“victor frankl”

Frankl explores the sometimes unconscious human desire for inspiration or revelation, and illustrates how life can offer profound meaning at every turn.Viktor Frankl is known to millions of readers as a psychotherapist who has transcended his field in his search for answers to the ultimate questions... More

Frankl discusses logotherapy--man's motivation to search for meaning in his life--in the context of other prominent psychotherapies and describes the techniques he uses with his patients to combat the "existential vacuum". 11 line drawings.... More

Man's Search For Meaning is undoubtedly one of the seminal pieces of literature to emerge from the Second World War: a moving account of Viktor Frankl's experiences in Auschwitz and what we can learn from them. Now in its 74th edition, it has been A prominent Viennese psychiatrist before the war, Vi... More

A prominent Viennese psychiatrist before the war, Viktor Frankl was uniquely able to observe the way that he and other inmates coped with the experience of being in Auschwitz. He noticed that it was the men who comforted others and who gave away their last piece of bread who survived the longest - a... More

This is the first study of the aims that motivated the major powers -- the United States, the Soviet Union, Great Britain, Germany, and, Japan -- to fight in the Second World War. The book shows how some war aims were constants, unlikely to be abandoned except as a result of total defeat, while othe... More

First published in 1947, The Language of the Third Reich arose from Klemperer’s conviction that the language of the Third Reich helped to create its culture. As Klemperer writes ‘It isn’t only Nazi actions that have to vanish, but also the Nazi cast of mind, the typical Nazi way of thinking, a... More

La Esmeralda, a beautiful dame of mysterious origin, travels from one misadventure to another - abduction, trial, torture, attempted hanging. She finds her long-lost mother only to be snatched away for the gallows. The task of saving her from the hands of the executioner falls on the misshapen, and ... More