Charles Wilson Bücher

In einer amerikanischen Südstadt, wo jeder jeden kennt, wird ein junges Mädchen brutal vergewaltigt und ermordet. Die Idylle zerbricht, als Verdächtigungen und Angst im Ort um sich greifen. Eine nervenaufreibende Treibjagd nach dem Täter beginnt.

This book provides a concise introduction to the history and culture of the American South. Charles Reagan Wilson explores Southern history alongside the creative achievements that have come out of the region, producing a portrait of a complex American place.

Based on Eric Schlosser's bestselling Fast Food Nation, this is the shocking truth about the fast food industry - how it all began, its success, what fast food actually is, what goes on in the slaughterhouses, meatpacking factories and flavour labs, global advertising, merchandising in UK schools, mass production and the exploitation of young workers in the thousands of fast-food outlets throughout the world. It also takes a look at the effects on the environment and the highly topical issue of obesity. Meticulously researched, lively and informative, with first-hand accounts and quotes from children and young people, Eric Schlosser presents the facts in such a way that allows readers to make up their own minds about the incredible fast food phenomenon.

Exploring uncharted parts of the Amazon that may contain vital disease-fighting plants, Delaney and Jordan Jeffries are attacked by mysterious natives and infected with a deadly virus that they bring back with them to America. Original.