Edité par Cornerstone Aug 2009, 2009
ISBN 10 : 009953665X ISBN 13 : 9780099536659
Vendeur : AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Allemagne
Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. Neuware - An einem kalten, grauen Novembermorgen wird in der Kadettenschule von San Martino der sechzehnjährige Ernesto Moro erhängt im Waschraum aufgefunden. Bringt sich ein so junger Mensch grundlos um Oder vertuscht hier jemand etwas, um seinen guten Ruf zu schützen Als die Polizei dies klären will, stößt sie auf eine Mauer des Schweigens: Die Ränge haben sich geschlossen. Niemand, weder die Lehrer noch die gedrillten Mitschüler, ja nicht einmal die Familie will Genaueres darüber wissen, doch Brunetti läßt jener Junge, dessen Vater Fernando Moro berühmt ist für seine politische Unerschrockenheit, nicht los. Selbst Vater, ruht er nicht, bis er die wahren Hintergründe aufgedeckt hat. Eliten und ihre Loyalitäten: Donna Leon ergründet die verschwiegenen Kanäle zwischen militärischer und politischer Macht.
Edité par Cornerstone Aug 2009, 2009
ISBN 10 : 0099536846 ISBN 13 : 9780099536840
Vendeur : AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Allemagne
Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. Neuware - A stranger enters the inner sanctum of the Ashby family posing as Patrick Ashby, the heir to the family's sizeable fortune. The stranger, Brat Farrar, has been carefully coached on Patrick's mannerisms, appearance and every significant detail of Patrick's early life, up to his thirteenth year when he disappeared and was thought to have drowned himself. It seems as if Brat is going to pull off this most incredible deception until old secrets emerge that threaten to jeopardise the imposter's plan and his very life.
Edité par Cornerstone Aug 2009, 2009
ISBN 10 : 0099458039 ISBN 13 : 9780099458036
Vendeur : AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Allemagne
Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. Neuware - In this new volume of memoirs, Frank Skinner describes his experience of going back on the road doing stand-up again, after many years spent working mainly on television. His adventures on tour are by turns funny and moving as he meditates on growing older, the terrors and joys of trying to make a live audience laugh night after night and on the nature of comedy itself.For the first time we read a comedian's account, in his own words, of how his act is put together; his return to a world of dark little clubs and the strange encounters he has there. But what is perhaps most startling and original about Frank Skinner's writing is his honesty nbout not only the highs and lows of his career, but more intimate and personal issues - male sexuality and matters of the heart.
Edité par Cornerstone Aug 2009, 2009
ISBN 10 : 0099519747 ISBN 13 : 9780099519744
Vendeur : AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Allemagne
Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. Neuware - Vienna, 1903. Outside one of the city's most splendid baroque churches, the decapitated body of a monk is found. Then, the remains of a municipal councillor are discovered in the grounds of another church - his head also ripped from his body. Both men were rabid anti-Semites, and suspicions fall on Vienna's close-knit community of Hasidic Jews. In a city riven by racial tensions and extremism, the situation is potentially explosive. Detective Inspector Rheinhardt turns to his trusted friend, the young psychoanalyst Doctor Max Liebermann, for assistance. As the investigation progresses, Liebermann is drawn into the world of Jewish mysticism. Amid the atmosphere of threat and fear, Liebermann's life is in crisis. Political forces conspire against him, and the object of his romantic desires, the unreachable Miss Lydgate, is becoming an unhealthy obsession.
Edité par Cornerstone Aug 2009, 2009
ISBN 10 : 0099490072 ISBN 13 : 9780099490074
Vendeur : AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Allemagne
Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. Neuware - In August 1958, the opening scenes of a low-budget black and white film flickered onto cinema screens up and down the country. No one could have foreseen what impact Carry on Sergeant would have then and in the future. Not only did it become one of the top three grossing films for that year, it also kick started the longest running and most successful comedy series of all time.Here, for the very first time, is the essential biography of this most treasured institution in the world of British cinema. Complete with exclusive interviews with cast and crew, and the debut publication of Vince Powell's script of Carry On Down Under, Fifty Years of Carry On is a must for any fan of the unique and ever hilarious spectacle that is Carry On.
Edité par Cornerstone Aug 2009, 2009
ISBN 10 : 0099519763 ISBN 13 : 9780099519768
Vendeur : AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Allemagne
Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. Neuware - In 1900 a group of sponge divers blown off course in the Mediterranean discovered an Ancient Greek shipwreck near the island of Antikythera dating from around 70 BC.Lying unnoticed for months amongst their hard-won haul was what appeared to be a formless lump of corroded rock, which turned out to be the most stunning scientific artefact we have from antiquity. For more than a century this 'Antikythera mechanism' - an ancient computer - puzzled academics, but now, more than 2000 years after the device was lost at sea, scientists have pieced together its intricate workings.In Decoding the Heavens, Jo Marchant tells for the first time the story of the 100-year quest to understand the Antikythera mechanism. Along the way she unearths a diverse cast of remarkable characters - ranging from Archimedes to Jacques Cousteau - and explores the deep roots of modern technology not only in Ancient Greece, the Islamic world and medieval Europe.
Edité par Cornerstone Aug 2009, 2009
ISBN 10 : 009953665X ISBN 13 : 9780099536659
Vendeur : Rheinberg-Buch Andreas Meier eK, Bergisch Gladbach, Allemagne
Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. Neuware -An einem kalten, grauen Novembermorgen wird in der Kadettenschule von San Martino der sechzehnjährige Ernesto Moro erhängt im Waschraum aufgefunden. Bringt sich ein so junger Mensch grundlos um Oder vertuscht hier jemand etwas, um seinen guten Ruf zu schützen Als die Polizei dies klären will, stößt sie auf eine Mauer des Schweigens: Die Ränge haben sich geschlossen. Niemand, weder die Lehrer noch die gedrillten Mitschüler, ja nicht einmal die Familie will Genaueres darüber wissen, doch Brunetti läßt jener Junge, dessen Vater Fernando Moro berühmt ist für seine politische Unerschrockenheit, nicht los. Selbst Vater, ruht er nicht, bis er die wahren Hintergründe aufgedeckt hat. Eliten und ihre Loyalitäten: Donna Leon ergründet die verschwiegenen Kanäle zwischen militärischer und politischer Macht. 336 pp. Englisch.
Edité par Cornerstone Aug 2009, 2009
ISBN 10 : 0099536846 ISBN 13 : 9780099536840
Vendeur : Rheinberg-Buch Andreas Meier eK, Bergisch Gladbach, Allemagne
Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. Neuware -A stranger enters the inner sanctum of the Ashby family posing as Patrick Ashby, the heir to the family's sizeable fortune. The stranger, Brat Farrar, has been carefully coached on Patrick's mannerisms, appearance and every significant detail of Patrick's early life, up to his thirteenth year when he disappeared and was thought to have drowned himself. It seems as if Brat is going to pull off this most incredible deception until old secrets emerge that threaten to jeopardise the imposter's plan and his very life. 288 pp. Englisch.
Edité par Cornerstone Aug 2009, 2009
ISBN 10 : 0099536846 ISBN 13 : 9780099536840
Vendeur : BuchWeltWeit Ludwig Meier e.K., Bergisch Gladbach, Allemagne
Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. Neuware -A stranger enters the inner sanctum of the Ashby family posing as Patrick Ashby, the heir to the family's sizeable fortune. The stranger, Brat Farrar, has been carefully coached on Patrick's mannerisms, appearance and every significant detail of Patrick's early life, up to his thirteenth year when he disappeared and was thought to have drowned himself. It seems as if Brat is going to pull off this most incredible deception until old secrets emerge that threaten to jeopardise the imposter's plan and his very life. 288 pp. Englisch.
Edité par Cornerstone Aug 2009, 2009
ISBN 10 : 009953665X ISBN 13 : 9780099536659
Vendeur : BuchWeltWeit Ludwig Meier e.K., Bergisch Gladbach, Allemagne
Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. Neuware -An einem kalten, grauen Novembermorgen wird in der Kadettenschule von San Martino der sechzehnjährige Ernesto Moro erhängt im Waschraum aufgefunden. Bringt sich ein so junger Mensch grundlos um Oder vertuscht hier jemand etwas, um seinen guten Ruf zu schützen Als die Polizei dies klären will, stößt sie auf eine Mauer des Schweigens: Die Ränge haben sich geschlossen. Niemand, weder die Lehrer noch die gedrillten Mitschüler, ja nicht einmal die Familie will Genaueres darüber wissen, doch Brunetti läßt jener Junge, dessen Vater Fernando Moro berühmt ist für seine politische Unerschrockenheit, nicht los. Selbst Vater, ruht er nicht, bis er die wahren Hintergründe aufgedeckt hat. Eliten und ihre Loyalitäten: Donna Leon ergründet die verschwiegenen Kanäle zwischen militärischer und politischer Macht. 336 pp. Englisch.
Edité par Cornerstone Aug 2009, 2009
ISBN 10 : 0099538636 ISBN 13 : 9780099538639
Vendeur : AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Allemagne
Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. Neuware - The Portobello area of West London has a rich personality - vibrant, brilliant in colour, noisy, with graffiti that approach art, bizarre and splendid. An indefinable edge to it adds a spice of danger. There is nothing safe about Portobello.Eugene Wren inherited an art gallery from his father near an arcade that now sells cashmere, handmade soaps and children's clothes. But he decided to move to a more upmarket site in Kensington Church Street. Eugene is fifty, with prematurely white hair. He is, perhaps, too secretive for his own good. He also has an addictive personality. But he has cut back radically on his alcohol consumption and has given up cigarettes. Which is just as well, considering he is going out with a doctor. For all his good intentions, though, there is something he doesn't want her to know about.Eugene's secret links the lives of a number of very different people - each with their own obsessions, problems, dreams and despairs. And through it all the hectic life of Portobello bustles on.