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In The American Ali Baba, the author draws an amazing parallel between an ancient Arabic folktale and the tragedy of the current American Presidency. Full of intrigue and drama, both plots revolve around thievery, lies, deception, trickery and murder, all veiled in intense secrecy. Both stories portray central characters on greedy missions to amass a fortune, at the expense of others. The book presents an abbreviated version of the ancient tal...

ONE NATION SUBJECT TO CHANGE America at the turn of the twentieth century and just after is the focus of this collection of essays and nonfiction from a veteran journalist, essayist, critic and observer of American life and popular culture. Venturing from an insider's perspective of The New York Times to his interviews with black police officers, Michael E. Ross explores a nation evolving dramatically, maybe now more than any other time in its...

This state-of-the-art critical `development¿ reader examines the inter-relationships between globalisation, poverty and conflict. It complements current debates in the field of development studies and, in an era in which development fatigue seems to have become more profound than ever before, it brings the importance of development once again to the forefront. The contributions represent current thinking on (and practice of) development policy...

Kimberley Snow offers an outrageously funny and honest account of her adventures as head cook at a Tibetan Buddhist retreat center. With her earthy sensibility and sharp sense of humor, the author shows this world in a light devoid of preciousness-while expressing with heart the integrity of the spiritual work being undertaken. We come away from our visit to this exotic realm having found it both extraordinary and surprisingly familiar. The ne...

Dear Listener, Unless you are a slug, a sea anemone, or mildew, you probably prefer not to be damp. You might also prefer not to listen to this audiobook, in which the Baudelaire siblings descend into the depths of despair, underwater. The horrors they encounter are too numerous to list, and include mushrooms, a mechanical monster, a distressing message from a lost friend, and tap dancing.I also shouldn't mention the features of the interactiv...

From the #1 "New York Times" bestselling author of "The Perricone Prescription" and "The Wrinkle Cure" comes a powerful new weapon in the fight for clear and healthy skin. Two 16-page color inserts.

Als der 21-jährige Wolf Jobst Siedler 1947 aus der Kriegsgefangenschaft nach Berlin zurückkehrt, ist die ehemalige Reichshauptstadt eine in Trümmern liegende »Viermächtestadt«. Aber selten war das intellektuelle Leben so aufregend, und Siedler hatte daran teil. Im Osten ging er in die Premiere von Bertolt Brechts »Mutter Courage«, im Westen in die deutsche Uraufführung von Sartres »Fliegen« und Thornton Wilders »Wir sind noch einmal davongekom...

So wird¿s gemacht" zeigt technisch interessierten Neu- und Gebrauchtwagenbesitzern, wie ihr Fahrzeug funktioniert und welche Wartungs- und Reparaturarbeiten sie selbst durchführen können. Der 131. Band der Reihe enthält Anleitungen zu Wartung und Reparatur des Opel Corsa C von 9/2000 bis 9/2006.Über 500 Abbildungen zeigen die einzelnen Arbeitsschritte. Störungstabellen helfen bei der Fehlersuche. Stromlaufpläne ermöglichen das schnelle Auffind...

Highly acclaimed by critics, The Foreign Student is the story of a young Korean man, scarred by war, and the deeply troubled daughter of a wealthy Southern American family. In 1955, a new student arrives at a small college in the Tennessee mountains. Chuck is shy, speaks English haltingly, and on the subject of his earlier life in Korea he will not speak at all. Then he meets Katherine, a beautiful and solitary young woman who, like Chuck, is ...

Warning: Your day will become very dark - and possibly damp - if you read this book. Plan to spend this spring in hiding. Lemony Snicket is back with the eleventh book in his New York Times bestselling A Series of Unfortunate Events. Lemony Snicket's saga about the charming, intelligent and grossly unlucky Baudelaire orphans continues to provoke suspicion and despair in readers the world over. In the eleventh and most alarming volume yet in th...

Innere Stille ist die Bedingung dafür, dass wir in Kontakt treten mit unserem wahren Sein. Wir lassen unsere Betriebsamkeit los, um auf der Seinsebene anzukommen.2 CDs, Laufzeit 2 Std. 12 min.

Unsere Gedanken verfangen sich unentwegt in dem, was war und in dem, was sein wird. So sind wir getrennt vom jetzigen Augenblick und damit getrennt vom wirklichen Leben. Mit dieser CD stellt Tolle ein Übungsprogramm vor, wie wir ins Jetzt gelangen können. Es führt durch drei Torwege - die Wahrnehmung des eigenen Körpers, die Stille und schließlich das Annehmen dessen, was ist. Wer Tolle durch diese Torwege folgt, erschließt sich ein neues Lebe...

Covering more than four decades, this is the first full-scale, definitive account of Kerry's journey from war to peace. Brinkley has drawn on extensive interviews with virtually everyone who knew Kerry in Vietnam. Kerry also relegated to Brinkley his letters home from Vietnam, voluminous "war notes" journals and personal reminiscences written during and shortly after the war. This material was provided without restriction, to be used at Brinkl...

Kaos Hieroglyphica Alchemy for the New Aeon In the year 1564, Dr John Dee published his work, Monas Hieroglyphica. Its central symbol represented the unity which was the gnosis of the monotheistic aeon. Now over four hundred years later, Anton Channing has published his long awaited debut work Kaos Hieroglyphica, within which he expounds a new symbol, the Kaos Hieroglyph. This symbol represents the plurality and freedom of the New Aeon. This w...

During the course of the last two decades, the health effects of tea and its catechins have been docmnented in nmnerous scientific studies and the scientific basis of these effects has been elaborated. Professor Kuroda and Dr. Hara provide in this volmne a translation of a thorough and extensive book published earlier (in Japanese), which will be of considerable interest to scientists worldng in the field, and to members of the general public ...

The "New York Times" bestselling picture book author serves up a series of haiku that reveals the mysteries of the animal kingdom in this beautifully illustrated collection that will puzzle, delight, and surprise. Full color.

Set against the backdrop of the late 17th and early 18th centuries, "Quicksilver" brings to life a cast of unforgettable characters in a time of breathtaking genius and discovery, men and women whose exploits defined an age.

Written from the heart of experience, this handbook by a mother, physician, and cancer survivor has sympathetic advice for parents challenged with the task of raising, normal, healthy children while they struggle with a potentially life-threatening disease.

The opening chapter of this book tells of a boy who lost his father at the age of two and went with his mother and seven siblings to live with their maternal grandparents in Southwest Louisiana. Confronted with a huge increase in the size of his family, the boy's grandfather established a dairy farm, called Magnolia Dairy, and put his grandkids to work earning their keep while attending the nearby consolidated school. The author portrays this ...

Governments are placing unprecedented emphasis on research as a key motor for driving the knowledge society and economy. It is not surprising then that higher education institutions are turning their focus to research, their reputation in the field, their capacity to carry it out and the funding they receive. It is no less surprising that research policies and the management of research are posing severe challenges.This publication sheds light...