When W.B. Yeats became the first Irish person to be awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1923, the Swedish Academy was crediting him with giving expression to xe2x80x98the spirit of a whole nationxe2x80x99. The prize established Yeats as the unofficial poet laureate of a country that had, in his own words, been xe2x80x98transformed utterlyxe2x80x99 during the preceding decade. From the Celtic Twilight of the 1890s to his death in 1939, Yeatsxe2x80x99s writings offer a unique window through which to view the changing Ireland of his time. In PILGRIM SOUL, Daniel Mulhallxe2x80x99s highly accessible and illuminating guide to Yeats, the poetxe2x80x99s special role in Irish affairs is examined closely. Each chapter opens with a major Yeats poem through which Mulhall examines the historical events that inspired it. Along the way, he explores Yeatsxe2x80x99s xe2x80x98indomitablexe2x80x99 Irishness, the roots of his periodic disenchantment with Ireland and the conservative politics of his later years as well as the way Yeatsxe2x80x99s lifelong encounter with Irish affairs helped reshape his poetry. Throughout his life, Yeats produced compelling images of his homeland for readers in Ireland and around the world. As a personal journey through Yeatsxe2x80x99s poetry and his life, PILGRIM SOULxc2xa0mirrors Daniel Mulhallxe2x80x99s own four decades as an ambassador for Ireland, its people and its culture.
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<div> This book stresses the psychological perspective in explaining financial behavior. Traditionally, financial behaviors such as saving, spending, and investing have been explained using demographic and economic factors such as income and product pricing. The consequence of this way of thinking is that financial institutions view their clients mostly from the perspective of their income. By taking a psychological approach, this book stresses the perspective of consumers confronted with a quickly changing financial world: the changing of financial offers and products (savings, investments, loans), the changing of payment methods (from cash to cheques, cards and mobile payments), the accessibility and temptation of goods, and the changing of insurance and pension systems. </div> <div> <br> </div> <div> <i>The Psychology of Financial Consumer Behavior </i>provides insight into the thought processes of consumers in a variety of financial topics. Coverage includes perceptions of wealth, the pleasure or pain of spending, cashless transactions, saving and investing, loans, planning for the future, taxes, and financial education. The book holds appeal for researchers, professionals, and students in economics, psychology, economic psychology, marketing and consumer science, or anyone interested in financial behaviors. </div>
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"Je navigue au milieu d’ombres dans ce paysage pâle de lune timide. Et puis, une silhouette s’élance vers le ciel, un clocher troue cette sainteté céleste qui m’abritait si bien en loupiotes filantes. Mes pieds frappent une sourde partition sur le sol rocailleux. Le chemin facile n’est pas le plus vertueux, disait la Grand quand je doutais. Me voilà, heureux, le ventre creux et la tête remplie de viles fiertés..." Un écrivain perdu, une femme aux abois, un jeune homme en quête de liberté ou une bibliothécaire cachotière... Ils ont en commun la découverte inédite de vérités qu'ils se cachaient à eux-mêmes. Dans ce recueil de nouvelles surprenantes, l'auteure nous emmène à la rencontre de personnages puissants et attachants qui nous prouvent en toute simplicité que les choses ne sont pas toujours ce qu'elles paraissent.
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Nun gibt es eine exklusive Sonderausgabe – Gaslicht – Neue Edition In dieser neuartigen Romanausgabe beweisen die Autoren erfolgreicher Serien ihr großes Talent. Geschichten von wirklicher Buch-Romanlänge lassen die illustren Welten ihrer Serienhelden zum Leben erwachen. Es sind die Stories, die diese erfahrenen Schriftsteller schon immer erzählen wollten, denn in der längeren Form kommen noch mehr Gefühl und Leidenschaft zur Geltung. Spannung garantiert! Gaslicht Nr. Der Sturm hielt den Atem an, als die Duellanten sich in jener kalten Winternacht auf der Lichtung unter dem Galgenbaum gegenüberstanden. Jenseits der verschneiten Gärten erhob sich schemenhaft die Silhouette des Schlosses. Es war zwei Uhr morgens. Eine ungewöhnliche Zeit für ein Duell. Noch bevor die Sekundanten das Kommando gaben, fiel ein Schuß. Einer der Duellanten stürzte zu Boden, sein Blut färbte den Schnee rot. Der andere flüchtete, von Panik gepackt, in den Glockenturm. »Brudermord« Jahrhunderte später geschah es in einer jener Nächte, die erfüllt sind von bösen Träumen, daß Jacinth im Traum die Glocken schaurig läuten hörte und das Schloß wiedersah, dessen Anblick dumpfe Ängste in ihr auslöste, obwohl es heiter und lieblich inmitten idyllischer Gärten lag. Doch es war ein Haus ohne Türen und Fenster, das auf Jacinth so bedrohlich wirkte, als hüteten seine Mauern ein schreckliches Geheimnis. Als endlich fahl der Morgen heraufdämmerte und die Schläfer aus den Spinnennetzen ihrer Traumgespinste befreite, läuteten die Kirchenglocken einen frostigen Sonntag ein. Jacinth stand, noch im Banne der düsteren Traumwelt, verstört an dem Panoramafenster ihres luxuriösen Apartments und blickte zum Central Park hinüber. Dieser Blick war ziemlich teuer! Die eleganten Apartments mit Blick auf den Central Park kosteten jeden Monat ein kleines Vermögen. Dank des Salärs, das sie bei Whitch und Wrestler bezog, konnte Jacinth sich die horrende Miete zwar leisten, aber froh stimmte der Ausblick sie an diesem Sonntagmorgen dennoch nicht. Es war auch kein erfreuliches Bild, das sich ihr bot. Die Bäume im Park waren kahl und sahen im bleichen Morgenlicht wie vergessene Nachtgespenster aus. Es war Winter und kalt in New York. Jacinth sehnte sich nach Sonne und Wärme.
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<p>Found and Fettered – A Series of Thrilling Detective Stories is a collection of short stories dates from 1894 written by British journalist and author of mystery and horror fiction J. E. Preston Muddock. For a time his detective stories were as popular as those of Arthur Conan Doyle. Between 1889 and 1922 he published nearly 300 detective and mystery stories. This varied collection includes material that gives readers a 19th century view of the world.</p>
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'Brave and deeply considered… Her experience, and Transsexual Apostate, shouldn't be dismissed' The Telegraph In a compelling first-hand account of what it means to be a transwoman – and where she feels the impulse comes from – Hayton explains why much of gender identity ideology is, in her view, false and damaging. Once a prominent member of the TUC LGBT+ committee, she charts how her views developed and put her at odds with the majority of trans activists. She issues a compassionate call to move beyond ideological conflicts, and to acknowledge the legitimate concerns that many have with an agenda that asserts that transwomen are women. Hayton's honest, humane and moving book shows that by accepting reality, transwomen can live their best lives based on the truth of who they are – rather than the fantasy of who they are not. 'Brave, unflinching, insightful' - Professor Michael Bailey, author ofThe Man Who Would Be Queen
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The way in which the world's religions are intertwined in the dynamics of global development has become obvious in the twenty-first century. This also applies to Christianity. In view of the fact that its historiography is still predominantly regional or national, however, little is known about Christianity's historical process of development to become a religion that is globally active and plurally differentiated. The first volume takes up this challenge by presenting a comprehensive, interdenominational and interdisciplinary history of global Christianity from the fifteenth to the eighteenth century, for the first time in German-speaking countries. Renowned theologians and (church) historians clarify the turning-points in the Early Modern period that set the course for the global spread and fascinating plurality of modern Christianity.
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"Coming Up for Air" is the seventh book by English writer George Orwell, published in June 1939 by Victor Gollancz. It was written between 1938 and 1939 while Orwell spent time recuperating from illness in French Morocco, mainly in Marrakesh. He delivered the completed manuscript to Victor Gollancz upon his return to London in March 1939. The story follows George Bowling, a 45-year old husband, father, and insurance salesman, who foresees World War II and attempts to recapture idyllic childhood innocence and escape his dreary life by returning to Lower Binfield, his birthplace. The novel is comical and pessimistic, with its view that speculative builders, commercialism, and capitalism are killing the best of rural England and the existence of new, external threats.
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