Editore: Farrar, Straus And Giroux Aug 2018, 2018
ISBN 10: 0374304505 ISBN 13: 9780374304508
Da: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Germania
Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - A board book with cutouts and googly eyes, featuring the New York Times-bestselling Pout-Pout Fish dressed up for Halloween in various costumes.Boo! Little guppies will delight in seeing the Pout-Pout Fish try on different Halloween costumes, from a caped superhero to a grinning ghost to a cheery-cheery mummy. With googly eyes and a different costume on every spread, this addition to the Pout-Pout Fish novelty collection is sure to turn little pouts into big smiles!.
Editore: Farrar, Straus And Giroux Aug 2018, 2018
ISBN 10: 0374537836 ISBN 13: 9780374537838
Da: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Germania
Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Winner of the Overseas Press Club of America's Cornelius Ryan Award . Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in NonfictionNew York Times Book Review Notable Book . Named a Best Book of the Year by New York Magazine and The Progressive'A deeply honest and brave portrait of of an individual sensibility reckoning with her country's violent role in the world.' -Hisham Matar, The New York Times Book ReviewIn the wake of the September 11 attacks and the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq, Suzy Hansen, who grew up in an insular conservative town in New Jersey, was enjoying early success as a journalist for a high-profile New York newspaper. Increasingly, though, the disconnect between the chaos of world events and the response at home took on pressing urgency for her. Seeking to understand the Muslim world that had been reduced to scaremongering headlines, she moved to Istanbul.Hansen arrived in Istanbul with romantic ideas about a mythical city perched between East and West, and with a naïve sense of the Islamic world beyond. Over the course of her many years of living in Turkey and traveling in Greece, Egypt, Afghanistan, and Iran, she learned a great deal about these countries and their cultures and histories and politics. But the greatest, most unsettling surprise would be what she learned about her own country-and herself, an American abroad in the era of American decline. It would take leaving her home to discover what she came to think of as the two Americas: the country and its people, and the experience of American power around the world. She came to understand that anti-Americanism is not a violent pathology. It is, Hansen writes, 'a broken heart . . . A one-hundred-year-old relationship.'Blending memoir, journalism, and history, and deeply attuned to the voices of those she met on her travels, Notes on a Foreign Country is a moving reflection on America's place in the world. It is a powerful journey of self-discovery and revelation-a profound reckoning with what it means to be American in a moment of grave national and global turmoil.
Editore: Farrar, Straus And Giroux Aug 2018, 2018
ISBN 10: 0571540597 ISBN 13: 9780571540594
Da: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Germania
Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Introducing the first ever grime songbook of the first ever grime album to reach no.1 in the UK charts.
Editore: Farrar, Straus And Giroux Aug 2018, 2018
ISBN 10: 0571540589 ISBN 13: 9780571540587
Da: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Germania
Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Arrangements for intermediate piano of classical music featured in a variety of films throughout the decades. Includes music by Mozart, Beethoven, Wagner, Gershwin, Debussy, Elgar, Chopin, Bach, Puccini, and more.
Editore: Farrar, Straus And Giroux Aug 2018, 2018
ISBN 10: 0571540546 ISBN 13: 9780571540549
Da: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Germania
Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Inspired by the fast-moving scenes and vulnerable, complex characters of Elizabethan drama, this new opera by George Benjamin and Martin Crimp considers what space, if any, exists for love and human affection inside the dangerous machinery of power. A king, compelled to choose between love and political hard-headedness, makes a fatal decision, allowing his country to slide into civil war, and setting his own wife and son implacably against him. Lessons in Love and Violence is Benjamin and Crimp's third operatic collaboration, following Into the Little Hill and the critically acclaimed Written on Skin. This first edition vocal score is for soloists and piano reduction.