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- Herausgeber: tredition
- Kategorie: Gesellschafts- und Liebesromane
- Sprache: Englisch
A modern fairy tale about a young man who leaves his beloved homeland to discover the world and find love without thinking about the consequences. Once upon a time, not so long ago, there was a small kingdom on the Mediterranean where people lived happily. In this small country, a boy was born one spring to a family of princes. He was the only son of the family and had been long awaited. When he was old enough, he was sent with his old teacher to the Oasis of Knowledge so that he could learn everything he needed for his life. On the way to the oasis, he had many extraordinary experiences and encounters. One of these was his encounter with the Fairy of Wisdom, who predicted a very long journey to an unknown land that would require all his strength and his full wits. She also told him that he would find happiness with an unknown being. And the little prince left his home and travelled to the land of the blue people. Did he find happiness there? A modern fairy tale not just for children
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Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2025
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Dedication
Title
Copywright
Author
The Home of the Little Prince
The Little Prince
The Journey to the Oasis
The Garden of History
The Garden of Freedom
The Garden of Peace
The Golden Feather
The Garden of Happiness
The Jugglers of Happiness
The Garden of Tolerance
The Search for Knowledge
The Village of Vice
The Valley of the Unsuspecting
The Village of Abundance
The Village of Scarcity
The Desert
The Palm Trees
The Cave of Wisdom
About the Difference between Women and Men
The Garden
The Enchanted Garden
Dreams
The Decision to emigrate to the Land of the Blue Men
The Ship
The Sea of Oblivion
The Journey to the City of the Time Machine
The Journey to the Kingdom of the Blue Men
Arrival in the realm of the blue men
Registration and Sorting
The Years of Learning
Discussions about the Kingdom of the Blue Men
The Park around the School
Getting to Know the Little Blue Mermaid
The Warnings of the Little Prince's Family and Teachers
The Little Prince's Wish to Become a Blue Man
The Marriage to the Little Blue Mermaid
The Little Prince's Life after the Death of his Mother-in-law
Did the Little Prince find Happiness?
The Moral of the Story
Dedication
This little fairy tale is dedicated to all those young people who set off on a journey around the world without considering the consequences.
It is a work of fiction. Any resemblance to real people is purely coincidental. The characters in this fairy tale are figments of the author's imagination and do not exist.
However, this fairy tale is dedicated exclusively to my wife, Marlene, who has stood by me all these years.
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Michael Ghanem
A Little Prince
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a Little Blue Mermaid
A Modern Fairy Tale
Copywright
© 2025 Michael Ghanem
Website: https://michael-ghanem.de/
Printing and distribution on behalf of the author:
tredition GmbH, Heinz-Beusen-Stieg 5, 22926 Ahrensburg, Germany
ISBN
Softcover 978-3-384-72939-2
Hardcover978-3-384-72940-8
E-Book978-3-384-72941-5
The work, including its parts, is protected by copyright. The author is responsible for the content. Any use without his consent is prohibited. Publication and distribution are carried out on behalf of the author, who can be contacted at the following address: tredition GmbH, ‘Impressumservice’ department, Heinz-Beusen-Stieg 5, 22926 Ahrensburg, Germany.
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Author
About the author: Michael Ghanem
https://michael-ghanem.de/
https://die-gedanken-sind-frei.org/
Born in 1949, Michael Ghanem grew up in France and graduated from an elite French university for industrial engineers. After moving to Germany, he studied economics, sociology, political science, philosophy and ethics.
Bonn, October 2025
In the field of philosophy, he was strongly influenced by the philosophy and teachings of Zarathustra, Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, Marcus Aurelius, Rabelais, Michael de Montaigne, Baruch de Spinoza, Thomas Aquinas, Ibn Chaldun, Niccolo Machiavelli, Rene Descartes, Blaise Pascal, Voltaire, Jean Jaques Rousseau, Immanuel Kant, Gottfried W. Leibniz, Auguste Comte, Arthur Schopenhauer, Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, Karl Marx, Henri Bergson, Karl Popper, Karl Jaspers, Erich Fromm. The Frankfurt School with its teachers Jürgen Habermas and Adorno have strongly influenced him, as have Michael Schmidt-Salomon, Claude Levy-Strauss, Dalai Lama, Luc Ferry, Peter Sloterdijk, Werner Lachmann, Amartya Sen, Oswald Nell-Brauning and Niklas Luhmann.
In sociology, he is strongly orientated towards the Cologne School with his teachers Rene König and Erwin K. Scheuch as well as Gustave Lebon. In political science, he was also influenced by the Cologne School or the Cologne-Mannheim School.
In the field of economics, he was strongly influenced by the post-Keynesian and behavioural economists. He is very critical of the teachings of Milton Friedmann, the Chicago Boys, the Freiburg School and Friedrich A. Hayek. He feels a close affinity with Joseph Stiglitz, Paul Krugman, James K. Galbraith, Daniel Kahneman, Thomas Piketty and the Club of Rome.
His professional career initially led him to an international organisation, for which he worked for 5 years as a project controller for large water projects, mainly in Africa, where he got to know a large number of countries and their leaders. He then worked for many years with a European organisation and several international consulting firms as a consultant for the modernisation of a wide range of industries and companies.
He sees himself as a critic of today's globalisation and has been a strong advocate of water management issues since 1974.
This experience has resulted in a deep understanding of geopolitical issues and enables him to assess current political developments, particularly against the background of economic interdependencies.
Since his retirement, he has lived in seclusion in Bonn and works as a writer. In his publications, he focuses primarily on the pressing social, economic and political issues of our time, as well as water management.
To date, numerous publications have appeared at on the topics of politics and geopolitics, society and the economy. He is the author of more than 100 books to date. In the field of politics, his main focus is a critical examination of Germany. Other topics include health, identity, racism, the environment, migration, water management, Africa, population development and alternative economic systems such as the anti-fragility economy. He has also published a number of short stories and fairy tales.
This is a selection of his publications to date:
Non-fiction books on politics, economics, society
Geopolitics
‘The Deep Fall of the West and the Bitter Tears of Europe, Part 1 - Introduction - A Critical Review of the West 1949-2023’
‘The Deep Fall of the West and the Bitter Tears of Europe, Part 2: Deep Fall of the Military, Building Blocks of Geopolitics, World Order in Transition, Conflict Potentials’
‘The Deep Fall of the West and the Bitter Tears of Europe, Part 3: Building Blocks of Military Potential - The End of Hegemony’
‘The Deep Fall of the West and the Bitter Tears of Europe, Part 4: Country Profiles - Multiple Systemic Failures - Accidents of History - Water and World Hunger - Climate and Energy Supergau - BRICS versus G7’
"The deep fall of the West and the bitter tears of Europe, Part 5: Problem cases: Population bomb migration, integration poverty and hunger raw materials"
‘Africa between curse and blessing Part 1: Water’
‘Water as a global power - Part 1: Overview and assessment 2021’
On the state of Germany
‘Germany's deep fall, Volume 1A Health’
‘Germany's deep fall, Volume 1B Health’
‘2005 - 2021 Germany's lost 16 years - Angela Merkel's balance sheet’
‘2005-2018 Germany's lost 13 years Part 1: Angela Merkel - An interim balance sheet’
‘2005-2018 Germany's lost 13 years Part 2: Political system - Quo vadis?’
‘2005-2018 Germany's Lost 13 Years Part 3: Society - Balance Sheet and Outlook’
‘2005-2018 Germany's lost 13 years Part 4: German economy - Quo vadis?’
‘2005-2018 Germany's lost 13 years Part 5: Internal security - Quo vadis?’
‘2005-2018 Germany's lost 13 years Part 6: Justice- Quo vadis?’
"2005-2018 Germany's lost 13 years Part 7: Health - Quo vadis? Volume A"
"2005-2018 Germany's lost 13 years Part 7: Health - Quo vadis? Volume B"
"2005-2018 Germany's lost 13 years Part 7: Health - Quo vadis? Volume C"
‘2005-2018 Germany's lost 13 years Part 8: Poverty, old age, care - Quo vadis?’
‘2005-2018 Germany's lost 13 years Part 9: Building and renting in Germany - No thanks’
‘2005-2018 Germany's lost 13 years Part 10: Education in Germany’
‘2005-2018 Germany's lost 13 years Part 11: The decline of the media’
‘2005-2018 Germany's lost 13 years Part 12: Literature - Quo vadis - Part A’
‘2005-2018 Germany's lost 13 years Part 13: Development policy - Quo vadis - Part A’
German politics
"German identity - Quo vadis?
"German identity and homeland - Quo vadis?
"I know we can! An opportunity for Germany"
"The Germans - a cursed people?
‘The Greens or The Feminist Club - 10 reasons NOT to vote for the Greens’
‘AKK - No thanks!’
‘A chance for democracy’
‘Non-voters are also voters’
‘Germany's Titanic - The Berlin Republic’
‘In the stranglehold of the political parties, part 1’
"Lord forgive them not! For they know what they are doing!"
‘Symptoms of Germany's decline - do we have to put up with it?’
‘Is Germany built on sand?’
‘Four million disenfranchised Germans’
Economy and finance
‘Approaches to an anti-fragility economy’
‘In the stranglehold of the financial sector, part 1’
‘In the stranglehold of government debt, part 1’
‘In the stranglehold of government debt, part 2’
Population, migration, integration
‘In the stranglehold of migration and integration’
‘In the stranglehold of the population bomb, poverty and nutrition, part 1’
Racism
‘In the stranglehold of racism, anti-Semitism, Islamophobia, right-wing radicalism, fascism, part 1’
‘Theses on the equality of the races’
‘Balance and decline and the fear of the white man’
Man and society
‘The power of the word’
‘The new horsemen of the apocalypse’
‘Crises in times of Corona, part 1’
‘Corona 2021 - Waiting for Godot’
‘Time - an unrecognised world power’ Volume 1 of the ‘Man & Society’ series
‘Only courage - stand up’
Stories
‘Adventure Germany: Confessions about this country -’
‘A little prince and a little blue siren’
"I often think ... of the Rue du Docteur Gustave Rioblanc - Sunken Island of Tolerance"
‘Tales of a shadow man’
‘21 days in a clinic full of fools’
‘Sayings and wisdom’
‘Leonidas the Great - I am a human being’
"50 years of life in Germany - A mistake? A destiny"
‘A road without a soul’
‘The devil's pond - a fairy tale’
‘The legend of the house by the lake’
‘If I were the Lord God one day’
‘Love means’
‘Thank you, Mr Teacher,’
‘The legend of the spring’
‘The legend of Annette - Dream of an unfulfillable love’
‘Peace and freedom: I wanted to plant an olive tree - I wanted to plant an orange tree’
‘The world is so beautiful’
‘The old ship - A tribute to old iron’
‘If she would read this, The little grande dame so brave for me’
"I can never stop loving you. Tender memories of 50 years together"
‘The forgotten strand of hair’
‘The lilac’
The Home of the Little Prince
Once upon a time, there was a small kingdom on the Mediterranean where people lived happily. This small kingdom was ruled by a wise royal family, and its subjects were wise, too. The kingdom was located on a beautiful lake that was rich in fish and provided a good livelihood for its fishermen. Crafts flourished, and goldsmiths in particular had such a good reputation that people came here from faraway countries.
The royal family were powerful, cultured individuals who did their utmost to promote sculptors, writers and musicians. Education was this royal family's top priority. They hired renowned teachers, philosophers, and mathematicians to instruct the young princes in mathematics, physics, crafts, sailing colourful boats, and philosophy. The princes were educated to ensure that they would be able to rule the kingdom in the future. The royal family's motto was to plan and provide for seven generations to live in peace.
This small kingdom was perhaps the size of a large town, but its people were content and happy. They were certainly not as wealthy or powerful as other kingdoms — their income was limited and they did not engage in raids.
They were content when they caught enough fish. They were content when they could cultivate their fields in peace; when harvests were sufficient; when fruit trees yielded enough crops; when bees produced enough honey; when there were enough new calves and pigs; and when trade flourished.
The rich paid their taxes, the poor were provided for, enough doctors were trained, the elderly were cared for with love and respect, everyone was treated with respect, and children and young people were encouraged in schools and through private education to show respect and courtesy to all. Naturally, the princes held frequent summer celebrations and invited poorer members of the population to their homes.
In this kingdom, people worked six days a week and took the seventh day as a day of rest to honour religion and the gods. Among their gods, there were good-natured ones, angry ones, just ones and unjust ones. The main gods were those of trade and change, but there were also gods of philosophy. There was also a strict goddess of nature who demanded respect for plants, animals, trees and forests. There was also a stern goddess responsible for drinking water. A stern god ruled over the sea. Above all these gods and deities was a benevolent god who determined the fate of humans.
Twice a year, the kingdom honoured the deceased. They honoured philosophers, sages, and artists. On several days of the year, mothers were honoured and shown the respect they deserved.
The kingdom's streets were lively places because every adult was responsible for educating all the neighbourhood's children, regardless of their skin colour. It didn't matter if the children belonged to a different religion, or if their parents or ancestors came from elsewhere. In other words, everyone was part of one big family.
