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Es sind Sommerferien. Die Freunde Maya, Sarah, Noah und Tom freuen sich darauf, den ganzen Tag draußen zu spielen. Da sind auf einmal alle Farben aus der Natur verschwunden. Klar, dass die vier Kinder versuchen, sie zurückzuholen. Doch das ist nicht so einfach ... Ein Abenteuer rund um den Naturschutz für Kinder von 5 bis 10 Jahren

Femtosekunden-Laser ermöglichen Anwendungen, die sonst undenkbar wären. Mit frequenz-verdoppelten Festkörperlasern gepumpte Ti:Saphir fs-Oszillatoren repräsentieren den Stand der Technik. Anwender fordern jedoch leichter handhabbare und preiswertere fs-Laserstrahlquellen. Durch einen einfachen, kompakten Aufbau können diodengepumpte Kerr-Lens modengekoppelte (KLM) fs-Oszillatoren diese Forderungen erfüllen. Bislang konnten sie sich nicht durch...

Ein waschechter Landarzt ist eine absolute Vertrauensperson für seine Schützlinge. Daher darf es nicht weiter verwundern, daß die Patienten mit allen nur denkbaren Anliegen zu ihm kommen. Da gibt es Erlebnisse, die einfach zum Schmunzeln sind, gar nicht so selten kann es jedoch von einer Sekunde zur anderen auch ungemein besinnlich werden. William D. Montenero ist so ein allzeit bereiter Mediziner, der in seiner Praxis seit vielen Jahren die W...

A new dramatization of Dickens by the Royal Shakespeare Company.

Little readers will love second-guessing this funny, fractured fairy tale that replays the story of Little Red Riding Hood from the poor maligned wolf's point of view.No, please. Look at me.Would I LIE to you?It was the old woman who started it.Everyone knows there are at least two sides to every story, and if you believe in the big-eared, sharp-toothed villain of Little Red Riding Hood, there's a logical explanation for everything. As our ant...

From the highly praised author of "Mona in the Promised Land" and "Who's Irish?" comes a generous, funny, explosive novel about the new "half-half" American family.

Decades before al-Qaeda took shape, religious radicals in Southeast Asia were laying the groundwork for a struggle to achieve a backward-looking utopia. This is the story of Jemaah Islamiyah (JI), the secretive organization that spans no less than half a dozen nations and seeks the full implementation of their intolerant take on Islam. In The Second Front: Inside Asia's Most Dangerous Terrorist Network, best-selling author Ken Conboy pieces to...

The Wild West provided the setting for some famous battles, but the gunfight at O.K. Corral doesn't hold a candle to the Bone Wars. Following the Civil War, the (Re-)United States turned its attention to the unexplored territories between the Mississippi and the Pacific. The railroads led the way, and to build them we blasted through mountains and leveled valleys and exposed rock that hadn't seen the light of day for millions of years. This is...

Das vorliegende Buch behandelt verschiedene Aspekte der Seefahrt auf Großseglern, die großzügige Einblicke erlauben in Leben, Arbeit und Kultur von Matrosen, in Hintergründe, Verlauf und Folgen von Meutereien, in Piratenleben und in Inselleben nach einem Schiffbruch.Dabei werden in vier umfangreich angelegten Hauptkapiteln die jeweiligen Einzelthemen aus der Perspektive verschiedener europäischer Seefahrernationen gezeichnet. Aus historischen ...

FOREWORD This is my three-minute commercial. In today's age of astounding technological advances, we all have options that allow us to skip commercials, be they online, on television, or in some other media. But as you already are this far into this one, I trust you will read through to the end. This is a collection of short stories I've written through the years. Some date as far back to 1985, while others are still being written even as I wr...

This is a story about four generations of French-Canadians living in Northampton, Massachusetts in 1937. The country is still in the throes of the Great Depression. Living together, sharing chores, following old traditions, they are facing a major change as the elderly matriarch of the family is slowly dying. The turmoil that often accompanies inheritance issues grips them. Tensions between the oldest son and the youngest son about the disposi...

Speaking from beyond the grave via a coded message written moments before his execution, a physician guides his friend down a perilous path to the assassin.

A lavishly illustrated catalogue that is the first to explore the role of modernism in 20th- century American silver design

Exposing the most controversial, little-known practices of America's most flawed system, Time magazine's Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative team pulls back the curtain on the health care industry to explain exactly how things grew so out of control.Dirty examination and operating rooms in doctor's offices and hospitals . . . Health care executives pulling in millions in bonuses for denying treatment to the sick . . . More than 100 million pe...

For nearly two and a half millennia, Alexander the Great has loomed over history as a legend-and an enigma. Wounded repeatedly but always triumphant in battle, he conquered most of the known world, only to die mysteriously at the age of thirty-two. In his day he was revered as a god, in our day he has been reviled as a mass murderer, a tyrant as brutal as Stalin or Hitler. Who was the man behind the mask of power? Why did Alexander embark on a...

He has walked the earth lifetime after lifetime, sometimes playing the part of a villain, sometimes that of a courageous warrior, occasionally that of a student or teacher. We pick up his journey on the lost continent of Atlantis and follow his exploits across the pages of history. Through it all the answers to life's deepest mysteries are revealed by his Soul, who narrates his story so that others might profit from his experience. He might co...

This is a book of journeys. It is not autobiographical. Seven events in my life are designed to proclaim that God's grace is sufficient for every circumstance and that tribulation works patience, and patience experience, and experience hope, and hope makes no shame (Romans 5:3). By feeble I mean tottering and apt to fall at any moment. However others may perceive me, I have never felt I was particularly strong as a child of God. The writer of ...

About the book My Death, it wasn't the worst thing to happen to me. The worst thing was probably the feeling I had just before I pulled the trigger. The feeling I had after wasn't that great either! What do you think happens to you after you die? Most people fear what will happen when they pass away. Ronnie didn't give it much thought until after it happened. His name was Ron Ward. His life wasn't perfect, and towards the end it got worse. Aft...

Like The Rings Of a Tree tells a life story of a boy who grew to manhood during a turbulent time in American history. The story begins in rural South Dakota during the drought and depression years of the 1930''s. World War II involved family members in that conflict and changed American life forever. The day by day work on Midwestern farms of that era is described by someone who has worked with horses, harvested grain, picked corn by hand, mad...

ASA OF NAIN longs for the day when his childhood friend Ilana-the only one of his peers who accepts him as he is-will become his wife. But her father, the strict head of the synagogue school in Asa's village, has promised her to the bread merchant of Tzippori, an older man she does not love. When the controversial rabbi Jesus of Nazareth visits Nain and leaves the villagers in awe of the power of God, Ilana follows him to ask a kindness on Asa...