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Joining us at Audible Studios is British advertising executive Rory Sutherland, whose TED talks have been viewed nearly seven million times. He has recently released his book Alchemy: The Surprising Power of Ideas That Don't Make Sense. In many areas of our lives, reason plays an infinitesimal part. We are driven by unconscious desires. We are drawn to the beautiful, the extravagant and the absurd, such as tiny bottles of fragrance. If you want to influence people's choices, you have to bypass reason.

Ein Glücksfall für die Historiker: Harry Graf Kessler (1868 - 1937) beschreibt das Zeitgeschehen im Jahr 1929. Es ist schwieriges Jahr. Zwei weitere Freunde sterben: Hugo von Hoffmannsthal und Sergei Djaghilew, und zusammen mit dem Tod des beliebtesten Europäers Gustav Stresemann schließt sich für Kessler "seine Epoche" ab. Es ist sein "Année terrible". Zudem erscheint "Im Westen nichts Neues" von Erich Maria Remarque und der Knabe Jehudi Menuhin erstaunt allgemein mit seinen Beethoveninterpretationen auf der Geige.

Hellmuth Karasek unterwegs in Deutschland: Aug in Auge mit seinen Lesern... Hellmuth Karasek erzählt von phantastischen und skurrilen Erlebnissen - und nimmt uns mit auf seine Reisen quer durch die Republik. Als einigermaßen bekannter Autor muss man mit allem rechnen, sagt Hellmuth Karasek: dass einen der Schaffner für den Nobelpreisträger Günter Grass hält, zum Beispiel, und, wenn man den Irrtum aufklärt, mit "Herr Kasarek" anredet; oder dass die Dame an der Hotelrezeption einen unverdrossen "Karadzic" nennt, wie den Kriegsverbrecher.

The 1920s in Paris are the pivotal years in Hemingway's apprenticeship as a writer, whether sitting in cafés or at the feet of Gertrude Stein. These are the heady times of the Nick Adams short stories, Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby, and the writing of The Sun Also Rises. These are also the years of Hemingway's first marriage to Hadley Richardson, the birth of his first son, and his discovery of the bullfights at Pamplona.

In this incredible second book in a series of autobiographies, the poet, still in her teens, gives birth to a son, tries to keep a job, falls in love, dances, falls out of love, chases after her kidnapped baby, and goes to work in a house of prostitution thinking she is helping the man she loves...

PULITZER PRIZE FINALIST In this magisterial study of the relationship between illness and art, the best-selling author of An Unquiet Mind, Kay Redfield Jamison, brings an entirely fresh understanding to the work and life of Robert Lowell (1917-1977), whose intense, complex, and personal...

A former United States Navy admiral with a distinguished and extraordinary career, Admiral William McRaven retired from the Navy in 2014 after more than 37 years of service. During the last few years of his career he was also 'Bull Frog', the longest serving Navy SEAL still on duty. Admiral McRaven has written a book which shares the most important principles he learned during his career - it's called Make Your Bed: Small things that can change your life...and maybe the world.

Penguin presents the unabridged, downloadable, audiobook edition of The Pigeon Tunnel. Written and read by John le Carré. 'Out of the secret world I once knew, I have tried to make a theatre for the larger worlds we inhabit. First comes the imagining, then the search for reality. Then back to...

Samuel Pepys kept a diary in which he wrote with astonishing candour about the life he saw around him in London in the 1660s, and about his private desires and ambitions. The diary was kept for fewer than 10 years of his long life: Claire Tomalin tells the whole story of the Fleet Street tailor's son who made himself rich and powerful, an MP and adviser to royalty.

Beatrix Potter's Gardening Life is the first work to explore the origins of Beatrix Potter's love of gardening and plants and show how this passion came to be reflected in her work.

Sylvia Plath: A Literary Life examines the way Plath made herself into a writer. Close analysis of Plath's reading and apprenticeship writing both in fiction and poetry sheds considerable light on Plath's work in the late 1960s. In this updated edition, there will be discussion of the aftermath of Plath's death including the publication of her Collected Poems edited by Ted Hughes which won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1982. Biographies of Plath will be examined along with the publication of Hughes's Birthday Letters.

من منّأ لا يعرف الشاعر الفلسطيني محمود درويش؟! من منّا لم يردّد قصائده ويترنّم بأغنياتها؟ في هذا الكتاب سنقترب أكثر من درويش الإنسان..درويش المواطن الفلسطيني...

Named a Best Book of the Year by The Washington Post “A definitive and ideal biography—pound for pound, one of the sleekest and most judicious I’ve ever read.” —The New York Times A critical darling, Crumb is the first biography of Robert Crumb—one of the most profound and...

Winner of the 2016 EDGAR, AGATHA, MACAVITY and H.R.F.KEATING crime writing awards, this real-life detective story investigates how Agatha Christie and colleagues in a mysterious literary club transformed crime fiction. Detective stories of the Twenties and Thirties have long been stereotyped as...

Georg Büchner kennen wir als politischen Revolutionär und als engagierten Autor. Aber wer weiß schon, dass seine Geschwister mindestens ebenso erstaunliche Talente bewiesen...

“I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great deal.” Jane Austen at her witty, observant, intelligent, and sympathetic best, in this collection of her letters written to family and friends. Compiled by her niece Fanny Knight’s son Edward Hugessen Knatchbull-Hugessen (the first Baron Brabourne), and edited by Sarah Chauncey Woolsey, this collection includes a preface written by the editor and notes from Lord Brabourne. It was originally published in 1892.

The Landscapes of Anne of Green Gables explores L. M. Montgomery's deep connection to the landscapes of Prince Edward Island that inspired her to write the beloved Anne of Green Gables series. From the Lake of Shining Waters and the Haunted Wood to Lover's Lane, you'll be immersed in the real places immortalized in the novels. Using Montgomery's journals, archives, and scrapbooks, Catherine Reid also explores the many similarities between Montgomery and her unforgettable heroine, Anne Shirley.

From the bestselling author of Operating Instructions and Bird by Bird comes a chronicle of faith and spirituality that is at once tough, personal, affectionate, wise and very funny. With an exuberant mix of passion, insight, and humor, Anne Lamott takes us on a journey through her often...

Hergé created only 24 Tintin books, which have been translated into more than 70 languages and sold 230 million copies worldwide. The Real Hergé: The Inspiration Behind Tintin takes an in-depth look at the man behind the cultural phenomenon and the history that helped shape these books. As well as focusing on the controversies that engulfed Hergé, this biography will also look at his personal life, as well as the relationships and experiences that influenced him.

50 kurze Biografien berühmter Personen der Literaturgeschichte sind in dieser Hörbuch Box versammelt! In jeweils ca. 5 Minuten erfahren die Hörer das Wichtigste über Schriftsteller wie Thomas Mann, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Friedrich Schiller, Edgar Allan Poe, Bertolt Brecht, Heinrich Böll, Kurt Tucholsky, Astrid Lindgren, Paulo Coelho, Agatha Christie, Stefan Zweig, Erich Kästner, Philip Roth, den Brüdern Grimm und viele mehr! Unterhaltung und Bildung in einem!