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Perfect Health (Revised Edition) - Deepak Chopra - Bog - Transworld Publishers Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Perfect Health (Revised Edition) - Deepak Chopra - Bog - Transworld Publishers Ltd - Plusbog.dk

A revised edition the perennial international bestseller that has helped millions achieve physical and mental healing, rejuvenation and balance from Deepak Chopra, the undisputed master of modern spirituality. ''A brilliant and exhilarating book'' -- Sunday Telegraph ''I could not put this book down, beautifully and clearly written'' -- ***** Reader review ''Inspirational'' -- ***** Reader review ''Deepak is the ultimate guru'' -- ***** Reader review ''Absolutely love this book!'' -- ***** Reader review ************************************************************************************Instead of considering it as something solid, Chopra sees the body as interweaving systems of energies that are constantly being consumed and renewed - the balance of these energies determines the mind-body type. Combining ancient Ayurvedic healing practices with modern Western medicine , this unique book offers a step-by-step program of mind - body medicine that can be tailored to the individual''s needs, based on the individual''s mind-body type.A comprehensive guide, explaining the various body types, Perfect Health explains how we can heal the mind and reduce stress via meditation, healing sounds, music and aromatherapy and how we can nurture the body by optimising diet and exercise .Originally published in 1990, this revised edition - complete with questionnaires and the latest scientific and medical research studies - is destined to appeal to the millions of Chopra devotees around the world and all those in search of balance, harmony and perfect health .

DKK 166.00
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Black Holes: The Reith Lectures - Stephen Hawking - Bog - Transworld Publishers Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Black Holes: The Reith Lectures - Stephen Hawking - Bog - Transworld Publishers Ltd - Plusbog.dk

“It is said that fact is sometimes stranger than fiction, and nowhere is that more true than in the case of black holes. Black holes are stranger than anything dreamed up by science fiction writers.”In 2016 Professor Stephen Hawking delivered the BBC Reith Lectures on a subject that fascinated him for decades – black holes.In these flagship lectures the legendary physicist argued that if we could only understand black holes and how they challenge the very nature of space and time, we could unlock the secrets of the universe.

DKK 112.00
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Written In Bone - Professor Sue Black - Bog - Transworld Publishers Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Written In Bone - Professor Sue Black - Bog - Transworld Publishers Ltd - Plusbog.dk

WINNER OF THE CWA GOLD DAGGER FOR NON-FICTION ''Gripping from the start, Written in Bone is superb'' - Dr Richard Shepherd, author of Unnatural Causes ''No Scientist communicates better than Sue Black'' - Val McDermid, author of Still Life ''Macabre, authoritative and fascinating.'' - The Sunday Times Our bones are the silent witnesses to the lives we lead. Our stories are marbled into their marrow. Drawing upon her years of research and a wealth of remarkable experience, the world-renowned forensic anthropologist Professor Dame Sue Black takes us on a journey of revelation. From skull to feet, via the face, spine, chest, arms, hands, pelvis and legs, she shows that each part of us has a tale to tell. What we eat, where we go, everything we do leaves a trace, a message that waits patiently for months, years, sometimes centuries, until a forensic anthropologist is called upon to decipher it.Some of this information is easily understood, some holds its secrets tight and needs scientific cajoling to be released. But by carefully piecing together the evidence, the facts of a life can be rebuilt.Limb by limb, case by case - some criminal, some historical, some unaccountably bizarre - Sue Black reconstructs with intimate sensitivity and compassion the hidden stories in what we leave behind. Praise for Sue Black: ''Sue Black has a rare ability to make blood and bones come alive. A marvellous writer. Ruth Davidson, SMP''The corpse whisperer ... Is it okay for Black, or us, to enjoy this quite so much?''''Fascinating'' - Spectator '' Gripping'' - Guardian ''Moving'' - Scotsman ''Engrossing'' - Financial Times

DKK 123.00
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Puzzles Of The Black Widowers - Isaac Asimov - Bog - Transworld Publishers Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Puzzles Of The Black Widowers - Isaac Asimov - Bog - Transworld Publishers Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Each month the Black Widowers, an urbane club of cerebral adventurers, meet at the Milano Restaurant for dinner. And each month a single guest is invited and subjected to a genial but intense grilling on the meaning of his existence. Inevitably the guest confides some puzzling question or strange occurrence in his life - the inexplicable disappearance of a good luck charm, for instance, or how a four-leaf clover can identify a traitor - tantalizing conundrums that the great Holmes himself would have enjoyed solving.When the Black Widowers are stumped (as invariably happens), they turn to their faithful waiter Henry, who serves up perfectly grilled salmon and devilishly clever answers with equal aplomb.

DKK 159.00
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Blue River, Black Sea - Andrew Eames - Bog - Transworld Publishers Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Blue River, Black Sea - Andrew Eames - Bog - Transworld Publishers Ltd - Plusbog.dk

The Danube is Europe''s Amazon. It flows through more countries than any other river on Earth - from the Black Forest in Germany to Europe''s farthest fringes, where it joins the Black Sea in Romania. Andrew Eames'' journey along its length brings us face to face with the Continent''s bloodiest history and its most pressing issues of race and identity.As he travels - by bicycle, horse, boat and on foot - Eames finds himself seeking a bed for the night with minor royalty, hitching a ride on a Serbian barge captained by a man called Attila and getting up close and personal with a bull in rural Romania. He meets would-be kings and walks with gypsies, and finally rows his way beyond the borders of Europe entirely...

DKK 155.00
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All That Remains - Professor Sue Black - Bog - Transworld Publishers Ltd - Plusbog.dk

All That Remains - Professor Sue Black - Bog - Transworld Publishers Ltd - Plusbog.dk

''Utterly gripping'' - The Guardian ''Fascinating'' - The Sunday Times ''Moving'' - Scotsman ''Engrossing'' - Financial Times Sue Black confronts death every day. As a Professor of Anatomy and Forensic Anthropology, she focuses on mortal remains in her lab, at burial sites, at scenes of violence, murder and criminal dismemberment, and when investigating mass fatalities due to war, accident or natural disaster. In All That Remains she reveals the many faces of death she has come to know, using key cases to explore how forensic science has developed, and examining what her life and work has taught her. Do we expect a book about death to be sad? Macabre? Sue''s book is neither. There is tragedy, but there is also humour in stories as gripping as the best crime novel. Part memoir, part science, part meditation on death, her book is compassionate, surprisingly funny, and it will make you think about death in a new light. ________ SUE BLACK''S NEW BOOK, WRITTEN IN BONE , IS OUT NOW _________ ''One might expect [this book] to be a grim read but it absolutely isn''t. I found it invigorating!'' (Andrew Marr, BBC Radio 4 ''Start the Week'' ) ''Black''s utterly gripping account of her life and career as a professor of anatomy and forensic anthropology manages to be surprisingly life-affirming. As she herself says, it is "as much about life as about death"'' (PD Smith Guardian) ''An engrossing memoir . . . an affecting mix of personal and professional'' ( Erica Wagner , Financial Times) ''A model of how to write about the effect of human evil without losing either objectivity or sensitivity . . . Heartening and anything but morbid . . . Leaves you thinking about what kind of human qualities you value, what kinds of people you actually want to be with'' (Rowan Williams, New Statesman ) ''For someone whose job is identifying corpses, Sue Black is a cheerful soul . . . All That Remains feels like every episode of ''Silent Witness'', pre-fictionalised. Except, you know, really good'' (Helen Rumbelow, The Times )

DKK 127.00
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Black Hawk Down - Mark Bowden - Bog - Transworld Publishers Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Black Hawk Down - Mark Bowden - Bog - Transworld Publishers Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Already winning acclaim as one of the best accounts of combat ever written, Black Hawk Down is a minute-by-minute, heart-stopping account of the 1993 raid on Mogadishu, Somalia. Late in the afternoon of Sunday, October 3 1993, 140 elite US Soldiers abseiled from helicopters into a teeming market neighbourhood in the heart of the city. Their mission was to abduct two top lieutenants of a Somali warlord and return to base. It was supposed to take them about an hour.Instead, they were pinned down through a long and terrible night in a hostile city, fighting for their lives against thousands of heavily armed Somalis. Two of their high-tech helicopters were shot out of the sky. When the unit was rescued the following morning, eighteen American soldiers were dead and more than seventy badly injured. The Somali toll was far worse - more than five hundred killed and over a thousand injured.Authoritative, gripping, and insightful, Black Hawk Down is destined to become a classic of war reporting. It is already the most accurate, detailed account of modern combat ever written.

DKK 127.00
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Football Fanatic - Ken Ferris - Bog - Transworld Publishers Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Football Fanatic - Ken Ferris - Bog - Transworld Publishers Ltd - Plusbog.dk

This is the book which landed the author in the Guinness Book of Records for his record-breaking 20,000-mile tour of every Football League Ground in England. The first edition was hugely successful and was listed by Sportspages Bookshop as one of the bestselling football books of the year. This new and enlarged edition features reports on all 93 grounds visited by the author and is a comprehensive and entertaining guide for every football fanatic.

DKK 161.00
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Black Sea Twilight - Domnica Radulescu - Bog - Transworld Publishers Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Black Sea Twilight - Domnica Radulescu - Bog - Transworld Publishers Ltd - Plusbog.dk

1980s Romania: As the sun sets on the magical shore of the Black Sea and casts its last rays across the water, all Nora Teodoru can think about is pursuing her dream of becoming an accomplished artist - and of her love for Gigi, her childhood boyfriend from the Turkish part of town.But storm clouds are gathering as life under Dictator Nicolae Ceausescu becomes increasingly unbearable. His secret police are circling, never far from the young couple''s doors. Nora and Gigi make plans to escape to Turkey. But nothing can prepare them for the events that follow...

DKK 168.00
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Air (Signed Edition) - John Boyne - Bog - Transworld Publishers Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Air (Signed Edition) - John Boyne - Bog - Transworld Publishers Ltd - Plusbog.dk

From internationally bestselling author John Boyne, a contemplative story about one man trying to move forward from the trauma of his youth to become a better father to his son. Being in limbo, 30,000 feet in the air, offers time to reflect and take stock. For Aaron Umber, it's an opportunity to connect with his 14-year-old son as they travel halfway across the world to meet a woman who isn't expecting them. Unsettled by his past, and anxious for his future, Aaron is at a crossroads in life. The damage inflicted upon him during his youth has made him the man he is, but now threatens to widen the growing fissures between him and his only child. This trip could bind them closer together, or tear them further apart. In this penetrating examination of action and consequence, fault and attribution, acceptance and resolution, John Boyne gives us a redemptive story of a father and a son on a moving journey to mend their troubled lives.

DKK 139.00
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The Eggheads Quizbook 2007 edition - - Bog - Transworld Publishers Ltd - Plusbog.dk

The Eggheads Quizbook 2007 edition - - Bog - Transworld Publishers Ltd - Plusbog.dk

BBC2''s Eggheads - now in its seventh series - is one of the most successful quiz shows on television. Day after day, brilliant teams from across the nation try their luck against the seemingly invincible Eggheads - Kevin Ashman (World Quiz Champion), Judith Keppel (first Millionaire winner), Chris Hughes (International Mastermind champion), Daphne Fowler (current Brain of Britain) and CJ de Mooi (multiple quiz show winner).Packed full of gruelling questions set by the individual Eggheads to test you on their specialist subjects as well as your general knowledge, The Eggheads Quiz Book gives you a chance to see if you are a worthy opponent. Can anyone beat the Eggheads?

DKK 161.00
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Black is the Body - Emily Bernard - Bog - Transworld Publishers Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Black is the Body - Emily Bernard - Bog - Transworld Publishers Ltd - Plusbog.dk

A New Statesman essential non-fiction read of 2021 ''Everybody should read [this]'' Stylist "Blackness is an art, not a science. It is a paradox: intangible and visceral; a situation and a story. It is the thread that connects these essays, but its significance as an experience emerges randomly, unpredictably. . . . Race is the story of my life, and therefore black is the body of this book." In twelve intensely personal, interconnected essays, Emily Bernard sets out to tell stories from her life that enable her to talk about truth, race, family and relationships, and much more. She observes the complexities and paradoxes, the haunting memories and ambushing realities of growing up black in the South with a family name inherited from a white man, of getting a PhD from Yale, of marrying a white man from the North, of adopting two babies from Ethiopia, of teaching at a white college and living in America''s New England today.Ultimately, she shows us that it is in our shared experience of humanity that we find connection, happiness and hope. What readers are saying: ''Perspective changing essays'' *****''A page-turner - full of empathy, love, and insight'' *****''I raced through this'' *****''I loved it'' *****''Exquisitely crafted'' *****''Essential reading'' *****''I couldn''t put it down'' *****''Beautifully written. A must read for all races'' *****''I loved everything about this book'' *****

DKK 155.00
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The Most of Nora Ephron - Nora Ephron - Bog - Transworld Publishers Ltd - Plusbog.dk

The Most of Nora Ephron - Nora Ephron - Bog - Transworld Publishers Ltd - Plusbog.dk

A NEW, REVISED EDITION OF THE ULTIMATE NORA EPHRON COLLECTION, PACKED WITH WIT, WISDOM AND COMFORT, WITH AN INTRODUCTION FROM CANDICE CARTY-WILLIAMS ''The perfect introduction to the iconic writer'' STYLIST INCLUDING:* Nora''s much-loved essays on everything from friendship to feminism to journalism* Extracts from her bestselling novel Heartburn * Scenes from her hilarious screenplay for When Harry Met Sally * Unparalleled advice about friends, lovers, divorces, desserts and black turtleneck sweaters ''It''s got a little bit of everything, from witty essays on feminism, beauty, and ageing to profiles of empowering female figures'' ELLE *PRAISE FOR NORA EPHRON*''So bold and so vulnerable at the same time. I don''t know how she did it'' PHOEBE WALLER-BRIDGE ''Nora''s exacting, precise, didactic, tried-and-tested, sophisticated-woman-wearing-all-black wisdom is a comfort and a relief'' DOLLY ALDERTON ''Nora Ephron is the funniest, cleverest, wisest friend you could have'' NIGELLA LAWSON ''I am only the one of millions of women who will miss Nora''s voice'' LENA DUNHAM

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Homemade God (Signed Edition) - Rachel Joyce - Bog - Transworld Publishers Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Homemade God (Signed Edition) - Rachel Joyce - Bog - Transworld Publishers Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Goose and his three sisters gather at the family's house by Lake Orta in Piedmont, Italy. Their father, a famous artist, has recently remarried a much younger woman and decamped to Italy to finish his masterpiece. Now he is dead and there is no sign of a painting. Although the siblings have always been close, as they search for answers over that summer, the things they learn - about themselves, their father and their new stepmother - will drive them apart before they can come to any kind of understanding of what their father's legacy truly is.

DKK 192.00
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Victory '45 (Signed Edition) - Al Murray - Bog - Transworld Publishers Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Victory '45 (Signed Edition) - Al Murray - Bog - Transworld Publishers Ltd - Plusbog.dk

From the Italian Alps to northern Germany, to London, New York, Washington and Tokyo, Victory '45 tells the story of the extraordinary summer when the greatest conflagration the world had ever known finally came to an end after eight surrenders that heralded the Allied victory. Comprised of eight chapters based around each of those surrenders and the victory celebrations which followed, it will be rich in character and human drama with revealing stories and perspectives behind the end of the war not yet told before. Each chapter will follow the viewpoints of a number of key characters as they traverse these world-changing events - from ordinary servicemen and women and civilians to generals and political leaders. What took place during the negotiations of those surrenders and the terms that were agreed there would determine the directions the participating countries would take in the years that followed and ultimately the shape of our current world.

DKK 211.00
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Think Again (Signed Edition) - Jacqueline Wilson - Bog - Transworld Publishers Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Think Again (Signed Edition) - Jacqueline Wilson - Bog - Transworld Publishers Ltd - Plusbog.dk

No job. No love life. Perhaps it's time to THINK AGAIN. Ellie Allard isn't quite where she thought she'd be by her late thirties. Though she's got her beautiful daughter, her beloved cat and the best friends anyone could wish for, her love life is non-existent and she feels like she's been living on auto-pilot, just grateful to be able to afford the rent on her poky little flat. But on her fortieth birthday, it seems it's time for all that to change - whether Ellie wants it to or not. As she navigates new, exciting and often choppy waters, she's about to discover that life will never stop surprising you - if only you let it.

DKK 119.00
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Into the Black - Rowland White - Bog - Transworld Publishers Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Into the Black - Rowland White - Bog - Transworld Publishers Ltd - Plusbog.dk

On 12th April 1981 a revolutionary new spacecraft blasted off from Florida on her maiden flight. NASA’s Space Shuttle Columbia was the most advanced flying machine ever built – the high watermark of post-war aviation development. A direct descendant of the record-breaking X-planes the likes of which Chuck Yeager had tested in the skies over the Mojave Desert, Columbia was a winged rocket plane, the size of an airliner, capable of flying to space and back before being made ready to fly again. She was the world’s first real spaceship. On board were men with the Right Stuff. The Shuttle’s Commander, moonwalker John Young, was already a veteran of five spaceflights. Alongside him, Pilot Bob Crippen was making his first, but Crip, taken in by the space agency after the cancellation of a top secret military space station programme in 1969, had worked on the Shuttle’s development for a decade. Never before had a crew been so well prepared for their mission.Yet less than an hour after Young and Crippen’s spectacular departure from the Cape it was clear that all was not well. Tiles designed to protect Columbia from the blowtorch burn of re-entry were missing from the heatshield. If the damage to their ship was too great the astronauts would be unable to return safely to earth. But neither they nor mission control possessed any way of knowing. Instead, NASA turned to the National Reconnaissance Office, a spy agency hidden deep inside the Pentagon whose very existence was classified. To help, the NRO would attempt something that had never been done before. Success would require skill, pinpoint timing and luck …Drawing on brand new interviews with astronauts and engineers, archive material and newly declassified documents, Rowland White, bestselling author of Vulcan 607 , has pieced together the dramatic untold story of the mission for the first time. Into the Black is a thrilling race against time; a gripping high stakes cold-war story, and a celebration of a beyond the state-of-the-art machine that, hailed as one of the seven new wonders of the world, rekindled our passion for spaceflight. *With a foreword by Astronaut Richard Truly* ‘Beautifully researched and written, Into the Black tells the true, complete story of the Space Shuttle better than it’s ever been told before.’ Colonel Chris Hadfield, former Astronaut and Space Station Commander ‘Brilliantly revealed, Into the Black is the finely tuned true story of the first flight of the Space Shuttle Columbia . Rowland White has magnificently laid bare the unknown dangers and unseen hazards of that first mission … Once read, not forgotten.’ Clive Cussler

DKK 139.00
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Arnhem: Black Tuesday - Al Murray - Bog - Transworld Publishers Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Arnhem: Black Tuesday - Al Murray - Bog - Transworld Publishers Ltd - Plusbog.dk

The incredible true story behind the most catastrophic 24-hours the British military faced in World War II from the bestselling author. ‘Utterly brilliant... this book really is the last word on the Battle of Arnhem’ James Holland, bestselling author of The Savage Storm ’Superb... A military historian of originality and insight to compare with the best’ Saul David, historian and bestselling author of Sky Warriors _________ The Battle of Arnhem is one of the best-known stories in British military history: a daring but doomed attempt to secure a vital bridgehead across the Rhine in order to end the war before Christmas 1944. It is always written about, with the benefit of unerring 20/20 hindsight, as being destined to fail, but the men who fought there, men of military legend, didn''t know that that was to be their fate.Now, in Arnhem: Black Tuesday , Al Murray focuses on the events of one day as they happened through the eyes of the British participants, without bringing any knowledge of what would happen tomorrow to bear, offering a very different perspective on a familiar narrative.Some things went right and a great many more went wrong, but recounting them in this way allows the reader to understand for the first time how certain decisions were taken in the moment and how opportunities were squandered. Al Murray has always been obsessed by this legendary battle, and in Arnhem: Black Tuesday he showcases all of his knowledge, interpretation and enthusiasm to bear to tell the story of one of history’s great heroic failures differently for the first time._________ ‘Original and insightful’ Telegraph ''A revelation.. This is Arnhem unplugged. By confining himself to men in and around Arnhem on that Tuesday, Murray achieves something special'' The Times

DKK 241.00
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Black and White Thinking - Dr Kevin Dutton - Bog - Transworld Publishers Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Black and White Thinking - Dr Kevin Dutton - Bog - Transworld Publishers Ltd - Plusbog.dk

A Malcolm Gladwell, Susan Cain, Daniel Pink and Adam Grant NEXT BIG IDEA book club read about how to avoid the pitfalls of too little, and too much, complexity. ''Essential insights into the character of human choice and decision-making.'' ROBERT CIALDINI, bestselling author of Influence ________ In this groundbreaking exploration of how our brains work, psychologist Professor Kevin Dutton explains that by understanding the nature of our hardwired black and white thinking we are better equipped to negotiate life''s grey zones and make subtler and smarter decisions.Our brains are hardwired to sort, categorize and draw lines. It''s how we navigate the kaleidoscope of everyday information. Yet imagine failing an exam by a mere 1 per cent. Or being caught speeding at just 1 mph over the speed limit. We have to draw the line somewhere, we say. But lines can be unhelpful or even dangerous when drawn where they aren''t wanted, or in too thick a hand. By thinking in terms of '' ''them'' or ''us'' and ''this'' or ''that'' we isolate ourselves from ideas we don''t agree with and people who are not the same as us. We fail to listen to the other side of the argument and beliefs become polarized. Intolerance and extremism flourish. The human race has survived by making binary decisions, but such thinking might also destroy us. We may be programmed to think in black and white but rainbow thinking is the key to our cognitive future.__________ ''Fascinating, important and entirely convincing.'' SIR PHILIP PULLMAN

DKK 126.00
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By Your Side (Signed Edition) - Ruth Jones - Bog - Transworld Publishers Ltd - Plusbog.dk

By Your Side (Signed Edition) - Ruth Jones - Bog - Transworld Publishers Ltd - Plusbog.dk

The joyful and life-affirming new novel from the BAFTA-winning co-writer of Gavin and Stacey and the Sunday Times bestselling and Richard and Judy Book Club author of Love Untold. Because second chances come when you least expect them... Linda Standish has been a friend to the friendless for the past thirty-three years, in her role at the council's Unclaimed Heirs Unit. And now she's looking forward to the joys of an early retirement. But before she hangs up her lanyard, Linda takes on one last case - that of Levi Norman - a Welshman who made his home on a remote Scottish island for the five years before he died. Linda must visit Storrich to track down Levi's remaining relatives... What brought Levi here? And who did he leave behind? Obliged to travel (by hearse!) with her arch nemesis, and helped (and hindered...) by the local residents, Linda searches for clues to a life now lost. And in the process unexpectedly makes new friends, and discovers things about herself she never knew.

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Black Flags - Joby Warrick - Bog - Transworld Publishers Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Black Flags - Joby Warrick - Bog - Transworld Publishers Ltd - Plusbog.dk

**WINNER of the PULITZER PRIZE for NON-FICTION 2016** In a thrilling dramatic narrative, Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter Joby Warrick traces how the strain of militant Islam behind ISIS first arose in a remote Jordanian prison and spread to become the world''s greatest threat. When the government of Jordan granted amnesty to a group of political prisoners in 1999, it little realized that among them was Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, a terrorist mastermind and soon the architect of an Islamist movement bent on dominating the Middle East. In Black Flags, an unprecedented character-driven account of the rise of ISIS, Joby Warrick shows how the zeal of this one man and the strategic mistakes of Western governments led to the banner of ISIS being raised over huge swathes of Syria and Iraq. Zarqawi began by directing terror attacks from a base in northern Iraq, but it was the allied invasion in 2003 that catapulted him to the head of a vast insurgency. By falsely identifying him as the link between Saddam Hussein and Osama bin Laden, Western officials inadvertently spurred like-minded radicals to rally to his cause. Their wave of brutal beheadings and suicide bombings persisted until American and Jordanian intelligence discovered clues that led to a lethal airstrike on Zarqawi’s hideout in 2006. His movement, however, endured. First calling themselves al-Qaeda in Iraq, then Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, or ISIS, his followers sought refuge in unstable, ungoverned pockets on the Iraq-Syria border. When the Syrian civil war broke out in 2011, and the rest of the world largely stood by, ISIS seized its chance to pursue Zarqawi’s dream of an ultra-conservative Islamic caliphate. Drawing on unique high-level access to global intelligence sources, Warrick weaves gripping, moment-by-moment operational details with the perspectives of diplomats and spies, generals and heads of state, many of whom foresaw a menace worse than al Qaeda and tried desperately to stop it. Black Flags is a brilliant and definitive history that reveals the long arc of today’s most dangerous extremist threat.

DKK 139.00
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Arnhem: Black Tuesday - Al Murray - Bog - Transworld Publishers Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Arnhem: Black Tuesday - Al Murray - Bog - Transworld Publishers Ltd - Plusbog.dk

‘Utterly brilliant... this book really is the last word on the Battle of Arnhem’ James Holland ’Superb... A military historian of originality and insight to compare with the best’ Saul David ''This book is a revelation, not in facts delivered, but in the mood evoked. This is Arnhem unplugged By confining himself to men in and around Arnhem on that Tuesday, Murray achieves something special'' The Times ___________ Al Murray has always been obsessed by this legendary battle, and in Arnhem: Black Tuesday he showcases all of his knowledge, interpretation and enthusiasm to bear to tell the story of one of history’s great heroic failures differently for the first time. The Battle of Arnhem is one of the best-known stories in British military history: a daring but doomed attempt to secure a vital bridgehead across the Rhine in order to end the war before Christmas 1944. It is always written about, with the benefit of unerring 20/20 hindsight, as being destined to fail, but the men who fought there, men of military legend, didn''t know that that was to be their fate. By focusing on the events of one day as they happened through the eyes of the British participants and without bringing any knowledge of what would happen tomorrow to bear, Al Murray offers a very different perspective on a familiar narrative. Some things went right and a great many more went wrong, but recounting them in this way allows the reader to understand for the first time how certain decisions were taken in the moment and how opportunities were squandered.Tuesday 19 September 1944 was the terrible day which became known as Black Tuesday. From just after 12:00 hours while plans were being made to seize the initiative and optimism reigned, to the following midnight, when Arnhem was burning and the Allied fortunes looked very different, a mere twenty-four hours changed the course of the war.

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Down the Crooked Road - Mary Black - Bog - Transworld Publishers Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Down the Crooked Road - Mary Black - Bog - Transworld Publishers Ltd - Plusbog.dk

For the last thirty years, singer Mary Black has been a dominant presence on the Irish music scene, an award-winning artist with many bestselling albums to her name. Now, in this long-awaited memoir, Mary takes us back to the roots of her musical heritage and to the influences that helped to shape her as an artist and a woman. Born into a musical family, Mary Black – a feisty tomboy who could hold her own when it came to sparring with her brothers and anyone else brave enough to take her on – began singing folk songs from the age of ten. Music played an important role in the family home and, performing with her brothers and her sister Frances, Mary built her highly successful career on the bedrock of these early years. From the pubs and clubs of her hometown, Dublin, she went on to perform in some of the most prestigious venues across the world. Always committed to exploring new material from the best writers, her unique talent attracted acclaim from critics, fellow artists and the public alike. It also led to a host of bestselling albums, including the multi-platinum No Frontiers , which spent more than a year in the Irish Top 30. Mary’s love of singing was matched only by the love she had for her family. As she recalls the inevitable tensions that arose when trying to juggle family life and a high-profile career, she tells of her struggle to combine the two contrasting aspects of her life. It was only through gritty determination, hard work and a fair amount of laughter that Mary was able to enjoy major success as an artist and, at the same time, raise a close and loving family with her husband Joe. Refreshingly honest, and written with warmth and humour, Down the Crooked Road offers a unique insight into the life and career of one of our most gifted singers – an artist who, during the course of her long career, has captured the hearts of millions around the world.

DKK 159.00
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The Truth - Terry Pratchett - Bog - Transworld Publishers Ltd - Plusbog.dk

The Truth - Terry Pratchett - Bog - Transworld Publishers Ltd - Plusbog.dk

A beautiful hardback edition of the classic Discworld novel William de Worde is the accidental editor of the Discworld''s first newspaper. New printing technology means that words just won''t obediently stay nailed down like usual. There''s a very real threat of news getting out there. Now he must cope with the traditional perils of a journalist''s life - people who want him dead, a recovering vampire with a suicidal fascination for flash photography, some more people who want him dead in a different way and, worst of all, the man who keeps begging him to publish pictures of his humorously shaped potatoes. William just wants to get at THE TRUTH. Unfortunately, everyone else wants to get at William. And it''s only the third edition...

DKK 166.00
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