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The forerunner to The Lord of the Rings, The Silmarillion tells the earlier history of Middle-earth, recounting the events of the First and Second Ages, and introducing some of the key characters, such as Galadriel, Elrond, Elendil and the Dark Lord, Sauron. The tales of The Silmarillion are set...

The End Times are coming. As the forces of Chaos threaten to drown the world in madness, Mannfred von Carstein and Arkhan the Black put aside their difference and plot to resurrect the one being with the power to stand against the servants of the Ruinous Powers and restore order to the world - the Great Necromancer himself. As they set about gathering artefacts to use in their dark ritual, armies converge on Sylvania, intent on stopping them. But Arkhan and Mannfred are determined to complete their task. No matter the cost, Nagash must rise again.

Manfred is a dramatic poem written in 1816–1817 by Lord Byron. It contains supernatural elements, in keeping with the popularity of the ghost story in England at the time. It is a typical example of a Romantic closet drama. Manfred was adapted musically by Robert Schumann in 1852, in a composition entitled Manfred: Dramatic Poem with music in Three Parts.

Der bekannte Psychiater und Psychotherapeut Manfred Lütz ist der Auffassung, dass Psychologie über unsere Zukunft entscheiden wird. Deswegen zeigt er hier in bewährt unterhaltsamer und allgemeinverständlicher Art mit lockeren Geschichten und überraschenden Beobachtungen Auswege aus dem allgemeinen Wahnsinn: Clevere Methoden – Sternstunden der Psychotherapie – Ungewöhnliche Patienten – Geschichten aus dem Irrenhaus – Psychologie für den Alltag – Lebenshilfe höchstpersönlich – Trump, Putin und all die anderen – Zur Psychologie der neuen Herrscher.

Practicing mindfulness is an essential part of a balanced lifestyle, especially in today's world. While TV, radio, and the internet constantly bombard us with warnings about all kinds of things, we hardly experience the moment anymore and instead lose ourselves in worries and fears. This book describes the principles of mindfulness using the example of the mindful archer. With exercises and reflections, it invites us to reintegrate mindfulness more strongly into our lives. Anyone can become a mindful archer, even without shooting a bow themselves. After reading this book, some may even want...

Few participants in World War I are more famous than Manfred Albrecht Freiherr von Richthofen, better known as the Red Baron. A German known for victories in a war that his country lost, a cavalry officer made famous as mounted combat disappeared, and an aristocratic hero in a century dominated by democracy; Richthofen's celebrity stands in stark contrast to the era.

Intuitive archery depends extremely on the art to not stand in your own way. It is not the one and only technique to hit a target, nor is it the perfect arrow or bow. It´s more the archers ability to keep repeating his shooting performance again and again in the same way. And at the same time he must train his intuition, which tells him how far the target is away and in which angle he has to hold his bow. Therefore archery is is a very difficult matter – small causes have big impacts.This book addresses the advances archer, who already knows how to hold a bow, tense a string and shoot ...

Riders of Judgment centers on the three Hammett brothers and their cousin Rosemary, whom all three love. To the oldest brother, Cain, falls the lot of avenging the murder of his father, grandfather, and brother. Cain - who is, in a sense, a cowboy Hamlet - is torn by conflicts within himself. He desires peace yet is forced to wear a gun. He is a law-abiding man by instinct yet has to take the law into his own hands. He is loved by a woman but rejects her because he feels unworthy of her love.

This Very Short Introduction explores the considerable variations of neoliberalism around the world, and discusses the origins, evolution, and core ideas of neoliberalism. This new edition brings the story of neoliberalism up to date, and asks whether new versions of neoliberalism might succeed in drowning out the rising tide of national populism and its nostalgic longing for a return to territorial sovereignty and national greatness. 

A riveting tell-all biography that delves into the extraordinary life of Hollywood’s most infamous private detective and “fixer” to the stars, revealing newly discovered shocking revelations from his never-before-seen investigative files. During the height of Hollywood’s Golden Age, one...

As a young boy, Bob had been drawn to the property, and, just when the family decided to move back to Brentwood, it went up for sale. Without a second thought, they purchased the house that Bob had always dreamed of owning. But the family soon began experiencing strange phenomena - objects moving on their own, ghostly footsteps, unsettling moaning sounds - that gradually increased in violence, escalating to physical assaults and, most disturbingly, bleeding walls.

He was the most feared fighter pilot of the First World War. He became a legend in a red aircraft. He died chasing one last victim too low over enemy lines. Manfred von Richthofen — the Red Baron — remains the most famous airman in history. To his enemies he was the red machine in the sky. To Germany he became proof that victory could still be counted, named, and celebrated. To the men who flew with him, he was not simply a symbol, but a disciplined hunter who turned air combat into method. RED BARON tells the story behind the legend: the aristocratic cavalry officer whose first arm was...

An Bord des Kreuzfahrtschiffs „Aphrodite" macht Émile Poiret die Bekanntschaft der attraktiven Schriftstellerin Miriam Harlowe. Poiret staunt nicht schlecht, als er erfährt, dass es sich bei dem luxuriösen Hotel um das vormalige Ferienanwesen des verstorbenen Lord Shaftesbury handelt. Schon bald stößt der Meisterdetektiv aber auf Hinweise, die nur eine Schlussfolgerung zulassen: Lord Shaftesbury wurde ermordet!

»Wenn du aus London verschwinden willst – spurlos, für immer –, dann klopfe zur Geisterstunde an die rote Tür von Wapping ...« Als der überschuldete Edwin Telford untertaucht, schickt Sherlock Holmes seinen Freund Dr. Watson zu jenem Haus an den Docks, von dem man nur flüsternd spricht. Auf sich allein gestellt, tritt Watson durch die rote Tür ...

In 1862 the largest Indian uprising in American history occurs in Southern Minnesota. Hundreds of whites are killed. Women are taken captive. Taken captive by the Sioux, Judith Raveling is given to Scarlet Plume, one of the many warriors who know their cause is lost.

Welches Kind kennt das nicht? Lasse will abends nie ins Bett. Viel lieber möchte er noch malen oder eine Garage für sein Auto bauen. Eine bunte Sammlung der schönsten Gute-Nacht-Geschichten von Astrid Lindgren helfen beim Einschlafen. Die Kinder verbringen eine Nacht auf dem Heuboden in Bullerbü, übernachten mit Pippi, Tommy und Annika auf einer einsamen Insel, fliegen mit dem Göran und Herrn Lilienstengel ins Land der Dämmerung, hören von Prinzessin Liese-Lotta, die erst durch eine Freundin das Spielen lernen muss, von Lena, die einer Elfe ihr Taschentuch schenkt und dafür beim Elfenball im heimischen Garten zuschauend darf.

Hunter, trapper, resourceful fighter, and scout, Hugh Glass was just a rugged man among other rugged American frontiersmen until he was mauled by a grizzly bear and left for dead by his best friends. Hugh's rage drove him to crawl 200 miles across dangerous territory to seek revenge until he was no longer Hugh Glass but had become Lord Grizzly.

Goslar im Jahr 1368: Ein gnadenloser Serientäter dezimiert eine Adelsfamilie. Der ehemalige Ordensritter Jan von Granitweiler ist ein Mann mit einer eigenen Vergangenheit und einem scharfen Verstand, der sich nicht von den Wirren des mittelalterlichen Aberglaubens beirren lässt. Seine Ermittlungen führen ihn tief in die Geheimnisse der Goslarer Gesellschaft, wo alte Wunden und ungesühnte Sünden neu aufbrechen.

The Adventures of Ellery Queen is a radio detective program broadcast between June 1939 and May 1948. The program invited a panel of armchair detectives to solve cases during its broadcast. Adapting a technique that had been used earlier in the Author! Author! radio program, when an episode's script reached a point at which all of the clues had been revealed, the scripted portion stopped, and the panel was challenged to identify the culprit.

Wer war dieser Mann, der gegen jede militärische Logik sein Flugzeug rot anmalte? Manfred von Richthofen, mit 80 Abschüssen der erfolgreichste Jagdflieger des ersten Weltkriegs, wurde zum Vorbild im wilhelminischen Kaiserreich stilisiert...