Winner of the Prix Médicis Étranger; 'examines America's guerrilla war between the haves and have-nots with a zing unequalled since The Bonfire of the Vanities'(Observer)
Die Weltregierung ist beunruhigt: Es gibt ein paar wenige Menschen, die in der Lage sind, die Gedanken anderer aufzufangen und zu lesen. Das ist nicht gut, denn die Weltregierung braucht einen reibungslosen Ablauf des Lebens und konformes Denken - verordnetes Glück und Zufriedenheit... Ein Roman voller Spannung und Intensität.
Franz Köcher's magnum opus on Babylonian and Assyrian medicine, which was envisioned to include cuneiform copies, translations, and commentary, was unfinished at his death in 2002 with six volumes of cuneiform copies accompanied by brief introductory comments and citation of parallels and duplicates. Publication of the series is being resumed, under the editorship of Robert Biggs and Marten Stol. The new volumes include full translations and philological commentary, thus making Babylonian and Assyrian medical texts accessible to historians of ancient medicine in up-to-date studies.
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