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„Roter Herbst 77 – RAF 2.0“ ist die schonungslose Fortsetzung von „Roter Frühling 72 – RAF 1.0“. Die Anführer der Roten Armee Fraktion sitzen hinter Gittern. Die 2. Terroristen-Generation mordet brutaler als je zuvor. 1977 setzt die RAF alles auf eine Karte und greift Justiz, Finanzwelt...

Silvio wird Zeuge der Ermordung seiner Eltern durch die Mafia. Der kleine Junge erleidet eine schwerwiegende Amnesie und bleibt ohne Kenntnis der eigenen Identität. In der Pubertät bricht bei dem musikalisch und mathematisch talentierten Jugendlichen das Krankheitsbild der multiplen Persönlichkeitsstörung...

Die Versuchung ist groß, die beiden Sicherheitsexperten können ihr nicht widerstehen. In einer Schweizer Bank kopieren sie die Daten aller deutschen Anleger, die ihr Geld am Finanzamt vorbeigeschmuggelt haben. Ihr Deal fliegt auf, aber es gelingt ihnen, sich nach Bochum abzusetzen. Hier residiert...

        Combative forms of movement meet all the criteria required to be called “arts”. Additionally, items associated with martial art theory and practice can be shown in a variety media and appreciated as objets d’art in their own right. This anthology presents the aesthetic side of the...

This book represents an international gathering of friends who happen to be highly qualified martial art scholars and practitioners. We have come together in celebration of the more than twenty years the Journal of Asian Martial Arts inspired scholarship in this field to higher academic standards...

        There are simularities and differences between the European and Japanese medieval warrior traditions that reflect the social evolutions within those cultures. Over the years publishing the Journal of Asian Martial Arts, we published articles that presented the main...

        Donn Draeger was the most influential martial artist/scholar of the 20th century. His more than twenty books and long list of accomplishments support this argument. For this reason, we are publishing this anthology of articles that focus on this outstanding person. Although...

Cheng Man-ch’ing (1902–1975)—also romanized as Zheng Manqing— certainly played a lead role in popularizing tai chi ch'uan throughout the world and greatly influencing the way the art is perceived and practiced. This fact alone should drive all those interested in tai chi to study the man’s...

The Conquest of New Spain is the first-person narrative of Bernal Díaz del Castillo (1492–1581), the 16th-century military adventurer, conquistador, and colonist settler, who served in three Mexican expeditions -- those of Francisco Hernández de Córdoba (1517) to the Yucatán peninsula; the expedition...

Helmets and Lipstick is the first-hand account of Second Lieutenant Ruth Haskell, chronicling her time spent as a combat nurse with U.S. troops in North Africa during Operation Torch. First published at the height of the war in 1944, Haskell’s memoir is a classic account of combat nursing in World...

Biographer Richard Holmes moves seamlessly through Queen Victoria’s life from her lonely childhood, to her intrepid early years as an unmarried queen, through the heady days of betrothal, the loving years of marriage and finally to her heart-wrenching life as a widow. His lively narrative incorporates...

Charles I or Charlemagne united most of Western Europe during the Middle Ages and laid the foundations for modern France and Germany. He was the first recognized Roman emperor in the West since the collapse of the Roman Empire three centuries earlier and ruled absolutely over a vast domain for thirteen...

At just 14 years old, gymnast Gabby Douglas left behind her close-knit family in Virginia Beach, Virginia, to train under Liang Chow, famed coach of Olympic legend Shawn Johnson. The move to Iowa was not an easy decision for the focused teenager. For many months, she suffered serious bouts of homesickness....

Emily Ruete was born in Zanzibar (in modern day Tanzania) as Sayyida Salme, Princess of Zanzibar and Oman. She was the youngest of the 36 children of Sayyid Said bin Sultan Al-Busaid, Sultan of Zanzibar and Oman. Her extraordinary life story is the subject of Memoirs of an Arabian Princess from Zanzibar. This...