Publisher: Gibbs Smith
John Muir not only explored the American West but also fought for its preservation. His successes are evident in all the natural features that bear his name: forests, lakes, trails, and glaciers. Here collected are some of Muir's finest wilderness essays, ranging in subject matter from Alaska to Yellowstone, from Oregon to the High Sierra.
This audio book in French contains 100 entertaining and culturally interesting French short stories for beginners and intermediate learning level. Probably the best way to learn French is with a suitable audio book in French with which you can learn quality audio french lessons for adults. Learning French through listening to entertaining short stories is an excellent way to get a good grasp of the language, especially for beginners. All the French short stories in this audiobook are unique and entertaining in content, new vocabulary is gradually added at a manageable pace so you won't get overwhelmed. Towards the end of this book you find the stories slightly more complex, but still comprehensible for beginners. The voice is fast and natural as spoken in France and Europe. This French language audiobook offers you a wide range of culturally important information you can use when you travel to France or study there, and frankly, this book is not only for French language learners but also for anyone interested in French culture in general. (French conversation audio version 2) There are many French audio books on the market, but this one will help as well as entertain you, so get your copy now!Show book
Collins makes language learning fun, fast and flexible. Pick up the essentials of the Russian language with this easy-to-use audio introduction. Covering everything from finding your way to talking about yourself, Collins 40-minute audio can help you learn short and simple phrases quickly by just listening and repeating. Essential words, Asking for things, Numbers, I'd like …, At the café, In a shop, Basic foodstuffs, Quantities, Tickets, Where is …? When is …? Days of the week, Problems, About yourself.Show book
This is the Paris you never knew. From the Revolution to the present, Graham Robb has distilled a series of astonishing true narratives, all stranger than fiction.A young artillery lieutenant, strolling through the Palais-Royal, observes disapprovingly the courtesans plying their trade. A particular woman catches his eye; nature takes its course. Later that night, Napoleon Bonaparte writes a meticulous account of his first sexual encounter. An aristocratic woman, fleeing the Louvre, takes a wrong turn and loses her way in the nameless streets of the Left Bank. For want of a map-there were no reliable ones at the time-Marie-Antoinette will go to the guillotine. Baudelaire, Baron Haussmann, the real-life Mimi of La Bohème, Proust, Charles de Gaulle (who is suspected of having faked an assassination attempt on himself in Notre Dame)-these and many more make up Robb's cast of characters. The result is a resonant, intimate history with the power of a great novel.Show book
There is no one rule for business success, no one principle that can help you meet every challenge. The realities of doing business are just too complex. However, there are lots of little rules that can guide and assist you along the way---and that’s what 250 Rules of Business is all about. From Donald Trump to Harvey Weinstein, Learning Annex guru Steven Schragis works with---and learns from---hundreds of top-drawer businesspeople. Public relations executive Rick Frishman works with---and learns from---prominent business leaders, including Michael Eisner, Mario Cuomo, and Arnold Palmer. In this groundbreaking book, Schragis and Frishman have collected all they've learned from the movers and shakers of virtually every industry and boiled it down into smart, simple strategies. Master just one rule a day and in no time you'll manage everything---people, workloads, companies---with more skill, more confidence, and more success!Show book
Arthur Schopenhauer, an early 19th century philosopher, made significant contributions to metaphysics, ethics, and aesthetics. His work also informed theories of evolution and psychology, largely through his theory of the will to power – a concept which Nietzsche famously adopted and developed. Despite this, he is today, as he was during his life, overshadowed by his contemporary, Hegel. Schopenhauer's social/psychological views, put forth in this work and in others, are directly derived from his metaphysics, which was strongly influenced by Eastern thought. His pessimism forms an interesting and perhaps questionable contrast with his obvious joy in self-expression, both in the elegance of his prose and in his practice of playing the flute nightly.His brilliance, poetry, and crushing pessimism can be seen immediately in this work, as for example in this claim from the first chapter: "The pleasure in this world, it has been said, outweighs the pain; or, at any rate, there is an even balance between the two. If the reader wishes to see shortly whether this statement is true, let him compare the respective feelings of two animals, one of which is engaged in eating the other." We see also, in this work, his misogyny, as for example in his claim that "as lions are provided with claws and teeth, and elephants and boars with tusks, . . . so Nature has equipped woman, for her defence and protection, with the arts of dissimulation; and all the power which Nature has conferred upon man in the shape of physical strength and reason, has been bestowed upon women in this form." Given his opening comment, the translator, T.B. Saunders, seems to have been at least somewhat sympathetic to this perspective. - Summary by D.E. WittkowerShow book
Abruptly expelled from his farm in Ecuador at the age of sixty-two, Moritz Thomsen indulges in that saddest of pleasures – travel – taking a trip to Brazil and ultimately a journey up the great Amazon River by boat. Assaulted by ghosts and memories at every turn, as his journey unfolds he re-examines his life to understand how he came to be living a life of self-imposed poverty and hardship. Outwardly he sails up the Amazon towards Manaus, giving us poignant and limpid descriptions of the river, yet inwardly a shattering romantic symphony rages, running from the depths of human misery to life's small but exquisite transcendent pleasures. He spares the reader nothing.Show book
