Nvidia is the darling of the age of artificial intelligence: its chips are powering the generative-AI revolution, and demand is insatiable. For all the current interest and attention, however, Nvidia is not of our time. Founded more than three decades ago in a Denny's in East San Jose, for years it was known primarily in the then-niche world of computer gaming. In fact, the company's leather-jacketed leader, Jensen Huang, is the longest-serving CEO in an industry marked by near constant turmo...

The 162nd edition of the most famous sports book in the world – published every year since 1864 – contains some of the finest sports writing of the year and covers cricket from all over the globe, making it the cricketers' bible worldwide.

Von den mittelalterlichen Sangern und Epikern uber Martin Opitz, Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, Friedrich Schiller und Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, uber Heinrich Heine, Georg Buchner und Bertolt Brecht bis Gunter Grass, Martin Walser, Uwe Tellkamp, Herta Muller und Ursula Krechel. Alle namhaften Schriftsteller sind erfasst: Die Literaturgeschichte fangt Lyrik, Roman, Prosa und andere literarische Gattungen und Stroemungen im Spiegel der Epochen ein, zeigt die Autorinnen und Autoren, ihr Schaffen un...

DER NEUE "EWIGE BRUNNEN": 1.200 GEDICHTE ZU ALLEN LEBENSLAGEN

Die Gedichtsammlung "Der ewige Brunnen" ist seit vielen Jahrzehnten ein Klassiker. Millionen von Leserinnen und Lesern haben hier die Welt der deutschen Lyrik entdeckt und erkundet. In diesem schier unerschöpflichen Lesebuch spiegeln sich die Lebenserfahrungen von Jahrhunderten. Jetzt erscheint es in einer Neuausgabe, in der Dirk von Petersdorff berühmte und kanonische Gedichte mit frischen Stimmen aus der Vergangenhei...

This engaging and complete resource has everything you need to bring drama and theatre techniques into the ESL, EFL, or World Language Classroom. Are your students reluctant to speak out in class? Do they lack confidence in their language skills? The dynamic drama games in this book are the perfect catalyst to transform your students into engaged learners, and help them build confidence and language skills. The interactive theatre games and techniques are specifically designed for use in Seco...

The gold standard anthology for anyone who wants to understand the development and current state of literary theory. Offering 191 pieces by 157 authors, The Norton Anthology of Theory and Criticism, Third Edition, is more comprehensive and more varied in its selection than any other anthology. Forty-eight NEW selections—concentrated mostly on the twentieth and twenty-first centuries—make the book not only the best overview of the history of theory, but also a remarkably up-to-date portrai...

Demonstrates that the search for oral origins in African literature is a quest for African authenticity. In a critique and revision of the conceptual category of orality as it has been understood and used by scholars, this title stresses the transformation of narrative genres as an index of sociopolitical relations and authorial vision.

"This is an extremely well written and carefully argued book that is quite persuasive. It should be essential reading for every scholar in African literature....