In the sleepy town of Bratislava in 1933 a romantic girl falls for a bookseller from Berlin. Greta Weissensteiner, daughter of a Jewish weaver, slowly settles in with the Winkelmeier clan just as the developments in Germany start to make waves in Europe. The political climate in the multifaceted cultural jigsaw puzzle of disintegrating Czechoslovakia becomes more complex and affects relations between the couple and the families. The story follows their lot through the war with its predictable and also its unexpected turns and events and the equally hard times after. From the moment that Greta...

Inhaltsangabe: Einleitung: Seit Beginn der neunziger Jahre hat sich in den professionellen Ligen des Teamsports in Europa eine neue Form des Sportsponsoring entwickelt, die als Ligasponsoring bezeichnet wird. 1993 war es zunachst das englische Brauereiunternehmen Carling, das fur den Betrag von 3 Millionen Pfund jahrlich das Titelsponsoring der F.A. Premier League ubernahm. Im Laufe der letzten zehn Jahre wurde auch von anderen Fuballligen in Europa das Ligasponsoring eingefuhrt. So z.B. in Irland, Osterreich, Schottland und der Schweiz, wo die Ligen zum Teil auch den Namen des Sponsors...

When advertising executive Erica Whittaker is diagnosed with terminal cancer, western medicine fails her. The only hope left for her to survive is controversial healer Arpan. She locates the man whose touch could heal her but finds he has retired from the limelight and refuses to treat her. Erica, consumed by stage four pancreatic cancer is desperate and desperate people are no longer logical nor are they willing to take no for an answer. Arpan has retired for good reasons. casting more than the shadow of a doubt over his abilities. So begins a journey that will challenge them both as the...

In 1918 young Zacharias Nielsen boards a ship in Copenhagen to join the Red Guards in the Finnish Civil War.Encouraged by an idolised teacher with communist leanings, he follows the call for help from his Nordic Comrades, despite his privileged background. His best friend, Ansgar, has opposing political ideals to Zacharias but, for his own personal reasons, finds himself soon stuck in the Scandinavian North with Zacharias and Raisa, a Finnish nurse who helps them in their new life. Through the years that follow the brotherly war the trio see the political landscape in Finland and Europe...

#1 BEST SELLER - PUNK #1 BEST SELLER - PHOTOJOURNALISM Punk Rocker is the much anticipated sequel to "L.A. Punk Rocker": top author Brenda Perlin's best-selling punk anthology. Here you will find a collection of short stories from those who were there in the early days. Hard core musical anarchists who saw it all, heard it all, did it all - and survived to tell their stories. Along with Brenda and the West Coast punks, Punk Rocker features rebels, writers, commentators and street kids from all over America - talking about the music, the fashion, the attitude, the passion, the lifestyle and,...