Gedachtes und Erlebtes zu ordnen, Zwiegespräch mit sich selbst zu führen oder auch Zeugnis abzulegen, Flüchtiges festzuhalten im Strom der Zeit: Es gibt viele gute Gründe, Tagebuch zu führen.
Wolfgang Herrndorfs verbüffende Einsichten über Sprache, Kommunikation und Medien in seinem Bestseller tschick verbergen sich in aberwitzigen Dialogen.
Sartres grundlegendes Werk über das Wesen der Literatur, das zugleich ein Schlüsselwerk seines Denkens ist, entstand 1947 als Antwort auf eine Polemik: Man hatte Sartre vorgeworfen, er wolle mit seiner Forderung nach einem Engagement der Literatur diese in den Dienst politischer Zwecke stellen und zur Tendenzliteratur machen, Sartre wies diesen Vorwurf zurück, indem er die für die Literatur grundlegenden Fragen zu beantworten versuchte: Was ist Schreiben?
El Curso de Linguistica General, publicado originalmente en 1916 a partir de los tres cursos impartidos por Ferdinand de Saussure entre 1907 y 1911 en la Universidad de Ginebra, se puede considerar como el texto fundacional de los estudios linguisticos modernos.
This book explores, as one of the priorities of the feminist agenda in the 21st century, feminist education and awareness in pre-service and in-service teacher training.
Jemanden einen Versager zu nennen, ist die größtmögliche Beleidigung, wurzelt darin doch das Urteil, dass sich im Versagen der angesprochenen Person etwas Bahn gebrochen hat, das ohnehin nicht zu vermeiden war: Wer versagt hat, hat das eigene Leben verfehlt, wer versagt hat, ist unfähig, das zu leisten, was allen anderen Menschen scheinbar mühelos gelingt.
En "Inventario de recuerdos", María Elena D′Alessandro Bello realiza un análisis de la literatura escrita desde y sobre Caracas a partir de la propuesta de tres novelistas y cinco novelas: "El exilio del tiempo" (1990), "Vagas desapariciones" (1995) y "Los últimos espectadores del acorazado Potemkin" (1999) de Ana Teresa Torres; "Juegos bajo la luna" (1994) de Carlos Noguera y "El round del olvido" (2002) de Eduardo Liendo.
Wolfgang Herrndorfs verbüffende Einsichten über Sprache, Kommunikation und Medien in seinem Bestseller tschick verbergen sich in aberwitzigen Dialogen.
This long-awaited daily reader brings 365 selections from The Chronicles of Narnia to provide daily inspiration, solace and guidance, as well as a memorable reminder of the power of C.
A haunting and emotionally satisfying novel from a much-loved and critically acclaimed author, which weaves fairy tale and gritty realism together to dazzlingly effect.
Winner of the Crossword Prize for non-fiction, '"e;Curfewed Night'"e; is a passionate and important book - a brave and brilliant report from a conflict the world has chosen to ignore.
Shortlisted for the 2007 Man Booker Prize, an epic novel of startling originality which confirms Nicola Barker as one of Britain's most exciting literary talents.
Perhaps no work of history written in the 20th century has done more to undermine an existing consensus and cause its readers to re-evaluate their own preconceptions than has Jonathan Riley-Smith's revisionist account of the motives of the first crusaders.
Danish philosopher Soren Kierkegaard's 1843 book Fear and Trembling shows precisely why he is regarded as one of the most significant and creative philosophers of the nineteenth century.
Despite having no formal training in urban planning, Jane Jacobs deftly explores the strengths and weaknesses of policy arguments put forward by American urban planners in the era after World War II.
For those who lived through the Cold War period, and for many of the historians who study it, it seemed self-evident that the critical incidents that determined its course took place in the northern hemisphere, specifically in the face-off between NATO and the Warsaw Pact in Europe.
Martin Luther King's policy of non-violent protest in the struggle for civil rights in the United States during the second half of the twentieth century led to fundamental shifts in American government policy relating to segregation, and a cultural shift in the treatment of African Americans.
Marcel Mauss's 1925 essay The Gift is an enduring classic of sociological and anthropological analysis by a thinker who is one of the founding fathers of modern anthropology.
Incisive and highly original, an investigation of the connection between literature and psychoanalysis, from Britain's leading psychoanalyst, author of On Kissing, Tickling and Being Bored and On Kindness, the essential Adam PhillipsFor Adam Phillips - as for Freud and many of his followers - poetry and poets have always held an essential place, as both precursors and unofficial collaborators in the psychoanalytic project.
Despite having no formal training in urban planning, Jane Jacobs deftly explores the strengths and weaknesses of policy arguments put forward by American urban planners in the era after World War II.
Soren Kierkegaard's The Sickness unto Death is widely recognized as one of the most significant and influential works of Christian philosophy written in the nineteenth century.
Few works can claim to form the foundation stones of one entire academic discipline, let alone two, but Thucydides's celebrated History of the Peloponnesian War is not only one of the first great works of history, but also the departure point from which the modern discipline of international relations has been built.
One criticism of history is that historians all too often study it in isolation, failing to take advantage of models and evidence from scholars in other disciplines.
No philosopher could be a better example of creative thinking in action than Friedrich Nietzsche: a German iconoclast who systematically attacked the traditionally accepted views of academic philosophers, seeking to tear down their rickety platform and replace it with a platform of his own.
Hamid Dabashi's 1997 work Theology of Discontent reveals a creative thinker capable not only of understanding how an argument is built, but also of redefining old issues in new ways.
Perhaps no work of history written in the 20th century has done more to undermine an existing consensus and cause its readers to re-evaluate their own preconceptions than has Jonathan Riley-Smith's revisionist account of the motives of the first crusaders.
Das für die vorliegende Neuauflage von Heinz Rölleke ergänzte und überarbeitete Kompendium Max Lüthis gehört zu den Standardwerken der internationalen Märchenforschung.
