A cultural and literary reader that features a comprehensive review of grammar. It also features a flexible four-skills, learner-centered approach that promotes communication and focuses on the literature and culture of the German-speaking world.[...]

A four-book collection of short historical notes, stories, and legends about the buildings and monuments of Constantinople, compiled in the late tenth century by an anonymous author. It presents a panorama of the city as it existed in the middle Byzantine period.[...]

As a novelist, art critic, and cultural historian, John Berger is a writer of dazzling eloquence and arresting insight whose work amounts to a subtle, powerful critique of the canons of our civilization. In About Looking he explores our role as observers to reveal new layers of meaning in what we se[...]

When he stands before Giorgione's La Tempesta, John Berger sees not only the painting but our whole notion of time, sweeping us away from a lost Eden. A photograph of a gravely joyful crowd gathered on a Prague street in November 1989 provokes reflection on the meaning of democracy and the reunion o[...]

Berger's modern classic updated with glorious photos. John Berger has spent a lifetime experimenting with new ways of storytelling, often using both words and images as in books such as Another Way of Telling and A Fortunate Man, where he worked with photographer Jean Mohr, and in his world-renowned[...]

Most people have habits they want to break, behaviors they want to change, or stresses they long to eliminate. Dr. Miller reveals how hypnosis can also be practiced by individuals as an easy, inexpensive way of improving their lives and healing common health problems such as weight loss, smoking ces[...]

In the mythic city of Troy, amidst the shanty-towns, factories, opulent hotels, fading heritages and steadfast dreams, the children and grandchildren of rural peasants pursue meagre livings as best they can. And two young lovers embark upon a passionate journey of love and survival.[...]

The pocket in question is a small pocket of resistance. A pocket is formed when two or more people come together in agreement. The resistance is against the inhumanity of the new world economic order.[...]

'Those who read or listen to our stories see everything as though through a lens. This lens is the secret of narration, and it is ground anew in every story, ground between the temporal and the timeless ...In our brief mortal lives, we are grinders of these lenses'. When John Berger wrote this appar[...]

As a novelist, essayist, and cultural historian, John Berger is a writer of dazzling eloquence and arresting insight whose work amounts to a subtle, powerful critique of the canons of our civilization. In About Looking he explores our role as observers to reveal new layers of meaning in what we see.[...]

In recent years, geographies of identities, including those of ethnicity, religion, 'race' and gender, have formed an increasing focus of contemporary human geography. The events of September 11th, 2001 particularly illustrated the ways in which identities can be transformed across time and space by[...]