PC "Fallout 3" af Bethesda. Vejer 107 g.
Metal månedsdåse med design og tekst relateret til Royal Canadian Tea. Der er illustrationer af Royal Canadian Mounted Police på siderne. Dåsen er lille og kvadratisk, og kan bruges til opbevaring af te eller andre små genstande. Den har et låg, der kan fjernes, og indvendigt er der plads til opbevaring. Målene er 9x7,5x7,5 cm. Tags: metal, te opbevaring, Canada, dekoration
On 14 May 1858, an expedition of discovery led by John McDouall Stuart departed from a copper mine located on the very edge of the known world in the North Flinders Ranges. The Australian continent stretched for another 2,000 kilometres to the north and 2,500 to the west and no white man had the slightest idea of what was there. It was to be the first of six expeditions mounted by Stuart, then aged 42, as he sought to uncover the mysteries of the interior and forge a path to the north. Ultimately he was to become part of a race across the continent, his rivals being the Burke and Wills expedition. In the end Stuart was to be the first European to cross Australia from south to north and return again, as the cumbersome expedition of Burke and Wills turned from farce to tragedy. Yet his hero's homecoming was to be shortlived.Mr Stuart's Track is a fascinating study of a loner, an explorer o
Aimed at the non-expert, this is a guide to survival on the information superhighway. Titel: Being digital Forfatter: Nicholas Negroponte Genre: Non-fiction Sammendrag: The first book to explore the impact of digital technology on the world, the bestselling BEING DIGITAL explains, in an exhilarating and totally accessible style, what being digital means and how your life can be enhanced by it. From wrist-mounted TVs, computers and telephones to fridges that notice we are out of milk and can tell our car to pick some up on the way home, BEING DIGITAL is full of practical insights into the future of communications. Type: Paperback
Human existence is based upon risk. This text charts the adventures of a group of thinkers who embarked on a voyage of intellectual discovery, transforming primeval superstition into the powerful tools of risk control employed today.One of the foremost financial writers of his generation, Peter Bernstein has the unique ability to synthesize intellectual history and economics with the theory and practice of investment management With the stock market breaking records almost daily, leaving longtime market analysts shaking their heads and revising their forecasts, a study of the concept of risk seems quite timely. Peter Bernstein has written a comprehensive history of man's efforts to understand risk and probability, beginning with early gamblers in ancient Greece, continuing through the 17th-century French mathematicians Pascal and Fermat and up to modern chaos theory. Along the way he dem
Red KL NOIR: Red is the first of 4 volumes about the Malaysian capital city's dark side. There are 14 short stories and one essay about the seedy, the sinister and sometimes the spooky. You will find murder, drug-dealing, kidnapping, sexual depravity, prostitution, celebrity secrets, suicides, academic rivalry, gangsters, police brutality, cannibalism, black magic, creepy rituals, political corruption and even busking. It's all totally fictional. Well, maybe the cannibalism is. Forfatter: Amir Muhammad Udgivelsesår: 2013 Sider: 280 Sprog: Engelsk
Politibetjent Peter Grant bevogter et gerningssted, og her møder han et spøgelse, som har været vidne til forbrydelsen. Kort efter bliver han en del af Metropolitan Police, som kun har ét andet medlem, nemlig en troldmand. Peter undervises i at blive en troldmand og lærer magi for at kunne løse alle de uforklarlige forbrydelser, der opstår over hele London. Titel: Rivers of London Genre: fantasy Sammendrag: Peter Grant er nyuddannet betjent i Metropolitan Police i London og håber på en karriere som efterforsker. Da han får til opgave at bevogte et gerningssted, møder han et spøgelse, som viser sig at være et vidne til en brutal forbrydelse. Oplevelsen fører ham til Inspector Nightingale, den sidste troldmand i britisk politi, og Peter bliver lærling i en hemmelig enhed, der håndterer overnaturlige sager. Mens en række voldelige og uforklarlige hændelser rammer byen, må Peter navigere mel
On the morning of his fifth wedding anniversary, Nick's wife Amy suddenly disappears. The police immediately suspect Nick. Amy's friends reveal that she was afraid of him, that she kept secrets from him. He swears it isn't true. A police examination of his computer shows strange searches. He says they aren't his. And then there are the persistent calls on his mobile phone. So what really did happen to Nick's beautiful wife? Forlag: Weidenfeld & Nicolson Udgivelsesår: 2012 Sider: 484 Sprog: Engelsk
