A postwar tragicomedy of manners, an Edwardian romance, and a historical drama are collected in this volume of works żeby the award-winning novelist. Ribbon marker.
In Japan, Kenji Kawakami is famous for his tireless promotion of Chindogu: the art of the unuseless idea. Kawakami has developed an entire philosophy around these bizarre and logic-defying gadgets...
Matthew Brensilver, JoAnna Hardy and Oren Jay Sofer provide a powerful guide to help teachers master the essential competencies needed to successfully share mindfulness practices with teens and...
In einem kolumbianischen Tropendorf herrscht seit Jahren der Ausnahmezustand. Das Leben ist erstarrt, und die Menschen hoffen vergeblich auf Veränderung, auf Befreiung von der Militärdiktatur. Der...
The only one-volume hardcover edition of the two uncommonly powerful novels written żeby the youngest of the famous Bront sisters. Anne Bront wrote these two fantastically successful novels just...
Sieben Erzählungen, die sich wie Variationen über ein Thema lesen: der Mensch und seine Rollen. Während es manchen Menschen gelingt, die Verkleidung fast spielerisch zu wechseln, erträumen sich...
The original purpose of Professor Backus's book was to collect and organize the scattered results of research, past and present, in the areas of scientific knowledge that are relevant to music:...
The Memoirs of Hector Berlioz has long been considered to be among the best of musical autobiographies. Like his massive compositions, Berlioz (1803-69) was colorful, eloquent, larger than life....
Leo Tolstoy's earliest published work, the trilogy Childhood, Boyhood, and Youth, was written when he was in his twenties, offering a tantalizing first glimpse of the literary talents that...
Das Leben Charlie Chaplins ist ein Märchen des 20. Jahrhunderts: der Aufstieg des kleinen Jungen aus dem Armenhaus zu einem der berühmtesten und genialsten Weltstars unserer Zeit. Es ist ein...
Most of the seventy-one works have been freshly transcribed, and all have been newly engraved for this collection. In choosing the works for inclusion in this collection, many of which have been...
Stacy Pershall grew up as an overly intelligent, depressed, deeply strange girl in Prairie Grove, Arkansas, population 1,000. From her days as a thirteen-year-old Jesus freak through her eventual...
This is a new approach to relationships which goes beyond analyzing them to changing them, even if one partner isn't interested. Using a solution-oriented approach, the book shows readers how...
"Das Buch vom Glücklichsein" schließt die Reihe der Bände ab, in denen Jorge Bucay, Psychoanalytiker und Gestalttherapeut, seinen Lesern die Rückbesinnung auf ihre persönlichen Bedürfnisse...
Charles Dickens's final, unfinished novel is in many ways his most intriguing. A highly atmospheric tale of murder, "The Mystery of Edwin Drood" foreshadows both the detective stories...
Anton Chekhov's short novels are here brought together in one volume for the first time, in a masterly new translation by the award-winning translators Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky....
Ulrich Tukurs erstes Buch ist eine bezaubernde Hommage an Venedig, wo er seit vielen Jahren lebt. Seine Geschichten sind romantisch, komisch und voller liebenswerter Figuren, deren Spuren der Autor...
The extraordinary story of the one of the most fruitful friendships in modern arts and letters. You Must Change Your Life tells the story of Rainer Maria Rilke and Auguste Rodin's years...
The unfettered exuberance of 'Gargantua and Pantagruel, ' the storms of phenomenal life it offers for our inspection, the honor it gives to the deformed, the cloacal, and the profane...