A riddle rarely makes sense the first time you hear it. The connection between Dane and Billy D doesn't make sense the second time you hear it. But it's a collection of riddles that solidifies their unusual friendship. Dane is a bully with two rules: don't hit girls and don't hit "special" kids. Bil[...]

The plan: to rob the Reina, a super-luxury hotel off the coast of Spain. The crew: three seasoned criminals with the skills to pull off the heist of the century. The edge: every aspect of the scheme has been simulated in a computer, down to the last variable. The complication: three beautiful women [...]

Beneath the sands of the Egyptian desert lies treasure beyond imagining. And when a professor of archaeology finds clues to the location of a Pharaoh's lost tomb in ancient hieroglyphs, he hatches a plan to find the burial site - and plunder it. But can a five-man team of smugglers and thieves uncov[...]

Diver James McGregor is used to exploring sunken ships. But there's something strange about the wreck of the Grave Descend. No one aboard tells quite the same story about what happened. Then there's the mysterious cargo they were carrying...In one of the most beautiful places on Earth, a sinister pl[...]

In "75 JAHRE IM 20. JAHRHUNDERT" blicke ich auf die Zeit von 1925 bis zum Ende des vorigen Jahrhunderts zuruck und erzahle von meiner Kindheit zwischen den beiden Weltkriegen, von den Kriegsjahren und davon, wie ich nach Ruckkehr aus Krieg und Gefangenschaft versuchte, meinen eigenen Weg zu finden. [...]

'Future needs heritage' - these were the words with which German philosopher Odo Marquard summarised his insight that the new world cannot exist without the legacy of the old one. The same words aptly describe the quintessence of Reinhard Meis' work devoted to A. Lange & Sohne, probably Germany's mo[...]

Provides film, TV, and fiction writers with essential information on all aspects of murder and its investigation and prosecution, including: types of murders; methods; motives; criminal profiles; police investigative tools and procedures; medical examiner and crime lab tools and procedures; criminal[...]

Edward Allison kehrt schwer verwundet aus dem Krieg in sein Elternhaus zurück. Seine unablässige, neurotische Frage nach dem Sinn des Krieges bringt die große Lebenslüge seiner Familie ans Licht und führt zu einem Kampf um Leben und Tod auf dem Schlachtfeld der Familie... Anders als in seinen f[...]

This fully revised and expanded third edition covers all aspects of modern thoracic radiology, and includes important new sections on computer tomographic signs, interventional radiology of the thorax and the latest developments in cardiac CT and MRI diagnostics, as well as a new chapter on high res[...]