Anders Aslund foresaw the collapse of the Soviet Union in his book Gorbachev's Struggle for Economic Reform (1989). He depicted the success of Russia's market transformation in How Russia Became a Mar...
Eine reich illustrierte Materialsammlung aus elf Bereichen des Alltags, durch die Lernende der deutschen Sprache mit Grundkenntnissen zum Sprechen und Diskutieren angeregt werden.
Another World Was Possible modifies the slogan of the World Social Forum?an annual meeting formed as an alternative to the more elite World Economic Forum?"Another world is possible!" The change from ...
Stories depict the culture of traditional Jewish life in Poland, the lost world of Eastern European Jewry, and the emerging society of modern Israel.
"Multiples in love: imagine the possibilities," said one of the twisted couple's earlier victims. Lily DeVries and Ulysses Maxwell have quite a few things in common. Both were horrifically abused as c...
“The Girl Who Was Infatuated with Death” is from an earlier period in the Anita Blake series. This strong story, which helps bridge the period between Blue Moon and Obsidian Butterfly, helps us unders...
»Tastenficker« wurden im Osten die Keyboarder genannt. Flake, als Keyboarder von Rammstein wohl der bekannteste aller Tastenficker, hat nun seine Autobiografie vorgelegt. Zum ersten Mal seit 20 Jahren...
Award-winning journalist Elizabeth Becker started covering Cambodia in 1973 for The Washington Post , when the country was perceived as little more than a footnote to the Vietnam War. Then, with the r...
In the heat of a west coast summer three very different women, each poised for success, find themselves failing spectacularly. Janice, a devoted mother and housewife who's approaching fifty, is cold-h...
Fifty Years of Economic Folly - And the Stark Choices Ahead How the West was Lost charts how over the last 50 years the most advanced and advantaged countries of the world have squandered their domina...
Jim Lovelock is an iconic figure in British science, a prophet whose prophecies are coming true. This is his definitive authorised biography. Lovelock is best known as the 'father' of Gaia theory, whi...
Max walks in two worlds. He resides in the borderland between the world of shadowy government conspiracy and the world of vengeful ghosts and evil gods, between living flesh and supernatural spirits –...
Inspector Lynley und Barbara Havers auf der Spur eines mysteriösen Giftmords ... Barbara Havers folgt am liebsten ihrem Instinkt, Regeln und Vorschriften interessieren sie wenig. Als Clare Abbott, ei...
Sammy's had a bad week - his wallet's gone, along with his new shoes, he's been arrested then beaten up by the police and thrown out on the street - and he's just gone blind. He remembers a row with h...
You've heard Wilbur speak about Mr. Ed. Now read what Alan Young has to say about: CHAPTER ONE Radio - the simple life! (Paul Whiteman, Tallulah Bankhead, Zero Mostel, Eddie Cantor, Jo Stafford) CHAPT...
An intense, heartbreaking novel from one of the brightest and most unusual voices in American fiction. 'Fine, precise and shocking, but how will Kimball follow this incredible debut?' asked "The Times...
Frank was a monster who wanted to dance. So he put on his hat, and hisshoes made in France... and opened a jar and put ants in his pants! Sobegins this monstrously funny, deliciously disgusting, horri...
This time out, the recently revived Bernie Rhodenbarr, Greenwich Village bookseller and dedicated burglar, is swept away by a gorgeous foreigner who comes into his store one day. They share a passion ...
This book presents the hypothesis that the Bayeux tapestry, long believed to have been made in England, came from the Loire valley in France, from the abbey of St. Florent of Saumur. This is based on ...
This is a brilliant book bursting with big ideas. Meet the Brainwaves, hilarious little mischief makers with big ideas. Pint-sized pals who'll show you around and tell you all about key inventions, th...
The memoirs of a celebrated adventurer, in which he relates his and his wife's experiences living on a remote island in the Marquesas in the 1930s.
Alex Forley had everything: good looks, money, a beautiful house in London, an attractive girlfriend and a close group of friends. But now he is dead - an apparent case of suicide. Detective Inspector...
'Dot dot dot, dash dash dash, dot dot dot. Someone's listening. Somewhere.' A ghost ship. A girl with no memory, adrift in time. An old enemy. This could be Charlotte Pollard's finest hour - or her l...
'Wives in the avocados, babies in the tomatoes!-and you, Garcia Lorca, what were you doing by the watermelons?' Profane and prophetic verses about sex, death, revolution and America by the great icon ...
Zestaw pytań i odpowiedzi dotyczących trzech krajów niemieckojęzycznych: Niemiec, Austrii i Szwajcarii.
New and emerging readers will love to join in the fun and discover what "pops up" when the Old Lady swallows a fly! The wonderful illustrations, simple rhyming text, and pop-up surprises make this a b...