Bøger af David Mitchell

This title offers real-world solutions for locating, inoculating and preventing bugs from creating problems. A Risk Factor Analysis (RFA) is provided to anticipate the amount of time required to debug a problem, with methods for treating conflicting Threads in Java.

Explores the craft curriculum for Years 1 to 8 and through High School, considering the benefits of particular activities for children's cognition and developing will.

Prepare to be chilled, electrified and entertained - a gem of a novel from 'one of the most brilliantly inventive writers of this, or any country' (Independent).

Examines the Agreement and its implementation through the eyes of the four major parties - The Ulster Unionist Party, the SDLP, Sinn Fein and the DUP - and considers the role of smaller parties in the region. Each interpreted the Agreement in different ways and continued to use the situation to pursue their own distinctive goals and aims. -- .

The range of the book: from wartime England to colonial Assam; from sapper training in India to jungle warfare in Malaya - Tea, Love and War tells the unique true story of the child of an exploited village woman gaining recognition and acceptance in suburban England.

The Sunday Times Number One Bestseller, from the author of CLOUD ATLAS and THE BONE CLOCKS.Longlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2010Be transported to a place like no other: a tiny, man-made island in the bay of Nagasaki, for two hundred years the sole gateway between Japan and the West. Here, in the dying days of the 18th-century, a young Dutch clerk arrives to make his fortune. Instead he loses his heart.Step onto the streets of Dejima and mingle with scheming traders, spies, interpreters, servants and concubines as two cultures converge. In a tale of integrity and corruption, passion and power, the key is control - of riches and minds, and over death itself.

This is the second of three special titles being published by Silver Link to celebrate the 60th Anniversary of the Talyllyn Railway in 2011.

The dazzling novel from critically-acclaimed David Mitchell.Shortlisted for the 2006 Costa Novel AwardLonglisted for the Man Booker Prize 2006January, 1982. Thirteen-year-old Jason Taylor - covert stammerer and reluctant poet - anticipates a stultifying year in his backwater English village. But he hasn't reckoned with bullies, simmering family discord, the Falklands War, a threatened gypsy invasion and those mysterious entities known as girls. Charting thirteen months in the black hole between childhood and adolescence, this is a captivating novel, wry, painful and vibrant with the stuff of life.

Shortlisted for the Booker Prize 2001The second novel from the critically-acclaimed author of GHOSTWRITTEN and CLOUD ATLAS.As Eiji Miyake's twentieth birthday nears, he arrives in Tokyo with a mission - to locate the father he has never met. So begins a search that takes him into the seething city's underworld, its lost property offices and video arcades, and on a journey that zigzags from reality to the realm of dreams. But until Eiji has fallen in love and exorcised his childhood demons, the belonging he craves will remain, tantalizingly, just beyond his grasp.

The Talyllyn Railway Preservation Society was the first such organisation in the world, and the inaugural society-operated train on 14 May 1951 heralded the dawn of the railway preservation movement in Britain. In the ensuing years, from its decrepit state in 1950, many changes have taken place on the railway.

Juxtaposes photographs of the same railway location separated in time. This book includes photographs of GWR main lines from Brent Knoll and Frome to Wellington and Whiteball and the Minehead branch, preserved as the West Somerset Railway.

Juxtaposes photographs of the same railway location separated in time. This book includes photographs of the Great Western main line over the South Devon banks and Preserved lines: the Paignton & Dartmouth Steam Railway, Dart Valley Railway and Seaton Tramway.

Talks about: the Southern main line from Axminster to Exeter Central; Seaside branches to Lyme Regis, Seaton, Sidmouth and Exmouth; and the Great Western main line from Exeter St David's to Whiteball Tunnel. This book also talks about: branches to Tiverton and Hemyock; and the Exe Valley line from Stoke Canon through Tiverton to Bampton.

Året er 1799. Den unge hollandske sekretær Jacob de Zoet ankommer til den lille, menneskeskabte ø, Dejima, i Nagasaki Havn. Øen er Japans eneste vindue til omverdenen, og her flokkes snedige handlende, spioner, tolke og konkubiner. Den naive Jacob har fem år til at tjene en formue, som er stor nok til, at han kan vinde sin velhavende forlovedes hånd hjemme i Holland.Hans oprindelige plan kompliceres dog, da han tilfældigt møder Orito Aibagawa, den lokale jordemoder, som han forelsker sig i. Da Orito bliver solgt til et hemmeligt broderskab for at dække sin afdøde fars gæld, står Jacob tilsyneladende magtesløs tilbage. Samtidig bliver han selv fanget i et magtspil, som stiller hans personlige integritet på den yderste prøve.“Sammenligninger med Tolstoj er uundgåelige og helt på sin plads.” - Kirkus reviewsCopyright © David Mitchell 2010 Oversat af Søren Markers fra The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoetkærlighed, korruption, historie, handelshuse, Japan, Holland, 1790-1799, 1800-1809

Året er 1799. Den unge hollandske sekretær Jacob de Zoet ankommer til den lille, menneskeskabte ø, Dejima, i Nagasaki Havn. Øen er Japans eneste vindue til omverdenen, og her flokkes snedige handlende, spioner, tolke og konkubiner. Den naive Jacob har fem år til at tjene en formue, som er stor nok til, at han kan vinde sin velhavende forlovedes hånd hjemme i Holland.Hans oprindelige plan kompliceres dog, da han tilfældigt møder Orito Aibagawa, den lokale jordemoder, som han forelsker sig i. Da Orito bliver solgt til et hemmeligt broderskab for at dække sin afdøde fars gæld, står Jacob tilsyneladende magtesløs tilbage. Samtidig bliver han selv fanget i et magtspil, som stiller hans personlige integritet på den yderste prøve.

Sjæle krydser tiden som skyer krydser himlenPå en strand på en fjerntliggende ø i Stillehavet støder den unge amerikaner Adam Ewing på en engelsk læge, der kravler rundt og leder efter tænder. Lægen mener at vide, at kannibalerne har holdt deres festmåltider netop her, og tænderne, som de har spyttet ud som kirsebærsten, vil han nu bruge til gebisser til den engelske adel.Adam Ewings Stillehavs-dagbog er den første af de seks fortællinger, der udgør David Mitchells storslåede Skyatlas. Den strækker sig videre gennem mellemkrigstidens Belgien og 1970’ernes Californien til nutidens London, fremtidens Østen og en endnu fjernere fremtid, hvor den sidste rest af civilisation er ved at gå under.Skyatlas spænder ubesværet fra den historiske roman over thriller og komedie til science fiction. Fortællingerne giver hver især genlyd ned gennem historien og samler sig til ét stort eventyr om prisen for menneskets stræben efter storhed og magt.Copyright © David MitchellSkyatlas er oversat af Svend Ranild fra Cloud AtlasHawaii, Belgien, dystopier, fremtidsfortællinger, historie, humor

På en strand på en fjerntliggende ø i Stillehavet støder den unge amerikaner Adam Ewing på en engelsk læge, der kravler rundt og leder efter tænder. Lægen mener at vide, at kannibalerne har holdt deres festmåltider netop her, og tænderne, som de har spyttet ud som kirsebærsten, vil han nu bruge til gebisser til den engelske adel.Adam Ewings Stillehavs-dagbog er den første af de seks fortællinger, der udgør David Mitchells storslåede SKYATLAS. Den strækker sig videre gennem mellemkrigstidens Belgien og 1970’ernes Californien til nutidens London, fremtidens Østen og en endnu fjernere fremtid, hvor den sidste rest af civilisation er ved at gå under. Skyatlas spænder ubesværet fra den historiske roman over thriller og komedie til science fiction. Fortællingerne giver hver især genlyd ned gennem historien og samler sig til ét stort eventyr om prisen for menneskets stræben efter storhed og magt.