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Learn about three powerful witches from mythology and literature—Circe, Baba Yaga, and the White Witch.

Step into the real world of the spy with this detailed and unforgettable tour of the millennia-long history and enduring legacy of espionage and covert operations. While most of us associate this top-secret subject with popular fiction and film, its true story is more fascinating, surprising, and important than you could possibly imagine. These 24 thrilling lectures survey how world powers have attempted to work in the shadows to gain secret information or subvert enemies behind the scenes.

The Global Gratitude Show After graduating from American University in Washington, DC, with BA’s in Political Science and International Studies, Tania Anderson was hired as an international flight attendant by the iconic Pan American World Airways which set her on a course to explore the world’s continents. After Pan Am’s bankruptcy, Tania’s airline career expanded even more, to fly VIP charters, the White House press corps, convicts, film crews, refugees, military personnel, religious pilgrims, and medical transplant teams…..”everything” Tania admits, “Except rendition flights...

Bryan LeBlanc worked his way up into a plum position on Wall Street as the boy genius of the foreign exchange desk. Surrounded by "the few, the proud, the completely full of themselves", he decides to give Wall Street a taste of its own medicine and hatches an intricate plan to disappear permanently with just enough misappropriated money - and sailing classes - to spend his golden years cruising the Caribbean. Bryan quickly learns that being a criminal, even a really smart one, is more complicated than he thought. He finds himself on the run in the Cayman Islands, wanted for murder.

What will become of our self-destructed planet? The answer shatters all expectations in this subversive speculation from the Hugo Award - winning author of the Broken Earth trilogy. An explorer returns to gather information from a climate-ravaged Earth that his ancestors, and others among the planet’s finest, fled centuries ago. The mission comes with a warning: A graveyard world awaits him. But so do those left behind - hopeless and unbeautiful wastes of humanity who should have died out ages ago.

Dive into a captivating anthology of folktales, fables, and legends carefully curated from twenty remarkable books published in 1928. This collection spans a rich tapestry of stories from Europe, the Middle East, Asia, Africa, and the Americas, showcasing both ancient and modern narratives. While many tales are crafted for young readers, the anthology also features celebrated authors of childrens literature, including Erick Berry, Paul Fenimore Cooper, Georgene Faulkner, and Eva March Tappan. Discover enchanting tales from the Book Trails series, a 16-volume collection of stories and poems for...

Spread over fifteen of the country’s twenty-eight states, India’s Maoist movement is now one of the world’s biggest and most sophisticated extreme-left movements. Hardly a week passes without people dying in strikes and counter-strikes by the Maoists—interchangeably known as the...

Rudolph "Rudy" Dersch is the newly minted CEO of the world's largest, multi-trillion-dollar corporate conglomerate. But the job comes with an unexpected twist - an invitation to join the Consortium, a small, secretive group of global elites who effectively decide what's best for the rest of humanity. How does Rudy's struggle to reconcile business and family impact the world's future? And who, if anyone, can break the Consortium's iron grip on the status quo?

Four years after Chad Hunter and Frank Baldwin secured the most successful small arms weapon system in American history, the Hypershot, they are thrust back into a new adventure that propels them from Southeast Asia to Scandinavia and back to the wilderness.

La nuova serie thriller I Tredici di G. L. Barone: riuscirà il procuratore Lorenzo Fossati a sventare una minaccia globale proveniente dal cielo ma ben radicata sulla terra? Venezia. Due terribili delitti sconvolgono il mondo dello spettacolo: prima il regista Dante Bertoletti, possibile vincitore del Festival del Cinema, viene trovato senza vita nel suo albergo. Poi, anche lo sceneggiatore Steven Lucas viene ucciso sull’isola di Poveglia. Il procuratore Lorenzo Fossati viene incaricato di seguire le indagini: perché il regista sembra aver inserito nel film indizi che presagivano la sua morte?

A heartbreakingly beautiful novel, The Memory Box unlocks an unforgettable epic story of love and war, from the million-copy-selling author of The Letter, Kathryn Hughes. If you adored The Nightingale, The Tuscan Contessa or My Name is Eva, this is the book for you. Some love stories can't be...

It has been over a year since the war began. A year since China launched its surprise attack on America. EMP and cyber weapons plunging much of the nation into a dark chaos. Thousands of anti-ship missiles gutting the US Pacific fleet. A Chinese-allied North Korea launching an all-out attack on South Korea. Chinese information warfare campaigns triggering America to launch a nuclear strike on China's own nuclear stockpile. And the international political consequences that followed.

Diagnosed by her physician husband with a “temporary nervous depression - a slight hysterical tendency” after the birth of her child, a woman is urged to rest for the summer in an old colonial mansion. Forbidden from doing work of any kind, she spends her days in the house’s former nursery, with its barred windows, scratched floor, and peeling yellow wallpaper. In a private journal, the woman records her growing obsession with the “horrid” wallpaper. Its strange pattern mutates in the moonlight, revealing what appears to be a human figure in the design.

Sátira en torno al desarrollo sostenible y la gestión medioambiental de una gran empresa energética que explota una refinería en el litoral gaditano. Federico Castilla es director de Responsabilidad Corporativa y Desarrollo Sostenible de Oilgas International, multinacional del sector petroquímico con implantación en Europa, África y Oriente Medio. Una mañana recibe una llamada desde Oilgas Ibérica, su planta de distribución de refino en España, y le comunican que se acaba de producir un accidente laboral en dicha planta.

Global Book Network is all about helping authors share their stories with readers around the world. We bring together writers, book lovers, and experts to talk about books, ideas, and exciting trends shaping the future of storytelling. Each episode features conversations with both new and well-known authors, giving them a chance to share their journeys, inspirations, and the stories behind their work. Our amazing hosts, who are passionate about books, also dive into insider tips about the publishing world and explore topics that matter to readers and writers alike.

The Global Narrative Podcast celebrates writers of the African diaspora through content and conversations that center their stories. Join Global Narrative founder Alison Isaac and guests, as they talk books and explore the business of stories — writing them, reading them, and publishing them. You can also find Global Narrative online at globalnarrative.ca and Instagram @theglobalnarrative. Suggestions to share? Drop us an email at hello@globalnarrative.ca.

Dans le podcast Global Luxus, une passion française, italienne et suisse... Bettina Frohlich, experte du luxe, présente l’éventail des ouvrages du luxe et comment les mettre à profit dans notre quotidien... Découvrez les 100 livres du luxe qu'il faut avoir lus ! Hébergé par Ausha. Visitez ausha.co/fr/politique-de-confidentialite pour plus d'informations.

Explora el fascinante mundo de las fuerzas armadas y la geopolítica en Estrategia Global. Analizamos la potencia de los ejércitos, las estrategias militares más impactantes y escenarios hipotéticos que podrían redefinir el equilibrio global. Desde los factores que determinan el poder militar hasta la historia de conflictos emblemáticos, te llevaremos en un viaje informativo y emocionante. ¿Qué pasaría si dos naciones enfrentaran sus fuerzas? Descúbrelo aquí. Este es el lugar para entender cómo las armas, las alianzas y la estrategia moldean nuestro mundo.

NIAC Global is an international writing community established to foster the love for literature and to celebrate the passion for writing. Each author deserves to be acknowledged and appreciated, and we recognize this fact. As a member of the ever-growing family of NIAC Ambassadors from around the globe, you will have the opportunity to connect with like-minded people and become a part of a writing community that offers a sense of belonging.

Willkommen bei 'Globale Märchenzeit'! Tauche ein in eine Welt voller faszinierender Geschichten aus verschiedenen Kulturen und Epochen. In jeder Folge präsentieren wir dir liebevoll erzählte Märchen und Legenden aus aller Welt. Lass dich verzaubern, während wir gemeinsam durch die reiche Vielfalt der menschlichen Erzähltradition reisen. Ein Podcast, der die zeitlose Magie alter Geschichten zum Leben erweckt – perfekt zum Entspannen, Einschlafen und Entdecken neuer Welten. Der Podcast für unkonventionelle Geschichten und vorgelesene Hörbücher.