Bøger udgivet af Vigmostad & Bjørke AS (VB Import)

In the immediate aftermath of September 11, 2001, in his fourteenth year as Chairman of the Federal Reserve Board, Alan Greenspan took part in a very quiet collective effort to ensure that America didn't experience an economic meltdown, taking the rest of the world with it. There was good reason to fear the worst: the stock market crash of October 1987, his first major crisis as Federal Reserve Chairman, coming just weeks after he assumed control, had come much closer than is even today generally known to freezing the financial system and triggering a genuine financial panic. But the most remarkable thing that happened to the economy after 9/11 was...nothing. What in an earlier day would have meant a crippling shock to the system was absorbed astonishingly quickly. After 9/11 Alan Greenspan knew, if he needed any further reinforcement, that we're living in a new world - the world of a global capitalist economy that is vastly more flexible, resilient, open, self-directing, and fast-changing than it was even 20 years ago. It's a world that presents us with enormous new possibilities but also enormous new challenges. "The Age of Turbulence" is Alan Greenspan's incomparable reckoning with the nature of this new world - how we got here, what we're living through, and what lies over the horizon, for good and for ill-channeled through his own experiences working in the command room of the global economy for longer and with greater effect than any other single living figure. He begins his account on that September 11th morning, but then leaps back to his childhood, and follows the arc of his remarkable life's journey through to his more than 18-year tenure as Chairman of the Federal ReserveBoard, from 1987 to 2006, during a time of transforming change. Alan Greenspan shares the story of his life first simply with an eye toward doing justice to the extraordinary amount of history he has experienced and shaped. But his other goal is to draw readers along the same learning curve he followed, so they accrue a grasp of his own understanding of the underlying dynamics that drive world events. In the second half of the book, having brought us to the present and armed us with the conceptual tools to follow him forward, Dr. Greenspan embarks on a magnificent tour de horizon of the global economy. He reveals the universals of economic growth, delves into the specific facts on the ground in each of the major countries and regions of the world, and explains what the trend-lines of globalization are from here. The distillation of a life's worth of wisdom and insight into an elegant expression of a coherent worldview, "The Age of Turbulence" will stand as Alan Greenspan's personal and intellectual legacy.

En skolelærer fra Bern blir besatt av den portugisiske forfatteren Amadeu de Prado etter å ha lest boken hans, og reiser til Lisboa for å finne ut mer om livet hans. Han oppsøker mennesker som har et sterkt forhold til forfatteren, og som kjenner ham på forskjellige måter. Dette er en filosofisk thriller som stiller spørsmål ved det å kjenne et annet menneske.

Boken beskriver de dramatiske ukene i oktober 1962 da verden stod på randen av en kjernefysisk krig etter at Sovjetunionen hadde plassert atomraketter på Cuba. Boken gir innblikk i tankegangen til Kennedy, Khrusjtsjov og Castro. Har register.

Kyle er jusstudent med glimrende eksamener. Fremtiden virker lys, men han har en mørk hemmelighet som faller i urette hender. Han blir presset til å ta en jobb i et advokatfirma og han forventes å lyve, stjele og ta del i opplegg som kan sende ham i fengsel, eller enda verre bli drept.

Missy, Mackenzie Phillips' yngste datter, blir bortført mens familien er på ferie. I et skur i Oregons villmark finner politiet bevis på at hun kan ha blitt brutalt myrdet. Fire år senere får Mackenzie et mistenkelig brev. Det virker som om Gud inviterer ham til en helg i dette skuret.

Five amazing authors. Five unforgettable stories.In this exciting collection of paranormal tales, best-selling authors Stephenie Meyer (Twilight), Kim Harrison (Once Dead, Twice Shy), Meg Cabot (How to Be Popular), Lauren Myracle (ttyl), and Michele Jaffe (Bad Kitty) take prom mishaps to a whole new level--a truly hellish level. Wardrobe malfunctions and two left feet don't hold a candle to discovering your date is the Grim Reaper--and he isn't here to tell you how hot you look.From angels fighting demons to a twisted take on getting what you wish for, these five stories will entertain better than any DJ in a bad tux can. No corsage or limo rental necessary. Just good, creepy fun.

Da Leo Kings storebror begår selvmord bare ti år gammel, faller Leo helt sammen og føler seg ensom og isolert. Først i ungdommen finner han venner som forstår ham. Vennegjengen holder sammen i over to tiår, og vi følger dem gjennom turbulente ekteskap, uuttalte lengsler og hemmelig kjærlighet - og Charlestons rasisme og klassedeling.

St Vladimir's Academy isn't just any boarding school - it's a hidden place where vampires are educated in the ways of magic and half-human teens train to protect them. Rose Hathaway is a Dhampir, a bodyguard for her best friend Lissa, a Moroi Vampire Princess. They've been on the run, but now they're being dragged back to St Vladimir's - the very place where they're most in danger...Rose and Lissa become enmeshed in forbidden romance, the Academy's ruthless social scene, and unspeakable night-time rituals. But they must be careful lest the Strigoi - the world's fiercest and most dangerous vampires - make Lissa one of them forever.

Dette er den femte boka om Septimus Heap.

Hannah is a great disappointment to her famous radical father and painter mother. Instead of mounting the barricades and embracing this age of profound social change, she wants nothing more than marry her doctor boyfriend, and raise a family in a small town, and she gets her wish. But once installed as the doctor's wife in a nowhere corner of Maine, boredom sets in until an unforeseen moment of personal rebellion changes everything. Hannah is forced into break the law. For decades, this one transgression in an otherwise faultless life remains buried. But then, in the charged atmosphere of America after '9/11', her secret comes out and her life goes into free fall.

Sugar and spice . . . not everyone's nice.Fresh from being betrayed by one of her closest friends, new celebrity Jane Roberts has learned a few lessons. Most important: know who to trust. And in Hollywood, that list is short. Determined to get control of her life, Jane swears off boys and all the trouble they bring. But when high school sweetheart Caleb and L.A. crush Braden show up, both acting sweeter than ever, Jane has a hard time remembering her no-boys rule.And for the first time Jane's best friend, Scarlett, has only one guy on her mind: her new boyfriend, Liam. But being on a hit reality show means hanging out with other guys on-camera, and Liam isn't too happy with pretending to play a bit part in her love life.Just when everything feels out of control, Jane makes a discovery that changes everyone's definition of "reality" forever. In television star Lauren Conrad's L.A. Candy series, the drama is pure dishy fun.