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"As a child, Brian and his friend Jimmy would make sci-fi films in their yards, convincing their friends to star as victims of grisly murders, smearing lipstick on the 'bodies' to simulate blood. Now a talented artist and aspiring filmmaker, Brian, along with Jimmy, Jimmy's friend Tina, and Laurie--his reluctant muse--sets off to a remote cabin in the woods with an old 16 millimeter camera to make a true sci-fi horror movie, an homage to Brian's favorite movie: Invasion of the Body Snatchers. But as Brian's affections for Laurie go seemingly unreciprocated, Brian writes and draws himself into a fantasy where she is the girl of his dreams, his damsel in distress, and his savior wrapped into one"--

En rejse til og udforskning af Pompeji og Herculaneum baseret på den nyere viden om Vesuvbyerne

"Ansigt til ansigt med japanerne" behandler i fremstillingstekst, kilder og billeder:Det traditionelle Japan og japansk kulturJapans åbning i 1850'erneJapan under og efter 1. Verdenskrig med modernisering og demokratiseringMilitarismens Japan: 2. Verdenskrig: atombomber og krigsfoprbrydelserEfterkrigstidens apan: Økonomi, indenrigspoltik og udenrigspolitik

"Turist i antikkens Athen" præsenterer ikke alene den nutidige turist for resterne af det antikke Athen men "befolker" også disse med stemmer, indtryk og tanker fra dengang, de var en del af en levende kultur.

Bogen er skrevet af Ruslandseksperten Erik Kulavig og omhandler hele Ruslands historie fra Kiev-riget ti Putin

Bogen giver for første gang på dansk et samlet overblik i tekst og kilder over terrorismens historie. "Terrorisme" præsenterer i en historisk kontekst terroristernes fremstillinger af motiver, ideologi og oplevelser samt deres ofres øjenvidneberetninger

Læs bogen om Syrien og få et overblik over Syriens historie fra oldtiden til Bashar al-Assad, oplev Bashar al-Assads undertrykkende styre og rædslerne under borgerkrigen gennem øjenvidner.Hvem er hvem i borgerkrigens hvepserede af kombattanter?Følg Islamisk Stats egne argumenter for bl.a. levende brænding og halshugning af fanger, slaveri og sex med slavepiger samt vold mod verdensarven.Hvordan skal "krigsversene" i Koranen tolkes?Følg stormagtsspillet om og stedfortræderkrigen i Syrien ogdeltag i debatten om flygtningekrisen og den danske indvandringspolitik

"Irak. Historie-Religion-Samfund" belyser i fremstilling og kildetekster Iraks omtumlede historie og kultur fra oldtid til nutid. Læs om: Babelstårn og syndflod, hængende haver og "skriften på væggen". Overvær undertrykkelse og flugt under Saddam Hussein. Følg begivenhederne under de to Golfkrige og Danmarks engagement i Irak. Tag stilling i den brændende aktuelle debat om vold, demokrati og islam i lyset af Islamisk Stats hærgen.

Kinas nyeste historie såvel indenrigs- som udenrigspolitisk

"A saucy, searingly original debut about two sisters raised in the shadow of El Salvador's brutal dictator, El Gran Pendejo, and their flight from genocide, which takes them from Hollywood to Paris to cannery row, each followed by a chorus of furies, the ghosts of their murdered friends, who aren't yet done telling their stories. El Salvador, 1923. Graciela grows up on a volcano in a community of indigenous women indentured to coffee plantations owned by the country's wealthiest, until a messenger from the Capital comes to claim her: at nine years old she's been chosen to be an oracle for a rising dictator--a sinister, violent man wedded to the occult. She'll help foresee the future of the country. In the Capital she meets Consuelo, the sister she's never known, stolen away from their home before Graciela was born. The two are a small fortress within the dictator's regime, but they're no match for El Gran Pendejo's cruelty. Years pass and terror rises as the economy flatlines, and Graciela comes to understand the horrific vision that she's unwittingly helped shape just as genocide strikes the community that raised her. She and Consuelo barely escape, each believing the other to be dead. They run, crossing the globe, reinventing their lives, and ultimately reconnecting at the least likely moment. Endlessly surprising, vividly imaginative, bursting with lush life, The Volcano Daughters charts, through the stories of these sisters and the ghosts they carry with them, a new history and mythology of El Salvador, fiercely bringing forth voices that have been calling out for generations"--

"In the spring of 1972, twelve-year-old Tomoko leaves her mother behind in Tokyo and boards a train alone for Ashiya, a coastal town in Japan, to stay with her aunt's family. Tomoko's aunt is an enigma and an outlier in her working-class family, and her magnificent home--and handsome, foreign husband, the president of a soft drink company--are symbols of that status. ... The family is just as beguiling as their mansion--Tomoko's dignified and devoted aunt, her German grandmother, and her dashing, charming uncle who confidently sits as the family's patriarch. At the center of the family is Tomoko's cousin Mina, a precocious, asthmatic girl of thirteen who draws Tomoko into an intoxicating world full of secret crushes and elaborate storytelling. In this elegant jewel box of a book, Yoko Ogawa invites us to witness a powerful and formative interlude in Tomoko's life, which she looks back on briefly from adulthood at the novel's end"--

"In high school, the three were students of the eccentric Professor Marsh, trained in a secret system of magic known as the Dissonance, which is built around harnessing negative emotions: alienation, anger, pain. Then, twenty years ago, something happened that shattered their coven, scattering them across the country, stuck in mundane lives, alone. But now, terrifying signs and portents (not to mention a pointed Facebook invite) have summoned them back to Clegg, Texas. There, their paths will collide with that of Owen, a closeted teenager from Alabama whose aborted cemetery seance with his crush summoned something far worse: a murderous entity whose desperate, driving purpose includes kidnapping Owen to serve as its Renfield"--

"From a marine biologist and co-founder of Minorities in Shark Sciences, a ... debut memoir: the uplifting story of a young Black scientist's challenging journey to flourish outside the traditional confines of academia, inspired by her innate connection to nature's most misunderstood animal: the shark"--

SHORTLISTED FOR THE CUNDILL HISTORY PRIZE • Every day, thousands of new secrets are created by the United States government. What is all this secrecy really for? And whom does it benefit?“A brilliant, deeply unsettling look at the history and inner workings of ‘the dark state'.... At a time when federal agencies are increasingly classifying or destroying documents with historical significance, this book could not be more important.” —Eric Schlosser, New York Times best-selling author of Command and ControlBefore World War II, transparent government was a proud tradition in the United States. In all but the most serious of circumstances, classification, covert operations, and spying were considered deeply un-American. But after the war, the power to decide what could be kept secret proved too tempting to give up. Since then, we have radically departed from that open tradition, allowing intelligence agencies, black sites, and classified laboratories to grow unchecked. Officials insist that only secrecy can keep us safe, but its true costs have gone unacknowledged for too long. Using the latest techniques in data science, historian Matthew Connelly analyzes a vast trove of state secrets to unearth not only what the government really did not want us to know but also why they didn’t want us to know it. Culling this research and carefully examining a series of pivotal moments in recent history, from Pearl Harbor to drone warfare, Connelly sheds light on the drivers of state secrecy— especially incompetence and criminality—and how rampant overclassification makes it impossible to protect truly vital information. What results is an astonishing study of power: of the greed it enables, of the negligence it protects, and of what we lose as citizens when our leaders cannot be held to account. A crucial examination of the self-defeating nature of secrecy and the dire state of our nation’s archives, The Declassification Engine is a powerful reminder of the importance of preserving the past so that we may secure our future.

"Science is so powerful that the powerful want to control it. From the author of Is Shame Necessary?, comes a biting satire of the techniques used by the corporate world to obfuscate and deny scientific truths. Taking the form of a corporate meeting agenda, The Playbook highlights the tactics used by the business elite to contradict climate change, ignore health risks, and undermine worker safety. The Playbook is a caustic handbook for tobacco, oil, and pharmaceutical company executives-epistolary non-fiction-advising whom to hire, how to recruit experts, how to obfuscate, and how to relentlessly and effectively challenge the threat of science, policy, reporters, and activists. Jacquet likens the machinery of deception and delays to a casino, with its deliberative architecture and design-the dimmed chandeliers, the comfortable furniture, the dealers, the drinks-to keep the customers inside comfortable and gambling as long as possible. The Playbook will help any business buy time if it is threatened by science, the most reliable form of knowledge the world has ever known. Part strategy, part social history, part resistance, part lampoonery, The Playbook illuminates the methods and motives of many successful scientific denial campaigns, and the social forces that may outwit them"--

Bogen er 3. bind i serien "Skæbnestunder i Danmarkshistorien" og fokuserer i fremstilling, kilder og synspunktmateriale på de afgørende eller markante begivenheder i Danmark i tiden fra den skånske krig til de store landboreformer.

Bogen fokuserer i fremstilling, kilder og synspunktmateriale på de afgørende eller markante begivenheder i renæssancens Danmark, som hører til de mest omdiskuterede.

"Skæbnestunder i Danmarkshistorien: Middelalderen" fokuserer i fremstilling, kilder og synspunktmateriale på de afgørende eller markante begivenheder i middelalderens Danmark, som hører til de mest omdiskuterede.

Tag på rejse med berømte udenlandske og danske forfattere i fortid og nutid og besøg bl.a. Grækenland, Rom, Firenze, Venezia, Spanien, Paris, Strasbourg, New York, Kina og Vietnam. Oplev stederne gennem et væld af farvefotos og malerier. Læs om rejsebranchens udvikling fra antikken til i dag

"Alle tiders kærlighed" er en stor mentalitetshistorie, som i fremstilling, tekster og billeder skildrer de skiftende tiders og kulturstrømningers kærlighedsmanifestationer i litteratur, digtning, kunst, religion og film."Alle tiders kærlighed" er gaven fra ham til hende, fra hende til ham, fra ham til ham og fra hende til hende.OBS Bemærk: forkert EAN-nummer på omslagets bagside. Rigtigt EAN-nummer står i kolofonen.

Græsk-Romersk Religion er det mest "levende" eksempel på en "uddød" religion - en religion, som lever videre op gennem tiden i litteratur, kunst og filosofi samt i ikke ringe grad i udformningen af kristendommen."Græsk-Romersk Religion består af såvel fremstillingsstofsom primære tekster om myter og kult suppleret med uddybende og analyserende tekster samt egentlige perspektivtekster af såvel litterær som filosofisk-religiøs karakter.Bogen er illustreret med mange farvebilleder.

"Alle Tiders Mad - Mad, historie og samfund fra istid til nutid"fortæller madens historie og madens historiske betydning gennem tiderne i tekster, billeder og opskrifter

Bogen præsenterer i fremstillingstekst, kilder og billeder Berlins historie og seværdigheder fra middelalder til nutid. Dertil kapitler om litteraturens, filmens, kunstens og museernes Berlin.

Bogen omhandler slaveri i antikken, den transatlantiske slavehandel og slaveriet i Den Nye Verden samt slaveri i nutiden. Fremstillingsstof og kildemateriale

"Syng gudinde" præsenterer alle de væsentligste trojanske temaer, som forekommer i antikke tekster, analyser af disse, perspektiverende tekster, filmanalyser samt kunst