Strauss: 356 books

Identity as a concept is as elusive as everyone's sense of his own personal identity. It is connected with appraisals made by oneself and by others. Each person sees himself mirrored in the judgments of others. The masks he presents to the world are fashioned upon his anticipations of judgments. In...

Includes the plays The Park, Seven Doors and Time and the Room. These three plays, first published in German in the 1980s, show Strauss developing an enigmatic, unsettling and uniquely theatrical style. Set in Hamburg, The Park is Strauss’s take on A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Seven Doors...

Neben der von Willi Schuh verfassten Strauss-Biographie "Jugend und frühe Meisterjahre" und dem Briefwechsel mit Hofmannsthal sind die "Betrachtungen und Erinnerungen" eines der Standardbücher der Strauss-Literatur. Im Jubiläumsjahr 2014 erscheinen sie nun in einer überarbeiteten Fassung.

Neil Strauss can uncover the naked truth like nobody else. With his groundbreaking book The Game, Strauss penetrated the secret society of pickup artists. Now, in Everyone Loves You When You're Dead, the Rolling Stone journalist collects the greatest moments from the most insane music interviews of...

A breakout biography of Louis-Napoleon III, whose controversial achievements have polarized historians. Considered one of the pre-eminent Napoleon Bonaparte experts, Pulitzer Prize-nominated historian Alan Strauss-Schom has turned his sights on another in that dynasty, Napoleon III (Louis-Napoleon)...

This is not a journey that was undertaken for journalistic purposes. It is a painfully honest account of a life crisis that was forced on me by my own behavior and its consequences. "As such, it requires sharing a lot of things I'm not proud of—and a few things I feel like I should regret...

The National Federation of High School Associations estimates that approximately 3.1 million girls participate in high school sports. Daddy's Little Goalie, written by professional sports writer Robert Strauss, is about a new generation of fathers who are nurturing their daughters as girl jocks throughout...

Andrew Strauss, one of the most successful and respected England cricket captains of the modern era, announced his retirement from professional cricket at the end of 2012. In DRIVING AMBITION he gives a candid account of the highs and lows of his remarkable career for Middlesex and England. An...

The Trojan War is the most famous conflict in history, the subject of Homer's Iliad, one of the cornerstones of Western literature. Although many readers know that this literary masterwork is based on actual events, there is disagreement about how much of Homer's tale is true. Drawing on recent archeological...

Contrición (Tercer libro de la Serie Percepción) Por Lee Strauss Copyright © 2013 Lee Strauss Cubierta por walkingstickbooks.com ISBN 978-1-927547-20-5 Esta es una obra de ficción y los puntos de vista que en ella se expresan son de exclusiva responsabilidad...

Poet Jess Strauss is 95 and doesnt know how many days, months or years are in store for him. Sitting back and waiting for the inevitable to arrive is not his way of life. As the title of the book says, Strauss is too old to be concerned with being old. The goal is to survive and be active in the remaining...

This book contains a major statement by one of America's most preeminent sociologists on what remains an important problem in American history and social analysis: the nature and extent of movement within American society from one status to another. The most important images of mobility involve self-improvement...

«Ho cercato la mia strada molto a lungo. In etnologia sono un completo autodidatta. Una prima rivelazione l'ho avuta per ragioni inconfessabili: smania d'evasione, desiderio di viaggiare.» Queste parole di Claude Lévi-Strauss riassumono il senso di "Tristi Tropici", resoconto delle spedizioni...

In this powerful, unforgettable memoir, acclaimed novelist Darin Strauss examines the far-reaching consequences of the tragic moment that has shadowed his whole life. In his last month of high school, he was behind the wheel of his dad's Oldsmobile, driving with friends, heading off to play mini-golf....