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Set against the music we know and love, Mozart, Beethoven, and many more come alive through their correspondence. Poignant, funny, revealing, informative and so often direct and honest, these letters offer a fascinating insight into the personalities that created our Western musical tradition.

A Neural Library edition of Ludwig Wittgenstein's famous Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus.

"Philosophy is not a theory," asserted Austro-British philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889-1951), "but an activity." In this 1921 opus, his only philosophical work published during his lifetime, Wittgenstein defined the object of philosophy as the logical clarification of thoughts and proposed the solution to most philosophic problems by means of a critical method of linguistic analysis.

Ludwig von Mises truly was an intellectual giant among men. He was perhaps the greatest economist of the 20th century and a tireless advocate for political liberalism and laissez-faire. Human Action, his magnum opus, stands among the truly great works of social science. But his work, based on the study of human action, transcends both economics and social theory.

Mit Urmel aus dem Eis prägte Max Kruse eine der beliebtesten Kinderbuchfiguren - das lispelnde kleine Urwesen begeistert immer noch Generationen von Kindern. Renommierte Kinderbuchautorinnen und -autoren haben sich nun nach Titiwu begeben, um ihre ganz eigene Urmel-Geschichte zu schreiben. Entstanden sind viele neue Geschichten, jede für sich grandios, frisch und abenteuerlich. Ein Muss für alle Urmel-Fans und die, die es noch werden wollen.

THE ANTI-CAPITALISTIC MENTALITY by Austrian School economist and libertarian thinker Ludwig von Mises is an investigation into the psychological roots of the anti-capitalistic stance that is widespread in segments of the general population of the capitalist world. Von Mises suggests various reasons for this mentality, primarily his claim that free competition in the market economy allows no excuses of one's failures. Rather, he argues, it creates great incentive for one's desire for improvement and greater effort to succeed, as well as a greater reward for that success.

Cara Hamilton had thought her brother to be dead. Now, clutching his letter, she leaves Ireland for America, desperate to find him. Her search leads her to a houseful of curious strangers, and one man who claims to be a friend - Rourke Walsh. Despite her brother’s warning, Cara trusts Rourke, revealing her purpose in coming to New York. She’s then thrust into a world of subterfuge, veiled threats, and attempted murder, including political revolutionaries from the homeland out for revenge.

Die zeitlose Kindergeschichte von Roald Dahl, gelesen von Matthias Matschke. Charlie kann es nicht fassen: Er hat eine der heißbegehrten goldenen Eintrittskarten für die Schokoladenfabrik von Willy Wonka gewonnen! Willy Wonka - das ist der geniale Erfinder von zauberköstlichen Süßigkeiten, die er in seiner sagenumwobenen Fabrik produziert. Was sich hinter deren Mauern abspielt, ist ein ganz großes Geheimnis... So beginnt für Charlie eine atemberaubende, haarsträubende, zähneklappernd-aufregende Achterbahnfahrt in das wunderbarste Abenteuer seines Lebens.

Her body belongs to everyone, but her soul is mine. Patrons call her leska, female, using her body in ways that leave the human in bruises and blood. Each night, I stitch her back together, tend to her wounds, only to watch another male tear them open with pleasure. Sophie. That’s what I call her when no one is listening, that human female abducted from Earth to be seeded by many. I want to save her, but I can barely save myself, chasing my next score with no consideration for anyone - not even her.

Pepito has moved to England. To help celebrate his birthday, Miss Clavel and the girls pay him a visit. When his mother won't let Pepito keep one of his birthday presents—a horse—Madeline is more than willing to help out.

A golden collection of gems from classic German literature, ranging from early Sturm und Drang, through Gothic horror, to some of the finest stories from later German Romanticism.

Wenn nach dem ganzen Weihnachtstrubel alle gemütlich zusammen hocken, werden so manche Geschichten erzählt. Da hoasts dann oft, "ja früher war alles anders, besser! Aber war die guade alte Zeit wirklich besser? Freilich, da hieß es no ned Zuckerflash wenn die Kinder mal zvui Süßigkeiten gegessen haben..." "Und vielleicht wars a no ned so hektisch in der Vorweihnachtszeit. Schnell no alle Geschenke kaffa" "ham ma a alles? ham ma koan vergessen?" "Hoffentlich gfallt den Kindern des a".

In nearly every industry, smart machines are replacing human labor. It's not just factory jobs - automated technologies are handling people's investments, diagnosing illnesses, and analyzing written documents. If we humans are going to endure, Edward Hess and Katherine Ludwig say we're going to need a dose of humility. We need to be humble enough to let go of the idea that "smart" means knowing the most, using that information quickest, and making the fewest mistakes. Smart machines will always be better than we are at those things.

Thirty-one, recently divorced, and behind on the mortgage for my farm, I scrape my last savings together and buy myself a farmhand. That big, horned alien I end up with? He’s a Vandalar saikh, a male concubine, and he wants to plow more than just my fields. Guess I should have read the fine print of the purchase contract better because the trader refuses to take him back. Now I’m stuck with weed-infested fields, red letters from the bank, and a guy who says he studied one million ways to please a female. (His words, it’s not like I’m going to count...)

My alien concubine refuses to please me. That gruff, muscled Vandalar saikh I bought myself keeps running away. So I do what every lonely woman in her 30s would: I cuff him to my bed, until he comes to his senses. At least now I don’t have to chase behind him in high heels and can concentrate on starting my mail-order-saikh business. What could possibly go wrong? I tell you what: He frees himself. Of course, he does. Now I’m the one tied to the bed while he threatens punishment.

You know your Gaia link is broken when your match is 93. While every Vetusian around me is expecting the arrival of the first hybrids, my mate is living out her final days in a nursing home. With true love unattainable, I concentrate on busting the crime ring responsible for the supply of human females forced into prostitution at the Odheim brothels. As a CAT officer, it’s my job to keep Earth women from being abducted. Until the department for interspecies relations offers me a breeding contract with one of them.

In einer Winternacht stößt eine Frau einen wildfremden Mann vor die S-Bahn. Niemand beobachtet den Mord, die Polizei geht von Selbstmord aus. Auch Hauptkommissar Claudius Zorn schenkt dem Vorfall keine Beachtung. Er istdamit beschäftigt, seinen ehemaligen Kollegen Schröder zu überreden, wieder sein Partner zu werden. Was jedoch weder Zorn noch Schröder ahnen: Die Mörderin ist ganz in ihrer Nähe. Sie glaubt in Zorn einen Seelenverwandten gefunden zu haben und sieht in jedem, der ihm nahesteht, einen Konkurrenten.

Ludwig Bemelmans's charming intergenerational friendship with the late-in-life "First Lady of Interior Decoration" provides an enormously enjoyable nostalgia trip to the sun-soaked glamour of Los Angeles, where de Wolfe surrounded herself with classic movie stars and a luminous parade of life's oddities.

It’s hard to find the right alien concubine. Finding three of them? Impossible! Watching the future saikhs practice their penetration angles at the saikhmenti alone doesn’t cut it to make a decision. What about other things like…I don’t know. Personality? What I need is insider information. That saikh-in-training who keeps failing his assessments? He’s offering it up freely. Kind of. All he wants is practice those fancy skills on me, or otherwise he might flunk his finals. Meh, why not?

Dwie bardzo różne, ale kochające się siostry w zimowe wieczory opiekują się niespodziewanym gościem - niedźwiedziem! Po ustaniu mrozów, niedźwiedź opuszcza Białośnieżkę i Różankę po to, żeby powrócić w najmniej spodziewanym momencie...