Harpercollins okt 1992 (9 risultati)

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - At the age of nine, Cynthia Ann Parker was captured in an Indian raid and taken tolive as a slave with the Comanche. Twenty-four years later, she is the wife of a chiefand the mother of a young warrior destined to become the great chief Quanah Parker.But in 1861, Parker and her infant daughter are recaptured and returned against theirwill to a white settlement. This moving story is a riveting examination of the conflictsbetween Native Americans and white settlers.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - From the winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, a compelling account of her return to the land in which she grew up.In 1956, some seven years after departed for England, Doris Lessing returned home to Southern Rhodesia. It was a journey that was both personal - a revisiting of a land and people she knew - and, inevitably, political: Southern Rhodesia was now part of the Central African Federation, where the tensions between colonialism and self-determination were at their most deeply felt.'Going Home' is a book that combines journalism, reportage and memoir, humour, farce and tragedy; a book fired by the love of one of the twentieth century's greatest writers for a country and a continent that she felt compelled to leave.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - The bestselling, widely acclaimed translation from Stephen Mitchell'Mitchell's rendition of the Tao Te Ching comes as close to being definitive for our time as any I can imagine. It embodies the virtues its translator credits to the Chinese original: a gemlike lucidity that is radiant with humor, grace, largeheartedness, and deep wisdom.'Huston Smith, author of The Religions of ManIn eighty-one brief chapters, Lao-tzu's Tao Te Ching, or Book of the Way, provides advice that imparts balance and perspective, a serene and generous spirit, and teaches us how to work for the good with the effortless skill that comes from being in accord with the Taothe basic principle of the universe.…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - The classic Christmas poem-now available in a board book edition for the youngest child. Regan, Dana (illustratore).

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - The Pulitzer Prize-winning, bestselling novel from one of America's greatest contemporary writers.Larry Cook's farm is the largest in Zebulon County, Iowa, and a tribute to his hard work and single-mindedness. Proud and possessive, his sudden decision to retire and hand over the farm to his three daughters, is disarmingly uncharacteristic.Ginny and Rose, the two eldest, are startled yet eager to accept, but Caroline, the youngest daughter, has misgivings. Immediately, her father cuts her out.In A Thousand Acres, Jane Smiley transposes the King Lear story to the modern day, and in so doing at once illuminates Shakespeare's original and subtly transforms it. This astonishing novel won both of America's highest literary awards, the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the National Book Critics' Circle Award.…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - A fresh, authoritative English translation, with an informative introduction, fascinating explanatory notes, and the Coptic text, with interpretation by Harold Bloom, our preeminent literary critic.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - "A remarkable story beautifully toldAmong such classics as Goodall's In the Shadow of Man and Fossey's Gorillas in the Mist."Chicago TribuneCarrying little more than a change of clothes and a pair of binoculars, two young Americans, Mark and Delia Owens, caught a plane to Africa, bought a thirdhand Land Rover, and drove deep into the Kalahari Desert. This engrossing survival memoir details how they lived for seven years, in an unexplored area with no roads, no people, and no source of water for thousands of square miles. In this vast wilderness the Owenses began their zoology research, a landmark study of animal behavior with creatures that had never before been exposed to humans.An international bestseller, Cry of the Kalahari is the story of the Owenses's life with prides of Kalahari lions, elusive brown hyenas, jackals, giraffes, and the many other creatures they came to know. It is also a gripping account of how they survived the dangers of living in one of the last and largest pristine areas on Earth, a foundational work of wildlife conservation.This celebrated memoir of Africa details their seven-year immersion into one of earth's last wild places.- Zoology Research: Follow the Owenses as they conduct the first-ever study of lions, brown hyenas, and other carnivores who have never known human contact.- Extreme Survival: Discover how two young scientists with minimal supplies survived years of punishing drought, raging fires, and isolation in a land without roads or water.- Pristine Wilderness: Journey deep into Botswana's vast and unexplored Kalahari Desert, an immense landscape where thousands of antelope migrate and predators roam free.- Unprecedented Human-Animal Bonds: Witness the remarkable moments when prides of wild lions and elusive hyenas accept the Owenses into their world, leading to stunningly intimate encounters. …

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - WINNER OF THE 'LOS ANGELES TIMES' BOOK AWARD FOR HISTORYNow that the great Soviet empire has finally unravelled, and with the future of the Commonwealth of Independent States looking precarious at best, and violent at worst, as long-subdued territorial conflicts flourish from Moldova to Siberia, never has it been so important to understand the vast continued bureaucracy that for seventy years held so many disparate peoples together. How it did so, and the tactics it employed, form the spine of this acclaimed study of the world's last great land empire.Geoffrey Hosking traces the evolution of the Soviet political system from its revolutionary origins in 1917 to the collapse instigated by the reforms of Gorbachev's 'perestroika'. He shows how power was rarely devolved outside a particularly tightly knit ruling elite, and focuses on the forms of contact that existed between rulers and ruled. He places special emphasis on the experience of the peasantry, urban workers and the professional class, drawing on a mass of monographs and memoirs to show how they generated their own informal practices to adjust to changing Soviet social structures, and how, more often than is commonly realized in the West, they resisted repression and deprivation. This Final Edition obliges us to reflect on the enormity of the changes witnessed in the lands of the Soviet Union in the past five years.By providing a vivid picture of what it has felt like to be a Soviet citizen during the prodigious upheavals of the twentieth century, it reminds us that we cannot afford to ignore the impact of this empire, globally and locally - an impact whose legacy will be with us well into the twenty-first century.'The outstanding merit of Professor Hosking's book is that the author knows and understands Russians, and brings this understanding to bear on his study of history.'R.W. DAVIES, 'THES''This is a first-rate introduction to Russian history since 1917.No-one reading it can fail to be impressed by its sound sense, its mature weighing up of the issues and its considered judgements.'PIERRE WATTER, 'TES'.…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - An essential collection of classic stories that established Flannery O'Connor's reputation as an American master of fiction--now with a new introduction by New York Times bestselling author Lauren Groff In 1955, with the title story and others in this critical edition, Flannery O'Connor firmly laid claim to her place as one of the most original and provocative writers of her generation. Steeped in a Southern Gothic tradition that would become synonymous with her name, these stories show O'Connor's unique view of life--infused with religious symbolism, haunted by apocalyptic possibility, sustained by the tragic comedy of human behavior, confronted by the necessity of salvation. These classic stories--including 'The Life You Save May Be Your Own,' 'Good Country People,' and 'The Displaced Person,' among others, are sure to inspire future generations of fans and remind existing readers why she remains a master of the short story.…