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47 produkter
Looming Tower
Al Qaeda's Road to 9/11
Häftad, 2007
5,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (2)
207 kr
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THE PULITZER PRIZE-WINNING BESTSELLER, NOW AN ACCLAIMED TV SERIESThis is the definitive account of the run-up to 9/11: from the man who lit the spark of radical Islam in 1948, to those who built up a terror network, and to the FBI agent whose warnings of 'something big' coming were ignored until …
Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood, and the Prison of Belief
Häftad, 2013
4,5 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (4)
258 kr
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Going Clear
Scientology, Hollywood and the Prison of Belief
Häftad, 2016
267 kr
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Scientology presents itself as a scientific approach to spiritual enlightenment, but its activities have long been shrouded in mystery and controversy. Now Pulitzer Prize-winning author Lawrence Wright – armed with his investigative talents, years of archival research, and more than two hundred …
Terror Years
From al-Qaeda to the Islamic State
E-bok, 2016
45 kr
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Ten powerful pieces first published in The New Yorker recall the path terror in the Middle East has taken from the rise of al-Qaeda in the 1990s to the recent beheadings of reporters and aid workers by ISIS. With the Pulitzer Prize-winning The Looming Tower , Lawrence Wright became generally …
Looming Tower
Al Qaeda's Road to 9/11
E-bok, 2014
108 kr
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THE PULITZER PRIZE-WINNING BESTSELLER, NOW AN ACCLAIMED TV SERIESThis is the definitive account of the run-up to 9/11: from the man who lit the spark of radical Islam in 1948, to those who built up a terror network, and to the FBI agent whose warnings of 'something big' coming were ignored until …
God Save Texas
A Journey into the Future of America
Häftad, 2019
160 kr
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'This is a funny, pointed love letter to Texas, at once elegiac and clear-eyed' Ben Macintyre, The Times From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Looming Tower, God Save Texas is a journey through the most controversial state in America.Texas is a Republican state in the heart of Trumpland …
Plague Year
America in the Time of Covid
Häftad, 2023
137 kr
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'A virtuoso feat ... a book of panoramic breadth' New York Times Book Review'A devastating analysis ... Wright is a master of knitting together complex narratives' The ObserverJust as Lawrence Wright's The Looming Tower became the defining account of our century's first devastating event, 9/11, so …
Plague Year
America in the Time of Covid
E-bok, 2021
108 kr
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'A virtuoso feat ... a book of panoramic breadth' New York Times Book Review'A devastating analysis ... Wright is a master of knitting together complex narratives' The ObserverJust as Lawrence Wright's The Looming Tower became the defining account of our century's first devastating event, 9/11, so …
Plague Year
America in the Time of Covid
Ljudbok, 2021
166 kr
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Brought to you by Penguin. ''In the twenty-first century, infectious disease seemed like a nuisance, not like a mortal threat'' Just as Lawrence Wright''s The Looming Tower became the defining account of our century''s first devastating event, 9/11, so The Plague Year will become the defining …
God Save Texas
A Journey into the Future of America
E-bok, 2018
108 kr
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A New York Times Notable Book of 2018'This is a funny, pointed love letter to Texas, at once elegiac and clear-eyed' Ben Macintyre, The TimesFrom the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Looming Tower, God Save Texas is a journey through the most controversial state in America.Texas is a Republican …
Remembering Satan
E-bok, 2011
184 kr
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In 1988 Ericka and Julie Ingram began making a series of accusations of sexual abuse against their father, Paul Ingram, who was a respected deputy sheriff in Olympia, Washington. At first the accusations were confined to molestations in their childhood, but they grew to include torture and rape as …
Saints and Sinners
Walker Railey, Jimmy Swaggart, Madalyn Murray O''Hair, Anton LaVey, Will Campbell , Matthew Fox
E-bok, 2011
119 kr
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In this fascinating book about religion in America, one of this country''s most probing yet sympathetic journalists puts forth stories not only of real grace but of despair, sexual scandal, and attempted murder. Lawrence Wright''s Saints and Sinners are Jimmy Swaggart, who preached a hellfire …
In the New World: Growing Up with America from the Sixties to the Eighties
Häftad, 2013
315 kr
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In the New World
Growing Up with America from the Sixties to the Eighties
E-bok, 2012
164 kr
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We first meet Larry Wright in 1960. He is thirteen and moving with his family to Dallas, the essential city of the New World just beginning to rise across the southern rim of the United States. As we follow him through the next two decades—the civil rights movement, the Vietnam War, the devastating …
Thirteen Days in September
The Dramatic Story of the Struggle for Peace
E-bok, 2014
147 kr
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A dramatic, illuminating day-by-day account of the 1978 Camp David conference, when President Jimmy Carter convinced Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin and Egyptian President Anwar Sadat to sign a peace treaty--the first treaty in the modern Middle East, and one which endures to this day. With …
Terror Years
From al-Qaeda to the Islamic State
E-bok, 2016
131 kr
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With the Pulitzer Prize–winning The Looming Tower, Lawrence Wright became generally acknowledged as one of our major journalists writing on terrorism in the Middle East. Here, in ten powerful pieces first published in The New Yorker, he recalls the path that terror in the Middle East has taken, …
God Save Texas: A Journey Into the Soul of the Lone Star State
Häftad, 2019
3,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
253 kr
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With humor and the biting insight of a native, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Looming Tower explores the history, culture, and politics of Texas, while holding the stereotypes up for rigorous scrutiny. God Save Texas is a journey through the most controversial state in America. It is a …
End of October
A novel
E-bok, 2020
221 kr
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In this riveting medical thriller--from the Pulitzer Prize winner and best-selling author--Dr. Henry Parsons, an unlikely but appealing hero, races to find the origins and cure of a mysterious new killer virus as it brings the world to its knees. At an internment camp in Indonesia, forty-seven …
The Plague Year
America in the Time of Covid
Häftad, 2023
174 kr
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From the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Looming Tower, and the pandemic novel The End of October: an unprecedented, momentous account of Covid-19—its origins, its wide-ranging repercussions, and the ongoing global fight to contain it "A book of panoramic breadth ... managing to surprise us …
The Plague Year
America in the Time of Covid
Häftad, 2021
315 kr
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From the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Looming Tower, and the pandemic novel The End of October: an unprecedented, momentous account of Covid-19—its origins, its wide-ranging repercussions, and the ongoing global fight to contain it "A book of panoramic breadth ... managing to surprise us …
Headshots
Profiles, Essays, and Reflections
Inbunden, 2028
347 kr
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Thirty never-before-collected essays—many of them profiles—by the Pulitzer Prize–winning and bestselling author of The Looming Tower , Going Clear, and The Plague Year . These brilliant pieces reveal the broad spectrum of Wright’s cultural and political observations over the past thirty-five years. …
Redemption
Faith, Justice, and Sisterhood on Death Row
Inbunden, 2026
344 kr
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A powerful and startling account of the unsparing connection between a convent of cloistered nuns and the condemned women on Texas’s death row, exploring questions around crime and punishment, faith, and retribution in America as only Lawrence Wright can "This unlikely story of a group of nuns in …
Perspective in Perspective
Inbunden, 2017
3147 kr
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Originally published in 1983, this book is about the way we see things – or think we do, which is by no means the same – and about the ways in which we have tried to reproduce that visual concept in diagrams, pictures, photographs, films and television. Whatever the medium, if any degree of realism …
