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America's Women tells the story of more than four centuries of history. It features a stunning array of personalities, from the women peering worriedly over the side of the Mayflower to feminists having a grand old time protesting beauty pageants and bridal fairs. Courageous, silly, funny, and heartbreaking, these women shaped the nation and our vision of what it means to be female in America.

"The last man on Earth sat alone in a room. There was a knock on the door." A new crop of writers emerged from the dawning of the nuclear age, grappling with humankind's place in the universe. While imagining the wonders of space exploration and the rise of technological advancements, they questioned whether we were prepared to encounter aliens, or even control the machines and weapons we'd built ourselves.

Lilia Liska is 81. She has shrewdly outlived three husbands, raised five children and seen the arrival of 17 grandchildren. Now she has turned her keen attention to a strange little book published by a vanity press: the diary of a long-forgotten man named Roland Bouley, with whom she once had a fleeting affair.

Ein falscher Prinz wird beim Diebstahl einer goldenen Kugel erwischt und in einen magischen Wald verbannt, wo ihn eine Fee ungewollt in einen Frosch verwandelt. Die Verzauberung kann nur durch den Kuss einer Prinzessin aufgehoben werden. Als der Frosch hilft, die Goldkugel aus einem tiefen Brunnen zu holen, beansprucht er eine Belohnung. Aber bekommt er jetzt wirklich den für ihn so wichtigen Kuss, der seinen Bann löst?

La maggioranza delle persone cerca all'esterno la felicità. La realtà è che la felicità non è ritrovabile da nessuna parte se non in noi stessi. In questo audiolibro l'autrice passa in rassegna 9 argomenti in 9 capitoli, attraverso la descrizione della propria esperienza personale e strumenti scientifi ci utili per raggiungere il proprio "brillio interiore". Impreziosiscono il volume le interviste a personaggi di spicco: dagli autori di best seller Paolo Borzacchiello e Simone Tempia, ad uno dei maggiori esperti di mindfulness e presidente della Unione Buddhista italiana Filippo Scianna.

Das Filmhörspiel zum Kinofilm. Der elfjährige Stephan ist entsetzt: Er soll aufs Internat in die alte Burg Schreckenstein, um seine Noten zu verbessern. Zum Glück nehmen die Schreckensteiner Jungs Ottokar, Mücke, Strehlau und Dampfwalze ihn schon bald in ihren Rittergeheimbund auf, womit der Internatsspaß für Stephan erst richtig beginnt! Gemeinsam wird in den alten Gemäuern des Jungeninternats eifrig an Streichen verschiedenster Art getüftelt, um den arroganten Mädchen des benachbarten Internats Rosenfels eins auszuwischen.

A moving, inspiring, personal look at the vastly changing world of wildlife on planet earth as a result of human incursion, and the crucial work of animal and bird preservation across the globe being done by scientists, field biologists, zoologists, environmentalists, and conservationists.

The extraordinarily evocative stories depict the generation born in a small-town America during the Depression and growing up in a world where the old sexual morality was turned around and material comforts were easily had. Yet, as these stories reflect so accurately, life was still unsettling, and Updike chronicles telling moments both joyful and painful. The texts are taken from his recent omnibus, The Early Stories, 1953-1975.

In Hans Christian Andersen's classic tale, a little fir tree realizes too late that it did not appreciate the grand moments of life - the majesty of the forest, the dazzling grandeur of its night as a Christmas tree - while they were happening...

Set in New York at the turn of the century, the story centers on a young couple that sacrifices their dearest possessions to buy each other Christmas gifts.

Souverän und außergewöhnlich erfolgreich organisierte Johann Wolfgang von Goethe seine unterschiedlichsten Tätigkeiten...

Heinrich Heine wurde am 13. Dezember 1797 in Düsseldorf geboren. Gemäß der Familientradition begann er eine kaufmännische Laufbahn, in der er allerdings scheiterte; schließlich studierte er Jura und promovierte. Mit seiner Lyrik und seinen Reisebildern (Die Harzreise) wurde er schnell überaus populär, musste aber, angefeindet wegen seiner politischen Ansichten und der Zensur in Deutschland überdrüssig, 1831 nach Paris emigrieren.

A mid-century doctor's raw, unvarnished account of his own descent into madness, and his daughter's attempt to piece his life back together and make sense of her own. Texas-born and Harvard-educated, Dr. Perry Baird was a rising medical star in the late 1920s and 1930s. Early in his career, ahead of his time, he grew fascinated with identifying the biochemical root of manic depression, just as he began to suffer from it himself.

A selection from the John Updike audio collection. These extraordinarily evocative stories depict the generation born in a small-town America during the Depression and growing up in a world where the old sexual morality was turned around and material comforts were easily had. Yet, as these stories reflect so accurately, life was still unsettling, and Updike chronicles telling moments both joyful and painful.

A selection from the John Updike audio collection. These extraordinarily evocative stories depict the generation born in a small-town America during the Depression and growing up in a world where the old sexual morality was turned around and material comforts were easily had. Yet, as these stories reflect so accurately, life was still unsettling, and Updike chronicles telling moments both joyful and painful.

An extraordinary work of history and original reporting that reveals the ways in which presidential marriages have affected the tone, character, and policies of twelve administrations, from Woodrow and Edith Wilson to George W. and Laura Bush.

A selection from the John Updike audio collection.

A selection from the John Updike audio collection

She Walks in Beauty draws on poetry’s eloquent wisdom to ponder the many joys and challenges of being a woman. Caroline Kennedy has divided the collection into sections that signify to her the most notable milestones, passages, and universal experiences in a woman’s life, and she begins each of these sections with an introduction in which she explores and celebrates the most important elements of life’s journey.

A selection from the John Updike audio collection.