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The People in the Trees (Das Volk der Bäume)
Hanya Yanagihara · 2013
A thrilling anthropological adventure story with a profound and tragic vision of what happens when cultures collide—from the bestselling author of National Book Award–nominated modern classic, A Little Life “Provokes discussions about science, morality and our obsession with youth.” —Chicago Tribune It is 1950 when Norton Perina, a young doctor, embarks on an expedition to a remote Micronesian island in search of a rumored lost tribe.
The People, Yes
Carl Sandburg · 1964
A long poem that makes brilliant use of the legends and myths, the tall tales and sayings of America. "If America has a folksinger today he is Carl Sandburg, a singer who comes out of the prairie soil... who can hand back to the people a creation that has scraps of their own insight, humor, and imagination" (Padraic Colum).
The Peripheral
William Gibson · 2016
Flynne und Wilf leben auf zwei Seiten des »Jackpots«, der Apokalypse, die gegen Ende des 21. Jahrhunderts große Teile der Menschheit hinweggerafft hat. Jahrzehnte liegen zwischen ihnen, doch als ein Mord geschieht, nimmt Wilf Kontakt zu Flynne auf ... Flynnes Heimatdorf liegt an der amerikanischen Ostküste, wo sie ihr Geld in einem 3D-Kopierladen verdient. Dort lebt auch ihr Bruder Burton, der heimlich Computerspiele testet, um seine spärliche Veteranenrente aufzubessern.
The Peter Principle
Laurence J. Peter · 1970
The Peter principle is defined "In a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence"--Cover.
The Philosopher Queens
Rebecca Buxton, Lisa Whiting · 2020
'This is brilliant. A book about women in philosophy by women in philosophy – love it!' Elif Shafak Where are the women philosophers? The answer is right here. The history of philosophy has not done women justice: you’ve probably heard the names Plato, Kant, Nietzsche and Locke – but what about Hypatia, Arendt, Oluwole and Young? The Philosopher Queens is a long-awaited book about the lives and works of women in philosophy by women in philosophy.
The Pinch: How the Baby Boomers Took Their Children's Future
David Willetts · 2010
The baby boom of 1945-65 produced the biggest, richest generation that Britain has ever known. Today, at the peak of their power and wealth, baby boomers now run our country; by virtue of their sheer demographic power, they have fashioned the world around them in a way that meets all of their housing, healthcare and financial needs.
The Pit and the Pendulum
Edgar Allan Poe · 2015
The story takes place during the Spanish Inquisition. At the beginning of the story an unnamed narrator is brought to trial before various sinister judges. Poe provides no explanation of why he is there or for what he has been arrested. Before him are seven tall white candles on a table, and, as they melt, his hopes of survival also diminish. He is condemned to death and finds himself in a pitch black compartment.
The Player
Boris Becker · 2011
Boris Becker shot to fame in 1985 when at seventeen years old, he became the youngest player ever to win the men's final at Wimbledon. He went on to win two more Wimbledon titles, and a total of forty-nine singles and fifteen doubles crowns, making him one of the greatest players of the twentieth century. But his life off the court has always attracted as much attention as his triumphs on it.
The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business
Charles Duhigg · 2014
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • This instant classic explores how we can change our lives by changing our habits. NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The Wall Street Journal • Financial Times In The Power of Habit, award-winning business reporter Charles Duhigg takes us to the thrilling edge of scientific discoveries that explain why habits exist and how they can be changed.
The Power of Myth
Joseph Campbell · 1988
Onversations between Joseph Campbell and Bill Moyers, a television journalist, discussing mythology and our ties to the past.
The Power of Now
Eckhart Tolle
Eckhart Tolle has emerged as one of today's most inspiring teachers. In The Power of Now, already a worldwide bestseller, the author describes his transition from despair to self-realization soon after his 29th birthday. Tolle took another ten years to understand this transformation, during which time he evolved a philosophy that has parallels in Buddhism, relaxation techniques, and meditation theory but is also eminently practical.
The Premonition Bureau
· 2022
'Fascinating.' Hilary Mantel Terrific.' New Scientist Gripping.' Financial Times 'Stunning . . . Brimming with mystery and suffused with haunting atmosphere.' Patrick Radden Keefe What if you had a vision that something terrible was going to happen? A train crash, a department store fire, an assassination What if you could share your vision, and prevent a disaster? In 1966, John Barker, a British psychiatrist working in an outdated British mental hospital, established the Premonitions Bureau to ...
The Princess Bride
William Goldman · 1988
Reissued in a special commemorative edition to mark its 25th anniversary, a classic tale of pirates, evil princes, sorcerers and true love. With a new introduction and the first chapter of the novel's sequel, BUTTERCUP'S BABY. From the author of MARATHON MAN and ADVENTURES IN THE SCREEN TRADE.
The Quarter Life Crisis
· 2001
While the midlife crisis has been thoroughly explored by experts, there is another landmine period in our adult development, called the quarterlife crisis, which can be just as devastating. When young adults emerge at graduation from almost two decades of schooling, during which each step to take is clearly marked, they encounter an overwhelming number of choices regarding their careers, finances, homes, and social networks.
The Race between Education and Technology
Claudia Goldin, Lawrence Katz · 2009
This book provides an historical analysis of the co-evolution of educational attainment and U.S. wage structure through the 20th century. During the first 80 years of the 20th century, the increase of educated workers was higher than demand for them. This boosted income for most and lowered inequality. The reverse has been true since about 1980.
The Radiance
Hisham Matar · 2006
A mysterious accident along a country road sparks an awakening and investigation in Pulitzer Prize–winning playwright and acclaimed novelist Ayad Akhtar's most daring work yet — a visionary novel of spiritual transformation in an age of fracture. When a hit-and-run shatters more than his body, a writer is caught between revelation and madness as an uncanny pull toward a brilliant campus colleague ensnares him in a scandal that threatens to destroy them both.
The Rationale of Reward
Jeremy Bentham · 1825
Der Utilitarismus (lateinisch utilitas, Nutzen, Vorteil) ist eine Form der zweckorientierten (teleologischen) Ethik (Nutzethik), die in verschiedenen Varianten auftritt. Auf eine klassische Grundformel reduziert besagt er, dass eine Handlung genau dann moralisch richtig ist, wenn sie den aggregierten Gesamtnutzen, d. h. die Summe des Wohlergehens aller Betroffenen, maximiert.
The Raven
Edgar Allan Poe · 1956
"The Raven" is a narrative poem by American writer Edgar Allan Poe. First published in January 1845, the poem is often noted for its musicality, stylized language, and supernatural atmosphere. It tells of a talking raven's mysterious visit to a distraught lover, tracing the man's slow descent into madness. The poem makes use of folk, mythological, religious, and classical references. "The Raven" was first attributed to Poe in print in the New York Evening Mirror on January 29, 1845.
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.