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Die Bücherschlacht ist eine unglaublich geistreiche, farbenfrohe, satirisch angehauchte poetische Parodie auf den Gebrauch und vor allem den Missbrauch von Wissen und Bildung, der seit dem überschaubaren Zeitfenster von etwa 6000 Jahren, auf welchen sich unser bescheidenes Kulturverständnis beschränkt, von allen Machthabern und Religionen angewendet wird, um auf rücksichtslose und unverschämte Weise neue Wahrheiten zu kreieren, obwohl diese ausnahmslos lediglich Variationen der immer gleichen Elemente abbilden.

Man würde es weder für möglich halten noch glauben, falls man es nicht - wie "LILYLA" versichert - wüsste, was sich hinter einem so unscheinbaren Titel für eine literarische Dimension verbirgt. Ein Text, der unterschiedliche Ebenen und gesellschaftliche Strukturen auf so atemraubend analytische, philosophische und humoristische Art und Weise reflektiert, dass der Intellekt Purzelbäume schlägt und es das Herz zum Erblühen bringt, falls sich an dessen Stelle nicht ein schwarzes Loch befindet.

Ein englischer Geschäftsmann, Mr Wood, hat einen glorreichen Einfall, wie er den Iren ihr Geld auf ebenso geschickte wie schamlose Art und Weise legal aus deren Taschen ziehen kann. Jedoch hat er nicht damit gerechnet, dass Mr. Jonathan Swift seinen durch höchste britische Stellen abgesegneten Beutezug durchschauen würde.

"Gullivers Reisen" sind und bleiben ein grandioses, großen Abenteuer für Groß und Klein. Aber wer kennt Gullivers vierte Fahrt? Die Reise zu den Houyhnhnms? Ein wunderseltsames Land. Und wunderseltsame Wesen sind auch die Houyhnhnms. Edle Pferde, die sprechen können und den Menschen überlegen sind. Gulliver, verfremdet als Tier, wird von den Houyhnhnms zunächst nicht als gleichwertiger Partner aufgenommen. Wie auch? Halten sich die Pferde doch menschenähnliche Geschöpfe, die Yahoos, als Nutztiere. Gulliver sieht lediglich reinlicher als diese aus. Er gewinnt jedoch das Vertrauen des Anführers der Pferde.

Lemuel Gulliver is a ship's surgeon. One day, he is the sole survivor when his ship sinks. Stranded on an island, he soon makes the acquaintance of the island's inhabitants. He has to look closely, though: The people of Lilliput are tiny! But not powerless, as he soon finds out.

An amazing sight met my eyes. All around me were dozens of human creatures a little less than six inches high, chattering together in high-pitched voices in a strange language. When Lemuel Gulliver is shipwrecked in the Indian Ocean, it's the start of a series of adventures stranger than he could possibly have imagined. After the tiny inhabitants of Lilliput become suspicious of Gulliver, they plan to kill their huge visitor. What deadly scheme do they come up with?

Gulliver's Travels is a classic tale, originally a satire meant for adults, and yet a fascinating fable of magical and unusual events that even children can and will enjoy. First published in 1726, it remain a comic masterpiece popular even today.

Celtic Poets breathes vitality into the works of Swift, Burns, Wilde, and more. Cosham's finely honed delivery brings verdant valleys, quaint villages, and drunkards' and maidens' conversations to listeners' ears. What is not to love?

Ike Swift and award-winning narrator and audiobook producer Mike Vendetti takes us to San Francisco, where a beautiful woman becomes a star.

Ike Swift travels to New York's Chinatown where he describes the rise and fall of "The Queen of Chinatown".

A beautiful girl of the street sits in jail awaiting her sentencing for the murder of an abusive boyfriend.

From Sketches of Gotham by Ike Swift, this is the story of a very progressive young woman and a rather gullible man at the turn of the last century.

A businessman from the Midwest in the big city with a big wad of money meets a lonely woman on the street who sweetly relieves him of his big wad of money, his watch, and his pin.

Piccolo et Saxo partent à la recherche des différentes familles d'instruments afin de constituer le Grand Orchestre. Piccolo et Saxo parcourent le monde à la recherche des différents instruments locaux. Piccolo et Saxo intègrent le cirque Jolibois afin d'apprendre la musique aux animaux du cirque.

Do you have problems with your ears and wax build up? Does it cause knock-on problems for you with sore throats and blocked sinuses? Have you considered Ear Candling as a solution? In this audibook, Ear Candles: The Ultimate Guide to Removing Ear Wax and Keeping Your Ears Clean with Ear Candling, you will discover what Ear Candling is all about and how it can help you.

On Liberty (1859) by John Stuart Mill is an influential philosophical treatise that argues societies can be free only when they celebrate diversity and promote individual freedom. Mill believed that conformity is a blight on human happiness, creativity, and social progress....

This is a summary of Sigmund Freud's Dream Psychology: Psychoanalysis for Beginners (1921), which describes the curious and complex mental processes that unfold in dreams. Each night, the slumbering mind crafts dramatic and elaborate productions, or dreams, that sleepers watch like a movie....

This is a summary of The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs: A New History of a Lost World (2018), which explores how animals developed on earth before the Paleogene period, when mammals emerged as the dominant life form. The narrative begins by describing the dinosaur’s ancestor: a small, unimportant creature struggling for survival in the Permian period, more than 250 million years ago....

In Tim Cook: The Genius Who Took Apple to the Next Level (2019), technology journalist Leander Kahney explains how a mild-mannered man from a small town in Alabama became the CEO of one of America’s most influential and successful companies. Cook, who once served as Apple’s chief operating officer, was considered a strange choice to replace Steve Jobs when he was announced as the company’s new leader in 2011...

This is an in-depth summary of Michal Hyatt's Free to Focus. Free to Focus: A Total Productivity System to Achieve More by Doing Less (2019) by Michael Hyatt explains how to streamline business operations and become more productive. By paring down inessential tasks through elimination or delegation, managers and business leaders can create more time for the work they’re most passionate about.