin.

Learning Chinese is a really rewarding experience, and it's a lot easier than you might think. Learning Chinese is a gratifying experience that not only opens possibilities for your profession, but it also allows you to form significant connections with the people around you, whether on your travels in China or in your own neighborhood. You're learning more than simply a new language when you study Chinese.

Psychological studies have proven that a new language will enhance your cognitive abilities. The process of learning a new language strengthens your memory muscle, and it positively impacts your English-language skills, as it makes you aware of the ways you can structure and manipulate a language.

Der Mythos von Circe - modern und fesselnd neu erzählt. Circe, Tochter des Sonnengotts Helios, ist anders: Denn sie besitzt Zauberkräfte. Von ihrer Familie missachtet und von Zeus verbannt, führt sie ein zurückgezogenes Leben auf der Insel Aiaia unter wilden Tieren, die sie gezähmt hat. In der Abgeschiedenheit entwickelt sie ihre magischen Fährigkeiten weiter, bis sie sich wahrhaftig eine Hexe nennen kann. Doch sie bleibt nicht lange allein: Als Hermes, Daidalos, Odysseus, Iason, Medea und die mächtige Athene ihre Wege kreuzen, muss sich Circe die Frage stellen.

You lose your virginity to a boy from your gender theory seminar, and the first person you tell is Ella. Ella's with you at the party when you first kiss a girl. And Ella takes you to the hospital the first time you're diagnosed. Over the next few years you have a string of relationships and jobs, but you can always count on Ella to be there for you - until the drinking and the parties, the hospital visits and late-night calls, blur the lines of your friendship into something unbalanced and fragile, at risk of breaking altogether.

Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson! The names of the world’s greatest detective and his stalwart friend conjure up images of Victorian London, gaslit streets, hansom cabs, and dense fogs. But there was more to the story than these heroes. There were the villains who dared to stand against them, carrying out their vile plans and evil schemes. Who were these sinners, malefactors, and criminals? We only know the barest details, as provided to us from Watson’s pen in the very few 60 stories of the original Sherlockian Canon.

Therapists Watching Bravo is hosted by two friends, Madeline and Amanda, who happen to be licensed psychotherapists and bravo super fans. They co-host the podcast together exploring the fascinating relationships, personalities, blow-ups, and tender moments of the bravo universe in a way that is fun but also goes beneath the surface. Madeline and Amanda make connections between what happens on screen to our real life experiences with love, loss, mental health, and why we do what we do. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In a world where everyone has something to say, Malchus Hemmings is silent. His alcoholic father has no patience for his mute son and throws Malchus out. The lad adapts to life on the streets of 19th-century Philadelphia - and survives by scrounging and begging...and neither seeks nor welcomes companionship. That is...until he stumbles into the crude living quarters of two orphan boys during a storm.

An evocative blend of immersion journalism and memoir, How to Make a Life shares the immigration story of a Tibetan refugee family who crossed real and cultural bridges to make a life in Madison, Wisconsin, with the assistance of the Midwestern woman they befriended. From tales of escaping Tibet over the Himalayas to striking a balance between old traditions with new to bridging divides one friendly gesture at a time, listeners will expand their understanding of family, culture, and belonging.

Ava thought her job as a librarian at the Library of Congress would mean a quiet, routine existence. But an unexpected offer from the US military has brought her to Lisbon with a new mission: posing as a librarian while working undercover as a spy gathering intelligence. Meanwhile, in occupied France, Elaine has begun an apprenticeship at a printing press run by members of the Resistance. It’s a job usually reserved for men, but in the war, those rules have been forgotten. Yet she knows that the Nazis are searching for the press and its printer in order to silence them.