Sachs: 150 books

This volume is a report by leading international economic experts on China's economic priorities in the coming years. From various aspects of the domestic and foreign situation, China has now reached a critical juncture in its economic development. Unless China is able to overcome the difficulties...

Contains rapidly-rising writers early in their careers; stories are all published after 2010 Authors are internationally-based and encompass a wide variety of multicultural perspectives Features uncollected fiction, including one original story written for the anthology

Forty-two-year-old Shelley Marino's desperate yearning for a child has led her to one of the only doors still open to her: foreign adoption. It is a decision that strains and ultimately shatters her relationship with her husband, Martin—the veteran of an Asian war who cannot reconcile what Shelley...

Camille, une journaliste sympathique et un brin gaffeuse qui atteint le cap de la quarantaine, a l’impression que sa vie est au point mort. Lorsqu’elle apprend que son ex a eu la promotion dont elle a toujours rêvé et qu’il va se remarier avec une sublime créature bien plus jeune qu’elle,...

Billy Getten really wants a dog. He’s so dog crazy that he eats dog biscuits! But Billy’s parents won’t give in. They say he’s too irresponsible. Then Billy meets the dog of his dreams. Can Billy convince his parents that he’s ready for a pet before the most wonderful dog in the world gets...

Fuck you, Karma oder auch: der Soundtrack meines Lebens. Ich bin Lukas, mittlerweile fast dreißig, Profiprokrastinateur und Emotions-Messi mit Alzheimer, der vergessen hat, rechtzeitig den Sperrmüll seines Hirns rauszustellen. Auf meinem Plan steht unter anderem, dass ich mich bei meiner Exfreundin...

Über sechs Jahre lang hat Lukas seine Gedanken in Tagebüchern aufgeschrieben, um mit seinem Leben aufzuräumen. Doch er ist nicht der Einzige, dessen Leben sich verselbstständigt. Auch seine Freundin Inga sowie sein Bruder Silas verlieren sich nach der turbulenten Familienzusammenführung zunehmend...

Ich bin Lukas. Neunundzwanzig, manisch depressiv und Vollidiot mit Hang zum Exzess, der Schizo-Gespräche mit seinem Karma führt und Tagebuch schreibt. Bisher bestand mein Leben aus zwei Ländern, zwei Namen, einer Menge kreativer Inkompetenz und zu vielen Fehlentscheidungen. Eine davon war, mich...

Namen sind Schall und Rauch. Das denkt sich auch die junge Frau, die den Unbekannten am Nachbartisch anspricht. Sich gegenseitig vorstellen, interessant finden, verabreden, ausgehen und am Ende intim werden? Ein alter Hut. Wie lernt man sich am besten kennen? Rückwärts, findet sie. So bestehen die...

Discover the four levels of traditional Tibetan healing science with this preventive health care manual for people of any age, culture, and physical type. • Includes material on little-known therapies such as Pancha Karma and Kum Nye, as well as guidelines for nutrition, longevity, detoxification,...

Covers every significant aspect — from palming to clairvoyance, vanishing and producing an object, using essential apparatus, etc. Explains hundreds of astonishing tricks — with coins, cups and balls, handkerchiefs, cards, more. A book with an excellent reputation among professional magicians for teaching techniques. 57 illustrations.

It is always a matter for self-congratulation on the part of an author to be called upon to furnish a Preface to a second or subsequent edition of some "bantling of his brain." In the present instance the task is more satisfactory than usual, the author not coming before the reader empty-handed. Since...

A profound shift is occurring among women working in agriculture—they are increasingly seeing themselves as farmers, not only as the wives or daughters of farmers. The authors draw on more than a decade of research to document and analyze the reasons for the transformation. As their sense of identity...

A New Year to A New You captures the best golden nuggets from leading authorities on how to achieve the greatest success in the year to come. Designed to take you deep into the work of over 30 experts in the psychology and secrets of creating results. Over 80% of new years resolutions fail, 60% of...