The Country of the Blind / Das Land der Blinden (mit Audio)
The Country of the Blind / Das Land der Blinden (mit Audio)

Author: Herbert George Wells

Publisher: EasyOriginal Verlag

Published: 2021-05-25

Total Pages: 190

ISBN-13: 399112033X

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Entdecken Sie die Welt der Fremdsprachen auf eine ganz neue Weise mit der Lesemethode von Ilya Frank, perfekt für alle ab dem Sprachniveau A2. Diese innovative Methode kombiniert Originaltexte mit klaren, direkten Übersetzungen und bietet zusätzliche Erläuterungen direkt im Lesefluss, um ein tiefes Verständnis und schnelles Lernen zu fördern. Ob Sie Ihre Sprachkenntnisse verbessern oder in eine neue Sprache eintauchen möchten, diese Methode bietet ein einzigartiges und effektives Leseerlebnis. Dank der integrierten Hörbücher wird auch das Hörverständnis trainiert. Lesemethode von Ilya Frank ist ideal für alle, die ihre Sprachkenntnisse effektiv erweitern wollen, ohne den natürlichen Lesefluss zu unterbrechen. Entdecken Sie das packende Meisterwerk "The Country of the Blind" – eine Geschichte, die Sie in eine verborgene Welt entführt. In den abgelegenen Anden Ecuadors liegt das mysteriöse Tal des Blindenlandes, abgeschnitten von der Außenwelt durch eine katastrophale Naturkatastrophe. Hier hat sich eine Gemeinschaft von Blinden gebildet, die über Generationen hinweg in völliger Isolation lebt. Als Nuñez, ein Sehender, in ihr Tal stürzt, wird er mit einer Welt konfrontiert, in der Sehen nicht nur wertlos, sondern sogar ein Hindernis ist. Diese fesselnde Erzählung von H.G. Wells stellt grundlegende Fragen über Wahrnehmung, Anpassung und was es wirklich bedeutet, "zu sehen". Entdecken Sie die Spannungen zwischen Nuñez' Welt des Sehens und der einzigartigen Kultur der Blinden, in einem Tal, wo der Spruch "Im Land der Blinden ist der Einäugige König" auf die Probe gestellt wird. Ein Muss für jeden Literaturliebhaber, der sich nach einer Geschichte sehnt, die den Geist herausfordert und das Herz berührt. Ungekürzter Originaltext. Zweisprachiges Buch Englisch-Deutsch.

The Psychic Life of Power
The Psychic Life of Power

Author: Judith Butler

Publisher: Stanford University Press

Published: 1997

Total Pages: 236

ISBN-13: 9780804728126

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Judith Butler's new book considers the way in which psychic life is generated by the social operation of power, and how that social operation of power is concealed and fortified by the psyche that it produces. It combines social theory, philosophy, and psychoanalysis in novel ways, and offers a more sustained analysis of the theory of subject formation implicit in her previous books.

Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900)
Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900)

Author: Jürgen Backhaus

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2006-10-11

Total Pages: 254

ISBN-13: 0387329803

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Friedrich Nietzsche’s influence on the development of modern social sciences has not been well documented. This volume reconsiders some of Nietzsche’s writings on economics and the science of state, pioneering a line of research up to now unavailable in English. The authors intend to provoke conversation and inspire research on the role that this much misunderstood philosopher and cultural critic has played – or should play – in the history of economics.

The Vitamin A Story
The Vitamin A Story

Author: R.D. Semba

Publisher: Karger Medical and Scientific Publishers

Published: 2013-07-01

Total Pages: 224

ISBN-13: 331802189X

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This book shows how vitamin A deficiency – before the vitamin was known to scientists – affected millions of people throughout history. It is a story of sailors and soldiers, penniless mothers, orphaned infants, and young children left susceptible to blindness and fatal infections. We also glimpse the fortunate ones who, with ample vitamin A-rich food, escaped this elusive stalker. Why were people going blind and dying? To unravel this puzzle, scientists around the world competed over the course of a century. Their persistent efforts led to the identification of vitamin A and its essential role in health. As a primary focus of today’s international public health efforts, vitamin A has saved hundreds of thousands of lives. But, we discover, they could save many more were it not for obstacles erected by political and ideological zealots who lack a historical perspective of the problem. Although exhaustively researched and documented, this book is written for intellectually curious lay readers as well as for specialists. Public health professionals, nutritionists, and historians of science and medicine have much to learn from this book about the cultural and scientific origins of their disciplines. Likewise, readers interested in military and cultural history will learn about the interaction of health, society, science, and politics. The author’s presentation of vitamin A deficiency is likely to become a classic case study of health disparities in the past as well as the present.

Mephisto
Mephisto

Author: Klaus Mann

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 1995-09-01

Total Pages: 276

ISBN-13: 9780140189186

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“It chimes eerily with the times we are living through now.” ―Margaret Atwood, The New York Times Book Review Hendrik Hofgen is a man obsessed with becoming a famous actor. When the Nazis come to power in Germany, he willingly renounces his Communist past and deserts his wife and mistress in order to keep on performing. His diabolical performance as Mephistopheles in Faust proves to be the stepping-stone he yearned for: attracting the attention of Hermann Göring, it wins Hofgen an appointment as head of the State Theatre. The rewards – the respect of the public, a castle-like villa, a place in Berlin's highest circles – are beyond his wildest dreams. But the moral consequences of his betrayals begin to haunt him, turning his dreamworld into a nightmare. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

The Well Spring of the Goths
The Well Spring of the Goths

Author: Ingemar Nordgren

Publisher: iUniverse

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 666

ISBN-13: 0595336485

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The Goths-a rumored people first known by history around the river Vistula in present Poland-was the people that more than other contributed to the fall of the Roman Empire. It was however also the Goths who preserved the Roman culture against other Germanic tribes. Earlier it has been generally assumed the Goths originated in Scandinavia but during the 20th c. many scholars have grown skeptical. The author has, using both Classical and Nordic sources and supplementary sciences, made probable there is an intimate connection between the Goths and the Nordic countries. Consequently it is quite possible that at least part of the Goths have a Nordic origin. The book rests on the basic hypothesis that the Goths are not a people but a number of tribes and peoples united through a common religious/cultic origin. The old dispute concerning the relationship between Svear and Gautar also gets quite a new meaning. The book is interdisciplinary and embraces history, religion, arts, linguistics and archaeology. In 1999 Ingemar Nordgren received his Ph.D. at Odense University, Denmark The book builds to a considerable extent on his dissertation but has been updated and partly rewritten with brand new material.