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    Akademische Feier zur Übergabe des Präsidentenamtes
    Raiders and conquerors. British history
    Diamonds are Forever
    The Three Musketeers
    • This volume contains the speeches held at the ceremony upon occasion of the transfer of the office of President of the University of Göttingen in January 2011. For the first time in its long history, the university now has in Ulrike Beisiegel, a biochemist from Hamburg, a female President. She is the successor to Kurt von Figura, who had held that office since 2005. This volume contains all the speechs held, among them the speech by the Governor of Lower Saxony, David McAllister, the resignation speech of the parting President Kurt von Figura, and the inaugural speech of the new President Ulrike Beisiegel.

      Akademische Feier zur Übergabe des Präsidentenamtes2011
    • The Three Musketeers

      • 560 pages
      • 20 hours of reading

      Perhaps the greatest “cloak and sword” story ever written, The Three Musketeers, first published ion 1844, is a tale for all time. Pitting the heroic young d’Artagnan and his noble compatriots, Athos, Porthos, and Aramis against the master of intrigue, Cardinal Richelieu, and the quintessential wicked woman, Lady de Winter, Alexandre Dumas has created an enchanted France of swordplay, schemes and assignations. The era and the characters are based on historical fact, but the glittering romance and fast-paced action spring from a great writer’s incomparable imagination. From the perilous retrieval of the queens gift to her lover in time to foil Rechelieu’s plot to the melodramatic revelation of Lady de Winter’s true identity, The Three Musketeers is the unchallenged archetype for literary romance and a perennial delight for generations of readers.

      The Three Musketeers2009
      4.0
    • Diamonds are Forever

      • 192 pages
      • 7 hours of reading

      "Listen, Bond," said Tiffany Case. "It’d take more than Crabmeat Ravigotte to get me into bed with a man. In any event, since it’s your check, I’m going to have caviar, and what the English call “cutlets”, and some pink champagne. I don’t often date a good-looking Englishman and the dinner’s going to live up to the occasion." Meet Tiffany Case, a cold, gorgeous, devil-may-care blonde; the kind of girl you could get into a lot of trouble with—if you wanted. She stands between James Bond and the leaders of a diamond-smuggling ring that stretches from Africa via London to the States. Bond uses her to infiltrate this gang, but once in America the hunter becomes the hunted. Bond is in real danger until help comes from an unlikely quarter, the ice-maiden herself …

      Diamonds are Forever2009
      3.5