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Jeremiah Salinger ganha a vida fazendo documentários, até que se muda com a família para uma região remota da Itália. Lá, após um acidente com o helicóptero em que está fazendo uma filmagem, passa a ser atormentado pela ideia de que existe nas montanhas ao redor uma força que não consegue entender e a que chama de “A Besta”.

Now in the pantheon of great thinkers, Simone Weil (1909–1943) lived largely in the shadows, searching for her spiritual home while bearing witness to the violence that devastated Europe twice in her brief lifetime. The letters she wrote to her parents and brother from childhood onward chart her intellectual range as well as her itinerancy and ever-shifting preoccupations, revealing the singular personality at the heart of her brilliant essays. The first complete collection of Weil's missives to her family, A Life in Letters offers new insight into her personal relationships and experiences.

In Volume Three of the hugely successful Summer of Sci-Fi & Fantasy anthology series, editor Dustin Bilyk brings you a collection of tales that will both frighten you and pull you into a state of wonderment, while shattering your expectations and introducing some of the most hard-hitting and evocative short stories on the market today.

Veganism as an ethics and a practice has a recorded history dating back to Antiquity. Yet, it is only recently that researchers have begun the process of formalizing the study of veganism. Whereas occasional publications have recently emerged from sociology, history, philosophy, cultural studies, or critical animal studies, a comprehensive geographical analysis is missing. Until now.

Thomas, a young German musician, is dying. Leo, a renowned Italian writer and Thomas's boyfriend, finds it impossible to mourn his loss and condemns himself to wandering the Earth, in the hope of finding the dividing line between the living and the dead. He travels through a Europe where past and present overlap, roads intersect, years merge and faces emerge - and tries in vain to bring into focus the blurred lines of their relationship.

Stille Nacht? Von wegen! In dieser mörderisch guten Kurzgeschichtensammlung schicken Europas erfolgreichste Thrillerautoren ihre Ermittler an den Feiertagen auf Verbrecherjagd. Simon Beckett, Åke Edwardson und Co. beschenken ihre Fans zu Weihnachten mit spannenden Kurzgeschichten, in denen unter anderem Mörder überführt werden und der gestohlene Schlitten des Weihnachtsmannes wiedergefunden werden muss – und natürlich soll das Festessen an Heiligabend trotzdem rechtzeitig auf dem Tisch stehen.

Racconto le storie della musica leggera tra misteri, punti interrogativi e certezze.

Henriette fühlt sich gar nicht gut. Wegzug der besten Freundin, Zickenzoff mit der Klassenkameradin und Langeweile plagen sie...

In the summer of 1955, nine-year-old Amanda Gerber tearfully leaves her best friend, Francine, and their adventurous life on her block in Brooklyn’s Flatbush. She joins her cantankerous family on the long, hot drive to her grandmother’s home in the Catskill Mountains among the city’s Jews who flock to countless hotels and bungalow colonies in the heyday of the Borscht Belt. In the idyllic mountains, Amanda becomes ensconced in the tumult of her extended family and their friends, often seeking solace in the woods with her beloved cousin Laura.

The Wireless World sets out a new research agenda for the history of international broadcasting, and for radio history more generally. It examines global and transnational histories of long-distance wireless broadcasting, combining perspectives from international history, media and cultural history, the history of technology, and sound studies. Bringing together their knowledge of a wide range of different countries, languages, and archives, the coauthors show how broadcasters and states deployed international broadcasting as a tool of international communication and persuasion.

Sonja und die Kinder Ebru und Joshua machen eine Bergtour und begegnen dabei Peter und seinem Rettungshund Max bei einer Übung der Bergwacht. Am nächsten Tag erleben sie zufällig einen Polizeihund im Einsatz mit und der Polizist Benno erzählt ihnen anschließend, wie Hunde und Pferde von der Polizei ausgebildet werden. Auf dem "Sonnenhof" erfahren sie von der Therapeutin Jenny alles über die heilende und wohltuende Wirkung von Tieren auf Menschen. Und bei einem Spaziergang mit Alpakas stellen die drei schließlich selbst fest: Tiere und Menschen sind einfach ein gutes Team!