Published by Profile Books Ltd Feb 2017, 2017
ISBN 10: 1846685222 ISBN 13: 9781846685224
Seller: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Germany
Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - If you want to learn how to conform to confound, raze hopes, succeed your successor, order absence in the absence of order, win by losing and think contrapositively, look no further. Here you can unlock the secrets of Plato's void, Wittgenstein's investigations, Schopenhauer's intelligence test, Voltaire's big bet, Russell's slip of the pen and lobster logic. Among your discoveries will be why the egg came before the chicken, what the dishwasher missed and just what it was that made Descartes disappear. Experience the unbearable lightness of logical conclusions in Professor Sorensen's intriguing cabinet of riddles, problems, paradoxes, puzzles and the anomalies of human utterance. As you accompany him on investigations into the mysteries of truth, falsehood, reason and delusion, prepare to be surprised, enlightened, mystified and, above all, entertained.
Published by Profile Books Ltd Feb 2017, 2017
ISBN 10: 1781258597 ISBN 13: 9781781258590
Seller: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Germany
Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - Als der Universitätsdozent John Hull erblindet, ist er Anfang 40. Er hat kurz zuvor geheiratet, ein Baby ist unterwegs. Seine Erfahrungen, was es heißt, das Augenlicht zu verlieren, hält er täglich auf Tonband fest. 'Im Dunkeln sehen' ist aber nicht nur eine Erzählung über den Kampf mit dem Unabwendbaren. Das Buch schildert auch die Entdeckung einer anderen als der sichtbaren Welt, für die uns Sehenden die Sinne fehlen. Eine Welt, die mit Ohren, Füßen, Haut und Haaren wahrgenommen wird. Hull schildert, wie er lernt, die Welt um ihn herum aus dem Geräusch desfallenden Regens zu 'lesen', das Vergehen der Zeit zu spüren, ohne Morgen-oder Abenddämmerung wahrzunehmen, und zu akzeptieren, dass er niemals das Gesicht seiner Tochter erblicken wird. 'Man muss sich neu erschaffen, oder man wird zerstört', resümiert er seine Erfahrung. Sein so persönliches wie poetisches Buch lässt den Leser teilhaben an der Erkundung anderer Möglichkeiten als den geläufigen, die Welt wahrzunehmen, und so einer zu werden, 'der mit dem ganzen Körper sieht'.
Published by Profile Books Ltd Feb 2017, 2017
ISBN 10: 178125513X ISBN 13: 9781781255131
Seller: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Germany
Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - What difference do individuals make to history Are we all swept up in the great forces like industrialisation or globalisation, or is the world we inhabit shaped just as much by real people - leaders for example - and the decisions that they make For better or for worse, the personalities of the powerful can affect millions of people and the future of countries: it matters who is in the driving seat, and who is making plans. Equally important: how is history itself made by those who keep the records In History's People Margaret Macmillan explores the lives of the great and lesser-known figures of the past: men, women, explorers, rulers, dreamers, politicians, observers, campaigners. She looks at the concept of leadership, from Bismarck to Franklin Delano Roosevelt, but also at the role of observers such as Babur, first Mughal emperor of India, and asks how explorers and visionaries such as Fanny Parkes and Elizabeth Simcoe managed to defy or ignore the constraints of their own societies. And, in doing so, she uncovers the important and complex relationship between biography and history, and between individuals and their times.Like all the best history, this book will change the way you see the past, as well as your own times - and perhaps introduce you to some people you didn't know.
Published by Profile Books Ltd Feb 2017, 2017
ISBN 10: 1781258597 ISBN 13: 9781781258590
Seller: Wegmann1855, Zwiesel, Germany
Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware.
Published by Profile Books Ltd Feb 2017, 2017
ISBN 10: 0285643622 ISBN 13: 9780285643628
Seller: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Germany
Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - In The Ascension Mysteries, David Wilcock unlocked the mysteries mankind have always struggled to answer: who are we, how did we get here and where are we going.