“An amazing audio adventure…David Warner is a terrific Rune…the thing’s so flipping entertaining, you’d be perfectly happy to sit through another six-and-a-half hours. 5/5” – SFXThis is the tale of two incredible people – one who knows he is incredible and the other who learns to be incredible. Set in 1960 in the UK south-coast resort of Brighton, self-styled guru and magus Hugo Rune rescues a young man from drowning and persuades ...

Pubblicato nel 1909, Tre vite fu concepito e scritto nel leggendario appartamento al 27 di Rue de Fleurus, intorno al quale già cominciava a orbitare il fecondo ambiente parigino di Picasso, Matisse, Duchamp, Picabia, e più tardi la lost generation statunitense di Hemingway e Fitzgerald. Questo romanzo d’esordio nacque con l’intenzione di oltrepassare il naturalismo delle lettere americane e di compiere – come affermò la Stein in Autobiografia di Alice Toklas – “il primo passo della letter...

In 2003, Methodists celebrated the 300th anniversary of the birth of their founder, John Wesley. Today, there are more than 300 Methodist denominations in 140 nations. Covering the activities of this group that plays an important role in the ecumenical movement through its many social and charitable activities in world affairs, this book offers more than 400 entries that describe important events, doctrines, and the church founders, leaders, and other prominent figures who have made notabl...

Neuroimaging in Addiction presents an up-to-date, comprehensive review of the functional and structural imaging human studies that have greatly advanced our understanding of this complex disorder. Approaching addiction from a conceptual rather than a substance-specific perspective, this book integrates broad neuropsychological constructs that consider addiction as a neuroplastic process with genetic, developmental, and substance-induced contributions.The internationally re...

Short stories have always been a sort of instant access into an author’s brain, their soul and heart. A few pages can lift our lives into locations, people and experiences with a sweep of landscape, narration, feelings and emotions that is difficult to achieve elsewhere.In this series we try to offer up tried and trusted ‘Top Tens’ across many different themes and authors. But any anthology will immediately throw up the questions – Why that story? Why that author?The theme ...

Folge 5 - Miss Meereskönigin - Cleos kleine Schwester Kim entdeckt Cleos Tagebuch, in dem diese detailliert ihr Leben und das ihrer Freundinnen als Meerjungfrauen beschreibt. Kim ist entsetzt. Mit Hilfe von Emmas kleinem Bruder Elliot plant sie, die Meerjungfrauen bloßzustellen. Und zwar gleich am nächsten Tag, denn da findet der "Miss Meereskönigin-Wettbewerb" im Freizeitpark statt. Folge 6 - Elliots geliebte Retterin: Elliot, Emmas kleiner Bruder, will vor Rikki angeben und zeigen, wie t...