Explore My World Frogs

"I hope you will enjoy this book as much as I have, and finish it with many pages of ideas and methods you have taken from it, ripe for trial and experience." Use the ideas you encounter, don&rsquo;t simply establish a metaphysical bank account of possible future beneficial actions."

How Thoughts Become Reality

The Miracle Club

In unserer Lebenswelt verschwinden mehr Dinge - und das mit ihnen verbundene
St&uuml;ck Leben - als neu hinzukommen, und wir vergessen &uuml;berdies, was uns
entschwindet. Das k&ouml;nnen ganz unspektakul&auml;re Dinge sein, eine bestimmte
Bewegung, eine Geste der H&ouml;flichkeit, eine von der Not erfundene Speise,
Markenartikel und unterschiedliche Dienstleistungen und nat&uuml;rlich all die
technischen Gegenst&auml;nde, die inzwischen jede Biographie nach ihren jeweils
neuesten Ger&auml;tschaften lesbar machen. Da&szlig; die Welt enger wird mit jedem
Tag und alles sich anscheinend immer &auml;hnlicher, ist die Erfahrung, die
hinter dem "Kleinen Glossar des Verschwindens" steht. In den Beitr&auml;gen
von Peter Nadas, Adolf Muschg, Brigitte Kronauer, Judith Kuckart, Peter
Esterhazy, Ulrike Draesner, Moritz Rinke u.v.a. wird das Verschwundene
noch einmal beschworen, Z&auml;une, Hakenleisten, Radio Berom&uuml;nster, die Stenorette
oder das Taschentuch.

Von Autokino bis Zwischengas

Kleines Glossar des Verschwindens

"The Parade is a heartbreaker and a mindbender.&#160; It is a novel of ideas that packs an emotional punch that left me reeling. With clear, unadorned prose, Eggers lays bare the costs of war, and of peace."&#160;&ndash;Tayari Jones, author of An American Marriage "This is a tale for our time, an allegory about intervening in foreign lands without knowledge, and so a nightmare vision of our endless wars."&#160;&mdash;Thomas E. Ricks, author of Fiasco and Churchill and Orwell &#160; "A parable of progress, as told by J.M. Coetzee to Philip K. Dick." &mdash;Richard Flanagan, author of&#160;Gould&rsquo;s Book of Fish&#160;and&#160;The Narrow Road to the Deep North &#160;"In The Parade, the anxiety&#160;grows with every page and every mile to reach an ending that turns everything upside down and sends us into the heart of darkness. A minimalistic, merciless novel. A powerful allegory and a painfully concrete contemporary story&mdash;Eggers is a true virtuoso of that synthesis." &mdash;Georgi Gospodinov, author of The Physics of Sorrow"In an unnamed country, two unnamed employees of a foreign road-building corporation arrive for a 12-day assignment&hellip; Readers, too, are shut out of any background information on either man, an authorial choice that generates a subtle tension throughout the novel&hellip; Eggers differentiates between Four and Nine solely through their reactions to the post-civil-war devastation around them. How this setup reduces the two men to their willingness&mdash;or refusal&mdash;to see others is striking&hellip; Parable-like&hellip; The final scene of the novel contains such ferocity."&#160;&mdash;Idra Novey, The New York Times Book Review "In Dave Eggers&rsquo;s new novel, The Parade, two men go on a journey: flat, direct and more dangerous than either will admit&hellip; The narrative is deliberately unbranded, unspecific. The enthusiastic, inexperienced partner goes by Nine. This pushes the narrative into an allegorical space, even as we are up close and personal with the two on their trip from south to north&hellip; Eggers has been writing fiction that tells a story of America in our present moment, and often that moment is characterized by decline&hellip; To environmental devastation, violence, the power of social media, the loss of the middle class, we can now add American abroad, over their heads&hellip; Darkly funny." &mdash;Carolyn Kellogg, The Los Angeles Times "The ever-incisive, worldly-wise, compassionate, and imaginative Eggers maintains the tension of a cocked crossbow in this magnetizing, stealthily wry, and increasingly chilling tale."&#160;&ndash;Booklist&#160;"Eggers&hellip; may be the only living American writer for whom the term &lsquo;Hemingway-esque&rsquo; meaningfully applies&hellip;. Eggers ably weaves in a host of ethical questions over one man's responsibility to the other, what makes help transactional versus simply kind&hellip;. An unassuming but deceptively complex morality play, as Eggers distills his ongoing concerns into ever tighter prose."&#160;&mdash;Kirkus "A testament to Eggers&rsquo; expert skill at point of view... The Parade is a deeply felt book that defies easy labels. This is a book you can finish in a single sitting. And you will."&#160;&mdash;Tony Romano, The New York Journal of Books&#160;"An eye-opening political fiction&hellip; Eggers&rsquo; tense and intricate storytelling reveals complex moral and ethical issues." &ndash;The Christian Science Monitor&#160;&#160;"Dave Eggers is able to see the world as it is, while also holding on to his vision of how the world should be." &mdash;Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

A novel

The Parade

A Guide to Solving Practical Problems

Excel 2013 for Environmental Sciences Statistics

Volume 2

Race for Freedom

History, Art & Culture NCERT PLUS Objective & Subjective Question Bank for UPSC CSE & State PSC Prelim & Main Exams

&#8220;A thrilling, chilling novel. . . . This spine-tingling story will keep you up all night.&#8221;

The King of Swords

It's Time for Bubble Puppy!

"Hendrik Willem van Loon, the Dutch-American writer and illustrator, was an extraordinary character. Larger-than-life, he overflowed with exuberance and gusto, and he devoted his talent to writing popular history in a delightful way. Cornelis van Minnen has written an arresting biography of van Loon and is to be congratulated in restoring the memory of this fascinating Dutch-American personality with his vast appetite for freedom, courage, friendship, and debate." - Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr., writer and historian, and author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning The Age of Jackson and A Thousand Days: John F. Kennedy in the White House. "Cornelis van Minnen succeeds brilliantly in recreating the endlessly fascinating universe of Hendrik Willem van Loon. Readers will not want to put down his swiftly paced account of the literary and erotic adventures of this exuberant, larger-than-life man who was one of the most famous writers of the era between the two world wars." - William E. Leuchtenburg, William Rand Kennan Jr. Professor Emeritus of History at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, author of Franklin D. Roosevelt and the New Deal, 1932-1940, winner of the Bancroft and the Francis Parkman Prizes

"This is a first-class telling and the exceptional story of Hendrik Willem van Loon: a noteworthy and memorable figure in American culture, yet hardly recalled today. In his meticulously researched and well-written biography, Cornelis van Minnen accurately captures the fascinating life and works of this influential historian, journalist and Roosevelt confidant that was a household name for the first part of the twentieth century. This is van Loon's definitive biography." - Douglas Brinkley, Distinguished Professor of American History, Tulane University, New Orleans and author of FDR and the Creation of the U.N. and The Unfinished Presidency: Jimmy Carter s Journey Beyond the White House.

"In his compelling biography of the larger-than-life Hendrik Willem van Loon, Cornelis van Minnen has provided a fascinating, meticulously researched account of the public life and chaotic private life of the too-easily forgotten 'prince of popularizers' who explained the Dutch to the Americans and America to the Dutch. Best-selling author and friend of FDR, van Loon deserves the attention that this wonderful biography pays him." - Tony Badger, Paul Mellon Professor of American History and Master of Clare CoIlege, Cambridge University, author of The New Deal: The Depression Years, 1933-1940 "In this gripping biography, Cornelis van Minnen rescues Hendrik Willem van Loon from archival obscurity and brings alive a fascinating, eccentric man of many talents. Van Minnen has combined factual observation with wit and humor and painted an engaging portrait of van Loon who was once a respected voice in the worlds of history and art and one of the era's more colorful observers and pundits." - David B. Roosevelt, author of Grandmère, A Personal History of Eleanor Roosevelt

Popular Historian, Journalist, and FDR Confidant

Van Loon

Jess In Time: Book One

Jess Be Yourself

From The Earliest To The Present Time (1892)

Short History Of The Presbyterian Church In The Dominion Of Canada

«Ein wahrer Augenschmaus.» Till Schröder, 
                Marginalien. Zeitschrift für Buchkunst und Bibliophile
                «„Foto-Auge Fritz Block“ bietet nicht nur einen umfangreichen und faszinierenden Einblick in das fotokünstlerische Schaffen von Fritz Block, sondern lädt den Leser auch auf eine Zeitreise ein — von den frühen 1920er Jahren in Deutschland bis ins Jahr 1950 in Amerika. — Ein wundervolles Foto-Buch für Fotografen, Kunstliebhaber und Zeitreisende!» Ralph Krüger, 
                Kulturthemen.de
                «Ein grossartiges Buch.» Niklas Maak, 
                Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung
                «Das Buch ist exzellent gedruckt und grossartig ausgestattet, die Forschungen und Betrachtungen von Roland Jaeger sind über jede Kritik erhaben.» Rolf Sachsse, 
                Rundbrief Fotografie

Neue Fotografie – Moderne Farbdias

Foto-Auge Fritz Block

Le cas d'uMshwathi, une municipalité rurale du Kwazulu Natal

Le logement en Afrique du Sud : mise en ¿uvre des politiques et capacités municipales

"Wideband Amplifiers by Peter Staric and Eric Margan is to my knowledge by far the best modern book about this topic and can be highly recommended to anyone who is engaged in the design of such amplifiers. It can be truly called a Standard Book, well worth to be included in the Springer catalogue. A substantial portion of the book contains knowledge only available within the very few companies which play a leading role in this field.One strength of this book is its comprehensiveness: it is not necessary to refer to other books in order to derive benefits from it, the mathematics required to understand the main part are meticulously explained in its first chapters. The second part of the book deals with the standard peaking circuits and then introduces the socalled „T-Coil" which is essentially a complex transformer. The knowledge about these circuits is inversely proportional to their importance." (Dr.-Ing. Artur Seibt - Wien, Austria)

Wideband Amplifiers

“The purpose is to share new ideas and techniques for craniofacial reconstruction using various distraction techniques. … The author and the contributors are both knowledgeable and experienced in the field of craniofacial reconstruction. The techniques that they present are sophisticated and require a team that is both talented and practiced. Hence, the audience is those surgeons deeply involved in this field.” (Jeffrey S. Rosenthal, Doody's Book Reviews, September, 2017)

Craniofacial Distraction

excitingly depicts the New York City jazz scene during the rise of be-bop and the enormously rich activity of the 1930s and '40s.

The Life and Genius of Art Tatum

Too Marvelous for Words

Unter Leitung von Erich von Drygalski

Grønland-Expedition der Gesellschaft fürr Erdkunde zu Berlin, 1891-1893

Geschichtliche Denkwürdigkeiten aus allen Ländern und Ständen der österreichischungarischen Monarchie in Gedichten

Vaterländisches Ehrenbuch poetischer Theil

The power of Hobsbawm's exploration of the age of hot and cold wars lies in its brilliant synthesis of familiar, though sometimes forgotten, facts and ideas. It combines an Olympian, multi-lingual erudition and an addictive, readable style.

1914-1991

The Age Of Extremes

Von Sonnenfels zu dem Leitfaden des politischen Studiums

Grundsätze der Polizei, Handlung, und Finanz

The Enterprises, Gangs, and People of the American Drug Trade

Trying to Make It

OEuvres Complètes De Christiaan Huygens Publiées Par La Société Hollandaise Des Sciences

"If you wish to understand why Tehran has come so close to obtaining nuclear weapons, and why its dogged quest for the bomb can be stopped only by coercive measures, this is the book to read.'"
 Efraim Karsh, director, Middle East Forum

From Carter to Obama

Navigating Iran

Numbering All the Bones

A Guide to Alcohol and Drug Dependence

“In Thomas Hardy and History Fred Reid effectively takes on the role of historian of such repressed voices in relation to the historical and political valences of Hardy’s fiction. … Thomas Hardy and History communicates a range of significant new and original insights which readers of his work will certainly wish to ponder.” (Karin Koehler, Hardy Society Journal, Vol. 13, 2017)

Thomas Hardy and History

Meet Clumsy Daisy and Her Family

Clumsy Daisy

Argues convincingly that Israelites and Judahites venerated a small pantheon of gods, whose functions and attributes Yahweh appropriates. This book should prove useful especially to students and scholars looking for a relatively brief yet persuasively argued study of the development of Yahwistic monotheism.

Monotheism and Yahweh's Appropriation of Baal

Tieken-Boon van Ostade has presented a book which is remarkable in many ways ... Apart from enriching the study of grammaticography with this methodological innovation, the author also makes a significant, well-founded contribution to debate about prescriptivism.

Robert Lowth and the Rise of Prescriptivism

The Bishop's Grammar

When God died, the official cause was elderly enfeeblement; after reading Frederic Martel's expose of infamy in the Catholic church, I suspect that the old boy committed suicide in remorse, aghast at the crimes and un-Christian sins of organised religion

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