Titoli in Saggi

Karl Kraus gilt als einer der bedeutendsten Aphoristiker deutscher Sprache. Ob berühmte Schriftsteller oder die Presse - nichts und niemand wurde von der gnadenlosen Kritik seiner Feder verschont. Bekannte Künstler wie Stefan Zweig, Georg Trakl, Thomas Mann und andere zollten ihm Respekt, aber die Zahl seiner Feinde in Kunst und Gesellschaft war enorm. Als Vorleser hinterließ er aufgrund seiner Sprachgewalt und Persönlichkeit angeblich einen äußerst außergewöhnlichen Eindruck.

This exclusive compilation was first published to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the 'Quote, Unquote'. It takes a fond look a the show in which celebrity guests are quizzed about quotations, famous and obscure, and invited to contribute their own quotes and anecdotes. From identifying...

'I tend to think of myself as a man of few words, but looking at this collection it seems to have been gab gab gab for the last thirty years'. Admittedly not all the words are his own - but even the work of other writers can be transformed by Alan Bennett. This unique anthology of Bennett's...

Abridged for audio. Read by the author, Clive James. With fascinating essays on towering figures from Anna Akhmatova to Stefan Zweig, via Charles de Gaulle, Hitler, Thomas Mann and Wittgenstein, Cultural Amnesia is one of the crowning achievements in Clive James's illustrious career as a critic...

Sir Mark Tully was the BBC’s Foreign Correspondent in India from 1972 to 1994. He has become familiar to listeners around the world for his incisive and thought-provoking reports. On this special recording, he looks back at a career that coincided with a remarkable period in Indian history...

Chi non vorrebbe conoscere il segreto per conservare i ricordi: dagli oggetti cui siamo affezionati ai momenti più importanti della nostra vita? Chi non vorrebbe ritrovare facilmente un'emozione racchiusa nella lettera che ci ha fatto innamorare, o impressa nel biglietto di un concerto indimenticabile? Non è solo una questione di ordine, ma di metodo e dimestichezza con le pratiche che, da sempre, si applicano al mondo degli archivi di aziende, istituzioni, famiglie.

من النافذة هو إطلالة أدبية يبدعها إبراهيم عبد القادر المازني، حيث يجمع بين تأملاته الفكرية الساخرة ونظرته العميقة إلى الحياة والمجتمع. من خلال هذه الصفحات، يفتح المازني نافذة تطل على مشاهد يومية تتشابك مع تحليلات فلسفية بارعة، كاشفًا عن تناقضات النفس البشرية وصراعاتها مع الواقع. بأسلوب يمزج بين الفكاهة اللاذعة والحكمة، يقدم المازني مزيجًا من المقالات والقصص القصيرة التي تأسر القارئ برؤيتها البسيطة والعميقة. من النافذة ليس مجرد كتاب عابر، بل هو رحلة في أعماق الذات والمجتمع، تشهد على عبقرية المازني وقدرته على التقاط دقائق الحياة وتحويلها إلى أدب خالد.

"Manieren – Manners" ist ein bedeutender Essay von Ralph Waldo Emerson – einem der geistigen Wegbereiter des amerikanischen Transzendentalismus. In diesem Klassiker der Lebensführung betont Emerson, dass wahre Manieren mehr sind als bloße Etikette: Sie beruhen auf Charakter, Achtung und innerer Ausgeglichenheit. Zwischen Philosophie und Lebensweisheit vermittelt der Text eine zeitlose Haltung: dass echte Würde, Authentizität und Menschlichkeit der wahre Maßstab für gutes Benehmen sind.

The author of the New York Times bestselling novel The Gates of the Alamo, the sweeping Texas history Big Wonderful Thing, and decades of incisive journalism, Stephen Harrigan is an adept writer skilled in crafting memorable characters. From this singular voice now comes a collection of essays tackling the most personal, and yet most expansive, themes of all: identity, memory, and time itself.

From personal loss to phantom diseases, The Empathy Exams is a bold and brilliant collection. A Publishers Weekly Top Ten Essay Collection of Spring 2014 Beginning with her experience as a medical actor who was paid to act out symptoms for medical students to diagnose, Leslie Jamison's visceral...

We all know the names: Jacinda Ardern, Kamala Harris, Tony Blair, Justin Trudeau, John Howard, Sanna Marin, Nelson Mandela, and Julia Gillard. But what about the people standing just behind them? In The Right Hand, Missing Perspectives founder Phoebe Saintilan-Stocks sits down with the chiefs of...

Winner of an AudioFile Earphones Award! From the award-winning author of An Everlasting Meal comes a record of daily delights from inside the kitchen and just outside it; designed to help you find joy every day. “Delight in food, in eating, in cooking, in serving, in recognizing our luck when...

“Strikingly dramatic, yet simple and unrestrained . . . an unusual and intensely interesting book richly packed with strange information.” —New York Times Book Review Based on Zora Neale Hurston’s personal experiences in Haiti and Jamaica, where she participated as an initiate rather...

For over thirty years, John Julius Norwich has been sending out his Christmas Crackers a personal collection of quirky quotes and literary odds and ends to his friends instead of a Christmas card. In September 2007 an invited audience enjoyed a special performance by John Julius Norwich of a...

Alistair Cooke looks back on a rich and varied life, one which has taken him across the ocean but never far away from the BBC. Drawing on archive recordings, this selection includes interviews from radio and television, Cooke's Letter From America, and a speech made to the Royal Television...

What made FDR a more successful leader during the Depression crisis than Hoover? Why was Eisenhower more effective as supreme commander during World War II than he was as president? Why was Grant one of the best presidents of his day, if not in all of American history? What drove Bobby Kennedy into the scrum of electoral politics? Find the surprising and revelatory answers to these questions and more in this collection of new essays by great historians.

This is not a book about politics. It is a book about what makes us British, and what makes us European. Spend time with some of your favourite writers and artists in this truly unique collection spanning everything from art, language, food, music and movies, to war, literature, driving, nudity...

Con el espectro de la anarquía invocado por la derecha para sembrar el miedo, nunca ha sido más urgente una explicación convincente de la filosofía política conocida como anarquismo. Sobre el anarquismo arroja una luz muy necesaria sobre los fundamentos del pensamiento de Chomsky, específicamente su constante cuestionamiento de la legitimidad del poder atrincherado. El libro reúne algunos de sus ensayos y entrevistas, para proporcionar una breve y accesible introducción a su visión distintivamente optimista del anarquismo.

ديوان مسامرات أبي حيان في حضرة الوزير ابن سعدان. فيه من طرائف العلم وأدب المجالس ما يشحذ الذهن ويقوي الفهم، ويمتّع الروح بمسائل الأدب والفلسفة والشعر وأخبار الناس. فيه حديث العقل والقلب، مزدان بجواهر الكلام وروائع النُكت والنوادر، مؤنس في الليل ممتمع بالنهار، صخب وعلم وأنس وإمتاع ومؤانسة

أنا هنا معك قارئي العزيز على صفحات هذا الكتاب، أريد أن أتكلم، أحكي، أبوح، أفضفض أريدك أن تراني وأن تعرفني جيدًا؛ لأنني سأحاول أن أكون "أنا" بلا تزويق ولا تنميق .. أود أن أوطد علاقتي بك، أرى نفسي في مرآتك، أحس بصدى حكاياتي في تعبيراتك، تعليقاتك تفاعلك، تأثرك، حماسك أو غضبك كل هذا يجعلني أشعر بحالة عالية من السعادة والتوازن النفسي.. فأنت الذي تدفعني للكتابة، تشحن بطارياتي وتدعوني إلى فنجان من القهوة نفكر معًا من خلاله في فكرة تشغل بالي.