National Identity and Great-Power Status in Russia and Japan
Having suffered military defeat at the hands of advanced Western powers in the 1850s, Russia and Japan embarked upon a program of catch-up and modernization in the late-19th Century. While the two states sought in the main to replicate the success...
TokKlokBok
Bruka den begåvning du fått. Skogen skulle vara mycket tyst om inga andra fåglar sjöng än de som sjöng bäst Henry van Dyke TokKlokBok är en bok som är så levande att orden dansar en mix av het tango, sensuella tryckare och frigörande dans. I TokKl...
Anno's Counting Book
A simple, beautiful introduction to math for the youngest readers Every child is a natural mathematician, according to Mitsumasa Anno. Children are constantly comparing and classifying things and events they observe around them. As they try to bring sense and order into what they observe, they are actually performing basic mathematical feats. With Anno's Counting Book, the creator of the brilliantly inventive Anno's Alphabet invites young readers on another stimulating adventure of the imagination--this time into the world of numbers and counting. Gentle watercolor pictures show a landscape changing through the various times of day and the turning seasons, months and years, and the activities of the people and animals who come to live there. But the seemingly simple plan of the book is deceptive: look more carefully and you will see one-to-one correspondences; groups and sets; scales and tabulations; changes over time periods; and many other mathematical relationships as they occur in
Beast
Paul Di'anno is one of rock's wildest figures. Now he reveals the shocking stories of his life on the road, including the moment he kicked out his own guitarist's teeth, chasing journalists from venues, shooting out car tyres with a rifle and the ...
Cutie Honey a Go Go!
Tokyo is under siege by the terrorist organisation known as Panther Claw, and the beautiful superheroine android known as Cutie Honey appears on the scene to take them on - but fails! For her own protection, Cutie Honey must join forces with gover...
Digerrojr
Far tystnade, vände sig mot röset och betraktade det en lång stund. "Det där är Digerrojr", sade han sedan långsamt. "Där ligger den första gotlänningens barnbarn begravt."
