Point imprint: 454 books
by Christian Nowak
Language: German
Release Date: May 19, 2017
Language: German
Release Date: May 19, 2017
Norwegens Hauptstadt könnte kaum schöner liegen: Das Zentrum schmiegt sich um den hufeisenförmigen Fjord und die Häuser ziehen sich wie Sitzreihen eines Amphitheaters die Berghänge hinauf. Die größte Stadt des Landes ist nicht nur auf dem Papier die Hauptstadt, sie ist auch das wirtschaftliche,...
by Christian Nowak
Language: German
Release Date: November 21, 2017
Language: German
Release Date: November 21, 2017
Ja, vi elsker dette landet..., ja, wir lieben dieses Land! Jeder Norweger kennt die erste Zeile der Nationalhymne, die vom späteren Literaturnobelpreisträger Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson stammt. Kaum einer der stolzen Nordländer widerspricht diesem inbrünstigen Bekenntnis, aber auch so mancher Besucher...
by Christian Nowak
Language: German
Release Date: November 21, 2017
Language: German
Release Date: November 21, 2017
Fragt man nach typisch Schwedischem, fällt wahrscheinlich jedem etwas ein. Für manche sind es die roten Holzhäuser, andere denken sofort an das von Ingvar Kamprad gegründete Möbelhaus oder an leckeres Knäckebrot. Auch so unterschiedliche Dinge wie Elche, Pippi Langstrumpf, ABBA oder den Nobelpreis...
by Uwe Lehmann, Manuela Blisse
Language: German
Release Date: November 20, 2017
Language: German
Release Date: November 20, 2017
'Kreta ist nicht Griechenland, Kreta ist ein eigener Kontinent.' Jedenfalls behaupten das die Festlandsgriechen und besonders die Athener. Die Kreter widersprechen dem nicht, sondern kokettieren sogar ein wenig mit dem kleinen Unterschied. Ganz unrecht haben sie jedenfalls nicht, denn schon durch...
by Andrea Weindl
Language: German
Release Date: August 11, 2016
Language: German
Release Date: August 11, 2016
Mallorca ist eine Insel mit vielen Gesichtern; von der Geschichte so geprägt wie von den Menschen - den Mallorquinern und den zahlreichen Einwanderern und Besuchern, die in der Hoffnung auf Glück in dem sanften mediterranen Klima seit vielen Jahren hierher kommen. Für Tausende Urlauber werden die...
Christopher and His Kind
A Biography
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2013
Christopher and His Kind is an intriguing slice of autobiography. It covers ten years in the writer's life-from 1929, when Isherwood left England to spend a week in Berlin and decided to stay there indefinitely, to the beginning of 1939, when he arrived in New York to start a life in the States.
The...
Bangkok Days
A Sojourn in the Capital of Pleasure
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2009
A PASSIONATE, AFFECTIONATE RECORD OF ADVENTURES AND MISADVENTURES IN THE WORLD'S HOTTEST METROPOLIS
Tourists come to Bangkok for many reasons—a sex change operation, a night with two prostitutes dressed as nuns, a stay in a luxury hotel. Lawrence Osborne comes for the cheap dentistry. Broke...
In Fond Remembrance of Me
A Memoir of Myth and Uncommon Friendship in the Arctic
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2006
Howard Norman spent the fall of 1977 in Churchill, Manitoba, translating into English two dozen "Noah stories" told to him by an Inuit elder. The folktales reveal what happened when the biblical Noah sailed his Ark into Hudson Bay in search of woolly mammoths and lost his way. By turns startling,...
Song of Ariran
The Life Story of a Korean Rebel
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 1941
Here for the first time is a personal account direct from a leader of the Korean rebels fighting against the Japanese who have ruled them for a generation. It is a story that fits the American tradition and the American wish to understand and support all peoples who have fought against their...
A Country Practice
Scenes from the Veterinary Life
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2004
Chuck Shaw is a vanishing breed--an old-style veterinarian with a quarter of a century of experience who runs a "mixed practice" in rural New Hampshire, treating everything from house cats to milk cows. Week after demanding week, he and his associate, horse expert Roger Osinchuk, make house...
You Can't Spell Truth Without Ruth
An Unauthorized Collection of Witty & Wise Quotes from the Queen of Supreme, Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2018
Speaking the Ruth to America
Ruth Bader Ginsburg became a Supreme Court Justice in 1993, but her popularity has exploded over the last couple of years as she has been adopted as a modern feminist icon. An octogenarian who has proven that disagreeing does not make one disagreeable, Ginsburg...
The Gloves
A Boxing Chronicle
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2003
A gritty, spirited inside look at the world of amateur boxing today
The Golden Gloves tournament is center stage in amateur boxing-a single-elimination contest in which young hopefuls square off in steamy gyms with the boxing elite looking on.
Robert Anasi took up boxing in his twenties...
Cradle to Cradle
Remaking the Way We Make Things
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2010
A manifesto for a radically different philosophy and practice of manufacture and environmentalism
"Reduce, reuse, recycle" urge environmentalists; in other words, do more with less in order to minimize damage. But as this provocative, visionary book argues, this approach perpetuates...
Out of Sheer Rage
Wrestling with D. H. Lawrence
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2014
FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD
"In the spirit of Julian Barnes's Flaubert's Parrot and Alain de Botton's How Proust Can Change Your Life, Mr. Dyer's Out of Sheer Rage keeps circling its subject in widening loops and then darting at it when you least expect it . . ....