In this "stunning" new history, New York Times bestselling author Max Wallace draws on groundbreaking research to reframe Helen Keller’s journey after the miracle at the water pump, vividly bringing to light her rarely discussed, lifelong fight for social justice across gender, class, race, and ability (Rosemary Sullivan, New York Times bestselling author).Kirkus Best Nonfiction Book of 2023Raised in Alab...

In this powerful new history, New York Times bestselling author Max Wallace draws on groundbreaking research to reframe Helen Keller’s journey after the miracle at the water pump, vividly bringing to light her rarely discussed, lifelong fight for social justice across gender, class, race, and ability.Raised in Alabama, she sent shockwaves through the South when she launched a public broadside against Jim Crow and donated to the NA...

The SEND Code of Practice (2015) reinforced the requirement that all teachers must meet the needs of all learners. This topical book provides practical, tried and tested strategies and resources that will support teachers in making maths lessons accessible and interesting for all pupils, including those with special needs. The author draws on a wealth of experience to share his understanding of special educational needs and disabilities and show how the maths teacher can reduce or remove a...

On Friday, April 8th, 1994 the body of Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain was discovered in a room above his garage in Seattle. The police declared it an open-and-shut case of suicide, but this book, drawing on forensic evidence and police reports, explodes the myth that Cobain took his own life and reveals the official scenario was scientifically impossible.Love & Death paints a critical portrait of Courtney Love - suspected of knowing the whereabouts of Cobain in the days prior...

The acclaimed New York Times–bestselling biography and “emotionally detailed portrait of the artist as a young man” (Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times)In the first biography of the iconic David Foster Wallace, D.T. Max paints the portrait of a man, self-conscious, obsessive and struggling to find meaning. If Wallace was right when he declared he was “frightfully and thoroughly conventional,” it is only because over the course of his short life ...

Burdened by loss.Ruthlessly determined.Ready to do whatever it takes.Agent Max Shaw is on a path to vengeance.Agent Max 'Prince' Shaw and his team hunt for the leaderof a terrorist organisation - the perpetrators ofan escalating series of attacks.While willing to do whatever it takes to protect the innocent,Max is tortured as he is put on a collision course with his past.As his worlds collide, Max must...

Die amerikanischen Klassiker, die jeder Mensch in seinem Leben erleben sollte – in dieser Sammlung finden Sie die wahren Meisterwerke der Literatur: die großen Abenteuerromane und Reiseberichte, die meisterhaften Klassiker des Horrors, die einflussreichen psychologischen und philosophischen Werke sowie die gesellschaftskritischen Romane von bleibender Bedeutung: Grashalme (Walt Whitman) Moby-Dick (Herman Melville) Bartleby, der Schreiber (Herman Melville) Walden (Henry David Thoreau) Über ...

On the run.Judge, jury and executioner.The world at risk.Max Shaw must intervene.Rogue agent Max Shaw has been on the run, hunted by the very agencies he once served, as he set about eliminating the remaining players of global terror organisation The Sixteen.But now it seems he's gone too far, compromising his morals and ethics, or has he?As a new enemy rises set to fill the void left by The Sixteen the world is vulnerable and only one man ca...

Strictly retired.Staunchly loyal.Strongly compelled.Former Agent Max Shaw returns to fightfor our salvation.Far removed from the world of terror and heartache he onceendured former agent Max 'Prince' Shaw is enjoying the quiet life preparing to marry his fiancé Blake, until a phone call from his old mentor drags him back to the Australian Intelligence Service.Returning to where it all began, AIS's secret base the Wool Shed, Max sets a...

Locked up.Lies, deceit and corruption.A new age threat.Max Shaw must reclaim his freedom,his life and our world.Subject to extraordinary rendition former agent Max Shaw findshimself in The Hague on trial for war crimes, while the worldwelcomes the launch of Apollo a new AI program set toreshape the world.With enemies on all sides, and without his team or support,Max faces his toughest mission yet to uncover who...

Diese sorgfältig zusammengestellte Auswahl entführt Sie in die gefährliche Welt der kriminellen Persönlichkeiten Großbritanniens. Lernen Sie die Hauptfiguren kennen: von Detektiven, die versuchen, brutale Verbrechen aufzuklären, über unschuldige Zuschauer bis hin zu hartgesottenen Kriminellen, die die ganze Stadt in Angst und Schrecken versetzen. Diese Auswahl ist unglaublich stimmungsvoll und versprüht einen Hauch von britischer Aristokratie.

Der 'Britisch-Krimi Sammelband: 120 Romane & Detektivgeschichten' entführt den Leser in die facettenreiche Welt der britischen Kriminalliteratur. Diese umfassende Sammlung bietet eine beeindruckende Bandbreite literarischer Stile und anregender Erzählungen, die allesamt die charakteristischen Merkmale der britischen Krimikultur aufgreifen. Von den spannungsgeladenen Plots Arthur Conan Doyles über die subtilen Ermittlungen Charles Dickens' hin zu den cleveren Twists von G.K. Chesterton – de...