Albert: 2833 books

This absorbing collection of letters spans a decade in the lifelong friendship of two remarkable writers who engaged the subjects of literature, race, and identity with deep clarity and passion. The correspondence begins in 1950 when Ellison is living in New York City, hard at work on his enduring...

The Colonizer and the Colonized by Albert Memmi (translated from the French by Howard Greenfeld; introduction by Jean-Paul Sartre; 39,000 words) Written in 1956 when Morocco and Tunisia gained independence from France and soon after the Algerian war had started, this book describes the inescapable...

A lively collection of Einstein’s groundbreaking scientific correspondence on modern physics Imagine getting four of the greatest minds of modern physics in a room together to explain and debate the theories and innovations of their day. This is the fascinating experience of reading Letters...

La población anglosajona de Northriver está lista para celebrar los fastos propios de la navidad, las calles llenas de luces y los niños haciendo muñecos de nieve enternecen los corazones de todos sus habitantes. Incluso el espíritu de la navidad ha invadido a la comisaria del pueblo.Sin embargo,...

Mission9 - Het geheim van het kernkwadrant, is een avontuurlijk boek voor jongeren van 9 tot 99 jaar. Teenagers die hun aangeboren kernkwaliteiten willen ontdekken, leren in dit boek spelenderwijs de vier aspecten van het kernkwadrant kennen, te weten je kernkwaliteiten, de bijbehorende valkuilen,...

From National Book Award finalist Albert Marrin comes a fascinating look at the history and science of the deadly 1918 flu pandemic--and the chances for another worldwide pandemic. In spring of 1918, World War I was underway, and troops at Fort Riley, Kansas, found themselves felled by influenza....

Mord auf dem Land: Drei Krimis Alfred Bekker, Peter Haberl & Albert Baeumer Der Umfang dieses Buchs entspricht 341 Taschenbuchseiten. Morde in ländlcher Idylle - in der Oberpfalz, im Selfkant und im Münsterland. Skurril und spannend. Dieses Buch enthält folgende drei Romane: Peter Haberl: Der...

Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) is the most widely used treatment for depression for one simple reason: it works. The CBT program in this workbook has helped thousands of readers defeat the depressive thoughts and beliefs that keep them from enjoying life and feeling like themselves. Used alone...

A fascinating collection of Einstein’s observations about life, religion, nationalism, and a host of personal topics that engaged the genius’s intellect In the aftermath of the First World War, Einstein writes about his hopes for the League of Nations, his feelings as a German citizen about...

World-renowned theoretical physicist Albert Einstein was interested in explaining the theory of Relativity to people who were not especially well-versed in higher mathematic concepts and theoretical physics. His solution to this was to write the ground-breaking work, "Relativity: The Special and General...

E=mc2: It may be Einstein’s most well-known contribution to modern science, but how many people understand the thought process or physics behind this famous equation? In this collection of his seven most important essays on physics, Einstein guides his reader step-by-step through the many...

An inspiring collection of the great thinker’s views on a rapidly changing world Nuclear proliferation, Zionism, and the global economy are just a few of the insightful and surprisingly prescient topics scientist Albert Einstein discusses in this volume of collected essays from between 1931...

Las ideas de Albert Camus sobre la justicia, la libertad, el absurdo de la vida humana y la rebeldía se han consolidado como un referente ineludible para entender su tiempo y el nuestro. Aunque menos difundidas, las reflexiones que dedicó al pensamiento libertario y a las ideas de Bakunin y otros...

This is the inspiring story of an ordinary guy who achieved two great goals that others had told him were impossible. First, he set a record for the longest automobile journey ever made around the world, during the course of which he blasted his way out of minefields, survived a breakdown atop the...