En tre år gammel gutt ... Et forbløffende besøk i Himmelen ... Og et veldig viktig budskap til barn ... Jesus er or'ntli glad i barn ... Og Han er or'ntlior'ntli glad i deg! Med egne ord og slik barn deler med barn forteller Colton hvordan det er å være med Jesus, hvordan Himmelen ser ut og hvem vi vil treffe i Himmelen. Han svarer på barns spørsmål som: "Finnes det dyr i Himmelen? Hva med engler?" Boken tar utgangspunkt i "Himmelen er på or'ntli", den bestselgende historien om Coltons besøk i Himmelen, og ser det hele fra et barns perspektiv. Ved hjelp av nydelige illustrasjoner og førstehåndsbeskrivelser vil barna virkelig forstå at Himmelen finnes. I tillegg er denne boken: - en trøst og forsikring til barn om at Himmelen er et lykkelig sted - en glimrende hjelp til foreldre i samtaler med barn om Himmelen - beriket med bibelreferanser og en egen "Spørsmål og svar"-del.

Da ColtonBurpo overlevde sprukken blindtarm, var familien overlykkelig over miraklet. Det de ikke var forberedt på, var det som kom for dagen i månedene etterpå - en fortelling like vakker som den var uvanlig, om den lille guttens snarvisitt i Himmelen. Colton, som ennå ikke hadde fylt fire år, fortalte foreldrene at han var utenfor kroppen under operasjonen - og han skildret nøyaktig hva foreldrene holdt på med akkurat da i en annen del av sykehuset. Han snakket om besøket i Himmelen og gjenfortalte ting han hadde hørt av mennesker han hadde truffet der, personer han aldri hadde møtt her i livet og som fortalte ham om ting som skjedde til og med før han ble født. "Himmelen er på or'ntli" er Coltons fortelling, gjengitt av faren og gir oss et glimt av den verden som venter oss. En verden der "ingen er gamle og ingen bruker briller", ifølge Colton.

Över 50 000 ex sålda på svenska! Över 115 veckor på New York Times bestsellerlista! "Kommer du ihåg sjukhuset, Colton?" frågade Sonja. "Ja, mamma, jag kommer ihåg", sa han. "Det var där som änglarna sjöng för mig." När Colton Burpo klarade sig igenom en allvarlig bukhinne­in­flam­mation efter en sprucken blindtarm var familjen överlycklig över hans mirakulösa tillfrisknande. Men under månaderna efter opera­tionen framträdde en berättelse som de inte var beredda på – en berättelse lika vacker som storslagen, som beskrev deras lille pojkes resa till himlen och tillbaka. Colton, som ännu inte hade fyllt fyra, berättade för sina föräldrar att han lämnade sin kropp under operationen – och bevisade det genom att exakt beskriva vad hans föräldrar gjorde i en annan del av sjukhuset under tiden han blev opererad. Han berättade att han besökt himlen och återgav vad han hört från människor där som han aldrig träffat i sitt liv och beskrev händelser som skedde innan han föddes. Han förvånade också sina föräldrar genom sina beskrivningar med svårförståeliga detaljer som stämde överens med Bibeln till punkt och pricka, trots att han ännu inte lärt sig läsa. Med en avväpnande oskuldsfullhet och med ett barns frispråkighet berättar Colton om att han mötte avlidna släktingar. Han beskriver Jesus, änglarna, hur "riktigt, riktigt stor" Gud är och hur mycket Gud älskar oss. Återberättad av hans far, men med Coltons unika och enkla språk ger Himlen finns på riktigt en glimt av den värld som väntar oss, där som Colton säger: "Ingen är sjuk och ingen har glasögon." Himlen finns på riktigt kommer att förändra hur du ser på livet efter detta och ger dig möjlighet att se och tro som ett barn.

"A beautifully written glimpse into heaven that will encourage those who doubt and thrill those who believe."-Ron Hall, coauthor of Same Kind of Different as Me"Do you remember the hospital, Colton?" Sonja said. "Yes, mommy, I remember," he said. "That's where the angels sang to me."When Colton Burpo made it through an emergency appendectomy, his family was overjoyed at his miraculous survival. What they weren't expecting, though, was the story that emerged in the months that followed-a story as beautiful as it was extraordinary, detailing their little boy's trip to heaven and back.Colton, not yet four years old, told his parents he left his body during the surgery-and authenticated that claim by describing exactly what his parents were doing in another part of the hospital while he was being operated on. He talked of visiting heaven and relayed stories told to him by people he met there whom he had never met in life, sharing events that happened even before he was born. He also astonished his parents with descriptions and obscure details about heaven that matched the Bible exactly, though he had not yet learned to read.With disarming innocence and the plainspoken boldness of a child, Colton tells of meeting long-departed family members. He describes Jesus, the angels, how "really, really big" God is, and how much God loves us. Retold by his father, but using Colton's uniquely simple words, Heaven Is for Real offers a glimpse of the world that awaits us, where as Colton says, "Nobody is old and nobody wears glasses."Heaven Is for Real will forever change the way you think of eternity, offering the chance to see, and believe, like a child.

There's so much more to the story. Todd and Sonja Burpo's almost-four-year-old son Colton made an unforgettable trip to heaven and back during the darkest, most-stressed-out days of their lives. The story of Colton's visit to heaven changed their lives and the book they wrote about it, Heaven Is for Real, gave new hope to millions.

The story of the demon barber of Fleet Street has been a classic since 1847 and was the feature of Queen Victoria's first command performance. Mr. Burton's version is laced with both song and humour in the best of old fashioned melodramatic styles. "This is real theatre, exciting and fast.

From the first ever sketch of the Red Cross logo by its founder Clara Barton to a cartoon scrawled on a love letter from Charles Bukowski, the objects in this fascinating collection are a perfect reflection of the eclectic and storied cast of characters from whose archives they ve been collected over the years. Organized alphabetically, with a range of influential names, from William Burroughs to Mark Twain, the book is a voyeur s treasure trove of the ephemeral, in which cultural icons reveal their own preoccupations, passions, plans, and distractions in the marginalia of their daily correspondence. A satirical sketch by Marc Chagall sits beside a quick self-portrait by Charlie Chaplin; a throwaway drawing on a dollar bill by Joan Miro follows the first ever idle iteration of Pippi Long stocking by Astrid Lindgren; and a hasty drawing by Andy Warhol precedes a sketch of Falstaff on a hotel notepad by Orson Welles. A treat for lovers of the analogue in the digital age, and reproduced beautifully on uncoated paper to come as close as possible to the texture of the originals, Scrawl connects high and low, art and science, history and literature, youth and age, with the universal truth of doodling.

Julian is a mouse who is perfectly happy avoiding other animals. They seem to just get in the way, and sometimes even try to eat him! But one day, Julian has an unexpected dinner guest...When the fox tries to sneak into Julian's burrow for a tasty bite of mouse, it finds itself stuck headfirst in Julian's front door! At first alarmed and wary, they soon find themselves having a lovely dinner together, and it's not long before each realises that they have found in the other a lifelong friend.

Tim Burton has been a major director for a quarter of a century, producing both cult classics and blockbuster films including Edward Scissorhands, Beetlejuice, Ed Wood, Batman, Mars Attacks!, Sweeney Todd, Alice in Wonderland, and Dark Shadows.An A-Z list of all things Burton, including his live action films, his animated features, his shorts, his non-film work, and the collaborators who have helped manifest his unique perspective into memorable works of cinema. The book will highlight Burton's accomplishments as a visual artist with an uncompromised aesthetic, narrating the evolution of his creative practice from his earliest childhood drawings through his mature works.

Sweeney Todd, the gruesome tale of a murderous barber and his pastry chef accomplice, is unquestionably strange subject matter for the musical theatre - but eight Tony awards and enormous successes on Broadway and the West End testify to its enduring popularity with audiences. Written by Hugh Wheeler, with music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim, the musical premiered in 1979 and has seen numerous revivals, including Tim Burton's 2007 film version. Aaron C. Thomas addresses this darkly funny piece with fitting humour, taking on Sweeney Todd's chequered history and genre, its treatment of violence and cannibalism, and its sexual politics.

A celebration of the life and films of one of the most popular and remarkable filmmakers of the last 30 years. A truly international filmmaker, Tim Burton has carved a reputation as one of the world's greatest creative directors, famed for the visually arresting style of his films that combine with highly original storylines. This stunning treasury explores the influences on his development as a filmmaker and assesses how he has captured the fruits of his imagination on screen. Illustrated with many behind-the-scenes photographs and stunning film stills, chapters analyze the success and style of films such as Beetlejuice, Ed Wood and Mars Attacks!, and examine how Burton breathed new life into well-known stories that include Batman, Planet of the Apes and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. as well as his latest films Alice Through the Looking Glass, Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children, and Beetlejuice 2. Get to the know the man behind classic films such as Edward Scissorhands, The Nightmare Before Christmas, Corpse Bride and Alice in Wonderland and learn more about the iconic filmmaker and his work. A must for any film buffs!

“Kutryggig excentriker i svart klädsel” publicerades ursprungligen i Rocky nr. 2 2008 + Bonusläsning: En essä om Tim Burtons liv och verk, tidigare publicerad i Rocky 2005 Rada upp Tim Burtons filmer och ni får en mexikansk parad på De dödas dag. Från den första kortfilmen Frankenweenie till aktuella Corpse Bride har Burton fascinerats av gotiken och använt sig av en makaber humor när han skildrat missförstådda outsiders inte helt olika honom själv.Tim Burton är aktuell med gotiska musikalen Sweeney Todd – The Demon Barber of Fleet Street i vilken huvudrollerna görs av hans två närmaste vänner: Johnny Depp och Helena Bonham Carter; den senare tillika hans fästmö. Cyril Hellman träffar honom på Grand Hotel i Stockholm, en av de sista anhalterna på en lång promotionturné. Cyril Hellman är prisbelönt journalist och författare. Han har tidigare skrivit böckerna Gå Johnny, gå, gå (2005), Stefan Jarl – en intervjubok (2008) och Mitt mörka hjärta – gangstern och reportern (2011). Han blev 2010 utsedd till Årets krönikör av Sveriges tidskrifter för sina krönikor i Situation Stockholm.Telegram Journalistik ger ut god journalistik som publicerats genom tiderna - i bokform. Krönikor, essäer, reportage, artiklar, spännande features, djuplodande intervjuer, grävande reportage - journalister från den så omsusade magasinsboomen under 80-, 90- och 00-talet öppnar sina digra arkiv, och det har skrivits fantastiska texter även innan dess som nu kan tillgängliggöras igen. Det skrivs dessutom nya texter, som nu kan läsas direkt - i en e-bok eller en tryckt bok, läsaren väljer.

Debbie Reynolds and Carrie Fisher were the greatest mother-daughter act in show business. Born in a shanty in El Paso, Texas, Debbie, a Texas tomboy, endured a life of poverty--jackrabbit every night for dinner--until she moved to California. Blossoming into a young beauty, she won the title of Miss Burbank, which led to a movie contract. Stardom came relatively quickly when she was cast as the minty fresh ing nue in Singin' in the Rain (1952), hailed as the greatest Hollywood musical of all time. Frank Sinatra stole her virginity, but she married pop singer Eddie Fisher for the "official deflowering" (her words). "Debbie and Eddie," the darling of fan magazines, reigned as "America's Sweethearts." The fairytale ended when his best friend, producer Mike Todd, died in a plane crash. Fisher rushed to the side of his widow, the violet-eyed screen vamp, Elizabeth Taylor. He descended from Maggie the Cat's Hot Tin Roof into her boudoir. His divorce from Debbie and his subsequent marriage to her best friend provided fodder for the scandal magazines until the day Elizabeth provoked another scandal, divorcing him to marry Richard Burton. Through storm and rain, Debbie battled on, hitting a high point when she starred as Tammy in 1957, cast as the granddaughter of a Louisiana moonshiner, spouting pithy wisdom. "I'll be singing my hit song on stage for the rest of my years." Her most memorable role was in 1964, when she was cast in the rags-to riches saga of The Unsinkable Molly Brown. (She even survived the sinking of the Titanic.) The role brought her an Oscar nomination. Each of her three marriages was a disaster, the second one to a millionaire shoe manufacturing mogul who bankrupted both of them. Impoverished after the divorce, she ended up sleeping in her car. Debbie mingled with the lite of Hollywood in the dying days of its Golden Age. Luminaries included Clark Gable ("if I were only twenty years younger....); Judy Garland (who propositioned her); Lana Turner; Bette Davis ("she was my daughter"); Katharine Hepburn; Spencer Tracy; Lucille Ball; and Glenn Ford, who fell in love with her. Mass murderer Charles Manson sent her love letters; Liberace wanted her to enter into a "lavender marriage" with him, and James Dean "forced himself onto me" when she was up for the role of his girlfriend in Rebel Without a Cause. "I turned down Warren Beatty," Debbie claimed, "and didn't even go for the handsome Gary Cooper, although he told me women called him 'The Montana Mule.' Bob Hope, a compulsive womanizer, also had to look elsewhere." A rebellious daughter, Carrie grew up to endure a life of living hell--pill popping, drug abuse, chronic anxiety, failed love affairs, bipolar disorder, and electroshock therapy. Carrie sometimes protested: "I don't want to be the daughter of Debbie Reynolds. I battled demons that set my brain on fire." International celebrity came in 1977, when she played Princess Leia in Star Wars as an elaborately coiffed intergalactic princess, spearheading "The Force," and strong enough to oppose the villainy of Darth Vader. She became the fantasy of teenage boys and sci-fi freaks. A love affair with the married Harrison Ford faded into a marriage to singer Paul Simon as they crossed a Bridge Over Troubled Waters. A final marriage to a Hollywood agent ended when he decided he needed not a wife, but a husband for himself. The princess turned writer in a series of autobiographical books praised for their lacerating insights into human frailty and awash with bubble and bounce, sprinkled with bons mots, an adroit verbal acrobat with words. The New York Times defined her as "one of the rare inhabitants of La-La Land who can actually write." In Carrie's writings, Debbie often didn't come out too well, depicted as a "casually narcissistic gorgon ill-suited for the real world." As her star dimmed, cooled, and faded, mother took to the bottle. Until the end, Debbie was resilient, a singing, dancing, sensation of massive talent, a button-nosed, boop-boopie-doo girl for six decades. She never lost her "Debbie-ness," strutting her stuff, emoting like a storm--everything sprinkled with the stardust of yesterday. What was her secret of perpetual youth? Carrie knew: "She drank bat's blood for breakfast and smeared bug brains on her skin." Reconciled after years of separation, Carrie and Debbie came together at the end, not able to live apart. They couldn't even die without each other. Their fans like to think they're doing fine today in some galaxy far, far away.

"New Zealand Photography" spans the country s history, from early 19th-century portraits of Maori and scenic views to the latest contemporary art photography. The book features more than 350 photographs drawn from the national collection at Te Papa, with each image is beautifully reproduced and accompanied by richly informative descriptions. Author Athol McCredie offers a fresh and compelling narrative that foregrounds photography s wide-ranging uses across portraiture, landscape, science, documentary photography, and art, and contemplates the way it has been collected, both privately and publicly, through time. What emerges is not only an important new history of the photographic medium but also a surprising and powerful portrait of New Zealand. Featured photographers include by James Bragge, Leslie Adkin, Burton Brothers, John Pascoe, Brian Brake, Frank Hofmann, Ans Westra, Eric Lee-Johnson, Marti Friedlander, Laurence Aberhart, Ann Shelton, Glenn Jowitt, Anne Noble, Yvonne Todd, and many others."

Challenging the widely-held assumption that Slavoj Zizek's work is far more germane to film and cultural studies than to literary studies, this volume demonstrates the importance of Zizek to literary criticism and theory. The contributors show how Zizek's practice of reading theory and literature through one another allows him to critique, complicate, and advance the understanding of Lacanian psychoanalysis and German Idealism, thereby urging a rethinking of historicity and universality. His methodology has implications for analyzing literature across historical periods, nationalities, and genres and can enrich theoretical frameworks ranging from aesthetics, semiotics, and psychoanalysis to feminism, historicism, postcolonialism, and ecocriticism. The contributors also offer Zizekian interpretations of a wide variety of texts, including Geoffrey Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde, Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice, Samuel Beckett's Not I, and William Burroughs's Nova Trilogy. The collection includes an essay by Zizek on subjectivity in Shakespeare and Beckett. Everything You Always Wanted to Know about Literature but Were Afraid to Ask Zizek affirms Zizek's value to literary studies while offering a rigorous model of Zizekian criticism. Contributors. Shawn Alfrey, Daniel Beaumont, Geoff Boucher, Andrew Hageman, Jamil Khader, Anna Kornbluh, Todd McGowan, Paul Megna, Russell Sbriglia, Louis-Paul Willis, Slavoj Zizek

Building on the strengths of the third edition, this highly regarded textbook continues to provide the best introduction to the strategies of comparative research in political science. Divided into three parts, the book begins by examining different methods, applying these methods to dominant issues in comparative politics using a wealth of topical examples from around the world, and then discusses the new challenges in the area. This thoroughly revised and updated edition features:Additional contemporary case studies including the democratisation of technology and the Arab Spring;Detailed discussion of regression analysis and diffusion;More analysis of justice, inequality, and compliance;Reflection on new methods and treatments of contemporary comparative politics.Balancing reader friendly features with high quality analysis makes this popular academic text is essential reading for everyone interested in comparative politics and research methods.

En uforglemmelig kjærlighetshistorie mellom en forfatter in spe og hans uventede muse, skrevet av #1 New York Times bestselgerforfatter Colleen Hoover. Fallon møter Ben den dagen hun skal flytte fra Los Angeles til New York. Det er det verst tenkelige tidspunktet å innlede et romantisk forhold på, men de får noen timer sammen før hun må sette seg på kveldsflyet. Ben vil bli forfatter, og Fallons dramatiske livshistorie blir den kreative inspirasjonen han trenger for å skrive en roman. Fallon og Ben fortsetter å leve sine liv på hver sin kant av landet. De dater andre og forsøker å finne seg selv, men hvert år møtes de den 9. november. Så en dag blir Fallon usikker på om Ben har vært ærlig, eller om han bare har brukt henne til å dikte opp et perfekt vendepunkt i romanen han skriver på. Kan forholdet mellom Ben og Fallon betraktes som en kjærlighetshistorie når det ender med knuste hjerter? «9. november» er en klassisk Colleen Hoover-roman! Enkelte scener i boka kan virke rystende, men det er slik det skal være når du leser en bok av Colleen Hoover. «9. november» er nok en nervepirrende roman av Colleen Hoover, fylt av rødmende kinn, åndeløse øyeblikk og knusende kjærlighetssorg. Jeg elsket hver side av den, og trakk inn hvert eneste av de vakre ordene. - Anna Todd, New York Times bestselgende forfatter av After-serien.