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Populär sind die Gedichte von Joachim Ringelnatz, das erzählerische Werk wird meist weniger beachtet - zu Unrecht. Neben dem Dichter und Kabarettisten gibt es nämlich auch den begnadeten Erzähler Ringelnatz zu entdecken, und mit ihm eine ganze Welt voller Schönheit und Melancholie, Heiterkeit und Groteske.

Robert G. Mehlman, Mitte dreißig, steht zwischen drei Frauen und vor dem Bankrott. Galgenhumor ist seine letzte Überlebenschance. Auch dann, wenn er statt Gefühlen nur noch einen Phantomschmerz empfindet...

Die erste deutsche Übersetzung erschien 1990 unter dem Titel >Carol< im Diogenes Verlag. Eine ganz normale Geschichte, nur daß 1952, als der Kultroman einer lesbischen Liebe in McCarthys Amerika erstmals unter Pseudonym erschien, dort alles als verdächtig galt, was etwas anders war. >Salz und sein Preis< ist Patricia Highsmiths einziger Roman, der von erfüllter Liebe handelt, die als Glück empfunden wird und nicht als böser Wahn. Nie wieder s...

Der Matrose des vor Massachusetts kreuzenden Fischkutters sieht einen weißen Fleck auf dem Meer. Eine Möwe, ein Wasserball, eine Badekappe? Die blasse Fracht, die die Crew schließlich an Bord hievt, hat "volle Brüste, eine schmale Taille und Hüften wie eine Meerjungfrau, aber eine Meerjungfrau ist das nicht." Elf Stories von Leuten, deren Existenz von einem Lidschlag zum nächsten einen Riß bekommt, als ginge - ratsch - endlich der Vorhang auf...

Edith Grossman's definitive English translation of the Spanish masterpiece. Widely regarded as one of the funniest and most tragic books ever written, Don Quixote chronicles the adventures of the self-created knight-errant Don Quixote of La Mancha and his faithful squire, Sancho Panza, as they travel through sixteenth-century Spain. You haven't experienced Don Quixote in English until you've read this masterful translation.This P.S. edition fe...

A selection of stories about animals from Kipling's famous collection.

As one of his final (and finest) gifts to children's literature, this critically acclaimed and beautifully rendered autobiography by the beloved creator of "Shrek" keeps Steig's voice alive for readers of today. Full color.

Nationalism has become a topic of wide-ranging significance and heated debate over recent years, with a huge expansion in the amount of literature available. Bringing together the best and most representative of these writings,  Nations and Nationalism is an essential reader for students of political theory and related fields.

He has won $300, 000 from Willie Nelson playing dominoes and $2 million from Larry King playing poker. He has shuffled, dealt, and bluffed Presidents Richard Nixon and Lyndon. He beat Minnesota Fats at pool with a broom, Bobby Riggs at table tennis with a skillet, and Evel Knievel at golf with a carpenter's hammer. Amarillo Slim Preston has gambles with 'em all, and left most of them wishing they hadn't. The memoir of a living American icon, A...

John Malcolm, a hungry young Princeton grad, traveled halfway across the world in search of the American dream and ultimately pulled off a trade that could, quite simply, be described as the biggest deal in the history of the financial markets. Surrounded by characters ripped out of a Hollywood thriller, he quickly learned how to survive in a cutthroat world-at the feet of the biggest players the markets have ever seen. Malcolm and his twenty-...

From the bestselling author of "Chocolat" and "Coastlines" comes a novel of love and betrayal, friendship and revenge, set in 17th-century France.

- Demonstrates how the new approach (RMM) differs from current approaches in that both the structure of the model and its parameters are determined via data-driven procedures- Demonstrates that a single comprehensive methodology may provide a good platform for empirical modeling of both systematic variation (relational modeling) and random variation (variation that is captured by a statistical distribution with stable parameters)- Provides han...

The Appetizer Katie has lofty career aspirations that seem to change almost hourly: writer, film director, teacher, educational psychiatrist. In the meantime, she's waiting tables and waiting for "Mr. Right" to arrive out of the blue -- which seems unlikely, considering her romantic track record is as pitiful as her job history. The Main Course Still, a girl can dream, even when she's rushing a hot plate of linguini over to the nasty customer ...

The "Blackboard" bestselling author returns with this lush, unforgettable romance. The beautiful, strong-willed mayor of a tiny, all-black Kansas town cannot fight her attraction for a brazen sexy outlaw. Original.

This winner of the Hugo Award for Best Novel of the Year takes readers to a land threatened by war and beset by demons. A royal dowager, released from the curse of madness and manipulated by an untrustworthy god, is plunged into a desperate struggle to preserve the endangered souls of a realm.

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From one of today's most respected diet and nutrition experts, a 14-day weight loss plan designed to help you change your shape for life, using a breakthrough personalised protein prescription that has worked for thousands of his patients. The L.A. Shape Diet shows you how to analyse your body shape, personal protein needs, and metabolism and not only lose weight, but also to change your body shape. Dr Heber maintains that everyone is born wit...

With his critically acclaimed Among the Missing and Fitting Ends, award-winning author Dan Chaon proved himself a master of the short story form. He is a writer, observes the Chicago Tribune, who can "convincingly squeeze whole lives into a mere twenty pages or so.” Now Chaon marshals his notable talents in his much-anticipated debut novel.You Remind Me of Me begins with a series of separate incidents: In 1977, a little boy is savagely attacke...

Considering the potential effects of slavery, racism, and white ignorance, and oppression on the African-American experience, this author document, describe, and analyze key phenomena of the unique African-American experience of grief.

Wie lerne ich wirksam? Dies ist eine Herausforderung, die uns ein Leben lang begleitet. Erfolge in Schule, Studium und Beruf werden in hohem Maße durch das richtige Lernen oder "gewusst wie" beeinflusst. Mathematisch gesehen ist der Erfolg das Produkt aus Leistung mal Lernen. Stärker als bisher sollten Erkenntnisse der modernen Gehirnforschung für den Lernprozess berücksichtigt werden. Darauf aufbauend sind entsprechende Methoden die not...