David Feldman Bücher

Von Bestsellerautor David Feldman - dem Vater aller Wissensbücher Nachschub für Wissbegierige: David Feldman lüftet die Geheimnisse unseres Alltags: die Frage, warum Bananen krumm sind bis hin zur Frage, warum Peitschen knallen. Eine faszinierende und amüsante Reise in das Reich des scheinbar Unerklärlichen - und manchmal so verblüffend Einfachen.

The story follows the deep bond between Scott Davis and Doug Simons, who not only share a close friendship as college roommates and baseball teammates but also become brothers-in-law by marrying sisters. Their lives seem perfect, filled with fame, fortune, and promising careers in Major League Baseball. However, a sudden event disrupts their idyllic existence, leading to unforeseen challenges that test their relationship and dreams.

This new edition of the successful and authoritative textbook has been extensively updated. It discusses developments such as the growing importance of the ECHR, the increased commitment of the EC to human rights, and the election of a Labour government in the UK which is determined to increase respect for rights and civil liberties. A new section on equality and discrimination law has been added.

A new account of the late-fourteenth-century mystic and pilgrim Margery Kempe.

A delightfully captivating journey across the medieval world, seen through the eyes of those who travelled across itFrom the bustling bazaars of Tabriz, to the mysterious island of Caldihe, where sheep were said to grow on trees, Anthony Bale brings history alive in A Travel Guide to the Middle Ages, inviting the reader to travel across a medieval world punctuated with miraculous wonders and long-lost landmarks. Journeying alongside scholars, spies and saints, from western Europe to the Far East, the Antipodes, and the ends of the world, this is no ordinary travel guide, containing everything from profane pilgrim badges, Venetian laxatives and flying coffins to encounters with bandits and trysts with princesses.Using previously untranslated contemporary accounts from as far and wide as Turkey, Iceland, Armenia, north Africa, and Russia, A Travel Guide to the Middle Ages is a living atlas that blurs the distinction between real and imagined places, offering the reader a vivid and unforgettable insight into how medieval people understood their world.

Another great collection of the answers to life' s little mysteries, from the bestselling author "of Why Do Clocks Run Clockwise?"

The inimitable David Feldman does it again with an all new book of "Imponderables"--the sixth book in the wildly successful series. The man with all the answers presents a whole new collection of intriguing solutions to questions for which encyclopedias and dictionaries just don't have the answers. 50 line drawings.