Amos Dystwater, 43 Jahre alt, Professor für Sozialpsychologie an der Universität Hamburg und gelegentlich Amateur-Detektiv, besucht einen alten Freund, den Maler Douglas Rankin in Cornwall. Amos ist immer noch nicht über den Tod seiner Frau Patricia vor einem Jahr hinweg gekommen. Um ihn abzulenken, erzählt Douglas ihm von rätselhaften Einbrüchen bei einer Reihe alter Männer in der Umgebung. Doch Amos kann sich nicht für diese Geschichte erwärmen. Etwas später, bei einem Ausflug, meint Amo...

Amos Dystwater, Professor für Sozialpsychologie an der Universität Hamburg und gelegentlich Amateur-Detektiv, wohnt nach dem Tode seiner Frau Pat in Hamburg Eppendorf und erfährt vom merkwürdigen Selbstmord eines alten Bekannten, Tobias. Er sucht dessen letzte Arbeitsstelle auf, wird dort aber unwirsch behandelt und zurück gewiesen. Er fährt nach Bremen, wo Freunde und die Familie des Toten leben. Dort lernt er auch eine Studienfreundin von Tobias, Adriana van den Aak, näher kennen. Sie un...

Wer in Ostfriesland Verbrecher jagt, muss eins können: abwarten und Tee trinken. Mit Kluntjes und Sahne gegen den Uhrzeigersinn! Denn in Ostfriesland bleibt beim Teetrinken die Zeit stehen. Das hat so manch ein Verbrecher zu spät gemerkt.Den einen holt das Meer im Watt, die andere sitzt auf der Insel fest. Und mancher Schrei dringt gar nicht erst nach außen. Erst recht nicht zur Weihnachtszeit.Mit ihren 25 Krimis und Rezepten garantieren Ihnen die Autorinnen und Autoren aus d...

Cross-cultural collaboration in popular music represents opportunities for the audibility of multiple voices and the creation of new sounds, but it also presents many challenges. These challenges are both musical – that is, how to technically match voices – and ethical – that is, how to negotiate historically entrenched power discrepancies. Practice-based research has recently developed as a field in popular music studies. This burgeoning area has much to offer in terms of new knowledge, b...

Toby Martin Series, Vol. 5The only event interrupting the summer blahs for Toby Martin, girl detective, and Freddy Galvin, boy foil, is the Great Minnesota Get-Together: the one, the only, the Minnesota State Fair!Electrifying rides, delicious food on a stick, raucous music, parades, talent shows, and the oinks, bahs, moos, and clucks of the farm animals make August the best month of the summer.Add to that a stolen knockwurst float, hateful pranks, mind games and a c...

Hate mail, mean-spirited pranks, bomb scares, and some very bad poety all threaten to ruin the holiday season for Toby Martin and her foil, Freddy Galvin.Little kid pranks escalate into serious threats when Toby, her pals, and Mrs. Trattles are specifically identified on a "hit list." After Toby's beloved Grandma is also targeted, Toby knows she must become Toby Martin: School Sleuth.

This book features five peer-reviewed reviews on the development and use of novel biocontrol agents.The first chapter provides an overview of the development of botanical pesticides and focusses on the potential of essential oils in replacing traditional synthetic products. A case study on the use of essential oils as a plant-based biocontrol agent in black truffle cultivation is also included.The second chapter reviews the future evolution of IPM and identifies the ways mo...

Profit. What a simple term. To determine it, all one needs to do is take revenue and subtract costs and there you go: profit. From there it’s easy to determine a percentage and margin. So what’s so hard about law firm profitability? Profitability in Law Firms: Insight and Analysis provides practical and proven strategies for law firm leaders and managers who want to take their firms to the next level of performance and profitability. How can they increase their profitability and efficiency...

It's a story that began in a rickety old home on a cold June morning in 1994, where five members of a seemingly ordinary New Zealand family were gunned down. There were two suspects. One lay dead from a single bullet to the head. The other was the only survivor: David Bain. Since then, the country has asked: Who killed the Bain family? David, or his father Robin? And why? Award-winning journalist Martin van Beynen has covered the Bain story closely for decades. Now, his book brings the sto...

The nation didn't know it, but 1960 would change American film forever, and the revolution would occur nowhere near a Hollywood set. With the opening of the New Yorker Theater, a cinema located at the heart of Manhattan's Upper West Side, cutting-edge films from around the world were screened for an eager audience, including the city's most influential producers, directors, critics, and writers. Woody Allen, Martin Scorsese, Susan Sontag, Andrew Sarris, and Pauline Kael, among many others,...

The size and severity of the global climate crisis is such that even the most committed environmentalists can drift into a state of denial. The award-winning writers collected here have made it their task to shake off this nagging disbelief, bringing the incomprehensible within our grasp and shaping an emotional response to mankind's unwitting creation of a tough new planet. From T. C. Boyle's account of early eco-activists, to Nathaniel Rich's comic fantasy about a marine biologist haunte...

Six years have passed since Michael Martin left for groceries and never returned home. What happened to him? Toby Martin, 15-year old amateur sleuth, tackles the case head on when she discovers letters from her beloved Pops that her mother had hidden from her and her brother. Following the clues embedded in the letters, Toby and Gary follow their father's trail which leads them to northern Minnesota and Wisconsin.C