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NAMED A MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK OF THE YEAR BY TIME, NPR, THE SEATTLE TIMES, ELLE, THE ATLANTA JOURNAL-CONSTITUTION, AND OPRAH DAILY
A brilliant, action-packed reimagining of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, both harrowing and ferociously funny, told from the enslaved Jim’s point of view • From the…
Kategorier: Historia Historia och arkeologi Historia: särskilda händelser och ämnen Sjöfartshistoria
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR SO FAR FOR 2024 BY THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW • A “thrilling and superbly crafted” (The Wall Street Journal) account of the most momentous voyage of the Age of Exploration, which culminated in Captain James Cook’s death in Hawaii,…
Kategorier: Barn och ungdom: skönlitteratur och sanna berättelser Barnböcker, ungdomsböcker och läromedel Skönlitteratur barn och ungdom: fantasy och magisk realism
För elva år sedan försvann Audrey James pappa spårlöst. Nu har Audrey och hennes mamma flyttat för att börja om, men mysteriet om pappans försvinnande hänger kvar. När Audrey hittar en dold dagbok fylld med sin pappas anteckningar från hans expeditioner som arkeolog, bestämmer hon sig för att följa ledtrådarna som för…
En översättning till svenska av den välkända, trovärdiga och sanningsenliga King James bibeln. En bibel som tydligt tillkännager evangeliet om Guds fria gratis nåd och barmhärtighet i Herren Jesus Kristus. En bibel som tydligt tillkännager Kristi fullbordade ställföreträdande frälsningsverk – då Han lade ner sitt…
Kategorier: Biografi: allmänt Biografier och litteraturvetenskap Biografier, sanna berättelser, essäer etc.
James Lovelock is best known as the father of Gaia Theory, the idea that life on Earth is a self-sustaining system in which animals, plants, forests and sea life interact with the atmosphere, land and sea to maintain a habitable ecosystem. At least until humans came along. But as well as being a scientist, in his long…
An ideal gift for anyone getting married, this classic white Bible, in an attractive new slipcase, comes with silver page edges, a marker ribbon, and a presentation page to dedicate your gift personally.
The King James Bible is the UK’s most popular translation. With the beauty and poetry of traditional English, it is…
James Allen effectively launched the self-help movement in 1902 with the publication of As a Man Thinketh, outlining his belief in the transformative power of thought, the basis for such works as Rev. Norman Vincent Peale’s The Power of Positive Thinking and Rhonda Byrne’s hit book and movie, The Secret.
AS…
Kategorier: Konst
Excerpts from art critic, historian, lecturer and broadcaster James Hall’s lively and comprehensive cultural history of self-portraiture, including such artists as Durer, Gentileschi, Van Gogh and Kahlo.
Surprising, questioning, challenging, enriching: the ON series celebrates writers and thinkers who have…
Jason Bourne is back… and this time he’s the hunted one. The latest electrifying entry in Robert Ludlum’s #1 New York Times bestselling series. Around the world, Treadstone agents are being hunted down and murdered… and Jason Bourne may be next on the list. Someone high up in the U.S. government…
I dokumentärromanens form ger Anita Goldman sin engagerade och högst personliga gestaltning av de personer, den tid och de omständigheter som ledde fram till skapandet av atombomben. Hon tar oss med på en resa till Los Alamos i New Mexico, med särpräglad natur och uråldriga…
A brilliant, action-packed reimagining of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, both harrowing and ferociously funny, told from the enslaved Jim’s point of view.
From the ”literary icon” (Oprah Daily), Pulitzer Prize Finalist, and one of the most decorated writers of our lifetime
When the enslaved Jim…
James is an enthralling and ferociously funny novel that leaves an indelible mark, forcing us to see Mark Twain’s The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn in a wholly new and transformative light. From the shadows of Huck Finn’s mischievous spirit, Jim emerges to reclaim his voice, defying the conventions that…
Kategorier: Barn och ungdom: skönlitteratur och sanna berättelser Barnböcker, ungdomsböcker och läromedel Skönlitteratur barn och ungdom: fantasy och magisk realism
”Bigger and bigger grew the peach, bigger and bigger and BIGGER.”
James Henry Trotter is about to go on the adventure of a lifetime.
James lives his awful Aunt Sponge and Aunt Spiker, two of the meanest people you can imagine.
Life isn’t much fun at all, until something peculiar happens at the bottom…
A concise survey of the pioneering work of London-based Ghanaian photographer James Barnor.
With a practice spanning six decades and two continents, ranging from street to studio and fashion to documentary, Ghanaian photographer James Barnor (b.1929) is now recognised as a pivotal figure in the history of photography.…
When blues master Robert Johnson’s little-known recordings were rereleased to great fanfare in the 1960s, little was known about his life, giving rise to legends that he gained success by selling his soul to the devil. BIOGRAPHY OF A PHANTOM is musicologist Mack McCormick’s all-consuming search, from the…
Secret Legacy Of Jesus: The Judaic Teachings That Passed From James The Just To The Founding Fathers
Kategorier: Folkliga föreställningar och kontroversiell kunskap Samhälle och kultur: allmänt Samhälle och samhällsvetenskap
With the success of Paul’s desire to impose his vision for the Church, the true teachings of Jesus – as preserved by his family and disciples – were forced into hiding. This clandestine movement was seen in such early groups as the Nazarenes, Ebionites and Elkesaites but is generally thought to have…
’Warm, funny, and bursting with heart’ Rebecca Serle
’Beautiful, moving, hopeful’ Emily Stone
Greta James is adrift. Literally.
Just after the sudden death of her mother – her most devoted fan – and weeks before the launch of her high-stakes second album, Greta James falls apart on…
Right after the sudden death of her mother-her first and most devoted fan-and just before the launch of her high-stakes sophomore album, Greta James falls apart on stage. The footage quickly goes viral and she stops playing, her career suddenly in jeopardy-the kind of jeopardy her father, Conrad, has always predicted;…
Kategorier: Biografi: allmänt Biografi: sport Biografier och litteraturvetenskap Biografier, sanna berättelser, essäer etc. Kulturvetenskap och medievetenskap Medievetenskap Medievetenskap: journalistik Samhälle och kultur: allmänt Samhälle och samhällsvetenskap Självbiografi: sport Sport och idrott Sport, idrott och friluftsliv
Robert Perlskog var under fyra årtionden sportreferent på Radiosporten, TV4 och Viasat/Nent. Han gjorde bland annat två VM- och två EM-finaler i fotboll och har tillsammans med Claes Hellgren refererat 41 handbollsmästerskap under 27 år vilket är ett samarbete utan motstycke i svensk massmedia.
Robert var också den…
Jason Bourne tackles a global media conspiracy and a murderous tech giant in the latest electrifying entry in Robert Ludlum’s New York Times bestselling series. Jason Bourne has faced many killers before, but none as dangerous as the assassin Lennon. Lennon’s trail leads Bourne from Iceland to New York and…
The assassination of a Treadstone agent leads two Blackbriar operatives down a rabbit hole of deceit and betrayal in this explosive new series from the world of Robert Ludlum’s Jason Bourne.
A car explodes on a quiet Prague side street – and among the dead is an undercover Treadstone agent. It’s not…
From the explosive world of Jason Bourne emerges a new hero.
The final days of the American presence in Afghanistan bring Adam Hayes a summons he can’t ignore in the new electrifying thriller from the world of Robert Ludlum.
Adam Hayes has stepped away from the field for the very last time. He’s promised…
Here are Howard’s greatest horror tales, all in their original, definitive versions. Some of Howard’s best-known characters-Solomon Kane, Bran Mak Morn, and sailor Steve Costigan among them-roam the forbidding locales of the author’s fevered imagination, from the swamps and bayous of the Deep South to…
”[Behind Howard’s stories] lurks a dark poetry and the timeless truth of dreams.”
-Robert Bloch”
””Howard’s writing seems so highly charged with energy that it nearly gives off sparks.”
-Stephen King
The classic pulp magazines of the early twentieth century are long gone,…
Kategorier: Feelgood och Chick lit Skönlitteratur Skönlitteratur i översättning Skönlitteratur: specialutgåvor
Varmhjärtad amerikansk feelgood på en kryssning genom Alaska!
Greta James är en av USA:s mest omtyckta stjärnskott på musikscenen – men när hennes mamma plötsligt dör tappar hon skaparlusten. Dessutom faller hon ihop på scenen en kväll, och när hennes hälsa blir ett viralt samtalsämne svävar karriären i…
Mycket välkomna till min nya pianomusik. Songs Without Words är mitt bidrag till en ny era av instrumental musik för alla åldersgrupper, musiclovers och till studerande blivande pianister. Styckena är skrivna som komplement till de klassiska kompositörerna.
You are very welcome to my new piano music. Songs Without…
The definitive collection of renowned photographer Tom Sheehan’s images of The Cure – with photographs seen here for the very first time. Spanning three decades, more than 20 sessions and hundreds of images, Tom Sheehan’s photographs of The Cure are a breathtaking visual chronicle of the most…
Måndagarna med Robert är en relationsroman som doftar välbekant av 1970-tal och jämställdhetskamp. Den parafraserar Per Gunnar Evanders klassiska roman Måndagarna med Fanny och beskriver relationer och händelser utifrån Fannys perspektiv. Vem var hon? Hur tänkte och kände hon?
Fanny och hennes vän Lena vikarierar…
Kategorier: Konst
JAMES A. BAKER, III by Johan Falkman at the National Museum of American Diplomacy är ett praktverk om konstnär Johan Falkmans porträttbyst av USA:s legendariske utrikesminister James Baker.
Verket donerades av affärsmannen Dan Olofsson och hans fru Christin och avtäcktes av USA:s nuvarande utrikesminister, Antony…
Three years ago, Jason Bourne embarked on a mission in Estonia with his partner and lover, a fiery Treadstone agent code-named Nova. Their job was to rescue a Russian double agent who’d been smuggled out of St. Petersburg in the midst of an FSB manhunt.
They failed. The Russian died at the hands of a shadowy…
Robert Påhlsson planerar att gå i pension under våren 2022 och därför har hans vänner och kollegor valt att hylla honom med en festskrift. Robert är en skicklig akademiker som lämnat betydande bidrag på det skatterättsliga området, men han är också en omtyckt person som haft stor betydelse för den skatterättsliga…
The world’s most ruthlessly efficient assassin, Jason Bourne, has carved a bloody swathe through all his opponents but now he’s facing the one force he can’t defeat – his own past.
Tingen är del av vårt vardagliga liv, men vi tänker sällan på det faktum att de också har en spretig historia som går bortanför de betydelser och funktioner som vi tilldelar dem. I Sakernas sammanhang undersöker Ellen Frödin tre litterära texter från 1900-talets början som alla ger särskilt utrymme åt ting och deras…
The essential companion to the No. 1 internationally bestselling the Wheel of Time, one of the most influential and popular fantasy epics ever published NOW A MAJOR TV SERIES ON AMAZON PRIME
With never-before-told legends and fascinating histories of its peoples and lands, this engrossing book, written by Robert…
Kategorier: Konst
The boat on which Edna Ferber based her famous novel brought excitement and entertainment to isolated small towns up and down the East Coast in early twentieth-century America. The builder of the boat, James E. Adams, was a farmer from Michigan who taught himself to be a circus aerialist, started and prospered with his…
Three classic books on Louis C. Tiffany’s brilliant Art Nouveau works are combined here in one volume. Louis C. Tiffany Rebel in Glass, Louis C. Tiffany’s Glass- Bronzes-Lamps, and Louis C. Tiffany’s Art Glass by Robert Koch, the foremost scholar in the field, informed and delighted a generation of art lovers before…
Thirty years have passed since the 1975 publication of Robert H. Burgess’s classic Chesapeake Sailing Craft, and while the original edition of this book has been out of print for many years, this new expanded edition brings alive the author’s photographs and recollections for a new generation of readers.
Within these…
Kategorier: Konst
Robert Engman’s distinctive sculptures developed from his training and fellowship with some of the mid-twentieth century’s most renowned art teachers and famous sculptors. As shown here in over 600 color photos, his beautiful curved, minimal surfaces and clean abstract designs evolved as he sought his own…
Over 250 photos and eloquent text reveal the majesty of Virginia’s James River. Explore the river from its humble beginnings on private property to the point where it meets one of the nation’s busiest seaports. See Class V rapids in the heart of Richmond as nowhere else in America. The text includes a final…
Kategorier: Konst
The paintings of Robert C. Jackson are introduced by Philip Eliasoph in the artist’s first monograph. Using paintings from artists as diverse as Andrew Wyeth and Jasper Johns, Eliasoph’s extensive knowledge of American art places Jackson’s artwork into a historical context. This beautifully illustrated book includes…
Kategorier: Konst
Robert Engman’s work over the last fifty years has ranged in size from monumental to miniature. Large pieces he has created for major cities and museums in decades past have common attributes but he had never formally attempted to make a series of related works. In the last ten years, he has cast a group of 52…