West of Last Chance is a unique collaboration between celebrated photographer Peter Brown and award-winning author Kent Haruf. The result is a profound visual/verbal dialogue of short prose pieces and large-format color images that brings to life this sometimes brutal and incredibly beautiful part o[...]

An absorbing, original, and ambitious work of reportage from the acclaimed New Yorker correspondentDuring the past decade, Peter Hessler has persistently illuminated worlds both foreign and familiar--ranging from China, where he served as The New Yorker's correspondent from 2000 to 2007, to southwes[...]

The Mongols had a huge impact on medieval Europe and the Islamic world.  This book provides a comprehensive survey of contacts between the Catholic West and the Mongol world-empire from the first appearance of Chinggis Khanâ s armies in 1221 down to the death of Tamerlane (1405) and the battle of[...]

J.M. Barrie's fantasy adventure with pirates, mermaids, and fairies, brought to life in a new book-plus-audio edition. Peter Pan refuses to grow up. Instead he spends his never-ending childhood making mischief and seeking out adventure as leader of the Lost Boys on the small island of Neverland. His[...]

This volume explores the creation of 'written spaces' through the accretion of monumental inscriptions and non-official graffiti in the Latin-speaking West between c.200 BC and AD 300. The shift to an epigraphic culture demonstrates new mentalities regarding the use of language, the relationship bet[...]

Shows how to lower our centre of awareness from head and heart to what the Japanese call 'hara', the abdominal region.[...]

Boka gir en innføring i biorytmenes historie og teori, syklusene og deres forskjellige faser, hvordan du kan bruke biorytmene i hverdagen, og hvordan du regner ut dine og andres biorytmer.[...]