Jacob: 2030 books

Libya is teetering on the edge of collapse, having become a new haven for terrorist organizations and an epicenter of the refugee crisis. Few could have imagined that the uprising against the longstanding regime of Mu‘ammar Al-Gaddafi would expose a polity deeply fractured by internal divisions....

This book will guide you through the neccessary steps toward more fullfling and a happy life. It will inspire to pursue your dreams and motivate you to take action to achieve your goals. Most of all it will also show you how to decorate your life and make it more colourful and provide you with all the ingerdients to do so.

There’s an old saying: “Learn from other people's mistakes. Life is too short to make them all yourself.”Gabriel Jacob Israel tried to make them all herself. Thankfully—she failed. Neither her sordid childhood nor her troubled teens nor her misguided twenties could stop an almighty God from making...

Irresolute Catherine written by Violet Jacob who was a Scottish writer, now known especially for her historical novel Flemington and for her poetry. This book was published in 1908. And now republish in ebook format. We believe this work is culturally important in its original archival form....

A major new history of how the Enlightenment transformed people’s everyday lives The Secular Enlightenment is a panoramic account of the radical ways that life began to change for ordinary people in the age of Locke, Voltaire, and Rousseau. In this landmark book, familiar Enlightenment figures...

This book provides insight into the unique challenges facing Indian and South Asian immigrants in the West—particularly in the United States. It explores the “baggage” they carry; their expectations versus the realities of negotiating a new cultural, social, religious, and economic milieu; nostalgia...

This is a book about a man on a mission. His exact purpose is uncertain, as is the meaning of the mission, or exactly where he will end up. It follows a relationship break-up and the thoughts he has had since this break up. In some senses, it is the author's "Catcher in the Rye", but instead...

The Arab theatre and cinema are among the most neglected subjects in the studies of Oriental literature and research into the history of theatre. This book, written by the acclaimed scholar Jacob M. Landau and first published in 1958, is a survey of the development of the Arab theatre and cinema as...

Dialectic of Enlightenment is a thought-provoking introduction to the Frankfurt School of Critical Theory. Max Horkheimer and Theodor Adorno first identified the dialectic of enlightenment when fascism was on the rampage in Europe. They warned that enlightened reason and societal freedom threaten...

"The Mandate" shows us how the trip we are on in this life is not just an accidental experiment. "The Mandate" is a book that is useful as a tool to use in handling your day when everything within you says "I'm Done." Nada, I have nothing left to give! The Mandate will...

Many students dread public speaking, they find their heart racing, hands shaking, Knees knocking, and skin perspiring when they have to speak in public.Everyone can be an eloquent public speaker. However, it takes concerted effort and determination. The first step towards becoming that confident,...

Maria Magdalena was geen prostituee. Integendeel, ze was een ingewijde, een ‘vrouw die het Al kent’, zoals pas ontdekte bronnen over haar verhalen. Ze onderwees als apostola apostolorum (apostel der apostelen) de mannelijke apostelen, haar broeders. En ze was de geliefde van Jezus. Veel is er...

Die besten Methoden für einen klaren Kopf. Prüfungsangst und Lampenfieber plagen viele Menschen. In Schule und Studium hängt vom Prüfungsergebnis die weitere Laufbahn ab - man hat guten Grund zur Nervosität. Im Berufsleben wird Selbstsicherheit vorausgesetzt. Die Situationen, in denen man (sich)...

With each successive style or movement, redundant forms and technologies are replaced and then re-enacted in the name of progress. Ideologies and fictions become forms. And then there is the stranger world still of actual replicas, such as Henry Ford's Greenfield Village, where history is brought to...