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Vowing at an early age "to be a poet or nothing at all", Hermann Hesse rebelled against formal education, focusing on a rigorous program of independent study that included literature, philosophy, art, and history. One result of these efforts was a series of novels that became counterculture bibles that remain widely influential today. Another was a body of evocative spiritual poetry. Published for the first time in English, these vivid, probing short works reflect deeply on the challenges of life.

As the “science of humanity,” anthropology can help us understand virtually anything about ourselves, from our political and economic systems, to why we get married, to how we decide to buy a particular bottle of wine. This 24-lecture course reveals the extraordinary power of anthropology - and its subspecialty, cultural anthropology - as a tool to understand the world’s varied human societies, including our own.

Lojong is the Tibetan Buddhist practice that involves working with short phrases (called "slogans") as a way of generating bodhichitta, the heart and mind of enlightened compassion. Though the practice is more than a millennium old, it has become popular in the West in only the last 20 years or so - and it has become very popular indeed because it's a practice that one can fit very well into an ordinary life, and because it works.

Walli hält es nicht mehr aus: Bei ihr zu Hause in Burglbach sitzt andauernd die neue Flamme ihres Sohnes mit den zwei Kindern auf dem Sofa. Als alle Bemühungen, die drei auszuquartieren, scheitern, zieht Walli kurzerhand selbst mit einem Wohnmobil auf den Campingplatz direkt am Ortsausgang. In der Nacht zuvor ist auf dem Platz der Wagen eines Dauercampers explodiert. Walli ist wieder in ihrem Element: War es ein Unfall oder gibt es Unfrieden unter den Stammgästen in der idyllischen Natur?

A boy wins $100,000 in a box of Frosted Flakes - only to discover that claiming the winnings may unravel his family. An acclaimed ambulance driver seeks the courage to follow his heart and throw it all away to be a singer-songwriter. A school principal unveils a bold plan to permanently abolish arithmetic. A new arrival in heaven, overwhelmed by infinite options, procrastinates over his long-ago promise to visit his grandmother. We meet a vengeance-minded hare. We learn why wearing a red T-shirt is the key to finding love; how February got its name; and why the stock market is sometimes just...down.

Ava Archer misses her best childhood friend most especially during the month of April. Ask any tax attorney, it's a lonely, grueling time of year. Luckily, Ava has just received a surprising and delectably absurd offer from her posh doppelgänger at work. She must pretend to be the aforementioned posh co-worker for one night at an extremely fancy party; a party so fancy, there exists absolutely no chance anyone will recognize her or suspect her ruse. . .

Jenna Fischer's Hollywood journey began at the age of 22 when she moved to Los Angeles from her hometown of St. Louis. She was determined, confident, and ready to work hard. So, what could go wrong? Uh, basically everything. The path to being a professional actor was so much more vast and competitive than she’d imagined. It would be eight long years before she landed her iconic role on The Office, nearly a decade of frustration, rejection, and doubt. If only she’d had a handbook for the aspiring actor. Or, better yet, someone to show her the way. Jenna wants to be that person for you.

Read by Jenna Fischer and Angela Kinsey with exclusive bonus material contributed by Rainn Wilson, Creed Bratton, Oscar Nunez, Brian Baumgartner, Steve Carell, Ed Helms, Ellie Kemper, Kate Flannery and Jennifer Garner. An intimate, behind-the-scenes celebration of beloved The Office co-stars...

In the six lectures of Cultivating Anti-Racist Communities, you’ll join Giovanna Fischer, PhD, of the Los Angeles LGBT Center to explore how each of us can contribute to building a fairer and more equitable world through community and connection. You’ll begin by gaining a better understanding of how racism operates on a systemic level, as well as what defines genuine anti-racist action. With this important foundation established, you’ll then move on to developing concrete strategies for transformation within your own reach and abilities.

Virginia Roberts Giuffre wurde weltweit bekannt als die wohl mutigste Stimme unter den Opfern von Epstein und Maxwell: Sie war es, die an die Öffentlichkeit ging und dadurch letztlich beide Serientäter ins Gefängnis brachte. Ihr Foto mit Prinz Andrew besiegelte dessen gesellschaftlichen Absturz. Doch ihre Geschichte wurde nie vollständig und in ihren eigenen Worten erzählt – bis jetzt. Im April 2025 nahm sich Giuffre das Leben. Sie hinterließ ein Memoir, an dem sie über Jahre gearbeitet hatte, mit dem klaren Wunsch, es nach ihrem Tod zu veröffentlichen.

Schizophrenia has become a recognized psychotic disorder in modern day psychology and research has shown that one in 100 people suffer from this disease in some proportion or degree. It is a dreaded disease and comes as a near death blow to those who are diagnosed with this condition. This fear does not necessarily arise from the scary disease it actually is, but various misconceptions, myths, and misunderstanding that surround it. This disorder has been very thoroughly misunderstood and misrepresented.

Mona is a smart girl and figured everything out a long time ago. She had to. She didn’t have a choice. When your parents are uber-celebrities and you graduate from high school at 15, finish college at 18, and start your PhD program at 19, you don’t have time for distractions outside of your foci. Even fun is scheduled. Which is why Abram, her brother’s best friend, is such an irritant. Abram is a talented guy, a supremely gifted musician, and has absolutely nothing figured out, nor does he seem to care.

The crew of spaceship NT4 simply needs one small pocket of the galaxy to recover. But their ship is on the fritz…and they’re being hunted. Alisia Randolf never wanted to be a queen. She wanted to live a normal life as a historian, to fall in love and maybe have a family of her own. On Earth. Instead, she was captured by interstellar slave traders, freed herself with the help of her AI symbiont, became the leader of the ship, and made her fair share of enemies—enemies intent on annihilating her and her subjects once and for all.

The question-and-answer format makes this introduction to Zen especially easy to understand - and also to use as a reference, as you can easily look up just the question you had in mind. The esteemed Zen teacher Norman Fischer and his old friend and teaching colleague Susan Moon (both of them in the lineage of Shunryu Suzuki, author of Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind) give this collaborative effort a playful tone: Susan asks a question on our behalf, Norman answers it, and then Sue challenges him.

Kaitlyn Parker has no problem being the invisible girl, which is why she finds herself hiding in various cabinets and closets all over her college campus. Despite her best efforts, she can’t escape the notice of Martin Sandeke—bad boy, jerk-face bully, and the universe’s hottest, wealthiest, and most unobtainable bachelor—who also happens to be Kaitlyn’s chemistry lab partner.

What do you do when your freakishly smart and wickedly sarcastic Research Methods professor sees you mostly naked? You befriend him, of course.

In frightening times, we wish the world could be otherwise. With a touch of imagination, it can be. Imagination helps us see what’s hidden, and it shape-shifts reality’s roiling twisting waves. In this inspiring reframe of a classic Buddhist teaching, Zen teacher Norman Fischer writes that the paramitas, or “six perfections” - generosity, ethical conduct, patience, joyful effort, meditation, and understanding - can help us reconfigure the world we live in.

Ein verschwundenes Kind, ein Toter und eine Hobby-Ermittlerin, die keine Ruhe gibt – Mamma Carlotta mischt Sylt wieder auf! Als die Lünnemanns nach Jahren behaupten, ihr entführtes Kind wiedererkannt zu haben, wird auf Sylt ordentlich Luft aufgewirbelt. Doch noch bevor Kriminalhauptkommissar Erik die Wahrheit über den Jungen enthüllen kann, wird ein Toter gefunden. Schon bald stellt sich heraus, dass der erfolgreiche Bildhauer so einige Geheimnisse hatte ...

Will Grayson war schon immer rücksichtslos, wild und hat sich nie an eine einzige Regel gehalten, außer genau das zu tun, was er wollte. Und genau deshalb ist er jetzt in Blackchurch. Ein abgelegenes Herrenhaus an einem geheimen Ort, an den die Reichen und Mächtigen ihre verhaltensauffälligen Söhne schicken, um sich vor neugierigen Blicken abzuschotten. Sie sind unter sich – bis plötzlich Emory dort auftaucht. Die einzige Person, die Will jemals geliebt hat. Und genau die, die damals für den Anfang vom Ende verantwortlich war.

Audible Original präsentiert den Weltbestseller zum ersten Mal als ungekürztes Hörspiel in zwei Teilen: An einem kalten Februartag brechen in Europa alle Stromnetze zusammen. Der totale Blackout. Der italienische Informatiker Piero Manzano (Sven Hasper) vermutet einen Hackerangriff und versucht, die Behörden zu warnen - erfolglos. Als Europol-Kommissar Bollard (Christoph Maria Herbst) ihm endlich zuhört, tauchen in Manzanos Computer dubiose Emails auf, die den Verdacht auf ihn selbst lenken. Er ist ins Visier eines Gegners geraten, der ebenso raffiniert wie gnadenlos ist.