Bücher von Robert Wright

A comprehensive study of La Junta de los Rios, the centuries-old home of permanent, and relatively autonomous, Native American settlements during Spanish colonial times

NATIONAL BESTSELLERThe night of October 30, 1995, was like no other in Canadian history. The young, modern nation that the UN Human Development Index had ranked #1 for the two previous years now faced its greatest challenge: the possibility of fracturing as Quebecers made a fateful decision-whether to separate from Canada-in a referendum that pollsters estimated would be as close as close could be.The Quebec-sovereignist juggernaut that began with the creation of the Parti Quebecois in 1968 climaxed in the provincial referendum on October 30th. On that extraordinary evening, Canadians from all walks of life, in every region of the country, sat glued to their television screens as polling results trickled in from across Quebec. Unlike the 1980 referendum, when the victory of the federalist No vote led by Pierre Trudeau was a foregone conclusion, the 1995 race was a dead heat. All evening, the returns pitched and rolled, and anxious Canadians pitched and rolled along with them. In the end, the No vote won by the narrowest of margins, 50.58% to 49.42%. This was no euphoric victory, no easy vindication of Sir John A. Macdonald's federalist dream. Never before had the country come face to face with its own imminent extinction.In The Night Canada Stood Still, Robert Wright revisits the drama and intrigue that brought Quebecers, and indeed all Canadians, to the very edge of this watershed event.

Immer mehr Menschen meditieren. Und auch die Lehre des Buddha hat schon lange die Mitte unserer Gesellschaft erreicht. Woran das liegt? Ganz einfach: Buddhismus wirkt! Denn er bietet praktische Wege, um in einer immer komplexer werdenden Welt die Dinge klar zu sehen und gelassen und erfüllt zu leben.>Die Hardcover-Ausgabe erschien im Lotos Verlag unter dem Titel »Warum Buddhismus wirkt«.

Immer mehr Menschen meditieren. Und auch die Lehre des Buddha hat schon lange die Mitte unserer Gesellschaft erreicht. Woran das liegt? Ganz einfach: Buddhismus wirkt! Denn er bietet praktische Wege, um in einer immer komplexer werdenden Welt die Dinge klar zu sehen und gelassen und erfüllt zu leben.>

Big-game hunting and trading in Central Africa from 1894 to 1904. The Robert Wright memoirs are an interesting and sometimes humorous window into the life of the European pioneers of Northern Rhodesia and the British East African Protectorate from 1894 to 1904. Robert and his brother David were initially employed as coffee farmers in the Blantyre district. Their sense of adventure soon led them to start a business hunting trophy animals and trading for ivory and rubber from Lake Tanganyika to the Katanga province of the Congo. Robert was a keen photographer and fortunately many of his photographs have survived and are included in this book.

This book was written to explore the contribution of Revolutionary War veterans to the founding of the American republic. By veterans, we mean all those who served in the Continental and state forces, on land or sea. Twenty three of those veterans were among the men who signed the Constitution in Philadelphia on 17 September 1787. That document, as the eminent American historian Samuel Eliot Morison put it, is "a work of genius, since it set up what every earlier political scientist had thought impossible, a sovereign union of sovereign states. This reconciling of unity with diversity, this practical application of the federal principle, is undoubtedly the most original contribution of the United States to the history and technique of human liberty."