Ulrich: 1425 books
by Timothy Ulrich
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2013
When dreams start becoming reality, when does reality become realized? Matthew plays a gambit in a world he does not fully understand. Soon, he finds out, that his wildest dreams can come true. In a world plagued with violence and fear, there is only one way to overcome it all...
by Ulrich Horstmann
Language: German
Release Date: August 15, 2014
Language: German
Release Date: August 15, 2014
Thomas Pikettys voluminöses Werk Das Kapital im 21. Jahrhundert hat die Zunft der Ökonomen entzweit wie kaum ein anderes Buch. Die Volkswirtschaft selbst scheint in ihren Grundfesten erschüttert. Pikettys illustre Leserschar reicht von US-Präsident Barack Obama und Papst Franziskus über den Nobelpreisträger...
Garantiert gesundheitsgefährdend
Wie uns die Zucker-Mafia krank macht
Language: German
Release Date: March 20, 2013
Suchtstoff Zucker: Forschungen zeigen, dass schon Kinder auf Abhängigkeit programmiert werden, oft bereits im Mutterleib. Viele essen Zucker, ohne es zu wollen, versteckt als Konservierungsstoff in Industrienahrung. Die Lawine rollt: Weltweit leiden immer mehr Menschen an den Folgen des Zuckerkonsums....
Atmosphere, Mood, Stimmung
On a Hidden Potential of Literature
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2012
What are the various atmospheres or moods that the reading of literary works can trigger? Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht has long argued that the function of literature is not so much to describe, or to re-present, as to make present. Here, he goes one step further, exploring the substance and reality of language...
The Timothy Leary Project
Inside the Great Counterculture Experiment
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2018
The first collection of Timothy Leary’s (1920–1996) selected papers and correspondence opens a window on the ideas that inspired the counterculture of the 1960s and the fascination with LSD that continues to the present. The man who coined the phrase “turn on, tune in, drop out,” Leary cultivated...
Voices from the Gulag
The Oppression of the German Minority in the Soviet Union
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2016
"Voices from the Gulag" draws on a wealth of available sources to tell the story of the German settlements in Russia, from their beginning during the reign of Empress Catherine the Great, to their accomplishments and, finally, their destruction under Stalin. It relates the harsh living conditions...
by Cynthia Ulrich Tobias
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2013
Draw out the best in your children—by understanding the way they learn. If you’re frustrated that your child isn’t learning the way you did, chances are they are too! In this practical resource, Cynthia Ulrich Tobias explains that understanding how you both learn can make all the difference.
Using...
Let God Love You
Why We Don't; How We Can
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2016
What have you learned about yourself from your past and current relationships? We learn who we are and what we can hope for from others in the context of our relationships with family, friends, and others around us. Some of what we have learned and experienced may even blind us to what is really true...
by Ulrich Magin
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2011
Surviving plesiosaurs in lakes...Petrified ships on mountaintops...Limestone mountains that suddenly erupt as volcanoes but leave no trace of lava flows… All these are certainly impossible things. Yet they happen, again and again, in all parts of the world. And these events are witnessed by scores...
Relief after Hardship
The Ottoman Turkish Model for The Thousand and One Days
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2017
The Thousand and One Days, a companion collection to The Thousand and One Nights, was published in 1710–1712 by French Orientalist scholar François Pétis de la Croix who advertised it as the faithful, albeit selective translation of a Persian work. Subsequent research has found that The Thousand...
Linguistics, Anthropology and Philosophy in the French Enlightenment
A contribution to the history of the relationship between language theory and ideology
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2002
Linguistics, Anthropology and Philosophy in the French Enlightenment treats the development of linguistic thought from Descartes to Degerando as both a part of and a determining factor in the emergence of modern consciousness. Through his careful analyses of works by the most influential thinkers...
Citizenship, Belonging, and Political Community in Africa
Dialogues between Past and Present
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2016
Africa, it is often said, is suffering from a crisis of citizenship. At the heart of the contemporary debates this apparent crisis has provoked lie dynamic relations between the present and the past, between political theory and political practice, and between legal categories and lived experience....
Monastic Prisons and Torture Chambers
Crime and Punishment in Central European Monasteries, 1600–1800
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2013
Following the Council of Trent (1545-1563), Catholic religious orders underwent substantial reform. Nevertheless, on occasion monks and nuns had to be disciplined and--if they had committed a crime--punished. Consequently, many religious orders relied on sophisticated criminal law traditions that...
The Ultimate Spectacle
A Visual History of the Crimean War
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2013
Chloroform, telegraphy, steamships and rifles were distinctly modern features of the Crimean War. Covered by a large corps of reporters, illustrators and cameramen, it also became the first media war in history. For the benefit of the ubiquitous artists and correspondents, both the domestic events...