The Wonderful Adventures of Nils (orig. Nils Holgerssons underbara resa genom Sverige; literally Nils Holgersson's wonderful journey across Sweden) is a work of fiction by the Swedish writer Selma Lagerlöf, the first women to receive Nobel Prize in literature to make the study Sweden geography fun for children. It was originally published in two books, 1906 and 1907, and was first published in English as The Wonderful Adventures of Nils in 1907 a...

Antigone by Sophocles Audiobook is an Athenian tragedy written by Sophocles in (or before) 441 BC and first performed at the Festival of Dionysus of the same year. It is thought to be the second oldest surviving play of Sophocles, preceded by Ajax, which was written around the same period. The play is one of a triad of tragedies known as the three Theban plays, following Oedipus Rex and Oedipus at Colonus. Even though the events in Antigone occur last in the order of event...

The Ultimate Allan Quatermain Collection includes the 8 full-length novels, 4 short stories and 1 extracanonical work featuring Allan Quatermain.The character Allan Quatermain is an English-born professional big game hunter and occasional trader living in South Africa. An outdoorsman who finds English cities and climate unbearable, he prefers to spend most of his life in Africa, where he grew up under the care of his widower father, a Christian missionary. In the e...

Wie reist man eigentlich zeitgemäß um die Welt?Es ist der spannendste Selbstversuch, den sie sich vorstellen können. Lars und seine Freundin Anja kündigen ihre Jobs als Werber, um als Volunteers rund um den Globus in sinnhafte Lebensentwürfe einzutauchen. Im Rucksack ein One-Way Ticket und die Idee, unentgeltlich in all den ökologischen Jobs zu arbeiten, von denen sie schon als Kinder geträumt haben. Sie probieren sich als Agroförster, Safari Ranger und Walforscher...

ROLAND FRÅN SMÅLAND får uppdraget att bli Magnus hantlangare av skivbolaget. Snart har smålänningen lyckats nästla sig in i Magnus närmaste kompiskrets och göra kometkarriär i musikbranschen. Ingen kan motstå den uppfinningsrike Roland. Men är han verkligen att lita på?I den ständiga jakten på nya framgångar är Magnus fru Lolo det bästa stödet. Det är också hon som genomskådar de trick och intriger som musikbranschen bjuder på.Roland från Småland är en saltad historia om 90...

"Herr Arne's Hoard" is a 1904 novel by the Swedish writer Selma Lagerlöf. Its original Swedish title is "Herr Arnes penningar," which means "Sir Arne's money". Set in Bohuslän in the 16th century, it tells the story of a group of Scottish mercenaries who escape from prison. The group then murders a family in order to steal a treasure chest, but one of them falls in love with the family's sole survivor.The novel has been adapted for film three times: by Mauritz Stiller in 1919 as "S...

At the bottom of the dried out Svartsjö lake (Black Lake) lies the Lövdala Parsonage with its stables and outhouses. There resides the good-hearted, widowed Pastor Lyselius and his beautiful daughter. One day, his new wife arrives and she turns out to be a wicked stepmother. She torments her servants and especially the parson's daughter, Maia Lisa. We follow Maia Lisa through torments and sufferings where she gets ever new and harder burdens to carry on her weak shoulders. But by her side ...

"The Emperor of Portugallia" by Selma Lagerlof was first published in 1914 in Sweden and in 1916 in English. The story is set in Vaermland around 1860 or 1870 and centers on Jan of Ruffluck Croft. He loves his daughter more than anything, but when the latter moves to Stockholm, she never sends a word home. As a result, Jan sinks into a dream-world where she is the noble Empress of Portugallia and he believes himself to be Emperor too. His whole world and all his thoughts are dominated by t...

Was Max Weber bereits vor fast 100 Jahren feststellte, trifft auch heute noch zu: Wissenschaftliche Karrieren in Deutschland sind riskante Glücksspiele - sie sind Hasard. Anhand aktueller Befunde zeigt der Band, wie Hochschulen, Forschungsförderung sowie Nachwuchswissenschaftlerinnen und -wissenschaftler mit ihrer Karriere als Risikopassage umgehen. Dabei nimmt er eine kritische Perspektive auf hochschulpolitische Instrumente der Qualitätssicherung, Nachwuchsförderung oder Professionalisie...

Written in 1898, Arthur Conan Doyle's classic tale of high adventure portrays an alarmist era of imperial sovereignty, invasive foreign policy, and religious extremism, positing the naivety of a group of Anglo-American holiday-makers against the unbending convictions of Middle Eastern banditti. Among others, a young American ingenue, her matronly aunt, a fusty old bachelor, a loving Irish couple, and an opinionated French graduate gather aboard the Korosko. But during a morning tour of the...

Der plötzliche Tod des Firmengründers Erhard Junghans sen. im Jahr 1870 trifft die Firma mitten in der kritischen Aufbauphase. Beherzt nimmt die Witwe Luise Tobler die Firmengeschicke in die Hand. Da ihre Söhne Erhard und Arthur noch zu jung für die Geschäftsleitung sind, ernennt sie kurzerhand den bisherigen Assistenten Ihres Mannes Paul Landenberger zum Prokuristen. Der erweist sich als Glückgriff. Zumal er sich wenig später in Frida Junghans verliebt und bald zur Familie gehört. Erhard,...

With the success of Cherenkov Astronomy and more recently with the launch of NASA’s Fermi mission, very-high-energy astrophysics has undergone a revolution in the last years. This book provides three comprehensive and up-to-date reviews of the recent advances in gamma-ray astrophysics and of multi-messenger astronomy. Felix Aharonian and Charles Dermer address our current knowledge on the sources of GeV and TeV photons, gleaned from the precise measurements made by the new instrumentation....