Candide, or the Optimist is Voltaire’s hilarious and deeply scathing satire on the Age of Enlightenment. This classic of French literature has been a bestseller for over two hundred years. Part of the Macmillan Collector's Library, a series of stunning, clothbound, pocket-sized classics with gold-foiled edges and ribbon markers. These beautiful books make perfect gifts or a treat for any book lover. This classic of French literature features an introduction by Dr Marine Ganofsky. Young nobleman Candide lives a sheltered and comfortable life under the tutorship of the ridiculous Dr Pangloss who espouses the ... |
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The Orthodox Christian Religious Education Association (OCREA). Proceedings of the conference held in Sofia, Bulgaria, 17 - 21 June 2014. ... The Orthodox Christian Religious Education Association (OCREA) is an international organization that has as its focus to maintain a thematic and academic network between the institutions and colleagues who deal with Orthodox Christian research and education. It was founded in 2006 at Valamo Monastery in Finland. The articles in this volume were presented at a conference on "Methods of Teaching in Religious Education: Learning by Heart or by Experience?" held in Sofia, ... |
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"За алкохола: Алкохолът е едно от най-великите неща на този свят, поне според мен. За повечето хора той може да е пагубен, но аз съм друг случай. Написал съм най-добрите си работи под въздействието на алкохола. За жените: Жените са като машини за оплакване. Все мъжете са им виновни. Мислят се за незаменими. Там им е проблемът. Когато една жена ме вбеси, пращам я по дяволите. Качвам се в колата и заминавам. Където и да е. За писането: Никога не пиша през деня. То е като да се разхождаш гол в голям магазин. Всички те гледат. Но нощем... тогава е времето на магиите. За вярата: Вярата е за онези, които я имат. Само не ... |
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53 години преди думата робот да бъде въведена в английския език, 27 години преди Х. Уелс да издаде Машината на времето и 35 години преди първия Модел A на Форд е имало Огромният ловец или парния гигант от прериите. Историята започва, когато Итън Хопкинс и Мики Максуизъл се натъкват на колосален човек, задвижван от пара, в американските прерии. Машината е конструирана от гениалния тийнейджър Джони Брейнард, който се включва в опасната златотърсаческа мисия на капанджията Балди Бикнел. Едуард Силвестър Елис е американски писател и журналист, автор на книги и стотици статии, писани под различни псевдоними. Огромният ... |
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Казвам се Лизи Прейн и съм на петдесет и три години. Въпреки че убих и после изядох съпруга си Джейкъб Прейн в нашата къща в Съри Хилс, смело мога да кажа, че живях добре. Имам си приятел, който ме избави от мен самата и ме научи да се смея. Намерих нови познати. Забавлявах се с готвене, работа в градината, разходки и се наслаждавах на компанията на моето куче. Имам въображение, но имам също и практичен ум. Не се измъчвам и не позволявам мислите за онова, което направих, да ме преследват. "Брак, предателство и един месец незабравимо ядене."Натали Йънг Книгата се предлага с 2 различни, атрактивни корици. Избери ... |
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Кажете по-малко, постигнете повече. ... За професионалистите, които искат да получат повече резултати с по-малко думи. За да успеете, трябва да можете само чрез гладкия поток и качеството на информацията да грабнете и да задържите вниманието на публиката си достатъчно дълго, че да я преведете през началния процес на взимане на решения. Слушателите трябва да придобият представа за идеята ви, да си представят как би им била от полза и след това да реагират с потенциално действие или по-нататъшен интерес. Имате около три минути. Тази книга е посветена на умението не просто да говорим спокойно пред хора, но и да го правим ... |
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They were perfect together. Until they met. In fifth grade, Misha's teacher set him and his classmates up with pen pals from a different school. For the next seven years, Ryen was his everything. She kept Misha on track and accepted him as he is. They only had three rules: No social media, no phone numbers, no pictures. There was no reason to ruin the good thing they had going... until Misha runs across a photo of a girl online named Ryen. He knows he has to meet her. But he didn’t expect to hate what he finds. Ryen has gone three months without a letter from Misha. Did he die? Get arrested? Knowing Misha like she ... |
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From the New York Times bestselling author of Start With Why and Leaders Eat Last, a bold framework for leadership in today's ever-changing world. How do we win a game that has no end? Finite games, like football or chess, have known players, fixed rules and a clear endpoint. The winners and losers are easily identified. Infinite games, games with no finish line, like business or politics, or life itself, have players who come and go. The rules of an infinite game are changeable while infinite games have no defined endpoint. There are no winners or losers-only ahead and behind. The question is, how do we play ... |
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"In finite games, like football or chess, the players are known, the rules are fixed, and the endpoint is clear. The winners and losers are easily identified. In infinite games, like business or politics or life itself, the players come and go, the rules are changeable, and there is no defined endpoint. There are no winners or losers in an infinite game - there is only ahead and behind. The more I started to understand the difference between finite and infinite games, the more I began to see infinite games all around us. I started to see that many of the struggles that organizations face exist simply because their ... |
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A small boy creates a shelter for his sadness, a safe space where Sadness is welcome, where it can curl up small, or be as big as it can be, where it can be noisy or quiet, or anything in between. The boy can visit the shelter whenever he needs to, every day, sometimes every hour, and the two of them will cry and talk or just sit, saying nothing. And the boy knows that one day Sadness may come out of the shelter, and together they will look out at the world, and see how beautiful it is. A poignant and heart-warming picture book exploring the importance of making space and time for our own griefs, small or large, ... |
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Quick reads by great writers. To buy books would be a good thing, observed Arthur Schopenhauer, if we also could buy the time to read them. All devoted readers long for more time to spend with their books, and the next best thing to buying time is making the most of the available moments. Great Short Short Stories: Quick Reads by Great Writers offers that opportunity. An outstanding collection of 30 brilliant short stories, each just six or fewer pages in length, it provides the chance to absorb an entire story (or two or three) in just one sitting. Quick Reads are bite-sized books by bestselling writers and well-known ... |
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Twenty four more remarkable short stories await you in this book - stories that you will never forget, or remember for a long time. Their secret is that each of them touches a string in your heart. Mythological or realistic, classical or modern, these tales will emerge unexpectedly in your mind to experience them again. Some of them will summon smiles, some will bring tears to your eyes, and others will make you want to be in love again. ... |
