Ein Handbuch für Wikinger von Hicks dem Hartnäckigen
Ein eher schüchterner Häuptlingssohn hat Schwierigkeiten mit den gewalttätigen Sitten eines fiktiven Wikingerstammes, hilft diesem aber bei der Suche nach einem Piratenschatz durch sein kluges und beherztes Auftreten. Ab 10.
Harry Potter: A History of Magic is the official book of the exhibition, a once-in-a-lifetime collaboration between Bloomsbury, J.K. Rowling and the brilliant curators of the British Library. It promises to take readers on a fascinating journey through the subjects studied at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry -- from Alchemy and Potions classes through to Herbology and Care of Magical Creatures. Each chapter showcases a treasure trove of artefacts from the British Library and other collections around the world, beside exclusive manuscripts, sketches and illustrations from the Harry Potter archive. There's also a specially commissioned essay for each subject area by an expert, writer or cultural commentator, inspired by the contents of the exhibition -- absorbing, insightful and unexpected contributions from Steve Backshall, the Reverend Richard Coles, Owen Davies, Julia Eccleshare, Roger Highfield, Steve Kloves, Lucy Mangan, Anna Pavord and Tim Peake, who offer a personal perspective on their magical theme
“When Gessen speaks about autocracy, you listen.” —The New York Times “A reckoning with what has been lost in the past few years and a map forward with our beliefs intact.” —Interview As seen on MSNBC’s Morning Joe and heard on NPR’s All Things Considered: the bestselling, National Book Award–winning journalist offers an essential guide to understanding, resisting, and recovering from the ravages of our tumultuous times. This incisive book provides an essential guide to understanding and recovering from the calamitous corrosion of American democracy over the past few years. Thanks to the special perspective that is the legacy of a Soviet childhood and two decades covering the resurgence of totalitarianism in Russia, Masha Gessen has a sixth sense for the manifestations of autocracy—and the unique cross-cultural fluency to delineate their emergence to Americans. Gessen not only anatomizes the corrosion of the institutions and cultural norms we hoped would save us but also tells us the story of how a short few years changed us from a people who saw ourselves as a nation of immigrants to a populace haggling over a border wall, heirs to a degraded sense of truth, meaning, and possibility. Surviving Autocracy is an inventory of ravages and a call to account but also a beacon to recovery—and to the hope of what comes next.
In a near-future New York City, fourteen-year-old computer genius Sam Wilson manages to hack into the AT & T network and sets off a chain of events that have a profound effect on human activity throughout the world
Was ist eigentlich Terrorismus und woher kommt er? Der erste Teil erzählt auf dramatische Weise den Anschlag vom 11. Sept. 01 auf die Türme des WTC in N.Y. aus Sicht zweier Schwestern. Im Mittelteil wird das Phänomen Terrorismus sachlich analysiert und erläutert. Dabei werden politische, wirtschaftliche und kulturelle Gründe diskutiert. Es geht um Entstehungsherde, um die Rolle der Waffen und der Medien etc. die Erzählung aus Tschetschenien im dritten Teil schildert die tragische Situation der tschetschenischen Bevölkerung unter dem russischen Staatsterror in der Vergangenheit und heute. Das Buch bietet ein differenziertes Bild des Terrorismus, schliesst sowohl erlebnismässige wie sachliche Aspekte ein. Ab 14 Jahren, ausgezeichnet, Ruedi W. Schweizer.
