Stones from the River embarks on a journey into the life of Trudi Montag, a Zwerg—a dwarf—perceived as short, undesirable, and different. This novel delves into the essence of being an outsider and the universal quest for acceptance and belonging. Trudi's story unfolds in a small town, amidst the tumultuous backdrop of World War II, where she becomes a beacon of hope and a sanctuary for those deemed different or in danger.

The narrative explores Trudi's discovery that being different is a secret that all humans share—from her mother, engulfed by madness, to her friend Georg, forced to live as a girl, to the Jews Trudi shelters in her cellar. Ursula Hegi weaves a profound tapestry of emotional power, humanity, and truth, offering a timeless and unforgettable tale.

In The Temple of the Golden Pavilion, celebrated Japanese novelist Yukio Mishima creates a haunting portrait of a young man’s obsession with idealized beauty and his destructive quest to possess it fully. Mizoguchi, an ostracized stutterer, develops a childhood fascination with Kyoto’s famous Golden Temple. While an acolyte at the temple, he fixates on the structure’s aesthetic perfection and it becomes his one and only object of desire. But as Mizoguchi begins to perceive flaws in the temple, he determines that the only true path to beauty lies in an act of horrific violence. Based on a real incident that occurred in 1950, The Temple of the Golden Pavilion brilliantly portrays the passions and agonies of a young man in postwar Japan, bringing to the subject the erotic imagination and instinct for the dramatic moment that marked Mishima as one of the towering makers of modern fiction. With an introduction by Donald Keene; Translated from the Japanese by Ivan Morris.

In 1967, after a session with a psychiatrist she'd never seen before, eighteen-year-old Susanna Kaysen was put in a taxi and sent to McLean Hospital. She spent most of the next two years on the ward for teenage girls in a psychiatric hospital as renowned for its famous clientele--Sylvia Plath, Robert Lowell, James Taylor, and Ray Charles--as for its progressive methods of treating those who could afford its sanctuary. Kaysen's memoir encompasses horror and razor-edged perception while providing vivid portraits of her fellow patients and their keepers. It is a brilliant evocation of a "parallel universe" set within the kaleidoscopically shifting landscape of the late sixties. Girl, Interrupted is a clear-sighted, unflinching document that gives lasting and specific dimension to our definitions of sane and insane, mental illness and recovery.

Cool. The concept has distinctly American qualities and it permeates almost every aspect of contemporary American culture. From Kool cigarettes and the Peanuts cartoon's Joe Cool to West Side Story ("Keep cool, boy.") and urban slang ("Be cool. Chill out."), the idea of cool, in its many manifestations, has seized a central place in our vocabulary.

Where did this preoccupation with cool come from? How was Victorian culture, seemingly so ensconced, replaced with the current emotional status quo? From whence came American Cool?

These are the questions Peter Stearns seeks to answer in this timely and engaging volume. American Cool focuses extensively on the transition decades, from the erosion of Victorianism in the 1920s to the solidification of a cool culture in the 1960s. Beyond describing the characteristics of the new directions and how they altered or amended earlier standards, the book seeks to explain why the change occurred. It then assesses some of the outcomes and longer-range consequences of this transformation.

In the summer of 1947, when the creation of the state of Pakistan was formally announced, ten million people—Muslims and Hindus and Sikhs—were in flight. By the time the monsoon broke, almost a million of them were dead, and all of northern India was in arms, in terror, or in hiding. The only remaining oases of peace were a scatter of little villages lost in the remote reaches of the frontier. One of these villages was Mano Majra.

It is a place, Khushwant Singh goes on to tell us at the beginning of this classic novel, where Sikhs and Muslims have lived together in peace for hundreds of years. Then one day, at the end of the summer, the “ghost train” arrives, a silent, incredible funeral train loaded with the bodies of thousands of refugees, bringing the village its first taste of the horrors of the civil war.

Train to Pakistan is the story of this isolated village that is plunged into the abyss of religious hate. It is also the story of a Sikh boy and a Muslim girl whose love endured and transcends the ravages of war.

Banned in America for almost thirty years because of its explicit sexual content, this companion volume to Miller's Tropic of Cancer chronicles his life in 1920s New York City. Famous for its frank portrayal of life in Brooklyn's ethnic neighborhoods, and Miller's outrageous sexual exploits, Tropic of Capricorn is now considered a cornerstone of modern literature.

In 2025, with the world descending into madness and anarchy, one woman begins a fateful journey toward a better future.

Lauren Olamina and her family live in one of the only safe neighborhoods remaining on the outskirts of Los Angeles. Behind the walls of their defended enclave, Lauren’s father, a preacher, and a handful of other citizens try to salvage what remains of a culture that has been destroyed by drugs, disease, war, and chronic water shortages. While her father tries to lead people on the righteous path, Lauren struggles with hyperempathy, a condition that makes her extraordinarily sensitive to the pain of others.

When fire destroys their compound, Lauren’s family is killed and she is forced out into a world that is fraught with danger. With a handful of other refugees, Lauren must make her way north to safety, along the way conceiving a revolutionary idea that may mean salvation for all mankind.

Angels in America is a play in two parts by American playwright Tony Kushner. The play is a complex, often metaphorical, and at times symbolic examination of AIDS and homosexuality in America in the 1980s. Certain major and minor characters are supernatural beings (angels) or deceased persons (ghosts). The play contains multiple roles for several of the actors. Initially and primarily focusing on a gay couple in Manhattan, the play also has several other storylines, some of which occasionally intersect.

When lives are dominated by hunger, what becomes of love? When assaulted by daily acts of violence and untimely death, what happens to trust? Set in the lands of Northeast Brazil, this is an account of the everyday experience of scarcity, sickness, and death that centres on the lives of the women and children of a hillside favela. Bringing her readers to the impoverished slopes above the modern plantation town of Bom Jesus de Mata, where she has worked on and off for 25 years, Nancy Scheper-Hughes follows three generations of shantytown women as they struggle to survive through hard work, cunning and triage.

It is a story of class relations told at the most basic level of bodies, emotions, desires and needs. Most disturbing – and controversial – is her finding that mother love, as conventionally understood, is something of a bourgeois myth, a luxury for those who can reasonably expect, as these women cannot, that their infants will live.

Andrea Dworkin’s seminal 1981 work on the issue of pornography is an important and urgent document about how the culture consumes and manipulates images of women. Essential and discomfiting reading in a social media era, where women’s bodies are being commodified and displayed more than ever.

Her discussion of pornography as an outgrowth of the power that men exert over women—the power of owning, the power of money, and the power of sex, among others—still blazes with its clarity and immediacy, and illustrates how these inequities, while displayed in raw form in pornography, are endemic in all media.

With a lively and deeply compelling voice, Andrea Dworkin succinctly outlines her anti-pornography stance. Though the media environment may have changed, this passionately and powerfully argued classic remains a relevant and crucial contribution to the area of feminist studies.

Free to Choose: A Personal Statement is a powerful and persuasive discussion about economics, freedom, and the relationship between the two. Authored by Milton Friedman and Rose D. Friedman, this book explains how our freedom has been eroded and our prosperity undermined through the explosion of laws, regulations, agencies, and spending in Washington. The Friedmans argue that good intentions often produce deplorable results when the government acts as the middleman.

The book also provides remedies for these ills and offers insights on what can be done to expand our freedom and promote prosperity. This important analysis reveals what has gone wrong in America in the past and outlines necessary steps for our economic health to flourish.

Dr. Harivanshrai Bachchan is India's leading Hindi poet, a confidante of the Nehrus. His son is India's best-known cinema superstar, Amitabh Bachchan.

The core of this book is a long sequence called Madhushala (the house of wine), which could be compared to the Rubaiyat in imagery and metre.

With dazzling wit and astonishing insight, Bill Bryson—the acclaimed author of The Lost Continent—brilliantly explores the remarkable history, eccentricities, resilience and sheer fun of the English language.

From the first descent of the larynx into the throat (why you can talk but your dog can't), to the fine lost art of swearing, Bryson tells the fascinating, often uproarious story of an inadequate, second-rate tongue of peasants that developed into one of the world's largest growth industries.

Michel Foucault offers an iconoclastic exploration of why we feel compelled to continually analyze and discuss sex. This book delves into the social and mental mechanisms of power that cause us to direct the questions of what we are to what our sexuality is.

Foucault challenges the norms and invites readers to rethink the complex relationships between sex, power, and identity. Through this work, he provides a critical lens on how sexuality is perceived and its impact on society.

In this sequel to The History of Sexuality, Volume I: An Introduction, the brilliantly original French thinker who died in 1984 gives an analysis of how the ancient Greeks perceived sexuality.

Throughout The Use of Pleasure, Foucault analyzes an irresistible array of ancient Greek texts on eroticism as he tries to answer basic questions:

• How in the West did sexual experience become a moral issue?
• Why were other appetites of the body, such as hunger, and collective concerns, such as civic duty, not subjected to the numberless rules and regulations and judgments that have defined, if not confined, sexual behavior?

In 1939, as Hitler casts his enormous, cruel shadow across the world, the seeds of apartheid take root in South Africa. There, a boy called Peekay is born. His childhood is marked by humiliation and abandonment, yet he vows to survive and conceives heroic dreams, which are nothing compared to what life actually has in store for him.

He embarks on an epic journey through a land of tribal superstition and modern prejudice where he will learn the power of words, the power to transform lives, and the power of one.

Meet New York Times bestselling author Isabel Allende’s most enchanting creation, Eva Luna: a lover, a writer, a revolutionary, and above all a storyteller—available for the first time in ebook.

Eva Luna is the daughter of a professor’s assistant and a snake-bitten gardener—born poor, orphaned at an early age, and working as a servant. Eva is a naturally gifted and imaginative storyteller who meets people from all stations and walks of life. Though she has no wealth, she trades her stories like currency with people who are kind to her. In this novel, she shares the story of her own life and introduces readers to a diverse and eccentric cast of characters including the Lebanese émigré who befriends her and takes her in; her unfortunate godmother, whose brain is addled by rum and who believes in all the Catholic saints and a few of her own invention; a street urchin who grows into a petty criminal and, later, a leader in the guerrilla struggle; a celebrated transsexual entertainer who instructs her in the ways of the adult world; and a young refugee whose flight from postwar Europe will prove crucial to Eva's fate.

As Eva tells her story, Isabel Allende conjures up a whole complex South American nation—the rich, the poor, the simple, and the sophisticated—in a novel replete with character and incident, with drama and comedy and history, with battles and passions, rebellions and reunions, a novel that celebrates the power of imagination to create a better world.

The Power of Myth launched an extraordinary resurgence of interest in Joseph Campbell and his work. A preeminent scholar, writer, and teacher, he has had a profound influence on millions of people—including Star Wars creator George Lucas. To Campbell, mythology was the “song of the universe, the music of the spheres.” With Bill Moyers, one of America’s most prominent journalists, as his thoughtful and engaging interviewer, The Power of Myth touches on subjects from modern marriage to virgin births, from Jesus to John Lennon, offering a brilliant combination of intelligence and wit.

From stories of the gods and goddesses of ancient Greece and Rome to traditions of Buddhism, Hinduism and Christianity, a broad array of themes are considered that together identify the universality of human experience across time and culture. An impeccable match of interviewer and subject, a timeless distillation of Campbell’s work, The Power of Myth continues to exert a profound influence on our culture.

A Thousand Plateaus is a fascinating exploration of capitalism and schizophrenia by renowned philosopher Gilles Deleuze and psychoanalyst Felix Guattari. This work is part of their landmark philosophical project, Capitalism and Schizophrenia, which continues to influence contemporary philosophical debates.

The book offers a compelling analysis of social phenomena, providing fresh alternatives for thinking about philosophy and culture. Its radical perspective acts as a toolbox for nomadic thought, making it a significant influence on today's anti-capitalist movement.

Translated by Brian Massumi, this book challenges accepted norms of morality, language, and politics, suggesting an open system of psychological exploration that cuts through conventional boundaries.

Wendell Berry, a longtime spokesman for conservation, common sense, and sustainable agriculture, writes eloquently in several styles and methods. Among other literary forms, he is a poet of great clarity and sureness. His love of language and his care for its music are matched only by his fidelity to the subjects he has written of during his first twenty-five years of work: land and nature, the family and community, tradition as the groundwork for life and culture.

His graceful elegies sit easily alongside lyrics of humor and biting satire. Husbandman and husband, philosopher and Mad Farmer, he writes of values that endure, of earthy truths and universal imagery. His vision is one of hope and memory, of determination and faithfulness.

For this far-reaching yet portable volume, Berry has chosen nearly two hundred poems from his previous eight collections.

This is the inspirational novel that popularized the expression, What Would Jesus Do?

Written by a Congregational minister, it tells of four prominent members of a small town who resolve to undertake no action without first considering Christ's example.

Originally published in 1897, it continues to speak to modern readers.

Tisha is the beloved real-life story of a woman in the Alaskan wilderness, the children she taught, and the man she loved.

“From the time I’d been a girl, I’d been thrilled with the idea of living on a frontier. So when I was offered the job of teaching school in a gold-mining settlement called Chicken, I accepted right away.”

Anne Hobbs was only nineteen in 1927 when she came to the harsh and beautiful Alaska. Running a ramshackle schoolhouse would expose her to more than just the elements. After she allowed Native American children into her class and fell in love with a half-Inuit man, she would learn the meanings of prejudice and perseverance, irrational hatred and unconditional love.

“People get as mean as the weather,” she discovered, but they were also capable of great good. As told to Robert Specht, Anne Hobbs’s true story has captivated generations of readers.

Chronicle of a Death Foretold is a gripping story that explores the themes of injustice and mob hysteria. The narrative unfolds around the murder of a young aristocrat, Santiago Nasar, which puts an entire society—not just a pair of murderers—on trial.

A man returns to the town where this baffling murder took place 27 years earlier, determined to get to the bottom of the story. Just hours after marrying the beautiful Angela Vicario, Bayardo San Roman returned his bride in disgrace to her parents. Her distraught family forced her to name her first lover; and her twin brothers announced their intention to murder Santiago Nasar for dishonoring their sister. Yet, if everyone knew the murder was going to happen, why did no one intervene to stop it? The more that is learned, the less is understood, and as the story races to its inexplicable conclusion, the reader is left pondering the complexities of human nature and societal norms.

Malevil is a gripping tale of survival and resilience. After a devastating nuclear holocaust ravages the Earth, a group of survivors find refuge in the depths of a castle in the south of France. This is not just a story of survival, but of the reconstruction of civilization itself. The survivors, led by Emmanuel Comte, transform the castle of Malevil into a beacon of hope and a new beginning.

The novel delves into various themes such as religion, politics, and the role of leadership in rebuilding society. It also explores the dynamics of a mini-community, highlighting the challenges and triumphs of starting anew in a world that has been reduced to ruins.

The narrative is a fascinating blend of post-apocalyptic fiction and robinsonade, where the characters must navigate the complexities of human nature and societal structures in their quest to rebuild what was lost. This is a story of hope, courage, and the indomitable spirit of humanity.

From one of our most important scholars and civil rights activist icons, this powerful study delves into the women’s liberation movement and the complex web of oppression facing Black women.

Angela Davis provides a comprehensive history of the social and political influence of whiteness and elitism in feminism, tracing back from abolitionist days to the present. She demonstrates how the racist and classist biases of its leaders have consistently hampered collective ambitions.

While Black women found support from activists like Sarah and Angelina Grimke, and unwavering backing from Frederick Douglass for the suffrage cause, many women leveraged the fears of white supremacists for political gain, rather than adopting an intersectional approach to liberation.

In this bold and indispensable work, Davis not only contextualizes the legacy and pitfalls of civil and women’s rights activists but also discusses the roles of Communist women, the tragic murder of Emmitt Till, and Margaret Sanger’s racism. She highlights how the inequalities between Black and white women continue to influence contemporary issues such as rape, reproductive freedom, housework, and child care.

The Varieties of Religious Experience is a profound exploration into the psychology of religion by renowned philosopher William James. This work delves into the heart of religious life, not through the lens of organized religion, but through the individual experiences that shape our understanding of the divine.

James presents a pluralistic view, suggesting that religious experiences are the essence of spiritual life. He examines concepts such as conversion, repentance, mysticism, and the human hopes and fears regarding the afterlife. Through a series of engaging lectures, he analyzes the religious experiences of notable figures such as Voltaire, Emerson, Luther, and Tolstoy.

With his characteristic humor and insightful analysis, James challenges readers to question established norms and explore the depths of their own spiritual beliefs. This book remains a cornerstone in the study of the psychology of religion and continues to inspire thoughtful reflection on faith and spirituality.

"The truth is always made up of little particulars which sound ridiculous when repeated." So says Jack Crabb, the 111-year-old narrator of Thomas Berger’s 1964 masterpiece of American fiction, Little Big Man. Berger claimed the Western as serious literature with this savage and epic account of one man’s extraordinary double life. After surviving the massacre of his pioneer family, ten-year-old Jack is adopted by an Indian chief who nicknames him Little Big Man. As a Cheyenne, he feasts on dog, loves four wives, and sees his people butchered by horse soldiers commanded by General George Armstrong Custer. Later, living as a white man once more, he hunts the buffalo to near-extinction, tangles with Wyatt Earp, cheats Wild Bill Hickok, and fights in the Battle of Little Bighorn alongside Custer himself—a man he’d sworn to kill.

Hailed by The Nation as “a seminal event,” Little Big Man is a singular literary achievement that, like its hero, only gets better with age.

كتاب «الإسلام بين الشرق والغرب»، هو نتيجة لدراسة واسعة متعددة الجوانب لأبرز الأفكار العالمية في تاريخ البشرية المعاصر. إن ظاهرة نسيان الذات التي تميز بها التاريخ الحديث للعالم الإسلامي، تضع المفكر الشرقي والغربي على السواء في موقف مماثل من هذا الكتاب.

فمن خلال الدراسة المقارنة للمقدمات الأساسية والنتائج المترتبة عليها في المجالات الاجتماعية والقانونية والسياسية والثقافية والنفسية، وغيرها من المجالات للأيديولوجيتين اللتين حددتا أقدار الجنس البشري على مدى القرون الأخيرة. من خلال هذه الدراسة يكشف لنا المؤلف عن أعراض المشهد المأساوي المتزايد للتنصير والإلحاد في هذا العالم.

فالمسيحية كمثال لظاهرة دينية حضارية ـ أعني دينًا بمعناه الغربي معزولاً عن قانون الوحي ـ هي فكرة شاملة للإبداع والحضارة والفن والأخلاق، وبهذا حلقت المسيحية في روحانية التاريخ. أما الإلحاد الذي يستند إلى مدخل مادي ـ الاشتراكية منظوره العملي والتاريخي ـ هذا الإلحاد هو العامل المشترك للعناصر التطورية والحضارية والسياسية والطوباوية التي تُعنى بالطبيعة المادية للإنسان وتاريخه.

الشيطان يعظ هي مجموعة قصصية رائعة من تأليف الكاتب الكبير نجيب محفوظ, الذي حصل على جائزة نوبل في الأدب. هذه المجموعة تقدم لنا قصصًا مثيرة ومشوقة، تبحر في أعماق النفس البشرية وتتناول موضوعات الخير والشر، الفضيلة والرذيلة.

يستخدم محفوظ أسلوبه الفريد في السرد ليقدم لنا صورًا حية وواقعية من المجتمع المصري، ويطرح أسئلة فلسفية عميقة حول الحياة والمصير. هذه القصص ليست مجرد حكايات، بل هي دعوة للتفكير والتأمل في جوهر الوجود الإنساني.

A vivid depiction of the suffering history has imposed upon the people of Bosnia from the late sixteenth century to the beginning of World War I, The Bridge on the Drina earned Ivo Andric the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1961. A great stone bridge built three centuries ago in the heart of the Balkans by a Grand Vezir of the Ottoman Empire dominates the setting of Andric's stunning novel. Spanning generations, nationalities, and creeds, the bridge stands witness to the countless lives played out upon it:

Radisav, the workman, who tries to hinder its construction and is impaled on its highest point; to the lovely Fata, who throws herself from its parapet to escape a loveless marriage; to Milan, the gambler, who risks everything in one last game on the bridge with the devil his opponent; to Fedun, the young soldier, who pays for a moment of spring forgetfulness with his life. War finally destroys the span, and with it the last descendant of that family to which the Grand Vezir confided the care of his pious bequest - the bridge.

Milkman Dead was born shortly after a neighborhood eccentric hurled himself off a rooftop in a vain attempt at flight. For the rest of his life he, too, will be trying to fly. With this brilliantly imagined novel, Toni Morrison transfigures the coming-of-age story as audaciously as Saul Bellow or Gabriel García Márquez. As she follows Milkman from his rustbelt city to the place of his family’s origins, Morrison introduces an entire cast of strivers and seeresses, liars and assassins, the inhabitants of a fully realized black world.

This revised and expanded edition of The Essential Rumi includes a new introduction by Coleman Barks and more than 80 never-before-published poems. Through his lyrical translations, Coleman Barks has been instrumental in bringing this exquisite literature to a remarkably wide range of readers, making the ecstatic, spiritual poetry of thirteenth-century Sufi Mystic Rumi more popular than ever.

The Essential Rumi continues to be the bestselling of all Rumi books, and the definitive selection of his beautiful, mystical poetry.

How do we see the world around us?

Ways of Seeing is a groundbreaking work by John Berger that challenges the traditional ways of viewing art. First published in 1972, the book is based on the acclaimed BBC television series.

Berger explores the intricate relationship between what we see and what we know. "Seeing comes before words. The child looks and recognizes before it can speak." This fundamental idea sets the stage for a deeper understanding of visual culture.

The book emphasizes that seeing establishes our place in the world, and while we describe our world with words, they can never replace the visual experience.

Berger's work is celebrated for its ability to demystify the art world and empower readers to engage with images directly. It has been described as an "eye-opener," transforming how audiences perceive paintings and visual media.

Whether you're an art aficionado or a curious observer, Ways of Seeing invites you to see the world with fresh eyes and a liberated perspective.

No denunciation without its proper instrument of close analysis, Roland Barthes wrote in his preface to Mythologies. There is no more proper instrument of analysis of our contemporary myths than this book—one of the most significant works in French theory, and one that has transformed the way readers and philosophers view the world around them.

Our age is a triumph of codification. We own devices that bring the world to the command of our fingertips. We have access to boundless information and prodigious quantities of stuff. We decide to like or not, to believe or not, to buy or not. We pick and choose. We think we are free. Yet all around us, in pop culture, politics, mainstream media, and advertising, there are codes and symbols that govern our choices. They are the fabrications of consumer society. They express myths of success, well-being, and happiness.

As Barthes sees it, these myths must be carefully deciphered, and debunked. What Barthes discerned in mass media, the fashion of plastic, and the politics of postcolonial France applies with equal force to today's social networks, the iPhone, and the images of 9/11.

This new edition of Mythologies, complete and beautifully rendered by the Pulitzer Prize–winning poet, critic, and translator Richard Howard, is a consecration of Barthes's classic—a lesson in clairvoyance that is more relevant now than ever.

Michel Foucault examines the archeology of madness in the West from 1500 to 1800. From the late Middle Ages, when insanity was still considered part of everyday life and fools and lunatics walked the streets freely, to the time when such people began to be considered a threat. Asylums were first built, and walls were erected between the “insane” and the rest of humanity.

6. August 1945, 8 Uhr 15 Minuten - die kleine Sadako Sasaki erlebt den Atombombenabwurf über Hiroshima scheinbar unbeschadet.

10 Jahre später: Sadako, eine begeisterte Radfahrerin, wird bei einem Rennen von einer plötzlichen Schwäche befallen und es stellt sich heraus, dass sie an der Strahlenkrankheit leidet.

Einer japanischen Tradition zufolge wird jedem, der tausend Papierkraniche faltet, ein sehnlicher Wunsch in Erfüllung gehen. Sadako klammert sich an diese Legende und an das Leben, selbst als die Ärzte sie aufgegeben haben. Unbeirrt arbeitet sie an den Kranichen, doch beim 990. versagen ihre Kräfte ...

When Arkady Petrovich comes home from college, his father finds his eager, naive son changed almost beyond recognition, for the impressionable Arkady has fallen under the powerful influence of the friend he has brought with him. A self-proclaimed nihilist, the ardent young Bazarov shocks Arkady's father by criticizing the landowning way of life and by his outspoken determination to sweep away traditional values of contemporary Russian society.

Turgenev's depiction of the conflict between generations and their ideals stunned readers when Fathers and Sons was first published in 1862. But many could also sympathize with Arkady's fascination with its nihilist hero whose story vividly captures the hopes and regrets of a changing Russia.

Η μεγάλη χίμαιρα είναι ένα λεπτομερές ψυχογράφημα. Ο συγγραφέας καταπιάνεται με έναν γυναικείο χαρακτήρα και τον αναλύει συστηματικά. Η ιστορία της Μαρίνας, μιας νεαρής Γαλλίδας που ερωτεύεται, παντρεύεται και ακολουθεί τον άνδρα της στη Σύρο, στο πατρικό του σπίτι της Επισκοπής.

Εκεί ζει, κάτω από τον βαρύ, αποδοκιμαστικό ίσκιο της πεθεράς της. Καθώς η Μαρίνα συνδέει την τύχη της με τα βαπόρια του άνδρα της, κάθε ψυχική της αναταραχή έχει περίεργες συνέπειες πάνω στη ζωή τους.

Όταν έρχεται η οικονομική καταστροφή που είναι συνδεδεμένη με την ψυχική φθορά της ηρωίδας, τότε όλα μπαίνουν στο φαύλο κύκλο του έρωτα και του θανάτου.

For eight weeks in 1945, when Berlin fell into the hands of the Russian army, a young woman recorded her diary in the building of her apartment and its surroundings. The "unknown" writer portrayed Berliners in all their human natures, in their cowardice and corruption, firstly due to hunger and secondly due to the Russian soldiers.

"A Woman in Berlin" speaks about the complex relationships between the civilians and the occupying army, and the humiliating treatment of women in an occupied city, which is always a subject of mass rape that all women suffered from, regardless of age and infirmity.

"A Woman in Berlin" is one of the essential books for understanding war and life.

Desde su aparición en 1953, este libro de relatos del mexicano Juan Rulfo se ha traducido a más de veinticinco lenguas y ha dado lugar a múltiples y permanentes reediciones en los países de lengua hispana.

Esta edición, única revisada y autorizada por la Fundación Juan Rulfo, debe ser considerada como la definitiva.

Giants in the Earth (Norwegian: Verdens Grøde) is a novel by Norwegian-American author Ole Edvart Rølvaag. First published in Norway as two books in 1924 and 1925, the author collaborated with Minnesotan Lincoln Colcord on the English translation.

The novel follows a Norwegian family's struggles as they try to make a new life as pioneers in the Dakota territory. Rølvaag is interested in psychology and the human cost of empire building, at a time when other writers focused on the glamor and romance of the West. The book reflects his personal experiences as a settler as well as the immigrant homesteader experience of his wife’s family.

Both the grim realities of pioneering and the gloomy fatalism of the Norse mind are captured in depictions of snow storms, locusts, poverty, hunger, loneliness, homesickness, the difficulty of fitting into a new culture, and the estrangement of immigrant children who grow up in a new land. It is a novel at once palpably European and distinctly American.

You belong to humanity, and you are nothing without humanity. If you don’t know humanity, then you know nothing about yourself and the society around you. Knowing nothing about yourself and your society leaves you questioning your purpose in life.

Discover yourself and society by reading “Humanity”. This book is crafted after delving into ancient, medieval, and modern philosophy to find answers about humans and what’s beneficial for humans in ideologies, politics, rules, laws, and resources.

By reading “Humanity”, you can understand yourself and human society, as this book is full of wisdom. It offers insights into the reality of human society and guides you in inquiring about what is good in human society.

If you care about yourself and the society around you, and wish to discover what is beneficial for you and for society, then this book could be your guide. It’s about the “Humanity” in us.

Ensaios em antropologia visual - no mundo contemporâneo, um mundo em que a percepção visual adquire cada vez mais importância, é imprescindível um aprofundamento da compreensão dos horizontes e caminhos conceituais abertos pelo estudo da imagem no campo das Ciências Sociais.

Neste sentido, a reflexão sobre os usos e significados da imagem na memória social tem ocupado, no Brasil, um espaço cada vez maior. Este livro ajuda a mapear essa reflexão, que se encaminha para a consolidação de uma área que se pode chamar grosso modo uma Ciência Social da Imagem e do Visual, a ser desenvolvida num contexto necessariamente interdisciplinar.

Pinagsama-sama sa kasalukuyang pagpupunyaging ito ang mga batayang sanaysay gayundin ang mga bagong sanaysay ukol sa KABABAIHAN sa Kalinangan at Kasaysayang Pilipino. Tampok sa aklat na ito ang mga sinulat nina Dr. Zeus A. Salazar, Dr. Lilia Quindoza-Santiago, Dr. Judy M. Taguiwalo, Dr. Francis A. Gealogo, Ma. Reina Boro-Magbanua, Mary Jane Salazar-Tatel, Mary Dorothy dL. Jose, Atoy M. Navarro, Jerome A. Ong, Francisco M. Nunez Jr., Jely A. Galang, Janet S. Reguindin, at Adonis Ramy L. Elumbre.

Sadyang pinagsama-sama rito ang mga batikan at bagong mananaliksik sa Araling Kababaihan — babae man o lalaking mananaliksik — upang salungguhitan ang pagiging kolektibo ng pag-aaral at pananaliksik hinggil sa kababaihan kaugnay ng paninindigang feminista at panunuring malay sa kasarian.

Sa KABABAIHAN sa Kalinangan at Kasaysayang Pilipino, iginigiit bilang pangkahalatang layunin at tunguhin ang kolektibong pag-aaral at pananaliksik hindi lamang upang makapagbigay ng pangkahalatang larawan sa konteksto ng kababaihan sa kalinangan at kasaysayang Pilipino kundi upang makapagbigay rin ng mainam na tuntungan sa patuloy na kabayanihan at kilusang kababaihan sa Pilipinas.

The story in Life...Love...Kumbh... is told from the perspective of the three main characters- Annant, Agastaya, and Aditi. Their paths cross on January 13, 2010. It is the day before the first of the eleven sacred baths of the Haridwar Maha Kumbh.

The three characters meet each other and exchange their stories. They remember the days gone by and are unsure about what lies ahead.

As the Kumbh Mela draws towards an end, all three of them are thrown into a challenging situation that they have to face. The book then follows their journey as they try and find answers for their personal quests all at the same time - on life, love, and the thirst for knowledge.

Sang Pemimpi adalah sebuah lantunan kisah kehidupan yang memesona dan akan membuat Anda percaya akan tenaga cinta, percaya pada kekuatan mimpi dan pengorbanan, lebih dari itu, akan membuat Anda percaya kepada Tuhan.

Andrea akan membawa Anda berkelana menerobos sudut-sudut pemikiran di mana Anda akan menemukan pandangan yang berbeda tentang nasib, tantangan intelektualitas, dan kegembiraan yang meluap-luap, sekaligus kesedihan yang mengharu biru.

Tampak komikal pada awalnya, selayaknya kenakalan remaja biasa, tapi kemudian tanpa Anda sadari, kisah dan karakter-karakter dalam buku ini lambat laun menguasai Anda. Karena potret-potret kecil yang menawan akan menghentakkan Anda pada rasa humor yang halus namun memiliki efek filosofis yang meresonansi.

Karena arti perjuangan hidup dalam kemiskinan yang membelit dan cita-cita yang gagah berani dalam kisah dua orang tokoh utama buku ini: Arai dan Ikal akan menuntun Anda dengan semacam keanggunan dan daya tarik agar Anda dapat melihat ke dalam diri sendiri dengan penuh pengharapan, agar Anda menolak semua keputusasaan dan ketakberdayaan Anda sendiri.

"Kita tak kan pernah mendahului nasib!" teriak Arai. "Kita akan sekolah ke Prancis, menjelajahi Eropa sampai ke Afrika! Apa pun yang terjadi!"

36歳未婚女性、古倉恵子。
大学卒業後も就職せず、コンビニのバイトは18年目。これまで彼氏なし。オープン当初からスマイルマート日色駅前店で働き続け、変わりゆくメンバーを見送りながら、店長は8人目だ。

日々食べるのはコンビニ食、夢の中でもコンビニのレジを打ち、清潔なコンビニの風景と「いらっしゃいませ!」の掛け声が、毎日の安らかな眠りをもたらしてくれる。

仕事も家庭もある同窓生たちからどんなに不思議がられても、完璧なマニュアルの存在するコンビニこそが、私を世界の正常な「部品」にしてくれる――。

ある日、婚活目的の新入り男性、白羽がやってきて、そんなコンビニ的生き方は「恥ずかしくないのか」とつきつけられるが……。

現代の実存を問い、正常と異常の境目がゆらぐ衝撃のリアリズム小説。