A young man lives alone with his mother and his beloved dog in a house in a small village overlooking the fjord. The dog has run off and gone missing. This has never happened before...In The Dead Dogs, lives are shockingly disrupted by an event that changes the direction of their future. Fosse's dra[...]

The War of 1812 has the strange distinction of being largely forgotten by both of its main participants, and yet its outcome was critically important to the future of North America. In 1814, the Americans launched a last offensive in an attempt to seize Canada. This Niagara campaign saw a number of [...]

The photos in this book are taken from an unpublished album belonged to a member of the elite German Paratroopers. First Sgt Wilhelm Plieschen served with Fallschirmjager Machine Gun Battalion 7. They suffered very heavy losses in the invasion of Crete and then saw bloody conflict as "Hitler s Fire-[...]

Jon Tonks spent up to a month at a time in each territory, travelling 60,000 miles around the Atlantic via military outposts, low-lit airstrips and a long voyage aboard the last working Royal Mail Ship. Some 400 rolls of film, 24 flights and 32 days at sea later, the resulting work creates an insigh[...]

OH GEEZ There is no one as unlucky in all of North Dakota as Bobo Backslack. All he wants to do is work hard at his job, get a girlfriend and make his mom proud, but it seems that all forces from the natural to the supernatural are poised against him. His miserable life is exquisitely detailed with[...]

Middelalderen er en eventyrlig periode, som her blir presentert på en ny måte. Skrevet lekende og lett i Jon Ewos karakteristiske stil. Få en reiseguide til Norge, få vite hvordan det luktet i middelalderen, og hvordan maten smakte. Få hjelp til å tenke middelaldersk, og lær deg kunsten å v�[...]

Christoffer Kihle Gjerstad ble bare åtte år. Først fire år senere ble stefaren dømt for å ha påført gutten skadene han døde av. Moren er fremdeles under politietterforskning for medvirkning. Hva får voksne til å mishandle et barn til døde? Og hva gjør at verken den nærmeste familien, [...]

Negotiating Pasts in the Nordic Countries är en samling fallstudier som spänner från medeltid till nutid, och berättar om hur det förgångna har blivit meningsfullt och relevant för efterkommande människor. När man ser på historien blir man delaktig i en process full av önskan att förstå[...]

Serves as a guided reading series for ages 4-7. Top children's authors and illustrators have created fiction and non-fiction books that your children enjoy reading, and helps you choose the right book for your child. Practical teaching notes are included at the back of each book. It offers developin[...]

With The Uxbridge English Dictionary the stars of BBC Radio 4's I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue had the nation in stitches. But times move on, words change and their meanings with them. Comedy's most outrageous dictionary is back with a hilarious new collection of definitions for all those English words [...]

Re-inventing the spy story for the 21st Century.John Le Carre meets Jason Bourne!

Teams -- the key to top performanceMotorola relied heavily on teams to surpass its competition in building the lightest, smallest, and highest-quality cell phones. At 3M, teams are critical to meeting the company's goal of producing half of each year's revenues from the previous five years' innovati[...]

A pioneer in forensic anthropology, Dr. Bill Bass created the world's first laboratory dedicated to the study of human decomposition--three acres on a hillside in Tennessee where human bodies are left to the elements. His research has revolutionized forensic science, but during a career that has spa[...]