Magnus Pym, Angehöriger der britischen Botschaft in Wien und dort für Geheimaufträge zuständig, ist spurlos verschwunden. Seine Frau, sein Vorgesetzter und die Londonder Geheimdienststellen werden zunehmend unruhig. Und auch andernorts beginnt man, sich Sorgen zu machen. Sammler aufgepasst: Die limitierte und handsignierte Vorzugsausgabe (Preis pro Einzelband: Euro (D) 40, -) können Sie bei Ihrem Buchhändler bestellen. Wunschnummern sind noch ...
Bonn in den 60er Jahren: Ein kleiner Beamter der britischen Botschaft verschwindet - und mit ihm ein äußerst brisantes Geheimdossier. Auf ihn angesetzt wird Alan Turner, ein Beamter der Londoner Spionageabwehr. Doch dieser erkennt bald, daß auch er nur ein Spielball der politischen Mächte ist.
This outstanding reference work brings together profiles of the more than 450 scientists who have won the Nobel Prize in physics, chemistry, or medicine/physiology. Now available on the centenary of the Nobel Prize, this valuable resource illustrates, through the extraordinary contributions of the scientists profiled, the phenomenal growth of science and technology in the last 100 years. Presented chronologically for easy reference, each entry...
This absorbing book educates and entertains, as it shows that many seemingly irrational aspects of romantic behavior make sense when understood in terms of ancestors and evolution. Illustrations.
Many people seem to have it all together outwardly, but inside they are a wreck. Their past has broken, crushed, and wounded them inwardly. They can be healed. God has a plan, and Isaiah 61 reveals that the Lord came to heal the brokenhearted. He wants to heal victims of abuse and emotional wounding. Joyce Meyer is a victim of the physical, mental, emotional, and sexual abuse she suffered as a child. Yet today she has a nationwide ministry of ...
The home is, for many people, the location for their most intense relationships with visual things. Because they are constructed through the objects we choose, domestic spaces are deeply revealing of a range of cultural issues.
I had been told that the Bengal still possesses the kind of intelligence originally native to cats but systematically bred out of most domestic breeds, so I shouldn¿t have been surprised that my Bengal cat Leopardo would be so smart. But I wasn¿t prepared for a cat that insisted in sitting in a chair at the dinner table like a person, turning lights and appliances on and off, opening and closing doors, raising and lowering ventian blinds, flus...
It is a little known fact that there have been more than fifty prominent Jewish Messiahs. These characters, though unrenowned today, inspired messianic fervour that at times seized the whole Jewish, Christian, Muslim and even secular worlds. The stories of these fifty Messiahs, both male and female, are unknown...
With this volume, Werner Pluhar completes his work on Kant's three Critiques, an accomplishment unique among English language translators of Kant. At once accurate, fluent, and accessible, Pluhar's rendition of the Critique of Practical Reason meets the standards set in his widely respected translations of the Critique of Judgment (1987) and the Critique of Pure Reason (1996). Stephen Engstrom's Introduction discusses the place of the second C...
The true story of the Victorian arctic traveller and Hudson's Bay Company doctor who was subject to a hate campaign led by Lady Jane Franklin and Charles Dickens.