LEGO Horizon Forbidden West Tallneck sættet inkluderer 1.222 dele og er en avanceret byggemodel anbefalet til personer over 18 år. Pakken viser en Tallneck figur fra spillet Horizon Forbidden West. Det færdigsamlede sæt har dimensionerne 38x9,5x26 cm og indeholder detaljer som landskabselementer og en spilfigur. uåbnet (ny)
A Wickedly Smart Guide to History's Naughtiest Bits Think of anything bad, from art heists to Genghis Kahn, and it's likely to be included in this wickedly smart and humorous guide to the seedy underbelly of basically everything. The brainiac team at "mental_floss", creators of the hit magazine and last year's Condensed Knowledge, have scoured the darkest, dirtiest corners of history and the globe to gather this ultimate collection of the bad stuff you're not supposed to know and you certainly never learned in school. Organized by theme, with chapters for each of the seven deadly sins, the book includes feuds, plagiarists, hoaxes, lies, schemes, scandals, evil dictators, mob bosses, acts of revenge, angry queens, cannibals and much more, all organized into bite-sized—albeit foul-tasting—lists (i.e."The Fascist Style Guide: Five Dictator Grooming Tips", “Four Biblical Girls Gone Wild" and
In 1611 a mysterious letter was received by the London merchants of the East India Company. It came from William Adams, an Englishman who had settled in Japan, then a forbidden and unknown land. The letter inspired the merchants to go to the Far East and trade with the Japanese through Adams Titel: Samurai William : The adventurer who unlocked Japan Genre: Historisk Sammendrag: I 1611 modtog Londons købmænd et brev fra en strandet engelsk sømand, William Adams, som havde boet i Japan i over et årti. Syv eventyrere blev sendt for at finde og blive venner med Adams. Hans viden om Japans rigdomme gjorde ham værdifuld, men de opdagede, at Adams allerede var blevet en del af det lokale liv. Type: Paperback
On a summer's day in 1922 Cora Carlisle boards a train from Wichita, Kansas, to New York City, leaving behind a marriage that's not as perfect as it seems and a past that she buried long ago. She is charged with the care of a stunning young girl with a jet-black fringe and eyes wild and wise beyond her fifteen years. This girl is hungry for stardom and Cora for something she doesn't yet know. Cora will be many things in her lifetime - an orphan, a mother, a wife, a mistress - but in New York she is a chaperone and her life is about to change. It is here under the bright lights of Broadway, in a time when prohibition reigns and speakeasies with their forbidden whispers behind closed doors thrive, that Cora finds what she has been searching for. It is here, in a time when illicit thrills and daring glamour sizzle beneath the laws of propriety that her life truly begins. It is here that Cor
An anarchic coming-of-age novel that explores and celebrates Britain in the seventies. Titel: Buddha of suburbia Genre: Fiction Sammendrag: The hero of Hanif Kureishi's debut novel is a dreamy teenager, desperate to escape suburban South London and experience the forbidden fruits which the 1970s seem to offer. When the unlikely opportunity of a life in the theatre announces itself, Karim starts to win the sort of attention he has been craving—albeit with some rude and raucous results. Type: Paperback
Architecture, which can be understood in its most basic sense as a form of enclosure created with an aesthetic intent, first made its appearance in the Prehistoric Age. From its earliest developments, architecture changed over time and in different cultures in response to changing cultural needs, aesthetic interests, materials, and techniques. The A to Z of Architecture provides information on architects like Frank Lloyd Wright, Tadao Ando, Leon Battista Alberti, Filippo Brunelleschi, Michelangelo, and Konstantin Stepanovich Melnikov, as well as on famous structures like the Acropolis, the Colosseum, the Forbidden City, Machu Pichu, Notre Dame, the Pyramids of Giza, Stonehenge, and the World Trade Center. The dictionary examines the development of architecture over the centuries through a chronology, an introductory essay, a bibliography, and hundreds of cross-referenced dictionary entri
DVD "Forbidden Kingdom, the". På engelsk. Undertekster på dansk. Udgivet i Danmark, 23. dec. 2008 Vejer 124 g.
The Archipelago is still plagued by dragons and its peoples live in terror of their coming. Kheda, Risala and Velindre chase rumours of a water dragon, as they alone have discovered the secret means to repel these fearsome beasts. Yet this has won them no friends and they are forced to travel incognito, their lives at risk. The delicate political balance of the islands teeters as rival factions spar and warfare threatens. Kheda is reluctantly drawn into the fray as his dragon fighting powers become a powerful political tool – but he and his companions are tainted by the suspicion of forbidden magic. This places them in great danger but also has wider implications for the power structure of the islands. Kheda’s contact with northern magic has caused him to doubt the very foundations of his people’s ancient beliefs, placing his future as a warlord in doubt and making the succession of his
