Not stated okt 2026 (6 resultados)

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - An adorable board book to say thank you for all the things that give us life, joy, and wonder. It's never too early to teach gratitude! Through simple words, phrases, and bright, beautiful illustrations by Hsinping Pan, Baby's First Book of Thanks presents language and actions that demonstrate thankfulness for essential everyday things, from family and friends to sunshine, water, and music. This sweet board book is a joyful, cozy read that parents and their children will return to again and again. Perfect for baby showers. Pan, Hsinping (ilustrador).…

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - A thrilling, long-lost British novelnever before published in the U.S.that warned of Hitler's rise through the story of an ordinary German family during six fateful months in 1933; it has been hailed as 'a surprise breakout success' and 'a word-of-mouth jaw-dropper' in the UK.The Klugers are a tight-knit family living in a picturesque mountain village in Bavaria. As 1932 draws to a close, Herr Kluger is dismayed by the growing popularity of the Nazi Party but aware of its leader's charisma: he warns his two sons, "Don't you know that to hear that chap speak is to believe everything he says for twenty-four hours " To his sons, however, the Party offers not only employment prospects but also meaning and purposea powerful draw for a generation whose life chances had been decimated by Germany's defeat in the Great War. Helmy, the sensitive elder brother, joins the Party with some hesitation, while Erich becomes a true believer.Meanwhile, their beloved sister, Lexa, finds her engagement to her sweetheart under threat. Moritz Weissmann, though a Catholic, is half Jewish, and when it becomes clear he is at risk, Lexa's family urges her to break things off. She continues to see Moritz secretly, but as Hitler becomes Chancellor, laws restricting Jews are passed, Dachau is opened, and armed thugs roam the streets rounding up 'enemies of the state,' history closes in on the young lovers.Crooked Cross, written while Sally Carson was visiting Germany in the early 1930s and witnessing the historic events it depicts, is insightful, moving, and shockingly prescient.…

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - 'An honest and sympathetic companion for anyone learning that some painful breaks don't need fixingonly time.' Publishers Weekly (starred review)This poignant and sensitively illustrated picture book captures the maelstrom of emotions that arise when a friendship has run its course.A young girl's stomach dips when she passes the house where her best friend once lived. The friend hasn't moved away, but she may as well have. The girls used to walk to school together. They liked the same things. They fought and then made upuntil the next time, and the next. But the rotten feelings have piled up, and now the girls avoid each other. Dad says that happens. Friends drift apart. Remembering the fun times helps, and as new bonds bloom, the anger and hurt fade. Illustrated with gentleness and warmth, this honest, moving text evokes an authentically childlike voice to help children master with hope and confidence the complex emotions that come from a changing relationship. Sicuro, Aimée (ilustrador).…

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - The stunning sequel to the instant international bestseller Heavenly Bodies.Never make a bargain with a god.Elara is out for revenge. Her love, Prince Enzo, is trapped between the realms of life and death, and her enemy has vanished, leaving Elara with a life she never wanted and new powers she cannot control.Now a disgraced queen on the run, Elara must find a way to wake Enzo while also seeking the lost Titans, a league of gods who ruled the world long before the Stars.But there is a darker power at play, one that even Ariete, King of the Stars, is afraid of. With enemies at every turn, Elara must tread carefully if she has any hope of saving her soulmate and fulfilling her promise to make every Star fall.…

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - Winner of the Duff Cooper PrizeWinner of the Elizabeth Longford PrizeA New Yorker, Financial Times, Spectator, Times, and Telegraph Book of the YearIn this definitive biography of the mythic general who refused to accept the Nazi domination of France, Julian Jackson captures Charles de Gaulle as never before. Drawing on unpublished letters, memoirs, and papers from the recently opened de Gaulle archive, he shows how this volatile visionary of staunch faith and conservative beliefs infuriated Churchill, challenged American hegemony, recognized the limitations of colonial ambitions in Algeria and Vietnam, and put a broken France back at the center of world affairs.'With a fluent style and near-total command of existing and newly available sources.Julian Jackson has come closer than anyone before him to demystifying this conservative at war with the status quo, for whom national interests were inseparable from personal honor.'-Richard Norton Smith, Wall Street Journal'A sweeping-yet-concise introduction to the most brilliant, infuriating, and ineffably French of men.'-Ross Douthat, New York Times'Classically composed and authoritative.Jackson writes wonderful political history.'-Adam Gopnik, New Yorker'A remarkable book in which the man widely chosen as the Greatest Frenchman is dissected, intelligently and lucidly, then put together again in an extraordinary fair-minded, highly readable portrait. Throughout, the book tells a thrilling story.'-Antonia Fraser, New Statesman'Makes awesome reading, and is a tribute to the fascination of its subject, and to Jackson's mastery of it.A triumph, and hugely readable.'-Max Hastings, Sunday Times.…

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - An Economist and Sunday Times Best Book of the Year'Deserves to be hailed as a magnum opus.'-Tom Holland, The Telegraph'Ambitious.seeks to rehabilitate the Holy Roman Empire's reputation by re-examining its place within the larger sweep of European history.Succeeds splendidly in rescuing the empire from its critics.'-Wall Street JournalMassive, ancient, and powerful, the Holy Roman Empire formed the heart of Europe from its founding by Charlemagne to its destruction by Napoleon a millennium later. An engine for inventions and ideas, with no fixed capital and no common language or culture, it derived its legitimacy from the ideal of a unified Christian civilization-though this did not prevent emperors from clashing with the pope for supremacy.In this strikingly ambitious book, Peter H. Wilson explains how the Holy Roman Empire worked, why it was so important, and how it changed over the course of its existence. The result is a tour de force that raises countless questions about the nature of political and military power and the legacy of its offspring, from Nazi Germany to the European Union.'Engrossing.Wilson is to be congratulated on writing the only English-language work that deals with the empire from start to finish.A book that is relevant to our own times.'-Brendan Simms, The Times'The culmination of a lifetime of research and thought.an astonishing scholarly achievement.'-The Spectator'Remarkable.Wilson has set himself a staggering task, but it is one at which he succeeds heroically.'-Times Literary Supplement.…