Do you find yourself constantly resenting other people for their success? Do you often find it hard to celebrate your own triumphs? Have certain failures in your past prevented you from moving forward and pursuing your goals and dreams? When things go wrong, do you find yourself giving up rather quickly? Is your first instinct to criticize rather than to acknowledge or praise?If you answered "yes" to any of the questions above, then this book is for you. In a world that's becoming i...

Do you discover yourself continually feeling Anxiety? Do you regularly think that it difficult to praise your own triumphs? Have particular disappointments in your past kept you from advancing and seeking after your objectives and dreams? At the point when things happen, do you discover yourself surrendering rather rapidly? Is your first nature to reprimand as opposed to recognize?On the off chance that you replied "yes" to any of the inquiries above, then this book is for you....

'Mitchell a prolific literary translator, looks at the enigmatic Gustav Meyrink (whose novels he's translated) in this vibrant biographical debut. Meyrink, a Prague native, was prominent in the late 1800s through the early 1900s, oddly enough, as a banker, mystic and satirist (best known for The Golem). Mitchell scrutinizes the man's odd life and infatuations, especially with the occult, which seems to be at the center of his first marriage's failure. Meyrink is revealed as an eccentric an...

This series of booklets will help you identify, nurture, and create meaning in your life. Booklet 5 discusses the importance of decision making in creating menaing in our lives and offers tools and models for best decision making for long-term success. This series declares that it is meaning that makes the world go around. We dedicate our lives to survival, education, earning a living, passions, entertainment, and the pursuit of chocolate, I mean happiness. Contrary to popular belief, happ...

Encourage students to take an active role in citizenship with fully updated content that will allow them to understand the key issues and concepts they need to know using clear, detailed explanations of key terms, supported by real-life case studies that will bring the topic to life.This book contains:- Extensive coverage of tricky topics so students can avoid common mistakes- Up-to-date case studies covering all recent developments relevant to the course- Acti...

Janko Vygoda's parents spend their time drinking themselves to an early grave at the village inn; their farm is mortgaged to the hilt to the three local moneylenders, a Pole, an Armenian and a Jew. Janko swears he will keep his inheritance intact, will not sell one square inch of his land.The man he holds responsible for his misfortune is the Jewish innkeeper, Leib Weihnachtskuchen, who also arranges loans for the local peasants. By chance, he discovers the Jew is not the bloodsucki...

A remarkable work of horror, half-way between Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde

Pascal Bruckner's memoir reads like a novel, a Bildungsroman which charts his journey from pious Catholic child to leading philosopher and writer on French culture. The key figure in Bruckner's life is his father, a virulent anti-Semite, who voluntarily went to work in Germany during the Second World War. He is a violent man who beats his wife. The young Bruckner soon reacts against his father and his revenge is to become his polar opposite, even to the point of being happy to be called a ...

Bruges-la-Morte, which first appeared in 1892, concerns the fate of Hugues Viane, a widower who has turned to the melancholy, decaying city of Bruges as the ideal location in which to mourn his wife and as a suitable haven for the narcissistic perambulations of his inexorably disturbed spirit. Bruges, the 'dead city', becomes the image of his dead wife and thus allows him to endure, to manage the unbearable loss by systematically following its mournful labyrinth of streets and canals in a ...

Praise for Friedrich Glauser's other Sergeant Studer novels: Thumbprint is a fine example of the craft of detective writing in a period which fans will regard as the golden age of crime fiction."- The Sunday Telegraph In Matto's Realm is both a compelling mystery and an illuminating, finely wrought mainstream novel."- Publishers WeeklyA despairing plot about the reality of madness and life, leavened with strong doses of bittersw...

The anonymous narrator of Ink in the Blood has long been fascinated by tattoos, by the symbols and emblems people choose, and by the physical aspect, even pain, of a needle injecting ink under the skin. As an artist who makes his living by drawing illustrations, he starts making designs for Dimitri, a skilled tattooist, and eventually decides to undergo the process himself. He chooses a Latin phrase in the form of a cross: vulnerant omnes, ultima necat — 'they all (the hours) wound, the la...

The Other Side tells of a dream kingdom which becomes a nightmare, of a journey to Pearl, a mysterious city created deep in Asia, which is also a journey to the depths of the subconcious, or as Kubin himself called it, 'a sort of Baedeker for those lands which are half known to us'. Written in 1908, and more or less half way between Meyrink and Kafka, it was greeted with wild enthusiasm by the artists and writers of the Expressionist generation. Franz Marc called it a magnificent reckoning...