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Hæsblæsende thriller indlæst af Dan Schlosser "Gå ikke glip af denne eminente thriller i højt tempo; men pas på: hvide varevogne og mænd i TDC-kedeldragter bliver aldrig det samme igen." Dagbladenes Bureau. Cellen er en hårrejsende og anmelderrost thriller om den unge Masoud, der er med...

Carlos López-Otín, prominente figura en el ámbito de la bioquímica y la biología molecular y autor de la exitosa Trilogía de la vida, nos propone un nuevo enfoque científico centrado en la medicina de la salud, y nos desvela los secretos para fomentarla y lograr el necesario equilibrio...

Many of us are introduced to the amoeba in science class at school but know very little about the amazing life of this versatile, shape-shifting cell. A Is for Amoeba is packed with surprising stories that give listeners a richer appreciation of these astonishing microbes, revealing what amoebas have to tell us about the natural world and ourselves. Along the way, this entertaining and informative book shows how amoebas influenced figures like Friedrich Nietzsche, who saw in them an expression of the will to power, and Sigmund Freud, who likened the movements of amoebas to the human ego.

I Sverige blir en man vid namn John Schwarz häktad för misshandel på en Finlandsfärja. Det är något som inte stämmer med John, vem är han egentligen? En man utan identitet? En man som egentligen borde vara död? I USA förbannar Edward Finnigan sitt öde. Trots att många år har gått kan han inte få ro så länge han inte får upprättelse för mordet på sin dotter. Han har blivit berövad det avslut som han varit så säker på.

>"Lily?" My stomach dropped as a tall, dark-haired man stepped into view. Had he been hiding between the trees? "No. Sorry." Gulping, I took a step back. "I'm not Lily." He shook his head, a satisfied grin on his face. "No. You are Lily." "I'm Summer. You have the wrong person." For months, Summer is trapped in a cellar with the man who took her - and three other girls: Rose, Poppy, and Violet. His perfect, pure flowers. His family. But flowers can't survive long cut off from the sun, and time is running out....

Cell phones allowed people to connect on the go, and smartphones have transformed the way we share information. From the earliest landlines to the minicomputers that link people across the world, discover the shifts in phone technology that shaped modern communication—and the people who made them happen. This history also shows the big changes in design, size, and battery life that took place before mobile phones hit the center of popular culture.

À dix-sept ans, Lenora Hope Pendit sa sœur au bout d’une corde. Aujourd’hui réduit à une comptine de cour de récréation, le massacre de la famille Hope lors d’une nuit sanglante de 1929 a pourtant bouleversé les habitants du Maine. Si la plupart des gens sont convaincus que Lenora...

A sweeping history of three generations darkened by the long shadow of the Holocaust, The Cello Still Sings is a vivid, moving, and true story of personal discovery. As a child Janet is haunted by the eerie hush surrounding her parents' experiences. George and Katherine, two professional musicians and Holocaust survivors, bury the memories of who and what they were before, silencing the past in order to live.

We have lost the war on cancer. We spend $150 billion each year treating it, yet - a few innovations notwithstanding - a patient with cancer is as likely to die of it as one was 50 years ago. Most new drugs add mere months to one's life at agonizing physical and financial cost. In The First Cell, Azra Raza offers a searing account of how both medicine and our society (mis)treats cancer, how we can do better, and why we must. 

Do you look at your smartphone often? Are you often longer immersed in whatsapping, instagraming, Facebooking, emailing or playing on your mobile phone? Or watching Youtube videos? Then it would be good for your eyes, your fingers, your neck and also for your head to take some time out in between. Thus you prevent short-sightedness, the "mobile phone neck", enlarged thumbs and dented little fingers and tendinitis. And in general: not always looking at your mobile phone and relaxing consciously and chilling in between is good for your body and mind - your whole organism!

Il volume, in un costante rimando tra dinamiche storiche e attualità geopolitica, si rivela uno strumento utile per l’analisi dei complessi fenomeni che hanno condotto, nei secoli, all’odierno conflitto in Ucraina, ad oggi la più importante crisi politico-militare su suolo europeo del XXI secolo. Una lunga traiettoria che dai tempi di Erodoto giunge sino ad Euromajdan, dove l’attenta ricostruzione storica si interseca con efficaci chiavi interpretative.

A completely shocking and addictive thriller from UK Top 20 bestselling author John Nicholl ‘A dark tale that gets under your skin. I couldn’t tear my eyes away from the page’ Gemma Rogers, author of The Feud Dark, disturbing and gripping. This serial killer thriller is not for the faint...

Inside North Korea, veteran Fourth Echelon agent Sam Fisher finds himself on the run when a top-secret covert mission goes fatally wrong. Betrayed by his allies, hunted by his adversaries, and disavowed by his own agency, Sam is stranded deep inside hostile territory–and his only chance of survival is to uncover a murderous plot that reaches into the heart of the hermit state, and beyond. 

Take flight with the pilots who keep both the skies and land safe. Young listeners will explore their careers, the thrilling technology they use, and the dangers fighter pilots face every day.

Veteran Fourth Echelon agent Sam Fisher has a new mission recruiting and training the next generation of Splinter Cell operatives for the NSA’s covert action division, including his daughter Sarah. But when a lethal assassin from Fisher’s past returns from the dead on a mission of murder, father and daughter are thrust into a race against time as a sinister threat to global security is revealed.

When Robin Lustig’s mother died in 2013, he found himself drawn back into the tangled history of his German-Jewish family--a story of survival, exile, death and endurance. And the Cello Came Too is both a personal memoir and a family chronicle, spanning centuries of Jewish life in Europe, its near-destruction under the Nazis and its slow rebirth in the years after the Second World War. At its heart is the award-winning journalist and broadcaster’s father, Fritz Lustig, a refugee from Berlin whose cello accompanied him through upheaval, war and a new life in Britain.

A man awakens in a strange room, in an unfamiliar bed. Is it a nightmare, or has reality changed? A controlling voice forces two young women to fight for survival. Terrible dreams of a flesh-eating creature compel a man to return to his childhood home for answers.

One fateful evening, journalist Eric Siblin attended a recital of Johann Sebastian Bach's Cello Suites and began an epic quest that would unravel three centuries of intrigue, politics, and passion. Winner of the Mavis Gallant Prize for Nonfiction and the McAuslan First Book Prize, The Cello Suites weaves together three dramatic narratives: the disappearance of Bach's manuscript in the 18th century; Pablo Casals's discovery and popularization of the music in Spain in the late-19th century; and Siblin's infatuation with the suites in the present day.

Serial killer Gary Heidnik's name will live on in infamy, and his home, 3520 North Marshall Street in Philadelphia, is a house tainted with the memory of unbelievable horrors. What police found there was an incredible nightmare made real. Four young women had been held captive - some for four months - half-naked and chained. They had been tortured, starved, and repeatedly raped. But more grotesque discoveries lay in the kitchen: human limbs frozen, a torso burned to cinders, an empty pot suspiciously scorched....

"It's strange," said one of the guards. "I stand by his cell sometimes, and I hear him praying for us! He's doing all this for love? We know nothing about this God of love, but it sounds very right." God's love is stronger than fear! This book chronicles Dan Baumann's experience in Iran in 1997...