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Every business owner should know the concepts of financial accounting. This audiobook is intended for people who want to know something about the fundamentals of financial accounting without necessarily becoming an accountant. By listening to this audiobook, you'll learn the basics of financial accounting and how to record your business transactions. You will get equipped with the ratios and other tools that can be used for performing your analysis of the income statement, balance sheet, and statement of cash flows.

Vienna is unique amongst world capitals in its consistent international importance over the centuries. From the ascent of the Habsburgs as Europe's leading dynasty to the Congress of Vienna, which reordered Europe after Napoleon, to bridge-building summits during the Cold War, it is the Austrian capital that has been the scene of key moments in European and world affairs. History has been shaped by scores of figures influenced by their time in Vienna, including: Empress Maria Theresa, Count Metternich, Bertha von Suttner, Theodore Herzl, Gustav Mahler, and many others.

Selected from sermons delivered by C. S. Lewis during World War II, these nine addresses show the beloved author and theologian bringing hope and courage in a time of great doubt. Addressing some of the most difficult issues we face in our day-to-day lives, C.S. Lewis’s ardent and timeless...

The sonnets of William Shakespeare are among the most famous love poems in the English language. This recording presents them in their entirety, allowing a new generation to discover Shakespeare's emotional power, mastery of language, and insight into the human condition. Acclaimed actors from the past fifty years perform the entire sequence of 154 sonnets—along with "A Lover's Complaint" and selected songs—delivering the full range and power of virtuosity, emotional power and bristling intelligence that made Shakespeare great.

Doctor Fischer despises the human race. When the notorious toothpaste millionaire decides to hold the last of his famous parties - his own deadly version of the book of Revelation - Greene opens up a powerful vision of the limitless greed of the rich. Black comedy and painful satire combine in a totally compelling novel.

Cairo, 1912: The case started as a simple one for the Ministry of Alchemy, Enchantments, and Supernatural Entities - handling a possessed tram car. Soon, however, Agent Hamed Nasr and his new partner, Agent Onsi Youssef, are exposed to a new side of Cairo stirring with suffragettes, secret societies, and sentient automatons in a race against time to protect the city from an encroaching danger that crosses the line between the magical and the mundane. 

Best-selling author Michael Korda's Horse People is the story - sometimes hilariously funny, sometimes sad and moving, always shrewdly observed - of a lifetime love affair with horses, and of the bonds that have linked humans with horses for more than 10,000 years. It is filled with intimate portraits of the kind of people, rich or poor, Eastern or Western, famous or humble, whose lives continue to revolve around the horse. Korda is a terrific storyteller, and his book is intensely personal and seductive, a joy for everyone who loves horses.

"I know hardly any other writer who seems to be closer, or more continually close, to the Spirit of Christ Himself." So wrote C. S. Lewis of George MacDonald, the Scottish pastor and novelist who had a profound impact on Lewis’ own literary and spiritual career. Here Lewis gathers 365 of...

Lightweight, compact, distinctively styled, and now, electric: The Brompton isn't the only folding bicycle—or even the first. But everyone who has been on one will enthusiastically testify to its marvelous design (virtually unchanged over decades) and the particular joy of riding it. Will Butler-Adams, CEO of Brompton Bicycles, has been at the company for twenty years. Initially, he worked as an engineer for Andrew Ritchie, the bike's brilliant inventor and the business's founder, before taking the helm in 2008. 

Dylan Mint has Tourette's. His life is a constant battle to keep the bad stuff in - the swearing, the tics, the howling dog that seems to escape whenever he gets stressed. But a routine visit to the hospital changes everything. Overhearing a hushed conversation between the doctor and his mum, Dylan discovers that he's going to die in March. So he makes a list of things he must do before he dies: First, he wants to have real sex with gorgeous Michelle Malloy; Second, he's got to find his autistic best friend Amir a new best bud; Third, he's got to get his dad back home from the army so they can say goodbye properly.

Brought to you by Penguin. Winning Not Fighting draws on the philosophy of Wing Tsun, an ancient Chinese martial art, to offer a profound and practical guide to achieving success at work, life and business. By explaining what these teachings reveal about decision-making, professional...

In »Shaolin Life« beschreibt Sacha Wenk eindrucksvoll, wie die jahrtausendealten Traditionen und Weisheiten des Kung Fu sein Leben von Grund auf verändert haben. Und er zeigt dir, wie auch du dein Leben heute zu dem machst, das du leben möchtest. Fokus, Mut, Disziplin, Geduld und Demut: Gegliedert nach den fünf zentralen Tugenden des Shaolin Kung Fu hilft dir sein Hörbuch, Schritt für Schritt die Kraft zu erwecken, die bereits tief in dir steckt, um so jedes Ziel zu erreichen – egal, was du dir vornimmst.

The hunt for the Higgs particle has involved the biggest, most expensive experiment ever. So exactly what is this particle? Why does it matter so much? What does it tell us about the universe? Was finding it really worth all the effort? The short answer is yes. The Higgs field is proposed as the way in which particles gain mass - a fundamental property of matter. It's the strongest indicator yet that the Standard Model of physics really does reflect the basic building blocks of our universe. Little wonder the hunt and discovery of this new particle produced such intense media interest.

Here is a very funny, very silly collection of questions and answers taken from this column, none of which has any basis whatsoever in fact. This is a must for all those who relish a heady mixture of shaggy-dog stories, toilet humour, and utter lack of insight.

Als man Johan Oskarsson erhängt auffindet, deuten alle Zeichen auf Selbstmord – der Schriftsteller war eine zerbrechliche Seele. Polizist Vidar will den Fall eigentlich zu den Akten legen, doch es gibt Anzeichen dafür, dass jemand ihn zum Schweigen bringen wollte.

DEEP THETA allows you to tune your brain into the theta range of brainwave activity — a state commonly associated with deep meditation, creative insight, and restorative awareness. This premium collection blends carefully calibrated theta-frequency stimulation with soothing, immersive music designed to enhance meditation, promote profound relaxation, and complement practices such as energy work, Reiki, massage, or hypnosis.

His sisters want him to have the happily-ever-after their parents do. When mechanic Luke Dawson helps a woman on the side of the road, he didn't think it would be the matchmaker his sisters set him up with. But just one date is all it takes for him to decide that he's not going for a match—he's interested in the matchmaker herself. Now it's his job to convince her to give him a shot without scaring her off. But try after try, he's hitting obstacles in the form of rules she's crafted in order to protect herself.

Die junge Meryn Cooper hat Nocturnas Kriegerelite schon immer gehasst. Denn während die Bevölkerung in Armut lebt, sind die sogenannten Gebundenen reich, gnadenlos und durch ihr mentales Band zu riesigen Schattenwölfen unglaublich mächtig. Doch dann wird eines Nachts ihre kleine Schwester Saela verschleppt, entführt von den Feinden, mit denen das Königreich seit Jahrhunderten im Krieg liegt – und Meryns Welt bricht zusammen. Um ihre Schwester zu retten, meldet sie sich freiwillig für die Armee.

Rebellion still simmers in England and King Henry's health is failing. Prince Hal has proved his courage but the king still fears that his son's pleasure-loving nature will bring the realm to ruin. Meanwhile, Falstaff and his ribald companions waste the nights in revelry, anticipating the moment when Hal will ascend the throne. Falstaff is in Gloucestershire when news arrives that the king has died. Has the dissolute old knight's hour come at last?

Mit seinem ambitionierten neuen Werk CIRCLE OF DAYS lädt Welt-Bestsellerautor Ken Follett uns ein, an seiner Seite eines der größten Mysterien der Weltgeschichte zu erkunden: Stonehenge Ein Mann mit außergewöhnlicher Gabe Seft hat ein besonderes Auge für Feuersteine und weiß, wo sie zu finden sind. In der Hitze des Hochsommers überquert er die Große Ebene, um den Ritualen beizuwohnen, die den Beginn des neuen Jahres anzeigen. Beim Markt zur Sommersonnenwende will er einen seiner Steine eintauschen und Neen suchen, das Mädchen, das er liebt.