Auf der Reservation herrschen bürgerkriegsähnliche Verhältnisse. Der gewählte Häuptling des Stammes entpuppt sich als »Killer-Chief«, der die eigenen Interessen und die der Indianerbehörde rücksichtslos durchsetzt; wer sich gegen ihn stellt, läuft Gefahr, ermordet zu werden. Doch der Widerstand lässt sich auch mit Blut nicht ersticken. Es kommt zum offenen Aufstand. Inmitten des Geschehens steht ein Indianermädchen, das in den Slums von Chicago aufwuchs und mit ihrem Bruder Ray auf die Reservation gekommen ist: Ite-ska-wih, Helles Gesicht. Der abschließende Band der Pentalogie »Das Blut des Adlers« ist eine authentische Darstellung des Aufstands von Wounded Knee im Jahr 1973 und seiner Folgen.
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In The Divine Code, Randolf Silver explores one of the most profound questions of our time: What happens when humanity's oldest quest—to understand God—meets its newest creation—artificial intelligence? Bridging theology, philosophy, and technology, Silver reveals how AI challenges our understanding of divinity, consciousness, and the soul. From the algorithms that mimic human thought to the metaphysical implications of machine awareness, this groundbreaking work examines whether the digital mind reflects, replaces, or redefines the divine. Provocative and deeply reasoned, The Divine Code invites readers into a dialogue that spans centuries—from Plato's concept of the divine mind to Turing's test of machine intelligence—asking whether humanity is now creating in its own image what it once worshiped as God. For readers of Yuval Noah Harari, Teilhard de Chardin, and Ray Kurzweil, this book illuminates the spiritual frontier of the technological age.
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In the 1920s, Karl Amson Joel and his wife Meta founded a mail-order linen goods company in Nuremberg, Germany. The business flourished, and it could have turned out to be a picture-book success story, were it not for the coming to power of Adolf Hitler. To escape the Nazis, the Jewish couple and their son Helmut fled first to Berlin and then on to Switzerland. The linen goods company was snapped up by department-store 'king' Josef Neckermann at basement price. A further hazardous journey then took the Joels to Cuba and, finally, to New York. Helmut married a young girl from Brooklyn and, in 1949, she gave birth to their son William Martin, known as 'Billy'. When the marriage fell apart, Helmut returned alone to Germany, re-married and had a second son, Alexander, now an internationally sought-after conductor. Billy Joel is one of the most successful solo artists in the world of international pop music, having sold over 100 million albums. His daughter Alexa Ray has also carved out a career for herself in music. In order to write this extensive biography, Steffen Radlmaier not only researched archives and analyzed specialist literature and interviews, over a period of many years he also conducted personal interviews with numerous family members, acquaintances and contemporary witnesses. He visited Billy Joel and his daughter in New York in the autumn of 2008.
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Fish talk is a story about a little fish who is born in a lawyer's office, behaves like a marionette and finds his way out of the fish tank... <br> <br> <br> A ray of sunlight tricked and slipped its way through the grey multi-storeys and rushed into Mr Pensatore’s fifth floor window and lit up the lawyer’s office. After a few moments the ray, after it had warmed the office and the water in the fish tank on the little table in front of the window, left in search of other windows. Before another ray of sunlight could reach the office a set of keys could be heard unlocking the door of the empty office and the lawyer came into the room, shutting the door behind him. He went to switch on the light but before he pressed the button he looked at the window and realized he didn’t need any more light than what was coming through the window. He went to his desk, put down his briefcase and knelt in front of the fish tank to look for his little fish. They were nowhere to be seen. He looked behind the shipwreck where they kept their eggs and they weren’t there either, so he tapped his finger on the tank, a sign of worry beginning to creep onto his face. Where could they be? He asked himself. He lifted the other hand and tapped with two fingers. Thankfully, his beloved fish appeared at the door of the tower and the lawyer smiled at them. They went straight to his finger to say hello and then rushed to their eggs. <br> <br> PUBLISHER: TEKTIME
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<b>How to improve the management of your staff ?</b> <br> <br>One Life is a must-read guide to successfully adopt work-life integration within your organisation. How can you attract and retain talent, reduce and prevent burnout, engage and motivate employees? You’ll find the answer in this book. Bursting with real examples and multidisciplinary case studies from all over the world, One Life is a fundamental reading for leaders, line-managers and small business owners alike. <br> <br> <b>Discover a new complete and essential guide for all business leaders who want to manage their business in the best way !</b> <br> <br>EXTRACT <br> <br>Do you remember the last time, you got a glimpse of the future? How exciting it feels to learn about something that is brand new, yet makes total sense: why hasn’t this been around before? We all remember some of these decisive moments, like hearing for the first time about the possibility of making free phone calls on a service called Skype. Or being able to share videos with everyone on YouTube. Or seeing prototypes of self-driving, or even flying cars, humanoid robots, or hearing Google assistant make a phone call to book an appointment at the hairdresser. The ban on cigarettes in public spaces was another such break-through. Learning about something that will change the way we have been doing certain things in one way for decades is exhilarating, perhaps fear inducing too. It’s difficult to think back on our lives before we could search for things on Google, shop online, travel via low-cost airlines, or had the single currency in the European Union. <br> <br>ABOUT THE AUTHORS <br> <br> <b>Agnes Uhereczky</b> is the co-founder of the WorkLife HUB, and the host of the <i>WorkLife HUB</i> podcast. Agnes is a change management professional, who is passionate about helping organisations reach their highest potential in attracting talent and improving employee wellbeing. She is also interested in research, and has coordinated a number of research projects into exploring the new world of work, learning about how working parents and carers cope with daily demands of work and family life. <br> <br> <b>Zoltan Vadkerti</b> is an entrepreneur, speaker and workplace consultant. He is the co-founder and Executive Director at the <i>WorkLife HUB</i>. He studied economics in both the Netherlands and Hungary before he moved to Brussels to becoming a lobbyist on EU social and employment policies. That experience, and many others, led him to an interest in the organisation of work and specifically on the quality of work and work-life integration. <br>
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In his most innovative and technically challenging film, The Birds, Alfred Hitchcock follows the success of Psycho with a modernist, avant garde horror-thriller, which has spawned many imitators and triggered the cycle for disaster and man versus nature films. Now to mark The Birds 50th anniversary in 2013 and the digitally restored Blu-Ray release, The Making of Hitchcock's The Birds is the first book-length treatment on the production of this modernist masterpiece. Featuring new interviews with stars Rod Taylor, Tippi Hedren and Veronica Cartwright, as well as sketches and storyboards from Hitchcock's A-List technical team, Robert Boyle, Albert Whitlock and Harold Michelson, the book charts every aspect of the film's production all set against the tumultuous backdrop of the 1962 Cuban missile crisis and JFK's presidency. Using unpublished material from the Alfred Hitchcock Collection, Evan Hunter files, Peggy Robertson papers and Robert Boyle's artwork, this book will be the ultimate guide to Hitchcock's most ambitious film. The Making of Hitchcock's The Birds analyses the film's modernist underpinnings, from art director Robert Boyle's initial sketches influenced by Munch's The Scream, to the groundbreaking electronic score by pioneering German composers Remi Gassmann and Oskar Sala. The entire production process is analysed in detail, illustrated with rare behind the scenes production stills and storyboards. There is also a timeline detailing the film's production to its release at MOMA in New York, and the 1963 Cannes Film Festival.
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Somewhere in the labyrinth of our memories are films that we have seen and cannot forget but frustratingly may never see again because they have mysteriously vanished from the public domain. They may be hidden away in a film studio's vault, buried beneath the floorboards of a filmmaker's home, imprisoned by some ancient legality, refused release at a director's whim or simply not optioned by a distributor. This book brings back to life 101 films that are entombed in a cinema cemetery and in so doing unearths a film noir masterpiece, a French classic, a Mastroianni feature comparable to Cinema Paradiso, a pioneering Independent film of the fifties, a Joan Crawford headliner, an amazing Nicholas Ray experimental feature, Italian comedies by Nichetti and lost gems by Widerberg, Hitchcock, Lang, Ford, Lubitsch, Litvak, Dmytryk, Kazan, Cacoyannis, Boetticher, Zinnemann, Ray, Huston and many more luminaries of the silver screen. No film is guaranteed a general release whether screened at Sundance or Cannes and though critics may acclaim them, audiences applaud them, too many disappear into oblivion. This book pays homage to those lost films that deserve to be exhibited beyond the screen of our mind.
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Goodbye Sugar ... Hello sugar-free: Everything about an almost sugar-free life! According to the World Health Organization (WHO), a maximum of 25 grams of sugar per day is harmless to health. On average, however, we consume more than 100 grams a day! Yes, we know: Too much sugar makes you ill. Nevertheless, we still eat more because we are crazy about the sweet taste. And sugar also has a firm place in our society, our social life is closely linked to it: Birthday without cake? A good meal without dessert? Impossible! Fortunately, in addition to a complete ban on sweets, there is another possibility to significantly reduce sugar consumption. Because we often unconsciously consume a lot of sugar, through the so-called hidden sugar, which is added to food. By sorting this out, up to two thirds of the daily amount of sugar can be saved. Find out in this book how you can identify hidden sugars and ban them from your diet, whether at home or in a restaurant, and how you can make your everyday life so conscious that sweet pleasures are still possible - and still save your body the daily unhealthy overdose of sugar.
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