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Piraterna: Historien om Pirate Bay av Anders Rydell och Sam Sundberg…
All of us have in our minds a cartoon image of what an autocratic state looks like, with a bad man at the top. But in the 21st century, that cartoon bears little resemblance to reality. Nowadays, autocracies are run not by one bad guy, but by sophisticated networks composed of kleptocratic financial structures,…
This new catalogue presents around seventy works on paper by Pop Art artist Mel Ramos dating from every phase and series of his oeuvre. The preliminary sketches are shown alongside the final large-scale oil paintings with their typical Pop Art colour palette.
Kate is tired of her London life so decides to follow in the footsteps of her charismatic friend Vanessa, who is living extravagantly among the elite in Monaco. She hopes that the colourful coastline and sparkling shores will herald an exciting new chapter. But, unknown to Kate, Vanessa is helping oligarchs conceal…
THE EXPANDED EDITION
’Just might be the best business book ever written’ Forbes Magazine’This book should be required reading for any manager’ Charles Duhigg______________________________________________
The co-founder and longtime president of Pixar updates and expands upon his 2014 New York…
You don’t have to starve to be an artist. Build a career doing what you love. In this practical guide, professional artist Lisa Congdon reveals the many ways you can earn a living by making art-through illustration, licensing, fine art sales, print sales, teaching, and beyond. Including industry advice from such…
Kategorier: Feelgood och Chick lit Skönlitteratur Skönlitteratur i översättning Skönlitteratur: specialutgåvor
Rosa har allt hon någonsin önskat sig. Hon driver sin egen butik framgångsrikt och har precis gift sig med sitt livs kärlek. Men kärleken har sina upp- och nedgångar, vilket Rosa snart upptäcker.
Hon har anledning att tro att hennes man har en affär och hennes misstankar får all varliga konsekvenser. Rosa tvingas ta…
Kategorier: Feelgood och Chick lit Skönlitteratur Skönlitteratur i översättning Skönlitteratur: specialutgåvor
Rosa Larkin har sett bättre tider, så när hon ärver en närmast förfallen handelsbod i en pittoresk by i Devon funderar hon först på att sälja den och behålla pengarna. Men även om hennes välgörares identitet förblir ett mysterium så har han eller hon lämnat ett viktigt villkor: butiken får inte säljas, bara överlåtas…
The Voices of the Chesapeake Bay radio show has featured hundreds of people who live, work, and play on the Chesapeake Bay. Now host Michael Buckley brings us a fascinating collection of over 50 of these interviews in written form, providing the reader with glimpses into Chesapeake Bay life from a variety of diverse…
Kategorier: Barn och ungdom: skönlitteratur och sanna berättelser Barnböcker, ungdomsböcker och läromedel Skönlitteratur barn och ungdom: allmänt
Sam is a carefree rockfish (also called a striped bass) who loves to eat—especially those yummy morsels people toss to him from the deck of a bayside restaurant. And, just for fun, he even nibbles on the webbed toes of his duck and swan friends while they are eating!
One day, after Sam has grown big and fat, he doesn’t…
Kategorier: Barn och ungdom: skönlitteratur och sanna berättelser Barnböcker, ungdomsböcker och läromedel Skönlitteratur barn och ungdom: naturberättelser och djurberättelser
Preschoolers and early readers will enjoy the rhyming story and colorful
pictures in this introduction to Chadwick the Chesapeake Bay blue crab
and his many friends: Bernie the Sea Gull, Toulouse the Canada Goose,
Matilda Egret, Hector Spector the Jellyfish, Orville Oyster, and others.
As the story says: Though…
For many, the Chesapeake Bay has an aura of historical romance and high adventure. Like the great Atlantic Ocean of which it is an extension, the bay also has its dark and treacherous aspect.
Marine archaeologist Donald Shomette shares his great interest in the tragedies and disasters that occurred in the bay and its…
Local residents, visitors, and armchair travelers will all be delighted and informed by this unique visual resource. It combines an insightful study of San Francisco and Bay Area history with a thorough survey of its Victorian-era house styles. Prominently featured are house museums to visit among the many fine…
Kategorier: Sport, idrott och friluftsliv
Meet workboat builders and the versatile boats’ owners, captains, and families who bought and sold goods and played aboard them. Illustrations are contributions of many who were directly connected to these distinctive boats.
Being on the migrational flyway for ducks and geese, the upper Chesapeake Bay has long been a center for waterfowl hunting. Where there is hunting, there are, of course, decoys. The area around Havre de Grace, Maryland has produced some of the most prolific decoy makers in America. Usually born of the necessity of the…
Kategorier: Barn och ungdom: skönlitteratur och sanna berättelser Barnböcker, ungdomsböcker och läromedel Skönlitteratur barn och ungdom: naturberättelser och djurberättelser
Preschoolers and early readers will enjoy the rhyming story and colorful
pictures in this introduction to Chadwick the Chesapeake Bay blue crab
and his many friends: Bernie the Sea Gull, Toulouse the Canada Goose,
Matilda Egret, Hector Spector the Jellyfish, Orville Oyster, and others.
As the story says: Though…
Buyboat is the most familiar term for a particular style of traditional Chesapeake workboat, but it suggests only one of many jobs done by these versatile craft. As buyboats, they bought seafood from watermen working small boats, then transported and sold the catch to packing houses or city merchants. As run boats or…
Chesapeake Bay Schooners focuses on the evolution of a uniquely American vessel from its European origins to the shipyards and waters of the bay, where it was perfected. This story of the schooners began with the handy colonial schooner, with the search for speed culminating in the creation of the graceful Baltimore…
Kategorier: Barn och ungdom: skönlitteratur och sanna berättelser Barnböcker, ungdomsböcker och läromedel Skönlitteratur barn och ungdom: naturberättelser och djurberättelser
Olly the Oyster is ready for an adventure. So when Mr. Oyster tells him about the wonders of the Chesapeake Bay, he sets off to see them. Following along with Olly, kids will learn about some wonders that fly, like the Great Blue Heron, a symbol of the Bay; some that shine at night, like the Cape Henry Lighthouse; and…
Kategorier: Barn och ungdom: skönlitteratur och sanna berättelser Barnböcker, ungdomsböcker och läromedel Skönlitteratur barn och ungdom: naturberättelser och djurberättelser
The Chesapeake Bay is a wondrous and exciting place to live. But oysters Chester and Meredith have a big problem: pollution in the waters of the Bay is making the underwater grasses sick. The grasses are home to so many young fish, crabs, and other creatures in the Bay; the disappearance of underwater grasses could…
Kategorier: Historia och arkeologi
A rich panorama of fascinating Civil War history, this is the story of gunboats and smugglers, privateers and street-brawlers—the chronicle of mighty armies and ironclads, shoreline artillery and tidewater guerillas, blockade-running oystermen, and the unsung sailors of the Potomac Flotilla. This is the story of the…
This well-illustrated volume interprets the incredibly diverse stock of historic buildings in Cecil County for local history buff and architectural historian alike. Beginning with the prehistoric period and continuing through the mid-twentieth century, the authors offer a history of the county as a context for its…
Chesapeake Bay Skipjacks documents the skipjack and its role in the oyster dredging industry, describing the natural and manmade disasters that affected the trade, including the August storm of 1933 that swept vessels into pastures; ice-locked harbors that led to the idea of dredging through the ice with sleighs, cars,…
“I must have presented a strange and humorous sight to him as I carefully approached on the rickety pier, arms slightly extended for balance. Cameras and tape recorders and bags hung from straps around my neck and shoulders, and my right hand tightly gripped a shiny new lunch box. I leaned over his boat and made the…
Kategorier: Sport, idrott och friluftsliv
For generations, vessels built on the shores of the Chesapeake Bay have been famous among seafaring peoples of Europe and America. In Maryland and Virginia, the two states which confine the bay, the master shipwrights have always been experimental designers of sturdy vessels for use wherever speed has been the prime…
Kategorier: Barn och ungdom: skönlitteratur och sanna berättelser Barnböcker, ungdomsböcker och läromedel Skönlitteratur barn och ungdom: allmänt
Detta är en barnbok baserad på Disney-Pixar-filmen. Den utforskar de humoristiska monstrens värld, där de genererar kraft från barns skrik, och det osannolika vänskapet mellan Sulley och Mike när de navigerar i äventyr i människovärlden.
The Voices of the Chesapeake Bay radio show has featured hundreds of people who live, work, and play on the Chesapeake Bay. Now host Michael Buckley brings us a fascinating collection of over 50 of these interviews in written form, providing the reader with glimpses into Chesapeake Bay life from a variety of diverse…
The Chesapeake Bay Blue Crab comes to life in this new D-I-Y book. Step-by-step instructions illustrated with 215 color photographs, will help both the beginner and advanced woodcarver learn how to carve this nautical species using power tools. The book features 14 clear, full-size drawings and illustrated,…
Kategorier: Barn och ungdom: naturkunskap Barnböcker, ungdomsböcker och läromedel Faktaböcker barn och ungdom
The Chesapeake Bay is an amazing body of water—the largest estuary in North America. This book, the first of its kind, stimulates elementary and middle school children’s interest in the bay by exposing them to the fascinating creatures and plants found in and around the bay’s 2,500 square miles. Concepts such as…
Today, the Chesapeake Bay watermen’s way of life is under pressure to survive. Captain Larry Simns has worked as a commercial fisherman in the waters of Maryland for nearly sixty years, serving as President of the Maryland Watermen’s Association since the 1970s. Through good and hard times, Simns has…
Tour ghostly Bay City, Michigan and read tales of Native American residents as well as the legend of Paul Bunyan and other lumberjacks who traveled down Hell’s Half Mile, the roughest stretch of land in the state. Ghosts still haunt the city and surrounding areas of Midland and Saginaw. Explore Bay City Theatre,…
Kategorier: Barn och ungdom: skönlitteratur och sanna berättelser Barnböcker, ungdomsböcker och läromedel Skönlitteratur barn och ungdom: allmänt
“You don’t understand,” said Olly. “I want to do something important.” “Important?” said Mr. Oyster. “Yes,” Olly explained. “I want to help clean the bay like the blue crab and the barnacle and the sea cucumber and the sea urchin.”
There once was a young oyster named Olly who lived in the Chesapeake Bay. He loved to…
“Photography in the United States was a big thrill, but I always get a bigger thrill when I make a picture of a fleet of dredge boats moving over an oyster bed on a beautiful autumn day.”
—A. Aubrey Bodine
Bodine’s Chesapeake Bay Country is by and about A. Aubrey Bodine, one of the greatest photographers of his time…
When Captain John Smith and his crew set out from Jamestown to explore a body of water known as the Chesapeake in 1608, they didn’t know what to expect. Would their small, crowded boat sink? Would someone attack them? Would they die in a terrible storm? Or would they find another ocean and discover the gold that would…
Twilight on the Bay: The Excursion Boat Empire of B. B. Wills tells the story of one man’s effort to sail against the tide. In 1934 when Benjamin Bowling Wills purchased a fifty-year-old Hudson River steamboat to bring passengers to an amusement park he owned on the Potomac River south of Washington, D.C., even he…
Kategorier: Barn och ungdom: naturkunskap Barnböcker, ungdomsböcker och läromedel Faktaböcker barn och ungdom
Chesapeake Bay Walk is an introduction to the interesting plants and animals young readers can find in and around the Chesapeake Bay and its tributaries. With outstanding illustrations and concise text geared for children ages four through nine, the book beckons youngsters and their parents to learn by exploring the…
Kategorier: Sport, idrott och friluftsliv
Many books document the workboats of the Chesapeake, but for decades bay waters have been home to another kind of craft: sailboats designed and built strictly for the fun of racing or cruising. This book traces the popularity of sailing yachts in the Chesapeake Bay. Here, the term yacht does not suggest a large or…
The creatures of the Chesapeake Bay come to life in this delightful, informative story about how and where they sleep. Herons, crabs, clams, turtles, and fish each find a different place to rest in the water and along the shore. Ducks, butterflies, birds, beavers, and even oysters sleep in their own ”beds.”…
Take an exciting journey into another dimension as the authors research the mysterious history of Anchor Bay, Michigan. Twenty tales and short stories introduce the spirits that frequent roads, homes, and cemeteries in the area. Residents and guests relate chilling stories illustrated with 36 color photographs. For…
Kategorier: Barn och ungdom: skönlitteratur och sanna berättelser Barnböcker, ungdomsböcker och läromedel Skönlitteratur barn och ungdom: allmänt
Sam is a carefree rockfish (also called a striped bass) who loves to eat—especially those yummy morsels people toss to him from the deck of a bayside restaurant. And, just for fun, he even nibbles on the webbed toes of his duck and swan friends while they are eating!
One day, after Sam has grown big and fat, he doesn’t…
Kategorier: Historia och arkeologi
From the beginning, it was a struggle to light the Chesapeake. Its soft, undulating bottom presented different problems from those faced along the rocky coasts of New England. The bay’s shores shifted before the winds, tides, and hurricanes that plagued the 200-mile-long estuary, and so did the towers of the…
Where do the Chesapeake Bay’s sea turtles come from in the summer, and where do they go in winter? Where do swans come from when they arrive in the region in November? Why do fishermen and sailors consistently see monarch butterflies out over the open bay in late summer?
Chesapeake Almanac: Following the Bay through…
A remarkably diverse population of bird life, migratory and indigenous, lives in the region known as the Chesapeake Bay country. It is one of the finest locations on the eastern seaboard for observing wild birds.
Among the cattail and wild rice, the cordgrass and loblolly, from the countryside north of Baltimore to the…
Kategorier: Modern romantik Romantik Skönlitteratur Skönlitteratur i översättning Skönlitteratur: specialutgåvor
Nicoles man har sagt upp sig för att skriva ett filmmanus, och även om hon är skeptisk har hon stöttat honom. Men när han uppslukas av arbetet och slutar ta ansvar för deras son och hem får Nicole nog.
Shannon har offrat sitt privatliv för att få ett toppjobb som ekonomichef. Men har hon verkligen valt rätt? När en ny…
Kategorier: Feelgood och Chick lit Skönlitteratur Skönlitteratur i översättning Skönlitteratur: specialutgåvor
När Clemency och Sam träffas första gången blir det ett möte de aldrig ska glömma. Det finns något mellan dem, men problemet är att han är gift. Tre år senare har Clemency flyttat tillbaka till sin mysiga hemby St Carys i Cornwall för att jobba med sin vän Ronan. Även hennes styvsyster Belle letar sig ner till idyllen…
Kategorier: Tecknade romaner och tecknade serier Tecknade romaner och tecknade serier: action och äventyr Tecknade romaner och tecknade serier: genrer Tecknade romaner, serier och skämtteckningar
Ett rutinuppdrag på en fjärran planet tar en oväntad vändning då shingouzerna dyker upp, med monsieur Albert från Galaxity hack i häl. Shingouzerna förklarar för Linda och Valentin hur de har startat bolaget Shingouzlooz Inc. Företaget har skickat ut sonder i tid och rum för att söka efter obebodda planeter och ta dem…
Kategorier: Feelgood och Chick lit Skönlitteratur Skönlitteratur i översättning Skönlitteratur: specialutgåvor
När Clemency och Sam träffas första gången blir det ett möte de aldrig ska glömma. Det finns något mellan dem, men problemet är att han är gift. Tre år senare har Clemency flyttat tillbaka till sin mysiga hemby St Carys i Cornwall för att jobba med sin vän Ronan. Även hennes styvsyster Belle letar sig ner till idyllen…