"Paperback. Pub Date: November 2002 Pages: 272 Publisher: Sandpiper In these two delightful history-mysteries seven boys in Ancient Rome solve strange crimes ... thanks to some help from their cranky teacher a little bit of logic and a lot of amusing misadventure. Yes. Rufus wrote CAIUS IS A DUMBBELL on his tablet at school. but no. he did not eak into the schoolroom. did not tie up his teacher. and certainly did not paint his slur about ..."
Ser. by ClaraWinston, Richard Winston 128 Pages, Published 1975 by Mcgraw-Hill ISBN-13: 978-0-07-071123-5, ISBN: 0-07-071123-2
"Now back in print, more than two decades' worth of revelatory letters sometimes surprisingly humorous, sometimes heart-wrenchingly sad to the men and women with whom Franz Kafka maintained his closest personal relationships. Collected after his death by his friend and literary executor Max Brod, here is a treasure trove of Kafka's letters from his years as a student in Prague in the early 1900s to his final months in the sanatorium near ..."
"The Glass Bead Game is an ultra-aesthetic game which is played by the scholars, creamed off in childhood and nurtured in elite schools, in the province of Castalia. The Master of the Glass Bead Game, Joseph Knecht, holds the most exalted office in Castalia. He personifies the detachment, serenity and aesthetic vision which reward a life dedicated to perfection of the intellect. But can, indeed should, man live isolated from hunger, fami ..."
"From one of the twentieth century’s master novelists, the author of the classic All Quiet on the Western Front, comes Heaven Has No Favorites, a bittersweet story of unconventional love that sweeps across Europe. Lillian is charming, beautiful . . . and slowly dying of consumption. But she doesn’t wish to end her days in a hospital in the Alps. She wants to see Paris again, then Venice—to live frivolously for as long as possible. She ..."
"An eye-opening biography of one of the most influential psychiatrists of the modern age, drawing from his lectures, conversations, and own writings. In the spring of 1957, when he was eighty-one years old, Carl Gustav Jung undertook the telling of his life story. Memories, Dreams, Reflections is that book, composed of conversations with his colleague and friend Aniela Jaffé, as well as chapters written in his own hand, and other materi ..."
"In The Four Cardinal Virtues, Joseph Pieper delivers a stimulating quartet of essays on the four cardinal virtues. He demonstrates the unsound overvaluation of moderation that has made contemporary morality a hollow convention and points out the true significance of the Christian virtues."
"在线阅读本书在线阅读本书美国影星汤姆·克鲁斯与欧洲当红女星范·侯登联袂出演的新片《刺杀希特勒》将在于近期在国内影院上映。此片即根据Da Capo Press出版的历史传记 Valkyrie: An Insider's Account of the Plot to Kill Hitler 改编而成。自幼出生在德国一个贵族家庭的克劳斯·冯·施陶芬伯格(汤姆·克鲁斯饰),深受将军父亲的影像而最终也成踏上了戎马生涯。学历高、聪明能干且组织能力强的施陶芬伯格很快就被提拔为德军的高级军官。但在他的内心却开始对纳粹党徒们的横行霸道,尤其对希特勒(大卫·班伯尔饰)在军事上的丧心病狂深为不满和厌恶。1943年底,德军在各个战场上已开始节节败退,成千上万的德国士兵死于他乡,而希特勒却更加一意孤行。从这时起施陶芬伯格经常说,我必须采取行动拯救我们的国家,只有一个办法就是除掉希特勒。通过朋友的介绍施陶芬伯格结识了军队中的反纳粹小组成员,他们是一批对纳粹深恶痛绝的德国军人,正在密谋策划暗杀希 ..."
"This volume is produced from digital images created through the University of Michigan University Library's large-scale digitization efforts. The Library seeks to preserve the intellectual content of items in a manner that facilitates and promotes a variety of uses. The digital reformatting process results in an electronic version of the original text that can be both accessed online and used to create new print copies. The Library also ..."
"Essays on the lives and beliefs of famous rebels of Christian history, including Simon Magus, Origen, Bruno, Luther, Servetus, Spinoza and Leo Tolstoy."
"This edition published by Dorset Press (1990) by arrangement with Alfred A. Knopf. Originally published in Germany as Enge Schlucht und schwarzer Berg. The English translation by Richard and Clara Winston was published in 1956 by Alfred A. Knopf, New York. Illustrated with line drawings and maps. Includes bibliography and index. C. W. Ceram (1915 - 1972) was the pseudonym of German journalist and author Kurt Wilhelm Marek, known for ..."
"This selection of Thomas Mann's letters, first published in a Vintage edition in 1975, spans sixty-six years from the first, written by a precocious fourteen-year-old, to the last, composed on his deathbed by the eighty-year-old Nobel Laureate, and includes letters to family and to such celebrated contemporaries as Gide, Freud, Brecht, Einstein, Hesse, Schoenberg, and Adorno. Covering two world wars and exile in Europe and America, Mann ..."
"One of the great philosophers of the 20th Century, Josef Pieper, gives a penetrating introduction and guide to the life and works of perhaps the greatest philosopher ever, St. Thomas Aquinas. Pieper provides a biography of Aquinas, an overview of the 13th century he lived in, and a wonderful synthesis of his vast writings. Pieper shows how Aquinas reconciled the pragmatic thought of Aristotle with the Church, proving that realistic know ..."
"In this stimulating and still-timely study, Josef Pieper takes up a theme of paramount importance to his thinking - that festivals belong by rights among the great topics of philosophical discussion. As he develops his theory of festivity, the modern age comes under close and painful scrutiny. It is obvious that we no longer know what festivity is, namely, the celebration of existence under various symbols. Pieper exposes the pseudo-fes ..."
"From 1946 to 1966, while serving the prison sentence handed down from the Nuremburg War Crimes tribunal, Albert Speer penned 1,200 manuscript pages of personal memoirs. Titled Erinnerungen ("Recollections") upon their 1969 publication in German, Speer's critically acclaimed personal history was translated into English and published one year later as Inside the Third Reich. Long after their initial publication, Speer's memoir continues t ..."
"Kaznelson, a Prague journalist, had been editing the Zionist weekly Selbstwehr
since the end of 1913, and in 1916 he published a compilation entitled Jewish
Prague. n But after completing his university studies, Kaznelson joined the staff of
Jiidischer Verlag. During Buber's lifetime, few persons knew how great a part his
associations with literature and writers played in his life. Werner Kraft's
Conversations with Martin Buber," p ..."
"`I can understand myself only in the light of inner happenings. It is these that make up the singularity of my life, and with these my autobiography deals' - Carl Gustav Jung. In 1957, four years before his death, Carl Gustav Jung began writing his life story., But what began as an exercise in autobiography soon morphed into an altogether more profound undertaking. The result is an absorbing piece of self-analysis: a frank statement of ..."