Caroline Waight
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Through interviews with the founding family that still owns the company -- and with access to the vast LEGO archive, this definitive story behind one of the most beloved brands on the planet doubles as a cultural history of changing generations' view of childhood and the importance of play.
Author
Publisher
Pegasus Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Formats
Description
November 1932. With the German economy in ruins and street battles raging between rival political parties, the Weimar Republic is on its last legs. In the halls of the Reichstag, party leaders scramble for power and influence as the elderly president, Paul von Hindenburg, presides over a democracy pushed to the breaking point. Chancellors Franz von Papen and Kurt von Schleicher spin a web of intrigue, vainly hoping to harness the growing popularity...
Author
Publisher
Yale University Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
x, 343 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"The first English-language biography of Astrid Lindgren provides a moving and revealing portrait of the beloved Scandinavian literary icon whose adventures of Pippi Longstocking have influenced generations of young readers all over the world. Lindgren's sometimes turbulent life as an unwed teenage mother, outspoken advocate for the rights of women and children, and celebrated editor and author is chronicled in fascinating detail by Jens Andersen,...
Author
Publisher
Custom House
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Physical Desc
296 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"On a rooftop in Brooklyn on a spring night, a young intern and would-be writer, newly arrived from Copenhagen, meets the intriguing Ana Ivan. Clever and funny, with an air of mystery and melancholia, Ana is a performance artist, a mathematician, and a self-proclaimed time traveler. She is also bad luck, she confesses; she is from a cursed Romanian lineage. Descending into the blackness with Ana, the intern slowly loses touch with his own existence,...
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
First US edition.
Physical Desc
xi, 274 pages : illustrations, maps ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Johannes Krause, director of the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, and journalist Thomas Trappe offer a new way of understanding our past, present, and future. Krause is a pioneer in the revolutionary new science of archaeogenetics, archaeology augmented by revolutionary DNA sequencing technology, which has allowed scientists to uncover a new version of human history reaching back more than 100,000 years. Using this technology to...
Author
Publisher
Scribe Publications
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
308 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
In recent years, China's north-western province has become home to over 1,200 penal camps - modern-day gulags that are estimated to house three million members of the Kazakh and Uyghur minorities. Imprisoned solely due to their ethnicity. While incarcerated, Sayragul Sauytbay gained access to secret information that revealed Beijing's long-term plans to undermine not only its minorities, but democracies around the world. This rare testimony from the...