Thomas Manns Kampf um die Demokratie Thomas Mann sitzt in seinem Arbeitszimmer, denkt und schreibt, bewusst und gewollt entfernt vom störenden Tagesgeschehen um ihn herum.
A sparkling exploration of direction, by the acclaimed author of A History of the World in 12 MapsNorth, south, east and west: almost all societies use the four cardinal directions to orientate themselves, to understand who they are by projecting where they are.
The story of the Odyssey is an epic branching from the story of the Trojan Wars, those long, ancient wars that broke out between the armies of the Greek city-states and the armies of Troy and their allies from Asia Minor at that time, and their reason is what we mentioned in the story of the Iliad, when Paris, the son of King Priam of Troy, came as a guest of the king.
Von den wagemutigen Expeditionen der ersten Entdecker bis hin zu den luxuriösen Kreuzfahrten der Gegenwart – ›Die Erfindung der Weltreisen‹ nimmt Sie mit auf eine faszinierende Reise durch die Geschichte des Reisens um die Welt.
Indeed, self-confidence is a virtue in every person who wants to live in this life as a master and not a ruler, a ruler rather than a ruled, and an honorable person rather than a humiliated one.
Henryk Sienkiewicz's With Fire and Sword, the opening movement of his celebrated Trilogy, transforms the mid-seventeenth-century Cossack uprising under Bohdan Khmelnytsky into a sweeping historical epic of war, loyalty, love, and national crisis.