Magnus loves pretending to be a brave knight. But when he's asleep, he has nightmares that the Shadowman is coming to steal his knight's hat and sword.Then Grandma gives him a toy lion. At night the lion is huge and real and fierce. Can Magnus and his Night Lion chase away his nightmares together. [...]
This new edition of the best-selling Abba book has been substantially updated and revised.
Lord of the mystical and uncanny, Magnus the Red has long studied the ancient crafts of sorcery. A psyker without peer, save only for the Emperor himself, he commands his loyal followers of the Thousand Sons Legion in the Great Crusade, always vigilant for any lost knowledge they might recover from [...]
The history of the Vikings is bloody and eventful, and Viking warriors capture the popular imagination to this day. Viking raids reached from Norway to North Africa, they established the dukedom of Normandy, provided the Byzantine Emperor's bodyguard and landed on the shores of America 500 years bef[...]
Links the twelfth-century story of the saintly Earl Magnus of Orkney's brutal murder at the hands of his cousin Hakon Paulson, to that of the philosopher Dietrich Bonhoeffer, murdered by the Nazis during World War II. This book explores the eternal questions of guilt, goodness and personal sacrifice[...]
Twelve-year-old Robert hates his maths teacher. He sets his class boring problems and won't let them use their calculators. Then in his dreams Robert meets the Number Devil who brings the subject magically to life. The Number Devil knows how to make maths devilishly simple.[...]
This book presents a biographical history of the field of systems thinking, by examining the life and work of thirty of its major thinkers. It discusses each thinker's key contributions, the way this contribution was expressed in practice and the relationship between their life and ideas. This discu[...]
'A global Internet sensation...hilarious' - "The Daily Mail". For a long time entomologists have been studying the life of the common housefly, but with limited success. Recently, however, a Swedish photographer, Magnus Muhr, has managed to reveal that flies live pretty much like we do. In this extr[...]
I Don't Know, Or The Weave of Textile Language is a unique project by the renowned US artist Richard Tuttle. It will be the largest survey of his work ever held in the UK, which will include a major exhibition of Tuttle's career to date at the Whitechapel Gallery and a newly commissioned sculpture t[...]
From the million-copy bestselling author, perfect for fans of Stieg Larsson, Anne Holt, and The Killing."Michael Ridpath is trouncing the Scandinavians on their home turf. This is international thriller writing at its best." PETER JAMESDid Christopher Columbus know the Icelanders discovered America [...]
English summary: Grappling with the tension between our religious orientations and modernity's drive to lend authority to things based on arguments against the backdrop of scientific and historial knowledge has made intellectual honesty a guiding principle in the modern era. The ascent of the concep[...]
Die idealistische Metaphysik definiert die Wahrheit als das Nicht des Zufalligen, welches selbst als das eigentlich Negative - als das Nicht des Absoluten verstanden wird. Das wahrhaft Seiende wird also erst durch die Verneinung der Verneinung freigelegt. Diese Auffassung ist fur Heinrich von Gent, [...]
?Die vergnüglichste Einführung in die Rätsel der Mathematik.? Wolfgang Bergmann in ?TV-Hören und Sehen? Robert hat das Träumen satt. Weil ihm die unheimlichsten Dinge im Traum passieren, beschließt er, es nicht mehr zu tun. Doch da hat er die Rechnung ohne den Zahlenteufel gemacht! Plötzlich[...]
Es war ein ganz gewöhnlicher Tag, als Robert verschwand, und das Sonderbarste an seinem Verschwinden war, daà niemand es bemerkt hat, nicht einmal seine Mutter
Robert sitzt vor dem Fernseher. Was ist bloà mit seinen Augen los? Er reibt sich und plötzlich findet er sich in eine[...]
Mathematik ist eigentlich nicht Roberts Sache. Da taucht zwölf Nächte lang ein verrückter Zahlenteufel auf, der mit ihm spricht und mit den Zahlenfolgen nur so jongliert. Plötzlich beginnen die trockenen Zahlen zu funkeln und werden begreifbar - so aufregend hat Robert sich Mathematik nicht vorg[...]