denmark

An illustrated retelling of the oldest English epic, "Beowulf," in which a Norse hero saves Denmark's royal house from monsters, returns home to become his own people's greatest king, and then faces a murderous dragon to protect them.

Offers a detailed account of the life of philosopher and writer S?ren Kierkegaard, focusing on his contributions to philosophical theory and religious thought.

Chronicles the stormy collaboration between astronomers Tycho Brahe and Johannes Kepler at the turn of the seventeenth century, discussing how their discoveries would mark the transition from medieval to modern science and why Kepler is believed to have killed Brahe in order to take credit for Brahe's discoveries.

The lithographs record the fascinating confrontation through successive stages of vision and revision, of one powerful mind with another. No other interpreter has so effectively fused the dramatic and meditative aspects of Shakespeare's masterpiece.

Provides the text of the play accompanied by notes and an introduction. Also includes a section of study questions and a brief biography of Shakespeare.

Morton Storm was an unlikely jihadi. At six-foot-one, Storm was a red-headed Dane who spent his teens throwing punches with a biker gang and getting thrown in jail. After reading about Islam he converted and embarked on a decade-long transformation that would lead him to a close friendship with Anwar al-Awlaki, the American-born terrorist cleric. In time, his repudiation of extremism led him to atonement and a life of extreme danger as an undercover agent for the CIA and British and Danish intelligence. He single-handedly thwarted attacks in the West and led the CIA to some of the world's most dangerous terrorists, all the while knowing his own life was expendable.

A selection of Andersen's fairy tales includes his best known and most loved stories.

Discusses how the Jews of Denmark escaped the Nazis.

Includes the well-known tales as well as less familiar ones such as "The Gardener and the Squire," "The Story of a Mother," "In a Thousand Years Time," and "The Shadow.".