Emo Nemo

Mily

Sarah

Shaidrian Rios

Jimmy Beans

miCCwatreSSop

Julie Wynne - videos

Kapuster

Nicky Tallon

Harini Sen

Vastralaya

Evan Shively (Perseus271)

Your grandfather was a coward.That is the angry recollection with which a former Zero fighter pilot greets two Japanese siblings who, typically, despite being educated, know next to nothing about a defining war in the Pacific that took place within living memory. The testimony rattles and confuses aspiring lawyer Kentaro and newly minted journalist Keiko since virtually the only fact they’ve grown up hearing about Kyuzo Miyabe is that he died a kamikaze. When the young pair digs deeper into the man’s past, other surviving comrades only seem to confirm the verdict, but its very import begins to shift in surprising ways.In addition to providing a window into the experiences of the losing side’s flyboys and a frank look at contemporary Japan’s amnesia regarding the war, this novel also undertakes a blistering critique of the folly and inhumanity of the Imperial Navy and Army and a nuanced exploration of the differences between kamikaze pilots and today’s suicide bombers. At its core, however, it is a mystery of sorts about a long-dead man’s actions and intentions and a reconfiguration of the meaning of wartime loyalty and sacrifice. A debut novel that was published when the author was fifty, The Eternal Zero has become Japan’s all-time top-selling mass-market paperback and the basis of a blockbuster film of the same name.

La valorada periodista musical Caroline Sullivan se sumerge en la fértil mente de Ed Sheeran para analizar las historias que se hallan detrás de cada canción que el destacado cantante y compositor ha publicado. En pocos años, Sheeran se ha convertido en uno de los más conocidos y exitosos artistas musicales del mundo; se han vendido decenas de millones de copias de sus álbumes, y sus videoclips acumulan miles de millones de reproducciones online. Y aún más, a diferencia de la mayoría de los grandes del pop, Sheeran escribe sus propias canciones, de modo que es a la vez narrador e intérprete. Disco a disco y canción a canción, este libro describe la motivación existente detrás de las piezas, cómo se escribieron y qué las hace tan populares.

Hot on the bleeding heels of Mankind's Have a Nice Day!, here's another memoir edited by the same prose coach, the clever Jeremie Ruby-Strauss (and co-authored by Joe Layden). Dwayne Johnson, aka the Rock, gives you plenty of colourful, jumbled action photos and the growling accounts of staged mayhem that made Mankind a bestseller. But actually, his story is more interesting than that of Mankind, his occasional ring rival. The noisy action chapters alternate with passages of more reflective conventional autobiography. The Rock is a third-generation pro wrestler and his book amounts to a history of the sport. His grandpa, High Chief Peter Maivia, was a Samoan important enough to be buried in Diamond Head's crater, and his dad, Rocky Johnson, was George Foreman's sparring partner and the first black American World Wrestling Federation Intercontinental champ. The Rock is candid about the battles his family faced outside the ring: the marriage-testing road lifestyle, his dad's most important win (over the bottle) and the author's own dangerous temper. There's something touching about the Rock's unpromising debut in his Uncle Tonga's old trunks, in his reverence for his elders--and something scary about his reaction when he thinks people lack such respect.What, you say? You'd rather hear about the Rock's "schmozz" (free-for-all) with Mankind, or Faarooq and the interracial Nation of Domination, or that Budweiser-popping piece of trailer trash Stone Cold Steve Austin, or the Undertaker, whose skin is "the colour of bad meat"? You want to hear how he started out sleeping on a pungent mattress retrieved from a garbage dump and wound up wearing Versace shirts and chatting up Gennifer Flowers on TV at Wrestle Mania XIV? You crave the secrets of the Frankenstein, the Gorilla Position and Jake the Snake? That's all here too. Just hop in the ring--The Rock will show you around. --Tim Appelo

100,000 years ago, at least six human species inhabited the earth. Today there is just one. Us. Homo sapiens. How did our species succeed in the battle for dominance? Why did our foraging ancestors come together to create cities and kingdoms? How did we come to believe in gods, nations and human rights; to trust money, books and laws; and to be enslaved by bureaucracy, timetables and consumerism? And what will our world be like in the millennia to come? In Sapiens, Dr Yuval Noah Harari spans the whole of human history, from the very first humans to walk the earth to the radical – and sometimes devastating – breakthroughs of the Cognitive, Agricultural and Scientific Revolutions. Drawing on insights from biology, anthropology, paleontology and economics, he explores how the currents of history have shaped our human societies, the animals and plants around us, and even our personalities. Have we become happier as history has unfolded? Can we ever free our behaviour from the heritage of our ancestors? And what, if anything, can we do to influence the course of the centuries to come? Bold, wide-ranging and provocative, Sapiens challenges everything we thought we knew about being human: our thoughts, our actions, our power ... and our future.

The journey to 100 friends begins with a single conversation.Socially anxious high school student Shoko Komi’s greatest dream is to make some friends, but everyone at school mistakes her crippling social anxiety for cool reserve. With the whole student body keeping its distance and Komi unable to utter a single word, friendship might be forever beyond her reach. Summer is about to begin, and Komi would love to be able to spend the long, hot days of vacation hanging out with her new friends. But even though she’s made great strides in her personal quest, her communication issues are still strong enough to ruin her fun. Thankfully just thinking of her dear friend Tadano is enough to help her calm down!

I almost didn’t read this book. My kids loved the Harry Potter books and movies, and the pixie image of Emma Watson on the cover with the slight twist to her mouth without forming a smile also reminds me of my daughter. But once I opened the covers and started reading so many references about “in later life” about a women less than half my age I started to cringe.Luckily it is such a light style of reading I didn’t take it too seriously and pushed through those first couple of chapters. Once the writer settled down from quoting other writers and seeming to be pushing his own way into the papparazzi mix, the story of this incredible young woman began to emerge in all its strength. Here is a girl who has grown up before our eyes. She has shown a strength and awareness beyond her years, and maintained her own space on the highest stage almost from the very beginning. Rather than falling under anyone else’s spell, or being too greatly shaped by them so that she would later have to time out to find her true self, Emma Watson seems to have held a strong sense of herself right from the beginning.She may not have always felt like she had that – and given the spotlight she has so often been under, it would be understandable that she occasionally got confused by some false shadows or reflections – but she has had the intelligence to question the process for herself throughout all she has been through.She has certainly become an admirable role model for other young women and girls, in being clear about what they will and will not accept. This is partly something which the role she has played as Hermione Granger has given her. For this she is thankful to writer J.K. Rowling. But there seems to have been a symbiosis between Watson and Rowling which may have brought out even more of what was begun in the early books, by the very nature of Watson herself. Her ability to give Rowling a greater insight into her own early self, through the way in which she portrayed the “character” written for her, in a sense has put meat on the bones for the character’s inner life to really become more of its own. The intersection of people’s lives is such that a greater story becomes possible through such mutual recognition. It is not merely a matter of finding “role models” in the stories of other people, but thee meeting of those people so you have an influence back upon them to give you more of what they have already offered, grows both even bigger.This is what the Harry Potter phenomenon has done. To believe it as only possible through and within that phenomenon would be to diminish the capacity of the people capable of bringing it to fruition. Those people will necessarily go on to other things taking all they are with them along the way.Emma Watson has already proved herself to be doing this at an age most people are only just starting to settle down into some sense of what they might be capable of. Watching the next phase of her life in film, fashion or Fair Trade enterprises will be something worth following in more than a armchair reader’s comfort. It is something that seems worthy of our own action to participate in.It almost seems tempting to begin thinking “what project could I suggest to this remarkable young woman to be part of her positive influence in the world?” Her humble approach makes it feel just possible that she might be interested if I can raise myself to offer a good enough suggestion.That is a life worth knowing about – one worth living.

Elon Musk, the entrepreneur and innovator behind SpaceX, Tesla, and SolarCity, sold one of his internet companies, PayPal, for $1.5 billion. Ashlee Vance captures the full spectacle and arc of the genius's life and work, from his tumultuous upbringing in South Africa and flight to the United States to his dramatic technical innovations and entrepreneurial pursuits. Vance uses Musk's story to explore one of the pressing questions of our age: can the nation of inventors and creators who led the modern world for a century still compete in an age of fierce global competition? He argues that Musk is an amalgam of legendary inventors and industrialists including Thomas Edison, Henry Ford, Howard Hughes, and Steve Jobs. More than any other entrepreneur today, Musk has dedicated his energies and his own vast fortune to inventing a future that is as rich and far-reaching as the visionaries of the golden age of science-fiction fantasy

Here is THE book recounting the life and times of one of the most respected men in the world, Warren Buffett. The legendary Omaha investor has never written a memoir, but now he has allowed one writer, Alice Schroeder, unprecedented access to explore directly with him and with those closest to him his work, opinions, struggles, triumphs, follies, and wisdom. The result is the personally revealing and complete biography of the man known everywhere as “The Oracle of Omaha.”Although the media track him constantly, Buffett himself has never told his full life story. His reality is private, especially by celebrity standards. Indeed, while the homespun persona that the public sees is true as far as it goes, it goes only so far. Warren Buffett is an array of paradoxes. He set out to prove that nice guys can finish first. Over the years he treated his investors as partners, acted as their steward, and championed honesty as an investor, CEO, board member, essayist, and speaker. At the same time he became the world’s richest man, all from the modest Omaha headquarters of his company Berkshire Hathaway. None of this fits the term “simple.”When Alice Schroeder met Warren Buffett she was an insurance industry analyst and a gifted writer known for her keen perception and business acumen. Her writings on finance impressed him, and as she came to know him she realized that while much had been written on the subject of his investing style, no one had moved beyond that to explore his larger philosophy, which is bound up in a complex personality and the details of his life. Out of this came his decision to cooperate with her on the book about himself that he would never write.Never before has Buffett spent countless hours responding to a writer’s questions, talking, giving complete access to his wife, children, friends, and business associates—opening his files, recalling his childhood. It was an act of courage, as The Snowball makes immensely clear. Being human, his own life, like most lives, has been a mix of strengths and frailties. Yet notable though his wealth may be, Buffett’s legacy will not be his ranking on the scorecard of wealth; it will be his principles and ideas that have enriched people’s lives. This book tells you why Warren Buffett is the most fascinating American success story of our time.

Trump reveals the business secrets that have made him America’s foremost deal maker! “I like thinking big. I always have. To me it’s very simple: If you’re going to be thinking anyway, you might as well think big.”—Donald J. Trump  Here is Trump in action—how he runs his business and how he runs his life—as he meets the people he needs to meet, chats with family and friends, clashes with enemies, and changes the face of the New York City skyline. But even a maverick plays by rules, and Trump has formulated eleven guidelines for success. He isolates the common elements in his greatest deals; he shatters myths; he names names, spells out the zeros, and fully reveals the deal-maker’s art. And throughout, Trump talks—really talks—about how he does it. Trump: The Art of the Deal is an unguarded look at the mind of a brilliant entrepreneur and an unprecedented education in the practice of deal-making. It’s the most streetwise business book there is—and the ultimate read for anyone interested in achieving money and success, and knowing the man behind the spotlight.  

„Fie că și-a propus, fie că nu, Ioan T. Morar ne oferă o savuroasă contra-istorie a comunismului românesc. Sub forma unor secvențe adeseori burlești, scriitorul livrează imaginea unei lumi în care absurdul era regula, nu excepția. Deși scrise sub ghilotina cenzurii, ele sînt complet dezinhibate, cu o libertate a gîndului și a expresiei ce le dădea, în epocă, un aer de neverosimil. Și totuși, textele au apărut în presa ultimelor două decenii comuniste, pe sub nasul activiștilor de partid și al vămuitorilor ideologici. Cum a fost posibil acest lucru? Uneori, prin jocul hazardului, pe care autorul îl explică în palpitante capitole de memorialistică. Adeseori, prin partide de șah încrîncenate în care inteligența s-a dovedit superioară obtuzității și prostiei. Cartea lui Ioan T. Morar este, pe lîngă certele virtuți literare, conectate la o nesecată mină de umor și inteligență, un sclipitor document de epocă. Sîntem invitați cordial să urmărim felul în care o Românie alternativă – plină de umor, cu un accentuat simț al grotescului, inventivă, colorată, ironică – dă cu tifla cenușiului murdar al ideologiei comuniste.” (Mircea Mihăieș)

Toru, a quiet and preternaturally serious young college student in Tokyo, is devoted to Naoko, a beautiful and introspective young woman, but their mutual passion is marked by the tragic death of their best friend years before. Toru begins to adapt to campus life and the loneliness and isolation he faces there, but Naoko finds the pressures and responsibilities of life unbearable. As she retreats further into her own world, Toru finds himself reaching out to others and drawn to a fiercely independent and sexually liberated young woman.A magnificent blending of the music, the mood, and the ethos that was the sixties with the story of one college student's romantic coming of age, Norwegian Wood brilliantly recaptures a young man's first, hopeless, and heroic love.

The story of DiCaprio's meteoric rise to fame, delving beneath his polished Hollywood image to examine just what makes him tickLeo has become one of the highest paid actors in the world and his position looks set to be secure for some time to come as the release of the new 3D version of Titanic heralds another sensational year in the life of Hollywood's hottest talent. The year will also see him take on the lead role in a new adaptation of The Great Gatsby and see him cast as a villain in Quentin Tarantino's new blockbuster Django Unchained. It's a far cry from the heartthrob's humble beginnings when he had to scrape for parts in TV commercials and soap operas before catching the eye in Baz Luhrmann's stylish Romeo and Juliet and then achieving worldwide superstardom with Titanic. Cementing his reputation with captivating performances in films like Catch Me If You Can and The Departed, DiCaprio won a Golden Globe for his portrayal of Howard Hughes in The Aviator. A keen environmentalist and conservationist, he has given millions to good causes around the globe and has never been shy about wearing his political ideas on his sleeve. Although he's spent more than 15 years at the top of his profession, Leonardo remains something of an enigma. He has famously dated some of the world's most beautiful women, but seems no nearer to settling down, and his often daring movie choices suggest someone still striving for perfection despite his stunning successes.

The Tales of Beedle the Bard contains five richly diverse fairy tales, each with its own magical character, that will variously bring delight, laughter and the thrill of mortal peril.Additional notes for each story penned by Professor Albus Dumbledore will be enjoyed by Muggles and wizards alike, as the Professor muses on the morals illuminated by the tales, and reveals snippets of information about life at Hogwarts.A uniquely magical volume, with illustrations by the author, J. K. Rowling, that will be treasured for years to come.

I stayed up late at night to read the first two volume of Valkyrie of the End (or "Record of Ragnarok"), the concept is exciting and the artwork is great!What's what in the story: Every 1000 years, the Gods' Council assemble to decide the fate of humanity. This time around, disappointed by humanity's lack of improvement, every single God from every culture all votes that humans should go extincted. The only one who protests against the vote is the valkyrie Brunhild. Instead of killing all humans out right, she suggests humanity to be allowed a last chance for survival in the battle of Ragnarok, with 13 human warriors battling against 13 different Gods, if the humans win at least half of the rounds, then humanity will be allowed to survive. (learn more from Wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Record_...)Fucking hell! This first volume is so exciting! The Lu Bu v.s, Thor (both warriors are just so awesome!) battle is so exciting and well described, I jumped right to the second volume ASAP to see what will happen next! Plus I am very curious to find out why Brunhild and the other valkyries are helping humans at their own risk, it's known that the valkyries are only demigod level so they might very well be half-humans but still ! Will stay tune!

A young boy learns that a superhero who was thought to have gone missing after an epic battle twenty years ago may in fact still be around.

2022 American action-adventure superhero thriller drama film written and directed by Julius Avery

A high school wise guy is determined to have a day off from school, despite what the Principal thinks of that.

Plot unknown. Sequel to the 2016 Marvel film 'Doctor Strange'.

The sequel to Thor: Ragnarok and the fourth movie in the Thor saga.

In Ancient Polynesia, when a terrible curse incurred by the Demigod Maui reaches Moana's island, she answers the Ocean's call to seek out the Demigod to set things right.

2016 American computer animated film produced by Walt Disney Animation Studios

An orphan girl dreams of becoming a ballerina and flees her rural Brittany for Paris, where she passes for someone else and accedes to the position of pupil at the Grand Opera house.

2016 English-language Canadian-French 3D computer-animated musical adventure comedy film directed by Eric Summer and Éric Warin

The hyperactive red-headed bird enters a turf war with a big city lawyer wanting to tear down his home in an effort to build a house to flip.

2017 film by Alex Zamm, based on the original work of Walter Lantz.

Mr. Link recruits explorer Sir Lionel Frost to help find his long-lost relatives in the fabled valley of Shangri-La. Along with adventurer Adelina Fortnight, this trio of explorers travel the world to help their new friend.

2019 stop-motion animated film directed by Chris Butler

A young Chinese maiden disguises herself as a male warrior in order to save her father.

2020 film produced by Walt Disney Pictures and directed by Niki Caro

Maleficent and her goddaughter Aurora begin to question the complex family ties that bind them as they are pulled in different directions by impending nuptials, unexpected allies and dark new forces at play.

A young elephant, whose oversized ears enable him to fly, helps save a struggling circus, but when the circus plans a new venture, Dumbo and his friends discover dark secrets beneath its shiny veneer.

2019 American fantasy adventure film directed by Tim Burton

The second installment of the "Fantastic Beasts" series featuring the adventures of Magizoologist Newt Scamander.

The adventures of writer Newt Scamander in New York's secret community of witches and wizards seventy years before Harry Potter reads his book in school.

The curtain is pulled back on the millennia-old battle between the organizations of good luck and bad luck that secretly affects everyday lives.

Shang-Chi, the master of unarmed weaponry based Kung Fu, is forced to confront his past after being drawn into the Ten Rings organisation.

A psychological thriller about a married women who has an affair with a charming young man and gets involved in a series of murders not knowing if the killer is her lover or her husband or someone else.

When a pilot crashes and tells of conflict in the outside world, Diana, an Amazonian warrior in training, leaves home to fight a war, discovering her full powers and true destiny.

In a realm known as Kumandra, a re-imagined Earth inhabited by an ancient civilization, a warrior named Raya is determined to find the last dragon.

2021 Disney fantasy film directed by Don Hall and Carlos López Estrada

A simple act of kindness always sparks another, even in a frozen, faraway place. When Smeerensburg's new postman, Jesper, befriends toymaker Klaus, their gifts melt an age-old feud and deliver a sleigh full of holiday traditions.

2019 animated film directed by Sergio Pablos

American DJ, record executive, record producer, author, and media personality

American singer, songwriter, producer, actor, and philanthropist

American singer, rapper, songwriter and flutist

English singer, songwriter, actress, and television presenter

Canadian musician, singer, record producer and visual artist

Trinidadian-born rapper, singer, and songwriter

When a grisly murder shocks Los Angeles in 1938, Detective Tiago Vega and his partner Lewis Michener become embroiled in an epic story that reflects the troubled history of the city.

A smart and cynical girl goes through teenage life as a proud outsider in a world of mainly idiotic adolescents and condescending adults.

Jennifer Walters acquires Hulk-like qualities.

A caveman and a dinosaur bond over shared tragedy and work together to survive in a perilous prehistoric world.

Philip J. Fry, a pizza delivery boy, is accidentally frozen in 1999 and thawed out on New Year's Eve 2999.

American animated sitcom for the Fox Broadcasting Company and Comedy Central

A handcrafted assortment of bite-sized content served up to viewers as a tasty treat for the mind.

Animated series takes a satirical look at the life of young Prince George from his time at home in the palace to primary school with commoners.

After a scandalous fall, one of the greatest players of "The Game", Gaz Digzy, must guide the worst team that ever participated to prove herself to the crazed ruler Crayzar.

An American adult animated comedy television series, created by Christy Karacas

Centers on a hot-headed, foul-mouthed high school basketball coach who thinks turning around his godawful team will take him to the "big leagues."

Duncanville is centered around a spectacularly average 15-year-old boy, named Duncan with a rich fantasy life, and the people in his world. He's not exceptional, but he has a wild imagination in which he's never anything less than am

An animated musical series that tells the story of a how a family of caretakers, who live and work in Central Park, end up saving the park, and basically the world.

Mourning the death of a recent relationship, an elegant and fashionable demon hunter struggles to stay afloat in the elite society of Neo Yokio.

An astronaut named Gary and his planet-destroying sidekick called Mooncake embark on serialized journeys through space in order to unlock the mystery of where the universe actually ends and if it actually does exist.

adult animated space opera comedy-drama television series

Animated series about bad cops. Not bad as in corrupt, bad as in under-performing. They aren't first responders, they are the worst responders.

American adult animation comedy web television series

Teenage friends find their lives upended by the wonders and horrors of puberty.

The story of two 30-year old bird women who live in the same apartment building.

Lego Elves was a Lego product line produced by The Lego Group that was launched in 2015. It was accompanied by the Lego Elves animated television series and webisode series that began with a mini-movie titled Unite The Magic, which was released on the Lego YouTube channel, and on Netflix. The product line was based on the storyline of the animated series, which follows the adventures of a character named Emily Jones who travels to a magical land called Elvendale. The theme aimed to introduce a fantasy element to girl-focused Lego products. It was eventually discontinued by 2019.

100 Humans is a 2020 streaming television series. The premise revolves around 100 people who go through different experiments on the theme of behavior. It is based on the Dutch TV program Het Instituut, broadcast in 2016 and 2017.

Man vs. Bee is a 2022 British comedy streaming television series created and written by Rowan Atkinson and William Davies. The show consists of nine episodes, each of them directed by David Kerr. Atkinson stars as a down-on-his-luck man who finds himself entrenched in a battle with a bee while house sitting a rich couple's modern mansion. Jing Lusi, Claudie Blakley, Tom Basden, Julian Rhind-Tutt, Greg McHugh and India Fowler also feature. Man vs. Bee premiered on Netflix on 24 June 2022 and received generally positive reviews from critics.

music

movies

shows

books

podcasts

Active tastebuds