Richard Powers - Böcker

The Overstory, winner of the 2019 Pulitzer Prize in Fiction, is a sweeping, impassioned work of activism and resistance that is also a stunning evocation of-and paean to-the natural world. From the roots to the crown and back to the seeds, Richard...

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A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE THE POWERFUL NEW NOVEL FROM THE PULITZER PRIZE-WINNING AND BOOKER-SHORTLISTED AUTHOR OF THE OVERSTORY AND BEWILDERMENT 'Ascends to the plane of true, indisputable greatness' OBSERVER 'An ...

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THE MILLION-COPY GLOBAL BESTSELLER AND WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR FICTION 'Radical and exciting' Jessie Burton 'Breathtaking' Barbara Kingsolver 'It changed how I thought about the Earth and our place in it' Barack Obama 'Really, just one of...

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The astrobiologist Theo Byrne searches for life throughout the cosmos while single-handedly raising his unusual nine-year-old, Robin, following the death of his wife. Robin is a warm, kind boy who spends hours painting elaborate pictures of endang...

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Four lives are drawn together in a sweeping, panoramic new novel from Richard Powers, showcasing¿the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of¿The Overstory¿at the height of his skills. Twelve-year-old Evie Beaulieu sinks to the bottom of a swimming pool i...

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In Orfeo, composer Peter Els opens the door one evening to find the police on his doorstep. His home microbiology lab-the latest experiment in his lifelong attempt to find music in surprising patterns-has aroused the suspicions of Homeland Securit...

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'If you have children or will have children, if you know children or can remember being a child, dare to read Operation Wandering Soul ... it is bedtime reading for the future' USA TODAY 'Powers' prose soars like the most magnificent of choirs' WA...

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A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2024 THE POWERFUL NEW NOVEL FROM THE PULITZER PRIZE-WINNING AND BOOKER-SHORTLISTED AUTHOR OF THE OVERSTORY AND BEWILDERMENT 'Is there anything Richard Powers cannot write? The world here ...

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This compact volume features over 100 of the most spectacular interiors from across the world, spanning the entire 20th century to the present day. It includes interiors assembled by artists and fashion designers, architects, interior and set-desi...

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An Air Force loadmaster in the Vietnam War is shot out of the sky, then saved by falling into a banyan. An artist inherits a hundred years of photographic portraits, all of the same doomed American chestnut. A hard-partying undergraduate in the la...

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A well-researched biography about the public and private life of J. Edgar Hoover-former FBI director and America's most controversial law enforcer-that draws on previously unknown personal documents, a study of FBI files, and the presidential pape...

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National BestsellerNational Book Critics Circle Award NomineeFrom the Pulitzer Prize winning author of Playground and The Overstory, a magnificent double love story of two young couples separated by a distance of twenty-five years. "e;The most...

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This novel from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Bewilderment examines life in a hospital children's ward, innocence, and the power of storytelling. In the pediatric ward of a public hospital in the heart of Los Angeles, a group of sick childr...

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The magnificent second novel from the Pulitzer Prizewinning author of The Overstory and the forthcoming Bewilderment.Accomplished . . . mature and assured. . . . A major American novelist. New RepublicSomething is wrong with Eddie Hobson, Sr., fat...

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Three tales intertwine around a photo of three young men on the brink of WWI in this literary debut by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Overstory. In the spring of 1914, renowned photographer August Sander took a photograph of three young ...

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Information systems with an abundance of graphics data are growing rapidly due to advances in data storage technology, the development of multimedia communications across networks, and the fact that parallel computers are leading to faster image p...

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The threats of economic espionage and intellectual property (IP) theft are global, stealthy, insidious, and increasingly common. According to the U.S. Commerce Department, IP theft is estimated to top $250 billion annually and also costs the Unite...

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The American anticommunist movement has been viewed as a product of right-wing hysteria that deeply scarred our society and institutions. This book restores the struggle against communism to its historic place in American life. Richard Gid Powers ...

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Offering a clear and authoritative overview of recent developments in microbiology and neuroscience, this reference describes factors contributing to the emergence and resurgence of neurological infections-studying both new and drug-resistant path...

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The astrobiologist Theo Byrne searches for life throughout the cosmos while single-handedly raising his unusual nine-year-old, Robin, following the death of his wife. Robin is a warm, kind boy who spends hours painting elaborate pictures of endang...

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Some of the world's greatest architects, including Walter Gropius, Frank Lloyd Wright and Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, have used their talents to create groundbreaking innovations in American residential architecture over the past 120 years. Though w...

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Celebrates 40 great exemplars of Nordic residential architecture from the past 120 years, exploring both the groundbreaking modernist homes of the 20th century and more contemporary dream residences. The Nordic home has long held a powerful allure...

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