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Brought to you by Penguin. In this unexpected memoir, written in a creative burst of just a few months in 2022, Sam Neill tells the story of how he became one of the world's most celebrated actors, who has worked with everyone from Meryl Streep to Isabel Adjani, from Jeff Goldblum to Sean...

How to think clearly, act purposefully, overcome any obstacle, and find peace and happiness along the way. The Meditations is a collection of Marcus' personal journal entries. They were not intended for publication but to remind Marcus himself of his principles and priorities. As a result, they are intimate, direct, and extremely useful. This new edition is rendered in contemporary English, with a foreword by Sam Torode.

Growing up, I had nothing but my good grades and them: the Vanguard brothers. They are the golden boys of our school, destined to be the alphas of our pack. They’re possessive, scaring away everyone else who might get close to me—until the night of their first shift. I’d been told over and over I could never be their mate, but the boy’s wolves had other ideas…. So, I’m whisked away, told to forget them—and I do, right up until they walk in through my door, telling me all the things I’d secretly dreamed of.

Paris's path is clear, his future settled. He's trained his whole life in politics and the running of a kingdom. He's going to be an adviser to the future king, his beloved prince. But when his father dies unexpectedly, the current king takes the opportunity to get rid of him, sending him to the barbaric southern tribe lands of Nemeda as a diplomat. No one has ever returned from the tribes alive.

Brought to you by Penguin. Known as the ‘four horsemen’ of New Atheism, these four big thinkers of the twenty-first century met only once. Their electrifying examination of ideas on this remarkable occasion was intense and wide-ranging. Everything that was said as they agreed and disagreed...

Large Language Models (LLMs) are revolutionizing the way we interact with technology—powering chatbots, automating content creation, summarizing information, writing code, and even generating art. Large Language Models (LLMs) is your definitive guide to understanding these groundbreaking AI systems and how they’re reshaping industries, workflows, and everyday life.

Audible editor Sam Danis delves into spatial audio with Dolby Atmos: what it is, what makes it so immersive, and what the future holds for audio entertainment. Featuring conversations with experts in sound design and production, as well as samples from some of the most unique Audible productions available in Dolby Atmos. Listen in to discover the storytelling magic this innovative technology can offer.

This is the podcast for the people who rehearse arguments in the shower, laugh at the worst possible moments, and have at least one memory that still keeps them awake at 2 a.m. We're saying the things everyone thinks but hopes someone else says first. So... hear us out first.

把難懂的商業與經濟概念，用五到七分鐘、一個生活裡的例子，拆給你聽。 藍海策略、心理帳戶、網絡效應、長尾理論……這些聽起來很硬的名詞，其實都在解釋你每天遇到的事。每一集，我用「痛點」的角度，幫你把一個概念拆到能用——聽完馬上懂，還能拿去用在你的生意或工作上。 不談空泛理論，只講你用得上的商業腦。 主持人：山姆（謝冠生），經營商業拆解網站。想看文字版的深入拆解，歡迎到 https://painpoint.tw。 -- Hosting provided by SoundOn

Bigger, buffer and even more insecure than before, The Grade Cricketer is back After wasting several years becoming a worldwide sports comedy phenomenon, The Grade Cricketer is back to deliver another sharp, hilarious and often risqué critique of the game. Full of side-splitting humour, it's a...

The podcast where two cousins who love to read and talk about books read books and talk about them. Have you ever looked at a book and wondered if you should give it a try, or maybe just skip it? Have you ever wondered what the best rating system should be for books? Have you ever read a book and loved it so much and wanted to talk about it after but nobody else had read it so you try to make your friends read it and you even loan them your copy but then a year later when you ask about it they just return it without saying anything and you both avoid eye contact for a while? If so, welcome.

Narrated by the authors Sam Conniff and Katherine Templar Lewis, this immersive audiobook includes live interviews with real-life uncertainty survivors, all backed by an ambient soundscape composed by Ross Godfrey of Morcheeba. What can an ex-gangland boss, a recovering addict and a refugee...

When Myriam, a French-Moroccan lawyer, decides to return to work after having children, she and her husband look for the perfect caretaker for their two young children. They never dreamed they would find Louise: a quiet, polite and devoted woman who sings to their children, cleans the family's chic apartment in Paris' upscale tenth arrondissement, stays late without complaint and is able to host enviable birthday parties.

The author of the bestseller The Disappearing Spoon reveals the secret inner workings of the brain through strange but true stories. Early studies of the human brain used a simple method: wait for misfortune to strike -- strokes, seizures, infectious diseases, horrendous accidents -- and see how...

A young readers edition of the New York Times bestseller The Disappearing Spoon, chronicling the extraordinary stories behind one of the greatest scientific tools in existence: the periodic table. Why did Gandhi hate iodine (I, 53)? How did radium (Ra, 88) nearly ruin Marie Curie's reputation?...

Zwischen UFOs, Geistergeschichten, schwarzen Löchern oder seltsamen irdischen Erlebnissen, die man nie so ganz erklären konnte, liegt ein Ort voller Fragen – und genau dort treffen sich Carsten und Sam. Ohne Expertenstatus, aber mit jeder Menge Neugier, Humor und Lust auf Abenteuer begeben sie sich auf die Spur der großen und kleinen Mysterien unserer Welt. Mal geht es hinaus in die unendlichen Weiten des Universums, mal tief hinein in menschliche Erfahrungen, Erinnerungen und Überzeugungen. Recherchiert wird gemeinsam, diskutiert wird offen und geglaubt wird nur, was jeder selbst ...

Several years ago Sam Walker set out to answer one of the most hotly debated questions in sport: what are the greatest teams of all time? He devised a formula and applied it to thousands of teams across the world from the English Premier League to the NFL. When he was done, he had a list of the 16 most dominant teams ever. At that point he became obsessed with another more complex question: what did these freak teams have in common?

Explainable AI is your practical, results-driven guide to building transparent, trustworthy, and human-friendly AI systems. Packed with real-world examples and proven techniques, this book shows you how to turn black-box models into clear, interpretable tools that users can believe in — and regulators can approve.

The extraordinary story of the Nazi-era scientific genius who discovered how cancer cells eat—and what it means for how we should. The Nobel laureate Otto Warburg—a cousin of the famous finance Warburgs—was widely regarded in his day as one of the most important biochemists of the...

Join David as he encounters his eccentric Aunt Betsey, faithful Peggotty and the villainous Uriah Heep, and as he falls in love with Little Em'ly, Dora and Agnes. And then there is old school friend James Steerforth: dashing, daring and seductive. This dramatisation explores the complexities and intimacies of that relationship beyond anything possible in Dickens' day, in an adaptation giving fresh life and vividness to this beloved tale.