On the lives and thoughts of Meister Eckhart, Jan Hus, Martin Luther, Giordano Bruno, Baruch Spinoza, Blaise Pascal, Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, Leo Tolstoy and many more.

In time for the 500th anniversary of Martin Luther’s 95 Theses: This book puts the reformer into another perspective – the church and its critics throughout 20 centuries.

A vivid and lively read – packed full of knowledge.

The standard work – now made available again.

The Book of Heretics tells us about ›unsuccessful saints‹, as Walter Nigg calls them. With great empathy, he writes about seekers of the divine and the truth, internally liberated but expelled from the church, or leavers by choice. His subjects include ›witches‹ and Cathars, famous philosophers and theologians, writers and scholars.

»Heretics are often among the greatest pioneers of new ideas. Their contemporaries could often not yet understand them.«
Walter Nigg

English translation available.

One can neither teach nor learn how to raise children, writes Reinhart Lempp. In this book, however, he deals with the most important stages of a child's life and reveals how seemingly large problems can be mastered with small but helpful tricks.

»But what do we really gain by calling him the enfant terrible of Protestantism, a strange saint, the St Augustine of the north and the Christian thinker per se in an apostate age? All these characterisations are all right in their way, but they are not sufficient to reach the heart of what can be learned from him. Kierkegaard's descriptions are true visions of the spiritual need of today's human being in his fear and despair. Kierkegaard proclaims knowledge of the abysses of human existence that stir the spiritual depths of the modern reader who has become clairvoyant.«

The history of European thought offers a breathtaking panorama. A single life is usually not sufficient to gain an overview of it. Ludwig Marcuse has compiled a reader in three volumes, which combines selected sample passages of the great European thinkers with introductory words on their lives and works. The result is an introduction to the pantheon of European thinking – and a standard work for every age. Volume I : Book of Job, Diogenes Laertius, Herodotus, Thucydides, Plato, Aristotle, Cicero, Caesar, Sallustius, Ovid, Plutarch, Tacitus, Marcus Aurelius, and others Volume II : Aurelius Augustinus, Hildegard of Bingen, Dante, Thomas More, Ignatius of Loyola, Friedrich Schiller, Novalis, Johann Wolfgang Goethe, Ludwig Börne, and others Volume III : Karl Marx, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Georg Büchner, Richard Wagner, Gottfried Keller, Søren Kierkegaard, Gustave Flaubert, Karl Kraus, Oswald Spengler, Sigmund Freud, Karl Jaspers, Thomas Mann, and others

A book which shows that the great works of world literature such as ›The Beautiful Mrs Seidenman‹ are not created in the ivory tower; important insights of a committed writer in times of upheaval in Eastern Europe.

In what was meant to be the best summer of his life, Nicolas had a dream. He wanted to become a writer, like his uncle. Then life got in the way - as did his father’s company, responsibility, meetings and all sorts of obligations. When his uncle died, Nicolas lost the only person who believed in him. But then, in the most unlikely of places, he found the key which helped him to become who he really is.

»Why do so many of us stumble at the task which should actually be the most important one of our lives — to become who we are?«
Bas Kast

A dictionary for contemporaries with key words from ›anarchy‹ to ›togetherness.‹ Life's ABC by an epicurean lacking in illusion, a philanthropic pessimist, who seeks humanizing changes while allowing himself to be pushed before a cart filled with ideological baggage.

It feels like we’re living in expectation of imminent catastrophe. What can we do when all lightness gets lost? Louise Brown knows how fleeting happiness can be. Over a year, she decides to record the small wonders and ordinary joys she encounters in her daily life. She discovers that even the darkest days conceal moments of joy and wonder. This book is an invitation to celebrate the ordinary miracles in our busy daily lives.

The texts presented in ›Thought Fugue‹ are records of works in progress: the typescripts, from Dürrenmatt's literary estate, of materials (each one a complete unit), as well as of all essays and stories, which he had planned for additional volumes of ›Materials‹ and which he expanded and revised numerous times between 1987 and the end of 1990. Each text presented here is the final version of the piece concerned. From the Contents: ›Prometheus‹, ›Thought Fugue‹, ›On Imagined Constructs and Emotional Universes with a Parable‹, ›The Dinosaurs and the Law‹, ›Dramaturgy of Imaginative Power‹, ›The Attempt‹, ›Cabala of Physics‹, ›Farewell from the Theatre‹, ›Postscript to Achterloo IV‹.