A new series in philosophy of science, mathematics and technology. Books in the series will cover the physical, biological, cognitive and social sciences, and reflect the growing popular and academic interest in the ethical and metaphysical implications of modern scientific discoveries. Type: Hardcover
Wickerby: An Urban Pastoral Charles Siebert Crown Publishers, 1998 - 216 sider "Outside my window, the city lights are taking hold now, the breeze-brushed, gently pulsating grid. Why is a cemented aggregate of homes arranged in a tall, tight cluster any further from nature than one wood home within the woods? Because it is so thoroughly man-made? But we wouldn't call the towering carpenter ant's nest that I found one day in Wickerby's collapsing southeast corner 'ant-made.' We are no less natural than the next creature except that thinking makes it seem so. There is no such thing as nature. Wickerby would remind me of this. There is just the earth and us, the name-callers, standing upon it, calling those places without us, nature." Against the backdrop of a tumbledown Brooklyn neighborhood, Charles Siebert, a native Brooklynite and longtime city-dweller, reflects upon the five months he
Trends, Statements, Perspektiven - Trends, Statements, Perspectives When Thomas Merton died accidentally in Bangkok in 1968, the beloved Trappist monk's will specified that his personal diaries not be published for 25 years -- presumably because they contained his uncensored thoughts and feelings. Now, a quarter of a century has passed since Merton's death, and the journals are the last major piece of writing to appear by the 20th century's most important spiritual writer. The first of seven volumes, Run to the Mountain offers an intimate glimpse at the inner life of a young, pre-monastic Merton. Here readers will witness the insatiably curious graduate student in New York's Greenwich Village give way to the tentative spiritual seeker and brilliant writer. Merton playfully lists everything from his favorite lines of poetry and songs to the things he most loves and hates. Thomas Merton wa
Carl Mørck og hans team i Afdeling Q efterforsker en mystisk sag om en gammel flaskepost. Sagen trækker tråde til en række uopklarede kidnapninger og et koldt kriminelt sind. Type: Paperback
Dead As A Doornail : Paperback : Orion Publishing Co : 9780575117068 : 0575117060 : 20 Oct 2011 : The Golden Globe award-winning series, now showing on FX, the channel that brought us DEXTER. Udgivelsesår: 2011 Sider: 295 Sprog: Engelsk
Rediscover the extraordinary love story that inspired the major new Sky TV series. Clare and Henry met when Clare was just six and Henry thirty-six, and were married when Clare was twenty-two and Henry thirty. Impossible but true. The Time Traveler's Wife is the international bestselling novel of a time-altering love. Henry is a librarian who suffers from a rare condition where his genetic clock periodically resets, finding himself pulled suddenly into his past or future. Meanwhile, Clare is an artist waiting all her life for her great love Henry to appear. In the face of this force neither can prevent nor control, Henry and Clare's struggle to lead normal lives is both intensely moving and entirely unforgettable. 'Dark, unpredictable, incredibly clever and a modern romance' Grazia Forlag: Random House Udgivelsesår: 2005 Sider: 532 Sprog: Engelsk
Louisiana cocktail waitress Sookie Stackhouse is stuck in the middle of a vampire gathering on the verge of disaster in the seventh novel in the #1 New York Times bestselling series—the inspiration for the HBO® original series True Blood. Sookie Stackhouse has her hands full with shapeshifter Quinn—a possible new man in her life—and the upcoming central U.S. Vampire Summit on the shores of Lake Michigan. Sookie's job at the summit is to support Vampire Queen Sophie-Anne, whose power base was weakened by hurricane damage to New Orleans. But Sookie is about to discover just how dangerous that job can be, as she is drawn further and further into the vampire world... Forlag: National Geographic Books Udgivelsesår: 2008 Sprog: Engelsk
Skuespillere: Jennifer Aniston, Courteney Cox Arquette, Lisa Kudrow, Matt LeBlanc, Matthew Perry, David Schwimmer Instruktør: David Crane & Marta Kauffman DVD med episoder 19-25 fra den tredje sæson af den populære tv-serie Friends. Studie: Warner Bros Resumé: Indeholder episoder fra den tredje sæson af Friends, en komedieserie om en gruppe venner i New York City.
