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A portrait of one of the greatest American food writers of the 20th century, Mary Frances Kennedy Fisher, whose writing transcended recipes and reviews to probe our deep-seated relationship to our appetites. Assembled from diaries, journalism, and short stories, Kelly Nespor's play creates a vivid tableau of the life of this preeminent and influential gourmet.

Max Haldermann nimmt all seinen Mut zusammen und beschließt seinen Fetisch für Gummi und SM endlich auszuleben...

The stuff of nightmares! A terrifying collection of stories about haunted rooms, strange beds, terrifying dreams and sleepless nights. Listen at bedtime if you dare!

Goals are something we use to incentivize ourselves to do things we wouldn’t otherwise have the desire to do. There is something inherently wrong with this at its core. Goal-setting and tracking merely works to ensure that we spend more time doing things we aren’t truly passionate about.

Sean Cardinal O'Malley explains why evangelization is at the heart of our faith and that there is a mandate to share the Gospel with the world. Passing on the faith is not an option but an imperative. In every century, believers have to hand on the faith to the next generation and at the same time offer the wisdom of the Church to a world that is content with foolishness. Drawing upon the scriptures, philosophy, and literature, he illustrates how this passing on the faith is ultimately God's enterprise.

Unable to approach her own long-buried history of loss and displacement, Historian Joan Severance takes refuge in the cool library rooms and the crumbling probate lists from Renaissance times. As Joan's disturbed, hyperintuitive mind falls increasingly under the spell of Valparuta and the charismatic resident archivist, Chiesa, a beautifully dressed heroin addict, she is forced to confront her long-submerged past.

Ten years ago, a powerful machine intelligence unleashed a nano-engineered superdrug on humanity. Civilization is now a collection of mindless addicts confined to automated treatment centers that tower over drone-dominated cityscapes. Having escaped and grown up in the forests of Northern California alongside their younger brother and brilliant scientist/survivalist mother, Clo and El stayed safe while society collapsed around them.

A happy marriage is a cocktail of honesty, hard work, open communication, forgiveness, and a whole lot of love. Marriage is good for your physical and mental health. One 2018 study even found that simply holding your partner’s hand can help decrease pain. There’s a robust body of research that suggests if there was any association between how happy your marriage is and how long you actually live. It turns out, there is.

Esta no es una sobremesa, es un festín donde la palabra es el aperitivo, el plato fuerte y también es el postre. Con una mirada puesta en la mesa y otra en la esperanza Rulo Zetaka es Bibliófago, un compulsivo devorador de libros que afirma que la mejor razón de un objeto es la capacidad que tiene para que conversemos en torno a él.

Transparencia Mexicana (TMX) y el Instituto para la Protección del Medio Natural A.C. Presentan: Tequios y Telares en su edición ‘El transporte que nosotras queremos: más íntegro, más incluyente, más seguro’. Éste es el primer Tequio transmitido desde una cabina de radio participativa que realizamos y nos emociona mucho poder hacerlo desde Mérida, Yucatán. En tres espacios de conversación, con especialistas y usuarias, las locutoras de radio ecológica facilitan una conversación para profundizar en 3 aristas del transporte público: íntegro, incluyente y seguro.

Three girls, three cities, one shared feeling that there has to be something more!After meeting at a private all-girls school in Midwest Suburbia, they grew up, moved away, and now find themselves in their very late (!!) 20s, trying to make sense of life, feeling like they are perhaps missing something, or is this it? Through humor, honesty, and sharing whatever’s currently happening in their worlds, the girls lean on each other and Laugh Into The Abyss. From what they’re watching and reading to work chaos, friend drama, grad school classes, it’s part therapy, part catch-up, part ...

In early 2021, the stock value of PwnShop—a dead to rights bricks-and-mortar retailer disrupted by the digital downloading of video games—inexplicably ballooned overnight. While much has been written about the mechanics of the meme stock short squeezes, no one has yet clarified the chaotic drama of what was happening inside such a company during its zeitgeist moment.

Thirty little gems by some of the world's great classic short story writers, including: 'The Flying Man' by H. G. Wells, 'Between Rounds' by O. Henry, 'A School Story' by M. R. James, 'A Pair of Silk Stockings' by Kate Chopin, 'A Deal in Ostriches' by H. G. Wells, 'The Piano Next Door' by Elia W. Peattie, 'Royal Visitors' by E. F. Benson, 'The Stolen Bacillus' by H. G. Wells, 'The Story of Chugoro' by Lafcadio Hearn, 'One Law for the Rich' by Stacy Aumonier, 'My Enemy and Myself' by Vincent O'Sullivan and more.

When Jessie Gibbs meets Lemuel Sanders, she thinks she has finally found her ideal man—until she discovers that he is the ghost of a Civil War soldier. For 144 years, Lem has kept vigil at his unmarked battlefield grave, seeking someone to complete a personal mission so he can go to his final rest. As love grows between them, Jessie is torn. If she succeeds in fulfilling Lem’s wish, she’ll lose him when he passes into the afterlife. But if she fails and he remains in the world, she’ll never be free to find intimacy with a living man.

Wo eine Mission endet, beginnt eine andere... Cole und seine Mannschaft sind keine Fremden, wenn sie Pech haben. So ist das Leben nun mal. Während im anypsianischen Territorium ein Krieg tobt, spielt es keine Rolle, dass ihre Aufgabe erfüllt ist. Gray gehört zur Familie, und einer Familie kehrt man nicht den Rücken zu. Seine Erinnerungen sind nach wie vor schwer zu finden, und die feindlichen Kräfte arbeiten hinter den Kulissen weiter an ihrer Macht. Um sie zu stoppen, tut sich Cole mit der schattenhaften Organisation Chaos zusammen.

Radio Ecológica 92.5 F.M. retrató a algunos caminantes que construyen un mundo diverso y sustentable con miras a un futuro esperanzador en la península de Yucatán. Desde la apicultura, por las dunas costeras o en el manglar, reunimos estas voces de quienes hacen otro mundo posible. El proyecto Voces Sustentables es posible gracias al Programa de Pequeñas Donaciones (PPD) del Fondo para el Medio Ambiente Mundial (FMAM), implementado por el Programa de las Naciones Unidas para el Desarrollo (PNUD) y a Global Enviroment facility.

Dive into the eerie and enthralling world of the supernatural with master anthologist Joseph Lewis Frenchs collection of the finest ghost stories ever penned. From the early influential works of Daniel Defoe and Edward Bulwer-Lytton to the chilling narratives of contemporary legends like M. R. James, Algernon Blackwood, and E. F. Benson, this anthology promises to deliver a treasure trove of haunting tales that will keep you on the edge of your seat and awake through the darkest hours of the night! - Summary by Ben Tucker

Entre los libros que guardan polvo y las memorias que se espejean en los estantes Omar Felipe Giraldo y Rulo Zetaka conversan sobre las lecturas que les ayudaron a pensar su relación con el territorio que habitan. "Libros para amar la Tierra" es más que una charla de selvas, nieves y cenotes, es un caminar de la palabra compartido desde la amistad y el afecto que le tenemos a esos dispositivos llamados libros.

Der größte Goldschatz der Menschheit. Eine internationale Intrige. Eine grausame Offenbarung. Als Sondereinheit für Blue Shield ist Tom Wagner mit seinem Team auf der Suche nach dem legendären El Dorado. Aber wie so oft läuft es nicht wie geplant. Das Team wird getrennt und sie müssen buchstäblich auf mehreren Fronten kämpfen: Hellen und Cloutard machen Entdeckungen, die die anerkannte Geschichtsschreibung über das Gold von El Dorado über den Haufen werfen. Tom ist inzwischen im Auftrag des US-Präsidenten unterwegs, um zu verhindern, dass eine gefährliche Substanz in die Hände von Terroristen fällt.

En este podcast abordamos algunas cuestiones relevantes para el futuro del feminismo. ¿Cuál es la raíz de la división dentro del movimiento feminista? ¿Qué es y cómo se manifiesta el sexismo en nuestras sociedades? ¿Qué hacemos con la violencia machista? ¿Qué está pasando con el aborto y los derechos reproductivos? ¿Qué implicaciones tienen la igualdad y la diversidad como reivindicaciones políticas? Este podcast está inspirado en el curso gratuito online de la plataforma Coursera Feminismo, Género y Política dirigido por Eva Anduiza, Maria Freixanet y Margarita León e ...