Editore: Hachette Aug 1995, 1995
ISBN 10: 2253098086 ISBN 13: 9782253098089
Da: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Germania
Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - suivi de L'Histoire des voyages de Scarmentado et de Poème sur le désastre de LisbonneCandide nous conte les mésaventures d'un voyageur philosophe qui affronte les horreurs de la guerre et les sanglants caprices de la Nature ; qui connaît les désillusions de l'amour et découvre les turpitudes de ses semblables, faisant à l'occasion l'expérience de leurs dangereuses fantaisies. Pourtant si l'homme est un bien méchant animal et si l'existence n'est qu'une cascade de catastrophes, est-ce une raison pour que le héros perde sa sérénité et le récit son allégresse Sous la forme d'une ironique fiction, Candide propose une réflexion souriante sur l'omniprésence de la déraison qui puise sa force aux sources vives d'une expérience humaine, celle de l'auteur. Candide, on l'a dit, ce sont les ' Confessions ' de Voltaire, et c'est en cela qu'il nous émeut.Mais ce ' roman d'apprentissage ' est aussi - et peut-être surtout - un festival merveilleusement ordonné de drôlerie et de fantaisie sarcastique, ruisselant d'un immense savoir maîtrisé qui ne dédaigne jamais de porter le rire jusqu'au sublime. C'est en cela qu'il nous éblouit et qu'il nous charme.Edition de Sylviane Léoni.
Editore: Hachette Children's Group Aug 1995, 1995
ISBN 10: 0340634790 ISBN 13: 9780340634790
Da: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Germania
Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Bartlett, Alison (illustratore). Neuware - Do you like chips Oliver does. In fact, he won't eat anything else - until he plays a game with his grandpa.Whatever vegetable Oliver finds in the garden, he must eat. On Monday, he pulls up carrots, on Tuesday, it is spinach . . .An excellent book for parents with slightly fussy children, which also introduces the days of the week. Other titles in this series:Oliver's Fruit SaladOliver's Milkshake.
Editore: Hachette Books Aug 1995, 1995
ISBN 10: 0786889004 ISBN 13: 9780786889006
Da: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Germania
Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - As a child he was frightened by the stories.It's out there, under the salt of the Gulf of Mexico, off the Louisiana coast--a buried Nazi submarine. Detective Dave Robicheaux of the New Ibera Sheriff's office has known if its existence since childhood, when he was terrified by nightmares of the evil Nazi sailors just offshore. Then, as a teenager, he stumbled upon the sunken sub while scuba diving--but for years he kept the secret of its watery grave. And now he must face the terrible reality.But decades later, when a powerful Jewish activist wants the sub raised, Robicheaux's knowledge puts him at the center of a terrifying struggle of conflicting desires. A neo-Nazi psychopath named Will Buchalter, who insists that the Holocaust was a hoax, wants to find the submarine first--and he'll stop at nothing to get Robicheaux to talk.James Lee Burke looks long and hard into the human heart of darkness in his most electrifying novel yet, a story of terror and courage in a Southern Louisiana where the horrific and the beautiful rise from the same fertile soil.
Editore: Hachette Books Aug 1995, 1995
ISBN 10: 0306806479 ISBN 13: 9780306806476
Da: Rheinberg-Buch Andreas Meier eK, Bergisch Gladbach, Germania
Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -Through candid interviews with close friends, family, and the Beach Boys themselves, this biography portrays and evaluates all those who propelled the California myth, and the group who sang about it, into world-wide prominence. With dozens of photos, this book recounts the bitter saga of the American dream realized and distorted, and the music that survived. 66 photos. 416 pp. Englisch.
Editore: Hachette Books Aug 1995, 1995
ISBN 10: 0306806657 ISBN 13: 9780306806650
Da: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Germania
Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - 'A nine-and-a-half-hour documentary on the Nazi extermination camps, Shoah (the Hebrew word for ''Holocaust'') was internationally hailed as a masterpiece upon its release in 1985. Shunning any re-creati'.
Editore: Hachette Book Group USA Aug 1995, 1995
ISBN 10: 0306806665 ISBN 13: 9780306806667
Da: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Germania
Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - 'With impeccable timing, outrageous humor, irreverent wit, and a superb sense of the ridiculous, Groucho tells the saga of the Marx Brothers: the poverty of their childhood in New York's Upper East Si'.
Editore: Hachette Books Aug 1995, 1995
ISBN 10: 0306806495 ISBN 13: 9780306806490
Da: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Germania
Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Musician, composer, producer: Brian Eno is unique in contemporary music. Best known in recent years for producing U2's sensational albums, Eno began his career as a synthesizer player for Roxy Music. He has since released many solo albums, both rock and ambient, written music for film and television soundtracks, and collaborated with David Bowie, David Byrne, Robert Fripp, and classical and experimental composers. His pioneering ambient sound has been enormously influential, and without him today's rock would have a decidedly different sound. Drawing on Eno's own words to examine his influences and ideas, this book - featuring a new afterword and an updated discography and bibliography - will long remain provocative and definitive.
Editore: Hachette Books Aug 1995, 1995
ISBN 10: 0306806614 ISBN 13: 9780306806612
Da: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Germania
Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - In August 1945 Great Britain, France, the USSR and the United States established a tribunal at Nuremberg to try military and civilian leaders of the Nazi regime for the plotting of aggressive warfare, the extermination of civilian populations, the widespread use of slave labor, the looting of occupied countries, and the maltreatment and murder of prisoners of war. G. M. Gilbert was the prison psychologist before and during the Nuremberg trial. He had an unrivalled, firsthand opportunity to watch and question the Nazi war criminals. With scientific dispassion he encouraged Goering, Speer, Hess Ribbentrop, Frank, Jodl, Keitel, Streicher, and the others to reveal their innermost thoughts.
Editore: Hachette Books Aug 1995, 1995
ISBN 10: 0306806444 ISBN 13: 9780306806445
Da: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Germania
Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Tenor saxophone player Coltrane was a pioneer of free-form jazz, a forerunner of today's world music, and one of the first artists to reflect society's tribulations through his art form--a true original. Nisenson explores the shadow Coltrane cast in this must-read for music fans. Selected discography.
Editore: Hachette Books Aug 1995, 1995
ISBN 10: 0306806525 ISBN 13: 9780306806520
Da: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Germania
Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - 'It was the greatest single battle the U.S. Army ever fought. More than a million GIs were involved and nearly 80,000 became casualties. The Allied generals had to rally beaten, dispirited troops in th'.
Editore: Hachette Books Aug 1995, 1995
ISBN 10: 0306806533 ISBN 13: 9780306806537
Da: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Germania
Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Amateurs, to Arms! Examines in succession the campaigns of 'Mr. Madison's War': the U.S. invasion of Canada; the key naval battles on Lakes Erie and Champlain; the British invasion via the Chesapeake Bay and its repulse at Baltimore; and the campaign leading to the American victory at New Orleans, fought and won after the war was over. Elting describes the planning and preparations (or lack of them) for the campaigns, tells how they were fought, and analyzes the battlefield performance of both sides.
Editore: Hachette Book Group USA Aug 1995, 1995
ISBN 10: 030680669X ISBN 13: 9780306806698
Da: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Germania
Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Relying on in-depth research and interviews with those who have known Tyson at every stage of his life, this book portrays the shy child who became a vicious street thug, discovered boxing in juvenile prison, and was brought to the attention of the legendary Cus D'Amato to be shaped to be one thing--heavyweight champion of the world. 33 photos.
Editore: Hachette Books Aug 1995, 1995
ISBN 10: 0306806584 ISBN 13: 9780306806582
Da: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Germania
Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - 'When secessionist chaos turned to bloodshed in 1861, Mary A. Livermore (1820-1905), editor, lecturer, and abolitionist, left her family and volunteered for the U.S. Sanitary Commission, becoming one o'.