alfred a knopf us (95 risultati)

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good/Very Good. A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. From a leading scholar of our country?fs foreign policy, the brilliant essa y about America and the world that has caused a storm in international circ les now expanded into book form. European leaders, increasingly disturbed by U.S. policy and actions abroad, feel they are headed for what the New York Times (July 21, 2002) describes as a ?gmoment of truth.?h After years of mutual resentment and tension, th ere is a sudden recognition that the real interests of America and its alli es are diverging sharply and that the trans-atlantic relationship itself ha s changed, possibly irreversibly. Europe sees the United States as high-han ded, unilateralist, and unnecessarily belligerent; the United States sees E urope as spent, unserious, and weak. The anger and mistrust on both sides a re hardening into incomprehension. This past summer, inPolicy Review, Robert Kagan reached incisively into this impasse to force both sides to see themselves through the eyes of the other. Tracing the widely differing histories of Europe and America since the end of World War II, he makes clear how for one the need to escape a bloody past has led to a new set of transnational beliefs about power and threat, while the other has perforce evolved into the guarantor of that ?gpostmodern paradise?h by dint of its might and global reach. This remarkable analysis is being discussed from Washington to Paris to Tokyo. It is esssential reading.

Paperback. Condizione: Good. Synopsis: Michael and Pauline seemed like the perfect couple -- young, good-looking, made for each other. The moment she walked into his mother's grocery store in Baltimore, he was smitten, and in the heat of World War II fervour, they marry in haste. From the sound of the cash register in the old grocery to the counterculture jargon of the sixties, from the miniskirts to the multilayers of later years, Anne Tyler captures the nuances of everyday life with telling precision and sly humour.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good/Very Good. A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. 'Our book of the year - and maybe of Ondaatje's career' Daily Telegraph Books of the Year **LONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2018** ** FINALIST FOR THE 2018 LOS ANGELES TIMES BOOK PRIZE** An elegiac, dreamlike novel set in post-WW2 London about memory, family secrets and lies, from the internationally acclaimed author of The English Patient 'The past never remains in the past.' London, 1945. The capital is still reeling from the war. 14-year-old Nathaniel and his older sister Rachel are abandoned by their parents who leave the country on business, and are left in the dubious care of a mysterious figure named The Moth. Nathaniel is introduced to The Moth's band of criminal misfits and is caught up in a series of teenage misadventures, from smuggling greyhounds for illegal dog racing to lovers' trysts in abandoned buildings at night. But is this eccentric crew really what and who they claim to be? And most importantly, what happened to Nathaniel's mother? Was her purported reason for leaving true? What secrets did she hide in her past? Years later Nathaniel, now an adult, begins to slowly piece together using the files of intelligence agencies - and through reality, recollection and imagination - the startling truths of puzzles formed decades earlier. ------- 'A novel of shadowy brilliance' The Times 'Fiction as rich, as beautiful, as melancholy as life itself, written in the visionary language of memory' Observer 'Ondaatje brilliantly threads the mysteries and disguises and.

Hardcover. Condizione: Good/Good. A groundbreaking book that transforms the debate about global warming by of fering a fresh perspective based on human needs as well as environmental co ncerns. Bjorn Lomborg argues that many of the elaborate and expensive actions now b eing considered to stop global warming will cost hundreds of billions of do llars, are often based on emotional rather than strictly scientific assumpt ions, and may very well have little impact on the world's temperature for h undreds of years. Rather than starting with the most radical procedures, Lo mborg argues that we should first focus our resources on more immediate con cerns, such as fighting malaria and HIV/AIDS and assuring and maintaining a safe, fresh water supply-which can be addressed at a fraction of the cost and save millions of lives within our lifetime. He asks why the debate over climate change has stifled rational dialogue and killed meaningful dissent . Lomborg presents us with a second generation of thinking on global warming that believes panic is neither warranted nor a constructive place from which to deal with any of humanity's problems, not just global warming. Cool It promises to be one of the most talked about and influential books of our time.

Hardcover. Condizione: Good/Good.

Paperback. Condizione: Very Good. The world has changed faster during the 20th century than ever before. All our previous assumptions about God, our social, economic and political stru ctures, science and technology, and - by extension - ourselves and our cult ure have been utterly transformed. The 20th century is the century that dar ed to question everything and its progress is told in this tour de force. " Modern Times" are explored through the cultural expressions - in art, in li terature, in music - of the true conviction that we have lived through an u nprecedentedly testing period in human experience. "Modern Places" are the locations that became the frontiers of modernity - cities like Vienna, Mosc ow, Paris and Berlin, new worlds in the Americas, and a preview of a possib le future in Moscow. Did it all happen too fast and go too far? Modernity w as like a rollercoaster ride, during which the human race jested with disas ter and delighted in the havoc created by the play of g-forces. But despite the dangers that were unleashed along the way, with the clear perspective Peter Conrad provides on a phase of history that has nearly passed, we are much the better prepared to confront the new millennium. By making sense of our immediate past, this book aims to take us forward into the 21st centur y.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good/Very Good. First Edition. Slaka! Land of lake and forest, of beetroot and tractor. Slaka! Land whose borders are sometimes here, often further north, and sometimes not at all! Dr Petworth is on a cultural exchange to the small (and fictional) Eastern European country of Slaka. Pallid and middle-aged, Dr Petworth might appear stuffy, but during his short stay he manages to embroil himself in the tho rny thickets of sexual intrigue and love, while still finding time to see t he major sites. Shortlisted for the Booker Prize in 1983, Rates of Exchange took Bradbury's satirical gifts to a new level.

Hardcover. Condizione: Good/Good. Illustrated (illustratore). Synopsis: "Living Dolls" tells the story of humanity's age-old obsession with moving dolls and speaking robots, intelligent machines and bionic men - and it gives the history of ingenious inventors and their fantastical creations. Could an 18th-century mechanical duck really digest and excrete its food? Was the "Automatic Turk", a celebrated chess-playing machine that toured around Europe, a fake? Why did the great inventor Thomas Edison go to so much effort to mass produce a speaking mechanical child? What happened to the family of midgets who pretended to be dolls? And how can a 21st-century robot express human emotions?

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good/Very Good. A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good/Very Good. A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. "In this engrossing exploration of martyrdom, Lacey Baldwin Smith takes us on a riveting journey through history as he examines one of the most baffling characteristics of the human species: its willingness to die to sanctify a deity, to defend a cause, or simply to prove a point. In telling the stories of his chosen martyrs, by delving into their psyches, politics, and remarkable personalities, he illuminates the complex and elusive subject of martyrdom as it has evolved over two and a half millennia." "The story starts with Socrates, the Western world's first recorded martyr, and moves on to Judaic and early Christian martyrs: the Maccabees and their heroic suffering; Jesus of Nazareth and the impact of the crucifixion on his message; and Saint Perpetua, who died spectacularly in a Roman amphitheater." "The narrative then transports us to England: to Archbishop Thomas Becket and his sensational murder at the altar of his own cathedral in Canterbury; to Sir Thomas More, who died Henry VIII's "good servant but God's first"; to the Protestant martyrs under Catholic Mary Tudor; and to Charles I, the only English king to be tried and executed as a traitor." "The concluding chapters cover modern martyrdom as it has become increasingly secularized and entangled with treason. They include John Brown, whose "body lies a-mouldering in the grave" but whose soul "goes marching on," Mahatma Gandhi and his school for martyrs, the Holocaust and its impact on modern Jewish thought, Dietrich Bonhoeffer and the unsuccessful.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good/Very Good. A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. Very Heavy book over 2 lbs, please ask for extra shipping costs.

Hardcover. Condizione: Near Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Fair. 1st Edition. Crown8vo, [x], 238, [1] p. Original patterned green boards, lettered black, top edge red. Light tanned strips to the endpapers otherwise a near fine copy in a price intact fair d/j with some loss to the head and tail of the backstrip. First edition.

Cloth, 8vo, 26 cm, xix, 276, [5] pp, 46 ills. From the blurb - "In a time rich in unlikely characters, Thomas Griffiths Wainewright (1794-1847) was one of the strangest of all. A painter, writer, well-known London dandy and friend of most of the major figures of the Romantic era (from Blake to Byron, from John Clare to John Keats, Lamb, De Quincey and Hazlitt), he was also almost certainly a murderer, possibly several times over. Arrested and convicted of forgery-evidence was lacking to prove the murders-he was transported for life to the barbarous penal colony of Tasmania, where, years later, he died in obscurity. Behind him he left only rumors and fragments of documents, and a legend of evil that fascinated such writers as Charles Dickens and Oscar Wilde. With a brilliant blend of creative imagination and scholarly sleuthing, Andrew Motion evokes Wainewright' s double life in a tour de force of the biographer' s art. Cast in the form of a partly fictional "confession" written by the subject himself, buttressed (and sometimes contradicted) by the notes, background essays and other commentary setting out the known facts, it reveals the man as no straightforward history could do-his distinctive voice, his wit and charm, his callousness and unreliability, his pathos and, perhaps, his capacity for murder. As a distinguished biographer (of Philip Larkin and John Keats, among others), Andrew Motion has been notably successful in pinning down the often- elusive details of Wainewright' s life. As a first-rate poet (he succeeded Ted Hughes as Britain' s Poet Laureate), he shows himself equally skilled in the imaginative investigation of Wainewright' s bizarre psyche. The result is a richly memorable exploration of the darker side of human nature, of the roots of crime, of the nature of biography itself. " Purple booklabel of Stuart Schimmel, the literary forgery collector, on front pastedown endpaper, otherwise Very Good in slightly ingersoiled else Very Good dustwrapper.

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Fair. lorence bjorklund (illustratore). 2nd Edition. inside clean, straight, tight, brown cloth boards have minor corner/binding wear. dj worn, torn. most of these stories are partially true.

Hardcover, 6½" x 9½", with dust jacket 278 pages A first-hand account of the only expedition (eleven explorers from 5 countries) ever to travel the entire 4,200-mile Amazon river from its source high in the Andes to its union with the Atlantic Ocean. The author ended up as one of the only four members of the original group to complete the entire journey. Ours is an ex-library copy in transparent protective covering, with usual stickers, pocket, barcode, stamps etc. VERY GOOD book in VERY GOOD unclipped dust jacket.

Hardcover. Condizione: New. Condizione sovraccoperta: As New. 1st Edition.

Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. 218 pages. Faint foxing to top edge, otherwise clean, tight copy. Record # 466879.

Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. 68 pages. Light edgewear and rubbing to dust jacket. Faint foxing to top edge, otherwise a clean, tight copy. Record # 465488.

Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. 31 pages. Light edgewear and sun-fade to dust jacket with slight crease to front flap. Clean, tight copy. Record # 465136.

Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. 294 pages. Light edgewear and creasing to dust jacket and faint foxing to top edge. Clean, tight copy. Record # 462449.

Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. 415 pages. Faint foxing to top edge, else a clean, tight copy. Record # 462311.

Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. 232 pages. Faint foxing to top edge, else a clean, tight copy. Record # 462071.

Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. 212 pages. Light edgewear to dust jacket, else a clean, tight copy. Record # 462303.

Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. 371 pages. Light edgewear to dust jacket, else a clean, tight copy. Record # 461732.

Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. 179 pages. Faint foxing to top edge, else a clean, tight copy. Record # 461751.

Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Good. 273 pages. light rubbing and scratching to rear cover of dust jacket, else a clean, tight copy. Record # 461725.

Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. 309 pages. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. Record # 461016.

Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. 227 pages. Light shelf-wear to dust jacket. Small stain to rear end paper, else a clean, tight copy. Record # 461594.

Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. 367 pages. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. Record # 460943.

Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. 439 pages. Faint foxing to edges, else a clean, tight copy. Record # 461749.