Anus Mundi
8 best books like Anus Mundi (Wiesław Kielar): The Wisdom of Psychopaths: What Saints, Spies, and Serial Killers Can Teach Us About Success, Auschwitz: A Doctor's Eyewitness Account, Think Big: Unleashing Your Potential for Excellence, Tortured for Christ, The Forger: An Extraordinary Story of Survival in Wartime Berlin, Gifted Hands: The Ben Carson Story, Ion, Baltagul
The Wisdom of Psychopaths: What Saints, Spies, and Serial Killers Can Teach Us About Success
Author | Kevin Dutton |
ISBN | 0374291357 |
In this engrossing journey into the lives of psychopaths and their infamously crafty behaviors, the renowned psychologist Kevin Dutton reveals that there is a scale of “madness” along which we all sit. Incorporating the latest advances in brain scanning and neuroscience, Dutton demonstrates...
Auschwitz: A Doctor's Eyewitness Account
Author | Miklós Nyiszli |
ISBN | 1559702028 |
When the Nazis invaded Hungary in 1944, they sent virtually the entire Jewish population to Auschwitz. A Jew and a medical doctor, the prisoner Dr. Miklos Nyiszli was spared death for a grimmer fate: to perform "scientific research" on his fellow inmates under the supervision of the man who became known...
Think Big: Unleashing Your Potential for Excellence
Author | Ben Carson |
ISBN | 0310269008 |
This book is for you if your life is a series of shattered dreams. This book is for you if you have no dreams at all. It's for you if you've bought the lie that you'll never amount to anything. That's not true. Your life is BIG--far bigger than you've imagined. Inside these pages lie the keys to recognizing...
Author | Richard Wurmbrand |
ISBN | 0340863684 |
One Man Who Dared to Stand Up
Months of solitary confinement, years of periodic physical torture, constant suffering from hunger and cold, the anguish of brainwashing and mental cruelty--these are the experiences of a Romanian pastor during his 14 years in Communist prisons.
His...
Author | Cioma Schönhaus |
ISBN | 0786720581 |
In Nazi Germany, 20-year-old graphic artist Cioma Schönhaus found a unique outlet for his talent: he forged documents for people fleeing the Reich, ultimately helping to save hundreds of lives. Yet, even as the Gestapo posted his photo in public, he lived a daring life, replete with fine restaurants...
Gifted Hands: The Ben Carson Story
Author | Ben Carson |
ISBN | 0310214696 |
Gifted Hands by and about Ben Carson, M.D., is the inspiring story of an inner-city kid with poor grades and little motivation, who, at age thirty-three, became director of pediatric neurosurgery at Johns Hopkins University Hospital. Gifted Hands will transplace you into the operating room to witness...
Author | Liviu Rebreanu |
ISBN | 0720646502 |
Liviu Rebreanu mărturisea la un moment dat că în lunga perioadă de şapte ani, cât a durat scrierea romanului „Ion“, un rol important l-a avut, pe lânga amplul material documentar, o scenă văzută pe colinele dimprejurul satului şi care l-a impresionat în mod deosebit. Aflat la vânătoare,...
Baltagul este, prin repeziciune și desăvârșit echilibru al expresiei, una din cele mai bune scrieri ale lui M. Sadoveanu. Mulți prețuiesc această scurtă narațiune ca roman, vorbind de creația scriitorului, de posibilitatea psihologică a eroilor. În fond, nimic din toate acestea....