Skandale sind das Salz in der Suppe der Filmschaffenden. Sie konnen binnen Stunden ein Studio ruinieren oder die Kinokassen klingeln lassen. Die Traumfabrik reagiert wie ein Seismograf auf das nachste Beben, das ein neuer Skandal in Hollywood auslost. HOLLYWOOD – SODOM UND GOMORRA beschaftigt sich mit den wichtigsten Skandalen der Filmmetropole und deren Auswirkungen auf Stars und Studios. ...
London – Paris – Outremer, um 1260: Unter der strengen Zucht seiner Meister la?t sich der junge Will Campell zum Tempelritter ausbilden, um im Heiligen Land als Kampfer zu dienen. Doch bevor es dazu kommt, erhalt er den Auftrag der anima templi, einem Geheimbund innerhalb des Templer-Ordens, ein gestohlenes Buch zuruckzubringen. Ganz unerwartet hilft ihm dabei die schone Elwen, fur die sich der angehende Ritter schon langere Zeit interessiert… ...
"Paul Maccabee's <strong>John Dillinger Slept Here</strong> is not just one of the best books ever written about Minneapolis-St. Paul, it is one of the best books of local history I have ever read—about any city anywhere on Earth. While writing <em>Public Enemies</em> I kept it on my desk at all times. I daresay one cannot call himself a real Minnesotan if you haven't read it. The book is j ...
Throughout history we have told ourselves stories to try and make sense of what it all means: our place in a small corner of one of billions of galaxies, at the end of billions of years of existence. In this new book Richard Holloway takes us on a personal, scientific and philosophical journey to explore what he believes the answers to the biggest of questions are. He examines what we know about the universe into which – without any choice in th ...
A general overview of the last Ottoman years of what became the modern Middle East and the genesis of its crises.First time memoirs of various Turkish actors – Ottoman military and civilian officials, eminent intellectuals of the Ottoman and the Republican eras including a woman, which gives a gender dimension – reflecting the twilight of the Ottoman Empire in the Middle East in English.New perspectives on controversial figures such as Jamal Pac ...
Last Epic Novel from the LegendThis novel can be considered an «epic», but it owes this classification as much to its sweeping scope, richness of vision, and heterogeneous approach to genre as it does to its length. Benitez Rojo has classified this book himself as historical, epic, autobiographical, bildungsroman, and even postmodern—this book serves as a culmination of his mastery of multiple genres. This novel is written more direct than some ...
Hallucinating between childhood and manhood, Eddie Burnett is both hero and anti-hero in this hard-hitting collection of linked stories. Coming of age in California's post-war suburbs and freefalling through the turbulence of the sixties and early seventies, Eddie's transformation from a boy's innocence to a man's hardened wariness is captured in lyrical, emotionally raw episodes. He navigates the minefields of American mascu ...
