Shapiro captures a generation through first-person reporting, interviews with refugees from the porn industry, conversations with psychologist, educators, and students, and a telling cultural critique.
This study of collective American memory exposes the historical phenomenon of self-directed American imperialism, still frequently ignored or denied in the United States.
Book of the Marvels of the World or Description of the World , in Italian Il Milione (The Million) or Oriente Poliano and in English commonly called The Travels of Marco Polo, is a 13th-century travelogue written down by Rustichello da Pisa from stories told by Marco Polo, describing Polo's travels through Asia between 1276 and 1291, and his experiences at the court of Kublai Khan.
This book deals mostly with American avant-garde literature of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, and the present-day practice and politics of its translation into Polish, trying to answer the following questions: What are the meaning and the limits of avantgardism?
Spice Diet combines delicious recipes and healthy eating, using the tastes, healing powers and weight loss health properties of spices from around the world.
Zu den großen Wundern des Literaturbetriebs zählt die grandiose Wiederentdeckung eines übersehenen Genies, einer zu Unrecht Vergessenen, eines verfemten oder verdrängten Künstlers, dessen Werk unter den Augen der Nachgeborenen plötzlich in ganz neuem Licht erscheint und uns Heutigen etwas zu sagen hat.
Develop your own personal weight loss plan based on sound expert advice Total Body Diet for Dummies is your expert-led guide to losing weight and keeping it off the healthy way.
Los autores de este libro creen, firmemente, en el poder educativo de la lectura, Saben que sin lectura no hay educación; porque el verdadero aprendizaje necesita de la comprensión, de esas interpretaciones que hacemos de todo cuanto forma parte de lo que nos educa.
Jean Paul spielte ständig mit einer Vielzahl witziger und skurriler Einfälle; seine Werke sind geprägt von wilder Metaphorik sowie abschweifenden, teilweise labyrinthischen Handlungen.
Ce livre est une histoire de la poésie en France au XVIIe siècle vue à travers la question des rapports entretenus par les poètes avec la réforme malherbienne, généralement présentée comme uniformément répandue dans les pratiques d'écriture.
Una investigación sobre la naturaleza y causas de la riqueza de las naciones (título original en inglés: An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations), o sencillamente La riqueza de las naciones, es la obra más célebre de Adam Smith.
This book gives an accessible account of classical Greek history, from the aftermath of the Persian Wars in 478 bc to the death of Alexander the Great in 323 bc.
Celebrating the 80th birthday of Winfried Fluck, this volume of REAL gathers leading US-American and European literary scholars from English and American Studies to engage some of his classic essays, covering topics that range from the aesthetics of early American literature to the history of our digital present and from the Americanization of literary studies to the search for American democratic culture.
As a salesperson, you must know what you are selling and if you listened well enough you will understand what is of value to your customers and make surethey understand the benefit of your products.
Die Frage, wie Komik funktioniert, gehört zu den besonders umstrittenen und zugleich zu den besonders vernachlässigten Problemstellungen der geisteswissenschaftlichen Forschung.
**A FINANCIAL TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR** Lively and humane Reade s enthusiasm and curiosity are winning GUARDIANSummoned in Haiti s struggle against colonial rule, read in prison by the young Malcolm X, and reimagined by Virginia Woolf - this is the revolutionary history of Milton's epic poem Paradise LostOrlando Reade shows the many different, surprising, and often contradictory ways in which Milton s epic poem Paradise Lost has been read across centuries and continents.
While going through the possessions of a deceased guest who owed them money, the mistress of the inn and her son find a treasure map that leads them to a pirate's fortune.
This self-help book is for people who have gained weight because they have lost touch with using natural hunger and fullness signals to guide their eating.
