Der Schriftsteller Karl May erhält in Radebeul Post aus Amerika und bricht daraufhin mit seiner Frau, dem Herzle, zu seiner letzten Reise dorthin auf. Seinem Blutsbruder Winnetou soll ein Denkmal gesetzt werden....
The stories, first published in 1902, are pourquoi stories, fantastic accounts of how various phenomena came about. A forerunner of these stories is "How Fear Came" in The Second Jungle Book (1895), in which...
The Art of War (Dell'arte della guerra), is one of the lesser-read works of Florentine statesman and political philosopher Niccolò Machiavelli. The format of 'The Art of War' was in socratic dialogue. The purpose,...
Training in public speaking is not a matter of externals--primarily; it is not a matter of imitation--fundamentally; it is not a matter of conformity to standards--at all. Public speaking is public utterance,...
In this enlightening book James Boyle describes what he calls the range wars of the information age—today’s heated battles over intellectual property. Boyle argues that just as every informed citizen needs...
The Prophet is a book of 26 poetic essays written in English in 1923 by the Lebanese-American artist, philosopher and writer Khalil Gibran. In the book, the prophet Almustafa who has lived in the foreign city...
Œuvre majeure de Charles Baudelaire, le recueil de poèmes Les Fleurs du mal, intégrant la quasi-totalité de la production poétique de l’auteur depuis 1840, est publié le 23 juin 1857. C’est l’une...
In diesem Band, der als wahre Reiseerzählung betrachtet werden kann, führt es den Ich-Erzähler Old Shatterhand kreuz und quer durch die USA. Zunächst verfolgen er und Winnetou noch den Mörder Santer, müssen...
Old Shatterhand trifft in der Savanne den berühmten Westmann Sans-Ear. Nachdem Sans-Ear vier feindliche Komantschen besiegt hat, reiten beide zusammen weiter und verhindern einen Zugüberfall. Bei diesem Überfall...
Der Ich-Erzähler Charlie (vergleiche Karl May) alias Old Shatterhand arbeitet als Vermesser für die Eisenbahngesellschaft Great Western. Da seine Kollegen sehr träge und trunksüchtig sind, muss er alles...
In nineteen-fourteen, it was enemy aliens. In nineteen-thirty, it was Wobblies. In nineteen-fifty-seven, it was fellow-travelers. And, in nineteen seventy-one, Kenneth J. Malone rolled wearily out of bed wondering...
Imagine what high school would have been like if dealing drugs had been legal when licensed, mobile social networking had been ubiquitous and the in-crowd had more leverage than most political parties… what...
Zenchi Naigu is a Buddhist priest during Japan’s Heian period. He is ascribed the “wisdom of zen”, but is more concerned with diminishing his ungainly, large, and dangling nose. The story is mainly a commentary...
One Thousand and One Nights is a collection of stories collected over many centuries by various authors, translators and scholars in various countries across the Middle East and South Asia. These collections...
A journalist investigates the past, present, and future of computer crimes, as he attends a hacker convention, documents the extent of the computer crimes, and presents intriguing facts about hackers and their...
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