Digital imprint: 12409 books
Recalculating: Steve Chapman on a New Century
Collected Columns from the Chicago Tribune
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2016
Steve Chapman is a nationally syndicated columnist known for his discerning commentary, wry humor, and optimism in the face of an ever-changing world. His newest book, Recalculating: Steve Chapman on a New Century, compiles the best of his popular twice-a-week Chicago Tribune column. It is the first...
by Richard Dargie
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2012
In Iran, you will learn that Iran, formerly known as Persia, is one of the worlds oldest civilizations. Since the revolution in 1979, Iran has been governed as an Islamic Republic with an ayatollah, or Shia religious leader, as its supreme ruler. This has led to profound changes and tensions in Iranian society.
How to Live Forever
Lives Less Ordinary
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2011
The Lives Less Ordinary series brings you the most exciting, adventurous and entertaining true-life writing that is out there, for men who are time-poor but want the best. Lives Less Ordinary drops you into extreme first-hand accounts of human experience, whether that's the adrenaline-pumping heights...
Baby Bust
New Choices for Men and Women in Work and Family
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2013
**Lean in. Opt out. Have it all. None of the above.
A new book based on a groundbreaking cross-generational study reveals both greater freedom and new constraints for men and women in their work and family lives.**
Stew Friedman, founding director of The Wharton School’s Work/Life...
by Ulfat Aziz-us-Samad
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2012
This book deals with important and serious issues related to both Islam and Christianity. The authenticity of both the Gospels and the Quran are tested thoroughly. Also, the missions of Muhammad and Jesus (peace be upon them) are dealt with in a comparative way in this invaluable book. Moreover, the...
by Nawawi Foundation
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2012
The principal objective behind this book is to take the reader along a journey of discovery - how to attain, achieve and sustain self serenity. In accomplishing this, the human being is at peace with himself and his environment, and copes with life's circumstances with ease; knowing with certainty that...
Dear Charlie
Letters to a Lost Daughter
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2013
‘The writing is incredibly raw and…pulls no punches…What it does do is remind us that life is brief and to be valued, which is no small thing.’ The Observer ‘Extra-ordinarily beautiful book on love and loss.’ The Bookseller ‘…utterly compelling in its intimacy...
by Yusuf al-Qaradawi
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2012
This book explores the way to achieve success both in this worldly life and in the Hereafter. It is the way to happiness and to a pure life in general. It is the power of morals and morals of power, the soul of life and life of the soul, beauty of the world and the world of beauty, the light of the way...
by Alastair Campbell
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2012
Are you happy? Does it matter?
Increasingly, governments seem to think so. As the UK government conducts its first happiness survey, Alastair Campbell looks at happiness as a political as well as a personal issue; what it should mean to us, what it means to him. Taking in economic and political...
Gaius Julius Caesar
Aufstieg und Fall eines römischen Politikers. Biografie
Language: German
Release Date: August 8, 2015
Die Autorin spürt dem Leben und Wirken des G. Julius Caesar nach. Sie zeigt die Taten des römischen Feldherren und Staatsmannes im Zusammenhang mit den sozialen und politischen Gegebenheiten dieser Zeit. Gleichzeitig versucht sie, aus dem Überlieferten Rückschlüsse über Caesars Leben im Kreise...
Claus Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg
Der Täter und seine Zeit
Language: German
Release Date: August 13, 2015
Am 20. Juli 1944,12.40 Uhr, detoniert in Hitlers Hauptquartier an der Ostfront eine Bombe. Der Attentäter, Oberst Stauffenberg, ist bereits auf dem Wege zum Flughafen. Sein Ziel ist Berlin. Dort will er den Staatsstreich gegen Hitler, der den Anschlag leicht verletzt überlebte, koordinieren. Gegen...
Nur in Rheinsberg bin ich glücklich gewesen
Kronprinz Friedrich in Küstrin, Ruppin und Rheinsberg
Language: German
Release Date: August 26, 2015
In vielen Veröffentlichungen über Friedrich II. von Preußen wird die Rheinsberger Zeit, vom Kauf des Schlosses 1734 bis zur Thronbesteigung 1740, als freiheitliches Idyll im ansonsten plagenreichen Leben Friedrichs dargestellt. Kurz vor seinem Tod sprach er den bekannten Satz: 'Das Unglück hat...
Elisabeth - Landgräfin von Thüringen
Das irdische Leben einer Heiligen
Language: German
Release Date: August 22, 2015
Wenn man die Wartburg besucht, gelangt man durch einen Laubengang in die Kemenate der heiligen Elisabeth. Sie ist geschmückt mit den berühmten Fresken Moritz von Schwinds, die an das Leben dieser Frau erinnern. Wer war Elisabeth, Landgräfin von Thüringen, die 1231, nur vierundzwanzigjährig, starb...
Ich, Friedrich II.
Das Leben des großen Preußenkönigs nacherzählt
Language: German
Release Date: August 28, 2015
Friedrich II., auch Friedrich der Große oder der Alte Fritz genannt, war von 1740 bis zu seinem Tode im Jahre 1786 preußischer König, führte die drei Schlesischen Kriege und schaffte die Anerkennung Preußens als fünfte Großmacht neben Frankreich, Großbritannien, Österreich und Russland. Hans...