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New Wilderness
SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2020
AvDiane Cook
Häftad, Engelska, 2021
3,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster:(1)
120 kr
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'THE ENVIRONMENTAL NOVEL OF OUR TIMES.' Lemn Sissay, Booker Prize judgeFrom a critically acclaimed author comes a searing novel about maternal love pushed to the brink by environmental crisis 'Brutal and beautiful in equal measure' (Emily St. John Mandel) Bea's daughter, Agnes, is slowly wasting away, her lungs ravaged by the smog and pollution of the overpopulated metropolis they call home.The only alternative is to build a life in the vast expanse of untamed land known as The Wilderness State. No one has been allowed to venture here before. That is all about to change. But as Bea soon discovers, saving her daughter's life might mean losing her in ways she hadn't foreseen.Passionate and exhilarating, The New Wilderness is the story of a mother's fight to save her daughter in a world she can no longer call her own.Longlisted for the DUBLIN Literary Award 2022 * A Guardian Best Science Fiction Book of the Year * A 'Best Book of the Year 2020' according to BBC Culture * An Irish Times Best Debut Fiction of 2020
Man V. Nature: Stories
AvDiane Cook
Häftad, Engelska, 2020
249 kr
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The New Wilderness
A Novel
AvDiane Cook
Häftad, Engelska, 2021
208 kr
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New Wilderness
A Novel
AvDiane Cook
E-bok
Engelska, 2020
100 kr
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"Timeless. . . .a brutal, beguiling fairy tale. . . .At its core, [the novel] is . . .about motherhood, and about the world we make (or unmake) for our children." — Washington PostBea''s five-year-old daughter, Agnes, is slowly wasting away, consumed by the smog and pollution of the overdeveloped metropolis that most of the population now calls home. If they stay in the city, Agnes will die.There is only one alternative: the Wilderness State, the last swath of untouched, protected land, where people have always been forbidden. Until now.Bea, Agnes, and eighteen others volunteer to live in the Wilderness State, guinea pigs in an experiment to see if humans can exist in nature without destroying it. Living as nomadic hunter-gatherers, they slowly and painfully learn to survive in an unpredictable, dangerous land, bickering and battling for power and control as they betray and save one another.But as Agnes embraces the wild freedom of this new existence, Bea realizes that saving her daughter''s life means losing her in a different way. The farther they get from civilization, the more their bond is tested in astonishing and heartbreaking ways.At once a blazing lament of our contempt for nature and a deeply humane portrayal of motherhood and what it means to be human, The New Wilderness is an extraordinary novel from a one-of-a-kind literary force."Gripping, fierce, terrifying examination of what people are capable of when they want to survive in both the best and worst ways. Loved this." — Roxane Gay via Twitter"Could this be the great climate change novel of our time? Buzz is building fast for the epic debut novel of Diane Cook." — Entertainment Weekly
Charles Darwin
British Naturalist
AvDiane Cook
E-bok
Engelska, 2014
129 kr
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Charles Darwin''s On the Origin of Species changed the way we understand the beginnings of life on earth. Darwin''s ideas challenged people to think differently, to question long-held beliefs, and to explore a new field of scientific discovery. As a young man, Darwin worked to join the priesthood, but his life took a turn toward science after he joined a government mission to South America and the Pacific. Darwin''s work on the trip pushed him to come up with new ideas about life and nature, including his famous theory of evolution. Learn the story of one of the most important scientific thinkers of all time in Charles Darwin: British Naturalist.
Michelangelo
Renaissance Artist
AvDiane Cook
E-bok
Engelska, 2014
129 kr
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A painter, poet, sculptor, and more, Michelangelo was one of the most important artists that ever lived. Many of Michelangelo''s works are among the most famous in the world, visited by tourists from around the world every day. His painting in the Sistine Chapel in Rome has impressed and inspired people for centuries. His sculpture David is known around the globe. Learn the story of one of the most important artists of all time in Michelangelo: Renaissance Artist.
Mohandas Gandhi
Spiritual Leader
AvDiane Cook
E-bok
Engelska, 2014
129 kr
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Gandhi''s use of nonviolence to change his country inspired the world. His work to end 200 years of British rule in his home country of India changed the nation forever, but it also changed the way other people around the world fought for their freedom and human rights. Gandhi''s ideas led great people from Martin Luther King, Jr. to the Dalai Lama to use nonviolence to work for change in their own countries. Today, Gandhi is remembered as one of the greatest leaders of all time. Learn about the story of one of the world''s most important spiritual and political leaders in Mohandas Gandhi: Spiritual Leader.
Paul Gauguin
19th-Century French Painter
AvDiane Cook
E-bok
Engelska, 2014
129 kr
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French painter Paul Gauguin may not have been appreciated while he was alive, but his work later inspired many of the world''s most famous artists, including Pablo Picasso. In the century since his death, Gauguin''s work has become better known and more respected. He is famous for his use of color and unique style. Gauguin''s work set him apart from other French painters of his time and helped to establish the style of Symbolism. Learn the story of one of the most influential artists of all time in Paul Gauguin: 18th-Century French Painter.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
World-Famous Composer
AvDiane Cook
E-bok
Engelska, 2014
129 kr
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, one of the world''s best-known composers, began playing music at a very early age and became a professional musician when he was only 17. He went on to compose hundreds of pieces of music—many of which are among the most famous in musical history—and influence composer Ludwig van Beethoven. More than 200 years after his death, Mozart''s music is still among the most respected and beloved in the world. Learn the story of one of the most important composers of all time in Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: World-Famous Composer.
Cameroon
AvDiane Cook
E-bok
Engelska, 2014
129 kr
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If Cameroon is "Africa in miniature," then understanding this California-sized coastal nation takes one closer to capturing the story of this remarkable continent. Serving as a European trade portal, Cameroon boasts a rich, cross-cultural history that has fostered a society with a wide range of lifestyles and belief systems. As early as the fifth century b.c., curious travelers sailed along the coast to watch Cameroon''s volcano erupt. But it wasn''t until the Portuguese arrived on the coast in 1472 that the country became a launching point for the slave trade. In the 19th and early 20th centuries Germans, and later French and British colonists, occupied and westernized Cameroon. Cameroon gained its independence in 1960. Today it is among the most stable countries of West Africa.
Practicing God'S Presence
A Thirty-Day Adventure
AvDiane Cook,Michell
E-bok
Engelska, 2015
52 kr
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Walking in Gods presence was made real to Michell and Diane by Brother Lawrence. Brother Lawrences experience is described in the classic book The Practice of the Presence of God: the Best Rule of a Holy Life.
If you follow the process of this book, it will transform your relationship with God. You will learn how to abide in Him through being aware of His presence in your everyday tasks. It will revolutionize your way of living. Your communion and intimacy with God will increase past what you thought possible. How can you be sure this is true? Many others have led the way with their lives transformed. This is a lost art awaiting your personal discovery. Applying yourself for just thirty days will instill these principles into your heart, never to be lost.
Michell and Diane have walked in Gods presence for over thirty-five years. They wrote this book to present a helpful tool to use as a short devotional. They have taken one hundred and fifty tips from Brother Lawrence. They present five of them to you each day to integrate into your life. You are encouraged to do this for thirty days while you go about your daily tasks, just as Brother Lawrence prayed while going about his daily tasks.
Man V. Nature
From the Booker-shortlisted author of The New Wilderness
AvDiane Cook
E-bok
Engelska, 2015
103 kr
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*SHORTLISTED FOR THE GUARDIAN FIRST BOOK AWARD 2015*SHORTLISTED FOR THE LA TIMES BOOKS PRIZE 2015A SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE NOTABLE BOOK OF 2014A BOSTON GLOBE BEST FICTION OF 2014ROXANE GAY’S TOP TEN BOOKS OF 2014AN AMAZON BEST SHORT STORY COLLECTION OF 2014AN iBOOK BEST OF 2014Perfectly pitched and gorgeously penned, this astonishingly bold collection of stories explores the boundary between the wild and the civilized. Pitting human beings against the extremes of nature, Diane Cook surgically peels back the layers of civilization to lay bare our vulnerabilities and the ease with which our darker, primal urges emerge.These exhilarating and terrifying tales are set in worlds that are distorted versions of our own, where an alpha male is pursued through city streets by murderous rivals, a marooned woman defends her house against the rising flood and hordes of desperate refugees, and a pack of not-needed boys take refuge in a murky forest and compete against one another for food. Wry, transgressive and utterly unique, Cook’s wildly inventive debut collection illuminates, with surreal humour and heartbreak, humankind’s struggle not only to thrive, but survive.
Moving On
AvDiane Cook
E-bok
Engelska, 2015
39 kr
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A cool, unsettling story of grief and starting over – from the Guardian First Book Award long-listed collection Man V. Nature After the death of her husband a woman is relocated by the Placement Team to a prisonlike shelter for widows and the unwanted. There she is offered only one option: to prepare for her next husband. “Moving On” is the bold and brilliant opening story from Diane Cook’s critically acclaimed, award-winning debut collection Man v. Nature. Praise for Man V. Nature ‘A knockout ... every single story could make a great movie.’ Miranda July, author of The First Bad Man ‘Man V. Nature could also be called Diane Cook V. The Challenges of Writing Fresh, Invigorating Fiction in Our Age. In the latter contest, Cook crushes. Here is a bold debut.’ Sam Lipsyte, author of Home Land ‘Astonishing ... the stories are surreal, with the sharpest edge and in one way or another, each story reveals something raw and powerful about being human in a world where so little is in our control.’ Roxane Gay, author of Bad Feminist
New Wilderness
SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2020
AvDiane Cook
E-bok
Engelska, 2020
116 kr
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'THE ENVIRONMENTAL NOVEL OF OUR TIMES.' Lemn Sissay, Booker Prize judgeFrom a critically acclaimed author comes a searing novel about maternal love pushed to the brink by environmental crisis 'Brutal and beautiful in equal measure' (Emily St. John Mandel) Bea's daughter, Agnes, is slowly wasting away, her lungs ravaged by the smog and pollution of the overpopulated metropolis they call home.The only alternative is to build a life in the vast expanse of untamed land known as The Wilderness State. No one has been allowed to venture here before. That is all about to change. But as Bea soon discovers, saving her daughter's life might mean losing her in ways she hadn't foreseen.Passionate and exhilarating, The New Wilderness is the story of a mother's fight to save her daughter in a world she can no longer call her own.Longlisted for the DUBLIN Literary Award 2022 * A Guardian Best Science Fiction Book of the Year * A 'Best Book of the Year 2020' according to BBC Culture * An Irish Times Best Debut Fiction of 2020
Man V. Nature
From the Booker-shortlisted author of The New Wilderness
AvDiane Cook
Häftad, Engelska, 2020
120 kr
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*SHORTLISTED FOR THE GUARDIAN FIRST BOOK AWARD 2015*SHORTLISTED FOR THE LA TIMES BOOKS PRIZE 2015A SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE NOTABLE BOOK OF 2014A BOSTON GLOBE BEST FICTION OF 2014ROXANE GAY’S TOP TEN BOOKS OF 2014AN AMAZON BEST SHORT STORY COLLECTION OF 2014AN iBOOK BEST OF 2014Perfectly pitched and gorgeously penned, this astonishingly bold collection of stories explores the boundary between the wild and the civilized. Pitting human beings against the extremes of nature, Diane Cook surgically peels back the layers of civilization to lay bare our vulnerabilities and the ease with which our darker, primal urges emerge.These exhilarating and terrifying tales are set in worlds that are distorted versions of our own, where an alpha male is pursued through city streets by murderous rivals, a marooned woman defends her house against the rising flood and hordes of desperate refugees, and a pack of not-needed boys take refuge in a murky forest and compete against one another for food. Wry, transgressive and utterly unique, Cook’s wildly inventive debut collection illuminates, with surreal humour and heartbreak, humankind’s struggle not only to thrive, but survive.
Wise Trees
AvDiane Cook,Len Jenshel
Inbunden, Engelska, 2017
405 kr
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Leading landscape photographers Diane Cook and Len Jenshel present Wise Trees—a stunning photography book containing more than 50 historical trees with remarkable stories from around the world.Supported by grants from the Expedition Council of the National Geographic Society, Cook and Jenshel spent two years traveling to fifty-nine sites across five continents to photograph some of the world’s most historic and inspirational trees. Trees, they tell us, can live without us, but we cannot live without them. Not only do trees provide us with the oxygen we breathe, food gathered from their branches, and wood for both fuel and shelter, but they have been essential to the spiritual and cultural life of civilizations around the world.From Luna, the Coastal Redwood in California that became an international symbol when activist Julia Butterfly Hill sat for 738 days on a platform nestled in its branches to save it from logging, to the Bodhi Tree, the sacred fig in India that is a direct descendent of the tree under which Buddha attained enlightenment, Cook and Jenshel reveal trees that have impacted and shaped our lives, our traditions, and our feelings about nature. There are also survivor trees, including a camphor tree in Nagasaki that endured the atomic bomb, an American elm in Oklahoma City, and the 9/11 Survivor Tree, a Callery pear at the 9/11 Memorial. All of the trees were carefully selected for their role in human dramas.This project both reflects and inspires awareness of the enduring role of trees in nurturing and sheltering humanity. Photographers, environmentalists, history buffs, and nature-lovers alike will appreciate the extraordinary stories found within the pages of Wise Trees!Also Available: Wise Trees (ISBN: 978-1-4197-2700-9)

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Diane Cook – författare

New Wilderness

Man V. Nature: Stories

The New Wilderness

New Wilderness

Charles Darwin

Michelangelo

Mohandas Gandhi

Paul Gauguin

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Cameroon

Practicing God'S Presence

Man V. Nature

Moving On

New Wilderness

Man V. Nature

Wise Trees

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