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In ihrem zweiten Band zum Thema Hochsensibilität erläutert Elaine N. Aron wichtige Fragen: Welche Gefühle werden ausgelöst, wenn sich Hochsensible verlieben? Wodurch kann Stress reduziert werden? Wie können beide Partner voneinander profitieren - egal, ob einer oder beide hochsensibel sind.]]> 261 Elaine N. Aron 0767903366 Michael 0 to-read 3.87 2000
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ولا يقدم دوستوفيسكي المقامر كشخصية مذمومة بل يصوره ينوع من الافتتان أو نوع من السحر أو الانسياق غير الواعي أو تحدي الظروف.

يصور دوستوفيسكي كعادته في رواياته، أعماق مكنونات شخصياته. فإلكسي إيفانوفيتش الذي يحب باولين القاسية والعاتية والغريبة، يخضع لها ولنزواتها ويقول: إن في المذلة والسقوط لمتعة عظمى.]]> 239 Fyodor Dostoevsky Michael 5 3.81 1866
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Judge Raymond Fawcett just became number five.

His body was found in the small basement of a lakeside cabin he had built himself and frequently used on weekends. When he did not show up for a trial on Monday morning, his law clerks panicked, called the FBI, and in due course the agents found the crime scene. There was no forced entry, no struggle, just two dead bodies - Judge Fawcett and his young secretary.

I did not know Judge Fawcett, but I know who killed him, and why.

I am a lawyer, and I am in prison.

It's a long story.

©2012 Belfry Holdings Inc (P)2012 Random House Audio Inc]]> 340 John Grisham 0385535144 Michael 0 3.78 2012
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Eddie is a wounded war veteran, an old man who has lived, in his mind, an uninspired life. His job is fixing rides at a seaside amusement park. On his 83rd birthday, a tragic accident kills him as he tries to save a little girl from a falling cart. He awakes in the afterlife, where he learns that heaven is not a destination. It's a place where your life is explained to you by five people, some of whom you knew, others who may have been strangers. One by one, from childhood to soldier to old age, Eddie's five people revisit their connections to him on earth, illuminating the mysteries of his "meaningless" life, and revealing the haunting secret behind the eternal question: "Why was I here?"]]> 196 Mitch Albom 0786868716 Michael 0 to-read 4.01 2003
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]]> 43749983 سلسلة قصص روحية قصيرة و هادفة 318 الانبا مكاريوس Michael 0 4.53
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]]> 13540684 417 Anton Chekhov 5005002138 Michael 5 4.30 2009
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]]> 11812158 القبلة- الصبيان- كاشتانكا- الحسناوان- حكاية مملة (من مذكرات رجل عجوز)- المبارزة- اللعوب- بعد المسرح- عنبر رقم 6]]> 486 Anton Chekhov Michael 5 4.31 1981
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]]> 7015403 New York Times best seller, Dr. Brené Brown, a research professor and thought leader on vulnerability, courage, worthiness, and shame, shares ten guideposts on the power of Wholehearted living—a way of engaging with the world from a place of worthiness.]]> 137 Brené Brown 159285849X Michael 0 to-read 4.25 2010
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]]> 18813645
Modern parenting is defined by an unprecedented level of overprotectiveness: parents who rush to school at the whim of a phone call to deliver forgotten assignments, who challenge teachers on report card disappointments, mastermind children’s friendships and interfere on the playing field. As teacher and writer Jessica Lahey explains, even though these parents see themselves as being highly responsive to their children’s well-being, they aren’t giving them the chance to experience failure—or the opportunity to learn to solve their own problems.

Overparenting has the potential to ruin a child’s confidence and undermine their education, Lahey reminds us. Teachers don’t just teach reading, writing, and arithmetic. They teach responsibility, organization, manners, restraint, and foresight—important life skills children carry with them long after they leave the classroom.

Providing a path toward solutions, Lahey lays out a blueprint with targeted advice for handling homework, report cards, social dynamics, and sports. Most importantly, she sets forth a plan to help parents learn to step back and embrace their children’s failures. Hard-hitting yet warm and wise, The Gift of Failure is essential reading for parents, educators, and psychologists nationwide who want to help their children succeed.]]> 243 Jessica Lahey 0062299239 Michael 0 to-read 4.13 2014
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]]> 2014249
You’re not perfect. But guess what? You don’t have to be.

All of us struggle with high expectations from time to time. But for many women, the worries can become debilitating–and often, we don’t even know we’re letting unrealistic expectations color our thinking. The good news is, we have the power to break free from the perfectionist trap–and internationally renowned health psychologist, Dr. Alice Domar can show you how.

Be Happy Without Being Perfect offers a way out of the self-imposed handcuffs that this thinking brings, providing concrete solutions, practical advice, and action plans that teach you how
�� Assess your tendency toward perfectionism in all areas of your life
�� Set realistic goals
�� Alleviate the guilt and shame that perfectionism can trigger
�� Manage your anxiety with clinically proven self-care strategies
�� Get rid of the unrealistic and damaging expectations that are hurting you–for good!

Filled with the personal insights of more than fifty women, Be Happy Without Being Perfect is your key to a happier, calmer, and more enjoyable life.]]> 304 Alice D. Domar 0307354318 Michael 0 to-read 3.56 2008
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Angel expects nothing from men but betrayal. Sold into prostitution as a child, she survives by keeping her hatred alive. And what she hates most are the men who use her, leaving her empty and dead inside.

Then she meets Michael Hosea. A man who seeks his Father’s heart in everything, Michael Hosea obeys God’s call to marry Angel and to love her unconditionally. Slowly, day by day, he defies Angel’s every bitter expectation until, despite her resistance her frozen heart begins to thaw.

But with her unexpected softening come overwhelming feelings of unworthiness and fear. And so Angel runs. Back to the darkness, away from her husband’s pursuing love, terrified of the truth she can no longer deny: Her final healing must come from the One who loves her even more than Michael Hosea does…the One who will never let her go.

A life-changing story of God’s unconditional, redemptive, all-consuming love.
--back cover]]> 479 Francine Rivers Michael 4 4.51 1991
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]]> 923949 The bestselling author and psychologist whose books have topped 240,000 copies in print now addresses the trait of "high sensitivity" in children-and offers a breakthrough parenting guidebook for highly sensitive children and their caregivers.

With the publication of The Highly Sensitive Person, Elaine Aron became the first person to identify the inborn trait of "high sensitivity" and to show how it affects the lives of those who possess it. Up to 20 percent of the population is born highly sensitive, and now in The Highly Sensitive Child, Aron shifts her focus to highly sensitive children, who share the same characteristics as highly sensitive adults and thus face unique challenges as they grow up.

Rooted in Aron's years of experience as a psychotherapist and her original research on child temperament, The Highly Sensitive Child shows how HSCs are born deeply reflective, sensitive to the subtle, and easily overwhelmed. These qualities can make for smart, conscientious, creative children, but with the wrong parenting or schooling, they can become unusually shy or timid, or begin acting out. Few parents and teachers understand where this behavior comes from-and as a result, HSCs are often mislabeled as overly inhibited, fearful, or "fussy,"or classified as "problem children" (and in some cases, misdiagnosed with disorders such as Attention Deficit Disorder). But raised with proper understanding and care, HSCs are no more prone to these problems than nonsensitive children and can grow up to be happy, healthy, well-adjusted adults.

In this pioneering work, parents will find helpful self-tests and case studies to help them understand their HSC, along with thorough advice on:
- The challenges of raising an highly sensitive child

- The four keys to successfully parenting an HSC

- How to soothe highly sensitive infants

- Helping sensitive children survive in a not-so-sensitive world

- Making school and friendships enjoyable

With chapters addressing the needs of specific age groups, from newborns through teens, The Highly Sensitive Child delivers warmhearted, timely information for parents, teachers, and the sensitive children in their lives.]]> 365 Elaine N. Aron 0767908724 Michael 0 to-read 3.96 2002
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Do noise and confusion quickly overwhelm you? Do you have a rich inner life and intense dreams? Did parents or teachers call you "too shy" or "too sensitive"? If you answered yes to any of these questions, you may be a Highly Sensitive Person (HSP).

High sensitivity is a trait shared by 20 percent of the population, according to Dr. Elaine Aron, a clinical psychologist and workshop leader and the bestselling author of The Highly Sensitive Person . The enormous response to her book led Dr. Aron to create The Highly Sensitive Person's Workbook , designed to honor that long-ignored, trampled-on part of yourself--your sensitivity. A collection of exercises and activities for both individuals and groups, this workbook will help you identify the HSP trait in yourself, nurture the new, positive self-image you deserve, and create a fuller, richer life. You will be able to:

Identify your specific sensitivities with self-assessment tests
Reframe past experiences in a more positive light
Interpret dreams and relate them to your sensitivity
Cope with overarousal through relaxation, breathing, and visualization techniques
Describe your trait in a work interview or to an unsympathetic family member, new friend, doctor, or therapist]]> 336 Elaine N. Aron 0767903374 Michael 0 to-read 4.02 1999
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]]> 49322 330 Marti Olsen Laney 0761123695 Michael 0 to-read 3.87 2002
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]]> 104191 210 David Keirsey 0960695400 Michael 0 to-read 4.10 1984
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]]> 1397430 238 Barrie Jaeger 007140810X Michael 0 to-read 3.73 2004
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Most of us feel overstimulated every once in a while, but for the HSP, it's a way of life. In this groundbreaking book, Dr. Elaine Aron, a clinical psychologist, workshop leader, and an HSP herself, shows you how to identify this trait in yourself and make the most of it in everyday situations. Drawing on her many years of research and hundreds of interviews, she shows how you can better understand yourself and your trait to create a fuller, richer life.]]> 251 Elaine N. Aron 0553062182 Michael 0 to-read 3.86 1996
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]]> 12505 667 Fyodor Dostoevsky 0679642420 Michael 5 4.22 1869
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The story of Oliver Twist - orphaned, and set upon by evil and adversity from his first breath - shocked readers when it was published. After running away from the workhouse and pompous beadle Mr Bumble, Oliver finds himself lured into a den of thieves peopled by vivid and memorable characters - the Artful Dodger, vicious burglar Bill Sikes, his dog Bull's Eye, and prostitute Nancy, all watched over by cunning master-thief Fagin. Combining elements of Gothic Romance, the Newgate Novel and popular melodrama, Dickens created an entirely new kind of fiction, scathing in its indictment of a cruel society, and pervaded by an unforgettable sense of threat and mystery.

This Penguin Classics edition of Oliver Twist is the first critical edition to faithfully reproduce the text as its earliest readers would have encountered it from its serialisation in Bentley's Miscellany, and includes an introduction by Philip Horne, a glossary of Victorian thieves' slang, a chronology of Dickens's life, a map of contemporary London and all of George Cruikshank's original illustrations.

For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.]]> 608 Charles Dickens Michael 4 3.88 1838
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]]> 13610616 يقدم أسلوباً جديداً بالكامل لكيفية حل الصراعات و الحل الإبداعي للمشاكل
يكفي أن مؤلفه ستيفن كوفي المصنف من أكثر 25 شخصية تأثيراً في الولايات المتحدة و مؤلف العادات السبع للناس الأكثر فعالية]]> 486 Stephen R. Covey Michael 4 3.82
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]]> 17881 Notes from Underground tells the story of his tortured life. With bitter sarcasm, he describes his refusal to become a worker in the ‘ant-hill�� of society and his gradual withdrawal to an existence ‘underground��. The seemingly ordinary world of St Petersburg takes on a nightmarish quality in The Double when a government clerk encounters a man who exactly resembles him �� his double perhaps, or possibly the darker side of his own personality. Like Notes from Underground, this is a masterly study of human consciousness.Jessie Coulson’s introduction discusses the stories�� critical reception and the themes they share with Dostoyevksy’s great novels.
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]]> 20801723
This guide includes:

The Secret Of Conversation Flow
What makes some conversations flow smoothly, and others sputter or feel awkward? In this section, I explain the principles of “Invitation�� and “Inspiration�� and how these two principles work together to create smooth, comfortable conversation.

Invitation: The Art Of Good Questions
Invitations help to add structure to a conversation by clearly communicating to your partner when it’s their turn to speak and giving them a topic to speak about. In this section, I discuss invitations in depth and teach you how to use them in your conversations. In addition, since most invitations are questions, I explain how to ask good questions and show how you can build rapport with others using questions.

Inspiration: The Heartbeat Of Good Conversations
It’s possible to build a conversation out of nothing but invitations, but there’s a better way. Through something I call an “inspiration��, you help build conversation that feels more natural and that encourages more sharing and intimacy between you and your partner. This section explains what inspirations are and how they work

Inspiration In Practice
Once you understand what inspirations are and what they can do for you, you’ll be eager to apply them in your everyday conversation. This section gives you the practical, step-by-step guidance you need to do just that

Invitation and Inspiration In Practice
After you’ve learned about invitation and inspiration separately, it’s time to discover how they can work together. This section explains how you can use invitation and inspiration in harmony with each other and equips you to use them in real-world conversations.

Bonus: Ten Easy Tips For Improving Conversations
As a thank-you for reading this guide on your Kindle, I've prepared ten tips for improving your conversation skills. These tips are found nowhere else, and they're easy ways to boost your conversation confidence.

This guide to conversation written by Daniel Wendler (Aka, me!) I overcame the challenges of Asperger's by studying social skills, and now I share what I learned with others. I'm the author of the popular Improve your Social Skills online guide to social skills, the moderator of /r/socialskills on Reddit, and also a TEDx speaker. Enjoy the guide!]]> 26 Daniel Wendler Michael 0 to-read 3.77 2014
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]]> 542783 Is War A Thing To Be Forgotten?

That's what Annie's mother would like to do. She wants to forget the pain and heartache and to keep it away from Annie, too. But Annie cannot forget the death of her favorite uncle, who was killed in France. She cannot forget Andrew, the angry young veteran she meets at the hospital where her father works. Can Annie find the courage to help Andrew? And will she ever be able to make sense of a war that took so much from so many?

Drawn to the Kansas hospital where her father cares for wounded World War One veterans, Annie meets Andrew, a disfigured young soldier. As Annie helps Andrew slowly adjust to his wounds, she also faces devastating truths about war and the complex world of adulthood. A girl on the brink of womanhood comes to terms with the brutal aftereffects of war in an absorbing novel.]]> 224 Margaret I. Rostkowski 0064402487 Michael 0 to-read 3.90 1986
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]]> 29359991 174 Roy T. Bennett Michael 0 to-read 4.25 2016
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]]> 117885 A collection of powerful stories by one of the masters of Russian literature, illustrating the author's thoughts on political philosophy, religion and above all, humanity.

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]]> 9347100
يتتبع دوستويفسكي الصراعات التي يعيشها المراهق أركادي في أجواء عائلته وأوضاعه الحياتية التي يسعى للتمرّد عليها، فيضع نصب عينيه العمل على أن يصبح غنياً كروتشيلد، وينكر عائلته التي يعتبر أنها قصّرت في حقّه، ويسعى لعلاقات مع طبقة الأغنياء والأمراء.

يقدم دوستويفسكي عبر هذه الشخصيّات نماذج إنسانيّة غنيّة كاشفاً عن أهوائها ونزواتها كما عن طيبتها وجمال روحها.

"إنك تحلم بحياة لها دويّ، تحلم أن تحرق لا أدري ماذا، وأن تمزّق لا أدري ماذاً، أن تسمو فوق روسيا كلها، أن تمرّ مرور سحابة ساطعة، أن تغرق العالم كله في الخوف والإعجاب، لذلك أرى من المفيد أن أحذّرك لأني أحمل لك عاطفة صادقة".

هذا هو المراهق كما يصفه دوستويفسكي على لسان والده.]]> 415 Fyodor Dostoevsky Michael 4 3.86 1875
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يتتبع دوستويفسكي الصراعات التي يعيشها المراهق أركادي في أجواء عائلته وأوضاعه الحياتية التي يسعى للتمرّد عليها، فيضع نصب عينيه العمل على أن يصبح غنياً كروتشيلد، وينكر عائلته التي يعتبر أنها قصّرت في حقّه، ويسعى لعلاقات مع طبقة الأغنياء والأمراء.

يقدم دوستويفسكي عبر هذه الشخصيّات نماذج إنسانيّة غنيّة كاشفاً عن أهوائها ونزواتها كما عن طيبتها وجمال روحها.

"إنك تحلم بحياة لها دويّ، تحلم أن تحرق لا أدري ماذا، وأن تمزّق لا أدري ماذاً، أن تسمو فوق روسيا كلها، أن تمرّ مرور سحابة ساطعة، أن تغرق العالم كله في الخوف والإعجاب، لذلك أرى من المفيد أن أحذّرك لأني أحمل لك عاطفة صادقة".

هذا هو المراهق كما يصفه دوستويفسكي على لسان والده.إنك تحلم بحياة لها دويّ، تحلم أن تحرق لا أدري ماذا، وأن تمزّق لا أدري ماذاً، أن تسمو فوق روسيا كلها، أن تمرّ مرور سحابة ساطعة، أن تغرق العالم كله في الخوف والإعجاب، لذلك أرى من المفيد أن أحذّرك لأني أحمل لك عاطفة صادقة]]> 548 Fyodor Dostoevsky Michael 4 4.11 1875
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]]> 456469 Notes from Underground, certainly one of the most revolutionary and original works in world literature; nowhere is his thought presented with such authority as in "The Grand Inquisitor," an episode of central importance taken from his last and greatest novel, The Brothers Karamazov. In both these vital works Dostoevsky confronts the reader with the tragic grandeur of man, indeed, with a whole philosophy of tragedy: the tragedy of the individual and freedom, the tragedy of the historical process, the tragedy of universal evil.

Relevant works included by Chernyshevsky, Schedrin and Dostoevsky.]]> 229 Fyodor Dostoevsky 0452010934 Michael 0 to-read 4.20 1960
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]]> 9668650
Zihin Haritaları yaşamınızı kolaylaştırır:

Her şeyi kolay hatırlamanızı,
Parlak fikirler üretmenizi,
Sunum ya da raporlarınızı rahatlıkla hazırlamanızı,
Tartışmalarda insanları ustaca ikna etmenizi,
Kişisel hedeflerinizi planlamanızı,
Hayatınızın kontrolünü ele almanızı sağlar.

Zihin Haritaları eğitim ve iş yaşamında fırtına etkisi yaratmış, dünya genelinde 250 milyondan fazla insanın kullandığı çığır açan not alma tekniği ile ‘beynin İsviçre çakısı�� olarak adlandırılmıştır.]]> Tony Buzan Michael 3 3.79
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This award-winning translation by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky remains true to the verbal inventiveness of Dostoevsky’s prose, preserving the multiple voices, the humor, and the surprising modernity of the original. It is an achievement worthy of Dostoevsky’s last and greatest novel.]]> 796 Fyodor Dostoevsky 0374528373 Michael 5 to-read 4.36 1880
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]]> 3297949 228 Michael 3 3.91 1787
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]]> 244529 –Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1961

The signing of the United Nations Charter in 1945 was an unprecedented development in the history of humankind. For the first time, the world’s most powerful sovereign nation states came together to create an autonomous organization designed to, in the Charter’s words, “save succeeding generations from the scourge of war [and] reaffirm faith in fundamental human rights.�� Sixty years later, the UN still doggedly pursues that mandate, albeit not without difficulty and certainly not without criticism.

In The Parliament of Man, the distinguished scholar Paul Kennedy gives a thorough and timely history of the United Nations that explains the institution’s roots and functions while also casting an objective eye on the UN’s effectiveness as a body and on its prospects for success in meeting the challenges that lie ahead.

Building on expertise he gained in drafting official reports for the UN’s fiftieth anniversary on how to improve the organization’s performance, Kennedy makes sense of the many commissions and committees, and how its six main operating bodies–General Assembly, Security Council, Economic and Social Council (UNESCO), Trusteeship Council, Secretariat, and International Court–operate and interact. Citing examples from the UN’s history, he shows how the five permanent members of the Security Council–the United States, the United Kingdom, Russia, China, and France–on numerous occasions overcame political antagonisms to spearhead military supervision of aid in humanitarian crises, and how lack of cooperation among the great powers has hamstrung such initiatives as the control of greenhouse gas emissions and exacerbated the deleterious effects of globalization on developing nations�� economies.

As a body, the UN emerges here for what it is: fallible, human-based, oftentimes dependent on the whims of powerful national governments or the foibles of individual senior UN administrators, but utterly indispensable. In The Parliament of Man, Kennedy ably proves that “it is difficult to imagine how much more riven and ruinous our world of six billion people would be if there had been no UN social, environmental, and cultural agendas–and no institutions to attempt to put them into practice on the ground.”]]> 384 Paul Kennedy 0375501657 Michael 4 3.59 2006
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]]> 13545811 112 Gerald G. Jampolsky 1451663021 Michael 5 4.00 1999
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]]> 1052
The Success Secrets of the Ancients��
An Assured Road to Happiness and Prosperity

Countless readers have been helped by the famous “Babylonian parables,�� hailed as the greatest of all inspirational works on the subject of thrift, financial planning, and personal wealth. In language as simple as that found in the Bible, these fascinating and informative stories set you on a sure path to prosperity and its accompanying joys. Acclaimed as a modern-day classic, this celebrated bestseller offers an understanding of—and a solution to—your personal financial problems that will guide you through a lifetime. This is the book that holds the secrets to keeping your money—and making more.

The Richest Man in Babylon
Read it and recommend it to loved ones��
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MORE THAN TWO MILLION BOOKS SOLD]]> 194 George S. Clason 0451205367 Michael 4 4.25 1926
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نبذة عن المؤلفين

«إذا تعذَّر علينا تقديم أعمالٍ كبيرة، فحسبنا أعمالٌ صغيرةٌ نقدِّمها بحبٍّ كبير».
- الأم تريزا
إذا ما أردتَ مساعدةَ الآخرين، فماذا يمنعك؟ هل هو اعتقادك بأنك لا تملك القدرةَ، أو الوقت، أو الموارد اللازمة؟ في هذا الكتاب يجيب غاري مورش ودين نِلسون أن لدى كلٍّ منّا شيئاً يبذله، ويدلِّلان على ذلك بسَوْق أمثلةٍ مثيرةٍ تشمل جهودَ الإغاثة التي بذلتها مؤسسةُ مورش «من القلب إلى القلب الدولية» في أعقاب إعصار كاترينا والمدِّ البحري الرهيب في جنوب شرق آسيا، وحوادثَ من تجارب شخصيةٍ للمؤلِّفَيْن مع شخصياتٍ رفيعةٍ خيِّرةٍ من أمثال الأم تريزا. عليك أن تدرك أن في وسعك أن تغيِّر في أسلوب حياتك الشخصية وحياة أناسٍ هم في حاجةٍ إلى عونك، بقطع النظر عن مكانتك في الحياة، وعن حجم إمكاناتك ومواردك. المهمُّ أن تبدأ من فورك، ومن موقعك، وبما هو متاحٌ بين يديك.
«ثمة شعورٌ بالتسامي والارتقاء ينال ثلَّةً من الأفراد الذين أدركوا الحقيقةَ الجميلةَ المتمثِّلة في الشعور بوجود آخرين قد يعيشون حياةً حميدة إذا مُدَّتْ إليهم يدُ العون ففرَّجت كربتهم. هذا الكتاب هو بمنْزلة المِيل الأول من الرحلة سعياً وراء ذاك المقصد النبيل، وهو مِيلٌ غنيٌّ بالإرشاد والتوجيه. كم هو خليقٌ بالمرء أن يتابع المسير وألا ينظر إلى الوراء».
- دونالد ميلر، مؤلِّف كتاب Blue Like Jazz
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]]> 5695 0679734511. (ISBN13: 9780679734512)

Inspired by the true story of a political murder that horrified Russians in 1869, Fyodor Dostoevsky conceived of Demons as a "novel-pamphlet" in which he would say everything about the plague of materialist ideology that he saw infecting his native land. What emerged was a prophetic and ferociously funny masterpiece of ideology and murder in pre-revolutionary Russia.]]> 733 Fyodor Dostoevsky Michael 4 4.31 1872
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]]> 104287 273 Al Gore 1594201226 Michael 3 3.78
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]]> 10388802 إن كل شخصية في هذه الرواية , قد نرى فيها قديساً أو مصاباً بالهيستيريا . إبناً باراً محباً , أو جاحداً لايهمه ما يسببه من بؤس و شقاء . وهو يريد بذلك التعبير عن الصراع الروحي و الشعوري الذي يدفع المرء إلى التضحية دونما تردد , وهذا مانجدة في هذا الحب الغريب الذي تحملة ناتاشا و كاتيا كلتيهما و هما الغريمتان للشاب الطائش الخفيف أليوشا .
كيف أمكن أن تفتن فتاة مثل ناتاشا المليئة طهارة و حرارة و عقلاً بشاب مثل أليوشا ملئ تفاهه .
كيف يمكن لناتاشا وحيدة والديها أن ترميهما في البؤس .
ذلك ما يقدمة دوستوفيسكي في هذه الرواية بعبارات عنيفة قوية تعبر عما يصف به الحب الجارف من التباس و تنناقضات ..]]> 560 Fyodor Dostoevsky Michael 5 4.18 1861
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كتب دوستيوفسكي هذه الرواية عند عودته من السجن في المنفى فيمكن القول أنها جسر بين ما أنتجه من قصص في أيام الشباب وبين الأعمال الكبيرة التي كتبها من سن النضج، وقد ا ستقبل النقاد هذه الرواية الحافلة الصاخبة، استقلوها عند ظهورها استقبالاً متفاوتاً أشد التفاوت، فمنهم من تحمس لها أكبر الحماسة، ومنهم ظلمها أكبر الظلم، وكان دوستيوفسكي نفسه بين الذين ظلموها.

"أنا أعلم حق العلم أن في كتابي هذا دمى كثيرة ليست كائنات إنسانية" وأضاف: "لم أدرك هذا طبعاً حين كنت في حمى العمل السريع ولم أكد أشعر به", ويردد دوستيوفسكي ما قاله بعض النقاد في حق هذه الرواية من أنها بعيدة عن الواقع، ومن أنها مفككة بعض التفكك، فها وذا يقول في الاعتذار عن ذلك أنه كتبها في ظروف خاصة فرضت عليه أن يسرع في الكتابة ما أمكن الإسراع، لأن المجلة الناشئة التي شرع في إصدارها أخوه، وهي مجلة "الزمان"، كانت في حاجة إلى رواية تنشر في إعدادها المتسلسلة تباعاً، فلم يتسع وقته لبناء روايته البناء المحكم، ولا لصقلها الصقل الفني الذي يرضى عنه. وعندنا أن دوستيوفسكي قد ظلم نفسه حين اعترف للظالمين من نقاده ببعض ما عابوه على روايته. فالرواية ليست مفككة إلا في نظر من يقرؤها قراءة عجلى، فيتيه في سراديبها دون أن يلاحظ ارتباط أجزائها بعضها ببعض ارتباطاً وثيقاً، ويصرفه الغوص في أعماق النفس الإنسانية عن رؤية الجمال الشعري في صياغتها نفسها. وكان دوستيوفسكي يدرك حتماً أنه يظلم نفسه حين يعترف لنقاده الظالمين بما أخذوه على الرواية، سواء أكان ذلك من قبيل المجاراة لهم والتقرب منهم أم كان من قبيل الشعور بأن عبقريته قادرة على ما هو خير من ذلك انسجاماً وشاعرية، فها هوذا يستدرك قائلاً: "ولكن إليكم ما كنت أعرفه حين شرعت في كتابتها: "1-أن روايتي هذه ستشتمل على شعر ولو لم تنجح، 2-وأنها ستشتمل على فصول تفيض حرارة وقوة، 3-وأنها ستشتمل على وصف صادق وفني لشخصيتين حيتين إلى أبعد الحدود. وكانت هذه الثقة تكيفيني. وقد خرجت الرواية غريبة بعض الغرابة، غير أن فيها قرابة خمسين صفحة أعتز بها".

والحق أن دوستيوفسكي، حتى في دفاعه هذا عن كتابه، كان خجولاً متهيباً متردداً، فالشخصيات التي يصورها في هذه الرواية حية أصيلة صادقة كلها، والخيط الذي ينظم أجزاء الرواية بعضها ببعض يربط هذا الأجزاء ربطاً محكماً قوياً، والشعر يترقرق في الرواية من أولها إلى آخرها، ولا شك أن دوستيوفسكي كان حين استسلامه للإلهام الخصب والوحي المتدفق أثناء كتابة الرواية أصدق نظرة وأصدق حكماً منه حين نظر إلى الرواية ناقداً بعد ذلك. أية شخصية في هذه الرواية يمكن أن توصف بأنها غير واقعية؟ إن جميع الشخصيات التي يصورها واقعية مستمدة من الحياة، لا من الحياة المرضية غير الطبيعية فحسب، بل من الحياة السوية السليمة أيضاً. أن شخوص هذه الرواية الذين قد يتراءى النظرة السطحية الأولى أنهم مرضى، ليسوا بمرضى في الواقع.]]> 580 Fyodor Dostoevsky Michael 3 3.87 1846
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]]> 17877 As with a number of the author's other works, this profoundly influential novel brilliantly explores his characters' thoughts while probing the depths of the human soul. Describing in relentless detail the physical and mental suffering of the convicts, Dostoyevsky's character never loses faith in human qualities and the goodness of man.
A haunting and remarkable work filled with wonder and resignation, The House of the Dead ranks among the Russian novelist's greatest masterpieces. Of this powerful autobiographical novel, Tolstoy wrote, "I know no better book in all modern literature."]]> 247 Fyodor Dostoevsky 0486434095 Michael 5 4.07 1861
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]]> 11812501 هنا نقرأ أعمال تشيخوف بترجمة «أبو بكر يوسف» والتى تصدر فى 4 أجزاء الأعمال القصصية - الروايات القصيرة - الروايات - المسرحيات، وهى الترجمة التى يحرص الكثيرون على اقتنائها كترجمة متكاملة نقلت النص بحب فخرج على درجة عالية من الحساسية اللغوية الأخاذة.
هذا هو المجلد الرابع.. يضم المسرحيات الخالدة لتشيخوف وهى حول مضار التبغ، الدب، النورس، الخال فانيا، الشقيقات الثلاث، بستان الكرز]]> 469 Anton Chekhov Michael 4 3.97 1981
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]]> 17876 Notes from Underground, White Nights, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man, and Selections from The House of the Dead (150th Anniversary Edition)

The compelling works presented in this volume were written at distinct periods in Dostoyevsky's life, at decisive moments in his groping for a political philosophy and a religious answer. From the primitive peasant who kills without understanding that he is destroying life to the anxious antihero of Notes from Underground—who both craves and despises affection—the writer's often-tormented characters showcase his evolving outlook on our fate.

Thomas Mann described Dostoyevsky as "an author whose Christian sympathy is ordinarily devoted to human misery, sin, vice, the depths of lust and crime, rather than to nobility of body and soul" and Notes from Underground as "an awe- and terror- inspiring example of this sympathy."]]> 233 Fyodor Dostoevsky 0451529553 Michael 0 to-read 4.19 1864
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]]> 15727192 مُحتويات الكتاب :

1 الانطلاق من معرفة الخطية
2 الانطلاق لمعرفة الله
3 التحرر من القيود
4 الانطلاق من الحكمة البشرية أيضًا
5 نطاق الجدران الأربع
6 أعظم من السماء والأرض
7 أنت ملك الأرض وما عليها
8 أنت المخلوق الإلهي
9 أنت الذي تخدمه الملائكة
10 أنت الذي دُعيت إلها
11 أنت تحِل وتربط في السماء
12 أنت صديق الله
13 كان مستغرقًا في نومه
14 اعرف ذاتك
15 ذاتك ومديح الناس
16 ذاتك وإساءات الناس
17 انطلق من ذاتك
18 ذاتك أمام الله
19 انطلق من رغباتك الأرضية
20 انطلق من سلطان الحواس
21 لست أريد شيئًا من العالم
22 التعلم من الله
23 انطلق من حب التعليم
24 انطلق من الشعور بالامتلاك
25 انطلق من سلطان ذاتك
26 مساكين
27 حدث في تلك الليلة
28 وتتركوني وحدي
29 تأمل في النور والظلمة
30 عندما أجلس إلى ذاتي
31 اكشف لي ذاتك
32 محبة الطريق
33 اتركيني الآن
34 ربنا موجود
قصائد ...]]> 154 البابا شنودة الثالث Michael 5 4.60 1990
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]]> 15727197 May God be with you in every trouble, to support and save you!
Pope Shenouda III]]> البابا شنودة الثالث Michael 5 4.31
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]]> 15727210 البابا شنودة الثالث Michael 5 4.15 1984
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هي صفحات إن شئت عن الوفد ،، أملاها عليّ عشقي لمصر
وهي صفحات إن شئت عن مصر ،، أملاها عليّ حبي للوفد
هي كلمات كتبتها لنفسي، تعزية وتسرية حين قصرت أمامي وسائل التعبير
وهي كلمات كتبتها عن نفسي، تعبيراً ذاتياً لا يلزم الآخرين

إنها شهادة واحد من جيل لم يقل كلمته بعد
إنها مجموعة من الأفكار يطرحها مصري صادق
اعتاد أن يكون صامتاً، وما أكثر الصامتين الصادقين في مصرنا الحبيبة]]> 118 فرج فودة Michael 0 to-read 3.72 1983
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]]> 7278176 تحميل كتاب الارهاب لفرج فودة من هذا الرابط
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Without a moral compass to guide them, the children sink into lives of desperation and despair, played out against the grim background of Coketown, a wretched community shadowed by an industrial behemoth. Louisa falls into a loveless marriage with Josiah Bouderby, a vulgar banker, while the unscrupulous Tom, totally lacking in principle, becomes a thief who frames an innocent man for his crime. Witnessing the degradation and downfall of his children, Gradgrind realizes that his own misguided principles have ruined their lives.

Considered Dickens' harshest indictment of mid-19th-century industrial practices and their dehumanizing effects, this novel offers a fascinating tapestry of Victorian life, filled with the richness of detail, brilliant characterization, and passionate social concern that typify the novelist's finest creations.

Of Dickens' work, the eminent Victorian critic John Ruskin had this to say: "He is entirely right in his main drift and purpose in every book he has written; and all of them, but especially Hard Times, should be studied with close and earnest care by persons interested in social questions."]]> 384 Charles Dickens 0321107217 Michael 5 3.55 1854
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Rassendyll bears a striking resemblance to Rudolf Elphberg who is about to be crowned King of Ruritania. When the rival to the throne, Black Michael of Strelsau, attempts to seize power by imprisoning Elphberg in the Castle of Zenda, Rassendyll is obliged to impersonate the King to uphold the rightful sovereignty and ensure political stability.

Rassendyll endures a trial of strength in his encounters with the notorious Rupert of Hentzau, and a test of a different sort as he grows to love the Princess Flavia.

Five times filmed, The Prisoner of Zenda has been deservedly popular as a classic of romance and adventure since its publication in 1894.]]> 271 Anthony Hope Michael 5 3.64 1894
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This is the story of  Fletcher Randall, a nineteen-year-old from North Carolina whose politically powerful father is a plantation owner, and, of course, a slave owner. The time is 1855, and all Fletcher Randall knows and believes about slavery he's learned from his father.

But Fletcher goes to school up North, and one or two of his Princeton classmates talk about how wrong slavery is until Fletcher begins to think for himself
--and he becomes a traitor to his background, to his family, by conspiring to aid in a mass escape of slaves on the Underground Railroad. His partner in this plan is a black slave by the name of Harpin' John, a man who plays the harmonica so sweetly it could make a grown man cry. Christmas Eve is the secret date set for the escape.

How these two men of such incredibly opposing backgrounds join together to achieve the goal of freedom makes
A Different Kind of Christmas soar with unforgettable inspiration. This is a timeless tale of spiritual regeneration, moral courage, and powerful humanness, meaningful and memorable to readers of all faiths and all ages.]]> 112 Alex Haley 0517162695 Michael 5 3.71 1988
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