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The Ground Tour is a journey starting in Vienna, cruising the outskirts of Rome, touching ground in Prato and Florence on our way to the depths of the Venice Lagoon. The tour will grind much too common assumptions about Italy's beauty and culture and will bring onto surface a different portrayal of...

This book shows how leaders can use life and leadership experience to make a more meaningful contribution to the world It leads us into the inner world of leadership that we often tend to deny: the intuitive insight that at the core of our leadership journey is our contribution to the collective evolutionary...

Over the last 40 years, the world has lost more than fifty percent of its wildlife population. The amount of carbon dioxide has exceeded the critical 400 ppm limit and emissions continue to rise. The oceans now contain only 10 percent of the original mass of fish. Capitalism creates an elite of a...

Jane Austen (16 December 1775 - 18 July 1817) was an English novelist known primarily for her six major novels, which interpret, critique and comment upon the British landed gentry at the end of the 18th century. Austen's plots often explore the dependence of women on marriage in the pursuit of favourable...

This book is an examination of spatial practices of eliminating and making differences. At the same time the book address the relationship between "Geo" and "Graphy", in other words the issue of writing the world. Although not a geography textbook, the point of departure IS geography, in the sense that...

In this moving story Manuela Bösch narrates the missions of Seraphina, a helping guardian angel, on earth. Together with her sisters, Seraphina is part of the celestial army to benefit the humans. However, one day Seraphina notices that the help for the humans is not sufficient any longer. So she decides...

Who knows but some of the ideas in the books may get you inspired to do that thing you always wanted to do, even if this comes in a very small way, to make your corner of this world a better place to be in. Who knows but you may realize your little corner is a really nice place to be in after all. It's all about life, if at times expressing life "outside the box" as the saying goes.

"When Lust hath conceived, it bringeth forth Sin: and Sin, when it is finished, bringeth forth Death." About sixty years ago, and somewhat more than twenty miles from the ancient town of Chester, in a southward direction, there stood a large, and, even then, an old-fashioned mansion-house....

The reality of the propaganda Hero Che Guevara only came to light when I started to look for my birthparents. My first shock was, he was still alive! I met him, he was my father but everyone has to die sometime; he died on 1.1.2017. After sixteen years of research and many questions Che Guevara/Ciro...

La grande épreuve a laissé des traces... En permettant à Bernard Allègre de rejoindre les plus fragiles et démunis, elle l’a suffisamment armé sur le plan moral pour qu’il accepte de se lancer avec ses élèves dans l’aventure humanitaire en Afrique...

Cette édition contient la traduction française et le texte original en anglais. "Bartleby" (titre original : "Bartleby, the Scrivener - A Story of Wall Street") est une nouvelle de Herman Melville (l'auteur de "Moby Dick") parue une première fois en 1853 dans le "Putnam's Monthly Magazine" et reprise...

Il y avait une fois une bonne petite fille, aimée de tous ceux qui la voyaient, mais surtout de sa grand’mère, qui ne savait rien lui refuser. Celle-ci lui fit présent d’un petit chaperon de velours rouge, et, comme il lui allait très-bien, et qu’elle ne s’habillait plus autrement, on l’appela le petit Chaperon rouge. ...

... THE theology of the older Church does not restrict the life and history and legend of Mary to the New Testament. It refers to the Prophets before, and to tradition after, her brief record in the Gospels. Chief of all prophecies is that of Isaiah : " Therefore the Lord Himself shall give you...

Where to go? We canvassed the world with an open mind. No place was too distant, no people too strange, so long as certain conditions could be met. First, we decided to eliminate climate as a living complication. Year-round warmth would mean no coats or woolens or door-closing problems; low rainfall...