Bücher von Robert Wright

At the heart of Buddhism is a simple claim: The reason we suffer--and the reason we make other people suffer--is that we don't see the world clearly. At the heart of Buddhist meditative practice is a radical promise: we can learn to see the world, including ourselves, more clearly, and so gain a deep and morally valid happiness. In this pathbreaking book, Robert Wright shows how taking this promise seriously can change your life -- how it can loosen the grip of anxiety, regret, and hatred, and how it can deepen your appreciation of beauty and of other people. He also shows why this transformation works, Drawing on the latest in neuroscience and psychology, and armed with an acute understanding of human evolution, Wright explains why the path toward truth and the path toward happiness are one and the same.

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."