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Verlag: Penguin Books Ltd Sep 2011, 2011
ISBN 10: 0241952972ISBN 13: 9780241952979
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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'There should be no combination of events for which the wit of man cannot conceive an explanation.'In this tale drawn from the note books of Dr Watson, the deadly hand of Professor Moriarty once more reaches out to commit a vile and ingenious crime. However, a mole in Moriarty's frightening criminal organization alerts Sherlock Holmes of the evil deed by means of a cipher. When Holmes and Watson arrive at a Sussex manor house they appear to be too late. The discovery of a body suggests that Moriarty's henchmen have been at their work. But there is much more to this tale of murder than at first meets the eye and Sherlock Holmes is determined to get to the bottom of it. 224 pp. Deutsch.
Verlag: Penguin Books Ltd Sep 2011, 2011
ISBN 10: 0241952956ISBN 13: 9780241952955
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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'Holmes,' I cried.'Is it really you Can it indeed be that you are alive Is it possible that you succeeded in climbing out of that awful abyss ' Missing, presumed dead, for three years, Sherlock Holmes returns triumphantly to his dear companion Dr Watson. And not before time! London has never been in more need of his extraordinary services: a murderous individual with an air gun stalks the city. Among thirteen further brilliant tales of mystery, detection and deduction, Sherlock Holmes investigates the problem of the Norwood Builder, deciphers the message of the Dancing Men, and cracks the case of the Six Napoleons. 400 pp. Deutsch.
Verlag: Penguin Books Ltd Sep 2011, 2011
ISBN 10: 024195293XISBN 13: 9780241952931
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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'When you have eliminated all which is impossible, then whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.'In this, the final collection of Sherlock Holmes adventures, the intrepid detective and his faithful companion Dr Watson examine and solve twelve cases that puzzle clients, baffle the police and provide readers with the thrill of the chase.These mysteries - involving an illustrious client and a Sussex vampire; the problems of Thor Bridge and of the Lions Mane; a creeping man and the three-gabled house - all test the bravery of Dr Watson and the brilliant mind of Mr Sherlock Homes, the greatest detective we have ever known. 320 pp. Deutsch.
Verlag: Penguin Books Ltd Sep 2011, 2011
ISBN 10: 0241952905ISBN 13: 9780241952900
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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'It is an old maxim of mine that when you have excluded the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.'Sherlock Holmes, scourge of criminals everywhere, whether they be lurking in London's foggy backstreets or plotting behind the walls of an idyllic country mansion, and his faithful colleague Dr Watson solve twelve breathtaking and perplexing mysteries.In The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, the first collection of the great consulting detective's cases, we encounter some of his most famous and devilishly difficult problems, including A Scandal in Bohemia, The Speckled Band, The Red-Headed League, The Blue Carbuncle, The Five Orange Pips and The Man with the Twisted Lip. 384 pp. Deutsch.
Verlag: Penguin Books Ltd Sep 2011, 2011
ISBN 10: 0241952964ISBN 13: 9780241952962
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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'You are a wronged woman and shall have justice. Do not bring police. If you do, all will be in vain. Your unknown friend.'When a beautiful young woman is sent a letter inviting her to a sinister assignation, she immediately seeks the advice of the consulting detective Sherlock Holmes. For this is not the first mysterious item Mary Marston has received in the post. Every year for the last six years an anonymous benefactor has sent her a large lustrous pearl. Now it appears the sender of the pearls would like to meet her to right a wrong. But when Sherlock Holmes and his faithful sidekick Watson, aiding Miss Marston, attend the assignation, they embark on a dark and mysterious adventure involving a one-legged ruffian, some hidden treasure, deadly poison darts and a thrilling race along the River Thames. 160 pp. Deutsch.
Verlag: Penguin Books Ltd Sep 2011, 2011
ISBN 10: 0241955483ISBN 13: 9780241955482
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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - C. S. Forester was born in Cairo in 1899, where his father was stationed as a government official. He studied medicine at Guy's Hospital, and after leaving Guy's without a degree he turned to writing as a career. His first success was Payment Deferred, a novel written at the age of twenty-four and later dramatized and filmed with Charles Laughton in the leading role. In 1932 Forester was offered a Hollywood contract, and from then until 1939 he spent thirteen weeks of every year in America. On the outbreak of war he entered the Ministry of Information and later he sailed with the Royal Navy to collect material for The Ship. He made a voyage to the Bering Sea to gather material for a similar book on the United States Navy, and it was during this trip that he was stricken with arteriosclerosis, a disease which left him crippled. However, he continued to write and in the Hornblower novels created the most renowned sailor in contemporary fiction. He died in 1966. 256 pp. Deutsch.
Verlag: Penguin Books Ltd Sep 2011, 2011
ISBN 10: 0241955769ISBN 13: 9780241955765
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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Meet Oswald Hendryks Cornelius, Roald Dahl's most disgraceful and extraordinary character . . . Aside from being thoroughly debauched, strikingly attractive and astonishingly wealthy, Uncle Oswald was the greatest bounder, bon vivant and fornicator of all time. In this instalment of his scorchingly frank memoirs he tells of his early career and erotic education at the hands of a number of enthusiastic teachers, of discovering the invigorating properties of the Sudanese Blister Beetle, and of the gorgeous Yasmin Howcomely, his electrifying partner in a most unusual series of thefts . . .'Raunchy and cheeky entertainment' Sunday Express'Immense fun' Daily TelegraphRoald Dahl, the brilliant and worldwide acclaimed author of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, James and the Giant Peach, Matilda, and many more classics for children, also wrote scores of short stories for adults. These delightfully disturbing tales have often been filmed and were most recently the inspiration for the West End play, Roald Dahl's Twisted Tales by Jeremy Dyson. Roald Dahl's stories continue to make readers shiver today. 288 pp. Deutsch.
Verlag: Penguin Books Ltd Sep 2011, 2011
ISBN 10: 0141041994ISBN 13: 9780141041995
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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Dealey Plaza, Dallas, Texas. Friday, November 22, 1963. 12.30 PM.Shots ring out. A president dies. And a nation is plunged into psychosis. Don DeLillo's extraordinary Libra is a brilliant reimagining of the events and people surrounding the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. Concentrating on the lives of Lee Harvey Oswald, some rogue former spooks unhappy with Kennedy's presidency, and Nicholas Branch, a CIA archivist, trying to make sense of or draw inferences from the mass of information after the assassination, Libra presents an unapologeticly provocative picture of America in the second half of the last century. 464 pp. Deutsch.
Verlag: Penguin Books Ltd Sep 2011, 2011
ISBN 10: 0141047259ISBN 13: 9780141047256
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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The bestselling author of Getting Rid of Matthew and My Sweet Revenge tells the story of a woman living in her sister's shadow.When it comes to genes, life is a lottery . . .Abi knows that all too well, having spent her life in the shadow of her beautiful, glamorous older sister Cleo.Headhunted as a model at sixteen, Cleo has been all but lost to Abi for twenty years. So when Abi is invited to spend the summer with her sister's perfect family, she says yes. Maybe Cleo is finally as keen as Abi to regain their childhood closeness But Abi is in for a shock. Soon she's left in charge of her two spoilt nieces and her handsome, unhappy brother-in-law. As she moves into her sister's life, a cuckoo in the nest, Abi wrestles with uncomfortable feelings.Could having beauty, wealth and fame lead to more unhappiness than not having them Who in the family really is the ugly sister Praise for Jane Fallon:'Intelligent, edgy and witty' Glamour'Smart, sassy and dark' Heat'Compulsively readable' Daily Mail 480 pp. Deutsch.
Verlag: Penguin Books Ltd Sep 2011, 2011
ISBN 10: 0241956447ISBN 13: 9780241956441
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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'A breath of fresh cold air . . . a dangerous edge to gladden fans of Lisbeth Salander' Boyd TonkinThe first in the Rebecka Martinsson series from the million-book bestselling author, for fans of Stieg Larsson, The Bridge and The Killing TV series.A church in the glittering frozen wastes of northern Sweden. Inside, a sacrifice: the body of a man - slashed to pieces, hands severed, eyes gouged out.The victim's sister is first to discover the body and she soon finds herself the police's only suspect. Terrified and confused, she calls on an old friend: hot-shot city lawyer Rebecka Martinsson.Can Rebecka dig beneath the surface of the community that she once fled, and find the truth 'A chilling plot knee-deep in blood-spattered snow' Jim Kelly'A labyrinthine conspiracy, superlative storytelling' IndependentA nail biting, suspense-filled mystery' Sunday Telegraph 416 pp. Englisch.
Verlag: Penguin Books Ltd Sep 2011, 2011
ISBN 10: 0241953383ISBN 13: 9780241953389
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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - David Bell embodies the American dream. He's twenty-eight, has survived office coups, scandals, and beaten lesser rivals, to become an extremely successful TV exec. The images that flicker across America's screens, the fantasies that enthrall viewers, they are of his making.But David's dream is turning sour, nightmarish. He wants reality, to touch, feel and record what is real. He takes a camera and journeys across America in a mad, roving quest to discover and capture some sense of his own and his country's past, present and future.Americana is Don DeLillo's brilliant first novel. 384 pp. Deutsch.
Verlag: Penguin Books Ltd Sep 2011, 2011
ISBN 10: 0141044330ISBN 13: 9780141044330
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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Chris Kuzneski is the international bestselling author of six novels - The Secret Crown, The Prophecy, The Lost Throne, Sword of God, Sign of the Cross and The Plantation. His thrillers have been published in over twenty languages and are sold in more than forty countries. Chris grew up in Pennsylvania and currently lives on the Gulf Coast of Florida. 512 pp. Deutsch.
Verlag: Penguin Books Ltd Sep 2011, 2011
ISBN 10: 0241955807ISBN 13: 9780241955802
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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - In Over to You, ten terrifying tales of life as a wartime fighter pilot are told by the master of the short story, Roald Dahl.During the Second World War Roald Dahl served in the RAF and even suffered horrific injuries in an air crash in the Libyan desert. Drawing on his own experiences as a fighter pilot, Dahl crafted these ten spine-tingling stories: of air battles in the sky; of the nightmare of being shot down; the infectious madness of conflict; and the nervy jollity of the Mess and Ops room.Dahl brilliantly conveys the bizarre reality of a wartime pilot's daily existence, where death is a constant companion and life is lived from one heartbeat to the next.'One of the most widely read and influential writers of our generation' The Times'The great magician' SpectatorRoald Dahl, the brilliant and worldwide acclaimed author of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, James and the Giant Peach, Matilda, and many more classics for children, also wrote scores of short stories for adults. These delightfully disturbing tales have often been filmed and were most recently the inspiration for the West End play, Roald Dahl's Twisted Tales by Jeremy Dyson. Roald Dahl's stories continue to make readers shiver today. 240 pp. Deutsch.
Verlag: Penguin Books Ltd Sep 2011, 2011
ISBN 10: 0241951860ISBN 13: 9780241951866
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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Tom Clancy (Author) Thirty years ago Tom Clancy was a Maryland insurance broker with a passion for naval history. But he had always dreamed of writing a novel, and his first effort, The Hunt for Red October, catapulted on to the New York Times bestseller list. From that day forward, Clancy established himself as an undisputed master at blending exceptional realism and authenticity, intricate plotting, and razor-sharp suspense. He passed away in October 2013. 736 pp. Deutsch.
Verlag: Penguin Books Ltd Sep 2011, 2011
ISBN 10: 0140455531ISBN 13: 9780140455533
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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Cicero (106-43BC) was the most brilliant orator in Classical history. Even one of the men who authorized his assassination, the Emperor Octavian, admitted to his grandson that Cicero was: 'an eloquent man, my boy, eloquent and a lover of his country'. This new selection of speeches illustrates Cicero's fierce loyalty to the Roman Republic, giving an overview of his oratory from early victories in the law courts to the height of his political career in the Senate. We see him sway the opinions of the mob and the most powerful men in Rome, in favour of Pompey the Great and against the conspirator Catiline, while The Philippics, considered his finest achievements, contain the thrilling invective delivered against his rival, Mark Antony, which eventually led to Cicero's death.For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators. 352 pp. Englisch.
Verlag: Penguin Books Ltd Sep 2011, 2011
ISBN 10: 0141197544ISBN 13: 9780141197548
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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'One of the great books of our century . . . It speaks with a human voice' Susan SontagTristes Tropiques begins with the line 'I hate travelling and explorers', yet during his life Claude Lévi-Strauss travelled from wartime France to the Amazon basin and the dense upland jungles of Brazil, where he found 'human society reduced to its most basic expression'. His account of the people he encountered changed the field of anthropology, transforming Western notions of 'primitive' man. Tristes Tropiques is a major work of art as well as of scholarship. It is a memoir of exquisite beauty and a masterpiece of travel writing: funny, discursive, movingly detailing personal and cultural loss, and brilliantly connecting disparate fields of thought. Few books have had as powerful and broad an impact.
Verlag: Penguin Books Ltd Sep 2011, 2011
ISBN 10: 0241953030ISBN 13: 9780241953037
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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - M. M. Kaye, author of The Far Pavilions, sweeps her readers back to the vast, glittering, sunbaked continent of India. Shadow of the Moon is the story of Winter de Ballesteros, a beautiful English heiress who has come to India to be married. It is also the tale of Captain Alex Randall, her escort and protector, who knows that Winter's husband to be has become a debauched wreck of a man. When India bursts into flaming hatreds and bitter bloodshed during the dark days of the Mutiny, Alex and Winter are thrown unwillingly together in the brutal and urgent struggle for survival.
Verlag: Penguin Books Ltd Sep 2011, 2011
ISBN 10: 0241953022ISBN 13: 9780241953020
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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - One of the BBC's '100 Novels that Shaped the World' The Far Pavilions is the story of an English man - Ashton Pelham-Martyn - brought up as a Hindu. It is the story of his passionate, but dangerous love for Juli, an Indian princess. It is the story of divided loyalties, of friendship that endures till death, of high adventure and of the clash between East and West.To the burning plains and snow-capped mountains of this great, humming continent, M.M. Kaye brings her exceptional gifts of storytelling and meticulous historical accuracy, plus her insight into the human heart.'Magnificent' Evening Standard'A long, romantic adventure story of the highest calibre . wildly exciting' Daily Telegraph.
Verlag: Penguin Books Ltd Sep 2011, 2011
ISBN 10: 0241951364ISBN 13: 9780241951361
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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Accompanying the major BBC TV series, Richard Miles's Ancient Worlds tells the epic story of civilization, and the cities that made us who we are. The path of human progress is one of enlightenment and cruelty, achievement and bloodshed, creation and destruction. Here Richard Miles reaches back into our distant past to bring alive its most glorious and terrible people and places: from the first ever city in Mesopotamia to the death cults of Egypt, from the Phoenician seafarers who invented the alphabet to the brutal Assyrian empire, and on to the great city-states of Athens and Rome. By choosing to live together with strangers in vast urban settings, Miles shows, humans harnessed the very best and the worst of ourselves, setting civilization in motion and forging the modern world. 'Epic and compelling' Daily Mail 'An epic, spanning five millennia and half the globe' Daily Telegraph 'Engaging . full of interesting things about the radical social experiment of the city-state, and the new ways of living it permitted' Independent 'Ancient Worlds really does put flesh on the bones of history and Richard Miles brings long lost cities to life' Observer Richard Miles is the author of Carthage Must Be Destroyed: The Rise and Fall of an Ancient Civilization. A six-part TV series of Ancient Worlds was broadcast on BBC2 in 2011. He teaches classics at the University of Sydney and was previously a Newton Trust Lecturer in the Faculty of Classics and Fellow and Director of Studies at Trinity Hall, University of Cambridge.
Verlag: Penguin Books Ltd Sep 2011, 2011
ISBN 10: 0141022019ISBN 13: 9780141022017
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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Mit dieser bahnbrechenden Biografie, die auf über 10 000 bisher unveröffentlichten Briefen und Tagebucheinträgen beruht, kehrt Niall Ferguson zu seinen Wurzeln als Finanzhistoriker zurück. Er erzählt darin die Geschichte Siegmund Warburgs, eines außergewöhnlichen Mannes, dessen Philosophie der Finanzwirtschaft eine Antithese zum schulden- und algorithmengetriebenen Bankwesen unserer Zeit darstellt. Nach seiner Flucht aus Nazi-Deutschland stieg Warburg zur führenden Persönlichkeit in der Londoner Finanzwelt der Nachkriegszeit auf und wurde zum Vordenker der europäischen Finanzintegration. Warburg war geprägt von den Ereignissen der 1930er- Jahre, als die seit Langem bestehende Warburg-Bank zunächst durch die Weltwirtschaftskrise fast zerstört und anschließend durch die Nazis 'arisiert' wurde. Daher war er fest entschlossen, dafür zu sorgen, dass seine eigene Bank die Lehren aus der Vergangenheit zog und ihren Beitrag zur wirtschaftlichen Erholung Großbritanniens, zur Einheit Westeuropas sowie zur Entstehung der Globalisierung leistete.
Verlag: Penguin Books Ltd (UK) Sep 2011, 2011
ISBN 10: 0241952875ISBN 13: 9780241952870
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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930) started to write as a doctor, whilst waiting for patients to arrive. Sherlock Holmes first appeared in A Study in Scarlet (1887). The Holmes stories soon attracted such a following that Conan Doyle felt the character overshadowed his other work. In The Final Problem (1893) Conan Doyle killed him off, but was obliged by public demand to restore the detective to life. 213 pp. Englisch.
Verlag: Penguin Books Ltd (UK) Sep 2011, 2011
ISBN 10: 0241952891ISBN 13: 9780241952894
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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'There's a scarlet thread of murder running through the colourless skein of life, and our duty is to unravel it, and isolate it, and expose every inch of it.'From the moment Dr John Watson takes lodgings in Baker Street with the consulting detective Sherlock Holmes, he becomes intimately acquainted with the bloody violence and frightening ingenuity of the criminal mind. In A Study in Scarlet , Holmes and Watson's first mystery, the pair are summoned to a south London house where they find a dead man whose contorted face is a twisted mask of horror. The body is unmarked by violence but on the wall a mysterious word has been written in blood. The police are baffled by the crime and its circumstances. But when Sherlock Holmes applies his brilliantly logical mind to the problem he uncovers a tragic tale of love and deadly revenge . . . 161 pp. Englisch.
Verlag: Penguin Books Ltd (UK) Sep 2011, 2011
ISBN 10: 024195570XISBN 13: 9780241955703
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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - In Someone Like You are fifteen classic tales told by the grand master of the short story, Roald Dahl.Here, in Roald Dahl's first collection of his world famous dark and sinister adult stories, a wife serves a dish that baffles the police; a harmless bet suddenly becomes anything but; a curious machine reveals a horrifying truth about plants; and a man lies awake waiting to be bitten by the venomous snake asleep on his stomach.Through vendettas and desperate quests, bitter memories and sordid fantasies, Roald Dahl's stories portray the strange and unexpected, sending a shiver down the spine.'One of the most widely read and influential writers of our generation' The TimesRoald Dahl, the brilliant and worldwide acclaimed author of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, James and the Giant Peach, Matilda, and many more classics for children, also wrote scores of short stories for adults. These delightfully disturbing tales have often been filmed and were most recently the inspiration for the West End play, Roald Dahl's Twisted Tales by Jeremy Dyson. Roald Dahl's stories continue to make readers shiver today. 354 pp. Englisch.
Verlag: Penguin Books Ltd (UK) Sep 2011, 2011
ISBN 10: 0241955343ISBN 13: 9780241955345
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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - In Kiss Kiss you will find eleven devious, shocking stories from the master of the unpredictable, Roald Dahl. What could go wrong when a wife pawns the mink coat that her lover gave her as a parting gift What happens when a priceless piece of furniture is the subject of a deceitful bargain Can a wronged woman take revenge on her dead husband In these dark, disturbing stories Roald Dahl explores the sinister side of human nature: the cunning, sly, selfish part of each of us that leads us into the territory of the unexpected and unsettling. Stylish, macabre and haunting, these tales will leave you with a delicious feeling of unease.'Roald Dahl is one of the few writers I know whose work can accurately be described as addictive' Irish TimesRoald Dahl, the brilliant and worldwide acclaimed author of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, James and the Giant Peach, Matilda, and many more classics for children, also wrote scores of short stories for adults. These delightfully disturbing tales have often been filmed and were most recently the inspiration for the West End play, Roald Dahl's Twisted Tales by Jeremy Dyson. Roald Dahl's stories continue to make readers shiver today. 336 pp. Englisch.
Verlag: Penguin Books Ltd (UK) Sep 2011, 2011
ISBN 10: 0141046848ISBN 13: 9780141046846
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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - From the desks of Nigeria's newsrooms, two journalists are recruited to find the kidnapped wife of a British oil engineer. Zaq, an infamous media hack, knows what's in store, but Rufus, a keen young journalist eager to get himself noticed, has no idea what he's let himself in for. Journeying into the oil-rich regions of the Niger Delta, where militants rule and the currency dealt in is the lives of hostages, Rufus soon finds himself acting as intermediary between editor, husband, captive and soldier. As they follow the trail of the missing woman, love for the 'story' becomes about much more than just uncovering her whereabouts, and instead becomes a mission to make sense of their own muddled lives. In a cruel twist of fate, Rufus finds himself taking on Zaq's role much more literally than he ever anticipated, and as the body count rises, and the environment burns, he learns that truth can often be a bitter pill to swallow. 216 pp. Englisch.
Verlag: Penguin Books Ltd (UK) Sep 2011, 2011
ISBN 10: 0141047976ISBN 13: 9780141047973
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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Ha-Joon Chang's 23 Things They Don't Tell You About Capitalism turns received economic wisdom on its head to show you how the world really works. In this revelatory book, Ha-Joon Chang destroys the biggest myths of our times and shows us an alternative view of the world, including: There's no such thing as a 'free' marketGlobalization isn't making the world richerWe don't live in a digital world - the washing machine has changed lives more than the internetPoor countries are more entrepreneurial than rich onesHigher paid managers don't produce better results We don't have to accept things as they are any longer. Ha-Joon Chang is here to show us there's a better way. 'Lively, accessible and provocative . read this book' - Sunday Times 'A witty and timely debunking of some of the biggest myths surrounding the global economy' - Observer 'The new kid on the economics block . Chang's iconoclastic attitude has won him fans' - Independent on Sunday 'Lucid . audacious . increasingly influential . will provoke physical symptoms of revulsion if you are in any way involved in high finance' - Guardian 'Important . persuasive . an engaging case for a more caring era of globalization' - Financial Times 'A must-read . incisive and entertaining' - New Statesman Books of the YearHa-Joon Chang is a Reader in the Political Economy of Development at the University of Cambridge. He is author of Kicking Away the Ladder: Development Strategy in Historical Perspective, which won the 2003 Gunnar Myrdal Prize, and Bad Samaritans: Rich Nations, Poor Policies and the Threat to the Developing World. Since the beginning of the 2008 economic crisis, he has been a regular contributor to the Guardian, and a vocal critic of the failures of our economic system. 296 pp. Englisch.
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