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I Hunt Killers - Barry Lyga - Bog - Transworld Publishers Ltd - Plusbog.dk

I Hunt Killers - Barry Lyga - Bog - Transworld Publishers Ltd - Plusbog.dk

You’re seventeen years old and your father is the most notorious serial killer America has ever produced. He brought you up. Taught you everything he knows. Everyone in your ordinary American town knows who you are. So even though Dear Old Dad is safely behind bars, when the killing starts all over again, you are the first person the police come to see…They don’t know whether it’s nature or nurture. And neither do you…

DKK 166.00
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The Cocaine Diaries - Paul Keany - Bog - Transworld Publishers Ltd - Plusbog.dk

The Cocaine Diaries - Paul Keany - Bog - Transworld Publishers Ltd - Plusbog.dk

‘It won’t happen to me. That’s what I thought when I got on the plane to Venezuela. But it did – I got caught.’Caught smuggling half a million euros’ worth of cocaine, Paul Keany was sexually assaulted by Venezuelan anti-drugs officers before being sentenced to eight years in the notorious Los Teques prison outside Caracas. There he was plunged into a nightmarish world of coke-fuelled killings, gun battles, stabbings, extortion and forced hunger strikes until finally, just over two years into his sentence, he gained early parole and embarked on a daring escape from South America . . .Aided by his extensive prison diaries, Keany reveals the true horror of life inside Los Teques: a shocking underworld behind bars where inmates pay protection money to stay alive, prostitutes do the rounds and vast amounts of cocaine are smuggled in for cell-block bosses to sell on to prisoners for huge profits. The Cocaine Diaries is a remarkable story, told by Keany with honesty, courage and even humour, despite knowing that every day behind bars might have been his last.

DKK 132.00
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Setting Free The Bears - John Irving - Bog - Transworld Publishers Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Setting Free The Bears - John Irving - Bog - Transworld Publishers Ltd - Plusbog.dk

''The brown bears paced, brushing their thick coats against the bars; their heads swayed low to the ground, in rhythm with some ritual of stealth they were born knowing and pointlessly never forgot'' It is 1967 and two Viennese university students decide to liberate the Vienna Zoo, as was done after World War II. The eccentric duo, Graff and Siggy, embark on an adventure-filled motorbike tour of Austria as they prepare for "the great zoo bust." But their grand scheme will have both comic and gruesome consequences, as they are soon to find out...

DKK 126.00
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The 4-Week Body Blitz - Chloe Madeley - Bog - Transworld Publishers Ltd - Plusbog.dk

The 4-Week Body Blitz - Chloe Madeley - Bog - Transworld Publishers Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Chloe Madeley''s 4-Week Body Blitz is an at-home workout that shows you how to transform your body shape in just 28 days. No gym equipment needed. If you have a short-term weight-loss goal, then this is the exercise and nutrition plan for you!Chloe Madeley is a qualified personal trainer who specialises in body shape transformation. In the 4-Week Body Blitz , she lays out the exercises you need to do and the food you should eat every single day for four weeks in order to get yourself in shape. Follow Chloe''s instructions and you will see a significant difference in how your body looks. What''s more, you don''t need a gym membership or expensive equipment to follow Chloe''s plan.This comprehensive, fully illustrated guide is full of delicious, easy recipes to fuel your exercise and aid your weight-loss. What readers are saying: ***** ''Step by step exercise program that you do at home with no equipment (that really kicks your butt!!), and simple recipes that anyone can follow. 100% recommend!'' ***** ''The plan gets results. I am over the moon with my results.'' ***** ''Great recipes and ideas. Love the workouts. I love Chloe - such an inspiration.''

DKK 152.00
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The Prison Officer - Gen Glaister - Bog - Transworld Publishers Ltd - Plusbog.dk

The Prison Officer - Gen Glaister - Bog - Transworld Publishers Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Honest, heartfelt and moving. ***** The Sun The Prison Officer challenges everything you thought you knew about people in prison.Becoming a prison officer was Gen''s burning ambition despite her background making this an unlikely career choice.At twenty-three, full of hopes and dreams of helping those that needed it most within the prison system, she discovered the reality of life behind bars that no training could possibly have prepared her for.In this searing account of her years as a prison officer, Gen shares how she learned to use her heart, her humour and sheer bloody-mindedness to make a difference to the men who lived by a different set of rules, finding her place amongst gangsters, killers and traffickers.

DKK 127.00
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The Fat-loss Blitz - Chloe Madeley - Bog - Transworld Publishers Ltd - Plusbog.dk

The Fat-loss Blitz - Chloe Madeley - Bog - Transworld Publishers Ltd - Plusbog.dk

___________Bestselling author of The 4-Week Body Blitz , Chloe Madeley, is back with a new diet and exercise plan to get you in shape and shift your body fat - whatever your fitness level or starting point may be.Whether you are an exercise novice, someone who works out a few times a week or if fitness is your way of life, there is a plan in Chloe''s book to suit you. From home workouts to gym routines, this book has it covered.Follow Chloe''s 28-day tailored eating and fitness plans and you will soon start to see a difference in how you look and feel.This fully illustrated, day-by-day guide contains delicious, easy recipes and step-by-step exercise instructions.

DKK 168.00
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Sugar Daddy Diaries - Helen Croydon - Bog - Transworld Publishers Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Sugar Daddy Diaries - Helen Croydon - Bog - Transworld Publishers Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Frustrated with her stalled career as a broadcast journalist and uninspired by dating naive and needy guys her own age, Helen Croydon joins a website to seek an older man. She expects it to be just a few fun dates in some fancy bars but finds herself propelled into a world of Prada shopping trips, fine dining, first-class travel and fascinating, powerful men. Helen''s soul-searching dating adventures take her to New York, Malaysia, highbrow sex parties, top ski resorts and London''s finest hotels. When one of her dates alludes to a monthly allowance, she is shocked, but how long will her resistance to the idea last? Sugar Daddy Diaries is a confessional true story that questions modern ideals about relationships, examines the attraction of power and asks if money can ever be the currency of love.

DKK 159.00
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Andalus - Jason Webster - Bog - Transworld Publishers Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Andalus - Jason Webster - Bog - Transworld Publishers Ltd - Plusbog.dk

As Islam and the West prepare to clash once again, Jason Webster embarks on a quest to discover Spain''s hidden Moorish legacy and lift the lid on a country once forged by both Muslims and Christians. He meets Zine, a young illegal immigrant from Morocco, a twenty-first century Moor, lured over with the promise of a job but exploited as a slave labourer on a fruit farm. Jason''s life is threatened as he investigates the agricultural gulag, Zine rescues him, and the unlikely pair of writer and desperado take off on a rollercoaster ride through Andalucía. While Jason unveils the neglected Arab ancestry of modern Spain - apparent in its food, language, people and culture - Zine sets out on his own parallel quest, a one-man peace mission to resolve Muslim-Christian tensions by proving irresistible to Spanish señoritas.

DKK 161.00
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Last Orders - Denzil Meyrick - Bog - Transworld Publishers Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Last Orders - Denzil Meyrick - Bog - Transworld Publishers Ltd - Plusbog.dk

DCI Jim Daley is charged with murder - and everyone saw him do it - in the gripping new thriller from the bestselling author Denzil Meyrick. In the middle of the night in Kinloch, the phone rings…Detective Sergeant Brian Scott answers. It’s a message from his old friend and partner, DCI Jim Daley, which chills him to the bone:‘She’s dead, Brian. I couldn’t take it anymore – I killed her! You have to help.’Daley has been arrested for murder, and everyone saw him do it. The police have all the evidence they need to put him behind bars for life, but Scott still believes he’s innocent. Is someone trying to frame him?The search for answers takes Daley and Scott on a dark journey into their past, putting the people closest to them in immediate danger. And as the heartbreak takes its toll, Scott begins to wonder if this might be the end of the road. Is it time to call last orders?

DKK 119.00
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After They Killed Our Father - Loung Ung - Bog - Transworld Publishers Ltd - Plusbog.dk

After They Killed Our Father - Loung Ung - Bog - Transworld Publishers Ltd - Plusbog.dk

In 1980, at the age of ten, Loung Ung escaped a devastated Cambodia and flew to the US as a refugee. She and her eldest brother, with whom she escaped, left behind their three surviving siblings, and her book is alternately heart-wrenching and heart-warming, as it follows the parallel lives of Loung and her closest sister, Chou, during the 15 years it took for them to be reunited. Their two worlds were very different, and Loung''s depiction of the contrast between her life in the affluent West and that of her sister, who navigated her way through landmine-strewn fields and survived raids by the Khmer Rouge, is laced with the guilt she feels about being the lucky one. This powerful story helps us to understand what happens when a family is torn apart by politics, adversity and war. It is also the compelling and inspirational tale of a remarkable woman.

DKK 126.00
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The Colour Of Magic - Terry Pratchett - Bog - Transworld Publishers Ltd - Plusbog.dk

The Colour Of Magic - Terry Pratchett - Bog - Transworld Publishers Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Twoflower was a tourist, the first ever seen on the Discworld. Tourist, Rincewind decided, meant idiot. Somewhere on the frontier between thought and reality exists the Discworld, a parallel time and place which might sound and smell very much like our own, but which looks completely different. It plays by different rules. Certainly it refuses to succumb to the quaint notion that universes are ruled by pure logic and the harmony of numbers.But just because the Disc is different doesn''t mean that some things don''t stay the same. Its very existence is about to be threatened by a strange new blight: the arrival of the first tourist, upon whose survival rests the peace and prosperity of the land. But if the person charged with maintaining that survival in the face of robbers, mercenaries and, well, Death is a spectacularly inept wizard, a little logic might turn out to be a very good idea...

DKK 127.00
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Black Swan Rising - Lee Carroll - Bog - Transworld Publishers Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Black Swan Rising - Lee Carroll - Bog - Transworld Publishers Ltd - Plusbog.dk

New York jeweller Garet James has her fair share of problems: money, an elderly father, a struggling business. One day she comes across an antiques shop she''d never noticed before. The owner possesses an old silver box that''s been sealed shut. Would she help an old man and open it, perhaps? She does...and that night strange things begin to happen. It''s as if her world - our world - has shifted slightly, revealing another, parallel place that co-exists without our knowledge: the world of the Fey...Garet learns that one of her ancestors was ''the Watchtower'': an immortal chosen to stand guard over the human and the fey worlds - a role that she has, it seems, inherited from her mother. But the equilibrium between these two existences is under threat. The 16th-century magician and necromancer Dr John Dee has returned, the box has been opened and the demons of Despair and Discord released. In a race against time and impending apocalypse, it is Garet who must find Dee...and close the box.

DKK 166.00
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Nation: The Play - Mark Ravenhill - Bog - Transworld Publishers Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Nation: The Play - Mark Ravenhill - Bog - Transworld Publishers Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Following the National Theatre''s success with plays based on novels by well-loved children''s writers like Philip Pulman ( His Dark Materials), Jamila Gavin ( Coram Boy) and Michael Morpurgo ( War Horse ), the National now stages Mark Ravenhill''s exhilarating adaptation of Terry Pratchett''s witty and challenging adventure story in a major Christmas production for 2009.A parallel world, 1860. Two teenagers thrown together by a tsunami that has destroyed Mau''s village and left Daphne shipwrecked on his South Pacific island, thousands of miles from home. One wears next to nothing, the other a long white dress; neither speaks the other''s language; somehow they must learn to survive. As starving refugees gather, Daphne delivers a baby, milks a pig, brews beer and does battle with a mutineer. Mau fights cannibal Raiders, discovers the world is round and questions the reality of his tribe''s fiercely patriarchal gods. Together they come of age, overseen by a foul-mouthed parrot, as they discard old doctrine to forge a new Nation.

DKK 139.00
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The Amazing Adventures of Dietgirl - Shauna Reid - Bog - Transworld Publishers Ltd - Plusbog.dk

The Amazing Adventures of Dietgirl - Shauna Reid - Bog - Transworld Publishers Ltd - Plusbog.dk

In January 2001 Shauna Reid was twenty-three years old and twenty-five stone. Determined to turn her life around, she created the hugely successful weblog The Amazing Adventures of Dietgirl and, hiding behind her Lycra-clad roly-poly alter-ego, her transformation from couch potato to svelte goddess began. Today, 8,000 miles, seven years and twelve-and-a-half stone later, the gloriously gorgeous Shauna is literally half the woman she used to be.In turn hysterically funny and heart-wrenchingly honest, The Amazing Adventures of Dietgirl follows the twists and turns of Shauna''s lard-busting adventure as she curbs the calories and learns to love the gym. There are travel tales from Red Square to Reykjavik, plus romance and intrigue as she meets the man of her dreams during a pub quiz in Glasgow. As her UK visa rapidly runs out, will she be deported back to Australia or will love triumph?Entertaining and action-packed, this is the uplifting true story of a young woman who defeated her demons and conquered her cravings to become a weight-loss superhero to inspire us all.

DKK 159.00
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The Hate Factory - David (author) Leslie - Bog - Transworld Publishers Ltd - Plusbog.dk

The Hate Factory - David (author) Leslie - Bog - Transworld Publishers Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Convicted murderer Billy Ferris has endured more than three decades behind bars in many of Britain''s prisons. In T he Hate Factory , he candidly documents his experiences in jail with some of the UK''s most notorious criminals. Jailed for life in 1977 for a crime of passion, Ferris experienced betrayal and treachery on the inside. He unexpectedly formed friendships that led to his being labelled a ''bombers'' crony'' and found love while on the run after a dramatic escape. He vividly describes the cruelty, savagery and degradation that go hand in hand with prison life and details the nightmare that was Wormwood Scrubs, the prison he christened ''the Hate Factory''. He relays what happened when his cell was used as a courtroom for an IRA punishment trial and how he hatched a plan to assassinate the son of a legendary underworld godfather and plotted to murder an informer. Over the 30 years during which Ferris has been imprisoned, his fellow inmates have included some of the UK''s ''most wanted'' from London underworld enforcer ''Mad'' Frankie Fraser to Archie Hall, the serial killer dubbed ''the Monster Butler''.

DKK 159.00
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Madresfield - Jane Mulvagh - Bog - Transworld Publishers Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Madresfield - Jane Mulvagh - Bog - Transworld Publishers Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Madresfield Court is an arrestingly romantic stately home in the Malvern Hills in Worcestershire. It has been continuously owned and lived in by the same family, the Lygons, back to the time of the Domesday Book, and, unusually, remains in the family''s hands to this day. Inside, it is a very private, unmistakably English, manor house; a lived-in family home where the bejewelled sits next to the threadbare. The house and the family were the real inspiration for Brideshead Revisited: Evelyn Waugh was a regular visitor, and based his story of the doomed Marchmain family on the Lygons.Never before open to the public, the doors of Madresfield have now swung open to allow Jane Mulvagh to explore its treasures and secrets. And so the rich, dramatic history of one landed family unfolds in parallel with the history of England itself over a millennium, from the Lygon who conspired to overthrow Queen Mary in the Dudley plot; through the tale of the disputed legacy that inspired Dickens'' Bleak House; to the secret love behind Elgar''s Enigma Variations; and the story of the scandal of Lord Beauchamp, the disgraced 7th Earl.

DKK 182.00
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The Discworld Graphic Novels: The Colour of Magic and The Light Fantastic - Terry Pratchett - Bog - Transworld Publishers Ltd - Plusbog.dk

The Discworld Graphic Novels: The Colour of Magic and The Light Fantastic - Terry Pratchett - Bog - Transworld Publishers Ltd - Plusbog.dk

A beautiful gift edition of the first two Discworld novels - The Colour of Magic and The Light Fantastic - stunningly depicted in comic format for the first time - a fun read for established fans and new audiences alike. ''Excellent and wacky as a good Pratchett should be'' -- ***** Reader review ''A must-have for any Discworld fan'' -- ***** Reader review ''Awesome'' -- ***** Reader review *************************************************************Imagine a flat world, sitting on the backs of four elephants, who hurtle through space balanced on a giant turtle. This is the Discworld - a place (and a time) parallel to our own - but also very different. The Discworld Graphic Novels presents the very first two volumes of this much-loved series ( The Colour of Magic and The Light Fantastic ) in graphic novel form. Introduced here are the bizarre misadventures of Twoflower , the Discworld''s first ever tourist, and possibly - portentously - its last, and his guide Rincewind , the spectacularly inept wizard. Not to mention the Luggage , which has a mind of its own... A gift like no other, this stunning package expertly conjures up the sights, sounds, people and places of Sir Terry Pratchett''s incredible Discworld in ways fans have previously only been able to imagine.

DKK 192.00
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Your Life - Train For It - Bear Grylls - Bog - Transworld Publishers Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Your Life - Train For It - Bear Grylls - Bog - Transworld Publishers Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Bear Grylls is fitter, stronger and readier than ever to take on the challenges of the wild, thanks to a revolutionary new fitness program. And at the heart of Bear''s personal training regime are fast-paced, dynamic workouts that can be done anywhere by anyone - men and women, young and old - in just 30 minutes or less! Select your workout: choose from Kettlebell Resistance training, Bodyweight workouts or Primal Power stretch sessions. Try one of Bear''s epic Hero workouts for his ultimate challenge of all three disciplines combined ... Learn the moves: select your express workout based on the time you have available - be it 3 minutes or 30 - and then, as Bear says, ''It''s time to get BG fit!'' Train hard but eat natural: follow Bear''s simple and straightforward advice on fuelling your body for maximum success and sustained health benefits.Train more efficiently with fast and achievable results - a fitter, stronger, healthier you is just around the corner. Go on, it''s your life - train for it!______What readers are saying about Your Life: Train For it :***** ''A fantastic book with clear and easy too follow instructions for each work out.'' ***** ''Great and simple ways to fit fitness into even a busy life style.'' ***** ''Accessible, affordable results with no gym.''

DKK 166.00
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Vanished - Danielle Steel - Bog - Transworld Publishers Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Vanished - Danielle Steel - Bog - Transworld Publishers Ltd - Plusbog.dk

An intriguing tale of guilt, desire and suspense from the bestselling author of Finding Ashley . In the late 1930s in New York, Marielle Patterson shares her life with her husband Malcolm and their little boy Teddy. But their lives are filled with secrets. Haunted by a past she has kept secret even from her husband, Marielle secretly lights a candle each year for a child who died in a tragic accident when he was scarcely more than a baby. Then Marielle runs into her first love, American expatriate Charles Delauney. And when her little Teddy is kidnapped Charles is first blamed, then arrested, as the Pattersons, the New York Police and the FBI turn the country upside down, looking for Teddy.A terrifying court drama seeks to put Charles Delauney behind bars, as a series of revelations begin to unravel the truth about Marielle, Charles, and Malcolm. Piece by piece the uncovering of their pasts creates a complex mosaic of the motives and passions controlling their lives. Praise for Danielle Steel and Vanished : ***** ''One of Danielle Steel''s classics... keeps you guessing right to the end.''***** ''An intriguing book filled with suspense.''***** ''This book is full of young love and mystery... I whole heartedly recommend.''

DKK 168.00
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The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas - John Boyne - Bog - Transworld Publishers Ltd - Plusbog.dk

The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas - John Boyne - Bog - Transworld Publishers Ltd - Plusbog.dk

''Simply written and highly memorable'' Ireland on Sunday ''A subtle, calculatedly simple and ultimately moving story'' Irish Times ''Stays ahead of its readers before delivering its killer-punch final pages'' Independent ''A small wonder of a book . . . A particular historical moment, one that cannot be told too often'' Guardian ''An extraordinary tale of friendship and the horrors of war...Raw literary talent at its best'' Irish Independent ______________ What happens when innocence is confronted by monstrous evil? Nine-year-old Bruno knows nothing of the Final Solution and the Holocaust. He is oblivious to the appalling cruelties being inflicted on the people of Europe by his country.All he knows is that he has been moved from a comfortable home in Berlin to a house in a desolate area where there is nothing to do and no-one to play with. Until he meets Shmuel, a boy who lives a strange parallel existence on the other side of the adjoining wire fence and who, like the other people there, wears a uniform of striped pyjamas.Bruno''s friendship with Shmuel will take him from innocence to revelation.And in exploring what he is unwittingly a part of, he will inevitably become subsumed by the terrible process. The new novel by John Boyne, WATER, is available for pre-order now.

DKK 113.00
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The Colour Of Magic - Terry Pratchett - Bog - Transworld Publishers Ltd - Plusbog.dk

The Colour Of Magic - Terry Pratchett - Bog - Transworld Publishers Ltd - Plusbog.dk

''His spectacular inventiveness makes the Discworld series one of the perennial joys of modern fiction'' Mail on Sunday NAMED AS ONE OF THE BBC''S 100 MOST INSPIRING NOVELS The Discworld is very much like our own - if our own were to consist of a flat planet balanced on the back of four elephants which stand on the back of a giant turtle, that is . . . ____________________ In the beginning there was…a turtle. Somewhere on the frontier between thought and reality exists the Discworld , a parallel time and place which might sound and smell very much like our own, but which looks completely different. Particularly as it’s carried though space on the back of a giant turtle (sex unknown). It plays by different rules.But then, some things are the same everywhere. The Disc’s very existence is about to be threatened by a strange new blight: the world’s first tourist, upon whose survival rests the peace and prosperity of the land.Unfortunately, the person charged with maintaining that survival in the face of robbers, mercenaries and, well, Death, is a spectacularly inept wizard…____________________ The Discworld novels can be read in any order but The Colour of Magic is the first book in the Wizards series.

DKK 127.00
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Quantum Computing from Colossus to Qubits - John Gribbin - Bog - Transworld Publishers Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Quantum Computing from Colossus to Qubits - John Gribbin - Bog - Transworld Publishers Ltd - Plusbog.dk

The revolution is here. In breakthrough after breakthrough, pioneering physicists are unlocking a new quantum universe which provides a better representation of reality than our everyday experiences and common sense ever could. The birth of quantum computers - which, like Schrödinger''s famous dead-and-alive cat, rely on entities like electrons existing in a mixture of states - is starting to turn the computing world on its head.In his fascinating study of this cutting-edge technology (first published as Computing with Quantum Cats and now featuring a new foreword), John Gribbin updates his previous views on the nature of quantum reality, arguing for a universe of many parallel worlds where ''everything is real''. Looking back to Alan Turing''s work on the Enigma machine and the first electronic computer, Gribbin explains how quantum theory developed to make quantum computers work in practice as well as in principle. He takes us beyond the arena of theoretical physics to explore their practical applications - from machines which learn through ''intuition'' and trial and error to unhackable laptops and smartphones. And he investigates the potential for this extraordinary science to allow communication faster than light and even teleportation, as we step into a world of infinite possibility.

DKK 141.00
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Twenty Times A Lady - Karyn Bosnak - Bog - Transworld Publishers Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Twenty Times A Lady - Karyn Bosnak - Bog - Transworld Publishers Ltd - Plusbog.dk

What''s your number? no, not your phone number. Your number . You know what I''m talking about, don''t you? Nope, wrong again. Not your age. Not your salary either. Your ''number'', silly. Do I have to spell it out for you? How many men have you...you know...done it with? When Delilah wakes up one morning in a bed that''s not her own, she experiences the biggest regret of her life. Not only did she have drunken sex with her disgusting former boss Roger (who fired her the day before) but in doing so she hit her self-imposed ''number limit''; she''s had sex with twenty men. The one spot she had left was supposed to be saved for the man she would marry. Refusing to give up on her number limit, , she goes and tracks down all the men she''s ever slept with. Somewhere amongst them must be The Man, only she didn''t realise it at the time...She embarks on her stalker-like search amongst the twenty former lovers, which involves walking the dog (first having to buy a dog, of course), enrolling in a cookery course, joining a gym, visiting a jail (he gets out in a month - it was worth a shot) and even checking into rehab. And in the end, of course, Delilah comes to realise that numbers don''t matter and that true love comes when you''re open and ready for it.

DKK 161.00
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Lucky Luciano - Tim Newark - Bog - Transworld Publishers Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Lucky Luciano - Tim Newark - Bog - Transworld Publishers Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Charles ''Lucky'' Luciano was a vicious mobster who rose to become the multimillionaire king of the New York underworld. He was a legend - but also a fake master criminal without real power, his reputation manipulated and maintained by the government agents who had put him behind bars. Drawing on secret government documents from archives in America and Europe, this myth-busting biography tells Luciano''s real story, from his early days as a top hit man for the mob to his exploits running sex and narcotics empires and revelations about his trip to Nazi Germany to set up a drugs importing racket. His career abruptly halted by imprisonment, Luciano''s reputation was enhanced by rumours that he was helping to win the Second World War for the Allies in Sicily and the Mediterranean. Through painstaking research, Newark exposes the truth about what Luciano really did during the war.Expelled from the US in 1946, Luciano returned to Italy, where he was reputed to head a massive transatlantic narcotics network. In a complex conspiracy, he became a victim of the far greater powers around him, and Newark provides evidence that, at one time, he was even working as a Cold War agent, helping the US government fight Communism in Sicily. Lucky Luciano: Mafia Murderer and Secret Agent turns accepted Mafia history on its head with an extraordinary story that has never been told before.

DKK 141.00
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Freakslaw - Jane Flett - Bog - Transworld Publishers Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Freakslaw - Jane Flett - Bog - Transworld Publishers Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Discover the dazzling new queer literary horror novel about chosen family and the risks it takes to become the person you want to be. ‘The glittery punk offspring of Katherine Dunn’s Geek Love and Angela Carter’s Nights at the Circus.’ Chelsea G. Summers, author of A Certain HungerA travelling funfair of seductive troublemakers arrive in a repressed Scottish town. What could possibly go wrong?It’s the summer of ’97 and the Scottish town of Pitlaw is itching for change. Enter the Freakslaw – a travelling funfair populated by deviant queers, a contortionist witch, the most powerful fortune teller, and other architects of mayhem. It doesn’t take long for the Freakslaw folk to infiltrate Pitlaw’s grey world, where the town’s teenagers – none more so than Ruth and Derek – are seduced by neon charms and the possibility of escape. But beneath it all, these newcomers are harbouring a darker desire: revenge. And as tensions reach fever pitch between the stoic locals and the dazzling intruders, a violence that’s been simmering for centuries is about to be unleashed…Praise for Freakslaw:'A transgressive, inventive dark fantasy' Guardian'Crackling with desire, hedonism, angst, violence and sex' Heat'As frightening as it is seductive' Herald'I'd kill to run away with this circus' Michelle Tea, author of Modern Tarot‘A queer punk masterpiece' Leon Craig, author of Parallel Hells'A strong spiritual successor to Katherine Dunn's Geek Love' Heather Parry, author of Orpheus Builds a Girl

DKK 119.00
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