In Hello Everybody! a bestseller in his native Holland, Joris Luyendijk tells the story of his five yearsas a reporter in the Middle East. Young and inexperienced but fluent in Arabic, he speaks to stone throwers and soldiers, taxi drivers and professors, victims and aggressors chronicling first-hand experiences of dictatorship, occupation and war. But the more he witnesses, the less he understands and he becomes increasingly aware of the yawning gap between what he sees on the ground and wha...

Does language reflect the culture of a society? Is our mother-tongue a lens through which we perceive the world? Can different languages lead their speakers to different thoughts? This title states that contrary to the fashionable academic consensus of today, the answer to all these questions is - yes.

Never before have our cities been as important as they are now. The drivers of innovation and growth, they are essential to the prosperity of nations. But they are also destructive, plunging us into housing crises and deepening inequality.

How can we keep the good and break free of the bad?In this bracingly original work of research and analysis, leading urbanist Richard Florida explores the roots of this new crisis and puts forward a plan to make this the century of the fairer, thriving metr...

The first ever global overview of philosophy: how it developed around the world and impacted the cultures in which it flourished, now in paperback.

Nachdem Nicole Seifert mehrere Jahre lang ausschließlich Literatur von Frauen gelesen hat, ist klar: Die vielbeschworene »Qualität« ist nicht das Problem. Im Gegenteil: Wir verpassen das Beste, wenn wir in unseren Bücherregalen nicht endlich eine Frauenquote einführen.

Banal, kitschig, trivial - drei Adjektive, mit denen das literarische Schaffen von Frauen seit Jahrhunderten abgewertet wird. Während Autoren tausende von Seiten mit Alltagsbeschreibungen füllen und dafür gefeiert wer...

‘Draws startling parallels with Meghan … Both were 34 when they met their princes, both are adored children of strong, single mothers, both have a pared-down style and an electric presence and both are evidently worshipped by their Royal partners.’ S Magazine

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Now in paperback featuring a new introduction by Michelle Obama, a letter from the author to her younger self, and a book club guide with 20 discussion questions and a 5-question Q&A, the intimate, powerful, and inspiring memoir by the former First Lady of the United States

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Von den mittelalterlichen Sangern und Epikern uber Martin Opitz, Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, Friedrich Schiller und Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, uber Heinrich Heine, Georg Buchner und Bertolt Brecht bis Gunter Grass, Martin Walser, Uwe Tellkamp, Herta Muller und Ursula Krechel. Alle namhaften Schriftsteller sind erfasst: Die Literaturgeschichte fangt Lyrik, Roman, Prosa und andere literarische Gattungen und Stroemungen im Spiegel der Epochen ein, zeigt die Autorinnen und Autoren, ihr Schaffen un...

Spanning almost seven centuries, this anthology encapsulates the foundation and consolidation of literature written in English, culminating in some of the finest works produced in English in the high Middle Ages. New edition of this widely-used anthology of Old and Middle English literatureNow extended to include newly-edited versions of Old English Wonders of the East, of Poema Morale, extracts from Julian of Norwich and Margery KempeFull translations are offered for the Old and earlier Midd...

Did possessing and killing amount to the same thing deep within the dark recesses of the human beast? La Bete humaine (1890), is one of Zola's most violent and explicit works. On one level a tale of murder, passion and possession, it is also a compassionate study of individuals derailed by atavistic forces beyond their control. Zola considered this his `most finely worked' novel, and in it he powerfully evokes life at the end of the Second Empire in France, where society seemed to be hurtling...