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NATIONAL BESTSELLER • The complete four-book boxed set of the greatest fantasy epic of all time: The Lord of the Rings and its enchanting prequel, The Hobbit   When Thorin Oakenshield and his band of dwarves embark upon a dangerous quest to reclaim the hoard of gold stolen from them by the evil dragon Smaug, Gandalf the wizard suggests an unlikely accomplice: Bilbo Baggins, an unassuming Hobbit dwelling in peaceful Hobbiton. Along the way, the company faces trolls, goblins, giant spiders, and worse. But as they journey from the wonders of Rivendell to the terrors of Mirkwood and beyond, Bilbo will find that there is more to him than anyone—himself included—ever dreamed. Unexpected qualities of courage and cunning, and a love of adventure, propel Bilbo toward his great destiny . . . a destiny that waits in the dark caverns beneath the Misty Mountains, where a twisted creature known as Gollum jealously guards a precious magic ring.   This boxed set includes: THE HOBBIT THE FELLOWSHIP OF THE RING THE TWO TOWERS THE RETURN OF THE KING

WINNER OF THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE 'A gripping and masterful portrait of the brutal court of Mao, based on new research but also written with great narrative verve' Simon Sebag Montefiore 'Harrowing and brilliant' Ben Macintyre 'A critical contribution to Chinese history' Wall Street Journal Between 1958 and 1962, 45 million Chinese people were worked, starved or beaten to death. Mao Zedong threw his country into a frenzy with the Great Leap Forward, an attempt to catch up with and overtake the West in less than fifteen years. It led to one of the greatest catastrophes the world has ever known. Dikotter's extraordinary research within Chinese archives brings together for the first time what happened in the corridors of power with the everyday experiences of ordinary people, giving voice to the dead and disenfranchised. This groundbreaking account definitively recasts the history of the People's Republic of China.

Perhaps everyone has heard of Bitcoin or cryptocurrencies. They appear in the media at moments when they are drawing their last breath (the price has dropped a bit) or when everyone is going crazy and buying (the price has gone up a bit). However, only a few people are experimenting with using them in their lives. Can something so volatile be used reliably? And if we don't care about the price, can cryptocurrencies be used in other ways? For example, to fund creators, or for crowdfunding. Can you use cryptocurrencies to take out a loan? How to use them in international trade or to promote your products? How to build a local crypto economy in your social bubble? Can bitcoin be used to expand personal and social contacts? We can even use bitcoin as a form of "insurance" against the failure of the traditional financial system. Juraj Bednár is a serial entrepreneur. He has founded several companies in the field of information technology. He is a co-founder of the non-profit project Paralelná Polis, thanks to which he discovered the potential of cryptocurrencies in life and business. By combining the principle of hacking (ethical hacking, life hacking, ...) and cryptocurrencies, he creates mindsets with which you can introduce cryptocurrencies into your life. The aim of his books is to open the minds of his readers to new possibilities – if we have the courage to experiment.

Se prometió que Bitcoin, BTC, sería una tecnología liberadora, una alternativa de libre mercado al dinero controlado por el estado. Pero esa promesa se rompió cuando un pequeño grupo de individuos con información privilegiada se hiciera cargo del proyecto y cambiara fundamentalmente su diseño. La verdadera historia de BTC y su diseño original la conocen muy pocas personas debido a años de fuerte censura, ingeniería de redes sociales y estrictos controles de información. La realidad es que BTC ha sido secuestrado y cambiado para peor. Esa es la conclusión innegable de El secuestro de Bitcoin, un libro repleto de historia y verdades incómodas, que descarga una andanada desmitificadora contra las narrativas más populares que rodean a BTC. Roger Ver es el primer inversor del mundo en empresas emergentes de BTC y ha sido un nombre destacado en la industria de las criptomonedas desde su inicio. Sin embargo, como confiesa en la introducción, este libro no es una historia de amor. Es la exposición devastadora de la corrupción, la propaganda y la centralización del poder en BTC.

COMPTON CROOK AWARD FOR BEST FIRST NOVEL. NEBULA AWARD FINALIST. New Science Fiction Adventure Series! National Bestseller in trade paperback. An agent for a spy organization uncovers an alien alliance in nearby interstellar space—an alliance that will soon involve humanity in politics and war on a galactic scale. 2105, September: Intelligence Analyst Caine Riordan uncovers a conspiracy on Earth’s Moon—a history-changing clandestine project—and ends up involuntarily cryocelled for his troubles. Twelve years later, Riordan awakens to a changed world. Humanity has achieved faster-than-light travel and is pioneering nearby star systems. And now, Riordan is compelled to become an inadvertent agent of conspiracy himself. Riordan’s mission: travel to a newly settled world and investigate whether a primitive local species was once sentient—enough so to have built a lost civilization. However, arriving on site in the Delta Pavonis system, Caine discovers that the job he’s been given is anything but secret or safe. With assassins and saboteurs dogging his every step, it's clear that someone doesn't want his mission to succeed. In the end, it takes the broad-based insights of an intelligence analyst and a matching instinct for intrigue to ferret out the truth: that humanity is neither alone in the cosmos nor safe. Earth is revealed to be the lynchpin planet in an impending struggle for interstellar dominance, a struggle into which it is being irresistibly dragged. Discovering new dangers at every turn, Riordan must now convince the powers-that-be that the only way for humanity to survive as a free species is to face the perils directly—and to fight fire with fire. WINNER OF THE COMPTON CROOK AWARD FOR BEST FIRST NOVEL About Fire with Fire: “Chuck Gannon is one of those marvelous finds—someone as comfortable with characters as he is with technology, and equally adept at providing those characters with problems to solve. Imaginative, fun, and not afraid to step on the occasional toe or gore the occasional sacred cow, his stories do not disappoint.” —David Weber "If we meet strong aliens out there, will we suffer the fate of the Aztecs and Incas, or find the agility to survive? Gannon fizzes with ideas about the dangerous politics of first contact.” —David Brin "The plot is intriguing and then some. Well-developed and self-consistent; intelligent readers are going to like it." —Jerry Pournelle "[T]he intersecting plot threads, action and well-conceived science kept those pages turning." —SF Crowsnest About Starfire series hit, Extremis, coauthored by Charles E. Gannon: “Vivid. . . Battle sequences mingle with thought-provoking exegesis . . .” —Publishers Weekly "It’s a grand, fun series of battles and campaigns, worthy of anything Dale Brown or Larry Bond ever wrote." —Analog About Charles E. Gannon: "[A] strong [writer of]. . .military SF. . .[much] action going on in his work, with a lot of physics behind it. There is a real sense of the urgency of war and the sacrifices it demands." —Locus

"Backgammon – From basics to badass" is the cutting edge, modern backgammon book, which teaches you all the basic concepts and principles in the game. It beats the older backgammon theory books by a mile. It starts out softly, but don't let this fool you! The book is full of insights from a true expert. The philosophy is a thorough and well structured learning, which leaves you no gaps in your game comprehension, as well asbringing new theory to the backgammon literature, for instance ”the value-equation” and probability tables on jumping primes. It is very easy to read even for beginners. The purpose of the book is to connect the basic theory with the advanced theory. All earlier backgammon books tends to focus on just one of these categories. Since publication in Denmark early 2013, this book is now owned by roughly half of the members of the Danish Backgammon Federation, the worlds largest backgammon federation. When writing this book, Marc was ranked frst in the Danish rating system. In 2014 Marc won his frst ”Grand Slam”, the prestigious international tournament: Nordic Open in Copenhagen. Reviews: "It's my humble opinion, that this is a must-read for everyone who wants to take his game to another level. The book is highly informative, easy to read and packed with educational positions. I've been privileged to know Marc for many years, and he is currently the best backgammon tutor in the world. Don't waste this formidable chance, buy this book right away!"- Sander Lylloff, the best backgammon player in the world. "Tremendous all-round book which suits backgammon players of all levels. It presents the concepts in a sharp but still educational way. The book has numerous new approaches to the facets of the game, that can be very complex. It appeals to new, as well as more experienced players. I'm positive that everybody can obtain new knowledge and inspiration. Read it!"- Karsten Bredahl, Super Grand Master and double winner of Nordic Open. "Marc has truly succeeded in writing a book, which starts from the bottom and ends on a very high level, without the usual gaps you can encounter. It is a solid book that everybody can beneft from, regardless of experience. The examples and explanations are top notch."- Peter Hallberg, backgammon world champion 2004.

Now featuring a new preface by Peter Thiel Two renowned investment advisors and authors of the bestseller The Great Reckoning bring to light both currents of disaster and the potential for prosperity and renewal in the face of radical changes in human history as we move into the next century. The Sovereign Individual details strategies necessary for adapting financially to the next phase of Western civilization. Few observers of the late twentieth century have their fingers so presciently on the pulse of the global political and economic realignment ushering in the new millennium as do James Dale Davidson and Lord William Rees-Mogg. Their bold prediction of disaster on Wall Street in Blood in the Streets was borne out by Black Tuesday. In their ensuing bestseller, The Great Reckoning, published just weeks before the coup attempt against Gorbachev, they analyzed the pending collapse of the Soviet Union and foretold the civil war in Yugoslavia and other events that have proved to be among the most searing developments of the past few years. In The Sovereign Individual, Davidson and Rees-Mogg explore the greatest economic and political transition in centuries—the shift from an industrial to an information-based society. This transition, which they have termed "the fourth stage of human society," will liberate individuals as never before, irrevocably altering the power of government. This outstanding book will replace false hopes and fictions with new understanding and clarified values.

La historia real de un psiquiatra, su joven paciente y la terapia de regresión que cambió sus vidas para siempre. Un punto de encuentro entre ciencia y metafísica. El doctor Brian Weiss, jefe de psiquiatría del hospital Mount Sinai de Miami, relata en éste, su primer libro, una asombrosa experiencia que cambió por completo su propia vida y su visión de la psicoterapia. Una de sus pacientes, Catherine, recordó bajo hipnosis varias de sus vidas pasadas y pudo encontrar en ellas el origen de muchos de los traumas que sufría. Catherine se curó, pero ocurrió algo todavía más importante: logró ponerse en contacto con los Maestros, espíritus superiores que habitan los estados entre dos vidas. Ellos le comunicaron importantes mensajes de sabiduría y de conocimiento. Este relato, profundamente conmovedor, punto de encuentro entre ciencia y metafísica, constituyó un extraordinario best seller y sigue siendo de obligada lectura en un mundo convulsionado, en especial para los que buscan un sentido espiritual. Los mejores comentarios de los lectores sobre Muchas vidas, muchos maestros: «Impactante. Un libro que te obliga a realizar pausas de vez en cuando para asimilar y procesar las experiencias que relata. Tiene la credibilidad de una eminencia en psiquiatría y se asemeja en ocasiones al Libro Tibetano de los muertos pero bajo mi opinión hay aceptar esta información y cogerlo con pinzas ya que ningún hombre a lo largo de la humanidad murióy volvió para contarnos lo que hay en el más allá.» «Interesante lectura incluso para escépticos. He disfrutado su lectura, a pesar de ser muy escéptico sobre estas cuestiones. Habituado a lectura científica, sentía una sana curiosidad por este libro. Quería descubrir si se trataba de una farsa o tenía visos de seriedad y, tras su lectura, no puedo sino recomendarlo. Se puede creer o no lo que en él se describe, eso es cuestión de cada uno, pero sin duda merece la pena su conocimiento.» «Un libro increíblemente interesante. Libro muy fácil de leer y de tremendo impacto. Las cosas que hablan y los temas que abordan deberían ser aprendidos en el colegio. Todo ser humano debería leer este libro y respetar las teorías que mencionan en el. Brian Weiss es sin lugar a dudas un psiquiatra de prestigio que se atreve a abordar temas muy estigmatizados en nuestra época y sociedad actual.»

Libérate de los pensamientos que te atan al pasado y recupera la paz de vivir en el presente. Muchas personas viven atrapadas en recuerdos, decisiones no resueltas, culpas antiguas o nostalgias que condicionan su manera de pensar, sentir y actuar. Creen haber dejado atrás lo vivido, pero siguen reaccionando desde ahí. El pasado ya no existe, pero su huella continúa gobernando la vida emocional. En El reto de soltar el pasado, Xavier Guix analiza con claridad y rigor cómo la memoria construye la historia que nos contamos sobre nosotros mismos y cómo ciertos episodios, creencias o heridas se convierten en auténticas cárceles interiores. No se trata de olvidar lo vivido ni de negarlo, sino de comprender qué lugar ocupa en nuestra vida actual. A partir de su experiencia clínica, Guix disecciona las principales trampas del pasado ―la culpa, el arrepentimiento, el resentimiento, la nostalgia o el victimismo― y propone siete claves concretas para resignificar la experiencia, integrar la historia personal y generar nuevos recuerdos más acordes con quien somos hoy. «Xavier Guix nos sorprende con su maestría y rigor al abordar, como solo él sabe hacerlo, el arte de soltar el pasado». Walter Riso

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A FOREIGN POLICY MAGAZINE BOOK TO READ Less than a decade after Washington endorsed a fraudulent case for invading Iraq, similarly misinformed and politically motivated claims are pushing America toward war with Iran. Challenging the daily clamor of American saber rattling, Flynt and Hillary Mann Leverett argue that America should renounce thirty years of failed politics, diplomacy and strategy and engage with Iran―just as Nixon revolutionized U.S. foreign policy by going to Beijing and realigning relations with China. In Going to Tehran, former analysts in both the Bush and Clinton administrations, the Leveretts offer a uniquely informed account of Iran as it actually is today, not as many have caricatured it or wished it to be. They show that Iran's political order is not on the verge of collapse, that most Iranians still support the Islamic Republic, and that Iran's regional influence makes it critical to progress in the Middle East. Drawing on years of research and access to high-level officials, the Leveretts' indispensable work makes it clear that America must "go to Tehran" if it is to avert strategic catastrophe.

"Nobody connects macro, crypto, and exponential technology quite the way Raoul does." – Peter H. Diamandis, MD, Founder/Chair, XPRIZE, Abundance360, Singularity "This book reads like a long dinner with Raoul." – Micky Malka, Founder and CEO, Ribbit Capital The first book from the globally-renowned investor and founder of Real Vision, as featured onDiary of a CEO. The Everything Code is the result of 30 years of deep thought and analysis by entrepreneur, Raoul Pal that unlocks the secret code to the global economy, financial markets and the trends transforming our society. This book will show you how to thrive in our new Exponential Age so you can secure your future and stay ahead of the curve. Discover why the economic system is broken leading to stagnant wages, rising asset prices and societal inequality. Raoul considers the role of central banks in exacerbating these issues through currency debasement, wealth inequality, and the prioritization of government debt over individual prosperity. This contributes to the growing divide between the rich and the poor, the struggles of younger generations, and the societal consequences of these economic policies. Enter the 'Everything Code:' a groundbreaking framework for understanding predictable economic cycles driven by debt refinancing, explaining how technology and crypto can serve as life rafts in a broken financial system. Packed with actionable insights on how to invest wisely in these transformative times, The Everything Code ensures you can secure your financial future. -- Human-originated and AI-facilitated, this book draws on the author’s archive of speeches, frameworks, and written work using Weave, a secure AI application developed by CHAPTR. Backed by thorough fact-checking and continuous human review to protect creative authority, the text underwent the same rigorous shaping, structuring, and meticulous editing as any Harriman House title - fully adhering to parent publisher Pan Macmillan's AI principles.