"We trust in the linear, forever the same shape of the past, until eternity. But the diffrences between the past, presence and future are nothing but an illusion."
"When an inventive mouse misses the biggest cheese festival the world has ever seen, he's determined to turn back the clock. But what is time, and can it be influenced? With the help of a mouse clockmaker, a lot of inventiveness, and the notes of a certain famous Swiss physicist he succeeds in traveling back in time. But when he misses his goal by eighty years, the only one who can help is an employee of the Swiss Patent Office, who turned our concept of space and time upside down."--Amazon.com
Included in the 2018 summer reading list by New York Times Books A modern-day glimpse into the surprising reality of life in Iran. Iran: A destination that is seldom seen by westerners yet often misunderstood. A country that simultaneously “enchants and enrages” those who visit it. A place where leading a double life has become the norm. In Couchsurfing in Iran, award-winning author Stephan Orth spends sixty-two days on the road in this mysterious Islamic republic to provide a revealing, behind-the-scenes look at life in one of the world’s most closed societies. Through the unsurpassed hospitality of twenty-two hosts, he skips the guidebooks and tourist attractions and travels from Persian carpet to bed to cot, covering more than 8,400 kilometers to recount “this world’s hidden doings.” Experiencing daily what he calls the “two Irans” that coexist side by side—the “theocracy, where people mourn their martyrs” in mausoleums, and the “hide-and-seek-ocracy, where people hold secret parties and seek worldly thrills instead of spiritual bliss”—he learns that Iranians have become experts in navigating around their country’s strict laws. Though couchsurfing is officially prohibited in Iran—the state fears spies would be able to travel undetected through the country—more than a hundred thousand Iranians are registered with online couchsurfing portals. And thanks to these hospitable, English-speaking strangers, Orth gets up close and personal with locals, peering behind closed doors and blank windows to uncover the inner workings of a country where public show and private reality are strikingly opposed.
Companionship with aliens...Practicing the Apocalypse...And a lot more...Are you ready to accompany sci-fi adventures that you will certainly devour? Come on then.
Erleben Sie eine fesselnde Reise durch "Die Poesie der Sinne", ein Buch, das die verborgenen Welten des Gesichts enthüllt. Tauchen Sie ein in die zarten Landschaften der Augen, Lippen, Wangen und mehr, während die Worte des Autors eine symphonische Ode an die Schönheit des Menschseins weben. Von den majestätischen Höhen der Stirn bis zu den anmutigen Tiefen des Halses erkundet dieses Buch die Magie der Emotionen und die Poesie, die in jedem Blick, Lächeln und Berührung verborgen ist. Eine unvergessliche Entdeckung der Sinne erwartet Sie zwischen den Seiten dieses Bestsellers, der die Essenz der Menschlichkeit in jedem Detail einfängt.
Im Bewegungs- und Darstellungsmodus des Reisens verschränken sich räumliche und zeitliche Erfahrungen. Die Beiträge des Sammelbandes untersuchen am Beispiel realer und imaginärer Reisen von Charles Darwin bis zu Doris Lessing, wie sich diese Erfahrungen seit dem 19. Jahrhundert im Kontext von Wahrnehmungs- und Transportrevolutionen verändert haben: Gibt es noch Bildungsreisen in einer globalisierten Geschwindigkeitskultur? Wie entwickeln sich ästhetische Reise-Entwürfe angesichts technologischer und wissenschaftlicher Innovationen? Welche kulturkritischen Gegenentwürfe werden angeboten?
Following a youth of poverty and bitter exile after his father's execution, the ousted king first challenged, then made his magnificent escape from, Cromwell's troops before he was eventually restored to his throne in triumph in 1660. Spanning his life both before and after the Restoration, Antonia Fraser's lively and fascinating biography captures all the vitality of the man and the expansiveness of the age.