Told through essays, memoirs, and other musings, this is the story of a radical Jew, academic, and educator from his birth in Ukraine during the Holocaust through the radical 60s and 70s, to the present day as he fights anti-Semitism, anti-Zionism, xenophobia, and hate.
Die große Denkerin und ihr Werk - auf Basis neuer Quellen»Meyer ist eine völlig überraschende Biografie einer intellektuellen Ikone gelungen, der man im Ringen um das Leben anderer so schmerzlich nahekommt wie noch nie.
Kant für Anfänger: Die Grundfragen der Philosophie und der Geist der AufklärungImmanuel Kant erscheint heute oft wie ein Koloss, der die Menschen vor Ehrfurcht erstarren lässt.
#1 New York Times non-fiction bestseller #2 Sunday Times non-fiction bestsellerSHORTLISTED FOR THE FINANCIAL TIMES BUSINESS BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARDCHOSEN AS A BOOK OF THE YEAR BY APPLE, AMAZON, THE TIMES AND FINANCIAL TIMESWalter Isaacson's biography of Elon Musk offers the most intimate, complete and revelatory portrait of the most fascinating and controversial innovator in the world.
'Sacred, ferocious, and businesslike, Adelstein describes the Japanese mafia like nobody else' Roberto Saviano, on Tokyo ViceMakoto Saigo is half-American and half-Japanese in small-town Japan with a set of talents limited to playing guitar and picking fights.
Desde la década de 1930, Max Weber fue traducido al inglés de manera parcial por Talcott Parsons, sociólogo estadounidense, cuya interpretación del autor influyó indudablemente sobre las posteriores traducciones al castellano.
Told through essays, memoirs, and other musings, this is the story of a radical Jew, academic, and educator from his birth in Ukraine during the Holocaust through the radical 60s and 70s, to the present day as he fights anti-Semitism, anti-Zionism, xenophobia, and hate.
EL RELATO DE UNO DE LOS GRANDES ESCÁNDALOS FILOSÓFICOS DE LA HISTORIA El juicio y la muerte de Sócrates constituyen un momento emblemático de la civilización occidental.
A new intellectual biography of Goethe, examining the paradox of his thoughtJohann Wolfgang von Goethe (17491832) was a poet, a novelist, a scientist and an essayist on a dizzying range of topics.
The Day I Stopped Being Pretty, chronicles the life of a young, black, gay male who awakes and finds himself in the emergency room after a failed suicide attempt, reflecting on the men who shaped him into the person he has become.
A dazzling, devastating memoir about one woman's search for her wayward mother, whose past is inextricably linked with the bittersweet history of their home, Hawaii.
This brilliantly written memoir takes the reader on a journey into the past, to a rural England long gone, when horses worked the fields and small boys spent most of their time outdoors.
The bestselling, heartfelt memoir from Sophie Cachia, whoreveals never-before-shared details of her marriage breakdown, and how delving into her feminine intuition and falling in love with a woman transformed her.
Content : UnhappinessThe JudgmentBefore the LawThe MetamorphosisA Report to an AcademyJackals and ArabsA Country DoctorIn the Penal ColonyA Hunger ArtistThe TrialThe CastleAmerikaA Little FableThe Great Wall of ChinaThe Hunter GracchusThe Burrow
Content : UnhappinessThe JudgmentBefore the LawThe MetamorphosisA Report to an AcademyJackals and ArabsA Country DoctorIn the Penal ColonyA Hunger ArtistThe TrialThe CastleAmerikaA Little FableThe Great Wall of ChinaThe Hunter GracchusThe Burrow
Content : UnhappinessThe JudgmentBefore the LawThe MetamorphosisA Report to an AcademyJackals and ArabsA Country DoctorIn the Penal ColonyA Hunger ArtistThe TrialThe CastleAmerikaA Little FableThe Great Wall of ChinaThe Hunter GracchusThe Burrow
Content : UnhappinessThe JudgmentBefore the LawThe MetamorphosisA Report to an AcademyJackals and ArabsA Country DoctorIn the Penal ColonyA Hunger ArtistThe TrialThe CastleAmerikaA Little FableThe Great Wall of ChinaThe Hunter GracchusThe Burrow
Book contains first two collections of essays, Essays: First Series (1841) and Essays: Second Series (1844), representing the core thinking of Ralph Waldo Emerson.
Content : UnhappinessThe JudgmentBefore the LawThe MetamorphosisA Report to an AcademyJackals and ArabsA Country DoctorIn the Penal ColonyA Hunger ArtistThe TrialThe CastleAmerikaA Little FableThe Great Wall of ChinaThe Hunter GracchusThe Burrow
Content : UnhappinessThe JudgmentBefore the LawThe MetamorphosisA Report to an AcademyJackals and ArabsA Country DoctorIn the Penal ColonyA Hunger ArtistThe TrialThe CastleAmerikaA Little FableThe Great Wall of ChinaThe Hunter GracchusThe Burrow
Content : UnhappinessThe JudgmentBefore the LawThe MetamorphosisA Report to an AcademyJackals and ArabsA Country DoctorIn the Penal ColonyA Hunger ArtistThe TrialThe CastleAmerikaA Little FableThe Great Wall of ChinaThe Hunter GracchusThe Burrow
A caustic criticism of nearly every philosophic predecessor and a challenge of traditionally held views on right and wrong, Friedrich Nietzsche's Beyond Good and Evil paved the way for modern philosophical thought.
Essayist, poet, and philosopher, Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) propounded a transcendental idealism emphasizing self-reliance, self-culture, and individual expression.
Content : UnhappinessThe JudgmentBefore the LawThe MetamorphosisA Report to an AcademyJackals and ArabsA Country DoctorIn the Penal ColonyA Hunger ArtistThe TrialThe CastleAmerikaA Little FableThe Great Wall of ChinaThe Hunter GracchusThe Burrow
