Maj: 76 books
The Man Who Went Up in Smoke
A Martin Beck Police Mystery (2)
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2010
The masterful second novel in the Martin Beck series of mysteries by the internationally renowned crime writing duo, Maj Sjöwall and Per Wahlöö, finds Beck searching Budapest for a well-known Swedish journalist who has disappeared without a trace. With an introduction by Val McDermid: "So...
Murder at the Savoy
A Martin Beck Police Mystery (6)
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2010
The shocking sixth novelin the Martin Beck mystery series by the internationally renowned crime writing duo by Maj Sjöwall and Per Wahlöö, finds Beck investigating a brutal assassination. With an introduction by Arne Dahl.
When Viktor Palmgren, a powerful Swedish industrialist is shot during...
The Fire Engine that Disappeared
A Martin Beck Police Mystery (5)
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2010
The lightning-paced fifth novel in the Martin Beck mystery series by the internationally renowned crime writing duo, Maj Sjöwall and Per Wahlöö, finds Beck investigating one of the strangest, most violent, and unforgettable crimes of his career.The incendiary device that blew the roof off a Stockholm...
The Terrorists
A Martin Beck Police Mystery (10)
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2010
The final novel in the Martin Beck mystery series by Maj Sjöwall and Per Wahlöö is a masterful, all consuming tale that rushes toward a thrilling, unexpected climax. With a new introduction by Dennis Lehane: "Tension so thick the reader could crack a tooth."
An American senator is...
Roseanna
A Martin Beck Police Mystery (1)
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2010
With a New Introduction by Henning Mankell. The masterful first novel in the Martin Beck series of mysteries by the internationally renowned crime writing duo Maj Sjöwall and Per Wahlöö ("the best writers of police procedurals in the world"), finds Beck hunting for the murderer of a lonely...
The Laughing Policeman
A Martin Beck Police Mystery (4)
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2010
The incredible fourth novel in the Martin Beck mystery series by the internationally renowned crime writing duo Maj Sjöwall and Per Wahlöö, finds Martin Beck heading a major manhunt in pursuit of a mass-murderer. With a new introduction by Jonathan Franzen: "I've read The Laughing Policeman...
Cop Killer
A Martin Beck Police Mystery (9)
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2010
The shocking ninth novel in the Martin Beck mystery series by Maj Sjöwall and Per Wahlöö finds Beck investigating parallel cases that have shocked a small rural community.
In a country town, a woman is brutally murdered and left buried in a swamp. There are two main suspects: her closest neighbor...
In Quest of Freedom
The War of 1971 - Personal Accounts by Soldiers from India and Bangladesh
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2016
The fate of nations during war depends on how well men fight, and these stories tell us how the Indian armed forces and the Mukti Bahini fought for the cause of freedom. Paradoxically, it is the value of 'Love' that was the motivating factor in this war of liberation - love for one's country, love...
by Miguel de Moragas, Ashley Beale, Peter Dahlgren
Language: Spanish
Release Date: January 1, 2012
Language: Spanish
Release Date: January 1, 2012
La comunicación: De los orígenes a Internet aparece en un escenario de aceleradas trasformaciones de nuestra sociedad. En los diversos capítulos de esta obra, Tecumseh Fitch analiza la evolución biológica del lenguaje y Umberto Eco recorre los cambios "de Internet a Gutenberg". Joan...
A Darker Shade of Sweden
Original Stories by Sweden's Greatest Crime Writers
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2014
Stories by Stieg Larsson, Henning Mankell, and over a dozen other masters of Nordic noir: “A wonderful collection” (Camilla Lӓckberg).
Ever since Stieg Larsson shone a light on Swedish crime writing with his Girl With the Dragon Tattoo trilogy, readers around the world have devoured fiction...
The Abominable Man
A Martin Beck Police Mystery (7)
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2010
The striking seventh novel in the Martin Beck mystery series by Maj Sjöwall and Per Wahlöö, finds Beck facing one of the greatest challenges in his professional career.
The gruesome murder of a police captain in his hospital room reveals the unsavory history of a man who spent forty years...
Processing Inaccurate Information
Theoretical and Applied Perspectives from Cognitive Science and the Educational Sciences
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2014
Interdisciplinary approaches to identifying, understanding, and remediating people's reliance on inaccurate information that they should know to be wrong.
Our lives revolve around the acquisition of information. Sometimes the information we acquire—from other people, from books, or from the...
The Bravest of the Brave
The Extraordinary Story of Indian VCs of World War I
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2016
Indian soldiers had rallied bravely before to many a skirmish outside their frontiers, but never with as much conviction and in stellar numbers than in the greatest of them all-the First World War. Some of the compulsion to fight, fiercely and loyally, and most-times with tragic consequences to themselves,...
by Maj Sjöwall, Tomas Ross
Language: Italian
Release Date: March 17, 2016
Language: Italian
Release Date: March 17, 2016
Ambientato in una Stoccolma estiva e soleggiata, fra le migliaia di isolette che la circondano, un thriller carico di suspense che conferma la eccellenza nel genere di Maj Sjöwall che, questa volta in compagnia di Tomas Ross, riprende le strade del giallo già percorse con Per Wahlöö indagando tra i segreti più inconfessabili delle democrazie del Nord Europa.