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Am Hang
RomanErscheinungsjahr: 2006Gewicht: 190 gr / Abmessung: 19 cmVon Werner, MarkusDer junge Scheidungsanwalt Clarin freut sich auf ein ruhiges Pfingstwochenende in seinem Tessiner Ferienhaus. Am ersten Abend lernt er auf der Sonnenterrasse des Bellevue-Hotels einen älteren Herrn kennen, der sich ihm als Loos vorstellt, einen Sonderling, einen Verrückten vielleicht. Sie reden bis tief in die Nacht über Gott und die Welt, den Zeitgeist und die Frauen, erzählen sich ihre Geschichten, die immer intimer werden. Was als Gespräch zwischen Zufallsbekannten beginnt, gerät zu einem abgründigen Verwirrspiel, das fasziniert und verstört. Es sind zweifelhafte Umstände, unter denen Loos seine geliebte, fast vergötterte Frau verloren hat. Und dieser Verlust trägt dazu bei, ihm die Welt zu verdunkeln. Clarin hingegen lebt leicht und gern. Ferner könnten zwei Menschen einander nicht sein. Wie nah sie sich sind, stellt sich erst spät heraus.Pressestimmen:"Wenn man mit dem Buch durch ist und begriffen hat, worum es hier wirklich geht, fängt man sofort nochmal von vorne an zu lesen. ... Hut ab vor Markus Werner." (Elke Heidenreich, ZDF "Lesen")"Markus Werner ist ein glänzender, unterhaltsamer und lebenskluger Erzähler... Er gehört spätestens jetzt zu den besten deutschsprachigen Schriftstellern seiner Generation." (Marcel Reich-Ranicki, Der Spiegel)"''Am Hang'' ist - man verzeihe den banalen, aber treffenden Ausdruck - wunderbare Literatur ... Am Ende will man das Buch nicht mehr aus der Hand legen, beneidet alle, die das Lektürevergnügen noch vor sich haben." (Julian Schütt, Weltwoche, 22.7.2004)""Am Hang" nimmt den Leser von der ersten Zeile an gefangen. Die Verdichtung und Leichtigkeit, das Unergründliche und gleichzeitig Glasklare des Wernerschen Erz
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Small Pleasures
One of Stylist's books of the summer
'Perfect'
India Knight
'A very fine book... It's witty and sharp and reads like something by Barbara Pym or Anita Brookner, without ever feeling like a pastiche'
David Nicholls
'This is one of the most tender, beautiful books I have ever read. Please, please order it now. I honestly don't want you to be without it. It is exquisite'
Lucy Mangan
'A gorgeous, gentle novel about love and loneliness set in the 1950s. If you're looking for something escapist and bittersweet, I could not recommend more'
Pandora Sykes
'Brilliant: I found it incredibly absorbing... Many of our listeners will adore this book'
Jane Garvey on BBC Radio 4 Woman's Hour
'Remarkable... Small Pleasures is no small pleasure'
The Times
'Chambers' eye for undemonstrative details achieves a Larkin-esque lucidity... There is compassion and quiet humour to be found in this tale of postwar Britain'
Guardian
'An irresistible novel - wry, perceptive and quietly devastating'
Mail on Sunday
'The 21st century heir to Jane Austen, Barbara Pym and Elizabeth Taylor'
Amanda Craig, author of The Golden Rule
'Will draw you in from the first page and keep you gripped until the very end'
Ruth Hogan, author of The Keeper of Lost Things
1957, south-east suburbs of London.
Jean Swinney is a feature writer on a local paper, disappointed in love and - on the brink of forty - living a limited existence with her truculent mother.
When a young Swiss woman, Gretchen Tilbury, contacts the paper to claim that her daughter is the result of a virgin birth, it is down to Jean to discover whether she is a miracle or a fraud.
But the more she investigates, the more her life becomes strangely (and not unpleasantly) intertwined with that of the Tilburys: Gretchen herself, her husband Howard - with his dry wit and gentle disposition - and her charming daughter Margaret.
But they are the subject of the story Jean is researching for the newspaper, a story that increasingly seems to be causing dark ripples across all their lives. And yet Jean cannot bring herself to discard the chance of finally having a taste of happiness.
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Utopia for Realists
THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER
'Listen out for Rutger Bregman. He has a big future shaping the future' Observer
'The Dutch wunderkind of new ideas' Guardian
In Utopia for Realists, Rutger Bregman shows that we can construct a society with visionary ideas that are, in fact, wholly implementable. Every milestone of civilisation - from the end of slavery to the beginning of democracy - was once considered a utopian fantasy. New utopian ideas such as universal basic income and a fifteen-hour work week can become reality in our lifetime.
From a Canadian city that once completely eradicated poverty, to Richard Nixon's near implementation of a basic income for millions of Americans, Bregman takes us on a journey through history, beyond the traditional left-right divides, as he introduces ideas whose time has come.
The Universe Speaks In Numbers
A groundbreaking exploration of how the interplay of physics and mathematics has enriched our understanding of the universe - essential reading for anyone who wants to grasp how physicists are attempting, in Stephen Hawking's words, to 'know the mind of God'.
One of the great mysteries of science is that underlying all the complexities of the universe is a harmonious order, whose existence Einstein described as 'a miracle'. No less miraculous, the fundamental laws of the universe can be written in the language of advanced mathematics.
Searching for these laws, physicists have found themselves developing ambitious mathematical ideas without experiment as their guide. In The Universe Speaks in Numbers, Graham Farmelo demonstrates how today's greatest scientific minds are working in a tradition that dates back to Newton. He takes us on an adventure from the Enlightenment, through the breakthroughs of Einstein and Dirac, to the contemporary physicists and mathematicians who are shedding fascinating light on each other's disciplines. As Farmelo shows, this blossoming relationship between mathematics and physics is responsible for huge, redefining advances in our understanding of reality, space and time.
Always lively, vivid and authoritative, Farmelo guides the reader through the most thrilling and controversial developments in contemporary thought.
LISTEN TO THE ACCOMPANYING PODCAST featuring interviews with leading scientists at www.grahamfarmelo.com
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Stier
"Ein wesentliches Kapitel der Geschichte der Bundesrepublik, der zwischen Melancholie und Furor pendelnde Abgesang auf die verlorene Generation der siebziger Jahre", schrieb Matthias Bischoff in der Frankfurter Allgemeinen Zeitung zum Erscheinen von Ralf Rothmanns erstem Roman 1991. Weit ausholend läßt der Autor den Hinterhaus-Berliner Kai Carlsen seine Geschichte erzählen. "Stein auf Stein": führt ins Ruhrgebiet, Wo "Bergschäden" das Gesicht der Häuser prägen und die Väter im Pütt arbeiten,... Im zweten Romanteil "Die weiße Lüge" findet Kai Carlsen Arbeit und Wohnung bei Eckhart Eberwein,dem ehemaligen Bauingenieur und Betreiber des "Blow up"...Doch über ihre sorglosen Feste legt sich der Schatten von Irene Sommer und ihrer schönen Tochter .. In "Schnaps für den Sektionsgehilfen"...arbeitet Kai Carlsen als Pflegehelfer und "Blutwäscher". Im Waldklinikum am Stadtrand...".
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Patient X
Ryunosuke Akutagawa was one of Japan's great writers - author of the stories 'Rashomon' and 'In a Bamboo Grove', most famously - who lived through Japan's turbulent Taisho period of 1912 to 1926, including the devastating 1923 Earthquake, only to take his own life at the age of just thirty-five in 1927.
These are the stories of Patient X in one of our iron castles. He will tell his tales to anyone with the ears and the time to listen -
Inspired and informed by Akutagawa's stories, essays and letters, David Peace has fashioned a most extraordinary novel of tales. An intense, passionate, haunting paean to one writer, it also thrillingly explores the act and obsession of writing itself, and the role of the artist, both in public and private life, in times which darkly mirror our own.
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What Do You Care What Other People Think?
Like the "funny, brilliant, bawdy" (The New Yorker) "Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!" this book's many stories-some funny, others intensely moving-display Richard P. Feynman's unquenchable thirst for adventure and unparalleled ability to recount important moments from his life.
Here we meet Feynman's first wife, Arlene, who taught him of love's irreducible mystery as she lay dying in a hospital bed while he worked on the atomic bomb at nearby Los Alamos. We listen to the fascinating narrative of the investigation into the space shuttle Challenger's explosion in 1986 and relive the moment when Feynman revealed the disaster's cause through an elegant experiment: dropping a ring of rubber into a glass of cold water and pulling it out, misshapen. In "What Do You Care What Other People Think?" one of the greatest physicists of the twentieth century lets us see the man behind the genius.
Die Tage in Paris
Die romantische Vorgeschichte zu "Ein Bild von dir". Honeymoon in Paris ... ... davon träumen Brautpaare überall auf der Welt. Sophie und Liv leben diesen Traum. Im Paris der Belle Époque verbringt Sophie die ersten Tage an der Seite ihres Mannes, des Malers Édouard Lefevre. Die Welt, die er ihr, dem Mädchen aus der Provinz, zeigt, ist aufregend und neu. Doch das Leben als Frau eines verarmten Künstlers hat auch seine Schattenseiten. Über hundert Jahre später begibt sich eine andere Braut auf Hochzeitsreise in die Stadt der Liebe. Hals über Kopf haben Liv und David geheiratet. Doch die Tage in Paris sind nicht ganz so unbeschwert und romantisch, wie Liv sich das erhofft hat. Hat sie gerade den Fehler ihres Lebens begangen? Erst ein Gemälde bringt die Liebenden einander wieder näher ...
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Northanger Abbey
A witty exploration of the perils of mistaking fiction for reality, Jane Austen's "Northanger Abbey" is edited with an introduction and notes by Marylin Butler in "Penguin Classics". During an eventful season at Bath, young, naive Catherine Morland experiences the joys of fashionable society for the first time. She is delighted with her new acquaintances: rude, boorish John Thorpe, his flirtatious sister Isabella, who shares Catherine's love of sensational novels and intrigue, and sophisticated Eleanor and Henry Tilney, who invite her to their father's mysterious house, Northanger Abbey. There, her imagination, influenced by Gothic romances, such as Ann Radcliffe's "The Mysteries of Udolpho", Catherine imagines terrible crimes committed by General Tilney. With its broad comedy and irrepressible, impressionable heroine, this is the most youthful and optimistic of Jane Austen's works. The "Penguin Classics" edition of "Northanger Abbey" is based on the first edition of 1818, and includes a chronology and additional suggestions for further reading. Jane Austen (1775-1817) was extremely modest about her own genius but has become one of English literature's most famous women writers. Austen began writing at a young age, embarking on what is possibly her best-known work, "Pride and Prejudice", at the age of 22. She was the author of "Sense and Sensibility", "Pride and Prejudice", "Emma", "Persuasion", "Mansfield Park" and "Northanger Abbey". If you enjoyed "Northanger Abbey", you may like Ann Radcliffe's "The Mysteries of Udolpho", also available in "Penguin Classics". "The most perfect artist among women, the writer whose books are immortal". (Virginia Woolf). "These modern editions are to be strongly recommended for their scrupulous texts, informative notes and helpful introductions". (Brian Southam, The Jane Austen Society).
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Lacná kniha Northanger Abbey (-70%)
A witty exploration of the perils of mistaking fiction for reality, Jane Austen's "Northanger Abbey" is edited with an introduction and notes by Marylin Butler in "Penguin Classics". During an eventful season at Bath, young, naive Catherine Morland experiences the joys of fashionable society for the first time. She is delighted with her new acquaintances: rude, boorish John Thorpe, his flirtatious sister Isabella, who shares Catherine's love of sensational novels and intrigue, and sophisticated Eleanor and Henry Tilney, who invite her to their father's mysterious house, Northanger Abbey. There, her imagination, influenced by Gothic romances, such as Ann Radcliffe's "The Mysteries of Udolpho", Catherine imagines terrible crimes committed by General Tilney. With its broad comedy and irrepressible, impressionable heroine, this is the most youthful and optimistic of Jane Austen's works. The "Penguin Classics" edition of "Northanger Abbey" is based on the first edition of 1818, and includes a chronology and additional suggestions for further reading. Jane Austen (1775-1817) was extremely modest about her own genius but has become one of English literature's most famous women writers. Austen began writing at a young age, embarking on what is possibly her best-known work, "Pride and Prejudice", at the age of 22. She was the author of "Sense and Sensibility", "Pride and Prejudice", "Emma", "Persuasion", "Mansfield Park" and "Northanger Abbey". If you enjoyed "Northanger Abbey", you may like Ann Radcliffe's "The Mysteries of Udolpho", also available in "Penguin Classics". "The most perfect artist among women, the writer whose books are immortal". (Virginia Woolf). "These modern editions are to be strongly recommended for their scrupulous texts, informative notes and helpful introductions". (Brian Southam, The Jane Austen Society).
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Very hungry Catepillar Sound Book
Not suitable for children under 6 months of age Listen to the Very Hungry Caterpillar walking and eating his way through this delightful sound book based on Eric Carle's classic tale of a little caterpillar's transformation into a beautiful butterfly. Press the sound button to hear a playful walking tune with the subtle sound of chewing. In a sturdy board book format tough enough for toddlers!
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Wien und Umgebung 2005 NKOM 1:50T
Wer kennt sie nicht, Österreichs Hauptstadt Wien an der schönen "blauen" Donau, den Wienerwald, die Donau- und Marchauen? Sowohl für den Kulturinteressierten als auch für den Wanderer und Biker bietet das Herzland der ehemaligen K & K-Monarchie ideale Möglichkeiten zum Erkunden.
Blatt West (Vorderseite/Rückseite) - Wien - Tuller Becken - Wienerwald - Triestingtal
Blatt Ost (Vorderseite/Rückseite) - Wien - Marchauen - Marchfeld - Donauauen - Leithagebirge
Blattschnitt West (VS):
N Großweikersdorf - Rußbach - Karnabrunn
S Kasten bei Böheimkirchen - Altlengbach - Wien-Favoriten
W Grafenwörth - Gutenbrunn - Böheimkirchen
O Hagenbrunn - Wien-Floridsdorf - Wien-Favoriten
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N Böheimkirchen - Neulengbach - Purkersdorf
S Pernitz - Hernstein - Sollenau
W Kasten bei Böheimkirchen - Hainfeld - Kruckensattel
O Wien-Favoriten - Achau - Ebreichsdorf
Blattschnitt Ost (VS):
N Karnabrunn - Bad Pirawarth - Waidendorf
S Wien-Favoriten - Mannersdorf an der Donau - Hainburg an der Donau
W Korneuburg - Wien City
O Lab - Marchmündung
Blattschnitt Ost (RS):
N Wien City - Großenzersdorf - Niederweiden
S Pottendorf - Donnerskirchen - Gols
W Wien City - Laxenburg - Trumau
O Hainburg an der Donau - Parndorfer Heide
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Peers Inc
Carsten Olm had worked for the same Danish accounting firm for 18 years when he decided to see if he could make a little extra money by renting out the spare bedroom in his Copenhagen apartment to tourists. Two years later, Carsten owned two apartments with 12 rooms for rent and was busy enough to have hired a full-time employee. It was all made possible by the San Francisco-based Airbnb. Then there's Zipcar. By exploiting the fact that our cars stand idle for 95 percent of the time, Zipcar uses just 11,000 vehicles to satisfy the driving needs of one million people. Untapped, underused resources are all around us. Recognizing and finding ways to make use of them is the trick. Companies like Airbnb and Zipcar - and Etsy, Folksy and dozens more - are providing means to release excess capacity (your spare room, unused car, etc.), coupling this with a platform for people to buy, or rent, this resource. We can call this new business model 'Peers Incorporated'. And this book is the ultimate guide to how to succeed in this new exciting business world.
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In Her Footsteps
Discover the lives and locations of trailblazing women who changed the course of history as you journey to the heart of women's activism, history and creativity through the ages.
From the temple of Queen Hatshepsut in Egypt and Empress Dowager Cixi's summer palace in Beijing, to the homes and meeting sites of suffragette heroes Sylvia Pankhurst and Elizabeth Cady Stanton, the creative workrooms of Frida Kahlo and Virginia Woolf, and the tennis courts where the Williams sisters first learned to play - we showcase female pioneers whose lives and actions continue to inspire today.
In Her Footsteps is not only a celebration of incredible women, but a travel guide to the places where they studied, lived, worked, reigned and explored. We'll tell you where to find the secret feminist history of sites around the world.
Activists include:
> Emily Wilding Davison, Epsom Downs, UK
> Rosa Luxemburg, Berlin, Germany
> Jane Goodall, Gombe, Tanzania
> Greta Thunberg, Stockholm, Sweden
> Manuela Saenz, Quito, Ecuador
> Rosa Parks, Alabama, USA
Icons include:
> Michelle Obama, Chicago, USA
> Catherine the Great, Moscow, Russia
> Queen Nanny of the Maroons, Jamaica
> Catherine de' Medici, Chenonceaux, France
> Empress Dowager Cixi, Beijing, China
Artists include:
> Emily Kame Kngwarreye, Utopia, Australia
> Jane Austen, Chatsworth, UK
> Zaha Hadid, Baku, Azerbaijan
> Nadine Gordimer, Johannesburg, South Africa
> Patti Smith, New York City, USA
Trailblazers include:
> Jacinda Ardern, Wellington, New Zealand
> Marie Curie, Warsaw, Poland
> Cornelia Sorabji, Pune, India
> Gerlinde Kaltenbrunner, Everest, Nepal
> Beryl Markham, Rift Valley, Kenya
About Lonely Planet: Lonely Planet is a leading travel media company and the world's number one travel guidebook brand, providing both inspiring and trustworthy information for every kind of traveller since 1973. Over the past four decades, we've printed over 145 million guidebooks and grown a dedicated, passionate global community of travellers. You'll also find our content online, on mobile, video and in 14 languages, 12 international magazines, armchair and lifestyle books, ebooks, and more.
Stories of Dragons
Three hilarious, original tales of some not-so-scary mythical fire-breathing beasts. Each title is vividly illustrated, and is clearly laid out with speech bubbles to aid the narrative flow. Developed in conjunction with reading experts at the University of Surrey. The audio CD includes a dramatic listen-along recording with music and sound effects, followed by a read-along version with prompts for page turns.
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Morgenröte
Gedanken über die moralischen Vorurteile. Dieses 1881 erschiene Werk stammt aus der "freigeistigen" Zeit von Nietzsches Schaffen. Ebenso wie "Die fröhliche Wissenschaft" und "Menschliches, Allzumenschliches". Die dem Leben zugewandte Philosophie formuliert ein neues Denken, das der Herkömmlichkeit entgegentritt. Dieses Denken gewinnt seine Sprengkraft daraus, dass es im besten Sinne des Wortes frei ist und Begriffe wie "Moral" oder "Wahrheit" auf ihre Tauglichkeit hin überprüft.
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Stories of Witches
Four original stories about witches for children just beginning to read. Featuring wicked, wily witches, these stories are guaranteed to delight children while developing their reading ability. Usborne Young Reading has been developed with reading experts from Roehampton University. The audio CD includes a dramatic listen-along recording with music and sound effects, followed by a read-along version with prompts for page turns.
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No!
'Punchy... it could transform millions of meetings, doing away with all those mushy , consensus-driven hours wasted by people too scared of disagreement.' - Wall Street Journal
'Beautifully written and important.' - Adam Alter, bestselling author of Irresistible and Drunk Tank Pink
We've decided by consensus that consensus is good. In this essential book, psychologist Charlan Nemeth argues that this principle is completely wrong: left unchallenged, the majority opinion is often biased, unoriginal, or false. It leads planes and markets to crash, causes juries to convict innocent people, and can quite literally make people think blue is green. We can make better decisions by embracing dissent: it forces us to question the status quo, consider more information, and engage in creative decision-making. From Twelve Angry Men to Edward Snowden, lone objectors who make people question their assumptions bring groups far closer to truth. By studying these examples and bringing a little trouble-maker spirit to our own lives, we can radically change the way we think, listen, and make decisions.
'A timely tome on the perils of silence and the value of voice.' - Adam Grant, bestselling author of Originals
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Farm Cot Book
To prevent possible injury by entanglement, remove this toy when the child starts trying to get up on its hands and knees in a crawling position. A new cot book for babies, suitable from birth onwards, designed to provide visual stimulation. Folds out into a concertina-style double-sided frieze: one side features bold, high-contrast images and patterns for newborns, while the other features bright pastel scenes for when the baby's eyes develop.
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