Pure Invention
'Amazingly well researched, fabulously informative and an awful lot of fun. If you love Japanese culture or are just curious to know more I can't recommend this book highly enough' Jonathan Ross 'A nerd- and generalist-friendly look at how Japan s...
Franz Kafka, the Eternal Son
Franz Kafka remains one of the most influential writers of the twentieth century. His novels, stories, and letters are still regarded today as the epitome of the dark, fascinating, and uncanny, a model of the modernist aesthetic. Peter-André Alt’s landmark biography, Franz Kafka, the Eternal Son, recounts and explores Kafka’s life and literary work throughout the cultural and political upheavals of central Europe. Alt’s biography explores Franz Kafka’s own view of life and writing as a unity that shaped his identity. He locates links and echoes among the author’s work, life, and surroundings, situating him within the traditions of Prague's German literature, modernity, psychoanalysis, and philosophy as well as within its Jewish culture, arts, theater, and intellectual tradition. In this biographical tour de force, Kafka emerges as an observant flaneur and wistful loner, an anxious ascetic, an ecstatic and skeptic, a specialist in terror, and a master of irony. Alt masterfully
Lineare Funktionalanalysis
"Die lineare Funktionalanalysis ist ein weitgehend kanonisiertes Teilgebiet der Mathematik, das in seiner Synthese von Algebra, Topologie und Analysis von großem ästhetischem Reiz ist. Das vorliegende Buch gibt eine geschlossene, geschickt au...
Linear Functional Analysis
This book gives an introduction to Linear Functional Analysis, which is a synthesis of algebra, topology, and analysis. In addition to the basic theory¿it explains operator theory, distributions, Sobolev spaces, and many other things. The text is ...
Agile by Design
Achieve greater success by increasing the agility of analytics lifecycle management Agile by Design offers the insight you need to improve analytic lifecycle management while integrating the right analytics projects into different frameworks withi...
Aufklärung
Gängiges Prüfungsthema: die Literatur Gottscheds, Klopstocks, Lessings und ihrer Zeitgenossen. Die Literatur der deutschen Aufklärung gilt als Wegbereiter der Klassik. Dozenten legen großen Wert auf Kenntnisse zu den historischen, philosophischen,...
Every Night Is Pizza Night
Pipo thinks that pizza is the best. No, Pipo knows that pizza is the best. It is a scientific fact. But when she sets out on a neighbourhood-spanning quest to prove it, she discovers that "best" might not mean what she thought it means. ...
The Food Lab
The Food Lab [Bok / Inbunden]
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J. Kenji López-Alt's debut cookbook, The Food Lab, revolutionised home cooking, selling more than half a million copies with its science-based approach to everyday foods. For fast, fresh cooking for his family, there's one pan López-Alt reaches fo...
Autoimmune Wellness Handbook
The Autoimmune Wellness Handbook
Yokai Attack!
Yokai Attack! is a nightmare-inducing one-stop guide to Japan's traditional monsters and creepy-crawlies.Yokai are ethereal sorts of beings, like ghosts, nearly always encountered at night; everyone has their own take on how they might look in real life and what sorts of specific characteristics and abilities they might have. This book is the result of long hours spent poring over data and descriptions from a variety of sources, including microfilms of eighteenth-century illustrations from the National Diet Library in Tokyo, in order to bring you detailed information on almost 50 of these amazing creatures for the first time in English.Illustrations, created by the talented Tatsuya Morino, detail the potential appearance of each yokai. Alongside each illustration is a series of "data points," with each yokai's significant features at a glance--especially handy for any potential close encounters.Yokai Attack! will surely convince you that Japan's tradition of fascinating monsters is a long one--yet far from being history.Book 1 of 3 in the Yokai Attack! series. Others include Ninja Attack! and Yurei Attack!.
Yurei Attack!
Yurei Attack! is a nightmare-inducing one-stop guide to Japan's traditional ghosts and spirits. Surviving encounters with angry ghosts and sexy specters. Haunted places. Dangerous games and how to play them. And more importantly, a guided tour of ...
