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Business in North Korea: a paradoxical and fascinating situation is interpreted by a true insider. In 2002, the Swiss power company ABB appointed Felix Abt its country director for North Korea. The Swiss Entrepreneur lived and worked in North Korea for seven years, one of the few foreign businessmen there. After the experience, Abt felt compelled to write A Capitalist in North Korea to describe the multifaceted society he encountered. North Korea, at the time, was heavily sanctioned by the UN...
| Автор | Felix Abt |
Worauf kommt es an im Leben? Was ist wichtig, was weniger? 102 Jahre alt ist Elisabeth Heller, und langsam, so sagt sie in den Gesprächen, die sie mit ihrem Sohn André in den vergangenen Monaten geführt hat, geht es ans Verabschieden. «Innerlich sieht man sich noch jung und klettert auf Berge und segelt über den Wolfgangsee, freut sich auf den nächsten Tag», sagt die alte Dame, die geboren wurde, als der Erste Weltkrieg ausbrach und mit 18 den Süßwarenfabrikanten Stephan Heller heiratete. Ein...
| Автор | Ксюша Ангел |
Wer steckt wirklich hinter dem Fall der Mauer? Wie kam Papst Johannes Paul II. auf den Heiligen Stuhl? Und warum ist es pädagogisch wertvoll, bei Rot über die Straße zu gehen? Dieter Nuhr stellt unsere Geschichtsschreibung auf den Kopf und offenbart sich als heimlicher Hintermann des Weltgeschehens. Von der Entwicklung des Computers über die Eurokrise bis zur WM-Vergabe, überall hat er seine Finger im Spiel, um die Menschheit in eine glückliche Zukunft zu führen. Der Faktenlage nach geht sein...
| Автор | Ксюша Ангел |
This is a book about passion, obsession and discovery in an amazing land, but also about the voyage of a highly talented composer and writer. A House in Bali remains one of the most remarkable books ever written about the fabled island of Bali. This classic book tells the story of Balinese culture through a history of Balinese music.First published in 1947, it tells the story of the writer and composer Colin McPhee's (1900–64) obsession with a music once unknown to the West,...
| Автор | Colin McPhee |
St. Nadie in Winter is a spiritual autobiography that includes Zen poetry, memoir, and raw insight.There are no easy answers to be found, no easy prescriptions in this stunning twenty-first century Buddhist book. Keenan's world-his boyhood Catholicism, his alcoholism, his struggle to maintain honest relationships with his wife and children, his work as a poet and librarian, his Zen practice—offers a road map for any reader grappling with the dark night of the soul.
| Автор | Terrance Keenan |
**Winner of the Canada Book Award** **Winner of the Readers' Favorite Gold Award for Non-Fiction Sports** The Fighter Within is an inspirational mixed martial arts book for fans which brings insider stories, heartfelt moments, and a human element to what's perceived as a savage sport. It reveals thoughtful, encouraging, and even lighthearted insights into the minds and souls of true champions. This book provides an intimate look at the author's journey through the world of...
| Автор | Christopher Olech |
"Bruce Lee was known as an amazing martial artist, but he was also a profound thinker. He left behind seven volumes of writing on everything from quantum physics to philosophy." — John Blake, CNN Named one of TIME magazine's «100 Greatest Men of the Century,» Bruce Lee's impact and influence has only grown since his untimely death in 1973. Part of the seven-volume Bruce Lee Library, this installment of the famed martial artist's private notebooks allows his...
| Автор | Bruce Lee |
Letters of the Dragon: Correspondence, 1958-1973 is a fascinating glimpse of the private Bruce Lee behind the public image—a man with the patience and concern to dedicate as much effort to crafting a thoughtful personal answer to the letter of a young fan as to those from his old friends and associates; an extremely active man never too busy to make time for an old family friend in need of simple companionship; a man who never wrote without careful thought, and never thought from the...
| Автор | Bruce Lee |
This book of Korean history is an unofficial and exceptionally honest biography of South Korea's deposed chief executive, Syngman Rhee.Rhee's career spanned the decades between the late-nineteenth-century period of China's suzerainty in Korea and the revolt of April 1960 and reached a peak of popularity following his country's liberation at the end of World War II. Yet, twelve years later he was thrown out of office by revolution.During his lifetime, he has become almost a...
| Автор | Richard C. Allen |
Now available for the first time in English, Tales of Okinawa's Great Masters, the late Shoshin Nagamine's groundbreaking work, recounts the legacy and life histories of Okinawa's greatest martial artists.In addition to profiles of the legendary tegumi wrestlers, Nagamine-sensei features many of the world's great karate masters, including the founder of the core styles from which modern karate sprang.Tales of Okinawa's Great Masters corrects historical inaccuracies...
| Автор | Shosh Nagamine |
Farida Khalaf ist 18 Jahre alt, als der IS im August 2014 ihr Dorf im irakischen Sinjar-Gebirge überfällt. Die Terroristen treiben die Männer und Jungen des Dorfes zusammen und töten sie. Die Mädchen und Frauen nehmen sie mit. Vier Monate lebt Farida in der Hölle auf Erden: Sie wird als Sklavin von Mann zu Mann verkauft, vergewaltigt, fast totgeschlagen. Doch sie überlebt und entwickelt in der Folge den ungeheuren Mut, sich ihren Peinigern zu widersetzen. Zusammen mit sechs anderen Mädchen, die...
| Автор | Ксюша Ангел |
”Green Card STEM Voices” is a collection of essays and digital narratives from twenty immigrants and refugees living in Minnesota and working in STEM. This multimedia project serves as a platform for first generation immigrants and refugees working in science, technology, engineering, and math to share their stories in their own words. Their essays and digital narrative will offer insight into the experiences and expertise they’ve gleaned through their work in fields that include medicine,...
| Автор | Группа авторов |
John Marion Porter (1839–1898) grew up working at his family's farm and dry goods store in Butler County, Kentucky. The oldest of Reverend Nathaniel Porter's nine children, he was studying to become a lawyer when the Civil War began. As the son of a family of slave owners, Porter identified with the Southern cause and wasted little time enlisting in the Confederate army. He and his lifelong friend Thomas Henry Hines served in the Ninth Kentucky Calvary under John Hunt Morgan, the...
| Автор | John M. Porter |
“[Norman Lock’s fiction] shimmers with glorious language, fluid rhythms, and complex insights.” — NPR In the seventh stand-alone book of The American Novels series, Ellen Finch, former stenographer to Henry James, recalls her time as an assistant to Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton, heroes of America’s woman suffrage movement, and her friendship with the diminutive Margaret, one of P. T. Barnum’s circus “eccentrics.” When her infant son is kidnapped by the Klan, Ellen, Margaret, and...
| Автор | Norman Lock |
Celebrated as the “Indiana Jones of American literature,” legendary author Paul Theroux has explored the world and shared his vision of it in more than 50 books of bestselling fiction and nonfiction. In Camp Echo, his new novella for Scribd Originals, Theroux delivers a compelling coming-of-age story about racism, masculinity, morality, and leadership. Inspired by his own experiences as a Boy Scout in the early 1950s, Theroux writes with precision and vivid detail, drawing from his days as a...
| Автор | Paul Theroux |
Deutschland, 1933: Ernst Lossa stammt aus einer Familie von «Jenischen», Zigeuner, wie man damals sagte. Er gilt als schwieriges Kind, wird von Heim zu Heim geschoben, bis er schließlich in die psychiatrische Anstalt in Kaufbeuren eingewiesen wird. Hier nimmt sein Leben die letzte, schreckliche Wendung: Obgleich geistig völlig gesund, wird Ernst Lossa 1944 die Todespritze verabreicht. Der Autor berichtet aus der Perspektive des Jungen. Er macht die Denkstrukturen des NS-Regimes sichtbar und...
| Автор | Robert Domes |
A midnight's child of poor rural India, Ujjal Dosanjh emigrated to the United Kingdom in 1964 at the age of eighteen, and spent nearly four years making crayons, car parts and shunting trains while he attended night school and learned English by listening to BBC Radio. He moved to Canada in 1968, to the west coast, where he pulled lumber in a sawmill for a few years, eventually earning a B.A from Simon Fraser University in 1973 and then his law degree from the University of British Columbia...
| Автор | Ujjal Dosanjh |
Als James Bowen den verwahrlosten Kater vor seiner Wohnungstür fand, hätte man kaum sagen können, wem von beiden es schlechter ging. James schlug sich als Straßenmusiker durch, er hatte eine harte Zeit auf der Straße hinter sich. Aber dem abgemagerten, jämmerlich maunzenden Kater konnte er einfach nicht widerstehen, er nahm ihn auf, pflegte ihn gesund und ließ ihn wieder laufen. Doch Bob war anders als andere Katzen. Er liebte seinen neuen Freund mehr als die Freiheit und blieb. Heute sind sie...
| Автор | Джеймс Боуэн |
Author was costar of the Emmy-nominated documentary Almost Sunrise , which was screened at dozens of film festivals and over 150 community screenings, and shown as part of PBS’s POV series. For his work empowering veterans to overcome moral injury, Tom Voss has been featured in the New York Times , Newsweek , National Geographic Adventure , Men’s Health , USA Today , and the Chicago Tribune . Tom has given presentations and lectures about his journey of hope and...
| Автор | Tom Voss |
"McRae brings to the highly charged, obsessive world of professional boxing a novelist's eye and ear for revealing detail and convincingly recalled dialogue. This is an impassioned book."—Joyce Carol Oates, LA Times “This deeper understanding of everything that surrounds the fight game is what makes Dark Trade so compelling and why McRae’s brave book remains essential reading for any boxing fan.”—Joshua Isard, The Fight City Dark Trade: Lost In Boxing , by Donald McRae,...
| Автор | Donald McRae |
At the height of the McCarthyite hysteria of the 1950s, John Paton Davies, Jr., was summoned to the State Department one morning and fired. His offense? The career diplomat had counseled the U.S. government during World War II that the Communist forces in China were poised to take over the country—which they did, in 1949. Davies joined the thousands of others who became the victims of a political maelstrom that engulfed the country and deprived the United States of the wisdom and...
| Автор | John Paton Davies, Jr. |
One hundred years after the singer’s birth, Peggy Lee: A Century of Song brings to life the eventful career of an iconic performer whose contributions to the Great American Songbook, jazz, popular music, and film music remained unparalleled. Lee stood out among her peers as an exquisite singer possessing a cool vocal style, a songwriter frequently collaborating with leading composers of American jazz and film music, and a globally-loved entertainer with star quality. Tish Oney sheds...
| Автор | Tish Oney |
Was im 1986 im Iran geschah, weiß die ganze Welt. Doch mit der Rückkehr in die USA war die Geschichte der damals erst vierjährigen Mahtob noch nicht ausgestanden. Jahrelang musste sie sich vor ihrem Vater verstecken, lebte unter falschem Namen, musste ihr Schicksal vor den Schulfreundinnen verschweigen – denn die Angst vor einer erneuten Entführung war groß. Wie geht Mahtob Mahmoody heute mit ihrer Vergangenheit um? In poetischen Bildern erzählt sie, wie sie sich von ihrer Angst befreite, sich...
| Автор | Ксюша Ангел |
Von Geburt an blind: Joana Zimmer stellt sich dennoch mutig jeder Herausforderung. Mit ihrer einzigartigen Stimme erzählt sie in ihren Songs kraftvoll und feinfühlig Geschichten, die im Herzen lange nachklingen. In diesem Hörbuch lässt sie uns teilhaben an ihren Abenteuern, Erfolgen, Zielen, Sehnsüchten und an ihrem sozialen Engagement. Ein Hörbuch über Grenzen, die keine sein müssen, und wie man das Beste aus seinem Leben macht.
| Автор | Ксюша Ангел |