'It's a wicked cold, the Alaska winter, and can kill a man in a second...'Nearing 15, Zac Greene travels to Alaska to re-connect with the father he's only ever known from a distance. But Zac's dad is a lone wolf a wounded soul who'd rather drown his regrets in a bottle of bourbon than confront the mistakes of his past. As Zac struggles to earn his father's approval, things spiral out of control forcing Zac to take his chances with the Alaskan winter.

Many writers have dabbled in a range of genres, but few have so successfully contributed influential work to so many as Dorothy Sayers. From detective fiction to theological treatises to popular dramas to acclaimed translations to startling cultural criticism, Sayers' work produced a pronounced and positive impact. She co-founded two literary circles and collaborated more frequently and more extensively with other writers than the Inklings. She was one of the first women to receive a degre...

THE COMPLETE LEATHERSTOCKING TALES features the five novels of James Fenimore Cooper's beloved Leatherstocking series, which follow the adventures of Natty Bumppo. Set largely on the frontier of New York during the 18th century, Bumppo, who is known as "Leatherstocking" to the European settlers and "Deerslayer" or "Hawkeye" to the Native Americans, is an Anglo-American raised in part by Delaware Indians. Together with his brother and companion Chingachgook, they roam the frontier through a...

50 Masterpieces You Have To Read Before You Die Vol.1 (German Edition) Inhalt: Kandide oder Die beste aller Welten (1759) Die Leiden des jungen Werther (1774) Ahnung und Gegenwart (1815) Frankenstein oder Der moderne Prometheus (1818) Ivanhoe (1819) Eugénie Grandet (1833) Vater Goriot (1835) Gullivers Reisen (1839) Die Entführung (1839) Die Kartause von Parma (1839) Der Pfadfinder (1840) Der Doppelmord in der Rue Morgue (1841) Die toten Seelen (1842) Ein Weihnachtslied (1843) Jane Eyre, di...

THE COMPLETE LEATHERSTOCKING TALES features the five novels of James Fenimore Cooper's beloved Leatherstocking series, which follow the adventures of Natty Bumppo. Set largely on the frontier of New York during the 18th century, Bumppo, who is known as "Leatherstocking" to the European settlers and "Deerslayer" or "Hawkeye" to the Native Americans, is an Anglo-American raised in part by Delaware Indians. Together with his brother and companion Chingachgook, they roam the frontier through a...

Tuomari Temple ja hänen tyttärensä Elizabeth ovat matkalla kotiin, kun heidän tielleen osuu kauris. Tuomari päättää ampua kauriin, mutta hänen laukauksensa menevät ohi. Samalla paikalle saapuu nuori metsästäjä Oliver, joka osuu kauriiseen yhdellä laukauksella. Tuomarin laukauksesta haavoittunut Oliver ei ole huolissaan omasta tilastaan – sen sijaan hän pitää hanakasti kiinni oikeudestaan kauriiseen.Tapahtumien keskipisteessä on jälleen kerran Natty Bumbo, joka seikkailee myös Nahka...

Was it the Mafia behind the biggest loanshark in New York City? Or a group of Long Island Rabbis?Melvin Cooper was a financier with an edge, making risky loans to New York businesspeople until he found himself running the biggest loansharking operation in the city. In 1984, he was arrested by then-U.S. Attorney Rudolph Giuliani along with seven Mafia capos and soldiers from four organized crime families. It was one of Giuliani's first high-profile RICO trials, and ...

James Fenimore Cooperin teos "Kuvauksia metsäelämästä sivistyksen äärimmäisellä rajalla eli Natty Bumpon elämänvaiheet" on merkittävä aikakauden kuvaus, joka yhdistää hienosti romanttisen kirjallisuuden tyylit ja aikakauden sosiaalipoliittiset kysymykset. Teoksen päähenkilö, Natty Bumppo, edustaa luonnon ja sivistyksen välistä jännitettä, ja hänen seikkailunsa Amerikoissa tarjoavat syvällisen tutkimuksen ihmisen suhteesta luontoon ja kehityksen kaksijakoisuuteen. Kirjan kielellinen tyyli o...

In the United States in 1993 the American Cancer Society estimated that there were about 1,300,000 new cases of invasive cancer diagnosed. At the time of presentation about 70% of those patients represented limited local regional disease without evidences of distant dissemination. About 30% of the patients had demonstrated metastatic disease at the time of initial diagnosis or about 390,000 patients. Of those patients with local regional disease about 56% would be cured by the best treatme...

Late Cenozoic glaciation directly affected sedimentation on more than half the Earth's continental shelves. Ice continues to be a dominant influence on sedimentation around Greenland and Antarctica, and on the shelves facing the Arctic Ocean. The features of these shelves include true glacimarine features, i.e. those found in a marine environment in proximityto, or strongly under the influence of, ice, such as iceberg scours and pits, ice gouges and incisions, subglacial outwash deposits, ...