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Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, más conocido por su seudónimo Lewis Carroll, fue un diácono anglicano, lógico, matemático, fotógrafo y escritor británico. Sus obras más conocidas son Alicia en el país de las maravillas y su continuación, A través del espejo y lo que Alicia encontró allí.

According to psychologists and sages, each person in the world falls into one of nine personality types. Knowing which one is can bring you straight toward success (whatever success means for you: being the head of a large family or a large company). Throughout, you’ll find what the Enneagram symbol really represents and why it has been hidden from the human race until the '60s; which one of the nine personalities is yours (it can be very different from the personality they make you think you have: you could be stronger and smarter than you think); and more.

When Alice tumbles down, down, down a rabbit-hole one hot summer's afternoon in pursuit of a white rabbit, she finds herself in Wonderland. And there begins the fantastical adventures that will see her experiencing extraordinary changes in size, swimming in a pool of her own tears, and attending the very maddest of tea parties.

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland is an 1865 novel written by Lewis Carroll. It tells of a girl named Alice falling through a rabbit hole into a fantasy world populated by peculiar, anthropomorphic creatures. It is considered to be one of the best examples of the literary nonsense genre. Its narrative course and structure, characters and imagery have been enormously influential in both popular culture and literature, especially in the fantasy genre.

This audiobook contains the multi-voice narration of the Alicewinks multimedia product. The text is the unabridged 1865 version of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.

The Los Angeles Times Festival of Books began in 1996 with a simple goal: to bring together the people who create books with the people who love to read them. The festival was an immediate success and has become the largest and most prestigious book festival in the country, attracting more than 130,000 book lovers each year.

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A vital children's classic whose profound symbolism can inspire adults too. Alice's fall down a rabbit hole takes her on an odyssey of different states of being. She grows; she shrinks. She talks to creatures great and small, and also kings and queens. Alice in so doing learns both kindness and strength. Life after all is largely a matter of perception and reaction. Original book cover artwork by Magda Allani.

In dieser faszinierenden Parabel wird die Geschichte von Michael Thomas erzählt, einem scheinbar gewöhnlichen Mann, der in Minnesota geboren wurde und nun in Los Angeles arbeitet. Er stellt den Prototyp des normalen - und unzufriedenen - Amerikaners dar. Nach einem Überfall, der ihn in Todesgefahr bringt, wird Michael von einem weisen Engel besucht und gefragt, was er sich in Wahrheit vom Leben wünscht. Michael antwortet, dass er eigentlich "nach Hause" gehen möchte!

Join seven-year-old Alice as she tumbles down the rabbit hole to have an adventure in Wonderland, in Lewis Carroll's classic novel beloved by children and adults alike. Alice encounters many strange and curious creatures in Wonderland, including the anxious White Rabbit, the rather unhelpful Caterpillar, the disappearing Cheshire Cat, the Mad Hatter and his guests at their tea party, and the horrible Queen of Hearts.

Alice is bored while sitting with her older sister, who is reading a book that "had no pictures or conversations in it". Alice takes interest in a passing white rabbit that is dressed in a waistcoat and muttering, "Oh dear! Oh dear! I shall be too late!" She follows the rabbit down a rabbit hole, then finds herself falling down into a dreamlike world, where she has several adventures.

"Um erfolgreich durch die Welt zu steuern, müssen wir nach innen schauen." Der Erfinder der Bullet-Journal-Methode Ryder Carroll zeigt in diesem Hörbuch, wie wir endlich zum Piloten unseres Lebens werden und nicht länger Passagier bleiben. Er erklärt seine Philosophie und zeigt, wie wir Klarheit in unser Gedankenchaos bringen, wie wir tägliche Routinen entwickeln und vage Vorhaben in erreichbare Ziele verwandeln. Mit nur einem Stift, einem Notizbuch und Ryder Carrolls Organisationssystem werden wir fokussierter und lernen, was wirklich zählt - bei der Arbeit und im Privatleben.

There once were 12 princesses, who so frightened their father by wearing out the soles of their slippers each night in their locked room that he offered princes a kingdom for the secret and death for any prince, who failed to learn the truth. Quite simply, they danced every night with magic princes in a magic palace by a magic lake in a magic forest that they reached by a fairly normal staircase under a trapdoor in their room. Where the trapdoor or the forest or the lake or the palace came from wasn't a question the king bothered to ask.

Ain't No Half Steppin' is a look back at the best of 90's hip-hop from three different perspectives. Jon, Danny and Eddie review one album every episode and break it down in terms of what it meant at the time of its release, how it influenced them individually and whether it left a lasting impression on the golden era of hip-hop.

Discover the secret agenda of The Walrus and the Carpenter as they stroll along the beach enticing and exciting the young oysters to follow them. This is a classic morality tale written by Lewis Carroll told as a children’s poem. And, it explores movements and causes, great and small, leaders and followers, and the risks of following leaders blindly.

Grace stopped to catch her breath and look over her shoulder. Her misfortune began when she’d seen her boss shoot his partner and had run to St. Louis as a mail-order bride. If that wasn’t bad enough, her groom-to-be was a monster. She grimaced and pulled a briar from her hand. A quick look down the street proved they were still coming after her. She rounded the corner of the depot and prayed the train was ready to depart. She looked for a friendly face in the crowd.

Reason has done much of the heavy lifting throughout history. In this second volume, this book presents quotations from many of history's key figures who both recognize the importance—and also the limitations—of reason.

It's late at night, and the rain is pouring down on the Dublin city streets. A mother is grieving for her dead child. She stands silently outside the home of the teenage boy she believes responsible. She watches.... In a kitchen on the same square, a girl waits anxiously for her mum to come home. She knows exactly where she is, but she knows she cannot reach her. A few doors down, and a widow sits alone in her room. She has just delivered a bombshell to her family during dinner, and her life is about to change forever.

Sarah Dunkin's world shatters when she walks in on her husband's secret addiction. Thrown into the world of pornography, therapy, and support groups, Sarah must find a way to forgive before she drowns in betrayal and despair. The task before her seems impossible as she struggles to care for their five children on her own. Growing up without religion in her life, Sarah is forced to make difficult choices and finds herself being drawn to a higher power she never understood.

Lincoln Larkin’s most recent novels are so awful that they’ve pushed him to the brink of self-destruction. Now, those same stories are literally trying to kill him and everyone he gets close to. His novel Vriends is anything but a masterpiece and didn’t land him on any best-seller lists, but the characters from this spoof - a quirky group of vampires who crave caffeinated blood - are coming to life and draining innocent people all over the city.