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Zustand: Bueno. : En 'Whisper', Riley Bloom, una joven que falleció a los doce años en un accidente automovilístico, se embarca en una aventura en el más allá. Como capturadora de almas, Riley debe ayudar a las almas perdidas a encontrar su camino hacia el más allá. Acompañada por su guía espiritual, Bodhi, y su perro Buttercup, Riley viaja por el mundo enviando fantasmas de vuelta a donde pertenecen, hasta que finalmente pueda llegar allí ella misma. En esta entrega, Riley se enfrenta a su desafío más difícil hasta el momento: viajar a la antigua Roma y convencer a un gladiador muerto de que acepte su destino y siga adelante. EAN: 9781447200475 Tipo: Libros Categoría: Infantil y Juvenil|Fantasía Título: Whisper Autor: Alyson Noel Editorial: Macmillan Children's Books Idioma: en Páginas: 208 Formato: tapa blanda.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -Unlocking the past is the key to the future . . .From Lucinda Riley, number one bestselling author of the Seven Sisters series, The Light Behind the Window is a stunning tale of love, war and, above all, forgiveness.South of France, present day. After the death of her glamorous, distant mother, Emilie de la Martiniéres finds herself alone in the world - and sole inheritor of her grand childhood home.A notebook of poems leads her to the mysterious and beautiful Sophia, whose tragic love affair changed the course of her family history. As Emilie unravels the story, she too embarks on a journey of discovery, realizing that the château may provide clues to her own difficult past.London, 1943. A young office clerk, Constance Carruthers, is drafted into a special operations team, arriving in occupied Paris during the climax of the conflict. Separated from her contact, she stumbles into the heart of a wealthy family who are caught up in a deadly game of secrets and lies.Forced to surrender her identity and all ties to her homeland, Constance finds herself drawn into a complex web of deception, the repercussions of which will affect generations to come . . .'A fast-paced, suspenseful story flitting between the present day and World War II . . . Brilliant escapism' - RedThis title has been published outside the UK under the title The Lavender Garden.Petersen Buchimport GmbH, Weidestraße 122 a, 22083 Hamburg 532 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - J is for Judgement is the tenth in the Kinsey Millhone mystery series by Sue Grafton.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - V is for Vengeance is the twenty-second in the Kinsey Millhone mystery series by Sue Grafton. Las Vegas, 1986. A young college graduate is murdered when he is unable to pay back a loan funded by notorious criminal Lorenzo Dante. Two years later private investigator Kinsey Millhone finds herself assisting to apprehend a shoplifter - Audrey Vance - in a shopping centre. Events take a much darker turn when Audrey's body is discovered beneath the Cold Spring Bridge, a local suicide spot. Unable to believe she took her own life, Audrey's fiancé Marvin Striker hires Kinsey to investigate. It soon emerges that the shoplifter had become caught up in a much larger operation. Meanwhile Lorenzo Dante has begun to grow weary of his life in organized crime and frustrated with his violent and impulsive younger brother Cappi. While the police net begins to close in on him, Dante meets the beautiful Nora, who exerts a powerful pull over the gangster. As Kinsey's enquiries reach a dramatic head, it becomes clear that she and Dante have one thing in common - they must be careful who they trust . . .

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - From Lucinda Riley, number one bestselling author of the Seven Sisters series, The Light Behind the Window is a stunning tale of love, war and, above all, forgiveness.South of France, present day. After the death of her glamorous, distant mother, Emilie de la Martiniéres finds herself alone in the world - and sole inheritor of her grand childhood home.A notebook of poems leads her to the mysterious and beautiful Sophia, whose tragic love affair changed the course of her family history. As Emilie unravels the story, she too embarks on a journey of discovery, realizing that the château may provide clues to her own difficult past.London, 1943. A young office clerk, Constance Carruthers, is drafted into a special operations team, arriving in occupied Paris during the climax of the conflict. Separated from her contact, she stumbles into the heart of a wealthy family who are caught up in a deadly game of secrets and lies.Forced to surrender her identity and all ties to her homeland, Constance finds herself drawn into a complex web of deception, the repercussions of which will affect generations to come . . .'A fast-paced, suspenseful story flitting between the present day and World War II . . . Brilliant escapism' - RedThis title has been published outside the UK under the title The Lavender Garden.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -One of the twentieth century's greatest spiritual teachers will show you how to quiet your constant, worrying thoughts in Learning to Silence the Mind: Wellness Through Meditation.The mind, says Osho, has the potential to be enormously creative in dealing with the challenges of everyday life, and the problems of the world in which we live. The difficulty, however, is that instead of using the mind as a helpful servant we have largely allowed it to become the master of our lives. Its ambitions, belief systems, and interpretations rule our days and our nights-bringing us into conflict with minds that are different from ours, keeping us awake at night rehashing those conflicts or planning the conflicts of tomorrow, and disturbing our sleep and our dreams. If only there was a way to switch it off and give it a rest! Finding the switch that can silence the mind-not by force or performing some exotic ritual, but through understanding, watchfulness, and a healthy sense of humor-is meditation. A sharper, more relaxed and creative mind-one that can function at the peak of its unique intelligence-is the potential. The book includes a link to tutorials on OSHO Nadabrahma Meditation.Osho challenges readers to examine and break free of the conditioned belief systems and prejudices that limit their capacity to enjoy life in all its richness. He has been described by the Sunday Times of London as one of the '1000 Makers of the 20th Century' and by Sunday Mid-Day (India) as one of the ten people-along with Gandhi, Nehru, and Buddha-who have changed the destiny of India. Since his death in 1990, the influence of his teachings continues to expand, reaching seekers of all ages in virtually every country of the world.Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, 36244 Bad Hersfeld 179 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Paul Schrader was in meltdown in 1972. Drinking heavily, living in his car, he was hospitalised with a gastric ulcer. There he read about Arthur Bremer's attempt to assassinate Alabama Governor George Wallace: the story was the germ of his screenplay for Taxi Driver (1976). Executives at Columbia hated the script, but when Martin Scorsese and Robert De Niro, who were flying high after the triumphs of Mean Streets (1973) and The Godfather Part II (1974), signed up, Taxi Driver became too good a package to refuse.Scorsese transformed the script into what is now considered one of the two or three definitive films of the 1970s. De Niro is mesmerising as Travis Bickle - pent-up, bigoted, steadily slipping into psychosis, the personification of American masculinity post-Vietnam. Cybill Shepherd and Jodie Foster give fine support and Scorsese brought in Bernard Herrmann, the greatest of film composers, to write what turned out to be his last score. Crucially, Scorsese rooted Taxi Driver in its New York locations, tuning the film's violence into the hard reality of the city. Technically thrilling though it is, Taxi Driver is profoundly disturbing - finding, as Amy Taubin shows, racism, misogyny and gun fetishism at the heart of American culture.In her foreword to this special edition, published to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the BFI Film Classics series, Amy Taubin considers Taxi Driver anew in the context of contemporary politics of race and masculinity in the US, and draws on an exclusive interview with Robert De Niro about his memories of making the film.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The mind has the potential to be enormously creative in dealing with the challenges of everyday life, and the problems of the world in which we live. The difficulty is that instead of using the mind as a helpful servant we have largely allowed it to become the master of our lives. Finding the switch that can silence the mind-through understanding, watchfulness, and a sense of humor-is meditation.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Ridley Scott's dystopian classic Blade Runner, an adaptation of Philip K. Dick's novel, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep , combines noir with science fiction to create a groundbreaking cyberpunk vision of urban life in the twenty-first century. With replicants on the run, the rain-drenched Los Angeles which Blade Runner imagines is a city of oppression and enclosure, but a city in which transgression and disorder can always erupt. Graced by stunning sets, lighting, effects, costumes and photography, Blade Runner succeeds brilliantly in depicting a world at once uncannily familiar and startlingly new. In his innovative and nuanced reading, Scott Bukatman details the making of Blade Runner and its steadily improving fortunes following its release in 1982. He situates the film in terms of debates about postmodernism, which have informed much of the criticism devoted to it, but argues that its tensions derive also from the quintessentially twentieth-century, modernist experience of the city - as a space both imprisoning and liberating. In his foreword to this special edition, published to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the BFI Film Classics series, Bukatman suggests that Blade Runner 's visual complexity allows it to translate successfully to the world of high definition and on-demand home cinema. He looks back to the science fiction tradition of the early 1980s, and on to the key changes in the 'final' version of the film in 2007, which risk diminishing the sense of instability created in the original.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Scheffler, Axel (illustrator). Neuware - An ancient twist on the award-winning story of The Gruffalo, in which a clever little mouse outwits the creatures of the deep dark wood, is the perfect picture book, loved by children and adults the world over. This Latin edition of Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler's beloved tale is set in forty-six elegiac couplets, the translation drawing on the language and style of the classical poets to brilliantly capture the rhythm and mischievous spirit of the original story.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Went the Day Well is one of the most unusual pictures Ealing Studios produced,a distinctly unsentimental war film made in the darkest days of World War II, and nothing like the loveable comedies that later became the Ealing trademark.Its clear-eyed view of the potential for violence lurking just below the surfacein a quiet English village possibly owes something to the Graham Greene storyon which it is based, though, as Penelope Houston shows, there remains amystery about the extent to which Greene was actually involved in the scripting.Or perhaps the direction by the Brazilian born Cavalcanti, a maverick within theEaling coterie, is the chief reason why Went the Day Well avoids the cosy feel oflater, more familiar, Ealing films. In his foreword to this special edition, published to celebrate the 20thanniversary of the BFI Film Classics series, Geoff Brown pays homage toPenelope Houston's astute study, and places the book in the context of Went theDay Well 's changing critical reception. Brown discusses the non-Englishqualities of the film's narrative, and the extent to which Cavalcanti brought aforeign sensibility to its very English setting.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The Wizard of Oz 'was my very first literary influence,' writes Salman Rushdie in his account of the great MGM children's classic. At the age of ten he had written a story, 'Over the Rainbow', about a colourful fantasy world. But for Rushdie The Wizard of Oz is more than a children's film, and more than a fantasy. It's a story whose driving force is the inadequacy of adults, in which 'the weakness of grown-ups forces children to take control of their own destinies'. And Rushdie rejects the conventional view that its fantasy of escape from reality ends with a comforting return to home, sweet home. On the contrary, it is a film that speaks to the exile. The Wizard of Oz shows that imagination can become reality, that there is no such place like home, or rather that the only home is the one we make for ourselves. Rushdie's brilliant insights into a film more often seen than written about are rounded off with his typically scintillating short story, 'At the Auction of the Ruby Slippers,' about the day when Dorothy's red shoes are knocked down to $15,000 at a sale of MGM props. In his foreword to this special edition, published to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the BFI Film Classics series, Rushdie looks back to the circumstances in which he wrote the book, when, in the wake of the controversy surrounding The Satanic Verses and the issue of a fatwa against him, the idea of home and exile held a particular resonance.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Sixty years after its release, Singin' in the Rain (1951) remains one of the best loved films ever made. Yet despite dazzling success with the public, it never received its fair share of critical analysis. Gene Kelly's genius as a performer is undeniable. Acknowledged less often is his innovatory contribution as director. Peter Wollen's illuminating study of Singin' in the Rain does justice to this complex film. In a brilliant shot-by-shot analysis of the famous title number, he shows how skilfully Kelly weaves the dance and musical elements into the narrative, successfully combining two distinctive traditions within American Dance: tap and ballet. At the time of the film's production, its scriptwriters Betty Comden and Adolph Green, and indeed Kelly himself, were all under threat from McCarthyism. Wollen describes how the fallout from blacklisting curtailed the careers of many of those who worked on the film and argues convincingly that the film represents the high point in their careers. In his foreword to this special edition, published to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the BFI Film Classics series, Geoff Andrew looks at the film's legacy and celebrates the passion, lucidity and originality of Wollen's analysis. Summing up its enduring appeal, Andrew writes: 'Singin' in the Rain isn't just a musical, it's a movie about the movies.'.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Il Conformist has mesmerised audiences by Bertulocci's mastery of the telling, the beauty of the images, the camera work, its soundtrack, and the intensity with which the characters convey powerful psychic energies. This unique European film classic deserves no less the unique perspective brought to it here by Christopher Wagstaff's expert eye.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Snow White has been re-evaluated along a number of lines since its heralded release in the late 1930s. Disney's interpretation of the doomed princess has reached out to a number of audiences, including the general viewing public, film historians and scholars, film technicians and animators, and educational and child welfare professionals. Smoodin analyses the film's significance amongst all these groups within their related theoretical and practical contexts, bringing home why this Disney first will remain a first point of call for so many for a long time into the foreseeable future.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Elizabeth Taylor was one of the major film stars of the twentieth century, embodying all the glamour and allure of Hollywood stardom. Yet her achievements as an actress have often been overshadowed by her beauty and tumultuous life off-screen.To redress this imbalance, Susan Smith offers an illuminating study of Elizabeth Taylor's work in film, exploring her fascinating trajectory from child to adult star. Smith reveals the influence that Taylor's early work exerted over her later career and the ways in which her on-screen identity is profoundly rooted in her association with animals and nature. Smith carefully unpicks what made Taylor such a distinctive and dynamic on-screen performer - from the expressive use she made of her eyes to the dramatic significance of her voice - and considers the importance of certain professional collaborations that Taylor forged during her career, most notably her acting partnership with Montgomery Clift.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Critically examines philosophical, ethical and religious arguments for and against vegetarianism. >.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - JUVENILE NONFICTION / Music / General.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This book examines the careers of Liao Chengzhi and Takasaki Tatsunosuke, who were not only the architects of Sino-Japanese economic relations, but also pioneers of contemporary Sino-Japanese relations. Their visions and initiatives offer many insights into the current contentious relations among China, Japan, Russia, and the United States.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This manuscript focuses on the development of hybrid city-country (penurban) landscapes around large urban areas which mesh stylized countryside with functional links to the cities. These landscapes are central to American mindsets as they combine the dreams, expectations, and experiences of the nation in expressive cultural landscapes. An interpretive-analytical methodology is used in this single-authored, multidisciplinary work which draws on insights from history, American Studies, social sciences, urban studies, and environmental studies, and cultural studies in order to portray lifestyle and settlement phenomena overlooked by single disciplinary fields. Telling the story of how penurban landscapes emerged, the work blends original research with a re-reading of existing work to understand developing lifestyle and settlement patterns. The book aims at readers in history, urban studies, environmental studies, consumerism and American Studies.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -Unlocking the past is the key to the future . . .From Lucinda Riley, number one bestselling author of the Seven Sisters series, The Light Behind the Window is a stunning tale of love, war and, above all, forgiveness.South of France, present day. After the death of her glamorous, distant mother, Emilie de la Martiniéres finds herself alone in the world - and sole inheritor of her grand childhood home.A notebook of poems leads her to the mysterious and beautiful Sophia, whose tragic love affair changed the course of her family history. As Emilie unravels the story, she too embarks on a journey of discovery, realizing that the château may provide clues to her own difficult past.London, 1943. A young office clerk, Constance Carruthers, is drafted into a special operations team, arriving in occupied Paris during the climax of the conflict. Separated from her contact, she stumbles into the heart of a wealthy family who are caught up in a deadly game of secrets and lies.Forced to surrender her identity and all ties to her homeland, Constance finds herself drawn into a complex web of deception, the repercussions of which will affect generations to come . . .'A fast-paced, suspenseful story flitting between the present day and World War II . . . Brilliant escapism' - RedThis title has been published outside the UK under the title The Lavender Garden. 532 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -One of the twentieth century's greatest spiritual teachers will show you how to quiet your constant, worrying thoughts in Learning to Silence the Mind: Wellness Through Meditation.The mind, says Osho, has the potential to be enormously creative in dealing with the challenges of everyday life, and the problems of the world in which we live. The difficulty, however, is that instead of using the mind as a helpful servant we have largely allowed it to become the master of our lives. Its ambitions, belief systems, and interpretations rule our days and our nights-bringing us into conflict with minds that are different from ours, keeping us awake at night rehashing those conflicts or planning the conflicts of tomorrow, and disturbing our sleep and our dreams. If only there was a way to switch it off and give it a rest! Finding the switch that can silence the mind-not by force or performing some exotic ritual, but through understanding, watchfulness, and a healthy sense of humor-is meditation. A sharper, more relaxed and creative mind-one that can function at the peak of its unique intelligence-is the potential. The book includes a link to tutorials on OSHO Nadabrahma Meditation.Osho challenges readers to examine and break free of the conditioned belief systems and prejudices that limit their capacity to enjoy life in all its richness. He has been described by the Sunday Times of London as one of the '1000 Makers of the 20th Century' and by Sunday Mid-Day (India) as one of the ten people-along with Gandhi, Nehru, and Buddha-who have changed the destiny of India. Since his death in 1990, the influence of his teachings continues to expand, reaching seekers of all ages in virtually every country of the world. 179 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - For decades, Indonesia's 1945 Constitution, the second-shortest in the modern world, was used as an apologia by successive authoritarian regimes. But following the fall of President Soeharto in 1998 the amendment of the Constitution ushered in a liberal democratic system. This book surveys this remarkable constitutional transition.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This book explores the role of masculinity in shaping citizenship in the western world. Can the universal ideal of citizenship be redeemed or is it mired in exclusionary notions of masculinity, race and class The book traces the ideal of citizenship and its myriad of exclusions from the French revolution to the Twentieth century.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This book explores the relationship between film and the Holocaust in France: how has film changed the way that this traumatic event has been inscribed in French cultural memory And what can these representations tell us about how we think of and understand the traumas of history.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - An expanded translation of the groundbreaking book on Colombian cinema, this work addresses not only the inadequate distribution of criticism on Colombian cinema outside Latin America, but also employs an interdisciplinary focus that combines historical, anthropological, and sociological approaches to the country's culture.