Jens: 950 books

Jens Peter Jacobsen (1847 - 1885 ) was a famous Danish novelist and poet. Niels Lyhne is Jacobsens second novel, and the story focuses on an atheist and the events that happen to him. This edition includes a Table of Contents for easier navigation.

From one of Sweden’s most successful defense lawyers comes an unflinching look at Stockholm’s underworld, told from the perspective of the mob bosses, the patsies, and the thugs who help operate its twisted justice system.   JW is a student having trouble keeping up appearances in the rich party...

Een verzameling spannende en sfeervolle verhalen en inspirerende columns voor bij het haardvuur! Ga lekker zitten en laat je verrassen door de korte verhalen van Suzanne Vermeer, Jens Lapidus, Deon Meyer, Cilla & Rolf Börjlind, Gregg Hurwitz, Rajesh Parameswaran, Frederick Forsyth en Bronnie Ware. En laat je inspireren door de columns van Tijn Touber en Oprah Winfrey.

The recent crises in Ukraine have reminded us that Russia's interests run counter to those of many other nations, but what of the Russian and Ukrainian people themselves? What kind of lives are they leading, and what are their feelings toward the political regime that has so inflamed the West?When...

Raw food is for everyone, say the authors of one of Denmark’s best-selling cookbooks, and they make a compelling case for that claim. Equally at home on the coffee table or in the kitchen, The Art of Raw Food features gorgeous four-color photography and delicious yet simple raw food recipes as well...

Leading historians of the media arts define a new materialist media art history, discussing temporality, geography, ephemerality, and the future. In Relive, leading historians of the media arts grapple with this dilemma: how can we speak of “new media” and at the same time write the histories...

To a correctional facility in Virginia he is known as Prisoner 179212. But to a legion of journalists and legal reform activists he is Jens Soering, a German citizen who has endured for the past twenty-six years the harshest and most unforgiving punishment this country can offera life sentence without...

Das Revolutionsjahr 1989 ist in weite Ferne gerückt. Gedenkroutine und Fernsehbilder verstellen den Blick. Bis heute wird es vor allem als Ende erinnert: als Ende der kommunistischen Diktaturen, des Kalten Krieges, der Utopien. Aber das ist höchstens die halbe Wahrheit, der Umbruch von 1989 war...

Jens Lehmann is one of football's most recognisable goalkeepers. In a playing career stretching across four decades he represented three of Europe's most illustrious clubs. Winning Bundesliga and Premier League titles only tell apart of his story, however. Here, Lehmann follows a path of self-analysis,...

100 billion dollars. That is the annual cost of gun violence in America according to the authors of this landmark study, a book destined to change the way Americans view the problem of gun-related violence. Until now researchers have assessed the burden imposed by gunshot injuries and deaths in terms...

The Public Company Handbook: A Corporate Governance and Disclosure Guide for Directors and Executives (5th edition) written by Perkins Coie lawyers, is a “plain English” guide for directors, officers and other executives seeking to familiarize themselves with legal and other board and management...

Collective bargaining between employers and trade unions has profoundly changed working conditions in companies around the globe. But why do we start work at the age of 10, 16, 18 or 24? Why do we work 6, 8, 10 or more hours a day? These questions are becoming increasingly pertinent as working norms...

Consumers, investors, and corporations orient their activities toward a future that contains opportunities and risks. How do these actors assess uncertainty? Jens Beckert adds a new chapter to the theory of capitalism by showing how fictional expectations drive modern economies—or throw them into crisis when imagined futures fail to materialize.

People are always looking for more happiness, satisfaction, joy and inner peace. As a source for this, there is the power of the Universal Mind, which may be revealed to us as knowledge and wisdom so that we can live in balanced and in a fulfilled way. Each of us can find a way to this universal...