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Der Bauernspiegel

Der Bauernspiegel

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Diese Ausgabe von "Der Bauernspiegel" wurde mit einem funktionalen Layout erstellt und sorgfältig formatiert. Jeremias Gotthelf (1797-1854) war das Pseudonym des Schweizer Schriftstellers und Pfarrers Albert Bitzius. Seine Romane spiegeln in einem zum Teil erschreckenden Realismus das bäuerliche Leben im 19. Jahrhundert. Mit wenigen starken, wuchtigen Worten konnte er Menschen und Landschaften beschreiben. Gotthelf verstand es wie kaum ein anderer Schriftsteller seiner Zeit, die christlichen und die humanistischen Forderungen in seinem Werk zu verarbeiten. 1836 fing Gotthelf mit der Schriftstellerei an. Sein erster Roman war Der Bauern-Spiegel. Der Name der Hauptfigur aus diesem Werk wurde zugleich der Schriftstellername von Bitzius: Jeremias Gotthelf. In den folgenden Jahren war er unermüdlich als Schriftsteller tätig und veröffentlichte Romane, Erzählungen, zeitgenössische und historische, sowie Aufsätze. Aus dem Buch: ""Man kann sich bei solcher Erziehung und solchen Verhältnissen meinen Vater gar gut vorstellen. Er war ein guter Arbeiter, dem aber befohlen werden mußte; er war roh, aber nicht ohne Gefühl; er sprach nicht viel; nur im Zorn, der aber selten ausbrach, konnte er nicht schweigen, sondern tobte fürchterlich. Ich glaube, er habe seine Hintansetzung gefühlt, sich aber damit getröstet, daß der Großvater für seine viele Arbeit ihm später ein Einsehen tun werde. Übrigens war er nicht gewohnt viel zu denken, auch nicht an die Zukunft; er ließ die Dinge gehen, wie sie mochten, und nahm sie, wie sie kamen. So kam er auch zu einer Frau, sicher wie viele andere, ohne recht zu wissen wie, und ganz bestimmt ohne eigentlich eine Frau zu wollen. Meinen Großeltern soll die Heirat gar nicht recht gewesen sein; nicht daß sie den Vater nicht gern heiraten gesehen hätten; zu essen hatten sie vollauf, aber nie genug Hände zur Arbeit; nur die Person war ihnen nicht recht.""

Donna delle pulizie

Donna delle pulizie

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Un memoir su cosa significhi oggi vivere da poveri nel paese più ricco del mondo, gli Stati Uniti.«Questo libro illumina le fatiche della povertà e dell’essere una madre sola, l’inarrestabile frustrazione di non avere una rete di supporto, i modi in cui la nostra società cerca sistematicamente di tenere i poveri impantanati nella povertà, che diventa una condizione indegna grazie a una burocrazia inamovibile, e il comportamento disgustoso della gente nei confronti delle persone povere »Roxane GayIl libro che ha ispirato la serie evento Maid, in onda su Netflix da ottobre 2021.Per una serie di scelte sbagliate Stephanie Land, diventata madre da poco e costretta a fuggire da un compagno violento, precipita in uno stato di povertà assoluta. Mentre lavora duramente per tirare avanti, pulendo i gabinetti dei ricchi, destreggiandosi tra una serie di lavori domestici malpagati, lo studio e il complicatissimo mondo dell'assistenza governativa, Stephanie scrive. E scrive le storie non dette degli americani sovraccarichi di lavoro e sottopagati. Delle esistenze faticose dei poveri. In una società priva di reti di protezione familiare, all'interno della quale essere poveri equivale a essere colpevoli. Ma Stephanie è caparbia, e scrivere le permette di sopravvivere alla propria orribile esistenza, e di immaginare un futuro. E alla fine ce la fa: si laurea, viene accettata dall'Economic Hardship Reporting Project, istituto che aiuta a pubblicare giornalismo di qualità concentrato sulle diseguaglianze. Memoir a lieto fine, non per questo "Donna delle pulizie" è meno potente. Prefazione di Barbara Ehrenreich.

Caligula

Caligula

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Caligula fut non seulement le plus célèbre des empereurs romains, mais aussi celui qui fut associé au plus grand éventail de perversions sexuelles : sadisme, zoophilie, inceste, nécrophilie et urophilie, entre autres. Sous son règne court mais sanglant, il n’épargna aucune humiliation à ceux qui avaient le malheur de provoquer sa colère. Stephen Barber retrace dans Caligula : le divin carnage l’odyssée meurtrière d’un empereur rendu fou par le pouvoir. Iconoclaste, rabelaisien et viscéral, son récit aborde aussi le spectacle cruel des jeux du cirque, avant d’explorer les atrocités commises par d’autres césars sanguinaires, tels que Commode, l’empereur-gladiateur. Pour donner vie à ces pratiques inhumaines d’un autre âge, l’ouvrage se pare de gravures extraites du Traité des instruments de martyre et des divers modes de supplice du révérend père Antonio Gallonio, véritable catalogue de tortures affreuses, de pressoirs, de meules et de tourniquets voués à déchirer les chairs des premiers chrétiens condamnés à mourir dans l’arène.

The Devil Finds Work

The Devil Finds Work

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From "the best essayist in this country” (The New York Times Book Review) comes an incisive book-length essay about racism in American movies that challenges the underlying assumptions in many of the films that have shaped our consciousness. Baldwin’s personal reflections on movies gathered here in a book-length essay are also an appraisal of American racial politics. Offering a look at racism in American movies and a vision of America’s self-delusions and deceptions, Baldwin considers such films as In the Heat of the Night, Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner, and The Exorcist.Here are our loves and hates, biases and cruelties, fears and ignorance reflected by the films that have entertained and shaped us. And here too is the stunning prose of a writer whose passion never diminished his struggle for equality, justice, and social change.

Uno de los nuestros

Uno de los nuestros

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Viernes 22 de julio de 2011. 15: 25: 22. Una camioneta estacionada a la entrada de la oficina del primer ministro noruego estalla en un mar de llamas. La primera víctima fue el joven abogado Jon Vegard, pero se contarían setenta y siete en total. Tras haber hecho explotar esa bomba, Anders Behring Breivik se presentó en la isla de Utøya disfrazado de policía y armado, listo para matar a los jóvenes que asistían al campamento del Partido Laborista noruego. Nadie podía imaginar que el autor de la peor masacre perpetrada en Noruega desde la Segunda Guerra Mundial no fuera un fundamentalista islámico sino uno de ellos, un hombre que decidió desentenderse de la comunidad y golpearla de la manera más brutal posible.Estas páginas dan cuenta del Breivik grafitero, del militante del Partido del Progreso, del empresario obsesionado con enriquecerse, del adicto a los juegos de computadora, del seguidor de blogs antiyihadistas, y nos llevan hasta la planificación de los ataques, la fabricación de la bomba y la jornada asesina. Brindan también una mirada casi íntima de los jóvenes comprometidos con ideales de justicia, a los que mató a sangre fría. Este relato pormenorizado de la vida y la mente del extremista de ultraderecha en su guerra contra la diversidad cultural, el feminismo y la inmigración, es también un retrato cálido de sus jóvenes víctimas y sus abatidos padres.

Donal Grant, by George MacDonald

Donal Grant, by George MacDonald

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This book is containts Biography of Donal Grant. Which is written by George Mac Donald. Donal Grant accepts a position as tutor in a wealthy family where, in addition to imparting knowledge and Godly principles to the young son, Davie, he finds himself caught in a web of mystery and madness and falling in love.

Even the Stars Look Lonesome

Even the Stars Look Lonesome

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See the difference, read Maya Angelou in Large Print* About Large PrintAll Random House Large Print editions are published in a 16-point typefaceThis wise book is the wonderful continuation of the bestselling Wouldn't Take Nothing for My Journey Now.Even the Stars Look Lonesome is Maya Angelou talking of the things she cares about most. In her unique, spellbinding way, she re-creates intimate personal experiences and gives us her wisdom on a wide variety of subjects. She tells us how a house can both hurt its occupants and heal them. She talks about Africa. She gives us a profile of Oprah. She enlightens us about age and sexuality. She confesses to the problems fame brings and shares with us the indelible lessons she has learned about rage and violence. And she sings the praises of sensuality.    Even the Stars Look Lonesome imparts the lessons of a lifetime.

Λεονάρντο ντα Βίντσι

Λεονάρντο ντα Βίντσι

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Ο Michael White, στη νέα ενδιαφέρουσα βιογραφία του, υποστηρίζει ότι ο Λεονάρντο ντα Βίντσι, με τις εφευρέσεις του, την πειραματική του μέθοδο και την επιθυμία του να διευρύνει τα όρια της γνώσης υπήρξε, ούτε λίγο ούτε πολύ, ο «πρώτος επιστήμονας». Λίγοι υποψιάζονταν το εύρος των επιστημονικών του αναζητήσεων και πειραμάτων —που εκτείνονται από την οπτική και τη μηχανική ώς την αστρονομία και την ανατομία—, διότι, φοβούμενος πιθανή υποκλοπή των ιδεών του, ο Λεονάρντο κράτησε κρυφά από τον κόσμο τα ευρήματά του. Αν τα είχε κοινοποιήσει, ίσως να άλλαζαν την πορεία των επιστημονικών ανακαλύψεων, αφού οι εργασίες του προδιέγραφαν εκείνες των Νεύτωνα, Γαλιλαίου και Κέπλερ —αντιθέτως, μετά το θάνατό του, τα χειρόγραφά του χάθηκαν για σχεδόν 200 χρόνια, ενώ μερικά δεν ξαναβρέθηκαν ποτέ.  Ο Michael White συνυφαίνει το πρώιμο επιστημονικό έργο του Λεονάρντο με την περιπετειώδη προσωπική ζωή του —τα στερημένα του παιδικά χρόνια, την ομοφυλοφιλία του, τη σχέση του με τον Μακιαβέλι και τον Καίσαρα Βοργία—, και δείχνει παραστατικά πώς συγχωνεύονται σε αυτόν η τέχνη και η επιστήμη. • «Το πνεύμα τού Λεονάρντο, όπως το είδε ο ελεύθερα σκεπτόμενος και πολυμαθής White [...]. Ο White διεισδύει στην πολυσχιδή ιδιοσυγκρασία του ήρωα των παιδικών του χρόνων.» —The Times Higher Education Supplement

Dictadoras

Dictadoras

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La historia íntima de las mujeres y amantes que acompañaron a los grandes dictadores del siglo XX.¿Por qué se suicidó la segunda esposa de Stalin? ¿Qué relación tenía Hitler con Eva Braun? ¿Y Clara Petacci con Mussolini? ¿Por qué la esposa de Franco tuvo tanto poder en su vida pública? Las repuestas están en Dictadoras, un espléndido trabajo de investigación que muestra cómo se relacionaban los tiranos con sus mujeres y con la sociedad que los rodeaba. "Hablar de algunos de los tiranos más conocidos del siglo XX a través de la visión de sus esposas, amantes e hijas, y del lugar que la mujer ocupaba en sus proyectos megalómanos, es poder ahondar en la historia europea desde otra perspectiva... es como meterse por la puerta de atrás de las dictaduras", dice Rosa Montero en el prólogo de este libro revelador que aborda el poder de las mujeres a la sombra de Stalin, Hitler, Mussolini y Franco. Junto a un equipo de televisión, la autora viajó por Rusia, Alemania, Italia y España. Allí entrevistaron a familiares directos de los dictadores, visitaron sus refugios, sus despachos privados, para reconstruir la intimidad de esos hombres tan peculiares con la ayuda de prestigiosos historiadores internacionales.

OCDad

OCDad

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“In many ways, this book is the resource I wish I had had.” How do you make time for therapy while raising kids? How do you tell the difference between healthy parental instincts and OCD symptoms? How does OCD affect parenting, and what can be done about it? After becoming a father of twins and receiving a diagnosis of OCD within the same three months, author Jason Adams found himself stuck in his search for answers to these questions, with little time and energy available for getting help.Fast forward to present times, and Jason is living a happy, bustling life with his family. The stories, struggles and strategies that brought him to mental and emotional health became this, a uniquely relatable and practical support resource for anyone trying to work on their mental health and care for their family at the same time. Whether you’re managing OCD yourself, supporting a loved one, or just keen to know more, there truly is something in this book for everyone.

The Confessions of J. J. Rousseau — Volume 01

The Confessions of J. J. Rousseau — Volume 01

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This book story a momentous epoch, when absolutism and feudalism were rallying for their last struggle against the modern spirit, chiefly represented by Voltaire, the Encyclopedists, and Rousseau himself a struggle to which, after many fierce intestine quarrels and sanguinary wars throughout Europe and America, has succeeded the prevalence of those more tolerant and rational principles by which the statesmen of our own day are actuated. The Rousseau’s lengthy and sometimes anguished dossier on the Self is one of the most remarkable and courageous works of introspection ever undertaken. Some readers may be repelled by his tendency to revel in embarrassing accounts of humiliation and fiasco, as if he were striving too hard to achieve an ultimate nakedness, a nakedness of the soul perhaps. Others may recall the compulsive self-searching of the narrator of Proust’s A la recherche du temps perdu, who also rather dwelt on the co-existence in the individual of the vile and the virtuous. The two opening volumes of the Confessions, presented in this inevitably censored edition of 1903, deal with the author’s childhood and callow adolescence.

The Memoirs of Casanova (Illustrated Edition)

The Memoirs of Casanova (Illustrated Edition)

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A series of adventures wilder and more fantastic than the wildest of romances, written down with the exactitude of a business diary; a view of men and cities from Naples to Berlin, from Madrid and London to Constantinople and St. Petersburg; the 'vie intime' of the eighteenth century depicted by a man, who to-day sat with cardinals and saluted crowned heads, and tomorrow lurked in dens of profligacy and crime; a book of confessions penned without reticence and without penitence; a record of forty years of "occult" charlatanism; a collection of tales of successful imposture, of 'bonnes fortunes', of marvellous escapes, of transcendent audacity, told with the humour of Smollett and the delicate wit of Voltaire. Who is there interested in men and letters, and in the life of the past, who would not cry, "Where can such a book as this be found?" Yet the above catalogue is but a brief outline, a bare and meager summary, of the book known as "THE MEMOIRS OF CASANOVA"; a work absolutely unique in literature. He who opens these wonderful pages is as one who sits in a theatre and looks across the gloom, not on a stage-play, but on another and a vanished world. Giacomo Casanova (1725-1798) was an Italian adventurer and author from the Republic of Venice. He often signed his works Jacques Casanova de Seingalt after he began writing in French following his second exile from Venice. He has become so famous for his often complicated and elaborate affairs with women that his name is now synonymous with "womanizer". He associated with European royalty, popes and cardinals, along with luminaries such as Benjamin Franklin, Voltaire, Goethe, and Mozart.

Moi, Charlemagne, empereur chrétien

Moi, Charlemagne, empereur chrétien

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« Dieu a voulu que je sois celui qui décide. J’étais l’empereur, romain et chrétien. » Au moment de remettre son âme entre les mains du seigneur, Charlemagne n’éprouve ni peur, ni doute, ni anxiété. Tout au long de ses quarante-six années de règne, le roi des Francs, couronné empereur à Rome le 25 décembre 800, a été le fervent défenseur de la Sainte Église. Il a converti à la foi tous les peuples qu’il a vaincus.  C’est avec soin qu’il prépare sa comparution devant Dieu, confiant les principaux actes de sa vie à un jeune et talentueux lettré, Éginhard. À travers ce dialogue, Max Gallo révèle l’extraordinaire caractère, fait d’autorité et d’intelligence délicate, de celui qui construira à la fois l’Empire chrétien et les fondements de l’Europe. Il dresse le portrait d’un conquérant implacable mais aussi d’un fin réformateur, amoureux des arts, des lettres et des femmes, qui deviendra, pour tous les français, une figure incontournable de leur histoire. Un récit saisissant qui plonge aux racines mêmes de la civilisation chrétienne.

Washington's Masonic Correspondence As Found among the Washington Papers In the Library of Congress

Washington's Masonic Correspondence As Found among the Washington Papers In the Library of Congress

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Washington's Masonic correspondence as found among the Washington papers in the Manuscript department of the Library of Congress, affords an insight of the great esteem in which Washington held the Masonic Fraternity, of which since his early days he had been an honored member. This is further shown by his great courtesy to the Brethren, in his replies to their addresses, no matter whether they were from a Grand or Subordinate Lodge. In this collection, were also found some of the original drafts of Washington's replies, together with copies of the various masonic addresses and letters to him, and in the case of Dominie Snyder, press copies of his answers. In the present work an attempt has been made to group this matter together in chronological order, also to show some of the surroundings and conditions under which this correspondence was made, and of the Brethren who were prominent in the presentation of these Eleven Addresses, which came to him from Seven of the Thirteen Colonies. A complete set of photostatic fac-similes of these documents in the Library of Congress, has been secured for the Museum of the Grand Lodge of Pennsylvania. Efforts were also made to obtain photographic copies of such of the Washington Masonic letters as were still in existence, which were successful except in two instances as noted in the text. It will be noted that on April 30, 1789, Washington, while Master of his Lodge, was inaugurated President of the United States; this is the only instance where one of the fourteen Presidents, who were Members of our Fraternity was a Master of a Lodge during their term as President.

The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin

The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin

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The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin. Benjamin Franklin (January 17, 1706 - April 17, 1790) was one of the most important and influential Founding Fathers of the United States of America. A noted polymath, Franklin was a leading author and printer, satirist, political theorist, politician, scientist, inventor, civic activist, statesman and diplomat. As a scientist he was a major figure in the Enlightenment and the history of physics for his discoveries and theories regarding electricity. He invented the lightning rod, bifocals, the Franklin stove, a carriage odometer, and a musical instrument. He formed both the first public lending library in America and first fire department in Pennsylvania. He was an early proponent of colonial unity and as a political writer and activist he, more than anyone, invented the idea of an American nation and as a diplomat during the American Revolution, he secured the French alliance that helped to make independence possible.

The Diary of Anne Frank (The Definitive Edition)

The Diary of Anne Frank (The Definitive Edition)

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Among the most powerful accounts of the Nazi occupation, "The Diary of Anne Frank" chronicles the life of Anne Frank, a thirteen-year old girl fleeing her home in Amsterdam to go into hiding. Anne reveals the relationships between eight people living under miserable conditions: facing hunger, threat of discovery and the worst horrors the modern world had seen. In these pages, she grows up to be a young woman and a wise observer of human nature. She shares an unparalleled bond with her diary, which holds a detailed account of Anne's close relationship with her father, the lack of daughterly love for her mother, admiration for her sister's intelligence and closeness with her friend Peter. Anne Frank's account offers a compelling self-portrait of a sensitive and spirited young woman who turns thoughtful and learns of the many terrors of the world.

Abraham

Abraham

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Part of the Jewish Encounter seriesOne of the world’s best-known attorneys gives us a no-holds-barred history of Jewish lawyers: from the biblical Abraham through modern-day advocates who have changed the world by challenging the status quo, defending the unpopular, contributing to the rule of law, and following the biblical command to pursue justice.   The Hebrew Bible’s two great examples of advocacy on behalf of problematic defendants—Abraham trying to convince God not to destroy the people of Sodom, and Moses trying to convince God not to destroy the golden-calf-worshipping Children of Israel—established the template for Jewish lawyers for the next 4,500 years. Whether because throughout history Jews have found themselves unjustly accused of crimes ranging from deicide to ritual child murder to treason, or because the biblical exhortation that “justice, justice, shall you pursue” has been implanted in the Jewish psyche, Jewish lawyers have been at the forefront in battles against tyranny, in advocating for those denied due process, in negotiating for just and equitable solutions to complex legal problems, and in efforts to ensure a fair trial for anyone accused of a crime.   Dershowitz profiles Jewish lawyers well-known and unheralded, admired and excoriated, victorious and defeated—and, of course, gives us some glimpses into the gung-ho practice of law, Dershowitz-style. Louis Brandeis, Theodor Herzl, Judah Benjamin, Max Hirschberg, René Cassin, Bruno Kreisky, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, and Irwin Cotler are just a few of the “idol smashers, advocates, collaborators, rescuers, and deal makers” who helped to change history. Dershowitz’s thoughts on the future of the Jewish lawyer are presented with the same insight, shrewdness, and candor that are the hallmarks of his more than four decades of writings on the law and how it is (and should be!) practiced.