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...

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...

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

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...

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?

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...

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...

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...

Neue Erkenntnisse in der Neuro- und Molekularbiologie, der Epigenetik und Entwicklungspsychologie sowie der Psychotherapie- und der Stressforschung haben zu einem weitreichenden Paradigmenwechsel in der Psychosomatischen Medizin geführt. Dieses Lehr- und Handbuch bietet in 100 Kapiteln zunächst eine aktuelle Bestandsaufnahme der wissenschaftlich gesicherten bio-psycho-sozialen Grundlagen dieser neuen Psychosomatik, um darauf aufbauend die Diagnostik und Therapie der wichtigsten psychosomat...

Diese Sozialkunde der Bundesrepublik stellt dar, wie Gesellschaft, Wirtschaft und Politik sich in Deutschland historisch gewandelt haben, wo wir heute stehen und wohin die Entwicklung geht. Ausgewiesene Experten schreiben unter anderem zu den Themen sozialer Wandel, Migration, Familie, Bildung, innere Sicherheit, Wirtschaftsordnung, Arbeitsmarkt und Arbeitswelt, Zivilgesellschaft, Regierungssystem und Medien. Darüber hinaus zeigen mögliche Zukunftsszenarien: Trotz sozialer Ungleichheit, Ge...

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...