Penguin paperbacks (55 risultati)

Softcover. Condizione: Good. No Jacket. Analyzes the American expatriate experience in Nazi-occupied Paris, drawing on the personal writings and correspondences of individuals to reveal the challenges they faced and the risks many took to support the Resistance. Former library book. Moderate shelf wear. Please note the image in…

Softcover. Condizione: Very Good. No Jacket. Reveals the inside story of how U.S. special forces and intelligence agencies led the largest manhunt in history to capture and contain Colombian cocaine cartel kingpin Pablo Escobar, one of the world's most powerful outlaws. Solid binding. Please note the image in this listing is a s…

Softcover. Condizione: Good. No Jacket. In the first volume of a series chronicling the birth of the state of Israel, the lives of a diverse array of characters collide and intertwine as the British prepare to withdraw from Jerusalem in 1948. Due to age and/or environmental conditions, the pages of this book have darkened. Moder…

Softcover. Condizione: Very Good. No Jacket. A practical jobseeker's guide combines helpful advice and simpletofollow techniques for mastering the interview process and landing the perfect job, explaining how to make a good impression on potential employers, give the right answers to an interviewer's questions, avoid common pitf…

Softcover. Condizione: Very Good. No Jacket. A seafood journalist who has written for National Geographic traces the history of bass, cod, salmon and tuna fishing while assessing the critical state of today's commercial fishing industry, citing the roles of over-fishing and fish farming while recommending specific protections. R…

Softcover. Condizione: Good. No Jacket. Leila Ahmed grew up in Cairo in the 1940s and '50s in a family that was eagerly and passionately political. Although many in the Egyptian upper classes were firmly opposed to change, the Ahmeds were proud supporters of independence. But when the Revolution arrived, the family's opposition…

Softcover. Condizione: Good. No Jacket. Reveals the inside story of how U.S. special forces and intelligence agencies led the largest manhunt in history to capture and contain Colombian cocaine cartel kingpin Pablo Escobar, one of the world's most powerful outlaws. Solid binding. Moderate edgewear on the boards. Moderate shelf w…

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. No Jacket. A novel set in Israel during the War for Independence follows a group of Jewish soldiers as they battle for control of Jerusalem, in the sequel to Jerusalem Vigil. Reprint. Former library book. Please note the image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actua…

Paperback. Condizione: Fair. No Jacket. An account of the first one hundred days of FDR's presidency traces the transformation that took place throughout the federal government in the wake of unprecedented bank failures, unemployment, and poverty levels. Piece(s) of the spine missing. Due to age and/or environmental conditions,…

Paperback. Condizione: Good. No Jacket. Investigating the murder of two local fishermen on the small island of Pellestrina, Commissario Brunetti is shunned by the small community and forced to search for clues at the home of Signorina Elettra, where he struggles with a growing attraction to his boss's secretary. By the Silver Da…

Paperback. Condizione: Fair. No Jacket. Offers advice for every aspect of contemporary living, including dating, dressing, and entertaining. Due to age and/or environmental conditions, the pages of this book have darkened. Solid binding. Moderate edgewear on the boards. Moderate shelf wear. Please note the image in this listing…

Paperback. Condizione: Good. No Jacket. When Maria Testa, better known to Brunetti as the nun who once had cared for his mother, turns up at the Commissario's door, after leaving her convent following the suspicious deaths of five patients, Brunetti launches a personal investigation into the situation to determine whether or not…

Paperback. Condizione: Fair. No Jacket. Based in part on material written for "A Prairie Home Companion", How to Talk Minnesotan will help visitors to Minnesota keep from sticking out like sore thumbs when they don't know the difference between "not too bad a deal" and "a heckuva deal". Illustrated with line drawings. Moderate e…

Paperback. Condizione: Fair. No Jacket. In 1937, on the Dominican side of the Haiti border, Amabelle, an orphaned maid to an army colonel's wife, falls in love with Sebastien, an itinerant sugarcane cutter, but their relationship is threatened by the violent persecution of the Haitians. Reprint. Solid binding. Moderate edgewear…

Soft cover. Condizione: As New. Condizione sovraccoperta: New. 1st Trade Paperback Edition. EPOCHAL: AS-NEW virtually NEW: IMPECCABLE: PRESENTATION QUALITY: First Trade Paperback "Plume-Penguin USA" Edition (Orig. August 1999) of the 35th Anniversary Edition (Orig. hardcover March 1992) of Ayn Rand's celebrated best-selling clas…

Paperback. Condizione: Good. A respected international economic advisor and the director of The Earth Institute shares a wide-spectrum theory about how to enable economic success throughout the world, identifying the different categories into which various nations fall in today's economy while posing solutions to top political,…

Softcover. Condizione: Fine. Abnutzung / Risse - leicht; Vergilbt / ausgeblichen. Haroun's father is the greatest of all storyletters. His magical stories bring laughter to the sad city of Alifbay. But one day something goes wrong and his father runs out of stories to tell. Haroun is determined to return the storyteller's gift t…