Maj: 76 books

Dos casos sin resolver, tres policías en apuros y un asesino suelto dispuesto a matar de nuevo. El comisario Martin Beck y su equipo se hallan en una encrucijada en que nada parece tener relación en sí, pese a que todo apunta a lo contrario: un banco ha sido atracado en una parte de la ciudad,...

The stunning eighth installment in the Martin Beck mystery series by the renowned Swedish crime writing duo is a masterful take on a classic locked room mystery. With an introduction by Michael Connelly: "One of the most authentic, gripping, and profound collections of police procedurals ever...

The chilling third -- and breakthrough -- novel in the Martin Beck mystery series by the internationally renowned crime writing duo, finds Martin Beck investigating a string of child murders. With an introduction by Jo Nesbo: "Sjöwall and Wahlöö have shoulders that can accomodate all of today's...

This autobiography seizes the past seventy years by the scruff of the neck and nostalgically frolics down memory lane in South Africa, Rhodesia, Zimbabwe, Mozambique, and England. Plentifully laced with humour, possessing a warmth of love for humanity, spiced with a wide ranging set of anecdotes,...

A book that will move hearts and open minds, Jeffrey McGowan’s memoir is the first personal account of a gay man’s silent struggle in the don’t-ask-don’t-tell military, from a cadet who rose to the rank of major, left as a decorated Persian Gulf hero, and whose same-sex marriage was the first...

****Winner of the 2007 Military Writers Society of America's Gold Medal Award for Best Memoir****The Highway War is the compelling Iraq War memoir of then-Capt. Seth Folsom, commanding officer of Delta Company, First Light Armored Reconnaissance Battalion, U.S. Marine Corps. Mounted in eight-wheeled...

Race and racism have played a divisive and defining role throughout much of America's history. Slavery, Jim Crow laws, segregation, and Ku Klux Klan terrorism have inflicted deep psychic wounds, social disparities, and economic disadvantages that have diminished the promise of equal rights and opportunities...

Das Buch widmet sich dem deutschen Strommarkt und der Herausforderung, ein ideales Gleichgewicht zwischen den anteilig abnehmenden konventionellen Kraftwerken und den zunehmenden erneuerbaren Erzeugungsanlagen zu erreichen. Durch die meteorologisch abhängige Einspeisung regenerativer Energien bildet...

In our daily life, so many irritating incidents occur and a question comes to our mind is that are we really literate, well-educated and civilized ones? Have we really progressed to be sincere and responsive citizens? If the education and literacy levels are going up then is the system making the individuals...

In this volume noted military writer Major Arthur Griffiths chronicles the battles fought by the leaders of the French Revolutionary Armies from 1793 to 1799. Rallying to the cry of ‘La Patrie en danger’ these armies were characterised by their revolutionary fervour, their poor equipment and their...

Stieg Larsson, Henning Mankell, Åsa Larsson e altri: un Natale in giallo con i migliori autori di crime svedesi. Una scelta di straordinarie storie da brivido, tutte inedite, che la critica non ha esitato a definire «una pietra miliare» nel panorama della letteratura di genere. Una raccolta che...

Ancora un'indagine per il commissario svedese Martin Beck: un facoltoso e influente imprenditore viene assassinato, un omicidio apparentemente a sfondo politico; ma un’altra pista, proietta il detective verso una verità più modesta e triste.

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This is the second volume in a series of chronological histories prepared by the Marine Corps History and Museums Division to cover the entire span of Marine Corps involvement in the Vietnam War. This volume details the Marine activities during 1965, the year the war escalated and major American combat...