Übersetzer Anke Dreher Gunther Olesch
Verlag: Glomarble
Siddhartha is a religious novel published in 1922 by Herman Hesse, who was deeply interested in Eastern thought.
Step out over the abyss and discover the incredible story of professional slackliner Friedi Kühne overcoming personal limits, grappling with mental toughness, and achieving greatness from thousands of feet in the air.Slacklining is an ever-evolving extreme sport in which an athlete must walk across a thin line of flexible webbing from one point to another. What once began as a trendy hobby—with a person balancing just a foot or two off the ground between two trees—has now evolved into intense feats of athleticism, including performing flips, twists, and other tricks across the slackline (tricklining) and achieving incredible balancing acts from, for some intrepid athletes, heights upwards of 6,000 feet (highlining).In Above the Abyss, author and professional slackliner Friedi Kühne dives into his slackline journey, from doing tricks as a kid on trampolines and park benches to trying his first highline at 18 years old. Along the way, Kühne learns how to train his body to achieve balance, find focus, and stay resilient. His love of slacklining takes him all over the world as he competes for world records, achieves personal milestones, and ultimately discovers how physical and mental limits can be overcome if we don’t allow our fears to hold us back.From nail-biting descriptions of highline adventures to practical advice and strategies that have carried Kühne between mountains and skyscrapers, Above the Abyss captures the passion, struggles, and determination at the center of one man’s pursuit of slackline greatness.Zum Buch
Henry Louis Gehrig (June 19, 1903 to June 2, 1941), born in New York City, was an American baseball player who played 17 seasons for the New York Yankees (1923–1939). Gehrig was renowned for his prowess as a hitter and for his durability, which earned him the nickname the "Iron Horse," and he is regarded as one of the greatest baseball players of all time. Gehrig was an All-Star seven consecutive times, a Triple Crown winner once, an American League Most Valuable Player twice and a member of six World Series championship teams. He had a career .340 batting average, hit 493 home runs, and had 1,995 RBIs. He is also one of 19 players to hit four home runs in a single game. In 1939, Gehrig was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame and was the first MLB player to have his uniform number retired by a team, when his number 4 was retired by the Yankees. The following recording is a radio interview from August 1939 after Gehrig had retired from baseball due to his illness, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), an incurable neuromuscular illness which, since then, is often referred to as "Lou Gehrig's disease."Zum Buch
He knew too much. He asked to go home. He never made it. On August 23, 2010, police entered a quiet London flat and found MI6 codebreaker Gareth Williams padlocked inside a red sports bag in his bathtub. The heating was on full. The lights were off. Every fingerprint had been professionally removed from every surface that mattered. The key was inside the bag. Beneath his body. Forensic experts made four hundred attempts to replicate how he got in. They failed every single time. The coroner ruled unlawful killing. The Metropolitan Police ruled tragic accident. A family in Wales is still waiting for the truth. Dry Cleaned is the complete, unflinching account of Britain's most baffling and most deliberately obscured modern mystery — told chapter by chapter, forensic detail by forensic detail, institutional failure by institutional failure, until the picture is so complete that the right question becomes impossible to avoid. Was the truth ever really meant to come out? 👉 Hit play. By the end of Chapter One, you won't be able to stop.Zum Buch
The recollections of a British infantryman who served in the British army during the Napoleonic Wars. ( Summary by Graham Keeling)Zum Buch
The Seafaring Life is not for everyone, but for those who live the life there is no substitute! "The Seafaring Life" is Bob’s third book of insights into what the cruising lifestyle is all about. What makes people get aboard a boat about the same size as a jail cell and sail out onto the most inhospitable place on Earth, the Ocean! Where there are things that want to eat you and you are surrounded by water you can’t drink! The Seafaring Life joins "The Sailing Life" and "Starboard Attitude” as the third collection of Bob’s insight into the lifestyle he has lived for over 40 years!Zum Buch
Have you ever observed someone you admire, and thought, "Wouldn't it be nice to be like them and have my shit together too"? That's something Harv often reflected on in his early years, navigating a plethora of challenges coming from many different angles. Here’s the thing – they’re highly likely to be still working on ‘getting their shit’ together’. However, a few have chosen a unique method of personal and professional development using the Collective Intelligence methodology. They do this with like-hearted others to guide them on their pathway to becoming their true selves and unlocking their potential. And they’re still on their journey. In a world where we are increasingly disconnected and fed information that reinforces our existing views, Collective Itelligence provides that level of connection, challenge, safety and care that nurtures curiosity and can help you on your journey. Our author, Ian (Harv) Harvey, a former sheep, beef and deer farmer, chose a different path in his late 40’s to satisfy an itch that just wouldn’t go away. He established Collective Intelligence, a diverse, human ecosystem that takes inspiration from mother nature to grow more emotionally intelligent leaders. As Harv says, “The gift of not being an expert is that it leaves you so much room to be curious about what the fuck is actually going on, and how we best respond to that”. You’ll be inspired to start your own journey with Harv through his earthy, sometimes humorous, sometimes sad, but always true and engaging stories, of his own journey of ‘getting his shit together’. And he’s still not there!Zum Buch
