Informative little book of language

In this little book linguist David Crystal usefully sums
up the history of the the thing that sets the homo sapiens apart from
all other animals, language. Written with a younger and non-linguist audience
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New Taschen store in Miami

There are some who say that TASCHEN publishes the most exquisite books on the planet. Certainly, since 2001 we have strived to create exquisite TASCHEN Stores in our planet’s most vibrant and exciting cities. Our aim has always been to provide our customers with elegant and inspirational surroundings in which to explore our books. [...]

You will never eat salad without thinking where it came from again

Whether we like it or not, we all know that part of the American wealth and our cushioned lifestyle is based on a huge workforce in foreign countries like China as well as immigrants within the US doing jobs most Americans won’t do. Not only won’t do for the small wages they pay, but probably [...]

New York: New Goethe Institut Library Now Open!

The library at the new Goethe Institut location at 72 Spring Street opened for business on February 2, 2010. The new opening hours are: Tues. – Thurs. 2 – 7 pm; Fri. 12 – 5 pm; Sat. 10am – 1 pm
The Goethe-Institut New York Library is one of the few German-language lending libraries in the [...]

“Arnold Schwarzenegger. Die Biografie”

New release from DVA, Random House Group and Spiegel Verlag:
“Arnold Schwarzenegger. Die Biografie” by Marc Hujer.
Everyone thinks they know Schwarzenegger: some because they once met him personally; others because the most famous Austrian in the past 30 years has become a fixture in our lives. German Spiegel reporter Marc Hujer has extensively studied Schwarzenegger for [...]

Delightful book by Gesine Bullock Prado

As featured in our Christmas Special here is the book tip
Confections of a Closet Master Baker: One Woman’s Sweet Journey from Unhappy Hollywood Executive to Contented Country Baker
by Gesine Bullock-Prado

Acting Master Howard Fine’s Book Launch Event

Following a successful Los Angeles Book Launch, benefiting Project Angelfood, the master acting teacher will be at the Samuel French Book Shop in London on

Tuesday December 29 at 2 PM singing books with special guest Kevin Anderson.

Disney’s Bambi is from Austria

Felix Salten is the author of one of our most beloved fairy tales of our time: Bambi.
Very few people know that he was Viennese and sold the rights to the book for $5000 to Walt Disney during his Swiss exile during WWII.
The author was born as Siegmund Saltzmann in 1869, due to his father’s debt, [...]

Disney’s Bambi kommt aus Österreich

Felix Salten ist der Autor eines der beliebtesten Märchens unserer Zeit: Bambi. Sehr wenige Leute wissen, dass er Wiener war und die Rechte an seinem Buch für etwa 5000 Dollar an Walt Disney verkaufte, als er in der während des zweiten Weltkriegs im Schweizer Exil lebte.

Der Bambi-Autor wurde 1869 als Siegmund Saltzmann geboren. [...]