Robert Pattinson and Reese Witherspoon star in this drama based on the historical novel by Sara Gruen, following the adventures of a young vet working in a travelling circus during America's Great Depression in the 1930s. After his parents are killed in a car accident, promising Ivy League student Jacob Jankowski (Pattinson) suffers an emotional breakdown and runs away before graduating, eventually finding work as a vet with the down-at-heel Benzini Brothers circus. There he meets a host of colourful characters including tyrannical animal trainer August (Christoph Waltz) and his beautiful wife Marlena (Witherspoon).

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The flesh-and-blood story of the outlaw lovers who shot their way across Depression-era America, based on archival research, declassified FBI documents, and interviews

The daring movie revolutionized Hollywood--now the true story of Bonnie and Clyde is told in the lovers' own voices, with verisimilitude and drama to match Truman Capote's "In Cold Blood."

Strictly nonfiction--no dialogue or other material has been made up--and set in the dirt-poor Texas landscape that spawned the star-crossed outlaws, Paul Schneider's brilliantly researched and dramatically crafted tale begins with a daring jailbreak and ends with an ambush and shoot-out that consigns their bullet-riddled bodies to the crumpled front seat of a hopped-up getaway car.

Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow's relationship was, at the core, a toxic combination of infatuation blended with an instinct for going too far too fast. Without glamorizing the killers, or vilifying the cops, the book, alive with action and high-level entertainment, provides a complete picture of America's most famous outlaw couple and the culture that created them.

Even before the Pilgrims landed in 1620, Cape Cod and its islands promised paradise to visitors, both native and European. In Paul Schneider's sure hands, the story of this waterland created by glaciers and refined by storms and tides -- and of its varied inhabitants -- becomes an irresistible biography of a place.
Cape Cod's Great Beach, Martha's Vineyard, and Nantucket are romantic stops on Schneider's roughly chronological human and natural history. His book is a lucid and compelling collage of seaside ecology, Indians and colonists, religion and revolution, shipwrecks and hurricanes, whalers and vengeful sperm whales, glorious clipper ships and today's beautiful but threatened beaches. Schneider's superb eye for story and detail illuminates both history and landscape. A wonderful introduction, it will also appeal to the millions of people who already have warm associations with these magical places.

"Schneider's thorough research and vivid writing create a fast-paced, moving story, one that is difficult to believe and impossible to forget." --"The New York Times Book Review" A gripping survival epic, "Brutal Journey" tells the story of an army of would-be conquerors, bound for glory, who landed in Florida in 1528. But only four of the four hundred would survive: eight years and some five thousand miles later, three Spaniards and a black Moroccan wandered out of the wilderness to the north of the Rio Grande and into Cortes's gold-drenched Mexico. The survivors brought nothing back other than their story, but what a tale it was. They had become killers and cannibals, torturers and torture victims, slavers and enslaved. They became faith healers, arms dealers, canoe thieves, spider eaters. They became, in other words, whatever it took to stay alive.

Nachdruck des Originals von 1927 mit 57 Sagen aus Westfalen.

Heinrich Klotz Schon Vitruv forderte vom Architekten eine Vielsei- sten gehoeren, das wahrend des ersten Nachkriegs- tigkeit, die nicht erst den "uomo universale" der Re- jahrzehnts an Goldschmiedearbeiten entstanden ist. naissance auszeichnen sollte, sondern dem Baumei- Ein besonderes Kapitel in Schneider-Eslebens Werk ster abverlangt wurde, seit es eine Architekturtheorie nehmen seine Gerate-und Moebelentwurfe ein. Eini- gab. Wir haben uns abgewoehnt, im Zeitalter der Spe- ge Stuhl-, Sessel-, Schul-, Buromoebel-und Tischent- zialisierung vom Architekten zu fordern, dass er nicht wurfe sind in hohen Auflagen produziert worden; nur Hauser bauen, sondern auch Maschinen und He- darunter Moebelstucke, die heute zu den Klassikern bezeuge konstruieren, Festungswerke anlegen koen- der funfzigerJahregehoeren und in Museen zu finden ne, im Schiffsbau ebenso kenntnisreich sein musse sind. wie in der Medizin und in der Philosophie. Dem viel- Vielseitig ist Schneider-Esleben auch in seiner Archi- seitig Begabten bringen wir das Misstrauen einer tektur. Vom Einfamilienhaus bis zum Flughafen, von Weit von Vereinseitigten entgegen und tun uns Kirche und Schule bis zu Verwaltungszentren hat er schwer, Vielseitigkeit als Tugend anzuerkennen. ein auffallig breites Spektrum von Bauaufgaben rea- Das Werk des Architekten Paul Schneider-Esleben lisieren koennen. ist nicht nur vielseitig innerhalb seiner baukunstleri- Sich mit dem Gesamtwerk Schneider-Eslebens zu schen Dimension; es reicht uber die Grenzen des befassen, heisst also, einen uomo universale kennen- Bauens hinaus, bis in andere Gattungszusammen- zulernen, wie es ihn heute kaum noch gibt. UEber- blickt man dieses nun mehr als 35 Jahre umfassende hange hinein.

A fascinating account of how the Mississippi River shaped America

In "Old Man River," Paul Schneider tells the story of the river at the center of America's rich history--the Mississippi. Some fifteen thousand years ago, the majestic river provided Paleolithic humans with the routes by which early man began to explore the continent's interior. Since then, the river has been the site of historical significance, from the arrival of Spanish and French explorers in the 16th century to the Civil War. George Washington fought his first battle near the river, and Ulysses S. Grant and William T. Sherman both came to President Lincoln's attention after their spectacular victories on the lower Mississippi.

In the 19th century, home-grown folk heroes such as Daniel Boone and the half-alligator, half-horse, Mike Fink, were creatures of the river. Mark Twain and Herman Melville led their characters down its stream in "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" and "The Confidence-Man." A conduit of real-life American prowess, the Mississippi is also a river of stories and myth.

Schneider traces the history of the Mississippi from its origins in the deep geologic past to the present. Though the busiest waterway on the planet today, the Mississippi remains a paradox--a devastated product of American ingenuity, and a magnificent natural wonder.