Peter Peter: 17025 books

In the Western world it is usually taken as given that we all want happiness, and our educational arrangements tacitly acknowledge this. Happiness, Hope, and Despair argues, however, that education has an important role to play in deepening our understanding of suffering and despair as well as happiness...

The strikes were still going on in the plants and factories. More than half of the workers' children weren't going to school yet. There were substitutions all the time, because many of my colleagues were absent. I didn't even know why. It was cold in the classrooms, because the Polish coal hadn't...

How bad is your anger? Do you control it, or does it control you? Has it wrecked your life,  or does it hurt the lives of others? This book is informative, interactive and insightful in helping people identify their “anger type(s)”, their triggers, and providing proven anger management...

Jack Mullen si è fatto dal nulla. Ventotto anni, laureato in legge con ottimi voti, è entrato come praticante in uno dei più prestigiosi studi legali di New York. Intelligente, brillante, determinato a riuscire, ha trovato nell’amore di Dana, affascinante figlia di un importante uomo d’affari,...

Die junge Frau lag nackt auf dem Boden, mit dem Rücken in einer riesigen Blutlache, Augen und Mund weit aufgerissen. In einer Münchener Villa liegt eine tote Schwangere. Sie wurde aufgeschlitzt, der Fötus ist verschwunden. Der Täter hinterlässt die Botschaft: NK - Ich bin mitten unter euch. Es...

“The story of [Peter] Duchin’s life has an elegiac aura of glamour and tragedy that might have come directly from the imagination of F. Scott Fitzgerald.”—The Philadelphia Inquirer “This book brings back marvelous memories of a very special time.”—Frank Sinatra Called “a...

The 7th Earl Beauchamp was a prominent figure in English public life in the years 1900–30, but his career ended in scandal. He was barred from English soil, his reputation was destroyed and his papers were withheld from public view. In this book, Peter Raina uses previously unreleased documents...

Peter Gülke widmet sich in 54 Essays dem großen Thema Tod und Abschied in der Musik, aber auch in der Literatur. Mit unnachahmlicher Sprachkraft präsentiert er Erkenntnisse, die von allgemeinem Interesse und bedeutend für den kulturellen Diskurs über Tod und Vergänglichkeit sind. Musik ist als...

Die Komplexität der Musik Max Regers ist nicht leicht zu durchdringen. Hans-Peter Retzmann versucht diese schwierige Aufgabe zu lösen, indem er kompositorische und musikästhetische Fragestellungen mit Regers eigenem Wort entwickelt. Aus dem Zusammenwirken von Regers kompositorischen und ästhetischen...

Willkommen zum Gipfeltreffen des Kabaretts! Dieter Hildebrandt und Peter Ensikat gelten mit Fug und Recht als die einflussreichsten Kabarettisten der Gegenwart. Für dieses Buch haben die beiden Bühnen- und Lebensprofis einen ganz und gar unernsten Streifzug durch mehr als ein halbes Jahrhundert Lach-...

After his graduation from Drew University in 1892, Peter Dunov (Bulg. Петър Дънов/Беинса Дуно; Cz. Petar Danov; Ger. Petar Danow; Gr. Πέταρ Ντένωφ; Heb. פטר דנוב; Eng. Peter Deunov of the White Brotherhood)/ (long before he became known as Douno Bensa or the...

New Zealand's pre-eminent criminal barrister looks back on his remarkable life and times. In his time as a criminal defence lawyer in the New Zealand courts, the late Sir Peter Williams QC saw it all. From the days when abortion, homosexuality and even telling fortunes could see a person hauled before...

In the mid-sixteenth century, Copernicus asserted that the Earth was not the center of the universe as was generally believed, but that the sun lay there instead. The relegation of the Earth to the rank of an orbiting planet meant that humankind lost its privileged position as well, thus prompting...

At the outbreak of the second World War, Air Chief Marshall Dowding was Commander-in-Chief of RAF Fighter Command, which had been set up three years earlier to protect Britain against attacks from the air and the threat of invasion.  London was subjected to extensive night bombing for several months. ...