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David Schippers, the former Chief Investigative Counsel of the House Judiciary Committee and a loyal Democrat, went against his party, the press, and public opinion to build a powerful case against the most corrupt President in American history and bring him to justice. But in this startling book, Schippers shows how the entire impeachment process was what Chicago politicians call a "First Ward election" - a rigged ball game, a sellout. And he tells you who took the dives. This is a stunning indictment of President Clinton's corruption - and of the congressional leaders who let him get away with it.

Thoreau's classic account of the solitary life, describing his attempts to simplify his life and sort out his priorities by living alone in a cabin beside Walden Pond for nearly two years, is one of the most influential books ever written. The bible of the environmental movement, Walden vividly portrays Thoreau's reverence for nature, and his understanding of the idea that nature is made up of crucially interrelated parts.

John Lithgow and B.D. Wong here recreate their original roles from the Tony Award-winning production. Inspired by an actual espionage scandal, a French diplomat discovers the startling truth about his Chinese mistress.

Henry David Thoreau's classic essay inspired Martin Luther King, Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, and many other activists.

"Nel corso della mia vita ho incontrato una o due persone che comprendessero l'arte del camminare, che avessero il genio - così si dice - del vagabondare." Dario Penne, storica voce di Anthony Hopkins e Michael Caine, ci accompagna con la sua lettura nei boschi, nelle valli, nelle paludi, ma soprattutto nel pensiero folgorante e rivoluzionario di Henry David Thoreau.

Der Klassiker über das Aussteigerleben und ein radikales Selbstexperiment in der Natur: Der 28-jährige Henry D. Thoreau zog sich 1845 an den Walden-See in eine einsame Waldregion Massachusetts in eine selbstgebaute Blockhütte zurück, um zwei Jahre lang ein Leben fernab der industrialisierten Zivilisation zu leben. Bis heute ist dieses sprachlich versierte Buch, das auf Thoreaus Tagebucheinträgen basiert, für alle interessant, die einen alternativen Lebensstil erstreben.

L'autore di questo audiolibro, che insieme a Ralph Waldo Emerson, viene considerato una delle menti più importanti della cultura nordamericana, è stato filosofo, scrittore, e poeta. Il suo rapporto con la Natura è quasi una religione, e in questo audiolibro, che è il suo più famoso, racconta la sua esperienza di due anni in cui è vissuto in una capanna di tronchi sulle rive del lago Walden.

Im Jahr 1849 schrieb Henry David Thoreau seinen weltberühmten Essay über die "Pflicht zum Ungehorsam gegen den Staat". In diesem stellte er sich außerhalb einer Gesellschaft, die, obwohl auf den Prinzipien der Freiheit und Gleichheit aller gegründet, nicht in der Lage war, die Sklaverei abzuschaffen. Neben "Walden" der wohl berühmteste Text des Eigenbrötlers aus den Wäldern von Massachusetts.

Wo und wofür lebe ich? Thoreau suchte eine Antwort auf diese Frage und zog sich für zwei Jahre in eine Blockhütte auf dem Waldstück zurück...

Bli bekant med de viktigaste filosoferna från 1800-talet genom ett noggrant urval av 500 citat som introducerar deras stora idéer och avgränsar strukturen i deras arbete med klarhet. Upptäck nya aspekter eller fördjupa dig i tankarna hos Henry-David Thoreau, Arthur Schopenhauer, Friedrich Nietzsche, Soren Kierkegaard, Ralph Waldo Emerson, för att utvidga ditt sinne och din kunskap om vår kultur.

Bli bekant med de viktigaste amerikanska skrivningarna genom ett noggrant urval av 300 citat som introducerar deras huvudidéer och avgränsar strukturen i deras arbete med tydlighet. Upptäck nya aspekter eller fördjupa dig i tankarna hos Mark Twain, Henry-David Thoreau, Ralph Waldo Emerson, för att utöka ditt sinne och din kunskap om vår kultur.

Bli bekant med några av de viktigaste politiska filosoferna: Cicero, Confucius, Karl Marx, Tocqueville, Nietszche, Henry-David Thoreau. Dessa siffror har format västerländsk politisk tanke och deras förståelse hjälper dig att förstå strukturen i våra politiska system; gräva djupt in i deras verk och tankar med ett urval av de viktigaste citaten som introducerar deras huvudidéer och avgränsar strukturen i deras arbete med klarhet.

Henry David Thoreau är en populär amerikansk författare, poet och filosof. Han var en livslång förkämpe, anhängare av civil olydnad againts orättvisa eller korrupta goverments och han försvarade tanken att lämna illusoriska saker till förmån för det enkla livet, för att upptäcka autentiska grundläggande behov i livet. Han är mest känd för Walden eller liv i skogen, den bok han skrev under sin tvååriga experiment i minimalistisk levande: byggde sig en stuga i skogen, han stannade där för att studera, skriva och njuta av hans nya gemenskap med naturen.

Henry David Thoreau is een geliefde Amerikaanse schrijver, dichter en filosoof. Hij was een levenslange abolitionist, voorstander van burgerlijke ongehoorzaamheid againts onrechtvaardig of beschadigde goverments, en hij verdedigde het idee van het verlaten van illusoire zaken in het voordeel van het eenvoudige leven, met het oog op authentieke essentiële behoeften van het leven te ontdekken.

Queste 100 citazioni mirano a fornire l'accesso a un'opera o a una vita eccezionale, attraverso una selezione dei pensieri più eclatanti, in un formato accessibile a tutti. Una citazione è più di un estratto di un'affermazione, può essere un colpo di mente, una sintesi di un pensiero complesso, una massima, un'apertura a una riflessione più profonda.

“If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.” Here is Henry David Thoreau’s classic work of personal experimentation and nonconformist living, Walden, presented in a special condensation with a new introduction by PEN Award-winning historian Mitch Horowitz.

Learn the truth behind the mask of Hollywood in these 10 bizarre tales of dreams and dream weavers, movies and movie-makers, by some of the most respected fantasy writers of our time.

Selections from Henry David Thoreau's Walden and Civil Disobedience, and Ralph Waldo Emerson's "Introduction to Thoreau", "Self-Reliance", "Nature", "The American Scholar", "Education", and "Politics". Thoreau dedicated his life to preserving his freedom as a man and an artist.

Compiled from magazine articles published in the 1850s after his death, Cape Cod details several short trips Thoreau made to "the bare and bended arm of Massachusetts" between 1849 and 1855. "He went to the Cape out of curiosity," explains Paul Theroux, "but in the course of his travel a great thing happened: Thoreau, the woodsman and landlubber, discovered the sea."

First published in 1849, this essay argues that individuals have rights and duties in relation to their government. Motivated by his disgust over both slavery and the Mexican-American War, Thoreau argued that individuals must not permit nor enable their government to act against their own consciences. This version of "On the Duty of Civil Disobedience" was recorded as part of Dreamscape's Walden and On the Duty of Civil Disobedience.