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Es hat einen Grund, warum Diäten nie funktionieren: Unser Essverhalten ist in den für unsere automatisierten Verhaltensweisen zuständigen Basalganglien abgespeichert. Wenn wir unser Essverhalten ändern wollen, müssen wir deshalb zuerst unsere Basalganglien neu programmieren. Die Psychiaterin...

They fork out 100 million for starter castles, 500,000 for a customized Mercedes, and 1.2 million for a watch. While Generation Deluxe explores the spending patterns of the wealthy, a dark underside emerges: excessive consumerism is creating serious damage to the environment and human life. Simultaneously,...

Diplomarbeit aus dem Jahr 2008 im Fachbereich BWL - Rechnungswesen, Bilanzierung, Steuern, Note: 1,0, Universität Lüneburg, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Die Veränderungen, die das Bilanzrechtsmodernisierungsgesetz (BilMoG) hervorruft, stellen zurzeit ein stark diskutiertes Thema dar. Während die...

Bradley Pearson, an unsuccessful novelist in his late fifties, has finally left his dull office job as an Inspector of Taxes. Bradley hopes to retire to the country, but predatory friends and relations dash his hopes of a peaceful retirement. He is tormented by his melancholic sister, who has decided...

A motley assortment of characters seek peace and salvation in this early masterpiece by the Booker Prize-winning author of The Sea, The Sea A lay community of thoroughly mixed-up people is encamped outside Imber Abbey, home of an order of sequestered nuns. A new bell is being installed when...

Die Augen des alten Freiherrn blicken schon in jene andere Welt, doch noch lastet ein Geheimnis schwer auf ihm, da darf er noch nicht hinübergehen. Zitternd tasten seine Finger nach der Hand der jungen Frau an seinem Bett. "Erina, Kind", flüstert er. "Versprich mir, Mark immer...

A novel about a troubled Irish family on the eve of the Easter Rising by a Man Booker Prize–winning author.   In 1916, with the First World War raging across Europe, Andrew Chase-White, lieutenant in the British army, travels to Ireland to see his family. Though he was raised in England by Protestant...

“A Shakespearean comedy of misaligned lovers” set in the modern English countryside by a Man Booker Prize winner (Publishers Weekly). Hugh Peronett’s life is tinged with regret: the regret of never following his passions and losing the one woman he loved. Twenty-five years ago, he ended...

"Funny, charming, and utterly captivating! I devoured this sparkling read." - New York Times bestselling author Annika Martin The man I hate might be the first one to pluck my petals… Confession: I, Dandelion “Dani” Wright, am twenty-six years old and have yet to be deflowered....

She’s a single mother struggling to get by. He’s the handsome, wealthy doctor who’s out of her league. What happens when she starts to fall for him? The last thing Sara Flannigan needs is a man in her life. When she returns to her hometown, she vows to create a happy life for her son...

Megan Flannigan wants only two things in life: to run her bakery The Rise and Shine, and to avoid the handsome and insufferable Officer Caleb Thornton. Caleb has made her life difficult ever since he arrested her over a decade ago, and her one wish is that he leaves her alone—while they both...

Discover the enchanting love stories set in the charming town of HERON’S LANDING, Missouri, where romance blossoms alongside the bountiful town vineyards. Each book is connected but can be read as a standalone. The deepest of desires... When Kat Williamson moves to Heron’s Landing...

Abby Davison only wants to focus on her career as a nurse, as she has no time for dating after a bad breakup over a year ago. When her mother presses her about settling down, Abby tells her a little white lie: she’s dating Mark Thornton, the handsome and gruff rancher who both frustrates and makes...

At seventeen, Lizzie Thornton left her hometown of Fair Haven to pursue her musical dreams—and to run from Trent Younger, the boy who broke her heart. Now a successful singer, Lizzie returns to Fair Haven nine years later. When she runs into Trent at her brother’s wedding, she discovers...