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Sein ganzes Leben lang hat W. Somerset Maugham nicht nur geschrieben, sondern auch "nach Lust und Laune gelesen". 'Books and You' ist seine kleine persönliche Literaturgeschichte - eine Trouvaille, die zum ersten Mal auf deutsch erscheint und in der Maugham charmant und kurzweilig Auskunft gibt über die Bücher, die jeder gelesen haben soll - nicht aus Pflicht, sondern aus purer Lust.

Ob sie über Männer, den Vater der Braut oder die Frage Bin ich schön? schreibt, Doris Dörrie schaut genau hin, überrascht uns mit unerwarteten Wendungen und herzerfrischender Komik. Doris Dörries beste Geschichten in einem Band.

These are the apples, juicy and red, that went in the pie, warm and sweet, that Papa baked...for guess who!

Wie soll und will ich leben? - Thoreau sucht eine Antwort auf diese Frage und zieht sich für zwei Jahre in eine selbstgebaute Blockhütte am Walden-See zurück. >Walden oder Leben in den Wäldern< ist das Buch dieses Experiments. Thoreau zeigt darin, dass der Weg zu sich selbst bei den einfachen Dingen und einer gelasseneren Gangart beginnt. Kunstvoller Essay und erzählende Prosa in einem ist >Walden< eine höchst vergnügliche Lektüre und ein ver...

For years, painter Isabel Raven has made an almost-living forging Impressionist masterpieces to decorate the McMansions of the not-quite-Sotheby's-auction rich. But when she serendipitously hits on an idea that turns her into the "It Girl" of the L.A. art scene, her career takes off just as the rest of her life heads south. Her personal-chef boyfriend is having a wild sexual dalliance with the teenage self-styled "Latina Britney Spears." If Is...

A variety of touch-and-feel textures in this Halloween board book includes the softness of a furry cat, the smooth silk of a ghost costume, and the shiny sparkle of a princess crown. Full color.

Caught between the celebrity-studded, Warholesque New York club scene and the fame-seekers and Free-Tibet opportunists in Katmandu, a pleasure-loving young woman discovers the hypocrisy and spirituality that links her two worlds.

Showing that winning companies possess a proven system for cultivating dynamic, successful leaders at every level, business consultant Tichy shares his blueprint for fostering a corporate atmosphere that nurtures leadership and initiative and offers an understanding of how successful leadership works.

The Petrakis family lives in the small Greek seaside village of Plaka. Just off the coast is the tiny island of Spinalonga, where the nation's leper colony once was located—a place that has haunted four generations of Petrakis women. There's Eleni, ripped from her husband and two young daughters and sent to Spinalonga in 1939, and her daughters Maria, finding joy in the everyday as she dutifully cares for her father, and Anna, a wild child hun...

Der Aufstieg der empirischen Sozialforschung in der ersten Hälfte des vergangenen Jahrhunderts verdankt sich in erheblichem Maße der Rockefeller Foundation, die in den 20er Jahren ein weltweites System privater Wissenschaftsförderung etablierte. Viele vor allem deutschsprachige Forscher, deren Arbeit bereits in Europa dadurch beflügelt wurde, wurden jedoch wenig später von den Nazis vertrieben und fanden eine neue Heimat in den USA im unmittel...

. This memoir is an intensely personal account of a dream and two loves."Herbert G. Houze". A piece of prose filled with heart and emotion. Honest writing is what makes this piece sing."Denise DiPietro". a man, who has created such splendid artistic works to please the eye, can only produce a literary work to please the mind and soul."Sen. Alan K. Simpson (Ret.)"Joseph, you are a legend in your own time "R.L. Wilson"I give this book top rating...

Piya Pangsapa is Assistant Professor of Global Gender Studies at the University at Buffalo, State University of New York.

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Rocketed into space by his Junior CPA father, who thought his planet was going to explode. It didn't - he traveled for 20 years until landing on the planet Levram (read it backwards) where everyone, has super powers, except him! Befriended by the witless Captain Everything - who can negate all known laws of physics, but forgets how to fly in mid-flight - normalman only wants to escape from this insane world (don't we all)!

30 years after the publication of the famous symposium issue of the Review of Economic Studies, which started the neoclassical literature on growth theory and resource economics, this volume seeks to reinforce research efforts in order to provide adequate solutions for today’s challenges in the field of sustainable development. It compiles innovative current research from resource, energy and environmental economics and dynamic economic theory...

Switched capacitor (SC) techniques are well proven to be excellent candidates for implementing critical analogue functions with high accuracy, surpassing other analogue techniques when embedded in mixed-signal CMOS VLSI. Conventional SC circuits are primarily limited in accuracy by a) capacitor matching and b) the accuracy with which a differential amplifier can squeeze charge from one capacitor to another between clock periods. In Switched-C...

In 1987 the report of the World Commission on Environment and Development (WCED) introduced the concept of sustainable development into the political agenda. The notion of sustainability and the need to understand its full implications have sparked much interest and considerable research in various disciplines, including economics. This volume brings together 18 articles published during the last 20 years, devoted to understanding the concept ...

Die 3. Auflage geht einen Schritt weiter: Das neue Konzept stellt vermehrt Krankheitsbilder und nicht nur Verfahren in den Mittelpunkt. Wann genau setzt man welches Verfahren ein? Was ist dabei zu beachten? Nah am Patienten - nach wie vor das "Therapiebuch" für die Aus- und Weiterbildung angehender Psychiater und Psychotherapeuten. Basierend auf ihrer langjährigen Erfahrung, legen die Autoren ein Werk vor, das v.a. eines ist: praxisorientiert ...

In this follow-up to his book "Total Forgiveness, " Kendall gives readers the tools they need to put the past behind them, learn how to truly forgive, and move forward with their lives.

Like the savory, simple dishes she favored, M. F. K. Fisher's writing was often "short, stylish, concentrated in flavor, and varied in form, " writes Joan Reardon in her introduction to this eclectic, lively collection. Magazine writing launched and helped to sustain Fisher's long, illustrious career and in these fifty-seven pieces we experience again the inimitable voice of the woman widely known to have elevated food writing to a literary ar...