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The first five volumes from the landmark BBC radio series This Sceptred Isle. Christopher Lee's epic history tells the story of Britain from the Romans to the death of Victoria. This collection includes the original first five volumes.

Here at last is a history of England that is designed to entertain as well as inform and that will delight the armchair traveler, the tourist, or just about anyone interested in history. No people have engendered quite so much acclaim or earned so much censure as the English: extolled as the Athenians of modern times, yet hammered for their self-satisfaction and hypocrisy. But their history has been a spectacular one.

Brought to you by Penguin. Over 1 million Discworld audiobooks sold – discover the extraordinary universe of Terry Pratchett’s Discworld like never before. The audiobook of Interesting Times is read by Colin Morgan (Merlin; Testament of Youth; Belfast). BAFTA and Golden Globe award-winning...

A century ago, outsiders saw China as a place where nothing ever changes. Today, the country has become one of the most dynamic regions on earth. In Oracle Bones, Peter Hessler explores the human side of China's transformation, viewing modern-day China and its growing links to the Western world through the lives of a handful of ordinary people.

Herr Taschenbier ist ein ängstlicher Mensch. Er fürchtet sich vor seiner Zimmerwirtin, vor seinem Chef und überhaupt vor allen Leuten, die schimpfen und befehlen - bis ihm eines Samstags ein Sams über den Weg läuft und kurzerhand beschließt, bei ihm zu bleiben. Das Sams ist ein furchtloses, ja beinahe respektloses Wesen, das sich von nichts und niemandem einschüchtern lässt, das überall freche Bemerkungen macht und zurückschimpft, wenn andere schimpfen. Herrn Taschenbier ist das anfangs furchtbar peinlich und er versucht auf alle möglichen Arten, das Sams wieder loszuwerden.

Full-cast dramatisations of seven of Ruth Rendell's tense psychological thrillers. This collection includes The Bridesmaid, Going Wrong, King Solomon’s Carpet, People Don’t Do Such Things, The Fever Tree, The Dreadful Day of Judgment and Thornapple. Among the casts of these seven suspenseful adaptations are Jamie Glover, Mark Strong, Reece Shearsmith, Paul Rhys, Danny Sapani and Juliet Aubrey.

Der Nekromanten-Clan machte das, was er am besten konnte: Chimären erschaffen und die Ausgeburten der Befleckung töten. Aber das, was für die einen wie eine Bedrohung für die ganze Welt aussah, war für andere zu einem erfolgreichen Geschäftsmodell geworden. Deswegen sah sich Max Richter nicht nur mit Kreatiuren der Herde, sondern auch mit Monstern in menschlicher Gestalt konfrontiert.

Wenn es um Geld geht - Investments, persönliche Finanzen oder finanzielle Geschäftsentscheidungen - gehen wir davon aus, dass wir bestimmte Fakten, Regeln und Gesetzmäßigkeiten kennen müssen. Dabei ist das Gegenteil der Fall: Gut mit Geld umgehen zu können, hat kaum etwas damit zu tun, was man über Geld weiß, sondern damit, wie man sich im Umgang mit Geld verhält. Es geht also in erster Linie um Psychologie, um Emotionen und Grauzonen.

From the internationally bestselling author of The Attack and The Swallows of Kabul, a gripping first-person narrative about one young man's involvement in France's worst terrorist attack. Khalil, a twenty-three-year-old Belgian of Moroccan descent, plans to detonate a suicide vest in a crowd...

Kira Miller is a brilliant genetic engineer who discovers how to temporarily achieve savant-like capabilities in all areas of thought and creativity. But what if this transcendent level of intelligence brings with it a ruthless megalomania? David Desh left the special forces after his team was brutally butchered in Iran. Now he has been reactivated for one last mission: find Kira Miller, the enigmatic genius behind a bioterror plot that threatens millions.

Den 22. november 1963 lød tre skud i Dallas, John F. Kennedy døde, og verden var forandret for altid. MEN hvad nu hvis man kan ændre historiens gang? Skal man så gøre det? Det spørgsmål må 35-årige Jake Epping stille sig selv, den dag hans gamle ven Al viser ham en tidstunnel skjult i den lokale diner. Jake er en helt almindelig mand; high school-lærer, fraskilt og sympatisk - og ikke mindst skeptisk over for tidstunneller. Men Al har forberedt sig godt og overtaler Jake til at tage turen tilbage til 1958, bo der i fem år og gøre et forsøg på at forhindre mordet på Kennedy.

The lectures address-in chronological sequence-a series of major works that have shaped the ongoing development of Western thought both in their own right and in cultural dialogue with other traditions. In the process, the course engages many of the most perennial and far-reaching questions that we face in our daily lives.

Irma, 40, hat aus dem Gasthaus "Zum Hirschen" die beliebte vegetarische "Aubergine" gemacht. Die kreative Inhaberin beschäftigt eine bunte Truppe: eine 17-jährige Schulverweigerin als Mädchen für alles; eine tratschfreudige Hilfsköchin; einen Ex-Weltenbummler als Kellner und Manager. Und den 80-jährigen "Gemüsemann", der beim Gemüseschnippeln hilft und angeblich fast taub ist. Und wie in jeder engen Gemeinschaft herrschen nicht nur positive Vibes, sondern gibt es einige Turbulenzen.

Aristotle’s Organon comprises six key essays on logic, initially collected by Theophrastus, his successor as head of the Peripatetic school, and given its final form by Andronicus some three centuries later. The six essays are: Categories, On Interpretation, Prior Analytics, Posterior Analytics, Topics and On Sophistical Refutations. One of the principal topics of Aristotle’s focus is syllogism, in which two premises (one major, one minor) lead to a conclusion. This features in Prior Analytics and On Interpretation.

As complex, turbulent and spectacular as the gas giant on which it is set, this novel from Iain M. Banks is space opera on a truly epic scale. “An enormously enjoyable book, full of wonderful aliens, a sense of wonder and subtle political commentary on current events.” –Publishers Weekly...

WINNER OF THE 2024 PULITZER PRIZE FOR GENERAL NONFICTION Named a Best Book of the Year by The New Yorker, The Economist, Time, The New Republic, and the Financial Times. Immersive and gripping, an intimate story of a deadly accident outside Jerusalem that unravels a tangle of lives, loves...

"CAMILLE" er tredje bog i Pierre Lemaitres anmelderroste serie om kriminalkommissaer Camille Verhoeven, hvis kone Irène - i bogen af samme navn - blev myrdet af en sadistisk seriemorder. Denne gang har Camille åbnet sit hjerte for en ny kvinde, Anne Forestier, men en dag bliver Anne brutalt overfaldet under et røveri i en juvelerforretning. Hun overlever kun lige med nød og naeppe, og under Camilles efterforskning står det klart for ham, at gerningsmaendene ikke har glemt Anne.

An explosive, headline-making portrait of Allen Dulles, the man who transformed the CIA into the most powerful—and secretive—colossus in Washington, from the founder of Salon.com and author of the New York Times bestseller Brothers. America’s greatest untold story: the United States’...

What makes us happy? What makes us sad? How do we come to feel a sense of enthusiasm? What fills us with lust, anger, fear, or tenderness? Traditional behavioral and cognitive neuroscience have yet to provide satisfactory answers. The Archaeology of Mind presents an affective neuroscience approach - which takes into consideration basic mental processes, brain functions, and emotional behaviors that all mammals share - to locate the neural mechanisms of emotional expression. It reveals - for the first time - the deep neural sources of our values and basic emotional feelings.

No woman shall succeed in Salique land. Louis X is dead, poisoned, murdered, by the hand of Mahaut d'Artois. Her plan is simple - to clear the path to the throne for her son-in-law, Philippe. However, there is the small matter of Queen Clemence and her unborn child. As the country is thrown into turmoil, Philippe of Poitiers must use any means necessary to save his country from anarchy. However, how far is he willing to go to clear his path to the throne and become King in his own right?