1714 Ergebnisse - Zeige 1641 von 1660.

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Magie und magisches Denken besitzen für mittelalterliche Gesellschaften einen herausragenden Stellenwert, wie die historische Forschung eindrücklich herausgearbeitet hat. Der vorliegende Band nähert sich dem Faszinationsbereich aus einer dezidiert literaturwissenschaftlichen Perspektive und nimmt das Phänomen in Fallstudien vom Mittelalter bis zur Renaissance in den Blick.Methodisch grundlegender Ausgangspunkt ist der Gedanke, dass literarisch...

Domestic Space in France and Belgium offers a new addition to the growing body of work in Interior Studies. Focused on late 19th and early 20th-century France and Belgium, it addresses an overlooked area of modernity: the domestic sphere and its conception and representation in art, literature and material culture. Scholars from the US, UK, France, Italy, Canada and Belgium offer fresh and exciting interpretations of artworks, texts and modern...

A TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR 2020'As brilliant a history of the Vikings as one could possibly hope to read' Tom HollandThe 'Viking Age' is traditionally held to begin in June 793 when Scandinavian raiders attacked the monastery of Lindisfarne in Northumbria, and to end in September 1066, when King Harald Hardrada of Norway died leading the charge against the English line at the Battle of Stamford Bridge. This book, the most wide-ranging and compre...

Landkartenset - Die Gestade des Gottwals An den gischtumtosten Gestaden des Gottwals finden sich tapfere Seefahrer, zaubermächtige Tierkriegerinnen und finstere Schrecken aus nachtschwarzen Tiefen und längst vergangenen Tagen, die das ohnehin raue Leben im hohen Norden zu einer wahren Herausforderung werden lassen. Passend zur Regionalspielhilfe Die Gestade des Gottwals bieten die Landkarten einen detaillierten Überblick über den Nordwesten Av...

Mit den MARCO POLO Länderkarten können Sie sich auch im Ausland so sicher orientieren wie in der Heimat! Maßstäbe und Karteninhalte sind optimal an das jeweilige Land angepasst.

A sharply observed and riotously funny coming-of-age story about a couple trying to forge a relationship in the fires of the modern world, from Justin Myers, acclaimed author of The Last Romeo and The Magnificent Sons

Hatred and complicity abound in the days leading up to the Brexit voteA young man is found in a riverside park, his head caved in with a rock. The only clue to his identity is an admission stamp for the local gay club.DS Lucy Black is called in to investigate. As Lucy delves into the community, tensions begin to rise as the man's death draws the attention of the local Gay Rights group to a hate-speech Pastor who, days earlier, had advocated th...

A fascinating tale of modern espionage in a unique setting' Irish IndependentThree friends from a mission many years ago reconnect when one of them dies in mysterious circumstances on remote Ascension Island. Rory Bannatyne had been tasked with tapping a new transatlantic data cable, but a day before he was due to return home he is found hanged. When Kathryn Taylor, on the South Atlantic MI5 desk, begs ex-spy Elliot Kane to go over and investi...

Many secrets are kept in this small Yorkshire seaside town... but a murder forces them to be revealedDonna Morris has chosen to do her probationary year as detective constable in the seaside town of Scarborough. And on her first day, a body is found in the woods: the corpse of Henrik Grünttor presents itself as that of a homeless man, dead from his own drug use. However, until recently, Grünttor had been working at the local GCHQ centre on the...

A concise and wonderfully readable history of Germany through the ages In A Brief History of Germany, renowned historian Jeremy Black questions how the country we know today came to be, chronicling the events that shaped its past, present and future in a fascinating new way. Black chronicles the defining moments of centuries gone by and unlocks the places and people that formed Germany with stories of its society and culture. Whether you're pl...

From the world's foremost neuroscientist of romantic love comes the untold story of what happens in our brains when we are in love.Until the age of thirty-five, Stephanie Cacioppo was single: content to study social neuroscience, with a focus on the workings of romantic love, from an academic remove. And then, with a chance meeting Nora Ephron couldn't script, she fell for the foremost neuroscientist of loneliness. They married in Paris on a w...

Distraction (n): Something that turns your attention away from something you want to concentrate on. See: Teddy Prescott.Ruthie Midona is twenty-four (going on ninety-four) and fully committed to her job at a luxury retirement village. Keeping herself busy caring for the eccentric residents means that Ruthie can safely ignore her own life - what little there is of it. Teddy Prescott is practically allergic to a hard day's work. When he rocks u...

A Reese Witherspoon Book Club Pick * A Between the Covers Book Club Pick 'A beautiful book about a woman brave enough to discover her true identity' REESE WITHERSPOONAnna is at a stage of her life when she's beginning to wonder who she really is. She has separated from her husband, her daughter is all grown up and her mother - the only parent who raised her - is dead.Searching through her mother's belongings, she finds clues about the West Afr...

A missing schoolgirl, a middle-aged recluse, an exploited teenager. Lives thrown into chaos and set on collision course. With the police in hot pursuit.Scarlett is dancing in the school talent competition tomorrow. Except Scarlett doesn't make it home from school. She's abducted by a man she never imagined she'd see again. A man on the police's most wanted list. Her dad.A race against time, played out in the brooding wilderness, the limestone ...

Death shall not corrupt him...Detective Sergeant Lucy Black is visiting her father, a patient in a secure unit in Gransha Hospital on the banks of the River Foyle. He's been hurt badly in an altercation with another patient, and Lucy is shocked to discover him chained to the bed for safety. But she barely has time to take it all in, before an orderly raises the alarm - a body has been spotted floating in the river below.The body of an elderly ...

Brave, enlightening, closely argued' Jane O'Grady, Daily Telegraph Material Girls is a timely and trenchant critique of the influential theory that we all have an inner feeling known as a gender identity, and that this feeling is more socially significant than our biological sex.Professor Kathleen Stock makes a clear and feminist case for our retaining the ability to discuss reality. She surveys the philosophical ideas that led us to where we ...

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An affecting family mystery . . . Fascinating' Sunday TimesLondon. A woman stands before a panel of governors and begs them to take her child and save her from disgrace.San Francisco. Decades later, a teenage girl finds her glamorous mother sitting alone in the dark, scribbling a name she has never seen before: Dorothy Soames.Atlanta. The daughter, now a young woman, receives a package revealing a family secret that stretches back to World War...

The series is edited by the head coaches of China's IMO National Team. Each volume, catering to different grades, is contributed by the senior coaches of the IMO National Team. The Chinese edition has won the award of Top 50 Most Influential Educational Brands in China. The series is created in line with the mathematics cognition and intellectual development levels of the students in the corresponding grades. All hot mathematics topics of th...