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"Wir meinen es ernst, dass wir wirklich um unser Überleben kämpfen auf diesem Planeten." Lina Eichler, Henning Jeschke – Mitstreiter*innen der Letzten Generation– und Unterstützer Jörg Alt beschreiben in ihrem gemeinsamen Buch, wie ihnen deutlich wurde, dass sie ihr Leben in die Waagschale werfen müssen, um für einen sofortigen, wirksamen Klima-Schutz zu kämpfen. Warum für sie ziviler Ungehorsam und Widerstand der einzige Weg ist, um auszudrücken: Es ist noch nicht zu spät, wenn wir jetzt die radikale Wende schaffen.

The historical Merlin was no rough magician: he was a learned figure from the cutting edge of medieval science and adept in astrology, cosmology, prophecy, and natural magic, as well as being a seer and a proto-alchemist. His powers were convincingly real—and useful, for they helped to add credibility to the "long-lost" history of Britain which first revealed them to a European public. Merlin's prophecies reassuringly foretold Britain's path, establishing an ancient ancestral line and linking biblical prophecy with more recent times. Merlin helped to put British history into world history.

El Amazonas, el pulmón del planeta, arde. Intereses económicos y corrupción no son más que el combustible que lo intenta calcinar. El presidente brasileño, Jair Bolsonaro, parece empeñado en acabar con la población indígena. Y en medio de este infierno, una mujer despiadada se embarca en una cruzada en la que el fin justifica los medios. Una nueva historia trepidante del maestro del suspense, Alberto Vázquez-Figueroa, que aúna la denuncia social con el mejor thriller internacional.

In der Nacht vom 14.07. auf den 15.07.2021 wurde unsere Heimat, unser wunderschönes Ahrtal von einer Naturkatastrophe heimgesucht, die ihres gleichen sucht. Von jetzt auf gleich haben tausende Menschen ihre Heimat, ihr Hab und Gut verloren. Leider mussten auch viel zu viele Menschen diese Katastrophe mit ihrem Leben bezahlen. Die Natur hat uns unbarmherzig und mit einer brachialen Gewalt gezeigt wie klein und verletzlich wir alle sind. Dies sind meine Erlebnisse, meine Eindrücke, meine Geschichte, wie es sich in dieser Zeit zugetragen hat.

Almost 7,000 fans eagerly packed into the Ringling Brothers big top on July 6, 1944. With a single careless act, an afternoon at the "Greatest Show on Earth" quickly became one of terror and tragedy as the paraffin-coated circus tent caught fire. Panicked crowds rushed for the few exits, but in minutes, the tent collapsed on those still struggling to escape below. A total of 168 lives were lost, many of them children, with many more injured and forever scarred by the events. 

Alberto Vázquez-Figueroa, maestro absoluto del thriller y del suspense, nos trae la historia de la mayor amenaza a la que se ha enfrentado la humanidad entera en más de un siglo: la carrera por encontrar la vacuna contra el coronavirus. Intereses económicos, contagios y muertos diarios, políticas que se contradicen entre sí y una carrera contrarreloj contada a ritmo de thriller como solo un experto en el género es capaz de hacerlo.

Este audiolibro está narrado en castellano.

Alberto Vázquez-Figueroa Rial es un escritor español nacido en Santa Cruz de Tenerife...

Este libro es una hermosa exploración de lugares donde la naturaleza florece en nuestra ausencia. Algunas de las únicas reses verdaderamente asilvestradas del mundo deambulan por una isla abandonada desde hace tiempo en el extremo norte de Escocia. En los terrenos irradiados de Chernóbil ha resurgido una variedad de vida silvestre que no se había visto en mucho tiempo.

On the morning of May 9, 1980, harbor pilot John Lerro was guiding a 600-foot freighter, the Summit Venture, into Tampa Bay. Directly in the ship's path was the Sunshine Skyway Bridge. Suddenly, a violent weather cell reduced visibility to zero at the precise moment when Lerro attempted to direct the 20,000-ton vessel underneath the bridge. Unable to stop or see where he was going, Lerro drove the ship into a support pier.

This audiobook narrated by Jennifer Woodward explains why acknowledging diverse eco-social relationships can help us overcome the political polarization that undermines our ability to protect the environment.

Matt Damon besuchte 2006 das ländliche Sambia und traf dort Frauen und Mädchen, die täglich mehrere Stunden damit zubrachten, ihre Familien mit Wasser aus weit entfernten Quellen zu versorgen – Zeit, die ihnen fehlte, um zu spielen, zur Schule zu gehen oder eigenes Geld zu verdienen. Über zwei Milliarden Menschen weltweit haben keinen sicheren Zugang zu sauberem Trinkwasser und sanitären Anlagen.

Psychological first aid, or PFA, is designed to mitigate the effects of acute stress and trauma and assist those in crisis to cope effectively. PFA can be applied in emergencies, including disasters, terrorist attacks, and the COVID-19 pandemic. In the second edition of this essential guide, George S. Everly, Jr., and Jeffrey M. Lating draw on their experiences in Kuwait after the Gulf War, in New York City after the September 11 attacks, and during the COVID-19 pandemic to describe the principles and practices of PFA in an easy-to-follow, prescriptive, and practical manner.

Nach uns eine bessere Welt? Eine Hitzefront liegt über Europa. Waldbrände geraten außer Kontrolle. Menschen fliehen in Notunterkünfte. Durch die Städte ziehen Demonstrierende. Doch in all dem Chaos geht auch das normale Leben von Didrik, Melissa, André und Vilja weiter – vier Menschen, die um ihre Zukunft kämpfen. Gegenwärtig wie nie erzählt Jens Liljestrand eine packende Geschichte zur drängenden Frage unserer Zeit.

An exhilarating, immersive journey into the Exclusion Zone of Chornobyl by one of Ukraine's most exciting young authors. The 1,000-square-mile Chornobyl Exclusion Zone is, for many, a symbol of total disaster: a reminder of shattered ideals and lost lives, now a toxic, dangerous no-man's-land. For Markiyan Kamysh, it became a site of pilgrimage. He and dozens like him call themselves 'stalkers': wild adventurers who sneak past border patrols to spend days getting lost in this apocalyptic environment of dense swampland and desolate villages.

In On Decline, Potter surveys the current problems and likely future of Western civilization (spoiler: it’s not great). Economic stagnation and the slowing of scientific innovation. Falling birth rates and environmental degradation. The devastating effects of cultural nostalgia and the havoc wreaked by social media on public discourse. Most acutely, the various failures of Western governments in their responses to the COVID-19 pandemic. If the legacy of the Enlightenment and its virtues—reason, logic, science, evidence—has run its course, how and why has it happened?

Recent years have seen out-of-control wildfires rage across remote Brazilian rainforests, densely populated California coastlines, and major cities in Australia. What connects these separate events is more than immediate devastation and human loss of life. In Global Burning, Eve Darian-Smith contends that using fire as a symbolic and literal thread connecting different places around the world allows us to better understand the parallel, and related, trends of the growth of authoritarian politics and climate crises and their interconnected global consequences.

Nach uns eine bessere Welt? Eine Hitzefront liegt über Europa. Waldbrände geraten außer Kontrolle. Menschen fliehen in Notunterkünfte. Durch die Städte ziehen Demonstrierende. Doch in all dem Chaos geht auch das normale Leben von Didrik, Melissa, André und Vilja weiter – vier Menschen, die um ihre Zukunft kämpfen. Gegenwärtig wie nie erzählt Jens Liljestrand eine packende Geschichte zur drängenden Frage unserer Zeit: Wie können wir die Welt bewahren und zusammen weiterleben?

In just a few weeks, everything changed. Hopes that we would soon return to normal quickly faded as the COVID-19 pandemic swept the world. Christian leaders have been forced to deal with the loss of in-person gatherings, devastating financial hits, and the heightened anxiety of facing a future...

An indispensable guide to dealing with disasters from one of today’s foremost thinkers in crisis management, now updated with a new afterword. “In a world marred by preventable miscalculation, Juliette Kayyem’s The Devil Never Sleeps provides a playbook for making it out alive.” —The...

The riveting, pulse-pounding story of a year in the life of an emergency room doctor trying to steer his patients and colleagues through a crushing pandemic and a violent summer, amidst a healthcare system that seems determined to leave them behind “Gripping . . . eloquent . . . This book...

In this insightful book, an underwater archaeologist and survival coach shows how understanding the collapse of civilizations can help us prepare for a troubled future. Pandemic, climate change, or war: our era is ripe with the odor of doomsday. In movies, books, and more, our imaginations run...