Literary Essays – Bücher, CDs, Blu-ray Discs und mehr, Seite 9

Axel Hacke
Über die Heiterkeit in schwierigen Zeiten und die Frage, wie wichtig uns der Ernst des Lebens sein sollte

'Ernst ist das Leben, heiter ist die Kunst', schrieb Friedrich Schiller. Doch was ist Heiterkeit eigentlich? Und wie bekommen wir sie in unser ernstes Leben zurück? In Zeiten, in denen uns im Angesicht gl…

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Anna Politkovskaya
The Essential Anna Politkovskaya

Vintage Classics

Twenty years ago Putin's fiercest critic was gunned down.Anna Politkovskaya was one of the great, heroic investigative journalists of the modern era. Shining a light on Russian state corruption, human rig…

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Volker Kitz
Alte Eltern

Volker Kitz erzählt in seinem bewegenden literarischen Essay die Geschichte seines Vaters und erkundet an ihr exemplarisch, was es bedeutet, wenn Eltern alt und krank werden. Das Buch, das den Ton einer G…

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John M Glionna
Rebels and Outliers

"Rebels and Outliers: Real Stories of the American West shines a spotlight on the unforgettable characters that author and journalist John M. Glionna has encountered during his more than 30 years cri…

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Cynthia Ozick
In a Yellow Wood

Everyman's Library Contemporary Classics

Selected by Cynthia Ozick from a dozen books written across more than fifty years, the essays and short stories gathered here constitute a summing-up of her remarkable literary career. In such classic ess…

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Anne Sophie Refskou
Shakespeare's Compassion

This book shows that Shakespeare's dramatization of compassion, far from expressing a sense of universal empathy, stages a conflicted emotion available to be solicited, manipulated and at times even monop…

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Jeanna Kadlec
Heretic

A memoir of leaving the evangelical church and the search for radical new ways to build community.Jeanna Kadlec knew what it meant to be faithful--in her marriage to a pastor's son, in the comfortable lif…

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Ciudadanos Por Tratado

Texts that highlight the cultural and literary legacy of Hispanic New MexicansThis volume gathers works produced by Spanish-speaking people of Mexican descent who became US citizens by virtue of the Treat…

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Citizens by Treaty

"An anthology of works originally in Spanish published in newspapers and produced by US citizens whose immediate and distant ancestors lived in the Republic of Mexico before 1846. Topics include the …

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J G Ballard,
Selected Nonfiction, 1962-2007

J. G. Ballard's collected nonfiction from 1962 to 2007, mapping the cultural obsessions, experiences, and insights of one of the most original minds of his generation.J. G. Ballard was a colossal figure i…

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Cathryn Halverson
A Born Writer

The first biography of a best-selling travel writer dedicated to the pursuit of leisure, freedom, and experienceDespite the challenges she faced as an average southern Black woman of her time, Juanita Har…

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Naguib Mahfouz,
Essays on Literature and Philosophy

The nonfiction writing of Naguib Mahfouz, presented in English for the first time.The first Arabic language writer to win the Nobel Prize for Literature, Naguib Mahfouz, helped bring Arabic writing to an …

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Rachel Knox
Anywhere Else

A memoir of growing up in Florida interwoven with cultural reflections of the state from The X-Files to Emerson---revealing the complex truths of life as a FloridianFlorida and pop culture are a magnetic,…

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Orhan Pamuk
Estambul. Ciudad Y Recuerdos / Istanbul: Memories and the City

Un retrato fascinante de la ciudad de Estambul. Estambul es un retrato, en ocasiones panorámico y en otras íntimo y personal, de una de las ciudades más fascinantes de la Europa que mira a Asia. Pero es t…

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Craig Jendza,
Aristophanes: Wasps

This is the first book-length study dedicated to Aristophanes' Wasps(422 BCE), which is arguably one of his most hilarious and inventive comedies. At the heart of Wasps is a comic conflict between an Athe…

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Shai Baitel
Akademy Dialogues

A book dedicated to a dozen iconic and self-taught women from different fields created in collaboration with the prestigious intellectual club>Led by Shai Baitel---artistic director, curator, and cultu…

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Boff Whalley
But

Life's stories are always prone to disruption and digression, thwarting the neat storybook narrative we love so much.Almost all of our stories follow the same basic pattern: beginning, middle, end: exposi…

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Zachary Seager
How to Switch Off

How can we relax and switch off in today's frantic world? What would a classic author's version of mindfulness be? How to Switch Offcombines self-help and sage advice, bringing the best of classic wisdom …

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Carlo Rovelli,
There Are Places in the World Where Rules Are Less Important Than Kindness

'A joy of a book - enriching, illuminating, eclectic and far from a conventional science read' Richard Webb, New Scientist Books of the Year'Carlo Rovelli's imaginative rigour, his lively humour and his b…

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Boff Whalley
But

Life's stories are always prone to disruption and digression, thwarting the neat storybook narrative we love so much.Almost all of our stories follow the same basic pattern: beginning, middle, end: exposi…

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