Bücher von Simon Young

Introduces seventy Victorian urban legends ranging from 'Beetle Eyes' to the 'Shoplifter's Dilemma' and from 'Hands in the Muff' to 'the Suicide Club'. While a handful of these stories are already known, the vast majority have never been identified, and they have certainly never received scholarly treatment.

Baron Love Junior, President of the world's third smallest country is up for re-election in three weeks. The country is broke, they are $10 million in debt and Australia is threatening to close their immigration detention centre and ship away the detainees reducing the countries income even further. A ship that has been adrift at sea for weeks washes up on a coral reef. Aboard is $35 million worth of cocaine and two shipwrecked mariners. Baron wants to burn the drugs to maintain the moral high ground while Flavio Scott, the Permanent Finance Minister wants to sell it, for he is also running for the office of President. But that's only the beginning. What would you do?

First history of 'real' fairies sighted throughout history as recorded in historical sources, by the world's two leading fairy historians. Historical fairies are not sweet like Tinkerbell but mostly dangerous and best avoided.

Professor Leif Hansen, a wealthy Danish botanist, builds a pioneer ecovillage for scientists to begin research into lichen that could one day produce oxygen on Mars for future space missions. NASA agrees to help with the project and finds a suitable location for his research in Namibia, South West Africa, where he and his fellow ecovillagers can research permaculture, eco-living, and getting back in touch with Mother Nature. Unknown to him a cabal founded by surviving Nazis are planning World War Three and some of their members plan to take it by force as a haven. As the nuclear holocaust threatens their existence, the villagers resort to extreme measures to defend their precious oasis in the desert that they have strived for years to build, while battling both local militia and mercenaries. But what if the green revolution isn't what we think it is?

Tony Judt was born in London in 1948, but spent most of his career in America. He studied history at Cambridge and then earned his doctorate in France. His first major writings were about France's historical left-wing movements, particularly the French Socialist Party.