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In 1937, with the cash in his pocket, Arthur Corey purchases a grange hall, a derelict, drafty, long-deserted building destined to become the family residence into which babies, including the author, are born, one after another, after another. These children learn lessons via the school of hard knocks, transform throw-aways into tools, and become all too familiar with an outhouse where catalogs are used instead of toilet paper.

Arthur paid the auctioneer, buttoned his threadbare tweed overcoat, pinched the front creases of his brown fedora, and settled it on his head. He bounded down...

It’s Halloween night 1953, the last night of the carnival in rural Ohio, and a stripper turns up dead. Tom Davis, the chief of police, orders the carnies to stay in town while he investigates, but there are no leads to Mary’s killer—no fingerprints on the murder weapon, no blood but Mary’s at the scene, no foreign hairs or fibers—no clues of any kind. Brian Stockton, a reporter for the local paper, hopes this will be his break into the big time, so he begins to investigate as well. But, alas, the killer’s identity eludes him, too. As tensions build, the...

A Frequency Dictionary of Persian is an invaluable tool for all learners of Persian, providing a list of the 5,000 most frequently used words in the language.

Based on a 150 million word corpus of written and spoken Persian texts from the Iranian world, the dictionary provides the user with a detailed frequency based list plus alphabetical and part-of-speech indices.

All entries feature the English equivalent, and an example of use in context. The dictionary also features thematically based lists of frequently used words on a variety of topics. Also...

Innere Erschöpfung ist ein großes Problem unserer Zeit und Gesellschaft. Wir fühlen uns leer, antriebslos und finden keinen Sinn in dem, was wir tun, unsere Seele ist ausgelaugt und müde.

Diesen Zustand seelischer Erschöpfung untersucht der US-amerikanische Soziologe Corey Keyes in seinem Buch und unterscheidet ihn klar von Depressionen und Burn-out, die der Erschöpfung in manchen Symptomen ähneln können.

Grundsätzlich ist der Mensch darauf ausgelegt aufzublühen und seelisch ausgeglichen durchs Leben zu gehen. Unsere Lebensweise unterstützt diesen Zustand allerdings...