B Gunter: 8 books

Research shows that, while people around the world consistently nominate television as their most important news source, much of the content of news bulletins is lost to viewers within moments. In response, Barrie Gunter argues that this can be explained by the way in which televised news is written, packaged and presented.

There is widespread and growing concern about the use of alcohol in society, especially by young people. Although overall volumes of alcohol consumption may be levelling off, the occurrences of excessive or 'binge' drinking, especially among teenagers and young adults, are increasingly commonplace....

Gunter Böhnke, Kabarettist und sächsisches Urgestein, hat die bemerkenswertesten Dinge über seine Heimat und seine Landsleute zusammengetragen und bietet einen höchst unterhaltsamen Einblick in die sächsische Seele, auf zahlreiche Vorurteile oder kulinarische Spezialitäten. In dieser aktualisierten...

At last available in English, this classic text was originally published in Germany in 1951 and has been continuously in print since then. Gunter Bandmann analyzes the architecture of societies in western Europe up to the twelfth century that aspired to be the heirs to the Roman Empire. He examines...

At the age of thirteen, Edward Francis contracted polio, a tragedy which severely limited his physical activities. Rather than admit defeat, this forced Edward to develop his intellectual abilities. After finishing high school, college, and law school, he established and ran a highly successful agricultural...

This edited volume, comprising chapters by leading academics and experts, aims to clarify the complexity of Turkey’s Kurdish question. The Kurdish question is a long-standing, protracted issue, which gained regional and international significance largely in the last thirty years. The Kurdish people...

Joshua Foster, a forty-year-old African American high school chemistry teacher and part-time baseball coach, was invited to visit a cousin in Africa. His ninety-nine-year-old uncle, also a chemist, had developed a compound that had strange and unknown powers when coming in contact with leather and...

Eben erst haben wir ihre Geschenke entsorgt, da stehen sie schon wieder auf der Matte: unsere Cousinen, Schwäger und Tanten, Onkel und Patchwork-Verwandten. Schöner sind sie nicht geworden. Was sie erzählen, kennen wir längst. Ihr Gesang ist dünn, ihre Gaben sind dürftig. Dafür wollen sie auf...