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In George Orwell: The Man and the Mind Behind 1984, Professor Michael Shelden will show you how 1984 presents a plausible reality of thought control and totalitarian power that feels contemporary even as it reflects its own time.

In 1984, as a New York City subway train made its way downtown, a white man named Bernhard Goetz shot four unarmed Black teenagers he believed were going to rob him.

The Ministry of Truth by Dorian Lynskey is the first audiobook that fully examines the epochal and cultural event that is 1984 in all its aspects: its roots in the utopian and dystopian literature that preceded it; the personal experiences in wartime Britain that Orwell drew on as he struggled to finish his masterpiece in his dying days; and the political and cultural phenomena that the novel ignited at once upon publication and that, far from subsiding, have only grown over the decades. It explains how fiction history informs fiction and how fiction explains history.

Siguiendo los pasos de Theodor W. Adorno, Susan Sontag, Michel Foucault y Paul K. Feyerabend, Espíritus del presente crea un amplio panorama de las ideas de la posguerra en Occidente. Wolfram Eilenberger ofrece un relato cautivador de los albores de una nueva ilustración que conduce directamente a las fallas de nuestro tiempo.

Nach dem Ende des Zweiten Weltkriegs verkörpern vier Philosoph:innen die Suche nach einem neuen Menschenbild und einer neuen Aufklärung: Theodor W. Adorno, Susan Sontag, Michel Foucault und Paul K. Feyerabend. Mit dem Ziel, die Welt besser zu verstehen und der lebensweltlichen Enge zu entfliehen, gehen sie zwischen Frankfurt, Paris, London, Berkeley und New York neue Wege, die direkt zu den großen Bruchlinien unserer Gegenwart führen. Wolfram Eilenberger legt erneut ein erzählerisches Meisterwerk vor, das Geschichte und Philosophie auf einzigartige Weise verbindet.

John Lennon‘s now well-known maternal half-sister Julia Baird joined forces with famous author Geoffrey Giuliano in the early 1980s to write a riveting book on her life and times on the famous Beatle. With a stirring, revealing introduction by close friend Paul McCartney, it was an immediate, internationally best-selling smash! The sometimes rocky relationship between Mrs. Baird and Mr. Giuliano, however, makes for an exciting, behind the scenes inside story.

In October of 1949, a few months after publication of George Orwell‘s masterpiece, Nineteen Eighty-Four, he received a letter from fellow author Aldous Huxley, a man who, 17 years previous, had seen his own nightmarish vision of society published in the form of the classic, Brave New World. What begins as a letter of praise soon becomes a brief comparison of the two novels, and an explanation as to why Huxley believes his own earlier work to be a more realistic prediction

Rikosreportaasi Pohjoismaista on kokoelma jännittäviä ja autenttisia poliisitarinoita Ruotsista, Norjasta ja Tanskasta. Tarinat ovat rikostutkimuksissa mukana olleiden poliisien kirjoittamia. Tarinat ovat saaneet päätöksensä ja rikosten tekijät on tuomittu. Rikosreportaasit ovat hengästyttävää luettavaa, sillä totuus on usein tarua ihmeellisempää. Lukija pääsee kurkistamaan Skandinavian poliisihistorian dramaattisimpiin tarinoihin ja tutustumaan siihen palapeliin, joka on koottava syyllisten löytämiseksi.

Rikosreportaasi Suomesta sisältää monia jännittäviä ja autenttisia poliisiselontekoja Suomesta. Tutkintatyössä mukana olleet poliisit ovat kirjoittaneet selonteot. Kaikki tapaukset on käsitelty loppuun ja niistä on langetettu tuomiot. Reportaasia lukiessa voi vain haukkoa henkeä ja todeta, että todellisuus on tarua ihmeellisempää. Lukija saa seikkaperäisen kuvauksen pohjoismaisen poliisihistorian dramaattisimmista tapauksista ja tutustuu siihen palapeliin, joka liittyy rikollisten löytämiseen. Pohjolan poliisi kertoo -sarja on historiallinen teos.

De décembre 1984 à octobre 1987, les femmes blondes de la ville rose ont vécu dans l’insécurité la plus totale. En effet à cette époque, si vous étiez une femme blonde, menue et d’apparence bourgeoise, il fallait être très prudente dans les rues de Toulouse. Tout démarre un 24 décembre 1984 .https://www.lepetitjournal.net/31-haute-garonne/2024/04/09/1984-1987-quand-le-tueur-des-parkings-toulousains-sevissait/

This audiobook arose from a conversation between Hugh Cameron, an orthopedic surgeon, and Edna Quammie, an OR nurse, reminiscing about their shared memories. It was proposed at a dinner meeting of the Dinosaur Club, a group of doctors and nurses and technicians who worked in the operating room in Toronto General Hospital in the 70s and 80s. It tells of the thrills and spills - sometimes funny, sometimes sad - about life in the OR at that time which followed Woodstock, which, in a sense, changed a North American generation.

Måndagen den 5 maj 1980 möter 7-åriga Anna Bachmeier sin mördare. Tio månader senare - i mars 1981 - står den misstänkte gärningsmannen, Klaus Gabrowski, inför sina domare. Åttalet mot honom går ut på att han utsatt flickan för sexuellt övervåld, strypt henne med ett par strumpbyxor och därefter gjort sig av med liket i en kartong, som han grävt ner utanför Lübecks stadsgräns. På rättegångens fjärde dag förövades ett uppskakande blodsdrama i domstolen i Lübeck.

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Pensieri, ricordi, poesie... Kuki Gallmann raccoglie i frammenti di una vita trascorsa in Africa. Una vita dove la felicità è stata distrutta dalla morte del marito, Paolo, e del figlio, Emanuele. L'Africa ha tolto moltissimo a Kuki Gallmann. Ma le ha anche dato molto. Forse proprio per questo lei in Africa è rimasta. La sua vita, oggi, è la vita della Fondazione Gallmann, creata per ricordare Paolo ed Emanuele. Un atto d'amore che lega il passato al futuro. Che è diventato una promessa di salvezza per la natura e gli animali in pericolo.

Does the geographic cure actually work? Through a fast-paced journey of saying yes to the unfamiliar, pack your bags and set out into the world with a gay Jew determined to answer that universal question of Seriously...What Am I Doing Here?

A series of autobiographical short stories where the author recalls his university days studying law at Otago University in Dunedin, New Zealand, staying at the hostel Selwyn College and a student flat on Castle Street, plus working as security at the Sweetwaters Music Festival at Pukekawa.

A series of autobiographical short stories where the author recalls his university days studying law at Otago University in Dunedin, New Zealand, staying at the hostel Selwyn College and a student flat on Castle Street, plus working as security at the Sweetwaters Music Festival at Pukekawa.

A series of autobiographical short stories where the author recalls his university days studying law at Otago University in Dunedin, New Zealand, staying at the Selwyn College hostel, and a student flat on Castle Street, plus working as security at the Sweetwaters Music Festival at Pukekawa.

Under en väldigt kort period under sommaren 1982 blir ett flertal äldre damer överfallna, misshandlade, och rånade i sina egna hem i Stockholm. Gärningsmannen går till väga på samma sätt varje gång, han gömmer sig och följer efter damerna in i lägenheten efter att de varit ute. Han vill att de ska visa honom vart pengarna finns, men innan de hinner svara blir de slagna och inlåsta i en garderob som kväver deras skrik. Flera brott anmäls till polisen, och damerna som rånats återfinns vid liv, om än illa tilltygade.

Den 11 juni 1982 på förmiddagen kontaktade en läkare på intensivvårdsavdelningen, Sahlgrenska sjukhuset, den så kallade våldsspaningsgruppen i Göteborgs polisdistrikt och berättade att en 58-årig kvinna införts till sjukhuset den 9 juni med tecken på en svår förgiftning. Läkaren meddelade också att kvinnans make införts två dagar senare med liknande symptom som sin hustru. Kvinnan var enligt läkaren döende. Hon hade drabbats av en nästan total förlamning och blivit medvetslös strax efter det hon kommit in på sjukhuset.