While the fiction of novelist-philosopher Ayn Rand is extremely popular and enduring, little has been written on it so far. This book consists of essays, most of which are new, by top Rand scholars on Atlas Shrugged, her magnum opus. The essays deal with historical, literary, and philosophical topics, surpassing related writings in breadth and depth of analysis. The historical essays cover the writing of Atlas Shrugged, its publication history, and its reception....

In this first book-length study of Ayn Rand's anti-utopia Anthem, essays explore the historical, literary, and philosophical themes presiding in this novella written in opposition to the totalitarianism of the Soviet Union (and Nazi Germany). Written in 1937, published in 1938 in Britain, and subsequently in a revised form in the United States in 1946, Anthem investigates the importance of the ego and freedom, and the individual against the state. Editor Robert Mayhew has...

Ayn Rand's The Fountainhead is still remembered and enjoyed today as the philosopher's first best-selling novel. In this unique study of The Fountainhead, Dr. Robert Mayhew brings together historical, literary, and philosophical essays that analyze the novel's style, its use of humor, and its virtues of productivity, independence, and integrity. The essays make extensive use of previously unpublished material from the Ayn Rand Archives, offering a new collection of materi...

**THE ACCLAIMED INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER'One of the most extraordinary and compelling novels written about World War II. Ever' Alan FurstInspired by a true story, Hans Fallada's Alone in Berlin is a gripping wartime thriller following one ordinary man's determination to defy the tyranny of Nazi rule**Berlin, 1940, and the city is filled with fear. At the house on 55 Jablonski Strasse, its various occupants try to live under Nazi rule in their different ways...

Isaiah Berlin was one of the great public intellectuals of his time. A magnetic speaker and beacon of liberal philosophy, he gained first-hand experience of some of the pivotal events of the twentieth century and crossed paths with luminaries from Virginia Woolf to Sigmund Freud. Declining to write an autobiography, Berlin instead agreed to give extensive interviews to acclaimed writer Michael Ignatieff in the final decade of his life.The result is a magisterial biography that pene...

First published in the 1930s, The Berlin Stories contains two novels, The Last of Mr. Norris and Goodbye to Berlin. Classics of modern fiction, these novellas capture 1931 Berlin—charming, grotesque, and dangerous, as Hitler was ascending to power. The Berlin Stories is inhabited by a wealth of characters, in particular the nightclub performer Sally Bowles, whose misadventures were popularized on stage and screen in I Am a Camera and Cabaret...

Gloria Rhoads Berlin and her intimate account of how she and Son Will helped Michael find his slice of Heaven in the Private Valley Estate known as Neverland. Gloria co-created with son Will the Michael Jackson Worldwide Fan ClubThis is the Never-told before True Life StoryFrom there Private JourneysGloria and son Will had with they're great fun friend Michael Jackson,Fromm finding his Dream Neverland Valle...

Der Fall der Berliner Mauer war für viele Jugendliche, und sicher nicht nur für sie, ein einschneidendes Erlebnis in ihrem Leben. Die vorliegende Untersuchung geht der Frage nach, welche Rolle die Medien für die Jugendlichen bei der Wahrnehmung der anderen Stadthälfte spielten, wie sie die Öffnung der Grenzen und den Vollzug der deutschen Einheit erlebten und wie sie die Zukunft in einem geeinten Deutschland einschätzen. Diese Regionalstudie "Labor Berlin" betrachtet die Entwicklung der Ha...

From international bestselling author Michael Ridpath comes a thrilling novella about a manuscript stolen in 1930s Berlin - part of his must-read Foreign Correspondent series.Berlin, 1930Settled uneasily in the German capital, war historian Archie Laverick and aspiring foreign correspondent Esme Carmichael are tracked down at their hotel by an old friend, the book dealer Moses Garfinkel. Shaken and desperate, Moses brings...

The great novel of 1920s Berlin life, in a new translation by Michael Hofmann, translator of Alone in BerlinFranz Biberkopf is back on the streets of Berlin. Determined to go straight after a stint in prison, he finds himself thwarted by an unpredictable external agency that looks an awful lot like fate. Cheated, humiliated, thrown from a moving car; embroiled in an underworld of pimps, thugs, drunks and prostitutes, Franz picks himself up over and over ag...

Diese Lehrbuch richtet sich an Studierende des Lehramts und an Lehrkräfte in den Fächern Chemie, Biologie, Physik, Informatik und Geographie. Sonnenlicht, der energetische Antrieb für das Leben auf der Erde, soll bis zum Ende des 21. Jahrhunderts auch in der Technik auf die vordersten Platz avancieren. Um das zu fördern, gilt die Forderung „Mehr Licht! Auch im Schulunterricht!“. Der Chemie kommt dabei eine Schlüsselrolle zu, weil sie die Phänomene bei der Wechselwirkung auf der Ebene der k...

In seinem Erstling erzählt Michael Nast – Autor des Bestsellers «Generation Beziehungsunfähig» – vom Leben und Lieben in der Großstadt, von ersten Dates und Ex-Freundinnen, von alten Bekannten und neuen Bekanntschaften in Zeiten von Facebook und MySpace. Von Momenten, in denen man sich einsam fühlt, obwohl man unter vielen Menschen ist. Sein Umfeld beobachtet er dabei mit einem ausgeprägten Gespür für die nur scheinbar unerheblichen Situationen des Alltags, die oftmals den wesentlichen Unt...