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Regul beugte sich vor, bis sein Gesicht nur eine Handbreit von Shevons entfernt war. Sein Lächeln grenzte an Koketterie. „Ich werde dir jeden einzelnen Tag zur Hölle machen.“ Binnen weniger Tage bricht Shevons privilegiertes Leben in sich zusammen. Seine Heimatstadt wird zerstört und seine Familie ermordet. Auch ein ehemaliger Ziehbruder hat noch eine Rechnung offen und plant, ihn zu töten. Will Shevon der Rache entkommen, muss er sich seinem Todfeind stellen– und einer alten Schuld.
In blinder Wut warf Rond sich herum. »Lass meine Schwester aus dem Spiel, du dreckiger Hurensohn!« Ein geheimnisvoller Besucher macht dem verurteilten Mörder Rond ein Angebot: Wenn er auf der Insel Falun gefangene Frauen und Kinder befreit, erlangt nicht nur er, sondern auch seine ebenfalls für schuldig erklärte Schwester die Freiheit. Rond geht darauf ein. Bald muss er erkennen, dass hinter der Befreiungsaktion ein größerer Plan steckt – und er selbst auf dem Spielbrett der Macht nur als Bauernopfer dient.
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Today's moviegoers and critics generally consider some Hollywood products--even some blockbusters--to be legitimate works of art. But during the first half century of motion pictures very few Americans would have thought to call an American movie "art." Up through the 1950s, American movies were regarded as a form of popular, even lower-class, entertainment. By the 1960s and 1970s, however, viewers were regularly judging Hollywood films by artistic criteria previously applied only to high art forms. In Hollywood Highbrow, Shyon Baumann for the first time tells how social and cultural forces radically changed the public's perceptions of American movies just as those forces were radically chan...
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'Not tonight, darling, I've got a headache...' An estimated one in three couples suffer from problems associated with one partner having a higher libido than the other. Marriage therapist Michele Weiner Davis has written THE SEX-STARVED MARRIAGE to help couples come to terms with this problem. Weiner Davis shows you how to address pyschological factors like depression, poor body image and communication problems that affect sexual desire. With separate chapters for the spouse that's ready for action and the spouse that's ready for sleep, THE SEX-STARVED MARRIAGE will help you re-spark your passion and stop you fighting about sex. Weiner Davis is renowned for her straight-talking style and here she puts it to great use to let you know you're not alone in having marital sex problems. Bitterness or complacency about ho-hum sex can ruin a marriage, breaking the emotional tie of good sex.
An exhibition of drawings by the Italian late-Renaissance and Mannerist artist.
No statesman shaped the twentieth century more than Winston Churchill. To know the full Churchill is to understand the combination of boldness and caution, of assertiveness and humility, that defines statesmanship at its best. With fresh perspective and insights based on decades of studying and teaching Churchill, Larry P. Arnn explores the greatest challenges faced by Churchill over the course of his extraordinary career, both in war and peace—and always in the context of Churchill’s abiding dedication to constitutionalism. Churchill’s Trial is organized around the three great challenges to liberty that Churchill faced: Nazism, Soviet communism, and his own nation’s slide toward soc...
The highly competitive and globalized software market is creating pressure on software companies. Given the current boundary conditions, it is critical to continuously increase time-to-market and reduce development costs. In parallel, driven by private life experiences with mobile computing devices, the World Wide Web and software-based services, peoples’ general expectations with regards to software are growing. They expect software that is simple and joyful to use. In the light of the changes that have taken place in recent years, software companies need to fundamentally reconsider the way they develop and deliver software to their customers. This book introduces fundamentals, trends and...