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  • Audiobook

    Story of Kaspar Hauser, The

    by Andrew Lang ...
    Narrated by Cathy Dobson ...

    Unabridged

    21 min

    On 28. May 1828 a boy of around 16 appeared in the Bavarian city of Nuremburg holding a letter in his hand. The lad was unable to speak, apart from three odd phrases which he repeated parrot-like, one of which was: "Want to be a soldier, as father was." The letter, addressed to the captain of the local infantry regiment, told a bizarre story. It appeared that the boy had been kept shut up in ... Read more

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  • The Losing Role

    Series Book 1 - The Kaspar Brothers
    A German actor conscripted into WWII will play the role of his life as he makes a daring escape in this espionage thriller inspired by true events.When the SS orders banned entertainer Max Kaspar to impersonate a US officer during the Battle of the Bulge, Max devises his own secret mission to escape the war and flee to America. With his career in Germany over, this plan is his big break—and his ... Read more

    $11.59 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Challenge Alzheimer

    The Rest of Life in Focus

    Therese Truninger (1948) worked as an Activating Therapist in an old people's home when she was diagnosed with Alzheimer's in December 2004, at the age of 56. Her husband Kaspar (1945) worked as a sales director for an international company. They got married in 1970 and have two adult daughters and six grandchildren. In August 2005 Kaspar had to quit his job and started to take care of his love as ... Read more

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  • Lines of Deception

    Series Book 4 - The Kaspar Brothers
    A West German nightclub owner goes behind the Iron Curtain on a desperate mission to save his brother, in this Cold War thriller by the author of Lost Kin.West Germany, 1949. Former actor Max Kaspar suffered greatly in the Second World War. Now he owns a nightclub in Munich—and occasionally lends a hand to the newly formed CIA. Meanwhile, his brother Harry has ventured beyond the Iron Curtain to ... Read more

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  • Foreign Direct Investment and Cities

    Global Case Studies for Theory and Practice

    Presenting a rich collection of insights into investment by foreign corporations into different types of cities around the world, Foreign Direct Investment and Cities uses original and revelatory case studies to help readers to turn theory into practice.The book offers a structured set of case study chapters, with a diversity of location, setting, and industry, focus on macro-, meso-, and micro ... Read more

    $80.99 USD

  • Audiobook

    Corsairs: Kaspar

    by Ruby Dixon ...
    Narrated by Mason Lloyd, Hollie Jackson ...
    Series series Corsair Brothers

    Unabridged

    12 hours 37 min

    I live for danger. For excitement. For adventure.When I end up in an escape pod with Alice, though, my world changes. She's human. Vulnerable. She does NOT love danger, or excitement. But her mind is clever, her retorts sharp, and her smile brings me to my knees. I want nothing more than to keep her safe . . . and keep her at my side.What does one danger-loving corsair do when he's stranded with a ... Read more

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  • Thinking in Platforms: Platform engineering as the operating model for work in the AI era

    Leading organizations think in platforms. They understand what most still miss: work can be designed, operated, and improved as a production system.They do not leave recurring work to scattered tools, informal coordination, meetings, tickets, and heroic individuals. They design the system around knowledge work, turning repeated intent into reliable outcomes at scale.This is the promise of platform ... Read more

    $22.90 USD

  • The Confirmation of Kaspar Hauser

    by Peter Selg ...
    Translated by Anne Sproll ...
    During the 2018 Kaspar Hauser Festival in Ansbach, Germany, Peter Selg assumed the task of understanding the individuals in Kaspar Hauser's life and comprehending their significance for his destiny. He begins by unfolding the sociopolitical and philosophical milieu during Hauser's life, starting with Friedrich Hölderlin and other significant luminaries of the time. A fellow student and friend of ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • State Phobia and Civil Society

    The Political Legacy of Michel Foucault

    An examination of Foucault's work to determine the relationship between the state and civil society.State Phobia and Civil Society draws extensively upon the work of Michel Foucault to argue for the necessity of the concept of the state in political and social analysis. In so doing, it takes on not only the dominant view in the human sciences that the concept of the state is outmoded, but also the ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • State Phobia and Civil Society

    The Political Legacy of Michel Foucault

    State Phobia and Civil Society draws extensively upon the work of Michel Foucault to argue for the necessity of the concept of the state in political and social analysis. In so doing, it takes on not only the dominant view in the human sciences that the concept of the state is outmoded, but also the large interpretative literature on Foucault, which claims that he displaces the state for a de ... Read more

    $21.39 USD

  • Kaspar Hauser

    And the Destiny of Middle Europe in the Nineteenth Century

    by Heyer Karl ...
    Who was Kaspar Hauser and where did he come from? Why did he spend his childhood in a prison cell? Was he related to nobility, royalty or even Napoleon, as some have concluded? From his appearance on the streets of Nuremberg in 1828 to his disturbing murder only five years later, the enigmatic story of Kaspar Hauser has stirred feelings of love and admiration in countless people. He has been ... Read more

    $17.29 USD

  • Kaspar and Other Plays

    by Peter Handke ...
    Translated by Michael Roloff ...
    Nobel Prize winner Peter Handke's first full-length drama, hailed in Europe as "the play of the decade" and compared in importance to Waiting for GodotKaspar is the story of an autistic adolescent who finds himself at a complete existential loss on the stage, with but a single sentence to call his own. Drilled by prompters who use terrifyingly funny logical and alogical language-sequences, Kaspar ... Read more

    $10.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus