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Gib’s Odyssey is the true story of an extraordinary man, Gib Peters, and his solo journey along the Intracoastal Waterway from Key West to New York and back while suffering the ravages of Lou Gehrig’s disease. On an astonishing six-month voyage, Gib and his boat, Ka-Ching, encounter everything from...
Stylish, riveting and appalling, GB84 is a shocking fictional documentation of the violence, sleaze and fraudulence that characterised Thatcher’s Britain.Great Britain. 1984. The miners’ strike. It is the closest Britain has come to civil war in fifty years, setting the government against the...
A chilling alternative history of the Second World War, in which the Nazis have conquered BritainIt is 1941 and Germany has won the war. Britain is occupied, Churchill executed and the King imprisoned in the Tower of London. At Scotland Yard, Detective Inspector Archer tries to do his job and keep...
A chilling alternative history in which the Nazis have conquered Britain, now in the iconic Penguin Crime seriesIt is 1941 and Germany has won the war. Britain is occupied, Churchill executed and the King imprisoned in the Tower of London. At Scotland Yard, Detective Inspector Archer tries to do...
“Deighton’s best book . . . an absorbingly exciting spy story that is also a fascinating exercise in might-have-been speculation.”—The New York Times Book ReviewIt is 1941 and Germany has won the war. Britain is occupied, Churchill executed, and the King imprisoned in the Tower of London. At...
An exhilarating chronicle of the most revolutionary advancements in recent-and future-technology Which new technologies are bound to have the biggest impact on our lives in the years ahead? This groundbreaking book looks at the latest technological superstars destined to reshape the upcoming...
It all began with Curley Lambardi’s Acme Packers in 1919. Since then, the Green Bay Packers have become the most storied team in the history of professional football. Greatest Moments in Green Bay Packers History recounts the Packers’ biggest games and those legendary heroes who built Titletown....
Find Your Purpose. But Don’t Lose Your Mind.
Die Pyramidentexte bilden das alteste erhaltene Korpus religioser Texte aus dem pharaonischen Agypten, und mit bis zu 2.500 Jahren (vom Alten Reich bis in die Romische Zeit) ist ihre Uberlieferungsgeschichte bemerkenswert lang. Jochem Kahl rekonstruiert mithilfe der textkritischen Methode...
This introduction aims to present, from a physicist’s point of view, radiation processes and their applications to astrophysical phenomena and space science. It covers such topics as radiative transfer theory, relativistic covariance and kinematics.
A glorious celebration of the history of Westland
Die Untreue (§ 266 StGB) hat sich zum wichtigsten und umstrittensten Delikt des gesamten Wirtschaftsstrafrechts entwickelt. Durch eine Grundsatzentscheidung des Bundesverfassungsgerichts sind die Auslegungsprobleme eher vermehrt als vermindert worden. Die Rechtsprechung der verschiedenen...
Im Fokus der Dissertation steht die rechtliche Betrachtung der §§ 213, 214 StGB-DDR. Anknüpfungspunkt ist die Arbeit von Mohr zu § 213, die die Entwicklung bis 1968 aufzeigt. Das vorliegende Werk behandelt den gesamten Zeitraum von 1957 bis 1990 und bezieht die Rechtsprechung des OG ebenso ein wie...
Die Arbeit befasst sich mit der Darstellung und Untersuchung der in § 177 des Strafgesetzbuches in seiner heute geltenden Fassung zusammengefassten Straftatbestände der sexuellen Nötigung und Vergewaltigung. Dabei folgt die Darstellung dem zeitgeschichtlichen Verlauf der Gesetzgebungsverfahren und...
Gegenstand der vorliegenden Abhandlung ist die Reformdiskussion und Gesetzgebung der Inzeststraftatbestände des § 173 StGB, erstmals zusammenhängend dargestellt von 1870 bis zur Gegenwart. In einer chronologischen Untersuchung werden die einzelnen Reformbemühungen sowie die verschiedenen...
The subject of this work is the reform debate and legislation pertaining to the facts of the case as set out in §217 of the old version of the German Criminal Code (StGB) from 1870 until its annulment under the Sixth Criminal Law Reform Act (StrRG) on 1 April 1998. This work focuses on providing...
Merging the histories of capitalism with political and cultural analysis, Gibbings demonstrates how the struggle between indigenous people and settlers to manage contested ideas of modern politics, economics, and social norms was central to the rise of coffee capitalism in Guatemala and to...
Le ragioni di questa seconda edizione possono essere ricondotte tutte alla convinzione che la riflessione di Vico sulla storia sia oggi piu attuale e significativa che in passato. Da una parte, infatti, si assiste ad una profonda crisi delle varie forme di razionalismo, mentre, dall’altra, anche la...
Der Schwangerschaftsabbruch ist ein vielschichtiges und kontrovers diskutiertes Thema. Relativ wenig Beachtung finden dabei jedoch die Ursachen von Abtreibungen. Dieses Buch stellt die Gründe für den Schwangerschaftskonflikt in den Kontext der Abtreibungsdebatte in Deutschland. Dazu wird in einem...
Real analysis is the section of mathematics that studies the functions of real variables such as measurements, integrations, and topology results. This new edition of the widely used analysis book continues to cover real analysis in detail.