LIBROS DEL AUTOR: simon king

22 resultados para LIBROS DEL AUTOR: simon king

  • Peterkin and the First Dog
    Simon King-Spooner
    In an ancient world an orphan boy in sheep-farming country tames a wolf.The two become outcasts, fleeing to a foreign country. Powerful figures determine their fortunes: a holy crone, a demonic bandit, a ruthless baron fleeing a paranoid king.All travel down a great river till ill-luck blocks their journey. Then tensions build to a violent climax. Peterkin and the First Dog is ...
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    14,82 €

  • Peterkin and the First Dog
    Simon King-Spooner
    In an ancient world an orphan boy in sheep-farming country tames a wolf.The two become outcasts, fleeing to a foreign country. Powerful figures determine their fortunes: a holy crone, a demonic bandit, a ruthless baron fleeing a paranoid king.All travel down a great river till ill-luck blocks their journey. Then tensions build to a violent climax. Peterkin and the First Dog is ...
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    19,00 €

  • The Romanian Incident
    Simon King
    The Romanian Incident is a locked-door, murder mystery in the style of Agatha Christies best work. The novel features a bizarre murder at an elegant hotel in the Romanian mountains and challenges KGB agent Polina Tolkunova to find the killer among the hotel’s mysterious guests before another murder happens. Set during the Cold War in Romania, the novel is the first in a series ...
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    14,96 €

  • Brothers in Crime
    Simon King
    One kid’s horrific journey behind the walls of maximum-security and the price he paid for being in the wrong place at the wrong time. Survival is just the beginning.Dylan’s eighteen, scared, and sent to maximum-security. The crime? Passed out drunk in the backseat of a car after his 18th birthday celebration.If he doesn’t fight, he dies. If he doesn’t run drugs, he dies. The Je...
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    16,56 €

  • Brothers in Crime
    Simon King
    One kid’s horrific journey behind the walls of maximum-security and the price he paid for being in the wrong place at the wrong time. Survival is just the beginning.Dylan’s eighteen, scared, and sent to maximum-security. The crime? Passed out drunk in the backseat of a car after his 18th birthday celebration.If he doesn’t fight, he dies. If he doesn’t run drugs, he dies. The Je...
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    21,98 €

  • Thrill Kill
    Simon King
    Not for vengeance...nor for power. This killer murders for fun.When a body turns up at a Texas Uni Campus, police initially believe it’s the result of an initiation gone wrong, the victim covered in graffiti while suspended above a fire pit. As more bodies are found, each the result of a sadistic game played by a vicious killer, it soon becomes clear that a new evil has risen. ...
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    16,35 €

  • The Final Alibi
    Simon King
    A jailed killer. A new string of murders. Copycat or something worse?Jim Lawson spent decades trying to forget the monster he put behind bars. Labelled the man who captured the Devil, a desperate police chief calls on him a second time, to lend his expertise on tracking a new killer. When a fresh string of murders hits a small community, each resembling an evil long thought loc...
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    15,20 €

  • Halloween Spirits and Other Tales
    Simon King
    Hallowe’en or Hallows’ Eve provides a splendid opportunity for participants to celebrate the festivity of this unique cultural event, and for the community to enact unusual customs and quaint traditions originating centuries ago. It is also a night when supernatural spirits are believed to temporarily re-visit the world of the living, and suitably macabre disguises be worn to p...
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    10,31 €

  • The Final Alibi
    Simon King
    Harry Lightman, known as the Daylesford Devil by the press and dubbed 'Lucifer' by the locals, has been sitting in a prison cell for the best part of 20 years, sentenced to life imprisonment for the torture and murder of 14 women. Each one had been preyed upon by a monster that fed on the flesh of his victims, the peaceful country towns reeling from the terror that had stalked ...
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    16,89 €

  • Prison Days
    Simon King
    A quick glimpse behind the walls.From the author of the Prison Days series comes the next chapter of life behind bars. These are the personal stories of prisoners as they negotiate day-to-day life behind the walls of a maximum-security facility. Listen to their tales as they try and fit in, adjust and survive one of the toughest places on earth. ...
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    9,92 €

  • Extraterrestrial
    Simon King
    If extraterrestrial beings do exist, they have probably already visited our world throughout the past and continue to observe our human development today. The life-forms and/or their spacecraft could be merely a product of vivid imaginations, unusual effects created by atmospheric conditions, astronomical phenomena, or even arising from supernatural causes... However this expla...
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    10,38 €

  • Acetylene Dreams
    Simon King
    Acetylene dreams conjures the most splendid thoughts about the unknown or the inconceivable and sparks our imagination about the oddities of life Such dreams can possibly transport you further into the darkness or enlighten your view of the world.By appreciating various iconic cultural creations and inventions, from mannequin dummies, dolls and ventriloquial figures, to vintage...
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    15,29 €

  • On The Edge
    Simon King
    Extreme life can be experiencing the harshest personal challenges produced by nature’s arsenal, and testing one’s endurance to prevail over these elements without going ‘over the edge’.Wingsuiting from a mountain top, hang gliding across the countryside, kiteboarding the waves, whitewater kayaking of rapids and waterfalls, free diving beneath the ocean, polar swimming, snowboar...
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    15,22 €

  • Predictability
    Simon P King
    Humans dislike, even fear uncertainty. The need to plan, to prepare for what is to come, has led to ever more complex attempts at prediction. Yet whatever the method, from astrology to divine guidance to economics, we have been left wanting. The world is unpredictable, and the most unpredictable element of it is us. How did we get to this point? And will advances in technology ...
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    10,84 €

  • Robot Awakening
    Simon King
    The Newark Steam Man, Eric the mechanical man, Cygan the gigantic robot, WABOT-1 the intelligent anthrobot, REEM the humanoid service robot, ASIMO the little humanoid robot and Robonaut 2 the astronaut are only a few unique creations in the history of robotics. However, they outline the dramatic evolution that has occurred in robots over the past 150 years, and to an extent, th...
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    15,37 €

  • Marbles, Marella Jubes and Milk Bottles
    Simon King
    Ever imagine what it would be like as a child living in an era where time had stopped and prices rarely changed? Where for a few cents of your meagre pocket money, you could purchase a veritable feast of assorted lollies, a chocolate-coated ice-cream or maybe a bottle of fizzy soft drink. Everyone read newspapers, books, magazines or comics, listened to a radio and few owned a ...
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    14,62 €

  • Witchcraft, Whispers, Shadows and Strange Sights
    Simon King
    Witches, Whispers, Shadows and Strange Sights is about mystifying spirits, ethereal entities, strange ‘otherworldly’ beings, and how the human imagination perceives their presence, and what might happen to us when one’s life is about to be extinguished unexpectedly. It explores a vast and diverse selection of reported supernatural manifestations throughout the world from past c...
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    14,49 €

  • Mistaken Identity
    Stephen Simon King
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    32,15 €

  • Mistaken Identity
    Stephen Simon King
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    23,73 €

  • BiLBIQ
    Ralf Simon King
    The book ’BiLBIQ: A biologically inspired Robot with walking and rolling locomotion’ deals with implementing a locomotion behavior observed in the biological archetype Cebrennus villosus to a robot prototype whose structural design needs to be developed. The biological sample is investigated as far as possible and compared to other evolutional solutions within the framework of ...
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    135,64 €

  • BiLBIQ
    Ralf Simon King
    The book ’BiLBIQ: A biologically inspired Robot with walking and rolling locomotion’ deals with implementing a locomotion behavior observed in the biological archetype Cebrennus villosus to a robot prototype whose structural design needs to be developed. The biological sample is investigated as far as possible and compared to other evolutional solutions within the framework of ...
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    134,28 €

  • Live Without Pain
    Simon King
    This is the UK version. Do you have an illness or injury that just won’t heal? Do you suffer from unexplained aches, pains, stiffness, or fatigue that won’t go away, no matter what you try? The culprit may literally be right under your nose or hanging around your neck. Simon King explains his theory, based on careful observation, that many necklaces, rings, watches, piercings, ...
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    19,44 €