Autogenic Training
Autogenic training is one of the most powerful techniques ever developed for reducing stress, promoting relaxation and awakening the innate healing power we all possess. With this practical, comprehensive book you can learn for the first time how ...
Einbruch der Wirklichkeit
Zu Fuß, in Bussen, Gefängniswagen oder Sonderzügen zieht ein langer Flüchtlingstreck von der griechischen Insel Lesbos in Richtung Deutschland. Navid Kermani war im Herbst 2015 auf dieser "Balkanroute" unterwegs. In sein...
God is Beautiful
The melodious recitation of the Quran is a fundamental aesthetic experience for Muslims, and the start of a compelling journey of ideas. In this important new book, the prominent German writer and Islamic scholar Navid Kermani considers the manner...
God is Beautiful
The melodious recitation of the Quran is a fundamental aesthetic experience for Muslims, and the start of a compelling journey of ideas. In this important new book, the prominent German writer and Islamic scholar Navid Kermani considers the manner...
Wonder Beyond Belief
What happens when one of Germany's most important writers, himself a Muslim, immerses himself in the world of Christian art? In this book, Navid Kermani is awestruck by a religion full of sacrifice and lamentation, love and wonder, the irrational ...
State of Emergency
This book ventures into the world beyond Lampedusa: the crisis belt that stretches from Kashmir across Pakistan and Afghanistan to the Arab world and beyond, to the borders and coasts of Europe. Celebrated author Navid Kermani reports from a regio...
Jeder soll von da, wo er ist, einen Schritt näher kommen
Jeder soll von da, wo er ist, einen Schritt näher kommen
Between Quran and Kafka
Between Quran and Kafka
Upheaval
Upheaval
Everyone, Wherever You Are, Come One Step Closer
'When your grandpa was in hospital, he asked me one night to promise him that, when he had gone from us, I would teach you Islam - our Islam: the Islam I grew up with ? In that dark, impersonal room, he was thinking of you.' This is why one father...
Zu Hause ist es am schönsten, sagte die linke Hand und hielt sich an der Heizung fest
Zu Hause ist es am schönsten, sagte die linke Hand und hielt sich an der Heizung fest
Between Quran and Kafka
What connects Shiite passion plays with Brecht?s drama? Which of Goethe?s poems were inspired by the Quran? How can Ibn Arabi?s theology of sighs explain the plays of Heinrich von Kleist? And why did the Persian author Sadeq Hedayat identify with ...
Write All These Down
If one name stands out among musicologists writing today, that name is Joseph Kerman. Eminent, wide-ranging, and wonderfully readable, Kerman's writing on musicology, opera, Beethoven, and Elizabethan music has informed and inspired an extensive a...
Orange Is the New Black
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - NOW A NETFLIX ORIGINAL SERIES With a career, a boyfriend, and a loving family, Piper Kerman barely resembles the reckless young woman who delivered a suitcase of drug money ten years before. But that past has caught up with her. Convicted and sentenced to fifteen months at the infamous federal correctional facility in Danbury, Connecticut, the well-heeled Smith College alumna is now inmate #11187-424--one of the millions of people who disappear 'down the rabbit hole' of the American penal system. From her first strip search to her final release, Kerman learns to navigate this strange world with its strictly enforced codes of behavior and arbitrary rules. She meets women from all walks of life, who surprise her with small tokens of generosity, hard words of wisdom, and simple acts of acceptance. Heartbreaking, hilarious, and at times enraging, Kerman's story offers a rare look into the lives of women in prison--why it is we lock so many away and what
Clinical Pearls of Wisdom
Here, for your reading and clinical pleasure, is a book that contains just these clinical "pearls" of wisdom, from the field's leading practitioners. Represented in this collection is the "take-away" message from some of the mo...
Opera as Drama: Fiftieth Anniversary Edition
Opera As Drama
Orange Is the New Black
An original comedy-drama series from Netflix, Piper Kerman's New York Times-bestselling memoir of the time she served in a US jail is fascinating, heartbreaking and hilarious.