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Editore: Penguin Books Ltd (UK) Mai 2010, 2010
ISBN 10: 0141047984ISBN 13: 9780141047980
Da: BuchWeltWeit Ludwig Meier e.K., Bergisch Gladbach, Germania
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Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -In these breathtaking intellectual adventure stories, covering everything from criminology to ketchup, job interviews to dog training, Malcolm Gladwell looks under the surface of everyday life to show how the most ordinary subjects can illuminate the most extraordinary things about us and our world.'Masterpieces in the art of the essay' Steven Pinker, The New York Times'Beautiful . brings together the writing that made Gladwell the extraordinary figure he is today . one of the most imaginative non-fiction writers of his generation' Ian Sample, Guardian 'Chatty, perceptive, impish and amiable . Comes exuberantly close to . what goes on inside other people's heads' Philip Womack, Daily Telegraph 'Gladwell makes the world seem fresh and exciting again' Evening Standard 410 pp. Englisch.
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Editore: Penguin Books Ltd Mai 2010, 2010
ISBN 10: 0141048689ISBN 13: 9780141048680
Da: BuchWeltWeit Ludwig Meier e.K., Bergisch Gladbach, Germania
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Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -In sixty-four bite-sized pieces of advice, Michael Pollan's Food Rules tells you everything you need to know to eat healthily, dine happily and live well. Eat food. Mostly plants. Not too much. Using those seven simple words as his guide, internationally-acclaimed food journalist Michael Pollan offers this indispensable handbook for anyone concerned about health and food. Sensible, easy to use and written in plain English, Food Rules is a set of memorable adages or designed to help you eat real food in reasonable amounts, gathered from a wide variety of sources: nutritionists, anthropologists, ancient cultures - and grandmothers. Whether at the supermarket, a restaurant or an all-you-can-eat buffet, this handy, pocket-size resource is the perfect manual for anyone who would like to become more mindful of the food we eat. 'In more than four decades I have come across nothing more intelligent, sensible and simple to follow than these principles' The New York Times 'Instantly makes redundant all diet books and 99 per cent of discussions around healthy eating . Sense, at last' Daily Mail, praise for In Defence of Food 'Pollan invites us to grab our pots and pans and cook some real food for dinner' Time Out, praise for In Defence of Food 'Read this witty book for a healthier life and diet' The Times, praise for In Defence of Food Michael Pollan has been writing for over twenty years about the places where the human and natural worlds intersect: food, agriculture, gardens, drugs, and architecture. The Omnivore's Dilemma, about the ethics and ecology of eating, was named one of the ten best books of 2006 by the New York Times and the Washington Post. He is also the author of The Botany of Desire, A Place of My Own and Second Nature and, most recently, In Defence of Food. 160 pp. Englisch.
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Editore: Penguin Books Ltd (UK) Mai 2010, 2010
ISBN 10: 0141047704ISBN 13: 9780141047706
Da: BuchWeltWeit Ludwig Meier e.K., Bergisch Gladbach, Germania
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Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -\*\*\*The phenomenal international bestseller that inspired the Oscar-nominated film\*\*\*Enter a vanished and unjust world: Jackson, Mississippi, 1962. Where black maids raise white children, but aren't trusted not to steal the silver . . .There's Aibileen, raising her seventeenth white child and nursing the hurt caused by her own son's tragic death; Minny, whose cooking is nearly as sassy as her tongue; and white Miss Skeeter, home from College, who wants to know why her beloved maid has disappeared.Skeeter, Aibileen and Minny. No one would believe they'd be friends; fewer still would tolerate it. But as each woman finds the courage to cross boundaries, they come to depend and rely upon one another. Each is in a search of a truth. And together they have an extraordinary story to tell.'The other side of Gone with the Wind - and just as unputdownable' The Sunday Times'A big, warm girlfriend of a book' The Times'Harper Lee's classic novel To Kill a Mockingbird has changed lives. Its direct descendent The Help has the same potential . . . an astonishing feat of accomplishment' Daily Express 451 pp. Englisch.
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Editore: Penguin Books Ltd (UK) Mai 2010, 2010
ISBN 10: 0141043768ISBN 13: 9780141043760
Da: Rheinberg-Buch Andreas Meier eK, Bergisch Gladbach, Germania
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Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -From the bestselling author behind the addictive, award-winning HBO sensation BIG LITTLE LIES comes the compelling and thought-provoking story of love, life and memory'Gripping, thought-provoking and funny' MARIE CLAIRE______________How can ten years of your life just disappear Alice is twenty-nine.She adores sleep, chocolate, and her ramshackle new house.She's newly engaged to the wonderful Nick, and is pregnant with her first baby. But there's just one problem.That was ten years ago . . .Alice slipped in her step-aerobics class, hit her head and lost a decade.Now she's a grown-up, bossy mother of three in the middle of a nasty divorce and her beloved sister Elisabeth isn't speaking to her.This is her life, but not as she knows it.Just how many mistakes can you make in a decade Can she ever get back to the woman she used to be ______________'Captivating' Closer'Funny and knowing about what we choose to remember, and fight to forget' O Magazine'A bittersweet tale by a gifted writer' Woman's WeeklyPraise for Liane Moriarty'Moriarty writes vividly, wittily and wickedly' Sunday Express'Mistress of the razor-sharp observation' Kate Morton'An extraordinary talent' Nicole Kidman'Keeps you guessing to the very end - perfect summer read' Reese Witherspoon 512 pp. Englisch.
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Editore: Penguin Books Ltd (UK) Mai 2010, 2010
ISBN 10: 0141042133ISBN 13: 9780141042138
Da: BuchWeltWeit Ludwig Meier e.K., Bergisch Gladbach, Germania
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Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -Discover the sixth book in the ludicrously inaccurately named Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy trilogy, as broadcast on BBC Radio 4 and featuring original cast members including Simon Jones, Geoff McGivern, Mark Wing-Davey and Sandra Dickinson.Arthur Dent led a perfectly ordinary, uneventful life until the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy hurled him deep into outer space. Now he's convinced a cruelly indifferent universe is out to get him. And who can blame him His life is about to collide with a pantheon of unemployed gods, a lovestruck green alien, a very irritating computer and at least one very large slab of cheese. If, that is, everyone's favourite renegade Galactic President can get him off planet Earth before it is destroyed . . . again.'A triumph, fabulous. Colfer has given us a delight' Observer'I haven't read anything in a long time that made me laugh as much' The Times'Chock-full of fanciful, inventive one-liners and asides, brimming with a burning sense of the ridiculousness of life' Independent on Sunday'The best post-mortem impersonation I have ever read' Mark Lawson, Guardian 368 pp. Englisch.
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Editore: Penguin Books Ltd Mai 2010, 2010
ISBN 10: 0141192313ISBN 13: 9780141192314
Da: BuchWeltWeit Ludwig Meier e.K., Bergisch Gladbach, Germania
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Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -'Puts Chandler to shame . Hughes is the master we keep turning to' Sara ParetskyAfter the war, cynical veteran Dix Steele has moved to L.A., a city terrified by a strangler preying on young women. Bumping into an old friend, now a detective working on the case, Dix is thrilled by closely following the progress of the police. And meeting his new neighbour, sultry and beautiful actress Laurel Gray, brings even more excitement into his life. But the strangler is still prowling the streets - and Laurel may be in more danger than she realises.In a Lonely Place was adapted for film in 1950, with Humphrey Bogart as Dix Steele. 192 pp. Englisch.
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Editore: Penguin Books Ltd Mai 2010, 2010
ISBN 10: 0141039264ISBN 13: 9780141039268
Da: Wegmann1855, Zwiesel, Germania
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Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -The extraordinary memoir of Grenadier Guards officer Patrick Hennessey, an acclaimed account of the making of a modern soldier who has faced some of the most violent combat in Iraq and Afghanistan. 'Soldiers who can write are as rare as writers who can strip down a machinegun in forty seconds, but Patrick Hennessey is one of the few' 'Sunday Times'.
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Editore: Penguin Books Ltd Mai 2010, 2010
ISBN 10: 0141044802ISBN 13: 9780141044804
Da: Smartbuy, Einbeck, Germania
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Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Malcolm Gladwell is the author of five international bestsellers: The Tipping Point, Blink, Outliers, What the Dog Saw, and David and Goliath. He is the host of the podcast Revisionist History and is a staff writer atThe New Yorker. He was named one of the 100 most influential people byTime magazine and one of the Foreign Policy's Top Global Thinkers. Previously, he was a reporter with the Washington Post, where he covered business and science, and then served as the newspaper's New York City bureau chief. He graduated from the University of Toronto, Trinity College, with a degree in history. Gladwell was born in England and grew up in rural Ontario. He lives in New York. 432 pp. Deutsch.
Editore: Penguin Books Ltd Mai 2010, 2010
ISBN 10: 0141044500ISBN 13: 9780141044507
Da: Smartbuy, Einbeck, Germania
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Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - John Updike was always as much a poet as a storyteller and the poems in this, his final collection, celebrate the everyday, even as they address his own imminent mortality. It is in the connected series of poems, Endpoint, written on his last few birthdays and culminating with the illness that killed him, that Updike's work is at its most touching and poignant. 112 pp. Deutsch.
Editore: Penguin Books Ltd Mai 2010, 2010
ISBN 10: 0141189681ISBN 13: 9780141189680
Da: Smartbuy, Einbeck, Germania
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Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Italo Calvino's enchanting stories about the evolution of the universe, with characters that are fashioned from mathematical formulae and cellular structures, The Complete Cosmicomics is translated by Martin McLaughlin, Tim Parks and William Weaver in Penguin Modern Classics.'Naturally, we were all there, - dld Qfwfq said, - where else could we have been Nobody knew then that there could be space. Or time either: what use did we have for time, packed in there like sardines ' The Cosmicomics tell the story of the history of the universe, from the big bang, through millennia and across galaxies. It is witnessed through the eyes of 'cosmic know-it-all' Qfwfq, an exuberant, chameleon-like figure, who takes the shape of a dinosaur, a mollusc, a steamer captain and a moon milk gatherer, among others. This is the first complete edition in English of Italo Calvino's funny, whimsical and delightful stories, which blend scientific fact, flights of fancy, parody and wordplay to show the strangeness and the wonders of the world. Italo Calvino (1923-1985), one of Italy's finest postwar writers, has delighted readers around the world with his deceptively simple, fable-like stories. Calvino was born in Cuba and raised in San Remo, Italy; he fought for the Italian Resistance from 1943-45. Among his other works published in Penguin Modern Classics are Italian Folktales, Hermit in Paris, Into the War, The Path to the Spiders' Nests, Numbers in the Dark, Six Memos for the Next Millennium and Why Read the Classics If you liked The Complete Cosmicomics, you might enjoy Jorge Luis Borges' Fictions, also available in Penguin Modern Classics.'The complete and definitive collection . a masterpiece' Gilbert Adair, Evening Standard'Dazzling . a book of revelation' Tim Adams, Observer 'If you have never read Cosmicomics, you have before you the most joyful reading experience of your life' Salman Rushdie'A landmark in fiction, the work of a master' Ursula K Le Guin, Guardian 432 pp. Englisch.
Editore: Penguin Books Ltd Mai 2010, 2010
ISBN 10: 184614356XISBN 13: 9781846143564
Da: Smartbuy, Einbeck, Germania
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Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Richard Overy is Professor of History at the University of Exeter. His books include Why the Allies Won, Russia's War, The Morbid Age, and The Dictators, which won the Wolfson and the Hessell Tiltman Prizes for history in 2005. 176 pp. Deutsch.
Editore: Penguin Books Ltd Mai 2010, 2010
ISBN 10: 0141193042ISBN 13: 9780141193045
Da: Smartbuy, Einbeck, Germania
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Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - The Elephant (1957) is Slawomir Mrozek's award-winning collection of hilarious and unnerving short stories, satirising life in Poland under a totalitarian regime. The family of a wealthy lawyer keep a 'tamed progressive' as a pet; a zoo saves money for the workers by fashioning their elephant from rubber; a swan is dismissed from the municipal park for public drunkenness; and under the Writers' Association, literary critics are banished to the salt mines. In these tales of bureaucrats, officials and artists, Mrozek conjures perfectly a life of imagined crimes and absurd authority. 176 pp. Englisch.
Editore: Penguin Books Ltd Mai 2010, 2010
ISBN 10: 0141044845ISBN 13: 9780141044842
Da: Smartbuy, Einbeck, Germania
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Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - SHORTLISTED FOR THE GOLDEN MAN BOOKER PRIZEClaudia Hampton - beautiful, famous, independent, dying.But she remains defiant to the last, telling her nurses that she will write a 'history of the world . . . and in the process, my own'. And it is her story from a childhood just after the First World War through the Second and beyond. But Claudia's life is entwined with others and she must allow those who knew her, loved her, the chance to speak, to put across their point of view. There is Gordon, brother and adversary; Jasper, her untrustworthy lover and father of Lisa, her cool conventional daughter; and then there is Tom, her one great love, found and lost in wartime Egypt.Moon Tiger is a haunting story of loss and desire.'Leaves its traces in the air long after you've put it away' Anne Tyler'A complex tapestry of great subtlety. Lively writes so well, savouring the words as she goes' Daily Telegraph'Lively's ability to bring her character and the world she inhabits into full technicolour is beautiful. This is a unique book about a fascinating unpredictable woman way ahead of her time and yet absolutely of her time' Lemn Sissay 224 pp. Englisch.
Editore: Penguin Books Ltd Mai 2010, 2010
ISBN 10: 0141192836ISBN 13: 9780141192833
Da: Smartbuy, Einbeck, Germania
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Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - How I Came to Know Fish (1974) is Ota Pavel's magical memoir of his childhood in Czechoslovakia. Fishing with his father and his Uncle Prosek - the two finest fishermen in the world - he takes a peaceful pleasure from the rivers and ponds of his country. But when the Nazis invade, his father and two older brothers are sent to concentration camps and Pavel must steal their confiscated fish back from under the noses of the SS to feed his family. With tales of his father's battle to provide for his family both in wealthy freedom and in terrifying persecution, this is one boy's passionate and affecting tale of life, love and fishing. 144 pp. Englisch.
Editore: Penguin Books Ltd Mai 2010, 2010
ISBN 10: 0141192194ISBN 13: 9780141192192
Da: Smartbuy, Einbeck, Germania
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Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - In writing If I Die Before I Wake, Sherwood King left a legacy of classic suspense writing, much copied and later immortalised in film. 160 pp. Deutsch.
Editore: Penguin Books Ltd Mai 2010, 2010
ISBN 10: 0141039280ISBN 13: 9780141039282
Da: Smartbuy, Einbeck, Germania
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Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Kathryn Stockett was born and raised in Jackson, Mississippi. After graduating from the University of Alabama, she moved to New York City, where she worked in magazine publishing and marketing for nine years. She currently lives in Atlanta with her husband and daughter. This is her first novel. 464 pp. Deutsch.
Editore: Penguin Books Ltd Mai 2010, 2010
ISBN 10: 0141042591ISBN 13: 9780141042596
Da: Smartbuy, Einbeck, Germania
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Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - John Updike was a master storyteller, and this collection, from his final years, reveals that up to the end he remained the finest short-story writer of his generation.'Magnificent, exhilarating, crisply evocative, rippling with irony. Updike's genius can be seen on peak form. With this book, a talent that burnt brightly goes out in a blaze of brilliance' Sunday Times'A haunting valedictory alive with characteristic preoccupations: small-town life; 'domestic duplicity'; travel; aging rituals; and the transience of existence. This is a collection filled with nuanced observations, descriptive flair and sentences that stop you in your tracks' Metro 304 pp. Englisch.
Editore: Penguin Books Ltd Mai 2010, 2010
ISBN 10: 0141041226ISBN 13: 9780141041223
Da: Smartbuy, Einbeck, Germania
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Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - \*NOMINATED FOR THE COSTA NOVEL AWARD\*Family Album 'a hugely enjoyable read' from Booker Prize winner Penelope Lively'This novel should delight her regular readers and ensnare new ones' Evening StandardAllersmead is a big shabby Victorian suburban house. The perfect place to grow up for elegant Sandra, difficult Gina, destructive Paul, considerate Katie, clever Roger and flighty Clare.But was it Now adults, the children return to Allersmead one by one. To their home-making mother and aloof writer father, and a house that for years has played silent witness to a family's secrets. And one devastating secret of which no one speaks . . .'One of those ridiculously simple, ridiculously readable novels whose artistry only becomes apparent when you put it down' Sunday Telegraph'A pleasure to read, hugely enjoyable, consistently absorbing, hilarious' IndependentPenelope Lively is the author of many prize-winning novels and short-story collections for both adults and children. She won the 1987 Booker Prize for her highly acclaimed novel Moon Tiger. She is a popular writer for children and has won both the Carnegie Medal and the Whitbread Award. She was appointed CBE in the 2001 New Year's Honours List, and DBE in 2012. Penelope Lively lives in London. 272 pp. Englisch.
Editore: Penguin Books Ltd Mai 2010, 2010
ISBN 10: 0141044616ISBN 13: 9780141044613
Da: Smartbuy, Einbeck, Germania
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Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - William Trevor'sLast Storiesis forthcoming from Viking.In Reading Turgenev, which was shortlisted for the Booker Prize, an Irish country girl is trapped in a loveless marriage with an older man, but finds release through secret meetings with a man who shares her passion for Russian novels.My House in Umbra tells of Emily Delahunty, a writer of romantic novels, who helps survivors of a bomb attack on a train to convalesce, inventing colorful pasts for her patients.Two novels, two women who retreat further into the realm of the imagination until the boundaries between what is real and what is not become blurred. 384 pp. Deutsch.
Editore: Penguin Books Ltd Mai 2010, 2010
ISBN 10: 0141039744ISBN 13: 9780141039749
Da: Smartbuy, Einbeck, Germania
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Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Jennifer Westwood's books include Albion: A Guide to Legendary Britain (1985), Gothick Cornwall (1992), Lost Atlantis (1997) and On Pilgrimage (2003). Dr Jacqueline Simpson's books include Icelandic Folktales and Legends (1971, 2004), The Folklore of the Welsh Border (1976, 2004), British Dragons (1980, 2000), and, with Steve Roud, A Dictionary of English Folklore (2000). 480 pp. Deutsch.
Editore: Penguin Books Ltd Mai 2010, 2010
ISBN 10: 0141044209ISBN 13: 9780141044200
Da: Smartbuy, Einbeck, Germania
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Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Jeremy Clarkson is once more Driven to Distraction.Brace yourself. Clarkson's back.And he'd like to tell you what he thinks about some of the most awe-inspiring, earth-shatteringly fast and jaw-droppingly cool cars in the world (oh, and a few irredeemable disasters.).Or he would if he could just get one or two things off his chest first. Matters such as: \* The prospect of having Terry Wogan as president\* Why you'll never see a woman driving a Lexus \* The unforeseen consequences of inadequate birth control \* Why everyone should spend a weekend with a diggerDriven to Distraction is Jeremy Clarkson at full throttle. So buckle up, sit tight and enjoy the ride. You're in for a hell of a lot of laughs. Praise for Jeremy Clarkson:'Brilliant . . . laugh-out-loud' Daily Telegraph'Outrageously funny . . . will have you in stitches' Time Out'Very funny . . . I cracked up laughing on the tube' Evening Standard 480 pp. Deutsch.
Editore: Penguin Books Ltd Mai 2010, 2010
ISBN 10: 0141047674ISBN 13: 9780141047676
Da: Smartbuy, Einbeck, Germania
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Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - The Cowards (1958) is Josef Skvorecky's blackly comic tale of post-war politics that was immediately banned on publication. In 1945, in Kostelec,Danny is playing saxophone for the best jazz band in Czechoslovakia. Their trumpeter has just got out of a concentration camp, their bass player is only allowed in the band since he owns the bass, and the love of Danny's life is in love with somebody else. But Danny despairs most about the bourgeoisie patriots in his town playing at revolution in the face of the approaching Red Army - not least because it ruins the band's chance of any good gigs. 416 pp. Englisch.
Editore: Penguin Books Ltd Mai 2010, 2010
ISBN 10: 0141193190ISBN 13: 9780141193199
Da: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Germania
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Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Proud to be a Mammal (1942-97) is Czeslaw Milosz's moving and diverse collection of essays. Among them, he covers his passion for poetry, his love of the Polish language that was so nearly wiped out by the violence of the twentieth century, and his happy childhood. Milosz also includes a letter to his friend in which he voices his concern about the growing indifference to murder and the true value of freedom of thought, as well as a verbal map of Wilno, with each street revealing both a rich local history and intricate, poignant personal memories.
Editore: Penguin Books Ltd Mai 2010, 2010
ISBN 10: 0141193034ISBN 13: 9780141193038
Da: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Germania
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Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Life is a Dream (1931) is Gyula Krudy's magical collection of ten short stories. Creating a world where editors shoot themselves after a hard day's brunching, men attend duels incognito and lovers fall out over salad dressing, Life is a Dream is a comic, nostalgic, romantic and erotic glimpse into the Hungary of the early twentieth century. Focussing on the poor and dispossessed, these tales of love, food, death and sex are ironic and wise about the human condition and the futility of life, and display fully Krudy's wit and mastery of the form.
Editore: Penguin Books Ltd Mai 2010, 2010
ISBN 10: 0141192917ISBN 13: 9780141192918
Da: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Germania
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Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Walter Bonatti was born in Bergamo on June 22, 1930. As a young man he dedicated himself to extreme alpinism, and from the age of 19 to 35, he became an expert climber. In 1954 he played a vital role in the success of the Italian expedition that achieved the first ascent of K2. After 1965 Bonatti gave up mountaineering, turning to photojournalism for the Italian magazine Epoca, and travelling to remote places.
Editore: Penguin Books Ltd Mai 2010, 2010
ISBN 10: 0141192739ISBN 13: 9780141192734
Da: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Germania
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Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - The Snows of Yesteryear (1989) is Gregor von Rezzori's haunting evocation of his childhood in Czernowitz, in present-day Ukraine. Growing up after the First World War, Rezzori portrays a twilit world suspended between the dying ways of an imperial past and the terrors of the twentieth century. He recalls his volatile, boar-hunting father, his earthy nursemaid, his fragile, aristocratic mother, his adored governess and the tragic death of his beloved sister, in a luminous story of war, unrest, eccentricity, folk tales, dark forests, night flights, and what it is like to lose your home.
Editore: Penguin Books Ltd Mai 2010, 2010
ISBN 10: 0141193204ISBN 13: 9780141193205
Da: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Germania
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Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - My Happy Days in Hell (1962) is Gyorgy Faludy's grimly beautiful autobiography of his battle to survive tyranny and oppression. Fleeing Hungary in 1938 as the German army approaches, acclaimed poet Faludy journeys to Paris, where he finds a lover but merely a cursory asylum. When the French capitulate to the Nazis, Faludy travels to North Africa, then on to America, where he volunteers for military service. Missing his homeland and determined to do the right thing, he returns - only to be imprisoned, tortured, and slowly starved, eventually becoming one of only twenty-one survivors of his camp.
Editore: Penguin Books Ltd Mai 2010, 2010
ISBN 10: 0141003251ISBN 13: 9780141003252
Da: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Germania
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Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Richard Overy's The Morbid Age opens a window onto the creative but anxious period between the First and Second World Wars. British intellectual life between the wars stood at the heart of modernity; it was the golden age of the public intellectual and scientist: Arnold Toynbee, Aldous and Julian Huxley, H. G. Wells, Marie Stopes and a host of others. Yet, as Richard Overy argues, a striking characteristic of so many of the ideas that emerged from this new age - from eugenics to the Freudian unconscious, to modern ideas of pacifism and world government - was the fear that the West was faced a dystopian future of war, economic collapse and racial degeneration. Brilliantly evoking a Britain of BBC radio lectures, public debates, peace demonstrations, pamphleteers, psychoanalysts, anti-fascist volunteers, sex education manuals and science fiction, The Morbid Age reveals a time at once different from, and yet surprisingly similar to, our own. 'History at its best' Economist 'The carefree image of life in Britain between the wars is overturned in this magnificent account' Peter Preston, Observer 'It is hard to imagine anyone recording these times more exactly and more intelligently, or with greater insight and scholarship, than Overy has' Simon Heffer, Daily Telegraph 'With learning, lucidity and wit, The Morbid Age . brilliantly describes the sense of an inevitably approaching catastrophe' Eric Hobsbawm, London Review of Books Richard Overy is Professor of History at the University of Exeter. His books include Why the Allies Won, Russia's War, The Battle of Britain and The Dictators, which won the Wolfson and the Hessell Tiltman Prizes for history in 2005.