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The Philosopher's Kiss
In 1747 Paris, Sophie falls in love with married philosopher Denis Diderot, who is collaborating with authors to create an encyclopedia of all human knowledge, a project that threatens to undermine both the monarchy and the church--as well as Sophie?s right to freedom, love, and happiness.
Magma
A missing explorer, mysterious stone formations, a sign in the sky - geologist Ella Jordan is faced with a mystery. As she ventures down to the lowest point on Earth, the events seem to make a terrible sense. From the Mariana Trench, signals emerge to the surface, that are far too regular to be of natural origin. In a submarine, Ella and scientist Konrad Martin dive to the bottom of the trench. The Challenger Depth appears to be the source of the disturbance. What they discover is a huge stone sphere, hard as diamond, that resists all common measuring methods. Suddenly, new signals occur: first from the North Cape region, then from Australia, then from Antarctica. Ella and Konrad hurry around the world, encountering the same mysterious stone formations everywhere. All of a sudden the signals from the spheres begin to synchronize. Their seismic waves generate earthquakes and volcanic eruptions all over the world - Ella is working obsessively on a solution, but the countdown is running ...
Chilling Tales
Sebastian Fitzek's unputdownable psychological thrillers offer three truly gripping reads... The Eye Collector It's the same each time. A woman's body is found with a ticking stopwatch clutched in her dead hand. A distraught father must find his child before the boy suffocates - and the killer takes his left eye. Alexander Zorbach, cop turned journalist, has exactly forty-five hours to save a little boy's life. And the countdown has started... Splinter Wracked with grief after an accident killed his wife and unborn child, all Marc Lucas wants is to wipe his memory. Until he returns home one night to find himself drawn into a nightmare world... one that could cost him his memory, his sanity and even his life. Therapy Twelve-year-old Josy one day vanishes without a trace. Anna Glass, a novelist who suffers from an unusual form of schizophrenia, may be able to uncover the truth behind Josy's disappearance. But very soon her search takes a dramatic turn as the past is dragged back into the light, with terrifying consequences.
Proverbium
Yearbook of international proverb scholarship.
The Child
My name is Simon. I'm 10 years old. I'm a serial killer. Robert Stern, a successful defence lawyer, doesn't know what lies in store for him when he agrees to meet a new client in a derelict estate on the outskirts of Berlin. To his astonishment, the defendant is a ten-year-old boy - Simon - a fragile child with a chronic illness who insists that he was a murderer in a former life. Stern's surprise quickly turns to horror as he searches the cellar Simon has directed him to and discovers the skeletal remains of a man, the skull split with an axe - just as Simon told him he would. But this is only the beginning, as Simon tells Stern where to find even more victims whose bodies have lain undisturbed for years. Suddenly, the present feels murderously dangerous as well... The Child is a darkly twisting, page-turning thriller that will make your heart pound with adrenaline.
The Legacy of Jihad
This book reveals how, for well over a millennium and across three continents - Asia, Africa, and Europe - non-Muslims who were vanquished by jihad wars became forced tributaries (called dhimmi in Arabic) in lieu of being slain. Under the dhimmi religious caste system, non-Muslims were subjected to legal and financial oppression, as well as social isolation. Extensive primary and secondary source materials, many translated here for the first time into English, are presented, making clear that jihad conquests were brutal, imperialist advances, which spurred waves of Muslims to expropriate a vast expanse of lands and subdue millions of indigenous peoples. Finally, the book examines how jihad war, as a permanent and uniquely Islamic institution, ultimately regulates the relations of Muslims with non-Muslims to this day. Scholars, educators, and interested lay readers will find this collection an invaluable resource.
The Eye Collector
The first in a powerfully unsettling trilogy by the master of the psychothriller, Sebastian Fitzek. First he kills the mother, then he kidnaps the child. The grieving father is given 45 hours to search. If the child isn't found, they die, captive. The press call him the Eye Collector. Because the horror doesn't end with the murders. Every body discovered has had the left eye removed. When evidence implicates police officer turned journalist Alexander Zorbach, who has championed the case against the Eye Collector, he becomes the main suspect. Meanwhile, a mysterious witness comes forward. Alina Gregoriev, a blind physiotherapist, claims to be able to see into the lives of her patients simply ...
Federwelt 106, 03-2014
Die FEDERWELT ist eine Fachzeitschrift für Autorinnen und Autoren. Sie wendet sich an Schreibanfänger und Fortgeschrittene, Selfpublisher und VerlagsautorInnen und bietet Orientierung im Literaturbetrieb. Den Hauptteil machen praxisorientierte Fachartikel und Interviews zum Thema Schreiben und Veröffentlichen aus, darunter die beliebte "Textküche" (siehe unten). Außerdem gibt es einen Terminkalender mit Informationen über Literaturwettbewerbe und -stipendien, Rezensionen von Schreibratgebern sowie einen Kleinanzeigenteil. Prosa und Lyrik enthält die FEDERWELT nicht (mehr). Zielgruppe: Autorinnen und Autoren sowie literarisch Interessierte mit Freude am Schreiben. 2014 erscheint die Fe...
The Ethics of War and Peace
A superb introduction to the ethical aspects of war and peace, this collection of tightly integrated essays explores the reasons for waging war and for fighting with restraint as formulated in a diversity of ethical traditions, religious and secular. Beginning with the classic debate between political realism and natural law, this book seeks to expand the conversation by bringing in the voices of Judaism, Islam, Christian pacifism, and contemporary feminism. In so doing, it addresses a set of questions: How do the adherents to each viewpoint understand the ideas of war and peace? What attitudes toward war and peace are reflected in these understandings? What grounds for war, if any, are reco...
