Jacob: 2030 books
Grimm's Fairy Stories
Illustrated Version
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2016
One of the true classics of literature, praised by W.H. Auden as one of the founding works of Western culture, this is a collection of German origin fairy tales first published by Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm, known as the Brothers Grimm. This is probably one of the most beautiful digital version...
Hansel And Grethel And Other Grimm’s Fairy Tales
Hansel and Grethel, The Bremen Town Musicians, The Twelve Dancing Princesses, The Frog Prince, The Raven, Red Riding Hood, Tom Thumb, Snowdrop, Rapunzel, etc.
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2013
«Hansel And Grethel And Other Grimm’s Fairy Tales» is a collection of German fairy tales by the Grimm brothers, Jacob and Wilhelm. The ebook edition of Grimm’s fairy tales from Animedia Company is magnificently illustrated by Arthur Rackham and consists of 59 marvellous tales, such...
by Wilhelm Grimm, Jacob Grimm
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2012
Early in the nineteenth century, Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm compiled a collection of stories to preserve the folklore of their native Germany. Forty-three of them—fairy tales, some deliciously dark, that have bewitched readers for generations—are gathered here. Translated into more than 150 languages,...
by Jacob Epstein
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2013
A guide to sculpture from around the world, including chapters on New York 1880-1902, the thirty years war, the tomb of Oscar Wilde, the Hudson memorial and much more. Sir Jacob Epstein, (1880-1959) was an American-born British sculptor who helped pioneer modern sculpture. He was born in the States,...
by Jacob Scheier
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2013
Having lived part time in Brooklyn for the past several years, Jacob Scheier's new poems are solidly rooted in Jewish New York life and examine love, loss, history, identity, protest, and popular culture. At the heart of Letter from Brooklyn is the notion that people understand who they are by where...
Philip Freneau
Champion of Democracy
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2013
Philip Freneau was a poet, editor, and mariner. A graduate of Princeton, he was the roommate of James Madison and a classmate of Hugh Henry Brackenridge and Aaron Burr. When the colonies rebelled against England, he supported his newly born nation as a privateer, spending some time in a British prison...
More George W. Bushisms
More of Slate's Accidental Wit and Wisdom of Our 43rd President
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2002
"Most of you probably didn't know that I have a new book out. Some guy put together a collection of my wit and wisdom -- or, as he calls it, my accidental wit and wisdom. [Laughter] But I'm kind of proud that my words are already in book form."
-- President George W. Bush,
discussing and reading from...
To Carl Schmitt
Letters and Reflections
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2013
A philosopher, rabbi, religious historian, and Gnostic, Jacob Taubes was for many years a correspondent and interlocutor of Carl Schmitt (1888–1985), a German jurist, philosopher, political theorist, law professor—and self-professed Nazi. Despite their unlikely association, Taubes and Schmitt...
Starve a Bully, Feed a Champion
101 Days of Spiritual Boot Camp for Attaining Serenity, Confidence, Mental Discipline & Joy in a World Gone Mad.
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2012
The mind can be your best friend or your worst enemy. It can be the center of miracles, or of madness. It can be a place of truth, or a place of lies; it can be an environment of peaceful contemplation, or of desperate painful isolation. The choice is ours to make. No one else is thinking in our heads....
by Jacob Garcia
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2014
This collection of poetry is part cinematic, part ethereal, part surreal, and part Fluxus. “Short bursts of imagery…[the] choice of words and ideas are very interesting. I especially enjoyed “Consuming Colors”. The murky, colored water, ancestors and survival says something about sustainability and things often taken for granted.” -H.L. Martin
by Jacob Needleman
Language: English
Release Date: December 24, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 24, 2009
In his most deeply personal work, religious scholar Needleman cuts a clear path through today?s clamorous debates over the existence of God, illuminating an entirely new way of approaching the question of how to understand a higher power.
I n this new book, philosopher Jacob Needleman? whose...
The Talmud
What It Is and What It Says
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2006
Wherever Jews have settled and whatever languages they spoke, they created a community with a single set of common values. One law, one theology defined the community throughout their many migrations. A single book explains how this came about—the Talmud. By re-framing the Torah through sustained...
by Jacob Grimm
Language: French
Release Date: April 18, 2015
Language: French
Release Date: April 18, 2015
Les contes de Grimm sont l'œuvre des frères Grimm, Jacob (1785 - 1863) et Wilhelm (1786 - 1859). Après avoir publié plusieurs ouvrages scientifiques et littéraires, les deux frères réunissent de nombreux contes populaires qu'ils publient en deux volumes, en 1812 et 1829. Une nouvelle édition,...
Dimensions of Dignity
The Theory and Practice of Modern Constitutional Law
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2016
In an age of constitutional revolutions and reforms, theory and practice are moving in opposite directions. As a matter of constitutional practice, human dignity has emerged in jurisdictions around the world as the organizing idea of a groundbreaking paradigm. By reconfiguring constitutional norms,...