random house sep 2004 (57 Ergebnisse)

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -EIGHTEEN-YEAR-OLD ERIC HAS just been released from juvenile detention for murdering his mother and stepfather. Now he's looking for some tendernesstenderness he finds in caressing and killing beautiful girls. Fifteen-year-old Lori has run away from home again. Emotionally naive but sexually precocious, she is also looking for tendernesstenderness she finds in Eric. Will Lori and Eric be each other's salvation or destruction 'Cormier is in top form in this chilling portrait of a serial murderer. . . . Gripping."School Library Journal, StarredAn ALA Top Ten Best Book for Young AdultsPetersen Buchimport GmbH, Weidestraße 122 a, 22083 Hamburg 229 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Disney Storybook Art Team (illustrator). Neuware - Everyone's favorite big-eared little elephant finds his way to the skies in this uplifting Little Golden Book. With artwork from the 1940s, allof the original charm and beauty of the Disney classic can be found in this vintage book.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Corinne Malvern (illustrator). Neuware - ONE OF THE most-requested Little Golden Books is back in print! Millions of baby boomers remember little Dan, who stops crying over a scratch as soon as Mother puts a bandage on it. Soon the dolls and teddy bears in Dan's house are wearing bandages, too. This charming story from the 1950s was so popular that it's now featured in the Smithsonian's permanent collection.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Walt Disney Studio (illustrator). Neuware - Classic Disney illustrations from the 1940s make this Little Golden Book retelling of an all-time favorite a keeper for Disney and Little Golden Book collectors alike!

Buch. Zustand: Neu. RH Disney (illustrator). Neuware - The three little pigs have never looked so cute and the big bad wolf never looked so bad in this retelling of the classic fairy tale! Vintage Disney artwork from the 1940s makes this book an important addition to every Little Golden Book collector's library.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - A Little Golden Book all about bustling baby animals! A favorite of children for generations, Garth Williams's classic Little Golden Book continues to find a special place in the hearts of young readers. Featuring adorable baby animals including a playful bear, a busy squirrel, a brave lion, and many more, this beloved classic is a must-have for all little animal lovers.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Limpy is fed up of seeing his relatives run over and when he hears of a place in the Amazon, where human and toad live together in harmony, he resolves to find this place for himself and to take his cousin Goliath with him.The two toads make their bumpy way to the Amazonian jungle via the claws of a migratory bird and the underside of an aeroplane seat. But the jungle is not the Utopia that Limpy had imagined and it takes the advice of some Amazonian cane toads and one wise man to finally find the secret of a harmonious life with humans!

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -Far in the future, the World Controllers have created the ideal society. Through clever use of genetic engineering, brainwashing and recreational sex and drugs all its members are happy consumers. Bernard Marx seems alone in feeling discontent. Harbouring an unnatural desire for solitude, and a perverse distaste for the pleasures of compulsory promiscuity, Bernard has an ill-defined longing to break free. A visit to one of the few remaining Savage Reservations where the old, imperfect life still continues, may be the cure for his distress-Huxley's ingenious fantasy of the future sheds a blazing light on the present and is considered to be his most enduring masterpiece.Petersen Buchimport GmbH, Weidestraße 122 a, 22083 Hamburg 229 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - EIGHTEEN-YEAR-OLD ERIC HAS just been released from juvenile detention for murdering his mother and stepfather. Now he s looking for some tenderness tenderness he finds in caressing and killing beautiful girls. Fifteen-year-old Lori has run away from home again. Emotionally naive but sexually precocious, she is also looking for tenderness tenderness she finds in Eric. Will Lori and Eric be each other s salvation or destruction Cormier is in top form in this chilling portrait of a serial murderer. . . . Gripping. School Library Journal, StarredAn ALA Top Ten Best Book for Young Adults.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The Newbery Medal and Coretta Scott King Award-winning classic about a boy who decides to hit the road to find his father-from Christopher Paul Curtis, author of The Watsons Go To Birmingham-1963, a Newbery and Coretta Scott King Honoree.It's 1936, in Flint, Michigan. Times may be hard, and ten-year-old Bud may be a motherless boy on the run, but Bud's got a few things going for him:1. He has his own suitcase full of special things.2. He's the author of Bud Caldwell's Rules and Things for Having a Funner Life and Making a Better Liar Out of Yourself.3. His momma never told him who his father was, but she left a clue: flyers advertising Herman E. Calloway and his famous band, the Dusky Devastators of the Depression!!!!!!Bud's got an idea that those flyers will lead him to his father. Once he decides to hit the road to find this mystery man, nothing can stop him-not hunger, not fear, not vampires, not even Herman E. Calloway himself.BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR:The New York TimesSchool Library JournalPublishers Weekly'[A] powerfully felt novel.' -The New York Times'Will keep readers engrossed from first page to last.' -Publishers Weekly, Starred'Curtis writes with a razor-sharp intelligence that grabs the reader by the heart and never lets go. . . . This highly recommended title [is] at the top of the list of books to be read again and again.' -Voice of Youth Advocates, Starred.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -New work of fiction from one of our greatest living novelists. Coetzee won the Nobel Prize for literature in 2003 and has twice won the Booker Prize. Explores the life of an Australian writer of international renown. 'One of Coetzee's best. simply burns with creative passion' D.J. Taylor, 'Independent'Petersen Buchimport GmbH, Weidestraße 122 a, 22083 Hamburg 233 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -In a South Africa torn by civil war, Michael K sets out to take his mother back to her rural home. On the way there she dies, leaving him alone in an anarchic world of brutal roving armies. Imprisoned, Michael is unable to bear confinement and escapes, determined to live with dignity. Life and Times of Michael K goes to the centre of human experience -- the need for an interior, spiritual life, for some connections to the world in which we live, and for purity of vision.Petersen Buchimport GmbH, Weidestraße 122 a, 22083 Hamburg 184 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -leicht-mittelBesetzung: Akkordeon & diatonische HandharmonikaPetersen Buchimport GmbH, Weidestraße 122 a, 22083 Hamburg 144 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -Aldous Huxley was born on 26 July 1894 near Godalming, Surrey. He began writing poetry and short stories in his early 20s, but it was his first novel, Crome Yellow (1921), which established his literary reputation. This was swiftly followed by Antic Hay (1923), Those Barren Leaves (1925) and Point Counter Point (1928) ¿ bright, brilliant satires in which Huxley wittily but ruthlessly passed judgement on the shortcomings of contemporary society. For most of the 1920s Huxley lived in Italy and an account of his experiences there can be found in Along the Road (1925). The great novels of ideas, including his most famous work Brave New World (published in 1932 this warned against the dehumanising aspects of scientific and material 'progress') and the pacifist novel Eyeless in Gaza (1936) were accompanied by a series of wise and brilliant essays, collected in volume form under titles such as Music at Night (1931) and Ends and Means (1937). In 1937, at the height of his fame, Huxley left Europe to live in California, working for a time as a screenwriter in Hollywood. As the West braced itself for war, Huxley came increasingly to believe that the key to solving the world's problems lay in changing the individual through mystical enlightenment. The exploration of the inner life through mysticism and hallucinogenic drugs was to dominate his work for the rest of his life. His beliefs found expression in both fiction (Time Must Have a Stop,1944, and Island, 1962) and non-fiction (The Perennial Philosophy, 1945; Grey Eminence, 1941; and the account of his first mescalin experience, The Doors of Perception, 1954. Huxley died in California on 22 November 1963.Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, 36244 Bad Hersfeld 176 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Romance and magic meet by the light of the moon in this collection of Celtic tales from #1 New York Times bestselling author Nora Roberts and New York Times bestselling authors Jill Gregory, Ruth Ryan Langan, and Marianne Willman.From mysterious warriors to evil sorceresses, from full moon cravings to moon witch spells, these enchanting tales of love and legend, magic and mystery are as menacing and alluring as the moon itself.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Discover this profound account of Huxley's famous experimentation with mescalin that has influenced writers and artists for decades. 'Concise, evocative, wise and, above all, humane, The Doors of Perception is a masterpiece' Sunday TimesIn 1953, in the presence of an investigator, Aldous Huxley took four-tenths of a gram of mescalin, sat down and waited to see what would happen. When he opened his eyes everything, from the flowers in a vase to the creases in his trousers, was transformed. Huxley described his experience with breathtaking immediacy in The Doors of Perception. In its sequel Heaven and Hell, he goes on to explore the history and nature of mysticism. Still bristling with a sense of excitement and discovery, these illuminating and influential writings remain the most fascinating account of the visionary experience ever written. WITH A FOREWORD J.G. BALLARD.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - In his 1932 classic dystopian novel, Brave New World, Aldous Huxley depicted a future society in thrall to science and regulated by sophisticated methods of social control. Nearly thirty years later in Brave New World Revisited, Huxley checked the progress of his prophecies against reality and argued that many of his fictional fantasies had grown uncomfortably close to the truth. Brave New World Revisited includes Huxley's views on overpopulation, propaganda, advertising and government control, and is an urgent and powerful appeal for the defence of individualism still alarmingly relevant today.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The modern classic from double Booker Prize winner J.M. Coetzee - soon to be a major film starring Mark Rylance, Robert Pattinson and Johnny DeppFor decades the Magistrate has run the affairs of a tiny frontier settlement, ignoring the impending war between the barbarians and the Empire, whose servant he is. But when the interrogation experts arrive, he is jolted into sympathy with the victims and into a quixotic act of rebellion which lands him in prison, branded as an enemy of the state. Waiting for the Barbarians is an allegory of oppressor and oppressed. Not just a man living through a crisis of conscience in an obscure place in remote times, the Magistrate is an analogue of all men living in complicity with regimes that ignore justice and decency.; Jahrzehntelang ist der Magistrat ein loyaler Diener des Staates gewesen und hat die Amtsgeschäfte der winzigen Garnisonsstadt in einem Grenzdistrikt des Reiches geführt, ohne sich von der vermeintlichen Bedrohung durch die 'Barbaren ', einem benachbarten Nomadenstamm, beirren zu lassen. Als jedoch eine Spezialeinheit der Staatspolizei eintrifft, um den Nachweis für kriegerische Absichten der 'Barbaren 'zu erbringen, wird er Zeuge der grausamen und ungesetzlichen Behandlung von Gefangenen. Vom Mitleid mit den Opfern aufgerüttelt, will der alte Mann ein Zeichen setzen. Gleichsam in einem Akt privater Wiedergutmachung nimmt er ein schwer misshandeltes 'Barbaren '-Mädchen bei sich auf, um es schließlich zu seinem Volk zurückzubringen. Diese Expedition brandmarkt ihn als Verräter, er wird nun seinerseits Opfer von öffentlicher Demütigung und Folter. J. M. Coetzees früher Roman 'Warten auf die Barbaren' (1980) gilt als eines der zentralen Werke des Autors. Das mehrfach ausgezeichnete Wer k stellt die Frage nach Würde und Mitverantwortung des Einzelnen unter einem Regime, das sich über Recht und Anstand hinwegsetzt.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - In a South Africa torn by civil war, Michael K sets out to take his mother back to her rural home. On the way there she dies, leaving him alone in an anarchic world of brutal roving armies. Imprisoned, Michael is unable to bear confinement and escapes, determined to live with dignity. Life and Times of Michael K goes to the centre of human experience - the need for an interior, spiritual life, for some connections to the world in which we live, and for purity of vision.'This is a truly astonishing novel. I finished Life & Times of Michael K in a state of elation, for all the misery and suffering it contains. I cannot recommend it highly enough' Evening Standard.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Elizabeth Costello is an Australian writer of international renown. Famous principally for an early novel that established her reputation, she has reached the stage where her remaining function is to be venerated and applauded. Her life has become a series of engagements in sterile conference rooms throughout the world - a private consciousness obliged to reveal itself to a curious public: the presentation of a major award at an American college where she is required to deliver a lecture; a sojourn as the writer in residence on a cruise liner; a visit to her sister, a missionary in Africa, who is receiving an honorary degree, an occasion which both recognise as the final opportunity for effecting some form of reconciliation; and a disquieting appearance at a writers' conference in Amsterdam where she finds the subject of her talk unexpectedly amongst the audience. She has made her life's work the study of other people yet now it is she who is the object of scrutiny. But, for her, what matters is the continuing search for a means of articulating her vision and the verdict of future generations.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Cook, Ande (illustrator). Neuware - Old Testament heroes and heroines come alive in this exciting Little Golden Book of Bible stories. The tales of Samson, Deborah, David, and many others are told in a simple yet entertaining way, brought to life with vibrant pictures, sure to hold your child's attention. It's the perfect gift for Christenings and First Communions.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Remkiewicz, Frank (illustrator). Neuware - The holiday season is here, and the kids in Room 3B are learning about all the different ways people celebrate. In addition to Christmas and Hanukkah, there's Kwanzaa, Three Kings Day, Korean New Year, and more. All the talk about holidays has everyone feeling festive. Everyone, that is, except Harry. He doesn't seem to care about the holidays, the class pet, or even the new student in class. It's clear that something is bugging Harry-but what could it be.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Did you know It took more than an iceberg to sink the Titanic. The Challenger disaster was predicted. Unbreakable glass dinnerware had its origin in railroad lanterns. A football team cannot lose momentum. Mercury thermometers are prohibited on airplanes for a crucial reason. Kryptonite bicycle locks are easily broken.'Things fall apart" is more than a poetic insightit is a fundamental property of the physical world. Why Things Break explores the fascinating question of what holds things together (for a while), what breaks them apart, and why the answers have a direct bearing on our everyday lives.When Mark Eberhart was growing up in the 1960s, he learned that splitting an atom leads to a terrible explosionwhich prompted him to worry that when he cut into a stick of butter, he would inadvertently unleash a nuclear cataclysm. Years later, as a chemistry professor, he remembered this childhood fear when he began to ponder the fact that we know more about how to split an atom than we do about how a pane of glass breaks.In Why Things Break, Eberhart leads us on a remarkable and entertaining exploration of all the cracks, clefts, fissures, and faults examined in the field of materials science and the many astonishing discoveries that have been made about everything from the explosion of the space shuttle Challenger to the crashing of your hard drive. Understanding why things break is crucial to modern life on every level, from personal safety to macroeconomics, but as Eberhart reveals here, it is also an area of cutting-edge science that is as provocative as it is illuminating.'An engaging personal account not just of the physics and chemistry of materials but of the ethics, economics, and politics of innovation, with delightful bonuses on topics from the origins of 'ghostly' noises in old houses to the amazing coevolution of armor and armor-piercing projectiles. If it ain't broke, Mark Eberhart can tell you whyand explain equally well why a shatterproof world remains beyond our reach."Edward Tenner, author of Our Own Devices and Why Things Bite Back'I don't remember a book that has taught me so much, nor previously encountering a teacher like the marvelous Mark Eberhart, who in Why Things Break provides enlightening and thoroughly captivating scientific explanations of subjects ranging from the structural failures leading to the sinking of the Titanic to everyday, no-less-fascinating topics such as the reason why, even at the same temperature, winter days always seem so much colder in Boston than in Denver."Richard Restak, M.D., author of Mozart's Brain and The Fighter Pilot'Eberhart brings his insights to the reader by weaving personal anecdotesfrom his childhood fear that cutting a stick of butter would release the energy of the atoms within to his arrival in Boston for an interview with MIT without a suitable winter coatinto a fascinating discussion of the forces that hold atoms and molecules together. A lively, unvarnished look at chemistry on the cutting edge." Kirkus Reviews.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - A collection of short stories starring Koko and Yum Yum-the fantastic feline duo from the bestselling Cat Who series.What could be more purrfect for fans of the Cat Who series than an intimate look at the private lives of those extraordinary Siamese cats Koko and Yum Yum-the most unlikely, most unusual, most delightful team in detective fiction! In this charming collection of feline antics, you'll discover why Jim Qwilleran considers Koko a veritable clone of T.S. Eliot's Rum Tum Tugger, how Yum Yum was rescued from a burglar who is not above a spot of catnapping, and many more fascinating catly facts.'The feelings produced by reading about Qwill and his pals can best be compared to that coziest of feelings-having a purring cat on your lap.'-Booklist.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - An adventurous story of a frontier boy raised by Indians, The Light in the Forest is a beloved American classic.When John Cameron Butler was a child, he was captured in a raid on the Pennsylvania frontier and adopted by the great warrrior Cuyloga. Renamed True Son, he came to think of himself as fully Indian. But eleven years later his tribe, the Lenni Lenape, has signed a treaty with the white men and agreed to return their captives, including fifteen-year-old True Son. Now he must go back to the family he has forgotten, whose language is no longer his, and whose ways of dress and behavior are as strange to him as the ways of the forest are to them.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Mystery writer Jessica Fletcher takes a three-night train trip with her friend and his railroad association through scenic British Columbia. But when a member of the entourage takes a sip of a Bloody Mary and dies, police begin investigating.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Known as a 'feast of language,' this is one of the bard's earliest comedies, in which four bachelors who have dedicated themselves to chastity and scholarly pursuits soon encounter the women of their dreams.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - While the Clone Wars wreak havoc throughout the galaxy, the situation on the far world of Drongar is desperate, as Republic forces engage in a fierce fight with the Separatists. . . .The threatened enemy offensive begins as the Separatists employ legions of droids into their attack. Even with reinforcements, the flesh and blood of the Republic forces are just no match for battle droids' durasteel. Nowhere is this point more painfully clear than in the steaming Jasserak jungle, where the doctors and nurses of a small med unit face an impossible situation. As the dead and wounded start to pile up, surgeons Jos Vandar and Kornell 'Uli" Divini know that time is running out.Even the Jedi abilities of Padawan Barriss Offee have been stretched to the limit. Ahead lies a test for Barriss that could very well lead to her death-and that of countless others. For the conflict is growing-and for this obscure mobile med unit, there's only one resolution. Shocking, bold, unprecedented, it's the only option Jos and his colleagues really have. The unthinkable has become the inevitable. Whether it kills them or not remains to be seen.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'YOU CAN ALMOST SMELL THE JET FUEL AND GUNPOWDER. You attack the world's fiercest defenses at 500 knots and share the ultimate thrill of hurling yourself against almost impossible odds-and winning.-JACK BROUGHTON, author of Thud RidgeEd Rasimus straps the reader into the cockpit of an F-105 Thunderchief fighter-bomber in his engaging account of the Rolling Thunder campaign in the skies over North Vietnam. Between 1965 and 1968, more than 330 F-105s were lost-the highest loss rate in Southeast Asia-and many pilots were killed, captured, and wounded because of the Air Force's disastrous tactics. The descriptions of Rasimus's one hundred missions, some of the most dangerous of the conflict, will satisfy anyone addicted to vivid, heart-stopping aerial combat, as will the details of his transformation from a young man paralyzed with self-doubt into a battle-hardened veteran. His unique perspective, candid analysis, and the sheer power of his narrative rank his memoir with the finest, most entertaining of the war. 'A story that reflects the bravery of the men who flew over enemy territory in a perilous time."-The Baltimore Chronicle'[A] MODERN-DAY RED BADGE OF COURAGE ."-JOHN DARRELL SHERWOOD, author of Fast Movers: Jet Pilots and the Vietnam ExperienceLook for these remarkable stories of American courage in the Vietnam warDOWN SOUTHOne Tour in Vietnamby William H. HardwickLOST IN TRANSLATIONVietnam: A Combat Advisor's Storyby Martin J. DockeryMEDIC!The Story of a Conscientious Objector in the Vietnam Warby Ben ShermanWE WERE SOLDIERS ONCE . . . AND YOUNGIa Drang: The Battle that Changed the War in Vietnamby Lt. Gen. Harold G. Moore and Joseph L. Galloway.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - FROM BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE GODFATHER - 'A classic. The novel is lifted into literature by its highly charged language, its penetrating insights, and its mixture of tenderness and rage.' - New York Times Book ReviewDescribed by the author as his 'best and most literary book.'Puzo's classic story about the loves, crimes and struggles confronted by one family of New York City immigrants living in Hell's Kitchen. Fresh from the farms in Italy, Lucia Santa struggles to hold her family together in a strange land. At turns poignant, comic and violent, The Fortunate Pilgrim is Italian-American fiction at its very best.The book's hero, Lucia Santa, is an incredibly captivating character and based on Puzo's very own mother - he describes, 'her wisdom, her ruthlessness, and her unconquerable love for her family and for life itself, qualities not valued in women at the time.'.