A fleet of longships emerge out of the morning mist on 8th of June in AD 793, and race toward the island of Lindisfarne, one of England’s most holy sites. After beaching their vessels, blood-thirsty Norsemen wearing helmets and shields, disembark with swords and battleaxes in hand. They sprint to the monastery, force their way in and then leave behind them a swathe of ruin, vandalism and slaughter, as they ransack the buildings, dig up the altars, and haul away the holy treasures and captu...

The puddle in the road seemed like the perfect place for Tommy the mouse to test out his latest get-rich-quick scheme. However, just as he and his cousins had rowed the raft to the centre of the water, a passing vehicle splashed through it, barely missing them but creating a wave that shoved the raft and its passengers into an old drainage slot.Having fallen down the drain, the companions find themselves at the mercy of the raging currents in the sewerage system. The raft is carrie...

Lemuel Squirrel is a seemingly harmless, old eccentric, living a hermit’s lonely existence in his Oregon Forest home. But his life is a mere trick, a disguise to deceive those closest to him and hide his real identity – for Lemuel is, in fact, a maverick secret agent, aged thirty-three and a half. Unbeknown to globe-trotting Lemuel, his cover has been blown by mysterious enemy spies. Posing as holidaymakers, these shady characters are watching his safe house from afar, waiting for the oppo...

A humorous, vampire-themed fantasy action novel, that shifts between the 17th century and today.

When his winter stores fall down the drain, Noah the inventive blackbird flies out in search of food. Noah and his companion Trudy have nothing else to help them but their wits. Battling against all kinds of dangers, eventually they find a plentiful source of food... only to discover that it is guarded by Oswald the owl. Will the foragers escape?

DescriptionStacked Decks is not just a memoir — it's a testimony from the edge of the system.Told through the eyes of a live-in caregiver in the UK, this powerful narrative exposes the hidden realities behind Direct Payment schemes, elderly care, and the emotional toll of being both irreplaceable and invisible. It captures the quiet suffering, moral compromise, and systemic failures that caregivers endure behind closed doors — unacknowledged, overb...

Dear Reader,I had been thinking for quite a long time as to what to write as a prologue, and at the end, I decided not to use strong words, but just to write what was on my mind. Whenever I read a book, I have to start with the prologue, and so often, I find it boring, just reading it and at the same time thinking what it is about, as there are not so many things I am interested in, and eventually, I always find it interesting.I did not want to write something that would ma...

Die 17. Auflage dieses renommierten Lehrbuches vermittelt ein umfassendes Wissen über Böden und deren Schutz. Böden bilden eine der wichtigsten Grundlagen für das terrestrische Leben. Für einen effektiven Schutz und Erhalt dieses Lebensraums braucht es ein grundlegendes Verständnis der Prozesse, die Böden formen, sowie der Eigenschaften der Böden selbst. Dieses Buch fasst den neusten Kenntnisstand der Forschung zusammen und vermittelt ein umfassendes Wissen der Bodenkunde. Im Detail werden...

Musikalisches Material – Themen, Motive, deren Komponenten – erscheint in der Musik des 19. Jahrhunderts im Verlauf von Kompositionen in neuen Zusammensetzungen. Für deren verschiedene Strukturen wird der Begriff «Synthese» mit differenzierenden adjektivischen Bestimmungen eingeführt. Synthesen können unterschiedliche Funktionen im Verlauf der Stücke übernehmen. Der Autor geht den motivischen wie formalen Strukturen sowie deren Funktionen analytisch nach und untersucht den motivisch-themat...

At the beginning of June 1961, the tensions of the Cold War were supposed to abate as both sides sought a resolution. The two most important men in the world, John F. Kennedy and Nikita Khrushchev, met for a summit in Vienna. Yet the high hopes were disappointed. Within months the Cold War had become very hot: Khrushchev built the Berlin Wall and a year later he sent missiles to Cuba to threaten the United States directly.Despite the fact that the Vienna Summit yielded barely any t...

Die zentrale Bedeutung des Zeugenbeweises steht in beachtenswertem Gegensatz zu den kargen gesetzlichen Regelungen zur Vernehmung. Nach § 69 StPO folgt auf einen anfänglichen Bericht nötigenfalls das Verhör. Zwar ist dem Verteidiger hierbei nach § 240 Abs. 2 StPO auf Verlangen zu gestatten, Fragen an den Zeugen zu richten. Nach herrschender Meinung soll er aber nur genau umrissene und inhaltlich beschränkte Fragen stellen dürfen. Zusammenhängende Erklärungen dürfe nur der Vorsitzende einfo...