Verlag: Vintage Publishing Mär 2013, 2013
ISBN 10: 009958249X ISBN 13: 9780099582496
Anbieter: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Deutschland
Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Norman Hunter was born in 1899 in Sydenham, London. He was energetic and hard-working: after leaving school he worked as an advertising copywriter, performed as a stage magician and wrote books on many subjects, including advertising, brainteasers and conjuring. And he created Professor Branestawm!.
Verlag: Vintage Publishing Mär 2013, 2013
ISBN 10: 0099582775 ISBN 13: 9780099582779
Anbieter: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Deutschland
Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The original story of Tracey Beaker, now in a 'Vintage Classics' edition. First published in 1991, 'The Story Of Tracy Beaker' has since been adapted into a successful and long-running television series, and this new edition is sure to be popular with a new generation of readers. Ages: 9+.
Verlag: Vintage Publishing Mär 2013, 2013
ISBN 10: 0099582538 ISBN 13: 9780099582533
Anbieter: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Deutschland
Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - A 'Vintage Classics' edition of this classic tale, featuring the original b/w illustrations and maps by Arthur Ransome and now with extra material. Ages: 9+.
Verlag: Vintage Publishing Mär 2013, 2013
ISBN 10: 0099582546 ISBN 13: 9780099582540
Anbieter: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Deutschland
Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Arthur Ransome's timeless tale, now in a beautiful 'Vintage Classics' edition. Ransome has been described as the 1930s equivalent of JK Rowling, with the 'Swallows & Amazons' series having sold millions of copies since its original publication. Ages: 9+.
Verlag: Vintage Publishing Mär 2013, 2013
ISBN 10: 0099287471 ISBN 13: 9780099287476
Anbieter: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Deutschland
Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Paperback edition of Ackroyd's biography of the great Victorian novelist, author of 'The Woman In White' and 'The Moonstone'. Follows his life from his birth as the son of a well-known artist, through his struggles to become a writer, his years of fame and his life-long friendships with Charles Dickens. From the acclaimed author who has written biographies of Dickens, Blake, Chaucer, Poe, Shakespeare and many others.
Verlag: Vintage Publishing Mär 2013, 2013
ISBN 10: 0099563320 ISBN 13: 9780099563327
Anbieter: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Deutschland
Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Radical, witty and always unusual, declared a 'genius' by the New York Times, Keret brings all of his prodigious talent to bear in this bestselling collection. A man barges into a writer's house and, holding a gun to his head, demands that he tell him a story, something to take him away from the real world.
Verlag: Vintage Publishing Mär 2013, 2013
ISBN 10: 0224074512 ISBN 13: 9780224074513
Anbieter: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Deutschland
Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - THE SUNDAY TIMES NO.1 BESTSELLERWhat makes a man the greatest of all time Eddy Merckx is to cycling what Muhammad Ali is to boxing or Pelé to football: quite simply, the best there has ever been. Merckx was a machine. It wasn't just the number of victories (445); it was his remorseless domination that created the legend. He didn't just beat his opponents, he crushed them. But his triumphs only tell half a story that includes horrific injury, a doping controversy and tragedy. He was nicknamed 'The Cannibal' for his insatiable appetite for victory, but the moniker did scant justice to a man who was handsome, sensitive and surprisingly anxious. Britain's leading cycling writer, William Fotheringham, goes back to speak to those who were there at the time and those who knew Merckx best to find out what made Eddy Merckx so invincible.'The full unvarnished of one man's heaven, and hell, on wheels' Independent.
Verlag: Vintage Publishing Mär 2013, 2013
ISBN 10: 0099555034 ISBN 13: 9780099555032
Anbieter: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Deutschland
Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - From the author of the No. 1 bestseller The Silk Roads: A New History of the WorldThe First Crusade is one of the best-known and most written-about events in history but in this new book Dr Peter Frankopan asks vital questions that have never been posed before. This is the only book to address the history of the First Crusade from the perspective of the east, examining the role of the Byzantine Empire and its ruler, Emperor Alexios I Komnenos. Peter Frankopan's focus on the imperial city of Constantinople and events in Asia Minor is the result of a major reinterpretation of eastern sources which reveal the crucial role of Byzantium in the genesis and execution of the First Crusade.Frankopan's revelation of a close cooperation between the pope in Rome and the emperor in Constantinople constitutes an important revision and brand new evidence of the history of the Church. This book questions the traditional view that the Catholic and Orthodox churches had broken definitively in 1054. Rather than viewing the Crusades as a conflict between Christianity and Islam, the book reveals a complex triangular relationship between the west, Byzantium and the Muslim world.So, The First Crusade constitutes a paradigm shift - it radically re-shapes our understanding of the aims, expectations, and long-term implications of the First Crusade and the Crusades as a whole.Most importantly it answers why was there a First Crusade.
Verlag: Vintage Publishing Mär 2013, 2013
ISBN 10: 0099584476 ISBN 13: 9780099584476
Anbieter: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Deutschland
Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - \*According to the Trussell Trust, food bank use between April and Sept 2018 was up 13% on the same period in 2017.\* \*Every year in the UK 18 million tonnes of food end up in landfill.\*Why is this the case and what can we do about it The relationship between food and cities is fundamental to our everyday lives. Food shapes cities and through them it moulds us - along with the countryside that feeds us. Yet few of us are conscious of the process and we rarely stop to wonder how food reaches our plates.Hungry City examines the way in which modern food production has damaged the balance of human existence, and reveals that we have yet to resolve a centuries-old dilemma - one which holds the key to a host of current problems, from obesity and the inexorable rise of the supermarkets, to the destruction of the natural world.Original, inspiring and written with infectious enthusiasm and belief, Hungry City illuminates an issue that is fundamental to us all.
Verlag: Vintage Publishing Mär 2013, 2013
ISBN 10: 0099563436 ISBN 13: 9780099563433
Anbieter: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Deutschland
Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Offers an array of topics from sex in cinema to drugs, graffiti, Bob Dylan, cyberculture, 9/11, book touring and Marlon Brando. This book simmers with direct challenges to conventional wisdom and deep insights into the kaleidoscopic nature of artistic vision, and the way the author's own experiences have fuelled his creative passions.