Découvrir informations, conseils et prix pour fox chapel publishing illus bald vendu 38.9 € , est placé dans la catégorie Bücher & Zeitschriften; ce produit est fabriqué par Fox Chapel Publishing et est vendu par Orellfuessli.ch
Written with the artist or sculptor in mind, this painstakingly detailed reference to the bald eagle covers the anatomy of the bird down to a feather. Exact anatomical sketches--done in multiple dimensions, from various angles, and in many different postures--provide a visual study unmatched by other references. Some drawings focus specifically on one part of the bird, such as a single contour feather, while other portraits show the whole animal in motion--soaring, diving, and perching. Color charts of the top and underside of the bird and a gallery of award-winning interpretations of the bald eagle round out the collection, making it an enduring source of inspiration for artists.
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Découvrir conseils, opinions et fonctionnalités sur theatre works spread eagle 2d vendu 54.9 € , ce produit est placé dans la catégorie Bücher & Zeitschriften, fabriqué par LA Theatre Works et est vendu par Orellfuessli.ch
Commerce and heroism clash when a titan of American businessmen orchestrates a U.S. invasion of Mexico. This long-lost 1927 Broadway melodrama combines the crackling dialogue and riveting storytelling of the Front Page with Wag the Dog cynicism. A full-cast production featuring: Edward Asner, Kate Asner, Raye Birk, Sharon Gless, Colette Kilroy, Rod McLachlan, Paul Murphey, Mark Adair Rios, Luis Saguar, Fred Savage, Jamey Sheridan
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Trouver conseils, opinions et fonctionnalités sur bantam books usa a walk il est vendu 39.9 € , présent dans la catégorie Bücher & Zeitschriften; ce produit appartient à Bantam Books USA et est vendu par Orellfuessli.ch
"Not long after I moved with my family to a small town in New Hampshire, I happened upon a path that vanished into a wood on the edge of town." So begins Bill Bryson's hilarious book "A Walk in the Woods. Following his return to America after twenty years in Britain, Bryson decided to reacquaint himself with his native country by walking the 2,100-mile Appalachian Trail, which stretches from Springer Mountain in Georgia to Mount Katahdin in Maine. The AT, as it's affectionately known to thousands of hikers, offers an astonishing landscape of silent forests and sparkling lakes--and to a writer with the comic genius of Bill Bryson, it also provides endless opportunities to test his own powers of ineptitude, and to witness the majestic silliness of his fellow human beings. For a start, there's the gloriously out-of-shape Stephen Katz, a buddy from Iowa who accompanies the similarly unfit Bryson on the trail. Once Bryson and Katz settle into their stride, it's not long before they come across the fabulously annoying Mary Ellen, whose disappearance ruins a perfectly good slice of pie, a gang of Ralph Lauren-attired yuppies from whom Katz appropriates a key piece of equipment, and a security guard in Pennsylvania who, for no ascertainable reason, impounds Bryson's car. Mile by arduous mile these latter-day pioneers walk America, along the way surviving the threat of bear attacks, the loss of key provisions, and everything else this awe-inspiring country can throw at them. But "A Walk in the Woods is more than just a laugh-out-loud hike. Bryson's acute eye is a wise witness to this fragile and beautiful trail, and as he tells its fascinating history, he makes a moving plea for theconservation of America's last great wilderness. An adventure, a comedy, a lament, and a celebration, "A Walk in the Woods is destined to become a modern classic of travel literature.
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Trouver informations, conseils et prix pour penguin group usa inc the il est vendu 42.9 € , présent dans la catégorie Bücher & Zeitschriften, ce produit est fabriqué par Penguin Group (usa) Inc. et est vendu par Orellfuessli.ch
The former Federal Reserve Board chairman reveals the financial close call that nearly resulted in an economic disaster after September 11, his efforts to safeguard American interests, and the personal and educational history that informed his choices.
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Best known today for his role in the shoot-out at the O.K. Corral, Doc Holliday's volatile reputation had long before made him one of the West's most feared men. Master storyteller Matt Braun traces one of America's most complex characters through a violent trail as his legend is forged in the saloons and gambling tables across the frontier. Abridged.
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Since its publication in 1952, Charlotte's Web has become one of America's best-loved children's books. For fifty years, this timeless story of the pig named Wilbur and the wise spider named Charlotte who saved him has continued to warm the hearts of readers everywhere. Now this classic, a 1953 Newbery Honor book, comes to life in a delightful unabridged recording, read lovingly by the author himself.
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Découvrir conseils, opinions et fonctionnalités sur penguin group usa inc the vendu 59.9 € , ce produit est placé dans la catégorie Bücher & Zeitschriften, fabriqué par Penguin Group (usa) Inc. et est vendu par Orellfuessli.ch
The former Federal Reserve Board chairman reveals the financial close call that nearly resulted in an economic disaster after September 11, his efforts to safeguard American interests, and the personal and educational history that informed his choices.
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Maya, Josh und Greg haben bei einem Filmwettbewerb eine Reise nach Hollywood mit Zwischenstopp in New York gewonnen. In Amerika spielt Greg American Football, die drei verlaufen sich im Sequoia National Park und sie dürfen in Hollywood einen Western nachspielen. Maya nimmt an einem Casting teil und Greg begegnet seinem grossen Idol Bob Quickpayne - einem echten Filmstar.
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Trouver conseils, opinions et fonctionnalités sur harper collins publ usa rollins il est vendu 52.9 € , présent dans la catégorie Bücher & Zeitschriften; ce produit appartient à Harper Collins Publ. USA et est vendu par Orellfuessli.ch
Former Army Ranger Tucker Wayne and his war dog Kane are thrust into a global conspiracy that threatens to shake the foundations of American democracy in this second exciting Sigma Force spinoff adventure from New York Times bestselling authors James Rollins and Grant Blackwood. Tucker Wayne’s past and his present collide when a former army colleague comes to him for help. She’s on the run from brutal assassins hunting her and her son. To keep them safe, Tucker must discover who killed a brilliant young idealist—a crime that leads back to the most powerful figures in the U.S. government. From the haunted ruins of a plantation in the deep South to the beachheads of a savage civil war in Trinidad, Tucker and Kane must discover the truth behind a mystery that leads back to World War II, to a true event that is even now changing the world . . . and will redefine what it means to be human. With no one to trust, they will be forced to break the law, expose national secrets, and risk everything to stop a madman determined to control the future of modern warfare for his own diabolical ends. But can Tucker and Kane withstand a force so indomitable that it threatens our very future?
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Découvrir conseils, opinions et fonctionnalités sur macmillan usa prometheus deception 6d vendu 23.4 € , ce produit est placé dans la catégorie Bücher & Zeitschriften, fabriqué par Macmillan USA et est vendu par Orellfuessli.ch
It's been years since Nicholas Bryson was a deep-cover operative for a secret American intelligence group called The Directorate. When he discovers that the agency was using him against his own country's interests, he is enlisted by the deputy director of the CIA to stop the Directorate's latest lethal maneuver and end the group for good. Abridged. 6 CDs
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Trouver conseils, opinions et fonctionnalités sur penguin group usa inc the il est vendu 48.9 € , présent dans la catégorie Bücher & Zeitschriften; ce produit appartient à Penguin Group (usa) Inc. et est vendu par Orellfuessli.ch
An analysis of the consequences of the Bush administration's fear, secrecy, and faith-based initiatives explains how the administration has dangerously compromised America's capacity for addressing long-term challenges.
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EAN: 9780143142157
Découvrir conseils, opinions et fonctionnalités sur simon schuster usa healthy heart vendu 22.4 € , ce produit est placé dans la catégorie Bücher & Zeitschriften, fabriqué par Simon & Schuster USA et est vendu par Orellfuessli.ch
The American Heart Association's "The Healthy Heart Walking Program" is now available on an unabridged CD. Included is a 30-minute beginner's walk, an intermediate walk, and original music written exactly to association-recommended paces.
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Découvrir informations, conseils et prix pour macmillan usa franzen j kraus vendu 33.4 € , est placé dans la catégorie Bücher & Zeitschriften; ce produit est fabriqué par Macmillan USA et est vendu par Orellfuessli.ch
A GREAT AMERICAN WRITER'S CONFRONTATION WITH A GREAT EUROPEAN CRITIC-A PERSONAL AND INTELLECTUAL AWAKENING A hundred years ago, the Viennese satirist Karl Kraus was among the most penetrating and prophetic writers in Europe: a relentless critic of the popular media's manipulation of reality, the dehumanizing machinery of technology and consumerism, and the jingoistic rhetoric of a fading empire. But even though his followers included Franz Kafka and Walter Benjamin, he remained something of a lonely prophet, and few people today are familiar with his work. Thankfully, Jonathan Franzen is one of them. In The Kraus Project, Franzen not only presents his definitive new translations of Kraus but also annotates them spectacularly, with supplementary notes from the Kraus scholar Paul Reitter and the Austrian writer Daniel Kehlmann. Kraus was a notoriously cantankerous and difficult author, and in Franzen he has found his match: a novelist unafraid to voice unpopular opinions strongly, a critic capable of untangling Kraus's often dense arguments to reveal their relevance to contemporary America. Interwoven with Franzen's survey of today's cultural and technological landscape is an intensely personal recollection of the author's first year out of college, when he fell in love with Kraus. Painstakingly wrought, strikingly original in form, The Kraus Project is a feast of thought, passion, and literature.
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Découvrir informations, conseils et prix pour hachette book group usa divine vendu 28.4 € , est placé dans la catégorie Bücher & Zeitschriften; ce produit est fabriqué par Hachette Book Group USA et est vendu par Orellfuessli.ch
Known by his alias, "Oliver Stone," John Carr is the most wanted man in America. With two pulls of the trigger, the men who hid the truth of Stone's past and kept him in the shadows were finally silenced. But Stone's freedom has come at a steep price; the assassinations he carried out have prompted the highest levels of the United States Government to unleash a massive manhunt. Joe Knox is leading the charge, but his superiors aren't telling him everything there is to know about his quarry-and their hidden agendas are just as dangerous as the killer he's trying to catch. Meanwhile, with their friend and unofficial leader in hiding, the members of the Camel Club must fend for themselves, even as they try to protect him. As Knox closes in, Stone's flight from the demons of his past will take him far from Washington, D.C., to the coal-mining town of Devine, Virginia-and headlong into a confrontation every bit as lethal as the one he is trying to escape.
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Trouver conseils, opinions et fonctionnalités sur simon schuster usa pearl harbor il est vendu 71.9 € , présent dans la catégorie Bücher & Zeitschriften; ce produit appartient à Simon & Schuster USA et est vendu par Orellfuessli.ch
“A valuable reexamination” ( Booklist, starred review) of the event that changed twentieth-century America—Pearl Harbor—based on years of research and new information uncovered by a New York Times bestselling author. The America we live in today was born, not on July 4, 1776, but on December 7, 1941, when an armada of 354 Japanese warplanes supported by aircraft carriers, destroyers, and midget submarines suddenly and savagely attacked the United States, killing 2,403 men—and forced America’s entry into World War II. Pearl Harbor: From Infamy to Greatness follows the sailors, soldiers, pilots, diplomats, admirals, generals, emperor, and president as they engineer, fight, and react to this stunningly dramatic moment in world history. Beginning in 1914, bestselling author Craig Nelson maps the road to war, when Franklin D. Roosevelt, then the Assistant Secretary of the Navy, attended the laying of the keel of the USS Arizona at the Brooklyn Navy Yard. Writing with vivid intimacy, Nelson traces Japan’s leaders as they lurch into ultranationalist fascism, which culminates in their scheme to terrify America with one of the boldest attacks ever waged. Within seconds, the country would never be the same. Backed by a research team’s five years of work, as well as Nelson’s thorough re-examination of the original evidence assembled by federal investigators, this page-turning and definitive work “weaves archival research, interviews, and personal experiences from both sides into a blow-by-blow narrative of destruction liberally sprinkled with individual heroism, bizarre escapes, and equally bizarre tragedies” ( Kirkus Reviews). Nelson delivers all the terror, chaos, violence, tragedy, and heroism of the attack in stunning detail, and offers surprising conclusions about the tragedy’s unforeseen and resonant consequences that linger even today.
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Trouver informations, conseils et prix pour dokumentarfilm die geschichte der usa il est vendu 76.9 € , présent dans la catégorie Bücher & Zeitschriften, ce produit est fabriqué par DokumentARfilm et est vendu par Orellfuessli.ch
Diese DVD schliesst die zweiteilige Dokumentation zur Geschichte der Vereinigten Staaten von Amerika ab. Der Hauptfilm (27 Min.) zeigt den Weg der Weltmacht im 20. Jahrhundert und geht der Frage nach: American Dream American Nightmare? Die USA greifen in Kriege ein und bestimmen entscheidend das Weltgeschehen im Ost-West-Konflikt. Im eigenen Land kämpfen Schwarze um ihre Bürger- und Menschenrechte. Erst 2008 wird Barack Obama der erste schwarze Präsident der USA. Sechs Module (je 4-16 Min.) vertiefen unterrichtsrelevante Aspekte. Hauptfilm und Module sind in sich abgeschlossen und einzeln einsetzbar.
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Trouver conseils, opinions et fonctionnalités sur grin bill bryson s view il est vendu 30.4 € , présent dans la catégorie Bücher & Zeitschriften; ce produit appartient à Grin et est vendu par Orellfuessli.ch
Seminar paper from the year 2007 in the subject American Studies - Literature, grade: 3,0, University of Marburg (Institut für Anglistik und Amerikanistik), course: Transatlantic Stereotyping - Views From / About Both Sides of the Ocean, language: English, abstract: Criticism of Bryson¿s novels is not advanced but his narratives can be investigated in terms of genre, intertextuality, language, and nationality. This paper expands on the topic of Bryson¿s view both of Great Britain and the United States of America by means of national stereotyping as it emerges from his novels Notes from a Small Island (1995) and Notes from a Big Country (1998). I maintain that Bryson depicts Britain and America in an authentic and educative as well as hilarious and exaggerated manner to emphasize differences between the nations in question. I will prove my thesis that Bryson both criticises and praises British and American values which affect the national character. Bryson conveys his national views both from the perspective of an insider and outsider. William ¿Bill¿ McGuire Bryson was born in Des Moines, Iowa, in 1951. In 1973, he travelled to England where he became acquainted with his wife, Cynthia Billen, with whom he has four children. Bryson lived in Yorkshire, returned to America to graduate in 1995, and resided with his family in Norfolk, in 2003. While in America Bryson is well-known for elaborating on the English language, he accomplished bestseller standing with travelogues in Great Britain. Although he claims not to be a travel writer because he ¿stumbled into this genre¿, Bryson composes ¿books on travel and the English language¿ in which his ¿wanderlust and eccentricity¿ promise a unique reading adventure (Oder 191). Travel writing is a neglected but miscellaneous genre of ancient times which flourished in the sixteenth century and encompasses narratives of expansionism, such as encyclopaedic accounts of foreign nations, and became the principal negotiator of propagating stereotypes in colonial novels. While Bryson¿s journey novel Notes from a Small Island depicts the Great Britain he adores, he grudgingly wrote columns about America which resulted in his journalistic novel Notes from a Big Country.
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Découvrir informations, conseils et prix pour harper collins publ usa fink vendu 52.9 € , est placé dans la catégorie Bücher & Zeitschriften; ce produit est fabriqué par Harper Collins Publ. USA et est vendu par Orellfuessli.ch
From the creators of the wildly popular Welcome to Night Vale podcast comes an imaginative mystery of appearances and disappearances that is also a poignant look at the ways in which we all struggle to find ourselves...no matter where we live. "Hypnotic and darkly funny. . . . Belongs to a particular strain of American gothic that encompasses The Twilight Zone, Stephen King and Twin Peaks, with a bit of Tremors thrown in."--The Guardian Located in a nameless desert somewhere in the great American Southwest, Night Vale is a small town where ghosts, angels, aliens, and government conspiracies are all commonplace parts of everyday life. It is here that the lives of two women, with two mysteries, will converge. Nineteen-year-old Night Vale pawn shop owner Jackie Fierro is given a paper marked "KING CITY" by a mysterious man in a tan jacket holding a deer skin suitcase. Everything about him and his paper unsettles her, especially the fact that she can't seem to get the paper to leave her hand, and that no one who meets this man can remember anything about him. Jackie is determined to uncover the mystery of King City and the man in the tan jacket before she herself unravels. Night Vale PTA treasurer Diane Crayton's son, Josh, is moody and also a shape shifter. And lately Diane's started to see her son's father everywhere she goes, looking the same as the day he left years earlier, when they were both teenagers. Josh, looking different every time Diane sees him, shows a stronger and stronger interest in his estranged father, leading to a disaster Diane can see coming, even as she is helpless to prevent it. Diane's search to reconnect with her son and Jackie's search for her former routine life collide as they find themselves coming back to two words: "KING CITY". It is King City that holds the key to both of their mysteries, and their futures...if they can ever find it.
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Découvrir informations, conseils et prix pour hachette book group usa harris vendu 49.9 € , est placé dans la catégorie Bücher & Zeitschriften; ce produit est fabriqué par Hachette Book Group USA et est vendu par Orellfuessli.ch
Monsters lurk in the crevices between male desire and female survival. No other writer in the last century has conjured those monsters with more terrifying brilliance than the creator of Hannibal Lecter and "The Silence of the Lambs." His sixth novel is the long-awaited return of an American master.
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One of America's favorite comedians looks back at his extraordinary career, highlighting the most powerful and memorable moments of his long and storied life, and outlines the absurdities and challenges that come with growing old.
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