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私は宿命的に放浪者である――若き日の日記をもとに記された林芙美子(1903―51)の生涯の代表作。舞台は第一次大戦後の東京。

Trotz ist in seiner reinen Essenz: der Moment des Aufbäumens. Er kann ganze Gesellschaften in den Fortschritt katapultieren. Er kann aber auch: bremsen. Das gilt nicht nur für uns als Gemeinschaft, sondern auch für jeden Einzelnen. Wer ist nicht schon einmal trotzig über sich hinausgewachsen? Und wer wurde nicht auch einmal vom Trotz daran gehindert, etwas zu erreichen? Ronja von Rönne kennt den Trotz, etwas besser sogar, als ihr lieb ist. In diesem persönlichen Essay zeigt sie, wann der Trotz sie am Leben gehalten hat.

In his "Industrial Society and Its Future" (also called the "Unabomber Manifesto"), he argued that his bombings were extreme but necessary to attract attention to the erosion of human freedom necessitated by modern technologies requiring large-scale organization.

„Der Himmelskörper, den wir den unseren nennen, ist eigentlich ein Planet des Meeres.“ Für Patrik Svensson ist die blaue Welt untrennbar mit seiner Mutter verbunden. Sie war es, die ihm einst von rätselhaften Tiefseefischen erzählte und so die Neugier auf das Unerforschte weckte, die sein Schreiben bis heute prägt. Nach ihrem Tod begibt sich Svensson auf die Spuren ihrer gemeinsamen Faszination. Ausgehend von Ebbe und Flut erzählt er von den wundersamen Rhythmen der Natur, er folgt den Routen der alten Seefahrer und lauscht den Unterhaltungen der Pottwale.

Ein Reisebericht der besonderen, emotionalen Art. Kolumnistin Sibylle Berg trägt in diesem Werk 19 ihrer Reisetexte in neu bearbeiteter und arrangierter Fassung zusammen. Die Fahrt auf einem Containerschiff, Aufenthalte in London, Tel Aviv, Bangladesch oder Weimar – Berg entführt in vielschichtige Welten. Sie geht der Frage nach, wie sich die Welt in den vergangenen Jahren verändert hat und wohin das Fernweh von früher in Zeiten von Terror, Krieg und Katastrophen verschwunden ist.

Our homes are more than an assemblage of bricks and glass, wood and nails. They are the keepers of our childhood memories, our milestones, and heartaches. They evolve as we do. As a family grows and eventually retracts, a home can change hands and begin again. We are the chapters in the book of a house. From Erin Napier, coauthor with her husband, Ben, of their memoir Make Something Good Today, comes a collection of essays walking us through every room in her home, telling the story of a family’s life, of the days that made their home the place she longs for when she’s away.

America was founded on the concept of the innate and inalienable rights of humankind. Many Christians see an echo of the imago Dei—that every human being carries the image of God—within those ideals. Yet these rights were systemically withheld from the Black and enslaved residents of this country for centuries. Through it all, Black people have proclaimed the truth of their dignity and personhood in powerful and profound ways. Crowned with Glory collects many of the writings of these men and women, both familiar and lesser-known, to shine a light on what has always been there.

Adentrémonos en un nuevo mundo de fascinación y deleite a medida que el galardonado escritor Peter Ross descubre las historias y las glorias de los cementerios. ¿Quiénes son los muertos marginados de Londres y por qué David Bowie es su ángel de la guarda? ¿Cuál es la extraordinaria verdad sobre Phoebe Hessel, que se disfrazó de hombre para luchar al lado de su amor, y llegó a vivir bajo los reinados de cinco monarcas? ¿Por qué un cementerio de Bristol es el lugar perfecto para las bodas de los góticos?

Il mare è un mistero. Ne abbiamo tracciato i confini, scandagliato le profondità, ma rimane l’ultima frontiera, che forse non attraverseremo mai. Patrik Svensson ha raccolto in quest’opera multiforme – romanzo d’avventura, memoir, indagine scientifica – storie di personaggi celebri e individui dimenticati che si sono consacrati al mito del mare.

For centuries, evidence of queer love in the ancient world was ignored or suppressed. Even today, only a few, famous narratives are widely known - yet there's a rich literary tradition of Greek and Roman love that extends far beyond this handful of stories. Here, the poet Seán Hewitt and painter Luke Edward Hall collect together, for the first time, forty of the most exhilarating queer tales in the classical canon and bring them newly to life.

Life on the Mississippi expresses the full range of Twain's literary personality. It remains the most vivid, boisterous, and provocative account of the cultural and societal history of the Mississippi Valley, from 'the golden age' of steamboating to the violence wrought by the Civil War.

Sound interesting? Listen to Secret Societies and Subversive Movements and learn about the author's views on politics, history, and the occult.

In addition to her celebrated career as a novelist, Hilary Mantel contributed for years to newspapers and journals, unspooling stories from her own life and illuminating the world as she found it. “Ink is a generative fluid,” she explains. “If you don’t mean your words to breed consequences, don’t write at all.” A Memoir of My Former Self collects the finest of this writing over four decades.

家族、恋愛、仕事、生活…37の悩みにズバリ答えます！いつの世も、不安や悩みが尽きないもの。

Il saggio dice che tutte le più grandi decisioni della nostra vita pubblica si prendono a cena. Ma perché ciò avvenga nel migliore dei modi, è importante capire la magia, il potere e l’arte della conversazione, che è qualcosa di molto diverso dalla confessione segreta, dal dialogo o dal colloquio, e non è solo un hobby destinato a divertirci: è soprattutto un’opportunità. Oggi la conversazione è cambiata, non si conversa più soltanto a tavola ma soprattutto in chat. Cosa cambia con la tecnologia?

Since the publication of the groundbreaking Bad Feminist and Hunger, Roxane Gay has continued to tackle the big issues embroiling society - state-sponsored violence and mass shootings, women's rights post-Dobbs, online disinformation, and the limits of empathy - alongside more individual matters. With an introduction in which Gay provides the connective tissues that link her groundbreaking writing, Opinions is a collection of Roxane Gay's best nonfiction pieces from the past ten years, addressing a wide range of topics - politics, the culture wars, civil rights, celebrities, and much more.

When it comes to how societies commemorate their own distant dreams and catastrophes, we often think of books, archives, or memorials carved from stone. But in Time's Echo, Jeremy Eichler makes a revelatory case for the power of music as culture's memory, an art form uniquely capable of carrying forward meaning from the past. Eichler shows how four towering composers - Richard Strauss, Arnold Schoenberg, Benjamin Britten and Dmitri Shostakovich - lived through the era of the Second World War and the Holocaust and later transformed their experiences into deeply moving works of music.

A collection of writings from the author that were previously published in Lola Magazine in Louisiana. The collection covers a wide range of topics from education and learning issues to citizenship and character. As a reading and dyslexia specialist as well as a Board Certified Cognitive Specialist who owns her own business, Donesa Walker shares from a wealth of experience and knowledgeable expertise.

Os assuntos são vários, com destaque para as análises, debates e provocações referentes à produção literária nacional. Uma gama de autores são citados ou comentados, dentre os quais estão: Machado de Assis, Eça de Queiroz, Balzac, Jorge de Lima, Jorge Amado, Rachel de Queiroz, José Lins do Rêgo, Mário de Andrade, Oswald de Andrade, Guimarães Rosa e Aurélio Buarque de Holanda.

Nosotros, los colombianos, a nivel interno aún no logramos consolidar el proceso de paz, y por eso mismo este libro nos llega en el mejor momento, cuando necesitamos aprender y asimilar la gran herencia de Zweig en cuanto a alteridad, respeto y empatía. La paz y la educación son un solo proyecto.