Jacques Meerman Libros

Una guía completa sobre gastronomía que explora el origen de los alimentos, su transformación y técnicas culinarias. Organizada como un diccionario, incluye información sobre ingredientes, evolución de la gastronomía y reacciones al cocinar. Prologada por Andoni Adúriz, es un clásico esencial para gourmets.

When an accident takes the life of his daughter, Emma, ATF agent Jack McClure blames himself, numbing the pain by submerging himself in work. Then he receives a call from an old friend whose daughter has been kidnapped.

The year is 1311, in the highest tower of Cloud of Sparrows Castle, a beautiful woman watches from the window as the city is set alight and a mob runs riot destroying everything they can lay their hands on. She begins to write down the events unfolding around her and the secret history of the Okumichi Clan. Six centuries later the lost scrolls fall into the hands of American missionary Emily Gibson, a new arrival at Edo Harbour and racing from her tragic past. Emily quickly finds herself translating the text, caught up in the gripping tale of ancestry, heroism and forbidden love. At the same time Emily is desperately trying to unravel the complexities in her own life as two men fight for her love. As Emily sifts through the fragile scrolls, she begins to see threads of her own life woven into the ancient writings. As past and present collide, a hidden history comes to life, and with it a secret prophecy that has been shrouded for centuries and may now finally be revealed.

Two tours of Iraq under his belt, Sergeant Dave Henley has seen something of how modern battles are fought. But nothing can prepare him for the posting to Forward Operating Base Senzhiri, Helmand Province, Afghanistan. This is a warzone like even he's never seen before.

Una noche, Matt Hunter intenta, ingenuo de él, mediar en una pelea, y acaba matando a alguien. Nueve años después, es un ex convicto que no da nada por descontado. Olivia, su esposa, está embarazada y los dos están a punto de comprar la casa de sus sueños. Pero una llamada angustiosa e inexplicable, hecha desde el teléfono de Olivia, hace pedazos por segunda vez la vida de Matt. Una historia complicada y tortuosa con una gran carga emocional que obliga a pensar en las repercusiones que determinadas decisiones tienen sobre las vidas de sus protagonistas.

In the last days of the First World War, socialist revolution swept across Germany, sending Kaiser Wilhelm into exile and transforming Berlin into a battleground. But for Detective Inspector Nikolai Hoffner and his young assistant, Hans Fichte, the revolution is a mere inconvenience. Four women from the slums of Berlin have turned up dead, all with identical markings etched into their backs, and Hoffner and Fichte have spent the better part of six weeks trying to crack the bizarre case.>P?Things take a troubling turn when the political police begin to show an interest in Hoffner's investigation. Hoffner has no idea why the Polpo would want to get their hands dirty with a serial murderer, until he is shown the lifeless body of Rosa Luxemburg, the same eerie markings on her back. Rumors abound that Rosa, one of the leaders of the suppressed socialist uprising, was assassinated by an angry mob, but the pattern carved into her back tells a different story.

A Tom Sullivan y Paul Harris les falta poco para resolver el misterio tras la Hypnerotomachia Poliphili, novela escrita por un príncipe renacentista que ha fascinado a los académicos durante siglos. Cuando parece que la investigación se encalla, estos dos

Het jaar is 4368 v. Chr. Marrah trekt met haar vriend Stavan ten strijde tegen het kwaad dat de sterke en oorlogszuchtige krijgers van de nomadische stam der Hansi belichamen. Haar hechte vriendschap met Stavan, zelf een Hansi, wordt door vriend en vijand met argwaan bekeken, maar wanneer Marrah moeder wordt van een tweeling is hun band door niets en niemand meer te verbreken. In het onherbergzame oosten van Europa, aan de oevers van een onbekende zee, worden Marrah en Stavan opnieuw geconfronteerd met de agressieve stam die zich woest en wild te paard verplaatst. Stavan wordt zelfs gevangen genomen. Marrah blijft achter, bedroefd maar niet bang, want haar geestkracht en haar energie, geërfd van vele vrouwelijke voorouders, geven haar moed.....

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