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books by Piet Hein

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Piet Hein

Blackwell Publishers, 1973

Live while you've got life to live
The Grooks of Danish multitalent Piet Hein belong on everyone's bookshelf. And they deserve to be taken out and read in. And to be thought about The amazing genius of Piet Hein is that his thoughts about life, about the small and the big things - but never unimportant things! - are short and at first sight simple, yet they say more than a Ph.D. thesis on Philosophy. Therefore even the most ...

Grooks

1 review
Piet Hein

M.i.t., 1967

poems
This book is full of small poems. Here is an example: Title: Problems: Problems worthy of attack prove their worth by hitting back. Sweet hand drawn type pictures on every page. Very popular.

COLLECTED GROOKS II.
Piet. Hein

Borgen, 2002

Denmark 2002. Here is a collection from a best-selling author and poet, a popular convenor of assemblies of Nobel Laureates; the undoubted inventor of a form of small aphoristic verse called a Grook, which are short statements that appear self-evident as soon as they have been formulated. His grooks often open a small window on a large world. In his native Denmark Piet Hein is regarded as a national institution. Try to imagine a mixture of A.P. ...

Still More Grooks

3 reviews
Piet Hein

Hodder & Stoughton Ltd, 1970

Live while you've got life to live
The Grooks of Danish multitalent Piet Hein belong on everyone's bookshelf. And they deserve to be taken out and read in. And to be thought about The amazing genius of Piet Hein is that his thoughts about life, about the small and the big things - but never unimportant things! - are short and at first sight simple, yet they say more than a Ph.D. thesis on Philosophy. Therefore even the most ...

The Corporate Triangle: The Structure and Performance of Corporate Systems in a Global Economy (De Vries ...
William Lazonick, Ronald Dore, ...

Wiley-Blackwell, 1997

The Corporate Triangle draws together the work of three leading economists to give a new and important view of the international differences in corporate systems.

Grooks (Borgens billigbÃ¸ger)

14 reviews
Piet Hein

M.I.T. Press, 1967

This series deserves to be read!
I read (and owned) this whole series when they first came out, and got in the habit of buying extra copies to give deserving friends. Unfortunately I only still have the first three, due to the trials of moving :-( It boggles my mind that they are no longer in print, as the wit and wisdom contained in these slender volumes belies the brevity of their format. I heard a rumor that they are going ...

Grooks
Piet Hein

Doubleday & Co., Inc., 1969

What in the world is a Grook??? A grook is a short, aphoristic poem, accompanied by an appropriate drawing, revealing in a minimum of words and with a minimum of lines some basic truth about the human condition. Grooks were created originally during the Nazi occupation of Denmark. They began life as a sort of underground language just out of reach of the understanding of the Germans. They have since become one of the most widely read forms of ...