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Roxy found love... but is it enough?
In the second installment of the Polo Diaries series, polo player Roxy goes back to Argentina a year after the events in Single in Buenos Aires, filled with dreams of settling down with the man she loves. This time, once again, Argentina is full of surprises and things are not what they appear to be. Or maybe they're exactly what they're meant to be, as a fortune-teller informs her.Roxy takes a leap of faith
“An invaluable addition to Kafka’s oeuvre.”—The New York Times
An essential new translation of Franz Kafka’s complete, uncensored diaries—a...
6) In Isolation
In this exceptional collection of dispatches from occupied Donbas, writer and journalist Stanislav Aseyev details the internal and external changes observed in the cities of Makiïvka and Donetsk in eastern Ukraine. Aseyev scrutinizes his immediate environment and questions himself in an attempt to understand the reasons behind the success of Russian propaganda among the working-class residents of the industrial region of Donbas.
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A forgotten century marks the years between the Ming dynasty's (1368–1644) turbulent founding and its sixteenth-century age of exploration and economic transformation. In this period of social stability, retired scholar-official Lu Rong chronicled his observations of Chinese society in Miscellaneous Records from the Bean Garden (Shuyuan zaji). Openly expressing his admirations and frustrations, Lu provides a window into the quotidian
...The Monkey King takes on his biggest challenge: his own unconscious desires
As the audacious Monkey King battles his way through a landscape of inexplicable places and unfamiliar passions, Further Adventures on the Journey to the West offers a wry, revisionist critique of the late-Ming fascination with desire. Building on the great sixteenth-century novel Journey to the West, which recounts the escapades of a monk and three
Ranging from finely honed legal argument to wry and some sometimes savage humor to private correspondence and political rhetoric of unsurpassed grandeur, the writings collected in this volume are at once a literary testament...
From Fox News medical contributor Dr. Nicole Saphier, comes an inspiring collection of powerful first-person stories celebrating motherhood, from Fox News personalities and extraordinary moms around America.
Unmatched and unwavering, mothers are the embodiment of selfless, pure, and unconditional love. But so often, the sacrifices and triumphs of motherhood go unrecognized. Now, in Love, Mom, Fox News medical contributor
...At the moment of our nation's birth, Thomas Jefferson defined the issues that still direct our political life. Displaying his extraordinary variety of interests and powerful and precise style, Jefferson’s writings are an invaluable and incisive record of the landscape, inhabitants, life, and...
Der Band versammelt Beiträge, die bisher weitgehend unbekannte frühneuzeitliche Literatur über Tabak, Bier, Wein und Kaffee kritisch edieren, kommentieren und interpretieren. Darunter sind neulateinische Texte, etwa Lobdichtungen auf den Tokajerwein oder das Nordhäuser Bier, aber auch gegen den Genuss von Tabak oder Alkohol gerichtete Texte, und deutschsprachige wie Johann Christian Günthers „Lob des Knaster-Tobacks" und eine Hirtendichtung
...Wer bei Poetikvorlesungen am Katheder steht, ist gefragt und überfragt zugleich. Er soll nicht nur mit der authentischen Stimme des Autors sein Werk vortragen, sondern auch als Dozent für kreatives Schreiben, als Literaturwissenschaftler und sogar als sein eigener Interpret sprechen. Diese konfligierenden Rollenerwartungen haben bei den Vortragenden immer wieder Verweigerungshaltungen gegen das Format provoziert.
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