Bøger af Beck

Waylaid by winter weather, Angelina Cruz's connecting flight in Ketchikan, Alaska is canceled. Hoping for a hot cup of coffee and a place to lay her head, she seeks refuge from the storm in a cozy restaurant by the waterfront. Her helpful waitress introduces her to the owner of the newest lodging establishment on the island.The not-yet-open "Barndominium" was Noah Bishop's mother's dying wish. Since losing her five months ago, construction of the lodge has slowed down. He has one room ready to offer this stranded traveler. Introverted by nature, Noah isn't too keen on housing this city girl until the weather clears, but he knew his mother would insist on it.A power outage the first night forces them to share an intimate setting. Angelina's talkative, outgoing personality awakens Noah, bringing him out of the fog of grief and back to life. Angelina finds her sexy host a bit grumpy with his one-word responses. When she learns the story behind his demeanor, she puts her marketing skills to work to help him create a strategy that will have guests lining up to stay here.After experiencing the beauty of the Alaska landscape and falling for the ruggedly handsome man who calls this place home, Angelina wonders how she'll be able to go back to her regularly scheduled life in Miami once the storm passes. Can Noah convince her to take a chance on him? Will Angelina take advantage of this unexpected detour and make a reservation for love?

Aurora is one of six graduate students at Tacoma University when, upon receiving a phone call from a friend they are forced to leave for a life of isolation. But death is never far behind and the group finds themselves running from something that only appears under a microscope. As the decomposing dead lie in abundance, each member of the group fall victim to the circumstances that brought an abrupt end to the world. But somewhere along their journey Aurora, still unsure of who she is, becomes drawn into a passionate relationship with Maya - a now former law student. With the world having crumbled around them, it is in an isolated town somewhere in the northwest that the two have decided to make their home. Having everything they need for what has become their life, Aurora and Maya have managed to cope with the outdoor morgue the world has become. But as their relationship blossoms beyond the simplicity of romantic affection, life again acting without mercy, exercises one final act of cruelty. This is the story of a world in its death throes, contaminated by an act of war that rapidly brought humankind to the edge of extinction - a story of passion at its zenith cut down by unforeseen circumstances.

"The postcards in this collection reflect a hidden past of California that exists now only on the page. From college gates at Stanford destroyed by the 1906 earthquake and hotels in Catalina, Santa Barbara, and Oakland ravaged by fire to giant redwoods on the coast felled by storms and much of downtown Los Angeles razed in the name of the progress, California's landscape has changed dramatically in the last 125 years. The buildings demolished in San Diego's Balboa Park after the 1915 exposition closed are shown here as is downtown San Francisco before the earthquake and fire of 1906, amusement parks that decorated waterfronts from Long Beach to Santa Monica, and city halls from Anaheim to San Jose."--

Though often depicted as a rapid political transformation, the Nazi seizure of power was in fact a process that extended from the appointment of the Papen cabinet in the early summer of 1932 through the Roehm blood purge two years later. This book offers a compelling collective investigation of this critical period in modern German history.

Exploring contemporary debates and developments and gathering together contributors from activism, academia, and the worlds of policy and development, this volume argues for taking up reflexivity as practice in in Roma-related research and forms of activism, and advocates a necessary renewal of research sites, methods, and epistemologies.

En avistegning i en national debat skaber international opstand og fører til krav om offentlig retsforfølgelse og boykot mod private virksomheder. Indenrigspolitiske markeringer og diplomatisk skyggeboksning smelter sammen med økonomiske interesser og etniske og religiøse følelser i et tåget magtspil af global indenrigspolitik.Globaliseringen opløser centrale modsætninger mellem det nationale og det internationale og mellem det offentlige og det private. De fundamentale spilleregler i det moderne samfund er til genforhandling.I Magt og modmagt i den globale tidsalder analyserer Ulrich Beck de politiske og økonomiske konsekvenser af globaliseringen. I denne opfølger til hovedværket, Risikosamfundet (da. 1997), undersøger Beck først magtforholdene den globaliserede verden. Derefter opridser han det kosmopolitiske perspektiv, der er nødvendigt for at kunne håndtere disse nye magtforhold. Afslutningsvis afprøves dette perspektiv gennem konkrete historiske eksempler.Det er Becks pointe, at globaliseringen ikke er en fastlagt skæbne, der bestemmer vores fremtid. Den kan formes og påvirkes, hvis vi har viljen og formår at gribe det rigtigt an.