A hilarious comic novel that, with astonishing wit and intelligence, skewers the burning issues of our times, from a remarkable and original new fiction voice.
Der Löwe Aslan - Herrscher von Narnia - hat einen besonderen Auftrag für Euchstachius und Jill, die sich vor einer Meute gemeiner Mitschüler gerade durch die Tür einer Steinmauer retten konnten. Sie sollen in Narnia den verschollenen Prinz Rilian suchen und aus der Macht der grünen Schlange befreien.
This second edition of The Long Win updates the examination of how traditional definitions of success constrain us, and the reframe of success through The Long Win, with practical stories and examples of how this approach is helping leaders explore what they and their organizations are capable of over the long-term across business, education, sport, politics as well as in our personal lives.
Nicholas Cook explores the nature of music, how we think about it, its social and cultural dimensions, and its history. He discusses the many musical traditions across the world and the interactions between them. He also considers performance, how composers create music, and the position of music in today's globalized society.
`the ideal reading...for the hours after midnight'
Thus Henry James described the style of supernatural tale of which Sheridan Le Fanu was a master. Known in nineteenth-century Dublin as `The Invisible Prince' because of his reclusive and nocturnal habits, Le Fanu was fascinated by the occult. His writings draw on the Gothic tradition, elements of Irish folklore, and even on the social and political anxieties of his Anglo-Irish contemporaries. In exploring sometimes inexplicable terrors, the tales focus on the unease of the haunted men and
women who encounter the supernatural, rather than on the origin or purpose of the visitant. This makes for spine-chilling reading.
The five stories presented here have been collected by Dr Hesselius, a `metaphysical' doctor, the forerunner of the modern psychiatrist, who is willing to consider the ghosts both as real and as hallucinatory obsessions. The reader's doubtful anxiety mimics that of the protagonist, and each story thus creates that atmosphere of mystery which is the supernatural experience.
