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From the Chinese Emperors to the Romans and the Byzantines, from British Foreign Office agents in the Great Game to today's hippies, backpackers and aid workers, a long line of "civilized," sedentary, peoples have again and again misunderstood nomads, and nomadism. Caricatured as backward herders, thieving pastoralists, or members of some vast and undifferentiated horde of humanity forever wandering the planet, nomads are usually perceived as anything but modern and almost always as on the verge of obsolescence.
The Civilization of Perpetual Movement is the first examination of...

'An Expensive Education' cuts between the African bush and Harvard - taking its readers deep inside this iconic university and the inner workings of the American intelligence service.

Creating a sensation around the world when it was first published, "Twelve" established it s seventeen-year-old author as a powerful voice of the new millennium. The chilling novel follows prep school dropout White Mike through the week between Christmas and New Year s 1999, as he takes a year off to deal an alluring new drug to his privileged peers on Manhattan s Upper East Side. But "Twelve" is not a coming-of-age story, because its kids never had a childhoodtheir parents are off on holiday in Bali or business in Brussels, leaving hired help to look the other way as the kids stay home alone...

'Twelve', der Name für eine neue harte Droge, ist der bestürzende Roman über eine Gruppe Jugendlicher in New York: eine privilegierte "lost generation", die sich alles leisten zu können glaubt und deren Leben in einer Katastrophe endet.§§Ungekürzte und unbearbeitete Textausgabe in der Originalsprache, mit Übersetzungen schwieriger Wörter am Fuß jeder Seite, Nachwort und Literaturhinweisen.