Denne boka er en helhetlig framstilling av vesterlandenes historie i de 468 årene som forløp fra pestbasillen begynte sine herjinger høsten 1347 og til Napoleons definitive nederlag ved Waterloo i 1815. Vesterlandene er her definert som Europa og de områdene i andre verdensdeler som europeerne k[...]
Accomplished carver and teacher Mary Finn shows how to create all kinds of charming animals, each born from a commercially available wooden egg. Egg animals can come out of the egg in any direction and can be made standing, sitting, or lying down. Here, step by step instructions and color photograph[...]
(Vocal Selections). Includes: 4 Jews in a Room Bitching * I'm Breaking Down * Marriage Proposal * March of the Falsettos * Making a Home * The Games I Play * I Never Wanted to Love You * Father to Son * The Baseball Game * A Day in Falsettoland * Everyone Hates His Parents * What More Can I Say? * S[...]
This is a brand new edition of an essential work on Bayesian networks and decision graphs. It is an introduction to probabilistic graphical models including Bayesian networks and influence diagrams. The reader is guided through the two types of frameworks with examples and exercises, which also give[...]
As a steady source of juvenile delinquents and an incubator for future adult offenders, the youth gang has long been a focus of attention, from their origins and prevalence to intervention and prevention strategies. But while delinquent youth form gangs worldwide, youth gang research has generally f[...]
Sangboka er delt i to deler. Den første delen består av folkesanger fra mange land, viser, pop, gospel og evergreens. Andre del består av 25 nyere sanger (pop-låter) i utvalg av Gustav Lorentzen, illustrert av Øystein Dolmen. Alle sangene har besifring.[...]
OPPTUR Nærøyfjorden tek deg med på 88 turar i verdsarvområdet i indre Sogn, frå Vik i vest til Lærdal i aust, frå Sognefjorden i nord til Voss i sør. Her finst noko av det flottaste fjordlandskapet i verda. Opplev vill og vakker natur og rik kulturhistorie ved Nærøyfjorden og Aurlandsfjord[...]
En modern översikt över 1900-talets språkfilosofi har länge saknats på svenska. Den luckan fylls nu av de danska filosoferna Collin och Guldmanns bok Språkfilosofi en lättläst och innehållsrik presentation av de grundläggande begreppen inom detta fascinerande ämne och samtidigt en utmär[...]
HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics.
HarperCollins is proud to present its range of best-loved, essential classics.'We said there warn't no home like a raft, after all. Other places do seem so cramped up and smothery, but a raft don't. You feel mighty free and easy and comfortable on a raft.'Huck Finn escapes from his drunken father by[...]
Inspired by New York Times bestselling author Neal Stephenson, some of today's leading writers, thinkers, and visionaries have come together in this anthology of stories, set in the near future, that reignites the iconic and optimistic visions of the golden age of science fictionBorn of an initiativ[...]
Huck is a young, naive white boy fleeing from his drunken, dangerous Pap, and Jim is a runaway slave longing to be reunited with his family. Flung together by circumstance, they journey down the Mississippi together on a log raft, each in search of his own definition of freedom. Their daring adventu[...]
'It's lovely to live on a raft. We had the sky up there, all speckled with stars, and we used to lay on our backs and look up at them' Huck Finn spits, swears, smokes a pipe and never goes to school. With his too-big clothes and battered straw hat, Huck is in need of 'civilising', and the Widow Doug[...]
Poor little chap! He had been turned into a very strange animal indeed ...Although they're small, fat and shy creatures; Moomins have the most amazing adventures. It all begins when Moominpappa tries on a magic hat that makes exciting and funny things happen.[...]
The second of Trollope's Palliser novels tells of the career of a hot-blooded middle-class politician whose sexual energies bring him much success with women.[...]
Wild child Huck has to get away. His violent drunk of a father is back in town again, raising Cain. He won't rest until he has Huck's money. So the enterprising boy fakes his own death and sets out in search of adventure and freedom. Teaming up with Jim, an escaped slave with a price on his head, th[...]
Wild child Huck has to get away. His violent drunk of a father is back in town again, raising Cain. He won't rest until he has Huck's money. So the enterprising boy fakes his own death and sets out in search of adventure and freedom. Teaming up with Jim, an escaped slave with a price on his head, th[...]
This is the "Penguin English Library Edition" of "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" by Mark Twain. 'I'm unfavorable to killin' a man as long as you can git around it; it ain't good sense, it ain't good morals. Ain't I right?' The original Great American Novel, an incomparable adventure story and a[...]