Anders: 885 books

This cutting-edge edited collection brings together 17 scholarly essays on two of cinema and television’s most enduring and powerful themes: law and crime. With contributions by many of the most prominent scholars in law, sociology, criminology, and film, Framing Law and Crime offers a critical...

Un chef d’œuvre du polar scandinave – traduit dans 18 langues et vendu à plus de 800 000 exemplaires dans le monde. Piet Hoffmann est l’homme le plus recherché de la planète. Après s’être évadé de Suède en se faisant passer pour mort, il travaille désormais pour le compte des renseignements...

Ex-crimineel Piet Hoffmann is op de vlucht voor zijn Zweedse verleden. In Colombia begint hij een nieuw leven. Ogenschijnlijk als persoonlijk beveiliger van de beruchte guerrillero El Mestizo, in werkelijkheid als infiltrant voor de Amerikanen, die strijden tegen de drugskartels. Hij is de beste infiltrant...

Leo heeft zes jaar gezeten voor de bankovervallen die hij met zijn twee broers pleegde. Nu krijgt hij eindelijk zijn vrijheid terug, maar de band met zijn broers is hij voor altijd kwijt. Daar is één man verantwoordelijk voor: inspecteur Broncks. Leo zint op wraak, én op een nieuwe overval. Zijn...

How Nazi forces were driven back by the Soviets amid mud and freezing temperatures: “Excellent . . . well researched, fast paced and enjoyable to read.” —Military Review   At the end of September 1941, more than a million German soldiers lined up along the frontline just 180 miles west of...

This book covers a wide range of issues in fire safety engineering in tunnels, describes the phenomena related to tunnel fire dynamics, presents state-of-the-art research, and gives detailed solutions to these major issues. Examples for calculations are provided. The aim is to significantly improve...

This book has two parts, one is a play and the other is a long poem. Both parts have a language that explores a troublesome life situation while it comments on a couple of outsiders in a fictitious/autobiographical fusion. The big question to have in mind when entering the first pages in this book is what it means to be a man in today's universe.

Sylvana is a well to do English landowning countrywoman. Her request to escort a parishioner on a Sunday morning mushroom foraging outing has unexpected consequences. Fired by their coming across a young couple having sex on a river bank, Sylvana is overcome with a wild spirit of primitive passion....

Das schönste Weihnachtsgeschenk: eine vorgelesene Geschichte Kinder spielen draußen im Schnee. Die Häuser sind geschmückt, und in der Luft hängt der Duft von frischen Plätzchen. Die Weihnachtszeit ist da! Nun beginnt das gemütliche Beisammensein. Alle warten gespannt auf das Christkind. Ob...

This enigmatic poetry book deals with gender, not restricting it to the constructions of the human mind but where the topic of gender is included in nature and in human contexts that will surprise the reader.

The Oak Ridges Moraine is a unique landform that generated heated battles over the future of nature conservation, sprawl, and development in the Toronto region at the turn of the twenty-first century. This book provides a careful, multi-faceted history and policy analysis of planning issues and citizen...

The concept of naturalness has largely disappeared from the academic discourse in general but also the particular field of environmental studies. This book is about naturalness in general – about why the idea of naturalness has been abandoned in modern academic discourse, why it is important to...

This brilliant new collection of ten plays for young people will prove indispensable to schools, colleges and youth theatre groups. Specially commissioned by the National Theatre for the Connections Festival 2012 involving 200 schools and youth theatre groups across the UK and Ireland, each play is...

The long, hot days of August have always been the newspapers' silly season, and cub reporter Tara Trent gets the silliest assignments of all. This year it’s a festival of Spiritual Enlightenment in the ancient witch-town of Salem, Massachusetts.There's a twist, though. Anonymous text messages suggest...