The Story of a Cloud: The following history can be understood by children easily. The next five chapters become more demanding and it should be read in company of an adult. And now to the content. The white cloud Blinky experiences some dangerous adventures in the sky. With rather mixed feelings, she and her friend Alienne, the extraterrestrial, and her new friend, the playful Whizzy, finally begin their journey to the sun. Even clever children can hardly believe these great adventure ture...

In 6 volumes which are complementary and interrelated, using humorous and exciting adventures in the universe, the latest scientifically proven findings are shown to encourage young readers and readers who are young at heart to become enthusiastic about a world which, thanks to scientific progress, has become more recognisable in many ways. The creation and dying of stars and black holes and their collisions described in volume 4 definitely has a fascinating effect on teenagers to the same...

Humorous and exciting adventures which take place in the universe are told in 6 volumes which are complementary and interrelated. Many new scientifically proven findings are shown in the form of funny children's "textbooks" to encourage young readers to become enthusiastic about a world which, thanks to scientific progress, has become more recognisable in many ways. In volume 5 ALIENNE, the extraterrestrial, shows her friends the so-called nano world or the world of dwarfs. Wearing their s...

The findings in natural sciences are becoming more and more complex. The things a person has to know about natural sciences in order to be able to participate in relevant discussions within society are becoming more and more demanding so that you cannot start to provide teenagers an insight into these worlds early enough. Volume 6 documents journeys through time with details of distances, speeds and curved space, and the becoming and decaying of the universes. Moreover, the existence of fu...

In volume 2, BLINKI, ALIENNE and WHIZZY fly past the Moon, Venus and Mercury in their ultrasonic hyper fast propulsion spaceship at almost 3,000 kilometres per second and come close to the Sun which, as we know, is several millions of degrees hot. Ghost particles whizz past them and penetrate through their bodies. Even though the playful WHIZZY is very excited about this wild trip he still hopes to see his friends Molly, Nibbly and Buzzy back down on Earth again soon because he knows, of c...

The capstone of a research endeavor begun by Barbara Stein and Stanley Stein nearly sixty years ago, this volume concludes their masterful tetralogy on Spanish economic and Atlantic history.With a compelling narrative that weaves together story and thesis and brings to life immense archival research and empirical data, Crisis in an Atlantic Empire is a finely grained historical tour of the period covering 1808 to 1810, which is often called “the age of rev...

A feminist reimagining of the Brothers Grimm fairy tale about a single mother and an enchanted friendship—from one of most bewitching British writers of the 20th century.“Comyns’s world is weird and wonderful . . . Tragic , comic and completely bonkers all in one, I’d go as far as to call her something of a neglected genius.” —The ObserverBella Winter has hit a low. Homeless and jobless, she is the mother of a toddler by a man whos...

**A captivating volume that transports us onto the San Francisco streets of the 1970s through the black-and-white images of a previously unknown master of 20th-century photography, Barbara Ramos."Published for the first time in A Fearless Eye, Ramos’s work captures minute and mesmerizing everyday scenes in a city that was about to change drastically." —The New York Times Book Review“Ramos’s decision to release A Fearless Eye now, after a 50-year h...

This authoritative study of colonialism in the Spanish empire at the end of the eighteenth century examines how the Spanish metropole attempted to preserve the links to its richest colony in the western Atlantic, New Spain (Mexico), in the face of international developments. Continuing the approach in Silver, Trade, and War and Apogee of Empire, Barbara and Stanley Stein detail Spain’s ad hoc efforts to adjust metropolitan and colonial institutions, structures, and ideolo...

Silver, Trade, and War is about men and markets, national rivalries, diplomacy and conflict, and the advancement or stagnation of states.Chosen by Choice Magazine as an Outstanding Academic TitleThe 250 years covered by Silver, Trade, and War marked the era of commercial capitalism, that bridge between late medieval and modern times. Spain, peripheral to western Europe in 1500, produced American treasure in silver, which Spanish c...

A look at the interaction of America, Spain, and Europe between 1500 and 1750, focusing on Spain's role in Europe's expansion across the Atlantic.The 250 years covered by this book marked the era of commercial capitalism, bridging late medieval and modern times. In 1500, Spain brought American silver back home across the Atlantic in exchange for European goods. Spanish colonialism, the authors suggest, was the cutting edge of the early global economy. America's silv...