Richard Mann Books

New Proficiency Gold corresponds to the most recent specifications of the Cambridge Proficiency exam. The course provides enjoyable and thorough preparation.

This timeless book provides step-by-step guidance for anyone learning to sing. The authors provide helpful tips on how to read music and improve vocal techniques.

After returning to the U.S. from abroad, a young Floridian unexpectedly finds himself teaching in a prison during the mid-seventies economic crisis. He navigates a complex environment filled with diverse personalities, confronts conservative supervisors, and grapples with social changes, all while questioning his path forward.

Wrenched from their cosy life in Pennsylvania at the end of WW II, the four stairstep siblings (later five) suddenly find themselves ushered into a strange new world - central Florida. Raised in a region whipsawed by profound social and economic changes, their „old South“ father, and Yankee-Catholic mother attempt to coral the five rambunctuous boys, who, under the intrepid leadership of the oldest brother, gradually adapt to their environment which is swiftly transforming from an ante- bellum backwater state into a national front-runner through the competition with the Soviet Union (Cold War, „space race“) while facing the explosive challenge of the growing civil rights movement, the latter of which causes great tensions within the family. Within this lively atmosphere the third son serves as an eye-witness, offering a chronology a young boy gradually beginning to question the tenents of his parents the segregationist world of his father as well as that of his devoutly Catholic monther. A micro-view of America at mid- century.

Having received his M. A. from the Free University of West-Berlin, the author won a scholarship from the Volkswagen Foundation for two intensive Chinese language courses which strengthen his already growing interest in China. Finally realizing he’d never learn Chinese in a German environment, he decided to study on Taiwan. After traveling through the Soviet Union and Japan, he arrived in Taipei, ready and willing to accept the challenge of living in a totally different culture. His various experiences as a student and teacher slowly enlarged his awareness of the differing beliefs and values separating East and West and through this, becoming painfully conscience of his biases and limitations, thus also gaining critical insights as to both Chinese and his own culture. While this journey included manifold misunderstandings leading to very embarrassing situation, it eventually evolved into a worthwhile experience in cross-cultural learning.

Im Jahr 2040 hat sich die Arbeitswelt drastisch verändert: Großfabriken sind verschwunden und die Produktion von Bauteilen erfolgt durch Heimarbeiter mithilfe von 3D-Druckmaschinen. Diese sind über die mächtige Plattform CIPE miteinander verbunden, die den Druckern und den wenigen verbleibenden Großkonzernen als Vermittler dient. Während die Drucker in einem oberpfälzischen Dorf von CIPE abhängig sind, regt sich Widerstand gegen die digitale Kontrolle. Der wohlhabende Digitalkommunist Wittig bietet seine Unterstützung an, was zu einem spannenden Konflikt führt.