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A Sydney Taylor Award Notable Young Adult Book In this “luminous” (Kirkus Reviews, starred review) young adult edition of the bestselling, award-winning memoir The Choice, Holocaust survivor and renowned psychologist Dr. Edith Eva Eger shares her harrowing experiences and gives readers the...

Aristotle was an extraordinary thinker, perhaps the greatest in history. Yet he was preoccupied by an ordinary question: how to be happy. His deepest belief was that we can all be happy in a meaningful, sustained way - and he led by example. In this handbook to his timeless teachings, Professor Edith Hall shows how ancient thinking is precisely what we need today, even if you don’t know your Odyssey from your Iliad. 

„Die Bauernhoftiere“ – „WiBuKi – Wissensbuch für Kinder“Welche Mutter und welcher Vater kennt sie nicht, die vielen Fragen neugieriger Kinder: «Warum? Wieso? Wie funktioniert das? Was ist das?»Leider kennen viele Kinder heute kaum Bauernhoftiere. Es soll sogar Kinder geben, die meinen, dass alle Kühe lila gefleckt sind.

This Very Short Introduction introduces the life, work, and influence of one of the greatest dramatists of all time, Sophocles the Athenian. Placing his plays within their historical context, and explaining the conventions of ancient Greek tragic theatre, Edith Hall spotlights their distinctive features—tight plots, titanic personalities, lucid style, sympathetic women, exquisite poetry, and stagecraft. This analysis is followed by an account of how and why Sophoclean dramas have survived to be read and widely performed into the twenty-first century.

This carefully curated collection brings together some of the most influential and enduring works in American literature. Spanning the 19th and 20th centuries, these novels explore love and loss, identity and ambition, innocence and disillusionment—offering a powerful reflection of the American experience in all its complexity. Timeless in their themes and revolutionary in style, The Essential American Classics Collection is a must-have for readers seeking the heart and soul of American fiction.

Author Edith Wharton was born to an extremely wealthy family and was raised among the elites of New York society. This gave Wharton a front-row seat to the goings-on, intrigues and drama of that strange and fascinating world, which she exposed and satirized in her two best known novels: "The House of Mirth" and "The Age of Innocence" (the latter of which won her the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, the first for a female writer).

BBC radio productions of classic works by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Edith Wharton - plus two bonus documentaries American author Edith Wharton is renowned for her merciless satires of marriage and money, set in the upper-class milieu into which she was born. Included here are a superb...

Schluss mit der Illusion von Effizienz! "Der administrative Zen-Garten" ist kein Handbuch für Ordnungsliebende – es ist das Manifest für alle, die unter der Last von 5000 Jahren Bürokratie stöhnen. Die stille Koryphäe Edith Fromm führt Sie durch die Abgründe der Registratur: Vom...

Meistere das Chaos im ADHS-Alltag mit smartem Selbstmanagement, das dein Gehirn gezielt unterstützt. Wenn die ständige Überforderung im Job oder das Zettelchaos am Schreibtisch an den Nerven zerren, hilft keine reine Willenskraft mehr. Finde auf dem Weg zur Arbeit oder beim Aufräumen endlich...

Et si nos véritables prisons étaient nos pensées et nos croyances limitantes ? Et si les clés pour s'en libérer se trouvaient en nous ? C'est le secret que nous révèle Edith Eger. Rescapée des camps et de la déportation, l'auteure est une survivante qui a dédié sa vie à se reconstruire puis à aider les autres à dépasser leurs traumatismes. Basé sur plus de 40 ans d’analyse des mécanismes psychologiques de la souffrance dans ses aspects les plus extrêmes, ce livre apporte des outils concrets, universels et puissants de résilience et de guérison.

One of Edith Wharton’s most acclaimed works, The Custom of the Country is a blistering indictment of materialism, power, and misplaced values. Its heroine, Undine Spragg, is one of the most ruthless characters in all of literature, as selfishly unscrupulous as she is fiercely beautiful. When...

Penguin presents the audiobook edition of The Choice by Edith Eger, read by Tovah Feldshuh with an introduction by the author. The extraordinary true story of survival, hope and empowerment from a Holocaust survivor. THE AWARD-WINNING INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER Even in hell, hope can flower. In...

“En gave til menneskeheden. En af de sjældne og evige historier, som efterlader dig for altid forandret.” – Desmond Tutu I 1944 bliver Edith Eger som 16-årig deporteret til koncentrationslejren Auschwitz. Ved ankomsten bliver hun adskilt fra sine forældre, der bliver sendt direkte i...

Roberta, Peter, and Phyllis were quite happy living in their ordinary red brick house in the London suburbs. But when their father is taken away, the children and their mother are forced to move to a dark, shabby cottage in the country, changing their lives more than they could ever imagine. At...

Here is a collection of four delightful dragon stories by two master writers for children: "The Reluctant Dragon" by Kenneth Grahame and "The Island of the Nine Whirlpools", "The Fiery Dragon", and "The Last Dragon" by Edith Nesbit. Presented with lively music and even the occasional amusing sound effect.

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. In the hushed drawing rooms of 1870s New York, where every gesture is scrutinized and every word carries the weight of unspoken rules, Newland Archer seems to have it all figured out. Engaged to the beautiful, dutiful May Welland, he is poised to take...

A groundbreaking approach to healing from trauma and experiencing posttraumatic growth from a leading psychologist, featuring a powerful, five-stage framework to help readers not just recover, but thrive and transform. Trauma has always been part of the human experience, and traumatic...

In der 1. Geschichte "Der falsche Prinz" von Wilhelm Hauff fühlt sich der kleine Schneidergeselle Labakan zu Höherem geboren. Deshalb stiehlt er einen kostbaren Mantel und macht sich darin auf den Weg in die Welt hinaus…. . Im 2.

Welche Mutter und welcher Vater kennt sie nicht, die vielen Fragen neugieriger Kinder: «Warum? Wieso? Wie funktioniert das? Was ist das?»Natürlich sind die Tiere der Unterwasserwelt der Meere nicht so einfach in ihrem natürlichen Lebensraum zu beobachten wie die Wassertiere in unseren Flüssen, aber es sind wunderbare Tiere mit schillernden Farben, spannenden Eigenschaften und kleinen Geheimnissen. In diesem Buch werden zehn dieser Tiere vorgestellt.

À 16 ans, Edith Eger est déportée à Auschwitz. Repérée par Joseph Mengele, médecin du camp, elle est choisie pour rejoindre la troupe de danseuses. Elle survivra et réussira avec le temps à transformer le choc de l'horreur en détermination pour mener et diriger sa vie. Après la guerre...