検索キーワード： 著者 "John Carr" すべてのカテゴリー

Der einfache Weg, mit Gewichtsproblemen Schluss zu machen: Viele Frauen kennen ihn, den berüchtigten Jo-Jo-Effekt, und möchten endlich dauerhaft abnehmen. Mit der berühmten Easyway-Methode hat Bestsellerautor Allen Carr bereits Millionen von Menschen von ihren Problemen befreit. Nun zeigt er, dass sein leichter und effektiver Weg auch Gewichtsprobleme löst - und das ohne Diät, ohne Schuldgefühle und ohne Medikamente. Mit seinen einfachen Anleitungen erreicht man mühelos eine gesündere Ernährung und langfristigen Gewichtsverlust.

Was tun Sie, bevor Sie zu Bett gehen? Wahrscheinlich noch einen letzten Blick auf das Smartphone werfen. Und nach dem Aufstehen? Geht der Blick direkt wieder aufs Smartphone? Die vermeintlichen Neuigkeiten auf dem Handybildschirm machen uns süchtig und schränken nicht nur unser selbstständiges Denken ein, sondern auch unser Sozialverhalten. So kann die Sucht nach dem Handy richtig gefährlich werden. Fettleibigkeit, Schlafprobleme, Haltungsschäden, Einsamkeit oder Sehstörungen sind nur einige Beispiele für die Folgen von übermäßigem Handykonsum.

Für alle, die endlich mit dem Rauchen aufhören wollen! Allen, die bereit sind, mit dem Rauchen endgültig Schluss zu machen, zeigt dieses Buch den Weg. Speziell Männer haben es oft schwer, Nein zur Zigarette zu sagen. Mit Allen Carrs sensationeller und weltweit bekannter "Easyway"-Methode kann jeder in kurzer Zeit und ohne übermenschliche Willensanstrengung die körperliche und psychische Sucht überwinden. In vier Tagen zum Erfolg - für Zigaretten, E-Zigaretten, Verdampfer oder Vaporizer.

In the shadowy hallway of clockmaker Johannes Carver's house a policeman is found murdered, the arrow-tipped minute hand of a monumental antique clock embedded in his neck. For Dr Gideon Fell this is the only case that has ever really frightened him, and before he can solve it he must find answers to some seemingly impossible questions. Why was Calvin Boscombe standing near the corpse with a silencer on his gun? Who locked the attic door? And what has become of the 16th-century death-watch?

Christopher Kent, worth a quarter of a million pounds yet not a penny in his pocket, stands hungrily in Piccadilly one snowy morning looking up at the huge hotel when a piece of card bearing a number floats down to him. He enters the hotel and is served with breakfast, giving the waiter the room number to charge. Then an unlucky chance compels him to go up to room 707....

For the better part of five decades, Jerry Pournelle's name has been synonymous with hard-hitting science fiction. For the first time, all of Pournelle's best short work has been collected in a single volume. Herein you will find over a dozen short stories, each with a new introduction by editor and longtime Pournelle assistant John F. Carr, as well as essays and remembrances by Pournelle collaborators and admirers.

A story about a bumbling, small town assistant police chief who's not as dumb as he seems to be. A wanted man is captured and later found hanging in his cell. The program has a surprise ending.

A man and his wife sit beside the fire in their country cottage. They are Professor Craft and his wife Cynthia. The cottage is rather isolated three miles from the nearest house - no electricity, central heating, or telephone. Professor Craft is convinced that his wife is having an affair with a young doctor from the village, so he devises a plan to rid himself of them both.

A haunted balcony in an Italian villa encourages a madman to try a second murder.

In early 1940, Chaim Herzsman was locked in to the Lódz Ghetto in Poland. Hungry, fearless and determined, he goes on scavenging missions outside the wire limits, until he is forced to kill a Nazi guard. That moment changes the course of his life and sets him on an unbelievable adventure across enemy lines. 

The most famous of all locked-room mysteries - a classic in the crime genre. 'The first deadly walking of the hollow man took place when the side streets of London were quiet with snow and the three coffins of the prophecy were filled at last...' The murderer of Dr Grimauld walked through a...

In the smoke-wreathed gloom of a Parisian salon, Detective Bencolin has summoned his allies to discuss a peculiar case. A would-be murderer, imprisoned for his attempt to kill his wife, has escaped and is known to have visited a plastic surgeon. His whereabouts remain a mystery, though with his former wife poised to marry another, Bencolin predicts his return. Sure enough, the detective's worst suspicions are realised when the beheaded body of the new suitor is discovered in a locked room of the salon, with no apparent exit.

Four full-cast stories of suspense from the creator of Dr Gideon Fell The master of the ‘impossible crime’ novel, American author John Dickson Carr was renowned for his Golden Age detective stories featuring the eccentric genius Dr Gideon Fell. This collection brings together four of his...

The Vikings and sainthood are not concepts normally found side by side. But Norway’s King Olaf II Haraldsson (c. 995-1030) embodied both to an extraordinary degree. As a battle-eager teenager he almost single-handedly pulled down London Bridge (as in the nursery rhyme) and took part in many other Viking raids. Olaf lacked none of the traditional Viking qualities of toughness and audacity, yet his routine baptism grew into a burning missionary faith that was all the more remarkable for being combined with his typically Viking determination and energy—and sometimes ruthlessness as well.