‘An instant classic from a master of the form’PUBLISHERS WEEKLY'Unsettling and beautifully executed'GUARDIANAn arresting story of an artist's obsessions, from the beloved and award-winning author of Black Hole.As a child, Brian and his friend Jimmy would make home movies in their yards, coaxing their friends into starring as victims of grisly murders and smearing lipstick on them to simulate b...

Upton Sinclair's dramatic and deeply moving story exposed the brutal conditions in the Chicago stockyards at the turn of the nineteenth century and brought into sharp moral focus the apalling odds against which immigrants and other working people struggled for their share of the American dream. Denounced by the conservative press as an un-American libel on the meatpacking industry, the book was championed by more progressive thinkers, including then president Theodore Roosevelt, and was a ...

The twists and turns continue in the third installment of the Focus Series...Something normal. That's all Rachel Smith wanted after the past year of absolute madness. She wanted nothing more to do with the Crawford family. In her eyes, the name Crawford meant complete chaos and that was not what she wanted for her freshman year of college. But when tragedy strikes and her life changes forever, she finds that the person she can rely on the most is from that very family.Meanw...

The original Harvard Classics Collection contains 51 volumes of the essential works of world literature, showing the progress of man from antics to modern age. In this edition, the original collection is supplemented with the 20 volume Harvard Shelf of Fiction, a selection of the greatest works of fiction.Content:The Harvard Classics:V. 1: Franklin, Woolman & PennV. 2: Plato, Epictetus & Marcus AureliusV. 3: Bacon, Milton, BrowneV. 4: John Milton

Dieser Sammelband enthält die ewig bewegenden poetischen Meisterwerke der größten Dichter der Weltliteratur: Sonnete (William Shakespeare) Ode an die Freude (Friedrich Schiller) Der Rabe (Edgar Allan Poe) Grashalme (Walt Whitman) Ausgewählte Gedichte (Arthur Rimbaud) Don Juan (Lord Byron) Oden (John Keats) Königin Mab (Percy Bysshe Shelley) Deutschland. Ein Wintermärchen (Heinrich Heine) West-östlicher Divan (Johann Wolfgang Goethe) Gedichte aus dem Diwan-e Schams-e Tabrizi (Dschalal ad-Di...

Nationaler Bestseller – Mehr als fünf Millionen Exemplare weltweit verkauft!Der revolutionäre Band des renommierten Psychiaters Dr. David D. Burns hat die kognitive Verhaltenstherapie (CBT) von Dr. Aaron T. Beck populär gemacht und Millionen Menschen geholfen, Depressionsgefühle zu bekämpfen und ein größeres Selbstwertgefühl zu entwickeln.Angstzustände und Depressionen sind die häufigsten psychischen Erkrankungen weltweit und betreffen jedes Jahr 18 % der US-Bevölkerung. Do...

Giving and receiving mercy is central to living a life of passion and is central to living the life God calls us to. We all need mercy at different times in our lives, and we all have an obligation to give mercy to others at different times in our lives. If you think about it, God’s mercy is overwhelmingly generous. He calls us to respond with the same spirit of generosity. The perfect companion for the Year of Mercy called for by Pope Francis, Beautiful Mercy provides an encounter with th...

Master and Commander Charles Hayden returns in the riveting seafaring adventure by bestselling author S. Thomas Russell.In 1794, the French Revolution rages, and Charles Hayden sets off aboard the HMS Themis with orders to destroy a French frigate and to gather intelligence from a royalist spy. Upon discovering French plans for an imminent invasion of England, Hayden must return to Portsmouth to raise the alarm before it’s too late.But the enemy is...

E-artnow präsentiert Ihnen die Anthologie der größten poetischen Klassiker der Weltliteratur: Sonnete (William Shakespeare) Ode an die Freude (Friedrich Schiller) Der Rabe (Edgar Allan Poe) Grashalme (Walt Whitman) Ausgewählte Gedichte (Arthur Rimbaud) Don Juan (Lord Byron) Oden (John Keats) Königin Mab (Percy Bysshe Shelley) Deutschland. Ein Wintermärchen (Heinrich Heine) West-östlicher Divan (Johann Wolfgang Goethe) Gedichte aus dem Diwan-e Schams-e Tabrizi (Dschalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi...

In an alternate world, peace comes at a terrifying cost—as aliens kill to maintain their secret—in this novel by the Hugo Award–winning author of Spin.Cassie Klyne, nineteen years old, lives in the United States in the year 2015—but it's not our United States, and it's not our 2015. Cassie's world has been at peace since the Great Armistice of 1918. There was no World War II, no Great Depression. Poverty is declining, prosperity is increasing everywhere; so...

One hundred years. Four wars. A singular devotion to the sky.Raised on a New York farm during the Great Depression, Charles Cone transformed a childhood dream into a century of service. From the cockpit of Navy training planes in World War II to the high-stakes missions of Korea, Vietnam, and the Cuban Missile Crisis, Cone's life mirrored the evolution of American aviation.But the story doesn't end in the clouds. This memoir captures the daily friction of military life and ...

( newly updated TOC ) The Harvard Universal Classics, originally known as Dr. Eliot's Five Foot Shelf, is a 51-volume anthology of classic works from world literature, compiled and edited by Harvard University president Charles W. Eliot and first published in 1909. Eliot had stated in speeches that the elements of a liberal education could be obtained by spending 15 minutes a day reading from a collection of books that could fit on a five-foot shelf. (Originally he had said a three-foot sh...