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'Every line of serious work that I have written since 1936 has been written, directly or indirectly, against totalitarianism and for democratic Socialism as I understand it'. Thus wrote Orwell following his experiences as a militiaman in the Spanish Civil[...]

#1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER • The epic account of the storm on the summit of Mt. Everest that claimed five lives and left countless more—including Krakauer's—in guilt-ridden disarray. 'A harrowing tale of the perils of high-altitude climbing, a story of bad[...]

Can I get a “ramen” from the congregation?! Behold the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster (FSM), today’s fastest growing carbohydrate-based religion. According to church founder Bobby Henderson, the universe and all[...]

The fourth volume that contains the early myths and legends which led to the writing of Tolkien's epic tale of war, The Silmarillion. In this fourth volume of The History of Middle-earth, the shaping of the chronological and geographical[...]

The Body Electric tells the fascinating story of our bioelectric selves. Robert O. Becker, a pioneer in the filed of regeneration and its relationship to electrical currents in living things, challenges the established mechanistic understanding of the body[...]

'Like Lorna Sage's Bad Blood ... A masterpiece.' Rachel Cusk Giving Up the Ghost is the shocking and beautiful memoir, from the author of Wolf Hall, Bring Up the Bodies and The Mirror & the Light 'Giving up the Ghost' is award-winning novelist Hilary Mantel's[...]

A sumptuous large-format hardback containing sketches and paintings from the illustrated Lord of the Rings, together with brand new and previously unseen material. In this large-format hardback Alan Lee reveals in pictures and[...]

The 'beautiful and haunting' (San Francisco Chronicle) tale of an orphan's search for love, for his unknown father, and for the key to the elusive riddle of his fate, from the author of the forthcoming 4 3 2 1: A Novel Marco Stanley Fogg is an orphan, a child[...]

We all want to get to yes, but what happens when the other person keeps saying no? How can you negotiate successfully with a stubborn boss, an irate customer, or a deceitful coworker?In Getting Past No, William Ury of Harvard Law School's Program on Negotiation[...]

Jung Chang's Wild Swans was an extraordinary bestseller throughout the world, selling more than 10 million copies and reaching a wider readership than any other book about China. Now she and her husband Jon Halliday have written a groundbreaking biography[...]

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER The true tale of the 1893 World's Fair in Chicago and the cunning serial killer who used the magic and majesty of the fair to lure his victims to their death. Relentlessly fuses history and entertainment[...]

Miles: The Autobiography, like the man himself, holds nothing back. He talks about his battles against drugs and racism, and discusses the many women in his life. But above all, Miles talks about music and musicians, including[...]

Wie funktioniert man die Bürotoilette zu einem geeigneten Platz für den Mittagsschlaf um? Und muss man sich schuldig fühlen, wenn man sich mittags ein Bad gönnt statt zu arbeiten? Tom Hodgkinson, der Hohepriester des Nichtstuns, kämpft in seinem unterhaltsamen[...]

Do lobsters feel pain? Did Franz Kafka have a sick sense of humour? What is John Updike's deal anyway? And who won the Adult Video News' Female Performer of the Year Award the same year Gwyneth Paltrow won her Oscar? David Foster Wallace answers these questions[...]

Emotional Intelligence was an international phenomenon, appearing on the New York Times bestseller list for over a year and selling more than 5 million copies worldwide. Now, once again, Daniel Goleman has written a groundbreaking synthesis of the latest findings[...]

In this classic, the world's expert on language and mind lucidly explains everything you always wanted to know about language: how it works, how children learn it, how it changes, how the brain computes it, and how it evolved[...]

No Fear Shakespeare gives you the complete text of 'Othello' on the left-hand page, side-by-side with an easy-to-understand translation on the right. Each No Fear Shakespeare contains

Like its predecessors, 'Once Upon a Time' and 'A Place in the Sun', 'Poolside with Slim Aarons' offers images of jet-setters and the wealthy, of beautiful, glittering people living the glamorous life. Yet this new collection of[...]

Winner of the Wolfson History Prize, Christopher Clark's Iron Kingdom: The Rise and Downfall of Prussia 1600-1947 is a compelling account of a country that played a pivotal role in Europe's fortunes and fundamentally shaped our world. Prussia began as a medieval[...]

Here, in one volume: Marjane Satrapi's best-selling, internationally acclaimed graphic memoir 'of growing up as a girl in revolutionary Iran.... That Satrapi chose to tell her remarkable story as a gorgeous comic book makes it[...]

Chanel's combination of tradition, originality and style has always made it the most seductive of brands. Here the House of Chanel opens its private archives, revealing a galaxy of brilliant designs created by Coco Chanel from[...]

Joe Navarro, a former FBI counterintelligence officer and a recognized expert on nonverbal behavior, explains how to 'speed-read' people: decode sentiments and behaviors, avoid hidden pitfalls, and look for deceptive behaviors[...]

Diese Doppel-CD enthält eine besonders abwechslungsreiche Auswahl hochwertiger Wellness- und Entspannungsmusik von Dr. Arnd Stein - ein „Best of“ seiner langjährigen kompositorischen Arbeit. Die 20 Titel dieser Edition beeindrucken durch außergewöhnliche[...]

Die Abenteuer der '5 Geschwister' von Dieter B. Kabus gehören schon zu den christlichen Klassikern. Immer wieder geraten die fünf Pfarrerskinder in haarsträubende Situationen und müssen Geheimnisse und Verbrechen aufklären[...]

By the author of the acclaimed bestsellers Benjamin Franklin and Steve Jobs, this is the definitive biography of Albert Einstein. How did his mind work? What made him a genius? Isaacson's biography shows how his scientific imagination sprang from the rebellious[...]

In the #1 New York Times bestseller, A Long Way Gone, Ishmael Beah tells a riveting story: how at the age of twelve, he fled attacking rebels and wandered a land rendered unrecognizable by violence. By thirteen, he'd been picked up by the government army,[...]

THE BLACK SWAN is a concept that will change the way you look at the world. Black Swans underlie almost everything, from the rise of religions, to events in our own lives. A Black Swan is a highly improbable event with three principle characteristics: it is[...]

Written by the Buddhist meditation master and popular international speaker Soygal Rinpoche, this highly acclaimed book clarifies the majestic vision of life and death that underlies the Tibetan Buddhist tradition. It includes[...]

Crumb's 'Heroes of the Blues, Early Jazz Greats,' and 'Pioneers of Country Music' trading card sets--created in the early to- mid-1980s--are packaged together for the first time in book form, along with an exclusive 21-track CD[...]

Setting off in his hometown, and ending up 'almost at the end of the world', Paul Theroux's The Old Patagonian Express is a travel writing tour de force from one of the masters of the genre contains a new preface by the author[...]

Zurück in die Welt der Kindheit entführt uns Wolf-Dieter Storl mit Unterhaltungskunst der besonderen Art: Märchen, Mythen und Pflanzengeschichten, die so nährend sind wie warme Bratäpfel[...]

Wise, often funny, sometimes heartbreaking, 'Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood' tells the story of Marjane Satrapi's life in Tehran from the ages of six to fourteen, years that saw the overthrow of the Shah's regime, the triumph of the Islamic Revolution[...]

Have you ever wondered why there is a light in your fridge but not in your freezer? Or why 24-hour shops bother having locks on their doors? Or why soft drink cans are cylindrical, but milk cartons are square? The answer is simple:[...]

How does one young man survive the deaths of his entire family and manage to make something worthwhile of his life? In Things The Grandchildren Should Know Mark Oliver Everett tells the story of what it's like to grow up the insecure[...]

Die meisten Menschen tun so, als ob sie ewig leben würden. Erst Ende dreißig bis Mitte vierzig beginnen die ersten sich zu fragen, was sie wohl falsch gemacht haben, denn glücklich ist kaum einer geworden. Viele werden erst[...]

Jeder Schmerz, jedes Leiden, jedes Unglücklichsein, alle Angst, Wut und Trauer sind die Folge unwahrer Gedanken, die 'es' immer wieder in uns denkt. Unser Verstand arbeitet perfekt, nur sind wir uns der Gedanken, die er denkt,[...]