Frank Adam: 29 books

Sven Larsson erhält nach seinen Erfolgen als Kaperkapitän das Kommando über die Sloop Enterprise. Mit List und Tücke kämpft er für die junge amerikanische Flotte gegen die Briten. Er erobert Nassau und verteidigt den Delaware. Seine Siege machen ihn reich und berühmt. Als Belohnung vertraut...

Amerika ist endlich unabhängig. Für Kapitän Sven Larsson gilt es nun, die junge Nation auf Erfolgskurs zu bringen. Sein Plan: nach Ostindien zu segeln, um dort neue Handelsmärkte zu erschließen. Mit seiner Familie an Bord sticht er in See. Doch die Überfahrt verläuft alles andere als ruhig, denn...

Der Krieg um Amerikas Unabhängigkeit tobt unvermindert. Das Land ist entzweit, Freunde und Feinde der britischen Herrschaft stehen sich unversöhnlich gegenüber. Kapitän Sven Larsson hofft auf die Hilfsflotte der Franzosen. Doch vor Newport und Savannah müssen die Amerikaner und Franzosen bittere...

Im Amerikanischen Unabhängigkeitskrieg segelt Sven Larsson auf Kaperschiffen der jungen Nation. Die kleine, unterlegene Flotte der Neuen Welt tritt den Kampf gegen die erfahrenste Seestreitmacht der damaligen Welt an. Larsson muss sich vielen Gefahren stellen. Doch sein Mut wird belohnt, man ernennt...

Astrophysicist and NPR commentator on what the latest research on the existence and trajectories of alien civilizations may teach us about our own. Light of the Stars tells the story of humanity’s coming of age as we awaken to the possibilities of life on other worlds and their sudden relevance...

The Big Bang is all but dead, and we do not yet know what will replace it. Our universe’s “beginning” is at an end. What does this have to do with us here on Earth? Our lives are about to be dramatically shaken again—as altered as they were with the invention of the clock, the steam engine,...

New essays on the philosophy of Ned Block, with substantive and wide-ranging responses by Block. Perhaps more than any other philosopher of mind, Ned Block synthesizes philosophical and scientific approaches to the mind; he is unique in moving back and forth across this divide, doing so with...

SARA MAITLAND on NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE SEAN O'BRIEN on EDGAR ALLAN POE JANE ROGERS on FYODOR DOSTOYEYSKY BRIAN ALDISS on THOMAS HARDY MARTIN EDWARDS on ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE FRANK COTTRELL BOYCE on ANTON CHEKHOV ADAM ROBERTS on RUDYARD KIPLING STEPHEN BAXTER on H.G. WELLS STUART EVERS on SHERWOOD ANDERSON ALI...

Predatory eyes flicker in darkness, a legion of abominations seeking human destruction. Slashing claws and gnashing teeth, hungry for flesh, eager to kill. Clutch onto hope and pray for dawn. Creatures rule the night. In Darkness, Delight is an original anthology series revealing...

More Alternative Truths is an exploration of the potential consequences of today’s politics in our daily lives. More than our individual lives, but our American identity. This exploration defines this anthology.  So many of the stories ask what has America become?  What will it be in the...

A frank and engaging exploration of the burgeoning academic field of environmental history Inspired by the pioneering work of preeminent environmental historian Donald Worster, the contributors to A Field on Fire: The Future of Environmental History reflect on the past and future of this discipline....

Transferential Poetics presents a method for bringing theories of affect to the study of poetics. Informed by the thinking of Silvan Tomkins, Melanie Klein, and Wilfred Bion, it offers new interpretations of the poetics of four major American artists: Edgar Allan Poe, Henry James, Gertrude Stein,...

Una serie di ridicoli, riottosi, riprovevoli team-up, storie che affiancano all’irrefrenabile Wade Wilson alcuni tra i migliori personaggi e autori Marvel! Ma Deadpool non è un tipo egoista, dividerà volentieri la scena con i suoi nuovi amichetti in queste avventure in coppia. Con una selezione...

Musaicum Books presents to you this unique collection, designed and formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices. Content: H. P. Lovecraft: The Dunwich Horror. From Beyond… Washington Irving: The Legend of Sleepy Hollow Rip Van Winkle The Spectre Bridegroom...