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Arnold Bennett How to Live on 24 Hours a Day
With the advent of the modern corporate workplace in the twenty-first century, more and more people are toiling away behind desks, wearily clocking the standard forty-hour week. By 1910, writer Arnold Bennett had observed a worrying trend of exhausted wage earners whose waking hours revolved around their jobs and who had little time to spend on the business of actually living. Self-improvement was Bennett’s prescription for a speedy escape from the woes of the rat race. In his popular work How to...
Engels | 1 uur 19 minuten (60 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2016
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Jonathan Swift A Modest Proposal
In a time when poor Irish families struggled to feed their children, Jonathan Swift wrote an essay, which he published anonymously, making a few suggestions. He called it ‘A Modest Proposal’ (1729) or ‘A Modest Proposal for Preventing the Children of Poor People from Being a Burthen to their Parents, or the Country, and for Making them Beneficial to the Publick.’ The solution was simple: Fatten up the undernourished children and sell them as food for the rich. Everybody wins! Though written in a...
Engels | 25 minuten (19 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2016
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Brahma Khumaris Practical Guidelines For Meditation
Half lecture, half commentary: explore the concept of the self and the Supreme Being. In a simple form, understand the beauty of Raja Yoga meditation and how spiritual awareness is needed to link the self and God. The Brahma Kumaris World Spiritual University is an international organisation working at all levels of society for positive change.nnEstablished in 1937 it now carries out a wide range of educational programmes for the development of human and spiritual values throughout its 4000 branches...
Engels | 55 minuten (43 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2016
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G. A. Henty The Dragon and the Raven
The vikings have invaded England. King Alfred and a young thane knight, Edmund, must fight to save his lands. Artfully blending fiction and the history of this volatile time in England, “The Dragon and the Raven” is an entertaining, romantic, and a fun adventure from G. A. Henty, whose stories were known for their historical accuracy. G. A. Henty (1832-1902) was an English novelist and war correspondent, best known for his historical adventure stories. His works include “The Dragon & The Raven”...
Engels | 7 uur 17 minuten (336 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2016
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