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A collection of short stories featuring the 'heart specialist', Parker Pyne

The palm-sweating terrifying memoir of the world's greatest free solo climber, Alex Honnold.

Ein intensives Kleinstadtporträt von großer literarischer Kraft

Aristoteles (384-322 v. Chr.) lehrte Alexander den Großen die Logik und durch seine philosophischen Werke jeden Philosophen seither, von Mark Aurel über Thomas von Aquin bis zu Mortimer J. Adler. Jetzt lehrt Adler - einst Vorstandsvorsitzender der renommierten Encyclopedia Britannica - die Welt die aristotelische Logik, indem er Aristoteles' Erkenntnisse in einer aktuellen, wunderbar verständlichen Weise präsentiert. Er bringt Aristoteles' Werk auf eine alltägliche, für jeden verständliche Ebene - »to go«, wie auf einen schnellen Kaffee mit Aristoteles. Indem er die Leser ermutigt, selbst philosophisch zu denken, bietet Adler uns einen einzigartigen Weg zu persönlichen Einsichten und zum Verständnis der grandiosen aristotelischen Philosophie, wie der Unterschied zwischen Wünschen und Bedürfnissen, der richtige Weg zum Glück und der richtige Plan für ein gutes Leben.

Hailed as "the great nature writer of this generation" (Wall Street Journal), Robert Macfarlane is the celebrated author of books about the intersections of the human and the natural realms. In Underland, he delivers his masterpiece: an epic exploration of the Earth’s underworlds as they exist in myth, literature, memory, and the land itself. In this highly anticipated sequel to his international bestseller The Old Ways, Macfarlane takes us on an extraordinary journey into our relationship with darkness, burial, and what lies beneath the surface of both place and mind. Traveling through “deep time” - the dizzying expanses of geologic time that stretch away from the present - he moves from the birth of the universe to a post-human future, from the prehistoric art of Norwegian sea caves to the blue depths of the Greenland ice cap, from Bronze Age funeral chambers to the catacomb labyrinth below Paris, and from the underground fungal networks through which trees communicate to a deep-sunk “hiding place” where nuclear waste will be stored for 100,000 years to come. Woven through Macfarlane’s own travels are the unforgettable stories of descents into the underland made across history by explorers, artists, cavers, divers, mourners, dreamers, and murderers, all of whom have been drawn for different reasons to seek what Cormac McCarthy calls “the awful darkness within the world.”<br /> Global in its geography and written with great lyricism and power, Underland speaks powerfully to our present moment. Taking a deep-time view of our planet, Macfarlane here asks a vital and unsettling question: “Are we being good ancestors to the future Earth?” Underland marks a new turn in Macfarlane’s long-term mapping of the relations of landscape and the human heart. From its remarkable opening pages to its deeply moving conclusion, it is a journey into wonder, loss, fear, and hope. At once ancient and urgent, this is a book that will change the way you see the world.