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PAP. Condizione: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

PAP. Condizione: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

PAP. Condizione: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

PAP. Condizione: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - How would you know if you were wrong Vienna, June 1919. A sixteen-year-old boy marches with the crowd that has an answer for everything. By afternoon, boys his age lie dead on the street-and the men with the answers are already explaining why it had to happen. He walks home with one question that will never let him go. It takes him to a packed concert hall where Einstein tells a starving city that a single measurement could destroy his life's work. To a burning courthouse and eighty-nine dead. To a university staircase where a gentle philosopher is shot by his own former student. To the far end of the earth, where an exile writes the book that gives the twentieth century a name for what it is fighting for: the open society. To a Cambridge room where Wittgenstein picks up a poker. And to Berkeley, where his most brilliant student stands at a window above the Free Speech Movement and finds the two words that will make him famous and end their friendship: anything goes. But the question was never only for other people. In the silence of a widower's house, the man who taught the world to doubt finally turns it on himself-and on the wife who paid for his certainties. A novel about Karl Popper-the philosopher who gave us the paradox of tolerance and the science of being proven wrong-written for an age in which the debate is always over, doubt is treason, and everyone already knows. In these pages he is never named. His first name is spoken once in the whole book, by the woman who loves him. It is about certainty, and what it costs. And about the one voice a free society cannot afford to lose: the one that keeps asking. For readers of Benjamín Labatut's When We Cease to Understand the World, Daniel Kehlmann's Measuring the World, and Irvin D. Yalom's When Nietzsche Wept. …

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - They folded a man into a sugar barrel and left him on East Eleventh Street before dawn. One detective in New York can read the stitching on the dead man's shoes and tell you which province he came from. >>>>Based on the true history of the first war against the American Mafia - and on a murder that has never been solved. For readers of Gilded Age New York crime fiction: The Alienist, The Gods of Gotham, The Given Day.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - He sailed with Captain Cook. He sat with Benjamin Franklin. He taught Alexander von Humboldt how to see. None of it taught him how to live. Mainz, in the winter of 1792. The French hold the city, the Prussian army is behind the hills, and Georg Forster-thirty-eight, librarian, the most famous traveler in the German lands-sits behind curtained windows reading a book he wrote at twenty-two: three years with Cook, the ice at the bottom of the world, Tahiti, the stone giants of Easter Island. At seventeen he measured everything and wrote it all down. Now he reads what the boy refused to see-that describing the world is also a way of keeping out of it. Outside, the same question wears a different face. The French Revolution has crossed the Rhine, and a republic is being declared-the first on German soil. Fifteen years earlier, at Passy, an old man named Franklin had told him that America was fighting thirty years too soon; Forster believes in this republic more than he trusts it. To sign is to be called a traitor at every bridge over the Rhine. Not to sign is to have watched, once more, from the rail. His wife has taken the children to Strasbourg. His closest friend has gone with her. Paris is calling. He signs. What follows is the story of a man who was right too early-about empire, about slavery, about what a people may ask of those who rule them-and who paid in the one currency he had never learned to spend: himself. Within a year he is dead in Paris, thirty-nine years old, a traitor in his own country and a footnote in ours. His pupil, a twenty-year-old named Humboldt, would carry his way of seeing to the Americas and become the most celebrated scientist of the age. The teacher did not live to see it. A novel about a man who measured half the earth and never learned how to sit still and be loved. For readers of Measuring the World, The Signature of All Things, and The Invention of Nature: a literary novel of the Enlightenment, told in Forster's own voice and close to the surviving record-and where the record falls silent, as it might have been. Wherever the narrator quotes his own A Voyage Round the World (London, 1777), this edition gives Forster's English exactly as he printed it. With 51 period illustrations, a map of the voyage, an afterword on what is documented and what is invented, and a note by the author on translating his own book.…

Condizione: New. Print on Demand.

Condizione: New. Print on Demand.

Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. In 1850 three men walk south out of Tripoli. Five years later one of them comes back. Heinrich Barth is twenty-nine, a Hamburg scholar with a doctorate nobody wanted and a talent for being right. He joins a British mission to end the slave trade by treaty, and he goes for his own reasons: south of the last oasis lies a country the size of Europe about which Europe knows nothing exact, and exact is the only word he has ever loved. What follows is five years of walking. He is robbed at the wells, held in irons in Bagirmi, lost on a mountain the Tuareg ride around, where he opens a vein in his own arm and drinks. He buries both his companions. He rides with a slave-raiding army because it is the only road into the country he wants to see, and he writes down what it does. And in September 1853 he becomes the first European in a generation to walk into Timbuktu and live - protected for eight months by a scholar who argues theology with him, feeds him, and keeps a city from cutting his throat. A thousand miles south, a boy named Dorugu is minding guinea fowl when riders come out of the dust. He is taken, yoked, marched, sold at Zinder, sold again to Kukawa, and given a new name each time. He will be bought out of slavery by a German with shaking hands, and he will end up in a Berlin drawing room while a professor measures his skull with calipers, being asked by a king what has struck him most about Europe. He says: the stairs. Two men crossing in opposite directions, and a third - a young astronomer sent east because Europe assumed Barth was dead - riding toward a town where a story is still being told about a stranger who would eat nothing but eggs. Based on the documentary record of one of the great journeys of the nineteenth century, What the Desert Takes is a novel about knowledge and what it costs - told with the hard eye and the black comedy of T. C. Boyle's Water Music and the propulsion of Buddy Levy's survival narratives. Nearly all of this happened. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

Condizione: New. Print on Demand.

Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. In 1850 three men walk south out of Tripoli. Five years later one of them comes back. Heinrich Barth is twenty-nine, a Hamburg scholar with a doctorate nobody wanted and a talent for being right. He joins a British mission to end the slave trade by treaty, and he goes for his own reasons: south of the last oasis lies a country the size of Europe about which Europe knows nothing exact, and exact is the only word he has ever loved. What follows is five years of walking. He is robbed at the wells, held in irons in Bagirmi, lost on a mountain the Tuareg ride around, where he opens a vein in his own arm and drinks. He buries both his companions. He rides with a slave-raiding army because it is the only road into the country he wants to see, and he writes down what it does. And in September 1853 he becomes the first European in a generation to walk into Timbuktu and live - protected for eight months by a scholar who argues theology with him, feeds him, and keeps a city from cutting his throat. A thousand miles south, a boy named Dorugu is minding guinea fowl when riders come out of the dust. He is taken, yoked, marched, sold at Zinder, sold again to Kukawa, and given a new name each time. He will be bought out of slavery by a German with shaking hands, and he will end up in a Berlin drawing room while a professor measures his skull with calipers, being asked by a king what has struck him most about Europe. He says: the stairs. Two men crossing in opposite directions, and a third - a young astronomer sent east because Europe assumed Barth was dead - riding toward a town where a story is still being told about a stranger who would eat nothing but eggs. Based on the documentary record of one of the great journeys of the nineteenth century, What the Desert Takes is a novel about knowledge and what it costs - told with the hard eye and the black comedy of T. C. Boyle's Water Music and the propulsion of Buddy Levy's survival narratives. Nearly all of this happened. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.…