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Arriving as a young writer in an ancient Dutch town, Benjamin Moser was flummoxed, as any newcomer might be, by the language, people, and culture. As he started exploring his newly adopted country, he stumbled upon the great painters of the Dutch Golden Age, that galaxy of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century artists-Rembrandt, Hals, and Vermeer among them-who seemed to be asking the same questions he'd been grappling with: Why do we make art? W...

Hoffnungen, Wünsche und Erwartungen, Höhen und Tiefen - das sind 130 Jahre Hertha BSC. Seit langer Zeit spielt der Verein so Fußball, wie das Leben funktioniert: mit Auf- und Abstiegen, mit Siegen und Niederlagen, mit Frustrationen und Festen... ehrlich und bodenständig, abgehoben und wahnsinnig. - Aber dieses Buch ist keine Vereinschronik oder Festschrift zum 130. Geburtstag. Vielmehr erinnert sich der Autor mit leichter Feder einfach an beso...

Twenty years ago, Benjamin Moser followed a love affair to an ancient Dutch town. In order to make sense of the place where he had ended up, Moser threw himself into the world of the painters of Dutch Golden Age, Rembrandt, Hals, and Vermeer among them, and found himself confronting the bigger questions those artists asked.Why do we make art, and why do we need it? Who, and what, is an artist? How can art help us see ourselves and others? And ...

This book is a collection of thirteen important theological writings of the influential Scottish theologian and New Testament scholar James Denney (1856-1917). His work had a significant influence on such seminal twentieth-century theologians as P. T. Forsyth and H. R. Mackintosh, and it continues to be important for theologians, biblical scholars, philosophers of religion, and Christian preachers. Forsyth said of Denney: "He has more importan...

This book is a collection of thirteen important theological writings of the influential Scottish theologian and New Testament scholar James Denney (1856-1917). His work had a significant influence on such seminal twentieth-century theologians as P. T. Forsyth and H. R. Mackintosh, and it continues to be important for theologians, biblical scholars, philosophers of religion, and Christian preachers. Forsyth said of Denney: "He has more importan...

Ausgezeichnet mit dem Pulitzer-Preis als beste Biografie Susan Sontags glamouröse Erscheinung ist so legendär wie ihr schneidender Verstand. Das Themenspektrum, das sie in ihrem beeindruckenden literarischen Werk bearbeitete, reicht von postabstrakter Malerei über Pornografie und Existenzialismus bis hin zu Krebs und Kriegsfotografie. Für seine monumentale Biografie dieser Literaturikone des 20. Jahrhunderts konnte Benjamin Moser zahlreiche...

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Glanz und Elend einer LiteraturikoneSusan Sontags glamouröse Erscheinung ist so legendär wie ihr schneidender Verstand. Das Themenspektrum, das sie in ihrem beeindruckenden literarischen Werk bearbeitete, reicht von postabstrakter Malerei über Pornografie und Existenzialismus bis hin zu Krebs und Kriegsfotografie. Für seine monumentale Biografie dieser Literaturikone des 20. Jahrhunderts konnte Benjamin Moser zahlreiche private Aufzeichnungen ...

Susan Sontag was our last great literary star. Her brilliant, serious mind combined with her striking image, her rigorous intellectualism and her ground-breaking inquiries into what was then seen as 'low culture' - celebrity, photographs, camp - propelled her into her own unique, inimitable category and made her famous the world over, emblematic of twentieth-century New York literary glamour. Sontag is the first biography based on exclusive ac...

WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZEFinalist for the Lambda Literary AwardFinalist for the PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for BiographyNamed one of the Best Books of the Year by: O Magazine, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, Seattle Times The definitive portrait of one of the American Century's most towering intellectuals: her writing and her radical thought, her public activism and her hidden private face No writer is as emblematic of the American twent...

That rare person who looked like Marlene Dietrich and wrote like Virginia Woolf, Clarice Lispector is one of the most popular but least understood of Latin American writers. This title tells how this precocious girl, through long exile abroad and difficult personal struggles, matured into a great writer.

The God of Christian faith is, according to Peter Taylor Forsyth, a God of holy, righteous love. As a result, God's intervention in human life is morally robust, being in search of the transformation of its recipients toward holy love. Its high point is in the cross of Jesus Christ. This book contains twenty of Forsyth's essays that clarify the nature and manifestation of God's holy love. Forsyth contends that God is an active personal agent w...

The God of Christian faith is, according to Peter Taylor Forsyth, a God of holy, righteous love. As a result, God's intervention in human life is morally robust, being in search of the transformation of its recipients toward holy love. Its high point is in the cross of Jesus Christ. This book contains twenty of Forsyth's essays that clarify the nature and manifestation of God's holy love. Forsyth contends that God is an active personal agent w...

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Benjamin Moser is the author of Why This World: A Biography of Clarice Lispector, a finalist for the National Book Critics' Circle Award and his work bringing Clarice Lispector to international prominence was recognized with Brazil's State Prize for Cultural Diplomacy. He has published translations from several languages, received a Guggenheim Fellowship, and worked as a books columnist for Harper's Magazine and The New York Times Book Review....

The definitive portrait of one of the American Century's most towering intellectuals: her writing and her radical thought, her public activism and her hidden private face.

17 nationale Titel und der Gewinn des Korac-Cup sprechen eine klare Sprache: Alba Berlin ist das Powerhouse im deutschen Basketball.Der Berliner Basketball-Bundesligist Alba Berlin hat eine kurze, aber bewegte Historie. Zwischen 1997 und 2004 dominierte er den deutschen Basketball mit sieben Meisterschaften in Folge und konnte auch auf internationalem Parkett stets für Furore sorgen. Insgesamt 18 Titel stehen für Alba Berlin zu Buche.Dem Autor...

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