Disc 1 - Film 1: Drachentöter - 80 Min. (FSK12)In diesem epischen Fantasy-Abenteuer ist das Königreich von Sir Esplaine den Angriffen verfeindeter Stämme und Drachen ausgesetzt. Die junge Tochter und Prinzessin von Lord Blackthorne beschließt deshalb, mit einigen Getreuen dem König zur Hilfe zu eilen. Dies bedeutet jedoch, dass sie durch den Schwarzen Wald von Sidhe, in dem viele böse Dämonen und Drachen zu Hause sind, reisen müssen. Am Ende d...
Have you ever felt like the Universe is doubled over laughing at you? Like you're the butt of some great cosmic joke? Fear not! You are not alone. In this long-awaited sequel to Mugged by a Moose, we hope you'll find a feeling of kinship with our twenty-five free-spirited wanderers as they relate some of their craziest, wackiest, funniest and most inspiring tales of travel from the far side and beyond.
If These Fields Could Talk is the inspiring and heartwarming true story of Leatha Jackson's rise from abject poverty in the pre-Civil Rights South to beloved matriarch and "barbeque queen" of Mississippi. Leatha's journey stands as a powerful example of what an unshakable faith in God, love, and family can create. After many years of sweat, toil, and dreaming, with the unwavering support of her devoted husband and children, Leatha made magic i...
It's not what you know, it's who you know. Or so the adage goes. Professor Matthew Jackson, world-leading researcher into social and economic networks, shows us why this is far truer than we'd like to believe.Based on his ground-breaking research, The Human Network reveals how our relationships in school, university, work and society have extraordinary implications throughout our lives and demonstrates that by understanding and taking advantag...
Here is a fresh, intriguing, and, above all, authoritative book about how our sometimes hidden positions in various social structures-our human networks-shape how we think and behave, and inform our very outlook on life.Inequality, social immobility, and political polarization are only a few crucial phenomena driven by the inevitability of social structures. Social structures determine who has power and influence, account for why people fail t...
Back in the late 70s through the early 90s, there was a remnant of Christians called Pro-Life Rescuers who stood as watchmen on the wall. They not only warned our nation about the evils of killing unborn children, but they also intervened and tried to stop it. Matthew Jackson was among those rescuers. In this book, Matthew will take you back to the adventures that he experienced as a pro-life rescuer. He has captured in vivid detail the intrig...
It's not what you know, it's who you know. Or so the adage goes. Professor Matthew Jackson, world-leading researcher into social and economic networks, shows us why this is far truer than we'd like to believe. Based on his own ground-breaking research, The Human Network reveals how our relationships in school, university, work and society have extraordinary implications throughout our lives and demonstrates that by understanding and taking adv...
Here is a fresh, intriguing, and, above all, authoritative book about how our sometimes hidden positions in various social structures-our human networks-shape how we think and behave, and inform our very outlook on life.Inequality, social immobility, and political polarization are only a few crucial phenomena driven by the inevitability of social structures. Social structures determine who has power and influence, account for why people fail t...
This volume collects papers from Hugo Sonnenschein's students. It aims to demonstrate his tremendous impact as an advisor. The papers span decades and present some of the most important articles in microeconomic theory. Each paper is accompanied with a preface by the student providing background on the paper and indicating Hugo's influence on its genesis. The papers all lie in microeconomic theory, and moreover all make fundamental contributio...
Welcome to the fifth volume of our popular travel and outdoor humor series, a line of books that has produced bestselling titles such as Mugged by a Moose and A Beaver is Eating My Canoe. Join thirty-one intrepid travel writers who will take you on a journey from Alaska to the Amazon to the middle of the Atlantic Ocean. It's another helping of zany, absurd and downright preposterous tales of misadventure, some of which are hardly believable. W...
Art & Language Uncompleted. The Philippe Meaille Collection provides a detailed and revealing view of one of the most complex aesthetic identities of the second half of the twentieth century.
Accompanying Palaeontology, The Journal of the Palaeontological Association, the Special Papers in Palaeontology are published twice yearly, comprising either a thematic set of articles or detailed monographic treatments of particular subjects. Research is authoritative and global in scope, tackling areas such as micropaleontology, functional morphology, taxonomy, paleoenvironmental reconstruction, and evolutionary case histories. Written by i...