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Snorghs don't have visitors. Snorghs don't share soup. And Snorghs most definitely DO NOT like adventures. But then a bedraggled sailor arrives telling exciting stories of exotic lands - and the Snorgh finds himself going on an adventure after all

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Nach dem Tod seiner Partnerin verschließt sich der Philosoph und Reiseschriftsteller Will Buckingham nicht in Gram und Trauer. Im Gegenteil: Er reißt buchstäblich die Türen auf. Für sich, für neue Bekannte, und für Fremde, die zu Freunden werden.Angesichts der Erfahrungen aus der Pandemie uns der damit erzwungenen Einsamkeit, aber auch im Lichte der globalen Migrationsströme bringt Will Buckingham in seinem Buch eine Vielzahl an Erkenntnissen ...

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A powerful antidote to our atomised lives, Hello, Stranger delves into humanity's rich history of welcoming (and worrying about) strangers, to show us how being more open might end the loneliness epidemic, solve the migrant crisis and change the world.

A new novel from the author of "The Descent Of The Lyre", this is set in the world of mythological Greece. It re-imagines the tale of the satyr Marsyas, who is half-goat and half-human. 'Playful and shocking, disturbing and brilliant' Jonathan Taylor

For millennia, philosophers have spun tales about goodness and badness, yet in matters of ethics, agreement is curiously hard to find. Finding Our Sea-Legs takes a new approach to these old debates.This book casts the reader adrift on a sea of stories where multiple traditions converge: from ancient India to the fishmarkets of New York, and from East Indonesia to the philosophical traditions of China. Attentive to the changes in the winds and ...

Will Buckingham travelled to Tanimbar Islands (Indonesia) as a trainee anthropologist to meet three remarkable sculptors.

YOUR COMPLETE CREATIVE WRITING COURSE IN ONE BOOK. A new and complete course in writing a novel, designed to take the reader from complete beginner to the point at which they have completed, edited and redrafted their first piece of work.

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It is the early nineteenth century, and the Bulgarian village of Gela, the legendary home of Orpheus, is suffering under heavy taxation and arbitrary justice of Ottoman rule. Will Buckingham plunges us into the music and folklore of Bulgaria, in a parable about storytelling, sainthood and myth-making.

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Was ist Gerechtigkeit? Wie wissen wir, was wir wissen? Was macht ein sinnvolles Leben aus? Mit Fragen wie diesen haben sich viele Philosophen auseinandergesetzt und Ideen formuliert, die unsere Welt beeinflusst und verändert haben. Das Philosophie-Buch führt durch über 2000 Jahre philosophisches Denken und erklärt über 100 große Ideen berühmter Denker - von Platon über Heidegger bis Derrida. Chronologisch geordnete Portraits liefern Informatio...