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Upplev spännande äventyr i medeltidens värld. Möt munkar, korsfarare, pilgrimer och lärda och lös de hemliga uppgifterna. Boken innehåller 120 fantasieggande logiska gåtor och kreativa tankenötter som du kan grubbla, svära och dra på smilbanden åt.
*An up-all-night slice of Halloween horror, perfect for fans of Stephen King, Black Mirror, and Frankenstein*
’A gauntlet of thrills and surprises . . . If reading with one hand over your mouth is your thing, this is the book for you’ Gus Moreno, author of This Thing Between Us
Henry, a brilliant but…
Part of a series of exciting and luxurious Flame Tree Notebooks. Combining high-quality production with magnificent fine art, the covers are printed on foil in five colours, embossed, then foil stamped. And they’re powerfully practical: a pocket at the back for receipts and scraps, two bookmarks and a solid…
A FLAME TREE NOTEBOOK. Beautiful and luxurious the journals combine high-quality production with magnificent art. Perfect as a gift, and an essential personal choice for writers, notetakers, travellers, students, poets and diarists. Features a wide range of well-known and modern artists, with new artworks published…
Kategorier: Historia och arkeologi
This is not just another book about the Atlantic Wall during the Second World War. This book aims to give the reader an understanding of the part of the Atlantic Wall located in Denmark, specifically on the West Coast of the Jutland Peninsula. How did the Wall fit in with the overall German plans? How was it built? The…
LONGLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE
AN INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER
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’Utterly brilliant . . . Authoritative, lively and profoundly human, it is essential reading for anyone seeking to understand…
Kategorier: Barn och ungdom: skönlitteratur och sanna berättelser Barnböcker, ungdomsböcker och läromedel Skönlitteratur barn och ungdom: sagor, myter och legender
”William Hoy har en unik plats i basebollens historia och fans i alla åldrar bör göras medvetna om hans stora bidrag till spelet. Nancy Churnins bok är ett underbart sätt att introducera barn till denna inspirerande berättelse.” — Eric Nadel, Texas Rangers radiopratare och mottagare av utmärkelsen Nationella baseboll…
Kategorier: Historia och arkeologi
A groundbreaking book that offers concrete ways for Jews and Palestinians to speak differently to each other.
Kategorier: Konst
An updated edition of a classic volume and thorough overview of William Blake’s life and work.
Vanessa Mazur refuses to feel bad for quitting–she knows she's doing the right thing. The thankless job of personal assistant to the top defensive end in the National Football Organization was always supposed to be temporary. She has plans for her life, and none of them include washing extra-large underwear…
Kategorier: Biografi: allmänt Biografi: litteratur Biografier och litteraturvetenskap Biografier, sanna berättelser, essäer etc.
The secret and mystical sexual practices at the heart of William Blake’s creative and spiritual life
Reveals newly discovered family documents connecting Blake’s mother and Blake himself to Moravian and Swedenborgian erotic and visionary experimentation
Shows Blake had access to kabbalistic and tantric techniques of…
The Iron Curtain divided the continent of Europe, north to south, with the Berlin Wall as its most visible, infamous manifestation. Since the Cold War ended and these borders came down, Europe has transformed itself. But we cannot consign the tensions and restrictions of the past to history. At a time when Russia is…
Kategorier: Bankväsen Ekonomi, finansväsen, näringsliv och management Finansväsen Finansväsen och redovisning
Veteran journalist Danny Schechter investigates a complex web of fraud and crime that he shows played a major–if largely unreported–role in bringing the economy down. His four-year investigation focuses on three interconnected cesspools of corruption: what the FBI calls an ”epidemic of mortgage…
Millions have enjoyed Yogananda’s Autobiography of a Yogi and other writings and many have visited his sites in California and in India. But there are also shrines in Europe where Yogananda’s blessings can be felt along with those of his great guru, Sri Yukteswar. It all has to do with something Yogananda…
Kategorier: Ekonomi, finansväsen, näringsliv och management Entreprenörskap Företagsekonomi och management
The new virtual marketplace has arrived. Opportunities abound and billions of pounds are springing into existence, from YouTube and MySpace to Facebook and Google. This is the age of e-Preneurs – those individuals who combine entrepreneurial skills with Web 2.0 savvy.
Web 1.0 was an information highway, but Web…
This wall calendar showcases iconic Disney villains through stunning artwork and final frames. Relish in twelve wicked months of devilish Disney characters you love to fear. This wall calendar features the most enchantingly malevolent foes and devious sidekicks in the Disney realm, with images from classic films like…
Channel the instinctive wisdom of clever cats with this 12-month wall calendar.
Perfect for keeping any booklover inspired throughout the year, this handy wall calendar celebrates diverse books and authors. Diversify your reading list and stay inspired with this beautifully illustrated wall calendar featuring themed bookstacks, key literary dates, as well as other fun and interesting bookish…
Through its unlikely pairing of classical artwork and meme-style captions, the Men to Avoid in Art and Life wall calendar highlights the universally female experience of having her area of expertise explained in great inaccurate detail by an overly confident mansplainer. This calendar is the perfect present for…
Celebrate a whole year of charming sass, furrowed whiskers, and surly snapshots of the one and only Grumpy Cat. Back for another year’s worth of attitude, this calendar features Grumpy at her grumpiest, the perfect gift or self-purchase for anyone charmed by this sourpuss’s quintessential frown.
This bestselling and sassy wall calendar remains a beloved favorite. Anne Taintor’s vintage ladies serve up wicked wit, dark humor, and just the right dose of bad behavior. This hilarious 2024 wall calendar provides irreverent quips for each month of the year.
Celebrate twelve months of charming, cozy, quirky, and gorgeous bookstores around the world. This wall calendar invites you on a literary journey around the world. Immerse yourself in the joy of bookshops and the thrill of travel all year. The best bookstore is just around the corner.
Find inspiration and creativity throughout the year with this vibrant wall calendar brimming with stunning LEGO(R) photography! Enjoy twelve months of LEGO(R) inspiration with stunning brick and minifigure photography that captures the boundless creativity of LEGO play. This calendar features the masterful work of toy…
Add more joy to your months ahead! With this beautiful one-of-a-kind calendar to create any time of year, you're ready to create Art for Joy's Sake in a new way. Using the 12 images outlined for you by Kristy Rice, paint your own customized calendar, then enjoy it throughout your creative months ahead.…
A behind-the-scenes collection of vignettes, as told by a professor of four decades, shares the story of life at America's second-oldest college from 1950 to 2000.
Learn about the remarkable students, faculty, administrators, and alumni who helped bring William & Mary into the 21st century. This compilation of…
The last book completed by William Klein within his lifetime: A landmark retrospective encompassing Klein’s legacy of creativity across photography, filmmaking, painting, book design, graphic design and beyond.
Photographer. Filmmaker. Artist. Designer. To master one of those disciplines would be a lifetime…
Kategorier: Modern och samtida skönlitteratur Skönlitteratur Skönlitteratur i översättning Skönlitteratur: allmänt Skönlitteratur: specialutgåvor
Hyllade Elizabeth Strout är tillbaka med sin tredje roman om Lucy Barton i New York. Lucy har nyligen blivit änka och navigerar i den nya tillvaron som ensamstående mor till två vuxna döttrar. Efter många år isär hör hennes exman William plötsligt av sig och ber henne följa med på en resa för att gräva i en sedan länge…
In 1990, a country disappeared. When the iron curtain fell, East Germany simply ceased to be. For over forty years, from the ruin of the Second World War to the cusp of a new millennium, the GDR presented a radically different German identity to anything that had come before, and anything that exists today. Socialist…
Kategorier: Biografier och litteraturvetenskap Biografier, sanna berättelser, essäer etc. Ekonomi, finansväsen, näringsliv och management Finansväsen Finansväsen och redovisning Investeringar och värdepapper Sanna berättelser
Berättelsen om aktiesensationen som vände upp och ner på finansvärlden
»Ben Mezrich blåser nytt liv i GameStop-affären med sin skildring av de färgstarka personligheter och det företagsdrama som utgjorde bränslet bakom den.« New York Post väljer Dumb Money till en av Årets bästa böcker
I början av 2021 inträffade en av…
Kategorier: Antropologi Kulturantropologi och socialantropologi Samhälle och samhällsvetenskap Sociologi och antropologi
I denna bok gör författaren en omanalys av William Foote Whytes fältanteckningar från hans klassiska fältstudie Street Corner Society (1943), som utspelar sig i Bostons stadsdel North End under andra hälften av 1930-talet. Forskning har visat att antropologer oroar sig över att fältanteckningarna, vid en jämförande…
*A Slough House Christmas short story from the Sunday Times number one bestseller of BAD ACTORS.*Here in Slough House, the intelligence service’s home for inept spies, it’s beginning to feel a lot like Christmas.
Roddy Ho is used to being the one the slow horses turn to when they need miracles performed,…
’The air trembled, gold and green and clear, at the edges of the forest’A woman takes a holiday in the Austrian mountains, spending a few days with her cousin and his wife in their hunting lodge. When the couple fails to return from a walk, the woman sets off to look for them. But her journey reaches a…
THE TOP 10 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER The Pulitzer Prize-winning, Booker-longlisted, bestselling author returns to her beloved heroine Lucy Barton in a luminous novel about love, loss, and the family secrets that can erupt and bewilder us at any point in lifeLucy Barton is a successful writer living in New York,…
Kategorier: Modern och samtida skönlitteratur Skönlitteratur Skönlitteratur i översättning Skönlitteratur: allmänt Skönlitteratur: specialutgåvor
Hyllade Elizabeth Strout är tillbaka med sin tredje roman om Lucy Barton i New York. Lucy har nyligen blivit änka och navigerar i den nya tillvaron som ensamstående mor till två vuxna döttrar. Efter många år isär hör hennes exman William plötsligt av sig och ber henne följa med på en resa för att gräva i en sedan länge…
Following his acclaimed exploration of the vanished East Prussia, Forgotten Land, Max Egremont turns his attention to the Baltic, another part of the world where the ghosts of history still make their presence felt.
This journey to the edge of Europe mixes history, travelogue and oral testimony to spellbinding and…
Lucy Barton is a writer, but her ex-husband, William, remains a hard man to read. "William," she confesses, "has always been a mystery to me." Another mystery is why the two have remained connected after all these years. They just are.
Kategorier: Konst
Stark kärlek och ett brinnande intresse för konst förde samman Carolina Benedicks och William Blair-Bruce. Hon var från Sverige, han från Kanada. De träffades i konstnärskolonin Grez-sur-Loing i Frankrike, där också Eva Bonnier, August Strindberg, Gerda Rydberg, Carl Larsson och andra samtida konstnärer höll…
Kategorier: Barn och ungdom: skönlitteratur och sanna berättelser Barnböcker, ungdomsböcker och läromedel Skönlitteratur barn och ungdom: allmänt
Detta är en bok baserad på Pixars film. Den skildrar historien om Wall-E, en ensam robot som lämnats för att städa jorden, och som upptäcker kärlek och ger sig ut på en resa för att rädda mänskligheten genom att återknyta till det förflutna och återställa en hållbar framtid för planeten.
By training fruit trees and shrubs to grow in controlled shapes, you accomplish two goals: improved appearance and increased productivity. Depending on location and demand, espalier fruit trees can offer privacy, weather protection, and decoration, not to mention an abundant and delicious harvest. All types of…
Kategorier: Historia och arkeologi
This book covers the guns that were emplaced along the Atlantic Wall by Germany during WWII.
Kategorier: Barnböcker, ungdomsböcker och läromedel Personliga och sociala frågor barn och ungdom Personliga och sociala frågor barn och ungdom: självkänsla och självförtroende
Maia is a curious girl, with lots of questions that she asks anyone who will listen. Behind Maia’s house is a peculiar stone wall. As Maia grows older, she notices that the wall grows too. While the wall gets higher and higher, Maia grows shyer and shyer. Before long, she is afraid to ask her questions out loud,…
This is the ultimate guide to ceramic wall pockets, presenting the work of more than 60 American pottery firms. Beautiful pieces, designed in every color and shape imaginable to hold, primarily, flowers, are displayed in more than 570 stunning color photographs. Nearly all the wall pockets made by Roseville and Weller…
This historical overview of the various styles of American shelf and wall clocks covers the centuries and gives visual pleasure every step of the way. The original owners of these clocks were interested as much in how they looked as in how they told time, so they are quite attractive and are good examples of the…
Kategorier: Historia och arkeologi
This book covers the wide variety of large caliber artillery used by the German Wehrmacht along northern France during World War II. Also explained and diagramed are the massive emplacements, as well as ammunition and fire-control devices.
Kategorier: Konst
William Daley’s geometric ceramic vessels explore the synthesis between interior and exterior, volume and surface, form and symbol. Their unglazed surfaces echo architectural spaces and rhythms. Daley is an innovative artist-educator who helped revolutionize arts education post World War II. Success in his…
”A poignant, tender story of families and sisters divided by the cruelty of political chance-my heart ached for them on every page.” Kate Quinn, New York Times bestselling author of The Alice Network