
By Marion Henneberg
ISBN-10: 3548269605
ISBN-13: 9783548269603
By Marion Henneberg
ISBN-10: 3548269605
ISBN-13: 9783548269603
ISBN-10: 0451531183
ISBN-13: 9780451531186
ISBN-10: 1454901373
ISBN-13: 9781454901372
ISBN-10: 1543640362
ISBN-13: 9781543640366
ISBN-10: 1631061720
ISBN-13: 9781631061721
ISBN-10: 1853260045
ISBN-13: 9781853260049
By Jane Mander
ISBN-10: 129665012X
ISBN-13: 9781296650124
ISBN-10: 1375466569
ISBN-13: 9781375466561
ISBN-10: 2914777574
ISBN-13: 9782914777575
ISBN-10: 0977924572
ISBN-13: 9780977924578
In 13th-century Japan, illness, famine, violence, and ordinary failures plague society. Samurai lords, blinded by means of energy, shirk any accountability to guard the citizenry. spiritual leaders care extra approximately currying desire with the robust than assisting universal humans locate wish and a favorable strategy to care for their agony. yet one unknown Buddhist monk dares to talk the reality to energy: Nichiren remonstrates with the specialists. He insists that every one human lifestyles is worthwhile and that the govt. must switch its methods and turn into of carrier to the folks. He criticizes the confirmed religions as being simply pawns of the nation, who educate principles that in simple terms extra the people’s feel of powerlessness. the genuine objective of Buddhism, he asserts, is to coach humans the way to empower themselves, problem their future, and event happiness during this existence. in line with real occasions, this interesting comedian touches on significant milestones in Nichiren’s existence interwoven with simple Buddhist ideas. This real-life event tale will captivate readers because it illustrates the lifetime of one brave man or woman who stopped at not anything to carry happiness to the folk and peace to the land.
ISBN-10: 0174324995
ISBN-13: 9780174324997
ISBN-10: 1491586109
ISBN-13: 9781491586105
ISBN-10: 1535559039
ISBN-13: 9781535559034
ISBN-10: 1593080204
ISBN-13: 9781593080204
ISBN-10: 1631060694
ISBN-13: 9781631060694
ISBN-10: 190962165X
ISBN-13: 9781909621657
Humorous and profound, and packed with hugely pleasing discussion, this witty comedy of manners dips and turns via drawing-rooms and plots to arrive an immensely pleasurable finale. within the phrases of Eudora Welty, satisfaction and Prejudice is as 'irresistible and as approximately faultless as any fiction may possibly be.'
By Martin Hayes
ISBN-10: 1909276014
ISBN-13: 9781909276017
ISBN-10: 1909276758
ISBN-13: 9781909276758
By Albert Camus
ISBN-10: 1681778637
ISBN-13: 9781681778631
A visually arresting model of Albert Camus’s masterful biographical novel that provides a brand new photograph interpretation for the following iteration of readers.
This new illustrated of Camus’s ultimate novel tells the tale of Jacques Cormery, a boy who lived a existence very like Camus’s personal. This lovely, absolutely illustrated variation summons up the points of interest, sounds and textures of a youth outlined through poverty and a father's dying, but redeemed by way of the austere fantastic thing about Algeria—and the younger protagonist's attachment to his approximately deaf-mute mother.
In telling the tale of his metaphorical look for his father, who died in international conflict I, Camus returns to the "land of oblivion the place every one is the 1st guy" and needs to locate his personal solutions. released thirty-five years after its discovery amid the wreckage of the auto coincidence that killed the Nobel Prize–winning novelist, this image interpretation of The First Man is the bright consummation of the lifestyles and paintings of 1 of the twenty century's maximum authors.
By Philippa Gregory
ISBN-10: 3499272202
ISBN-13: 9783499272202
Heimlich unterhält die Witwe Kateryn Parr eine Affäre mit ihrer großen Liebe, dem Baron Thomas Seymour. Doch als König Henry VIII. um ihre Hand anhält, hat sie keine Wahl: Sie muss das Angebot annehmen und darf Thomas nie wiedersehen.
Kateryn weiß genau, in welche Gefahr sie sich begibt – schließlich wird sie die sechste Gemahlin des launischen Königs. Von zwei ihrer Vorgängerinnen trennte er sich, zwei ließ er hinrichten. Mit der Zeit wähnt sie sich aber in Sicherheit: Im Herzen des Hofes gründet sie einen Studierzirkel und bestimmt als Regentin die Geschicke des Landes in Henrys Abwesenheit. Doch als Befürworterin religiöser Reformen zieht sie schließlich doch Henrys Zorn auf sich …
"Philippa Gregory, Königin des historischen Romans, setzt dieser Heldin ein unvergessliches Denkmal." (People Magazine)
"Niemand schreibt besser über die Tudors als Philippa Gregory." (Publishers Weekly)
"‹Die letzte Gemahlin des Königs› ist nicht nur ein faszinierender Roman über eine überraschend wenig bekannte Zeit der Tudor-Dynastie, sondern vermittelt auch das bedrückende Gefühl des puren Terrors, den das Leben unter einem launischen Tyrannen mit sich bringt – besonders, wenn guy mit ihm verheiratet ist." (Reader's Digest)
"Drastisch schildert Gregory die Beziehung von Kateryn Parr und ihrem Gemahl Henry VIII. Genauso intestine beschreibt sie auch die religiösen und politischen Spannungen im England der Tudors. Fesselnd." (The Times)
"Gregorys komplexes Porträt des alternden Königs und seiner sinnlichen, gelehrten Braut wird Tudor-Fans begeistern." (Publishers Weekly)
ISBN-10: 1942351143
ISBN-13: 9781942351146
Fidel Castro’s lover makes a deal in the USA to kill Castro yet follows it up with a mistake in Cuba ahead of she will entire her job. JFK approves undertaking MK-ULTRA and opens the door for the CIA to start their brain alternating experiments. Speical Agent Bob makes it into Cuba and manages to wreck into Castro’s headquarters!