Shortlisted for the 2019 Banff Mountain Book Award for Adventure TravelTwo decades of adventure writing are captured in this entertaining and inspiring collection of travel journalism by renowned adventurer, writer, filmmaker and environmentalist Frank Wolf.Lines on a Map is a compilation of Frank Wolf’s best work from the past two decades. Some of the adventures include: two friends on a cycling and volcano-climbing odyssey across Java, t...

Join renowned adventurer Frank Wolf on a gripping and epic journey through Canada's unforgiving northern wilderness.Renowned adventurer Frank Wolf annually embarks on a series of long-distance wilderness journeys. A little while back, he attempted a 280-km ski expedition across Baffin Island, a 1750-km canoe trip through the Northwest Territories and Nunavut, and a 550-km ski retracing of the 1854 expedition of legendary explorer John Rae, all in less than a year.

Brilliant Holocaust survivor Frank Wolf, now a private eye who investigates with the assistance of his lawyer grandson, specializes in cases the police cannot solve due to the insular nature of many Jewish communities in 1970s New York City. In Were the Angels Wrong?, Frank and Joel tackle a murder that hits too close to home. With the police convinced they have their man, Frank and Joel must prove a close family friend's innocence-despite overwhelming evidence.Were th...

What’s a congressman from Virginia doing in places where bullets fly and babies starve? Thirty years ago, Frank Wolf was elected to the U.S. Congress to address local transportation issues. Fueled by a faith that made him believe he could do something about it, the congressman grew to champion human and religious rights around the world—from cracking down on gang-related crimes in the U.S. to relieving suffering from war, AIDS, and famine in places like Darfur, China, and Bosnia. Eventuall...

What’s a congressman from Virginia doing in places where bullets fly and babies starve?Thirty years ago, Frank Wolf was elected to the U.S. Congress to address local transportation issues. Fueled by a faith that made him believe he could do something about it, the congressman grew to champion human and religious rights around the world—from cracking down on gang-related crimes in the U.S. to relieving suffering from war, AIDS, and famine in places like Darfur, China, and Bosnia. Eventually...

In this latest novel from the award-winning author of The Polyglot Lovers, a writer searching for inspiration in Spain goes on a darkly comic, delightfully absurd journey through an underground society.Awarded a three-month stipend to travel and work, a Swedish writer flies to Madrid, where in a bar she meets a man with an extraordinary story to tell. In exchange for somewhere to sleep and to hide out for a few days, he is willing to tell her the whole ast...

Book Two of the Inspector Frank Stave Investigations, a German detective trilogy set in post-WWII Hamburg. More than 150,000 copies sold.Hamburg, 1948It is a year of extremes. After a bitterly cold winter of starvation, the bombed city groans under excruciating heat. And Chief Inspector Frank Stave is confronted with a new case.In the ruins of a shipyard, the corpse of a boy is found and Stave's hunt for the killer leads him into th...

The memoirs of Wolfe Frank, which lay hidden in an attic for twenty-five years, are a unique and highly moving behind-the-scenes account of what happened at Nuremberg the greatest trial in history seen through the eyes of a witness to the whole proceedings. They include important historical information never previously revealed. In an extraordinarily explicit life story, Frank includes his personal encounters, inside and outside the courtroom, with all the war criminals, particularly Herma...

Die Migrationspolitik steht unter Druck. Die hohe Zahl Schutzsuchender, integrationspolitische Herausforderungen und Polarisierung der öffentlichen Meinung lassen Politik und Verwaltung oft überfordert erscheinen. Die Folge: Verunsicherung und wachsender Unmut in der Bevölkerung. Zugleich sollte eigentlich unstrittig sein: Deutschland ist auf Zuwanderung angewiesen - wirtschaftlich, gesellschaftlich und demografisch. Doch wie lässt sich eine sachgerechte und von der Bevölkerung akzeptierte...

Als Russland am 24. Februar 2022 die Ukraine angriff, schien das großen Teilen der russischen Gesellschaft egal zu sein. Das ist nicht überraschend. Seit Jahren wird das russische Expansionsstreben davon begleitet, dass gesellschaftlich das Recht des Stärkeren gilt. Gewalt wird von vielen als Mittel der Politik akzeptiert.Gesine Dornblüth und Thomas Franke erklären, wie es dazu kommen konnte. Ihre Reportagen und Analysen führen uns durch drei Jahrzehnte, in denen nationalistische Kr...

This book serves as a comprehensive resource for everyone involved in microsurgical tissue transfer, including plastic surgeons, ENT surgeons, oral and maxillofacial surgeons, and trauma surgeons, equipping them with essential knowledge for daily practice. The new fourth edition builds on the didactic approach of breaking down complex surgical procedures into a sequence of simple, manageable steps, guided by clearly defined landmarks specific to each donor site. For each flap, an anatomica...

Vor mehr als 25 Jahren sind die ersten Wölfe nach langer Abwesenheit wieder in der Schweiz gesichtet worden. Die Irritationen in der Berglandwirtschaft waren gross. Und bis heute wird kontrovers diskutiert, ob der Wolf oder auch andere Raubtiere hier wieder ein Existenzrecht haben sollen. Umso mehr, als sich mittlerweile über hundert Tiere, teils in Rudeln, in verschiedenen Teilen des Landes etabliert haben und immer öfter auch im Mittelland und im Jura gesichtet werden. Der Wolf polarisie...