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It is 1916. Captain Hastings has been invalided out of the Great War and goes to convalesce at Styles Court, the family home of his great friend, John Cavendish. By an extraordinary coincidence, billeted in the village is a brilliant little retired detective with an egg-shaped head, who made a...

A sly send-up of the successful What Would Jesus Do? books, here is a satisfyingly mean light-hearted approach to business success—the Machiavellian way. Machiavellians may not get to heaven, but on earth they have a definite edge on the competition. In this pithy and discretely vicious guide...

Alice Ascher, a poor, elderly shopkeeper, is murdered in Andover. Betty Barnard, a young waitress, is strangled with her own belt at Bexhill-on-Sea. Next comes Carmichael Clarke, collector of Chinese art, clubbed to death in Churston. Only in Doncaster does the pattern vary: the man found...

The Kingdom of No Worries is the story of three young friends who create their own kingdom on a piece of land that emerges in the middle of the river that runs through their city. Inspired by their actions to create a democracy that is a model of social tolerance and global thinking, the surrounding community turns out in the thousands to participate in what becomes a radical cultural hub of the city. Over the course of one hot summer the boys grapple to learn what a democracy is and to oversee its demands.

Meet Max Carrados, the celebrated blind detective who can read a newspaper headline with the touch of his fingers and shoot a villain by aiming at the sound of his beating heart. In The Eyes of Max Carrados, our hero discovers a story of murder, suicide and a desperate daughter’s quest to clear her father’s name.

In The Eyes of Max Carrados, our blind hero, who can read a newspaper headline with the touch of his fingers and shoot a villain by aiming at the sound of his beating heart, discovers a story of murder, suicide and a desperate daughter’s quest to clear her father’s name. As the First World War rapidly approaches, we arrive in a sleepy south coast town where Max Carrados, the celebrated blind detective, is soon investigating the sudden death of the local museum curator. All is not as it seems, as our blind hero finds himself on the cliff top in a duel to the death.

"Die Würde des Menschen ist unantastbar" - so lautet der legendäre und allgemein bekannte erste Artikel des deutschen Grundgesetzes. Doch wie geht es eigentlich weiter? Was steckt noch in diesem Werk, das unsere deutsche Verfassung bildet und somit unser tägliches Leben bestimmt? Eine Frage, die sicher nicht viele Bürger einfach so beantworten können, schließlich zählt das Grundgesetz nicht zur allgemeinen GuteNacht-Lektüre.

70 Jahre Grundgesetz - was für ein Jubiläum. Am 23. Mai 1949 erlassen, sollte es lediglich bis zur Wiedervereinigung Deutschlands gelten. Doch ist aus dem Provisorium längst der unverrückbare Grundstein der Bundesrepublik Deutschland geworden. Neben der Gliederung in Judikative, Exekutive und Legislative Staatsorgane legt das Grundgesetz auch die Grundrechte jedes Menschen in der Bundesrepublik fest. Doch gerade in Zeiten des politischen Aufruhrs stellt sich die Frage, wie es um die Einhaltung dieser Gesetze bestellt ist.

Die Wahrheit über Deutschland pt. 13 ist die neueste Auskopplung der erfolgreichen Compilationreihe, die seit 1997 immer wieder aufs Neue die besten Ausschnitte aus aktuellen Comedy-und Kabarettsoloprogrammen in sich vereint. 22 Jahre, 13 famose Sampler und 2 gigantischen Boxen später steht auch die neueste Wahrheit mit einem fassettenreichen Querschnitt in den Startlöchern.

George Smiley is one of the most brilliantly realised characters in British fiction. Bespectacled, tubby, eternally middle-aged and deceptively ordinary, he has a mind like a steel trap and is said to possess ‘the cunning of Satan and the conscience of a virgin’. When word reaches 'The...

"Don't live in the darkness, Amy Jennings." Adolescence is difficult enough, especially when your family members are vampires and werewolves. But somehow Amy Jennings survived it. Now a young woman, Amy has come back to Collinsport, determined to forget the horrors of childhood and start anew. But growing up means confronting the truth about the world around you and Amy's rite of passage has only just begun.

A collection of fabulous tales of genies, heroes, flying carpets and fantastic voyages, The Arabian Nights has enchanted generations of children and adults. Forged in the Islamic Golden Age, it was brought to Europe in the 18th Century, where it became an instant sensation. Included here are seven full-cast dramatisations, starring Carolyn Backhouse as Shahrazad and Derek Jacobi as the King, as well as a bonus edition of In Our Time exploring the story behind the tales.

We live in a world with a relentless march of technology that shapes our very existence, where powerful Elites have manipulated our desires and perceptions. The rise of virtual existence is creating a generation disconnected from reality, from nature, and ultimately, from ourselves.

We are living in the age of super artificial intelligence which will help us or hinder us. Around the world, scientists, engineers, and software creators are bringing to life the fantasy world of a cybergenic future where biologically created humanoids implanted with artificial intelligence will be connected to each other across the globe.