Warum können Vögel fliegen? Wie bauen sie ihre Nester? Warum fliegen Zugvögel im Winter nach Afrika? Einfach und anschaulich erklärt dieses Buch die Vögel der Welt - ihre Merkmale und Besonderheiten, ihr Verhalten und die Lebensräume. Ausgezeichnete Illustrationen laden zum Beobachten und Kennen lernen ein.
Gabriel March Walvis strebt eine weltweite Diktatur an und infiltriert politische Gremien sowie die Mafia. Tweed, stellvertretender Chef des britischen Geheimdienstes SIS, und sein Team stellen sich ihm entgegen. Ein spannender Thriller über Rache, Korruption und organisiertes Verbrechen.
While the executioners prepare the gas chamber, while the protesters gather and the TV cameras wait. Adam has only days, hours, minutes to save his client.
Two Supreme Court Justices are dead, their murders unsolved. But one woman might have found the answer. Darby Shaw is a brilliant New Orleans legal student with a sharp political mind. For her own amusement, she draws up a legal brief showing how the judges might have been murdered for political reasons, and shows it to her professor. He shows it to his friend, an FBI lawyer. Then the professor dies in a car bomb. And Darby realises that her brief, which pointed to a vast presidential conspiracy, might be right. Someone is intent on silencing Darby for good - somebody who will stop at nothing to preserve the secrets of the Pelican Brief...
"LITERATE AND SAVVY . . . BRIMS WITH WARTIME INTRIGUE." --The Washington Post Book World England 1943. Much of the infamous Nazi Enigma code has been cracked. But Shark, the impenetrable operational cipher used by Nazi U-boats, has masked the Germans' movements, allowing them to destroy a record number of Allied vessels. Feeling that the blood of Allied sailors is on their hands, a top-secret team of British cryptographers works feverishly around the clock to break Shark. And when brilliant mathematician Tom Jericho succeeds, it is the stuff of legend. . . .