Bøger af Simon Lewis

Alien creatures are invading our world, sucking out the brains of stupid people, intent on world domination. Only two boys with beany farts can save us! Aliens and whiffy pongs! Your Teacher won't approve. Your Mother won't like it. But your kids will love it - mine did.

If you are good then you have nothing to worry about. But if you are bad, if you are down right horrible, then watch out, for the Knee Gobblers are watching you! Naughty children receive a visit from the Knee Gobblers, mischievous elves who steal their knees or possibly worse. A book that parents will have fun reading almost as much as their children will enjoy listening to.

A Bridge Too Far, released in 1977, was the last epic WWII movie made in the Hollywood studio system. Its ambitious goal: to recreate the Allied plan Operation Market-Garden in September 1944. The plan was a disaster for the Allies, with the battle for the Arnhem bridge vicious as the British First Airborne held out against overwhelming odds. Producer Joseph E. Levine packed his cast with top stars Anthony Hopkins, Robert Redford, Sean Connery, James Caan, Michael Caine, Elliott Gould, Dirk Bogarde, and Laurence Olivier and shot on location in and around Arnhem. Making ' A Bridge Too Far' answers WWII buffs' questions about the production. Author Simon Lewis interviewed many in the cast and crew and uncovered a story about bringing WWII to life in 1976 Holland with vintage tanks and aircraft, legions of stunt men and paratroopers, all led by director Sir Richard Attenborough. Making ' A Bridge Too Far' will prove a delight for armchair generals and lovers of old Hollywood. Fun facts: Dutch survivors of the war had no patience for actors dressed as German soldiers; Dirk Bogarde was a British war veteran who had participated in Market-Garden and bore the mental scars to prove it.

An Innovative Study on Historical Multiculturalism in Central and Eastern Europe

In this easy-to-read book, Simon Lewis explores why some digital products are so hard to use, and offers three straightforward but powerful ways to make interacting with them much easier. Written for software engineers, project and product managers, designers, marketers, CEOs and entrepreneurs, Taming the Turing Machine shows why the machine that can do anything has become the machine that does everything. And the machine that does everything has left many of us confused.

The hotly anticipated sequel to Bad Traffic, nominated for the French SNCF Prize and the LA Times Book of the Year.

Katyn the Soviet massacre of over 21,000 Polish prisoners in 1940 has come to be remembered as Stalin s emblematic mass murder, an event obscured by one of the most extensive cover-ups in history. Yet paradoxically, a majority of its victims perished far from the forest in western Russia that gives the tragedy its name.

A fast paced, adrenaline ride of a novel: 'Lord of the Flies' meets 'The Beach'Bored of the 'mango smoothie' trail and keen to spice up their Facebook albums, and maybe their sex lives, Jake and Will take a tour into China's jungle borderland with Burma. Their guide, however, has his own agenda and gradually the two gap-year students slip into a nightmarish spiral of murder and moral decay, their chance of survival determined by a game of hide and seek played out with deadly crossbows.

'THIS MAN HAVE COME FROM CHINA TO FIND HIS DAUGHTER WHO HAVE SOME TROUBLE. HE DO NOT SPEAK ENGLISH' Inspector Jian is a Chinese cop from the Siberian border who thinks he's seen it all. But his search for his missing daughter brings him to the meanest streets he's ever faced -- in rural England. Migrant worker East Wind is distressed -- his gangmaster's making demands, he owes a lot of money to the snakeheads and no one will tell him where his wife has been taken. Maybe England isn't the 'gold mountain' he was promised... Two desperate men, uneasy allies in a baffling foreign land, are pitted against a band of ruthless criminals... there's BAD TRAFFIC ahead.

''Brilliantly written and genuinely one of the most important books I have ever read'' - Ellie Mae O''Hagan An engrossing exploration of the science, history and politics of the Anthropocene, one of the most important scientific ideas of our time, from two world-renowned expertsMeteorites, methane, mega-volcanoes and now human beings; the old forces of nature that transformed Earth many millions of years ago are joined by another: us. Our actions have driven Earth into a new geological epoch, the Anthropocene. For the first time in our home planet''s 4.5-billion year history a single species is dictating Earth''s future.To some the Anthropocene symbolises a future of superlative control of our environment. To others it is the height of hubris, the illusion of our mastery over nature. Whatever your view, just below the surface of this odd-sounding scientific word, the Anthropocene, is a heady mix of science, philosophy, religion and politics linked to our deepest fears and utopian visions. Tracing our environmental impact through time to reveal when humans began to dominate Earth, scientists Simon Lewis and Mark Maslin masterfully show what the new epoch means for all of us.