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Die Sammlung Henkel vereint auf ungewöhnliche Weise Kunstwerke verschiedener Kulturkreise. Sie verdeutlicht Zusammenhänge von Formenwelten aus fünf Kontinenten und gewinnt so an Qualität und Intensität. In beiden Bänden werden wichtige Arbeiten der Sammlung erstmals in Form eines großen Bildessays der Öffentlichkeit vorgestellt. Der erste Band enthält Werke der Klassischen Moderne und der Kunst des 20. Jahrhunderts mit Schwerpunkten bei der am...

Während vieler Jahre hat James Lord den Lebens- und Schaffensdrang Giacomettis begleitet. Dabei sammelte er Fakten, Dokumente, Erfahrungen und lernte die Menschen im Umfeld Giacomettis kennen. Dank dieses Zugangs gelang es ihm, dem Künstler und Menschen Giacometti so nahe zu kommen, wie sonst kaum jemand. Die Standardbiographie über Giacometti - endlich wieder lieferbar!

Inspired by true events, this shockingly accurate novel about the ins and outs of Hollywood pulls no punches detailing [the] heroine's encounters with jealous colleagues . . . and manipulative network executives (Adam Belanoff, co-producer of "The Closer").

SOMETIMES LOVE TAKES A SECOND GLANCE... When bride-to-be Harri Ryan ends up at the ER with a panic attack on her wedding day, her twin brother, George, jokes that she's the most glamorous patient there. But this is no joke. It's Harri's second try at the wedding, and when she returns to her Dublin apartment, her fiancé, James, has already packed his belongings. Harri doesn't want to lose him, but she doesn't know how to convince James it won't...

In this unique biography of Thomas Jefferson, leading journalist and social critic Christopher Hitchens offers a startlingly new and provocative interpretation of our Founding Father—a man conflicted by power who wrote the Declaration of Independence and acted as ambassador to France yet yearned for a quieter career in the Virginia legislature. A masterly writer, Jefferson was an awkward public speaker. A professed proponent of emancipation, h...

The opening of the Sensation exhibition at the Royal Academy in the late 1990s caused a public furore and a media frenzy, with both broadsheet and tabloid journalists falling over themselves to comment on the shows controversial images. This catalogue of that seminal exhibition features the work of over forty artists.

Body conscious, cubicle-working, and love lorn in the Minneapolis suburbs, Jennifer Johnson is your average American woman. So it's totally understandable when she freaks out after learning her ex-boyfriend is getting married, as is her younger sister, Hailey.

Spend a few hours with George Hamilton? Don't Mind If I Do Don't let that tanned, handsome, charming surface fool you. Beneath the bronzed façade is a mischievous mind with a wicked wit. George Hamilton doesn't miss a thing. With a front row seat for classic Hollywood's biggest secrets and scandals, George has the intelligence, heart, and unflappable spirit to tell his story, and the story of Tinseltown's heyday, with great good humor and deli...

When classmates Miaka and Yui open an ancient magical Chinese book, Miaka is transported into the Universe of the Four Gods. Heralded as a legendary priestess, she must find the Seven Celestial Warriors of Suzaku to fulfill a prophecy and find her way home.

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Nana "Hachi" Komatsu hopes that moving to Tokyo will help her make a clean start. Nana Osaki has plans to score big in the world of rock'n'roll. Although these two young women come from different backgrounds, they quickly become best friends in a whirlwind world of sex, music, fashion, and all-night parties.

Now Includes a Survey of the Popes' Statements on Building a "Civilization of Love"Carl Anderson, Supreme Knight of the Knights of Columbus, surveys the history-changing ideas of Pope John Paul II and Pope Benedict XVI, and brings a message of inclusion and hope in the midst of a battle between the culture of death and the culture of life, providing a road map to help Christians understand their role in the world.

Emma Caldridge, a chemist for a cosmetics company, is en route from Miami to Bogotá when her plane is hijacked and spins out of control into the mountains near the Venezuelan border. Thrown unhurt from the wreckage, she can do nothing but watch as guerrillas take the other passengers hostage.An endurance marathon runner, Emma silently trails the guerrillas and their captives, using her athletic prowess and scientific knowledge to stay alive. T...

»Verbrechen und Strafe« ist einer der größten psychologischen Romane der Weltliteratur. Seit seinem Erscheinen 1866 ist die Suggestion, mit der Dostojewskij die Entwicklung zum Mörder schildert, der Sog, der zur blutigen Tat führt, unerreicht. Psychologische Einsicht und philosophische Erörterung verschmelzen zu einem metaphysischen Thriller, wie er in der Weltliteratur einzigartig geblieben ist. Andrea Breth geht diesem Roman in ihrer Theater...

The Benedictine tradition and practice of divine reading made accessible for everyone.

Telling the Truth is for the preacher who must pull the little cord that turns on the lectern light, must look out over the people and the silence, must begin to speak of a truth beyond telling. It is for the woman who wants to understand how people believe what they cheerfully acknowledge is a tragic, comic fairy tale. It is for anyone who believes that faith, like art, can hold a special mirror to human experience.

Gerade deskriptive statistische Methoden haben in vielen wissenschaftlichen Disziplinen eine große Bedeutung. Ziel des einführenden Lehrbuches ist es, an einem kurz und übersichtlich gefassten Lehrtext, der an Übungen orientiert ist, die wichtigsten Methoden der deskriptiven Statistik zu behandeln, und zwar in dem Rahmen, wie die Statistik im Grundstudium an Universitäten und Fachhochschulen gelehrt wird. Daher eignet sich dieses Lehrbuch mit ...

Zen teacher Glen Schneider has developed a series of simple practices to help us cultivate happiness and fulfillment in the course of our daily lives. Happiness is far more than a positive feeling that comes and goes, happiness is wired into the physiology of our brains. It is a skill we can all develop through cultivating mindfulness and concentration. In Ten Breaths to Happiness Schneider presents a series of simple practices and guided medi...

We know that there are tens of millions of plant and animal species, but we do not know enough to be able to describe the patterns and processes that characterise the distribution of species in space, time and taxonomic groups. Given that in practical terms it is impossible to expect to be able to document biodiversity with any degree of completeness other approaches must be used. Scaling rules offer one possible framework, and this book offer...

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