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Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. Neuware -A hilarious, high-stakes adventure involving crooked casino boats, floating fish, toxic beaches, and one kid determined to get justice. This is Carl Hiaasen's Florida-where the creatures are wild and the people are wilder! You know it's going to be a rough summer when you spend Father's Day visiting your dad in the local lockup.Noah's dad is sure that the owner of the Coral Queen casino boat is flushing raw sewage into the harbor-which has made taking a dip at the local beach like swimming in a toilet. He can't prove it though, and so he decides that sinking the boat will make an effective statement. Right. The boat is pumped out and back in business within days and Noah's dad is stuck in the clink.Now Noah is determined to succeed where his dad failed. He will prove that the Coral Queen is dumping illegally . . . somehow. His allies may not add up to much-his sister Abbey, an unreformed childhood biter; Lice Peeking, a greedy sot with poor hygiene; Shelly, a bartender and a woman scorned; and a mysterious pirate-but Noah's got a plan to flush this crook out into the open. A plan that should sink the crooked little casino, once and for all. 288 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. Neuware -A hilarious, high-stakes adventure involving crooked casino boats, floating fish, toxic beaches, and one kid determined to get justice. This is Carl Hiaasen's Florida-where the creatures are wild and the people are wilder! You know it's going to be a rough summer when you spend Father's Day visiting your dad in the local lockup.Noah's dad is sure that the owner of the Coral Queen casino boat is flushing raw sewage into the harbor-which has made taking a dip at the local beach like swimming in a toilet. He can't prove it though, and so he decides that sinking the boat will make an effective statement. Right. The boat is pumped out and back in business within days and Noah's dad is stuck in the clink.Now Noah is determined to succeed where his dad failed. He will prove that the Coral Queen is dumping illegally . . . somehow. His allies may not add up to much-his sister Abbey, an unreformed childhood biter; Lice Peeking, a greedy sot with poor hygiene; Shelly, a bartender and a woman scorned; and a mysterious pirate-but Noah's got a plan to flush this crook out into the open. A plan that should sink the crooked little casino, once and for all. 288 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. Neuware -A hilarious, high-stakes adventure involving crooked casino boats, floating fish, toxic beaches, and one kid determined to get justice. This is Carl Hiaasen's Florida-where the creatures are wild and the people are wilder! You know it's going to be a rough summer when you spend Father's Day visiting your dad in the local lockup.Noah's dad is sure that the owner of the Coral Queen casino boat is flushing raw sewage into the harbor-which has made taking a dip at the local beach like swimming in a toilet. He can't prove it though, and so he decides that sinking the boat will make an effective statement. Right. The boat is pumped out and back in business within days and Noah's dad is stuck in the clink.Now Noah is determined to succeed where his dad failed. He will prove that the Coral Queen is dumping illegally . . . somehow. His allies may not add up to much-his sister Abbey, an unreformed childhood biter; Lice Peeking, a greedy sot with poor hygiene; Shelly, a bartender and a woman scorned; and a mysterious pirate-but Noah's got a plan to flush this crook out into the open. A plan that should sink the crooked little casino, once and for all.

Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. Neuware -Nicholas Flamels Herz zerbricht beinahe, als er sein geliebtes Paris zusammenstürzen sieht. Die Stadt wurde von Dee und Machiavelli zerstört, aber auch Flamel trägt einen Teil der Schuld. Derweil weisen Sophie und Josh Newman alle Zeichen dafür auf, dass sie die Zwillinge aus der Prophezeiung sind. Flamel muss sie und die Seiten des Codex schützen! Doch er wird mit jedem Tag schwächer; Perenelle ist noch immer in Alcatraz gefangen und Scatty ist verloren gegangen. Wenn er Dee besiegen will, muss er einen Ältesten finden, der Josh und Sophie in der Magie des Dritten Elements unterrichtet, der Wassermagie. Aber der einzige, der dafür in Frage kommt, ist Gilgamesh - und der ist wirklich ziemlich wahnsinnig . 502 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. Neuware -Nicholas Flamels Herz zerbricht beinahe, als er sein geliebtes Paris zusammenstürzen sieht. Die Stadt wurde von Dee und Machiavelli zerstört, aber auch Flamel trägt einen Teil der Schuld. Derweil weisen Sophie und Josh Newman alle Zeichen dafür auf, dass sie die Zwillinge aus der Prophezeiung sind. Flamel muss sie und die Seiten des Codex schützen! Doch er wird mit jedem Tag schwächer; Perenelle ist noch immer in Alcatraz gefangen und Scatty ist verloren gegangen. Wenn er Dee besiegen will, muss er einen Ältesten finden, der Josh und Sophie in der Magie des Dritten Elements unterrichtet, der Wassermagie. Aber der einzige, der dafür in Frage kommt, ist Gilgamesh - und der ist wirklich ziemlich wahnsinnig . 502 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. Neuware -Nicholas Flamel appeared in J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter-but did you know he really lived And his secrets aren't safe! Discover the truth in book three of the New York Times bestselling series the Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel. The Problem: Perenelle Flamel is trapped. What's Worse: Sophie and Josh might soon be as well. Paris was destroyed by John Dee and Niccolo Machiavelli, but the missing pages of the Book of Abraham the Mage are still protected from Dee and the Dark Elders. Except Perenelle is imprisoned on Alcatraz and now Scatty is missing, leaving a weakening Nicholas as Sophie and Josh's only protection in Lond, a city Dee has under his control. The only hope of defeating Dee and escaping London is to find an Elder to teach the twins the third elemental magic-Water Magic. The bad news The lone option is Gilgamesh the King, and he is absolutely insane.'The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel has everything you loved about Harry Potter, including magic, mystery, and a constant battle of good versus evil.'--Bustle Read the whole series!The AlchemystThe MagicianThe SorceressThe NecromancerThe WarlockThe Enchantress.

Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. Neuware -NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Gone Girl, and the basis for the major motion picture starring Charlize TheronLibby Day was seven when her mother and two sisters were murdered in 'The Satan Sacrifice of Kinnakee, Kansas.' She survived-and famously testified that her fifteen-year-old brother, Ben, was the killer. Twenty-five years later, the Kill Club-a secret society obsessed with notorious crimes-locates Libby and pumps her for details. They hope to discover proof that may free Ben.Libby hopes to turn a profit off her tragic history: She'll reconnect with the players from that night and report her findings to the club-for a fee. As Libby's search takes her from shabby Missouri strip clubs to abandoned Oklahoma tourist towns, the unimaginable truth emerges, and Libby finds herself right back where she started-on the run from a killer.Praise for Dark Places'[A] nerve-fraying thriller.'-The New York Times'Flynn's well-paced story deftly shows the fallibility of memory and the lies a child tells herself to get through a trauma.'-The New Yorker'Gillian Flynn coolly demolished the notion that little girls are made of sugar and spice in Sharp Objects, her sensuous and chilling first thriller. In Dark Places, her equally sensuous and chilling follow-up, Flynn . . . has conjured up a whole new crew of feral and troubled young females. . . . [A] propulsive and twisty mystery.'-Entertainment Weekly'Flynn follows her deliciously creepy Sharp Objects with another dark tale . . . The story, alternating between the 1985 murders and the present, has a tense momentum that works beautifully. And when the truth emerges, it's so macabre not even twisted little Libby Day could see it coming.'-People (4 stars)'Crackles with peevish energy and corrosive wit.' -Dallas Morning News'A riveting tale of true horror by a writer who has all the gifts to pull it off.'-Chicago Tribune'It's Flynn's gift that she can make a caustic, self-loathing, unpleasant protagonist someone you come to root for.'-New York Magazine'[A] gripping thriller.'-Cosmopolitan'Gillian Flynn is the real deal, a sharp, acerbic, and compelling storyteller with a knack for the macabre.'-Stephen King 368 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. Neuware -NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Gone Girl, and the basis for the major motion picture starring Charlize TheronLibby Day was seven when her mother and two sisters were murdered in 'The Satan Sacrifice of Kinnakee, Kansas.' She survived-and famously testified that her fifteen-year-old brother, Ben, was the killer. Twenty-five years later, the Kill Club-a secret society obsessed with notorious crimes-locates Libby and pumps her for details. They hope to discover proof that may free Ben.Libby hopes to turn a profit off her tragic history: She'll reconnect with the players from that night and report her findings to the club-for a fee. As Libby's search takes her from shabby Missouri strip clubs to abandoned Oklahoma tourist towns, the unimaginable truth emerges, and Libby finds herself right back where she started-on the run from a killer.Praise for Dark Places'[A] nerve-fraying thriller.'-The New York Times'Flynn's well-paced story deftly shows the fallibility of memory and the lies a child tells herself to get through a trauma.'-The New Yorker'Gillian Flynn coolly demolished the notion that little girls are made of sugar and spice in Sharp Objects, her sensuous and chilling first thriller. In Dark Places, her equally sensuous and chilling follow-up, Flynn . . . has conjured up a whole new crew of feral and troubled young females. . . . [A] propulsive and twisty mystery.'-Entertainment Weekly'Flynn follows her deliciously creepy Sharp Objects with another dark tale . . . The story, alternating between the 1985 murders and the present, has a tense momentum that works beautifully. And when the truth emerges, it's so macabre not even twisted little Libby Day could see it coming.'-People (4 stars)'Crackles with peevish energy and corrosive wit.' -Dallas Morning News'A riveting tale of true horror by a writer who has all the gifts to pull it off.'-Chicago Tribune'It's Flynn's gift that she can make a caustic, self-loathing, unpleasant protagonist someone you come to root for.'-New York Magazine'[A] gripping thriller.'-Cosmopolitan'Gillian Flynn is the real deal, a sharp, acerbic, and compelling storyteller with a knack for the macabre.'-Stephen King 368 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. Neuware - A hilarious, high-stakes adventure involving crooked casino boats, floating fish, toxic beaches, and one kid determined to get justice. This is Carl Hiaasen's Florida-where the creatures are wild and the people are wilder! You know it's going to be a rough summer when you spend Father's Day visiting your dad in the local lockup.Noah's dad is sure that the owner of the Coral Queen casino boat is flushing raw sewage into the harbor-which has made taking a dip at the local beach like swimming in a toilet. He can't prove it though, and so he decides that sinking the boat will make an effective statement. Right. The boat is pumped out and back in business within days and Noah's dad is stuck in the clink.Now Noah is determined to succeed where his dad failed. He will prove that the Coral Queen is dumping illegally . . . somehow. His allies may not add up to much-his sister Abbey, an unreformed childhood biter; Lice Peeking, a greedy sot with poor hygiene; Shelly, a bartender and a woman scorned; and a mysterious pirate-but Noah's got a plan to flush this crook out into the open. A plan that should sink the crooked little casino, once and for all. 288 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. Neuware -The most influential book of the past seventy-five years: a groundbreaking exploration of everything we know about what we don t know, now with a new section called On Robustness and Fragility. A black swan is a highly improbable event with three principal characteristics: It is unpredictable; it carries a massive impact; and, after the fact, we concoct an explanation that makes it appear less random, and more predictable, than it was. The astonishing success of Google was a black swan; so was 9/11. For Nassim Nicholas Taleb, black swans underlie almost everything about our world, from the rise of religions to events in our own personal lives.Why do we not acknowledge the phenomenon of black swans until after they occur Part of the answer, according to Taleb, is that humans are hardwired to learn specifics when they should be focused on generalities. We concentrate on things we already know and time and time again fail to take into consideration what we don t know. We are, therefore, unable to truly estimate opportunities, too vulnerable to the impulse to simplify, narrate, and categorize, and not open enough to rewarding those who can imagine the impossible. For years, Taleb has studied how we fool ourselves into thinking we know more than we actually do. We restrict our thinking to the irrelevant and inconsequential, while large events continue to surprise us and shape our world. In this revelatory book, Talebwill change the way you look at the world, and this second edition features a new philosophical and empirical essay, On Robustness and Fragility, which offers tools to navigate and exploit a Black Swan world.Taleb is a vastly entertaining writer, with wit, irreverence, and unusual stories to tell. He has a polymathic command of subjects ranging from cognitive science to business to probability theory.Elegant, startling, and universal in its applications,The Black Swanis a landmark book itself a black swan. 480 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. Neuware -The most influential book of the past seventy-five years: a groundbreaking exploration of everything we know about what we don t know, now with a new section called On Robustness and Fragility. A black swan is a highly improbable event with three principal characteristics: It is unpredictable; it carries a massive impact; and, after the fact, we concoct an explanation that makes it appear less random, and more predictable, than it was. The astonishing success of Google was a black swan; so was 9/11. For Nassim Nicholas Taleb, black swans underlie almost everything about our world, from the rise of religions to events in our own personal lives.Why do we not acknowledge the phenomenon of black swans until after they occur Part of the answer, according to Taleb, is that humans are hardwired to learn specifics when they should be focused on generalities. We concentrate on things we already know and time and time again fail to take into consideration what we don t know. We are, therefore, unable to truly estimate opportunities, too vulnerable to the impulse to simplify, narrate, and categorize, and not open enough to rewarding those who can imagine the impossible. For years, Taleb has studied how we fool ourselves into thinking we know more than we actually do. We restrict our thinking to the irrelevant and inconsequential, while large events continue to surprise us and shape our world. In this revelatory book, Talebwill change the way you look at the world, and this second edition features a new philosophical and empirical essay, On Robustness and Fragility, which offers tools to navigate and exploit a Black Swan world.Taleb is a vastly entertaining writer, with wit, irreverence, and unusual stories to tell. He has a polymathic command of subjects ranging from cognitive science to business to probability theory.Elegant, startling, and universal in its applications,The Black Swanis a landmark book itself a black swan. 480 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. Neuware - Nicholas Flamels Herz zerbricht beinahe, als er sein geliebtes Paris zusammenstürzen sieht. Die Stadt wurde von Dee und Machiavelli zerstört, aber auch Flamel trägt einen Teil der Schuld. Derweil weisen Sophie und Josh Newman alle Zeichen dafür auf, dass sie die Zwillinge aus der Prophezeiung sind. Flamel muss sie und die Seiten des Codex schützen! Doch er wird mit jedem Tag schwächer; Perenelle ist noch immer in Alcatraz gefangen und Scatty ist verloren gegangen. Wenn er Dee besiegen will, muss er einen Ältesten finden, der Josh und Sophie in der Magie des Dritten Elements unterrichtet, der Wassermagie. Aber der einzige, der dafür in Frage kommt, ist Gilgamesh - und der ist wirklich ziemlich wahnsinnig . 502 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. Neuware -NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Gone Girl, and the basis for the major motion picture starring Charlize TheronLibby Day was seven when her mother and two sisters were murdered in 'The Satan Sacrifice of Kinnakee, Kansas.' She survived-and famously testified that her fifteen-year-old brother, Ben, was the killer. Twenty-five years later, the Kill Club-a secret society obsessed with notorious crimes-locates Libby and pumps her for details. They hope to discover proof that may free Ben.Libby hopes to turn a profit off her tragic history: She'll reconnect with the players from that night and report her findings to the club-for a fee. As Libby's search takes her from shabby Missouri strip clubs to abandoned Oklahoma tourist towns, the unimaginable truth emerges, and Libby finds herself right back where she started-on the run from a killer.Praise for Dark Places'[A] nerve-fraying thriller.'-The New York Times'Flynn's well-paced story deftly shows the fallibility of memory and the lies a child tells herself to get through a trauma.'-The New Yorker'Gillian Flynn coolly demolished the notion that little girls are made of sugar and spice in Sharp Objects, her sensuous and chilling first thriller. In Dark Places, her equally sensuous and chilling follow-up, Flynn . . . has conjured up a whole new crew of feral and troubled young females. . . . [A] propulsive and twisty mystery.'-Entertainment Weekly'Flynn follows her deliciously creepy Sharp Objects with another dark tale . . . The story, alternating between the 1985 murders and the present, has a tense momentum that works beautifully. And when the truth emerges, it's so macabre not even twisted little Libby Day could see it coming.'-People (4 stars)'Crackles with peevish energy and corrosive wit.' -Dallas Morning News'A riveting tale of true horror by a writer who has all the gifts to pull it off.'-Chicago Tribune'It's Flynn's gift that she can make a caustic, self-loathing, unpleasant protagonist someone you come to root for.'-New York Magazine'[A] gripping thriller.'-Cosmopolitan'Gillian Flynn is the real deal, a sharp, acerbic, and compelling storyteller with a knack for the macabre.'-Stephen King.

Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. Neuware -The most influential book of the past seventy-five years: a groundbreaking exploration of everything we know about what we don't know, now with a new section called 'On Robustness and Fragility.'A black swan is a highly improbable event with three principal characteristics: It is unpredictable; it carries a massive impact; and, after the fact, we concoct an explanation that makes it appear less random, and more predictable, than it was. The astonishing success of Google was a black swan; so was 9/11. For Nassim Nicholas Taleb, black swans underlie almost everything about our world, from the rise of religions to events in our own personal lives. Why do we not acknowledge the phenomenon of black swans until after they occur Part of the answer, according to Taleb, is that humans are hardwired to learn specifics when they should be focused on generalities. We concentrate on things we already know and time and time again fail to take into consideration what we don't know. We are, therefore, unable to truly estimate opportunities, too vulnerable to the impulse to simplify, narrate, and categorize, and not open enough to rewarding those who can imagine the 'impossible.' For years, Taleb has studied how we fool ourselves into thinking we know more than we actually do. We restrict our thinking to the irrelevant and inconsequential, while large events continue to surprise us and shape our world. In this revelatory book, Taleb will change the way you look at the world, and this second edition features a new philosophical and empirical essay, 'On Robustness and Fragility,' which offers tools to navigate and exploit a Black Swan world.Taleb is a vastly entertaining writer, with wit, irreverence, and unusual stories to tell. He has a polymathic command of subjects ranging from cognitive science to business to probability theory. Elegant, startling, and universal in its applications, The Black Swan is a landmark book-itself a black swan.

Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. Neuware - Barney Panofsky Canadian expat, wily lover of women, writer, television producer, raconteur is finally putting pen to paper so he can rebut the charges about him made in his rival s autobiography. Whether it s ranting about his bohemian misadventures during the 1950 s in Paris, his tumultuous three marriages, or his successful trashy TV company, Totally Unnecessary Productions, he quickly proves that his memory may be slipping, but his bile isn t. But when he s charged with the murder of his own best friend caught in bed with the second Mrs. Panofsky Barney s version of things might not be enough to keep him out of trouble.

Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. Neuware - NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Gone Girl, and the basis for the major motion picture starring Charlize TheronLibby Day was seven when her mother and two sisters were murdered in 'The Satan Sacrifice of Kinnakee, Kansas.' She survived-and famously testified that her fifteen-year-old brother, Ben, was the killer. Twenty-five years later, the Kill Club-a secret society obsessed with notorious crimes-locates Libby and pumps her for details. They hope to discover proof that may free Ben.Libby hopes to turn a profit off her tragic history: She'll reconnect with the players from that night and report her findings to the club-for a fee. As Libby's search takes her from shabby Missouri strip clubs to abandoned Oklahoma tourist towns, the unimaginable truth emerges, and Libby finds herself right back where she started-on the run from a killer.Praise for Dark Places'[A] nerve-fraying thriller.'-The New York Times'Flynn's well-paced story deftly shows the fallibility of memory and the lies a child tells herself to get through a trauma.'-The New Yorker'Gillian Flynn coolly demolished the notion that little girls are made of sugar and spice in Sharp Objects, her sensuous and chilling first thriller. In Dark Places, her equally sensuous and chilling follow-up, Flynn . . . has conjured up a whole new crew of feral and troubled young females. . . . [A] propulsive and twisty mystery.'-Entertainment Weekly'Flynn follows her deliciously creepy Sharp Objects with another dark tale . . . The story, alternating between the 1985 murders and the present, has a tense momentum that works beautifully. And when the truth emerges, it's so macabre not even twisted little Libby Day could see it coming.'-People (4 stars)'Crackles with peevish energy and corrosive wit.' -Dallas Morning News'A riveting tale of true horror by a writer who has all the gifts to pull it off.'-Chicago Tribune'It's Flynn's gift that she can make a caustic, self-loathing, unpleasant protagonist someone you come to root for.'-New York Magazine'[A] gripping thriller.'-Cosmopolitan'Gillian Flynn is the real deal, a sharp, acerbic, and compelling storyteller with a knack for the macabre.'-Stephen King.

Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. Neuware - The most influential book of the past seventy-five years: a groundbreaking exploration of everything we know about what we don t know, now with a new section called On Robustness and Fragility. A black swan is a highly improbable event with three principal characteristics: It is unpredictable; it carries a massive impact; and, after the fact, we concoct an explanation that makes it appear less random, and more predictable, than it was. The astonishing success of Google was a black swan; so was 9/11. For Nassim Nicholas Taleb, black swans underlie almost everything about our world, from the rise of religions to events in our own personal lives.Why do we not acknowledge the phenomenon of black swans until after they occur Part of the answer, according to Taleb, is that humans are hardwired to learn specifics when they should be focused on generalities. We concentrate on things we already know and time and time again fail to take into consideration what we don t know. We are, therefore, unable to truly estimate opportunities, too vulnerable to the impulse to simplify, narrate, and categorize, and not open enough to rewarding those who can imagine the impossible. For years, Taleb has studied how we fool ourselves into thinking we know more than we actually do. We restrict our thinking to the irrelevant and inconsequential, while large events continue to surprise us and shape our world. In this revelatory book, Talebwill change the way you look at the world, and this second edition features a new philosophical and empirical essay, On Robustness and Fragility, which offers tools to navigate and exploit a Black Swan world.Taleb is a vastly entertaining writer, with wit, irreverence, and unusual stories to tell. He has a polymathic command of subjects ranging from cognitive science to business to probability theory.Elegant, startling, and universal in its applications,The Black Swanis a landmark book itself a black swan.