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The solemn, rhythmic intonation of the shipping forecast on BBC radio is as familiar as the sound of Big Ben chiming the hour. Since its first broadcast in the 1920s, it has inspired poems, songs, and novels, in addition to its intended objective of warning generations of seafarers of impending storms and gales. In Attention All Shipping, Charlie Connelly wittily explores the places behind the voice, those mysterious regions whose names seem often to bear no relation to conventional geography.

David Gross is working as a corporate lawyer in New York when he gets a call from a friend inviting him to move to Bologna to help turn around a legendary Italian motorcycle company, known for its dominance on the track and its inability to turn a profit. Off he heads to the fabled home of marbled meats, radical leftist politics, and bespoke shoes, diving into his new life as the "corporate image consultant" to gearheads while learning to navigate the giddy mores of Bolognese society.

Fatal Forecast chronicles a dramatic fight for survival aboard two small fishing boats that were ambushed by a horrific surprise storm just southeast of Cape Cod. Soon after the Fair Wind and the Sea Fever reached the fishing ground at Georges Bank, they were hit with hurricane-force winds and massive 90-foot waves that battered the boats for hours. The direction of the wind made it impossible to turn back.

Das Warten hat sich gelohnt: Der bekannteste Kriminalbiologe der Welt präsentiert eine neue Sammlung mit Mordfällen, die die Öffentlichkeit in Atem hielten. Sein Spezialgebiet ist die Kriminalistik unter besonderer Berücksichtigung von Maden, Larven und Insekten, die Entscheidendes über Todeszeitpunkt, Tatort oder Täteridentität verraten können.

With wide-ranging analysis and a keen view of the key players in the intersecting worlds of energy and automobiles, authors Iain Carson and Vijay Vaitheeswaran tell the story of what may be the most important challenge facing the industrial world: how to make the transition from the Age of Petroleum to a cleaner and better future.

Brehms Blick auf die Tierwelt ist der eines Enthusiasten. Er weiß unendlich viel, hat in Afrika wie in der Arktis Tiere in Freiheit beobachtet, viele davon zum ersten Mal nicht eingesperrt, nicht ausgestopft, nicht als Präparat, sondern in ihrem eigenen Lebensraum beobachtet, er hat die Forschung bereichert, und bei alledem ist ihm die Qualität des Staunens nie abhanden gekommen...

Brehms Blick auf die Tierwelt ist der eines Enthusiasten. Er weiß unendlich viel, hat in Afrika wie in der Arktis Tiere in Freiheit beobachtet, viele davon zum ersten Mal nicht eingesperrt, nicht ausgestopft, nicht als Präparat, sondern in ihrem eigenen Lebensraum beobachtet, er hat die Forschung bereichert, und bei alledem ist ihm die Qualität des Staunens nie abhanden gekommen...

Brehms Blick auf die Tierwelt ist der eines Enthusiasten. Er weiß unendlich viel, hat in Afrika wie in der Arktis Tiere in Freiheit beobachtet, viele davon zum ersten Mal nicht eingesperrt, nicht ausgestopft, nicht als Präparat, sondern in ihrem eigenen Lebensraum beobachtet, er hat die Forschung bereichert, und bei alledem ist ihm die Qualität des Staunens nie abhanden gekommen...

Brehms Blick auf die Tierwelt ist der eines Enthusiasten. Er weiß unendlich viel, hat in Afrika wie in der Arktis Tiere in Freiheit beobachtet, viele davon zum ersten Mal nicht eingesperrt, nicht ausgestopft, nicht als Präparat, sondern in ihrem eigenen Lebensraum beobachtet, er hat die Forschung bereichert, und bei alledem ist ihm die Qualität des Staunens nie abhanden gekommen...

For more than three centuries, slave ships carried millions of people from the coasts of Africa across the Atlantic to the New World. Much is known of the slave trade and the American plantation complex, but little of the ships that made it all possible. In The Slave Ship, award-winning historian Marcus Rediker draws on 30 years of research in maritime archives to create an unprecedented history of these vessels and the human drama acted out on their rolling decks.

Written by an airline pilot and a clinical psychologist, this combination of practical explanation and self-help techniques is the definitive guide to help nervous passengers overcome their fear of flying. Lighthearted, unpatronising and informative.

Here's how to harness the great forces of capitalism to save the world from catastrophe.

The forecasts are grim and time is running out, but that's not the end of the story. In this book, Fred Krupp, longtime president of the Environmental Defense Fund, brings a stirring and hopeful call to arms: We can solve global warming. And in doing so, we will build the new industries, jobs, and fortunes of the 21st century.

So spannend wie in seinem Thriller Der Schwarm durchleuchtet Frank Schätzing das unbekannte Universum unter Wasser. Wie funktioniert dieses gewaltige System, dem wir entstammen?

To an outsider, Toyota is hard to understand. The company moves forward gradually while also advancing in big leaps. It is frugal with its resources while spending extravagantly on people and projects. It is both efficient and redundant.

Amelia Earhart flew solo over the Atlantic, afterward receiving the Distinguished Flying Cross, and began championing the efforts of women to explore careers traditionally held by men. Tragically, just days before her 40th birthday, her plane vanished en route to a tiny island in the Pacific Ocean as she neared the end of her round-the-world journey. After an exhaustive search, no trace of the plane or Amelia was ever found.

The opening of the pioneering Liverpool & Manchester Railway in 1830 marked the beginning of the railway network's vital role in changing the face of Britain. Fire & Steam celebrates the vision of the ambitious Victorian pioneers who developed this revolutionary transport system and the navvies who cut through the land to enable a country-wide railway to emerge.

"Reduce, reuse, recycle," urge environmentalists. In other words, do more with less in order to minimize damage. William McDonough and Michael Braungart argue in this provocative book that this approach perpetuates a one-way, "cradle to grave" manufacturing model that dates back to the Industrial Revolution, a model that casts off as much as 90 percent of the materials it uses as waste, much of it toxic. They challenge the notion that human industry must inevitably damage the natural world.

Driving is a fact of life. We are all spending more and more time on the road, and traffic is an issue we face everyday. This audiobook will make you think about it in a whole new light.

Driving is a fact of life. We are all spending more and more time on the road, and traffic is an issue we face everyday. This audiobook will make you think about it in a whole new light.

Why does the other lane always seem to be moving faster? What does the way you drive say about you? Is the road a microcosm of society or an autonomous republic that functions according to its own set of rules? Does traffic work the same all over the world?