Résultats pour "Kurt" dans Historiques

Året är 1938. Genom ett grönskande landskap susar en amerikansk lyxbil fram i hög fart. Bakom ratten sitter restaurangdirektör Kurt Haijby, på väg mot sin senaste investering, slottet Trystorp i Närke. Han gläder sig åt att äntligen kunna förverkliga sina drömmar; allt har blivit möjligt tack vare de generösa utbetalningarna från hovet. Vad ingen vet är att Kurt har ett förbjudet förhållande med kungen, Gustaf V, och att det är denna relation som tillåter honom att leva i lyx.

The 15th century Romanian Prince Vlad III Dracula, also known as Vlad the Impaler, is one of the most fascinating personalities of medieval history. Already during his own lifetime, his true story became obscured by a veil of myths. As a result, he has been portrayed both as a bloody tyrant - who degenerated down throughout the centuries into the fictional vampire of the same name created by Bram Stoker at the end of the 19th century - and as a national and Christian hero who bravely fought to defend his native land and all of Europe against the invading Turkish infidels.

Nearly a hundred years after its publication, Kurt Gödel's famous proof that every mathematical system must contain propositions that are true - yet never provable - continues to unsettle mathematics, philosophy, and computer science. Yet unlike Einstein, with whom he formed a warm and abiding friendship, Gödel has long escaped all but the most casual scrutiny of his life.

Over the course of Kurt Vonnegut's career as a writer, he sat down many times with radio host and interviewer Walter James Miller to conduct in-depth discussions of his work and the world. Now Caedmon has collected the best of these interviews on CD for the first time. This is the perfect audio...