Peter Adler: 9 books
The Tender Cut
Inside the Hidden World of Self-Injury
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2011
Cutting, burning, branding, and bone-breaking are all types of self-injury, or the deliberate, non-suicidal destruction of one’s own body tissue, a practice that emerged from obscurity in the 1990s and spread dramatically as a typical behavior among adolescents. Long considered a suicidal gesture,...
India-40 and the Circle of Demons
A Memoir of Death, Sickness, Love, Friendship, Corruption, Political Fanatics, Drugs, Thugs, Psychosis, and Illumination in the Us Peace Corps
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2017
In 1966 and 1967, when he was twenty-two years old, Peter S. Adler did a two-year stint as a Peace Corps volunteer in a village called Khed halfway between Mumbai and Goa and not far from the Arabian Sea. He and his roommate built schools, killed rats, and helped start poultry businesses. It was a...
Tortenschlachten
Geschichten zum Geburtstag
Language: German
Release Date: October 5, 2015
Nicht feiern ist auch keine Lösung! Geburtstage sind ebenso großartig wie unvermeidbar - und das gilt nicht nur für uns, sondern auch für Tanten und Onkeln, für Eltern und Geliebte, für Omas und Opas, für Freundinnen, die nicht älter, und Kinder, die nicht rasch genug größer werden können....
by Jochen Schmidt, Katharina Adler, E. L. Greiff
Language: German
Release Date: May 21, 2016
Language: German
Release Date: May 21, 2016
Wie wir wurden, was wir aßen Katharina Adler, Lucy Fricke, Jens Friebe, Peter Glaser, E.L. Greiff, Verena Güntner, Thomas Lindemann, Felix Lorenz, Elinor Richter, Tex Rubinowitz, Jochen Schmidt, Oliver Maria Schmitt, Sarah Stricker, Fil, Frau Freitag und Klaus Cäsar Zehrer sind es, die geheimnisvolle...
Panorama
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2011
Only recently available for the first time in English, Panorama is the newly rediscovered first novel of H. G. Adler, a modernist master whose work has been compared to that of Kafka, Joyce, and Solzhenitsyn. A brilliant epic told in ten distinct vignettes, Panorama is a portrait of a place and people...
Healing and the Jewish Imagination
Spiritual and Practical Perspectives on Judaism and Health
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2011
Where Judaism and health intersect, healing may begin.
Essential reading for people interested in the Jewish healing, spirituality and spiritual direction movements, this groundbreaking volume explores the Jewish tradition for comfort in times of illness and Judaism’s perspectives on the...
With Our Eyes Open
Book a Break anthology, #2
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2017
Fancy a trip to Pluto? Or how about a fearful drive along a stretch of country road, or a long, hot, dusty walk to Nairobi? Unless you prefer to go to church with a strange woman in green tights, her hair alive with electricity. Here you have 34 stories, each one a journey, whether planned or unexpected,...
by Sean D. Foreman, Robert Dewhirst, Sunil Ahuja
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2011
The 2010 Midterm Elections were momentous in the history of U.S. campaigns. Readers of this book will follow the path of seven House and six Senate races from inception to election postmortem. The chapters are both narrative and provide analysis of an array of interesting and diverse contests from...
Das Happy Life Construction Manual
... für ein glückliches Leben
Language: German
Release Date: April 29, 2016
Dieses Sachbuch basiert auf 50 Jahren praktischer Erfahrung im Projekt- und Change Management. Durch wertvolle Analysen und Impulse unterstützt es Sie bei der Definition und Erreichung von Lebenszielen.
Unser Gehirn ist eine Hochleistungs-Traummaschine, die unermüdlich Wirklichkeiten konstruiert....