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The Raven (Der Rabe)
Edgar Allan Poe · 2015
Edgar Allan Poe: The Raven and Other Poems / Der Rabe und andere Gedichte. English | German Zweisprachige Ausgabe. Übersetzt von Theodor Etzel Großformat, 216 x 279 mm Berliner bilinguale Ausgabe, 2015 Absatzgenau synchronisierter Parallelsatz in zwei Spalten, bearbeitet und eingerichtet von Thomas A. Martin. Textgrundlage ist die Ausgabe: Edgar Allan Poes Werke. Gesamtausgabe der Dichtungen und Erzählungen, Band 1: Gedichte, Herausgegeben von Theodor Etzel, Berlin: Propyläen-Verlag, [1922].
The Reagan Diaries
Ronald Reagan · 2024
The edited and abridged diaries of the 40th U.S. president, chronicling the day-to-day of his two terms in office and revealing his true character. #1 New York Times Bestseller During his two terms as the fortieth president of the United States, Ronald Reagan kept a daily diary in which he recorded, by hand, his innermost thoughts and observations on the extraordinary, the historic, and the routine day—to-day occruences of his presidency.
The Reasons of Love
Harry Frankfurt · 2009
From the author of the #1 New York Times bestseller On Bullshit, a profound meditation on how and why we love In The Reasons of Love, leading moral philosopher and bestselling author Harry Frankfurt argues that the key to a fulfilled life is to pursue wholeheartedly what one cares about, that love is the most authoritative form of caring, and that the purest form of love is, in a complicated way, self-love. Through caring, we infuse the world with meaning.
The Right to Sex
Amia Srinivasan · 2021
A SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER BLACKWELL'S BOOK OF THE YEAR 2021 Essential lessons on the world we live in, from one of our greatest young thinkers – a guide to what everybody is talking about today 'Unparalleled and extraordinary . . . A bracing revivification of a crucial lineage in feminist writing' JIA TOLENTINO 'I believe Amia Srinivasan's work will change the world' KATHERINE RUNDELL 'Rigorously researched, but written with such spark and verve.
The Righteous Mind
Jonathan Haidt · 2012
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The #1 bestselling author of The Anxious Generation and acclaimed social psychologist challenges conventional thinking about morality, politics, and religion in a way that speaks to conservatives and liberals alike—a “landmark contribution to humanity’s understanding of itself” (The New York Times Book Review).
The Rise of Christianity
Rodney Stark · 1996
Rodney Stark, a sociologist by training, has written a book that should end much of the Christian-bashing occuring in academia. Stark demonstrates that Christianity became popular very quickly because it offered its adherents a better faith than competing religions and treated those believers better both physically and spiritually.
The Rise of the Meritocracy
Michael Young · 2011
Michael Young has christened the oligarchy of the future “Meritocracy.” Indeed, the word is now part of the English language. It would appear that the formula: IQ+Effort=Merit may well constitute the basic belief of the ruling class in the twenty-first century. Projecting himself into the year 2034, the author of this sociological satire shows how present decisions and practices may remold our society.
The Road to Serfdom (Der Weg zur Knechtschaft)
Friedrich August von Hayek · 1992
"The projected nineteen-volume Collected Works of F.A. Hayek series, when complete, will contain newly edited editions of Hayek's books, articles, and letters; interviews with the author; and hitherto unpublished manuscripts"--Volume 11, jacket.
The Road to Somewhere
David Goodhart · 2017
SUNDAY TIMES, GUARDIAN AND TELEGRAPH BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2017 'A provocative take on the UK's new tribal divisions ... a book whose timing is pitch-perfect' Andrew Marr Many Remainers reported waking up the day after the Brexit vote feeling as if they were living in a foreign country. In fact, they were merely experiencing the same feeling that many British people have felt every day for years.
The Road to Wellville (Willkommen in Wellville)
T. C. Boyle
In this “wildly funny” (People) novel, an eccentric cast of characters navigates a world obsessed with health and longevity—from the New York Times bestselling author of The Tortilla Curtain. “Boyle’s send-up of dietary fanaticism cleverly reminds us of the extremes to which Americans will go in pursuit of perfection.”—Glamour The year is 1907, and the boom town of Battle Creek, Michigan, is attracting a formidable array of visitors—the rich, the preposterously rich, and the merely famous, from
The Sacred Mushroom and the Cross
John Allegro · 2009
Where did God come from? What do the bible stories really tell us? Who or what was Jesus Christ? This book challenges everything we think we know about the nature of religion. -The ancient fertility cult at the heart of Christianity -The living power of cultic rites and symbols -The sacred mushroom as the emblem and embodiment of divinity -The secret meaning of biblical myths -The language of religion that links us to our ancestors The Sacred Mushroom and the Cross sets out John Allegro's quest ...
The Scarlet Letter
Nathaniel Hawthorne · 1991
Relates the tale of a young woman publically scorned for bearing an illegitimate child
The Sea
John Banville · 2013
When Max Morden returns to the seaside village where he once spent a childhood holiday, he is both escaping from a recent loss and confronting a distant trauma. Mr and Mrs Grace and their twin children Myles and Chloe appeared that long-ago summer as if from another world. Max grew to know them intricately, even intimately, and what ensued would haunt him for the rest of his years, shaping everything that was to follow.
The Second Coming
William Butler Yeats · 1986
Provides an account of the writer's life, work, and place within a literary tradition.
The Second Machine Age
Erik Brynjolfsson, Andrew McAfee · 2014
The big stories -- The skills of the new machines : technology races ahead -- Moore's law and the second half of the chessboard -- The digitization of just about everything -- Innovation : declining or recombining? -- Artificial and human intelligence in the second machine age -- Computing bounty -- Beyond GDP -- The spread -- The biggest winners : stars and superstars -- Implications of the bounty and the spread -- Learning to race with machines : recommendations for individuals -- Policy recom...
The Second Mountain
David Brooks · 2019
NO.1 BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE SOCIAL ANIMAL Are you on your first or second mountain? Is life about you - or others? About success - or something deeper? The world tells us that we should pursue our self-interest: career wins, high status, nice things. These are the goals of our first mountain. But at some point in our lives we might find that we're not interested in what other people tell us to want. We want the things that are truly worth wanting. This is the second mountain.
The Secret
Rhonda Byrne · 2023
Die tiefgreifenden Masterclasses von Rhonda Byrne, Autorin des bahnbrechenden Bestsellers The Secret, zeigen, wie man das Gesetz der Anziehung auf drei der wichtigsten Bereiche des Lebens anwendet: Beziehungen, Gesundheit und Geld. Der erste Teil des Buches widmet sich der Macht positiver Gedanken und erklärt, wie wir gekonnt kreative Prozesse anwenden können, um neue und gesündere Beziehungen anzuziehen und zu erhalten.
The Seeds of Life
· 1925
How did life originate on Earth? For over 50 years, scientists believed that life was the result of a chemical reaction involving simple molecules such as methane and ammonia cooking in a primordial soup. Recent space observations have revealed that old stars are capable of making very complex organic compounds. At some point in their evolution, stars eject those organics and spread them all over the Milky Way galaxy.
The Shock
Keith Ridgeway · 2021
WINNER OF THE JAMES TAIT BLACK PRIZE FOR FICTION 2022 ‘Remarkable' - Colm Tóibín, author of Brooklyn 'Like Finnegans Wake, only readable' - The Times In A Shock, a clutch of more or less loosely connected characters appear, disappear and reappear. They are all of them on the fringes of London life, often clinging on – to sanity, solvency or a story – by their fingertips. With this deftly conjured high-wire act, Ridgway achieves a fine balance between drama and fidelity to his characters.
The Shortest History of Germany
James Hawes · 2019
A highlight reel of the must-know moments across two millennia of world-changing history—from the Roman age to Charlemagne to von Bismarck to Merkel. The Shortest History books deliver thousands of years of history in one riveting, fast-paced read. A country both admired and feared, Germany has been the epicenter of world events time and again: the Reformation, both World Wars, the fall of the Berlin Wall.
The Sickness Unto Death
Søren Kierkegaard · 2011
Verzweiflung ist eine der existentiellen Grundgegebenheiten menschlichen Daseins. Kierkegaard analysiert in dem 1881 unter Pseudonym erschienenen philosophischen Klassiker diesen Zustand und interpretiert ihn in christlicher Perspektive: Die Verzweiflung ist eine Krankheit des Geistes, an der jeder Mensch leidet. Die Ausgabe dieses Spätwerks von Kierkegaard wurde vollständig durchgesehen und überarbeitet.
The Singularity Is Near
Ray Kurzweil · 2005
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Celebrated futurist Ray Kurzweil, hailed by Bill Gates as “the best person I know at predicting the future of artificial intelligence,” presents an “elaborate, smart, and persuasive” (The Boston Globe) view of the future course of human development. “Artfully envisions a breathtakingly better world.”—Los Angeles Times “Startling in scope and bravado.”—Janet Maslin, The New York Times “An important book.”—The Philadelphia Inquirer At the onset of the twenty-first centu...
The Sovereignty of Good
Iris Murdoch · 2023
Iris Murdoch once observed: 'philosophy is often a matter of finding occasions on which to say the obvious'. What was obvious to Murdoch, and to all those who read her work, is that Good transcends everything - even God. Throughout her distinguished and prolific writing career, she explored questions of Good and Bad, myth and morality. The framework for Murdoch's questions - and her own conclusions - can be found here.
The Stages of Economic Growth
Walt Whitman Rostow · 1962
Seminalwerk der Entwicklungsökonomie, das wirtschaftliche Fortschritt in fünf progressive Stufen unterteilt – von traditionellen über industrialisierende bis zu Überkonsum-Gesellschaften. Rostow nutzt eine Flugzeugmetapher für Wirtschaftsentwicklung und thematisiert dabei die Grenzen endlosen Wachstums.
The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
Thomas Kuhn · 1970
Thomas S. Kuhn's classic book is now available with a new index. "A landmark in intellectual history which has attracted attention far beyond its own immediate field. . . . It is written with a combination of depth and clarity that make it an almost unbroken series of aphorisms. . . . Kuhn does not permit truth to be a criterion of scientific theories, he would presumably not claim his own theory to be true.
The Sun Also Rises
Ernest Hemingway
Hemingway's profile of the Lost Generation captures life among the expatriates on Paris' Left Bank during the 1920s, the brutality of bullfighting in Spain, and the moral and spiritual dissolution of a generation.
The Sun Also Rises / A Moveable Feast
Ernest Hemingway · 2021
The Sun Also Rises is a 1926 novel by American writer Ernest Hemingway, that portrays American and British expatriates who travel from Paris to the Festival of San Fermín in Pamplona to watch the running of the bulls and the bullfights. The novel is a roman à clef: the characters are based on real people in Hemingway's circle, and the action is based on real events, particularly Hemingway's life in Paris in the 1920s and a trip to Spain in 1925 for the Pamplona festival and fishing in the Pyrene...
The Surveillance Capitalism (Das Zeitalter des Überwachungskapitalismus)
Shoshana Zuboff · 2018
Gegen den Big-Other-Kapitalismus ist Big Brother harmlos. Die Menschheit steht am Scheideweg, sagt die Harvard-Ökonomin Shoshana Zuboff. Bekommt die Politik die wachsende Macht der High-Tech-Giganten in den Griff? Oder überlassen wir uns der verborgenen Logik des Überwachungskapitalismus? Wie reagieren wir auf die neuen Methoden der Verhaltensauswertung und -manipulation, die unsere Autonomie bedrohen? Akzeptieren wir die neuen Formen sozialer Ungleichheit? Ist Widerstand ohnehin zwecklos? Zubof...
The Talent Code
Daniel Coyle
Daniel Coyle, a revered journalist, spent years investigating the possible origins of skill. Whether it is sports, language, mathematics, or science, Coyle asserts the biology and myelin are the two biggest factors in producing success. Based on his findings, Coyle presents an easy, foolproof program that will allow listeners to develop their own path toward success.
The Talented Mr. Ripley
Patricia Highsmith
The first of the acclaimed Ripley novels, this clever psychological thriller introduces the reader to Tom Ripley and his extraordinary modus operandi. Accepting a commission from a wealthy businessman to travel to Italy in an attempt to convince his wayward son to return to the United States, Ripley gradually develops a plan to assume the young man’s identity along with his bank account.
The Testaments
Margaret Atwood
15 years after the sons of Jacob seized power in the USA and became Gilead. The story is told from three female viewpoints; Daisy, Agnes and Lydia. Daisy struggles with coming to the realization of her past and who she really is, Agnes tells her story and life in Gilead, and Lydia contemplates her life and decisions made. When the van door slammed on Offred's future at the end of The Handmaid's Tale, readers had no way of telling what lay ahead for her--freedom, prison or death. With T...
The Third Culture
John Brockman · 1996
This eye-opening look at the intellectual culture of today--in which science, not literature or philosophy, takes center stage in the debate over human nature and the nature of the universe--is certain to spark fervent intellectual debate.
The Thirsty Muse (Die durstige Muse)
Tom Dardis · 1989
Examines the effects of alcohol on the life and work of Faulkner, Fitzgerald, Hemingway, and O'Neill, tracing how the initial positive benefits of the drug were lost as drink eventually took its toll on the writers.
The Tipping Point
Malcolm Gladwell · 2014
In this brilliant and original book, Malcolm Gladwell explains and analyses the 'tipping point', that magic moment when ideas, trends and social behaviour cross a threshold, tip and spread like wildfire. Taking a look behind the surface of many familiar occurrences in our everyday world, Gladwell explains the fascinating social dynamics that cause rapid change.
The Top Five Regrets of the Dying
Bronnie Ware
Sachbuch einer Palliativ-Krankenschwester, die Sterbende nach ihren größten Lebensbereuernissen befragte. Fünf zentrale Themen entstehen: Träume nicht gelebt zu haben, zu viel zu arbeiten, Gefühle nicht ausgedrückt zu haben, Freundschaften vernachlässigt und sich selbst kein Glück gegönnt zu haben. Ein Werk über Lebensbilanz und echte Prioritäten.
The Truth About Everything
Brianna Wiest · 2024
Mit »The Truth About Everything« liegt nun auch die wohl persönlichste Essaysammlung der SPIEGEL-Nummer-1-Bestsellerautorin Brianna Wiest auf Deutsch vor. In 40 Essays reflektiert sie darin sensibel und weise so große menschliche Themen wie Selbstakzeptanz, die Kunst des Loslassens oder die Bedeutung des Unbewussten für unser Leben.
The Tyranny of Merit
Michael Sandel · 2020
A TLS, GUARDIAN AND NEW STATESMAN BOOK OF THE YEAR 2020 The new bestseller from the acclaimed author of Justice and one of the world's most popular philosophers "Astute, insightful, and empathetic...A crucial book for this moment" Tara Westover, author of Educated These are dangerous times for democracy. We live in an age of winners and losers, where the odds are stacked in favour of the already fortunate.
The Undoing Project: A Friendship That Changed Our Minds
Michael Lewis · 2016
THE NEW INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER FROM THE AUTHOR OF THE BIG SHORT AND FLASH BOYS 'A gripping account of how two psychologists reshaped the way we think ... What a story it is' Sunday Times 'You'll love it ... full of surprises and no small degree of tragedy' Tim Harford In 1969 two men met on a university campus. Their names were Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky. They were different in every way. But they were both obsessed with the human mind - and both happened to be geniuses.
The Untethered Soul
Michael Singer
What would it be like to be free from limitations and soar beyond your boundaries? What can you do each day to find this kind of inner peace and freedom? The Untethered Soul offers a simple, profoundly intuitive answer to these questions. Whether this is your first exploration of inner space or you've devoted your life to the inward journey, this book will transform your relationship with yourself and the world around you.
The Unwinding
George Packer · 2013
Through an examination of the lives of several Americans and leading public figures over the past three decades, Packer portrays a superpower in danger of coming apart at the seams, its elites no longer elite, its institutions no longer working, its ordinary people left to improvise their own schemes for success and salvation.
The Unwinding (Die Abwicklung)
George Packer
George Packer erzählt die Geschichte des amerikanischen Niedergangs über die vergangenen Jahrzehnte. Anhand einzelner Lebensgeschichten zeigt er, wie Institutionen zerfielen, Industrien verschwanden und die Kluft zwischen Arm und Reich wuchs. Ausgezeichnet mit dem National Book Award 2013.
The Vampyre
John William Polidori · 2015
A Short and Chilling Romantic tale of the Legends of the Vampire “In many parts of Greece it is considered as a sort of punishment after death, for some heinous crime committed whilst in existence, that the deceased is not only doomed to vampyrise, but compelled to confine his infernal visitations solely to those beings he loved most while upon earth—those to whom he was bound by ties of kindred and affection.—A supposition alluded to in the "Giaour.” ― John William Polidori, The Vampyre; a Tale...
The Visitation (Descent of Man)
T. C. Boyle · 1871
More than fifty specialists have contributed to this new edition of volume 2 of The Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature. The design of the original work has established itself so firmly as a workable solution to the immense problems of analysis, articulation and coordination that it has been retained in all its essentials for the new edition.
The Waldorf Astoria Bar Book
· 2016
Essential for the home bar cocktail enthusiast and the professional bartender alike “The textbook for a new generation.” —Jeffrey Morgenthaler, author of The Bar Book “A true classic in its own right . . . that will be used as a reference for the next 100 years and more.” —Gaz Regan, author of The Joy of Mixology 2017 JAMES BEARD FOUNDATION BOOK AWARD NOMINEE: BEVERAGE 2017 SPIRITED AWARD® NOMINEE: BEST NEW COCKTAIL & BARTENDING BOOK Frank Caiafa—bar manager of the legendary Peacock Alley bar in...
The War of Art
Steven Pressfield · 2002
What keeps so many of us from doing what we long to do? Why is there a naysayer within? How can we avoid the roadblocks of any creative endeavor—be it starting up a dream business venture, writing a novel, or painting a masterpiece? The War of Art identifies the enemy that every one of us must face, outlines a battle plan to conquer this internal foe, then pinpoints just how to achieve the greatest success.
The War of the Worlds
H.G. Wells · 2016
Dieser Klassiker der Science-Fiction-Literatur gehört definitiv zu den Meisterwerken des bekannten Schriftstellers H.G. Wells. Ende des 19. Jahrhunderts landen die Marsianer in der Nähe von London. Da sie den Planeten Erde als Ersatz für ihren desolaten eigenen, roten Mars beanspruchen, entbrennt bald ein gnadenloser Kampf zwischen den hoch entwickelten Außerirdischen und den hoffnungslos unterlegenen Erdlingen. Erst als alles verloren scheint, nehmen die Dinge eine unerwartete Wendung.
The Waste Land
T. S. Eliot
"THE WASTE LAND" BY T.S. ELIOT, A SEMINAL WORK OF MODERNIST POETRY, EXPLORES THEMES OF BROKENNESS, LOSS, AND THE MEANINGLESSNESS OF MODERN LIFE, USING FRAGMENTED LANGUAGE, ALLUSIONS, AND A NON-LINEAR STRUCTURE TO CONVEY ITS MESSAGE. KEY ASPECTS OF "THE WASTE LAND": THEMES: BROKENNESS AND ISOLATION: THE POEM DEPICTS A WORLD CHARACTERIZED BY ALIENATION, DESPAIR, AND LACK OF CONNECTION.
The Wealth of Nations
Adam Smith · 1994
The classic eighteenth-century treatise on the principles of political economics.
The WEIRDest People in the World
Joseph Henrich · 2020
'A landmark in social thought. Henrich may go down as the most influential social scientist of the first half of the twenty-first century' MATTHEW SYED Do you identify yourself by your profession or achievements, rather than your family network? Do you cultivate your unique attributes and goals? If so, perhaps you are WEIRD: raised in a society that is Western, Educated, Industrialized, Rich and Democratic.