Kirjailija
Tom Sharpe
Kirjat ja teokset yhdessä paikassa: 30 kirjaa, julkaisuja vuosilta 1994–2026, suosituimpiin kuuluu Reunion Tumultuosa. Vertaile teosten hintoja ja tarkista saatavuus suomalaisista kirjakaupoista.
30 kirjaa
Kirjojen julkaisuvuodet: 1994–2026.
Antarctica today is a continent dedicated to science, uniquely governed by the Antarctic Treaty of 1961. It offers us new understandings in many fields, from astronomy and our atmosphere, through climate change, geology and oceanography to zoology. But science in the south has a long pedigree, stretching back to the South Pole expeditions of the Heroic Age of Antarctic exploration of a century ago and beyond. The geographical discoveries, heroic tales - and tragedies - of many of these expeditions are well known. Perhaps less so are their scientific achievements, with that science conducted under the severest of conditions and at great personal risk. What scientific work did these expeditions do, who were the scientists and what is their legacy? This book will cover a period of roughly 100 years, from the 1840s to the 1940s, from James Clark Ross' expeditions to locate the South Magnetic Pole (he had already discovered the North Magnetic Pole) through to a secret wartime operation of the 1940s called Operation Tabarin, which was eventually to lead to today's British Antarctic Survey.
Ethics: Ethics by Benedictus de Spinoza
Tom Sharpe; Benedictus De Spinoza
Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
2018
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Stuck in a job he doesn't want - but can't afford to lose - as nominal Head of the Communications Department at Fenland University, Wilt is still subject to the whims of The Powers That Be, both in and outside of work.
The Gropes of Grope Hall are one such family.... The Gropes are an old English family based in Northumberland, separated from the rest of society and as eccentric as they come. At the dawn of the new millennium, timid and gormless teenager Esmond is abducted and lured to Grope Hall by a descendant of the Gropes.
When his endlessly capricious wife Eva receives plane tickets for the family to visit Auntie Joan and Uncle Wally in Atlanta, Wilt knows only one thing - that nothing could entice him to fly three thousand miles over the water, and especially not two rotund Americans with more money than sense.
Pappbilderbuch mit verdeckter Spiralbindung und Klappen
Wilt is back - in form, and in a good deal of trouble. Henry Wilt is still teaching at the Fenland Tech, attempting to drill English into plasterers, dozing through tedious committee meetings and occasionally getting mildly plastered in 'The Pig in a Poke' with one of his few bearable colleagues.
In Piemburgem, the deceptively peaceful-looking capital of Zululand, Kommandant van Heerden, Konstabel Els and Luitenant Verkramp continue to terrorise true Englishman and even truer Zulus in their relentless search for a perfect South Africa.
Though as cunning as ever, the formidable Skullion - previously head porter, now elevated to Master - is showing signs of physical frailty after his stroke.
When gambling fails, Timothy turns to embezzlement, but it's the lesser offence of helping himself to some strangely aromatic tobacco that propels him up the motorway and into bed with the Chief Constable's wife.
Henry Wilt is no longer the victim of his own uncontrolled fantasies.
Henry Wilt has for ten years been trying to teach English literature to his students at the Fenland College of Arts and Technology. He has become bored, frustrated and possibly murdereous, so Chief Inspector Flint suspects the worst when Henry's wife Eva goes missing. From the author of GRANTCHESTER GRIND.
This story concerns the debut of a totally filthy novel which puts the literary world in spasms. Frensic, a literary agent with a "nose for a bestseller" (as well as port and snuff), places this hot property with Hutchmeyer, the least respected publisher in the world.
In this novel, Sharpe turns his attention to a very minor public school, taking hilarious pot-shots at the public school system. The humorous and wild incidents include hoaxes, chases, car crashes, shootings and general mayhem.
First meet young Lockhart Flawse from Flawse Hall on Flawse Fell. Then hear his story of gassing, whipping, blowing up, killing and stuffing - in fact, the everyday tale of a wild child of nature plunged into the genteel mock-Tudor world of surburban Surrey.