Why Parents Need to Matter More Than Peers? Children take their lead from their friends: being cool matters more than anything else. Shaping values, identity and codes of behaviour, peer groups are often far more influential than parents. But this situation is far from natural, and it can be dangerous - it undermines family cohesion, interferes with healthy development, and fosters a hostile and sexualized youth culture. Children end up becoming conformist, anxious and alienated. In Hold on to Your Kids, acclaimed physician and bestselling author Gabor Mate joins forces with Gordon Neufeld, a psychologist with a ... |
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Завърнете се в Терафамилиар за ново вълнуващо приключение! Когато в Деня на свързването Марина, Хейли, Пипа, Кит и Ембър научават, че животните, с които ще прекарат живота си, не са обикновени, а митични създания от легендите, те поемат на пътешествие, за да ги открият и да спасят Терафамилиар. Ред е на Хейли да разбере кой е нейният фамилиар. Тя е изпълнена с вълнение и нетърпение, но трябва да се научи как да работи в екип с другите момичета. А по петите им е госпожа Златен гащеризон и не е сама - тя има помощници из цял Терафамилиар. Лорън Магазинър е израснала в Ню Хоуп, Пенсилвания, където е прекарала детството ... |
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Пет изключителни момичета. Пет митични създания. Едно епично приключение. В Терафамилиар е настъпил Денят на свързването, в който всяко десетгодишно дете открива своето животно, с което ще прекара остатъка от живота си. Но в края на церемонията се оказва, че Марина и още четири други момичета не са намерили своите животни. Случва се нещо изключително. Животните на петте момичета са създания излезли от легендите и те трябва да поемат на пътешествие, за да ги открият."Това морско приключение е идеалното начало в един нов литературен свят." Буклист "Това е книгата, която бих искала да прочета като дете - ... |
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Humbert Humbert – scholar, aesthete and romantic – has fallen completely and utterly in love with Lolita Haze, his landlady's gum-snapping, silky-skinned twelve-year-old daughter. Reluctantly agreeing to marry Mrs Haze just to be close to Lolita, Humbert suffers viciously in the pursuit of romance; but when Lo herself starts looking for attention elsewhere, he will carry her off on a desperate cross-country misadventure, all in the name of Love. Savagely hilarious, flamboyant, heart-breaking and full of ingenious word play, Lolita is an immaculate, unforgettable masterpiece of obsession, delusion and lust. " ... |
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A Hot Startup, A Billion Dollar Fraud, A Fight for the Truth. When journalist Dan McCrum followed a tip to investigate the hot new tech company challenging Silicon Valley, everything about Wirecard looked a little too good to be true: offices were sprouting up around the world, it was reporting runaway growth and the CEO even wore a black turtleneck in tribute to Steve Jobs. In the space of a few short years, the company had come from nowhere to overtake industry giants like Commerzbank and Deutsche Bank on the stock market. As McCrum dug deeper, he encountered a story stranger and more dangerous than he ever imagined: a ... |
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Managing Your Emotions- So They Don't Manage You. Whether it's anxiety about going to the doctor, boiling rage when we're stuck in traffic, or devastation after a painful break-up, our lives are filled with situations that send us spiraling. But as difficult as our emotions can be, they are also a superpower. Far from being good or bad, emotions are information. When they're activated in the right ways and at the right time, they function like an immune system, alerting us to our surroundings, telling us how to react to a situation, and helping us make the right choices. But how do we make our emotions ... |
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Who are you if your destiny lies with another person? 17 year old Avery Montgomery isn't sure if she wants a soulmate. As a member of the Hellenicus - a race descended directly from the Greek gods. Avery will soon be attending her first Gathering, where she'll gain the ability to share her thoughts with her soulmate and be tied to them forever. Whilist the date looms, Avery hopes her soulmate will be the charming, passionate Adrian, but why does she feel such an intense pull to the wise and protective Vladimir - her best friend's older brother? Then she discovers that the world of the Hellenicus is not quite ... |
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Dreams and Nightmares in Sam Altman's OpenAI. When AI expert and investigative journalist Karen Hao first began covering OpenAI in 2019, she thought they were the good guys. Founded as a nonprofit with safety enshrined as its core mission, the organization was meant, its leader Sam Altman told us, to act as a check against more purely mercantile, and potentially dangerous, forces. What could go wrong? Over time, Hao began to wrestle ever more deeply with that question. Increasingly, she realized that the core truth of this massively disruptive sector is that its vision of success requires an almost unprecedented ... |
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"Not all love stories are written the same way. Ours had torn chapters, missing paragraphs, and a bittersweet ending."Luna Rexroth is everyone’s favorite wallflower. Sweet. Caring. Charitable. Quiet. Fake. Underneath the meek, tomboy exterior everyone loves (yet pities) is a girl who knows exactly what, and who, she wants - namely, the boy from the treehouse who taught her how to curse in sign language. Who taught her how to laugh. To live. To love. Knight Cole is everyone’s favorite football hero. Gorgeous. Athletic. Rugged. Popular. Liar. This daredevil hell-raiser could knock you up with his gaze alone, but ... |
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Book 1 of the "Malice" Duology. ... The princess isn't supposed to fall for an evil sorceress. But in this darkly magical retelling of "Sleeping Beauty", true love is more complicated than a simple fairy tale. Perfect for fans of Naomi Novik and Holly Black. Once upon a time, there was a wicked fairy who, in an act of vengeance, cursed a line of princesses to die. A curse that could only be broken by true love's kiss. Utter nonsense. Let me tell you, no one in Briar cares what happens to our princess. I thought I didn't care, either. Until I met her. Princess Aurora, last heir to the ... |
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Break the bonds that bind you."King Midas made me the woman I am today. Notorious. Unattainable. His. The thing about being confined is that you believe it's to keep the bad out... Until you realize it's about keeping you in. I'm now in a strange kingdom surrounded by liars, with no allies of my own, but I won't sit idly by and let myself wither. No, there's something that's bloomed from the pit of my repression. Something dark. Something angry. But the last thing I expected was for my anger to call out to him. King Ravinger. He's sinister and powerful and entirely too seductive. I've ... |
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Vaughn Spencer. They call him an angry god. To me, he is nothing but a heartless prince. His parents rule this town, its police, every citizen and boutique on Main Street. All I own is a nice, juicy grudge against him for that time he almost killed me. Between hooking up with a different girl every weekend, breaking hearts, noses and rules, Vaughn also finds the time to bully little ole' me. I fight back, tooth and nail, never expecting him to chase me across the ocean after we graduate high school. But here he is, living with me in a dark, looming castle on the outskirts of London. A fellow intern. A prodigal ... |
