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Insomnia
AvMarina Benjamin
Häftad, Engelska, 2019
101 kr
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An intense, lyrical, witty, and humane exploration of a state we too often consider only superficially.At once philosophical and poetical, Insomnia ranges widely over history and culture, literature and art, exploring a threshold experience that is intimately involved with trespass and contamination: the illicit importing of day into night.
Mellantid : om att fylla 50
AvMarina Benjamin
Inbunden, Svenska, 2018
4,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster:(2)
263 kr
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Boken Mellantid är en ögonöppnare. Brittiska journalisten och författaren Marina Benjamin skriver där avväpnande, lättsamt och idéhistoriskt berikande om klimakteriet.

Maria Domellöf-Wik, Göteborgs-Posten

Det här är en bok för alla som vill spy på självhjälpsböcker med käcka tillrop om att livet börjar vid femtio. Den ser på åldrandet med klarsyn och inte utan sorg, men med en stark vilja att utforska alla aspekter av det. Vad händer med förhållandet till en ännu äldre mor? Vad händer när en dotter börjar bli vuxen? Bland vännerna, som blir ännu viktigare, utspelar sig en tragedi. En av dem drabbas av en aggressiv cancer och går bort, dryga femtio år fyllda. Jämfört med henne har författaren ändå en framtid, vilket drabbar henne med starka känslor av skuld.

Mellantid är indelad i kapitel med rubriker som Hud, Ryggrad, Muskler och Inälvor, men det är en bok som når så mycket längre än att beskriva det kroppsliga åldrandet. Det är en bok om livet. Om den del vi helst inte pratar om.

Boken Mellantid är en ögonöppnare. Brittiska journalisten och författaren Marina Benjamin skriver där avväpnande, lättsamt och idéhistoriskt berikande om klimakteriet.

Maria Domellöf-Wik, Göteborgs-Posten

Marina Benjamin har skrivit om [klimakteriet] i en personlig, bildad och skarp essä om ämnet, där hon utgår från medicinhistoria, psykologi – och sin egen svarta humor.

Gunilla Kindstrand, SvD

Störst tröst och mest visdom finner jag i nyutkomna boken ”Mellantid”, en idéhistorisk, filosofisk och personlig bok om övergångsåldern, där den brittiska författaren Marina Benjamin brottas med en kultur som uppmanar kvinnor att dölja och förneka åldrandet.

Åsa Sandell, Sydsvenskan
Rocket Dreams
How the Space Age Shaped Our Vision of a World Beyond
AvMarina Benjamin
E-bok
Engelska, 2003
168 kr
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In 1958, mankind''s centuries-long flirtation with space flight became a torrid love affair. For a decade, tens of millions of people were enraptured -- first, by the U.S.-Soviet race to the moon, and finally, as America outstripped its rival, by Project Apollo alone. It is now more than three decades since the last man walked on the moon...more time than between the first moonwalk and the beginning of World War II. Apollo did not, as had been promised by a generation of visionaries, herald the beginning of the Space Age, but its end. Or did it? Project Apollo, like a cannonball, reached its apogee and returned to earth, but the trajectory of that return was complex. America''s atmosphere -- its economic, scientific, and cultural atmosphere -- made for a very complicated reentry that produced many solutions to the trajectory problem. Rocket Dreams is about those solutions...about the places where the space program landed. In Rocket Dreams, an extraordinarily talented young writer named Marina Benjamin will take you on a journey to those landing sites. A visit with retired astronauts at a celebrity autograph show is a starting point down the divergent paths taken by the pioneers, including Edgar Mitchell, founder of the "church" of Noëtic Sciences. Roswell, New Mexico is a landing site of a different order, the "magnetic north" of UFO belief in the United States -- a belief that began its most dramatic growth precisely at the time that the path of the space program began its descent. In the vernacular, the third law of motion states that what goes up, must come down. Thus the tremendous motive force that energized the space program didn''t just vanish; it was conserved and transformed, making bestsellers out of fantasy literature, spawning Gaia, and giving symbolism to the environmental movement. Everything from the pop cultural boom in ufology to the worldwide Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence (SETI) feeds on the energy given off by America''s leap toward space. Rocket Dreams is an eloquent tour of this Apollo-scarred landscape. It is also an introduction to some of the most fascinating characters imaginable: Some long dead, like the crackpot visionary Alfred Lawson, who saw in space flight a new stage of human evolution ("Alti-Man"), or Robert Goddard, the father of rocketry, whose workshop in Roswell stands only half a mile from shops selling posters of alien visitors. Others are very much alive -- like Stewart Brand, creator of the Whole Earth Catalog and partner with Gerard O''Neill in the drive to build free-floating space colonies, and SETI astronomer Seth Shostak, who has spent decades listening to the skies, hoping for the first contact with another intelligent species. Perceptive, original, and wonderfully written, informed by history, science, and an acute knowledge of popular culture, Rocket Dreams is a brilliant book by a remarkable talent.
Rocket Dreams: How the Space Age Shaped Our Vision of a World Beyond
AvMarina Benjamin
Häftad, Engelska, 2004
248 kr
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Last Days in Babylon
The History of a Family, the Story of a Nation
AvMarina Benjamin
E-bok
Engelska, 2006
206 kr
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Marina Benjamin grew up in London feeling estranged from her family''s exotic Middle Eastern ways. She refused to speak the Arabic her mother and grandmother spoke at home. She rejected the peculiar food they ate in favor of hamburgers and beer. But when Benjamin had her own child a few years ago, she realized that she was losing her link to the past. In Last Days in Babylon, Benjamin delves into the story of her family''s life among the Jews of Iraq in the first half of the twentieth century. When Iraq gained independence in 1932, Jews were the largest and most prosperous ethnic group in Baghdad. They dominated trade and finance, hobnobbed with Iraqi dignitaries, and lived in grandiose villas on the banks of the Tigris. Just twenty years later the community had been utterly ravaged, its members effectively expelled from the country by a hostile Iraqi government. Benjamin''s grandmother Regina Sehayek lived through it all. Born in 1905, when Baghdad was still under Ottoman control, her childhood was a virtual idyll. This privileged existence was barely touched when the British marched into Iraq. But with the rise of Arab nationalism and the first stirrings of anti-Zionism, Regina, then a young mother, began to have dark premonitions of what was to come. By the time Iraq was galvanized by war, revolution, and regicide, Regina was already gone, her hair-raising escape a tragic exodus from a land she loved -- and a permanent departure from the husband whose gentle guiding hand had made her the woman she was. Benjamin''s keen ear and fluid writing bring to life Regina''s Baghdad, both good and bad. More than a stirring story of survival, Last Days in Babylon is a bittersweet portrait of Old World Baghdad and its colorful Jewish community, whose roots predate the birth of Islam by a thousand years and whose culture did much to make Iraq the peaceful desert paradise that has since become a distant memory. In 2004 Benjamin visited Baghdad for the first time, searching for the remains of its once vital Jewish community. What she discovered will haunt anyone who seeks to understand a country that continues to command the world''s attention, just as it did when Regina Sehayek proudly walked through Baghdad''s streets. By turns moving and funny, Last Days in Babylon is an adventure story, a riveting history, and a timely reminder that behind today''s headlines are real people whose lives are caught -- too often tragically -- in the crossfire of misunderstanding, age-old prejudice, and geopolitical ambition.
Last Days in Babylon
The Story of the Jews of Baghdad
AvMarina Benjamin
Häftad, Engelska, 2008
205 kr
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Marina Benjamin grew up in London, feeling estranged from her family's Middle Eastern ways, refusing to speak Arabic or eat their food. But when Benjamin had her own child a few years ago, she realized that she was losing her link to the past, inspiring a journey to Baghdad and into her family's history. Her discoveries will haunt anyone who seeks to understand a country whose ongoing struggles continue to command the world's attention. By turns moving and funny, "Last Days in Babylon" is an adventure story, a riveting history and a timely reminder that behind today's headlines are real people whose lives are caught in the crossfire of misunderstanding, prejudice and ambition.
Last Days in Babylon
The Story of the Jews of Baghdad
AvMarina Benjamin
E-bok
Engelska, 2013
210 kr
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The fascinating story of the Iraqi Jews told through the life of the author''s grandmother''Last Days in Babylon is a marvel ... An amalgam of political commentary, history and personal memoir, it offers a poignant testimony to an obliterated people'' Sunday Times''This is a history unknown even to most Jews. Benjamin narrates it fluently and passionately'' IndependentMarina Benjamin grew up in London, feeling estranged from her family''s Middle Eastern ways, refusing to speak Arabic or eat their food. But when Benjamin had her own child a few years ago, she realised that she was losing her link to the past, inspiring a journey to Baghdad and into her family''s history.Her discoveries will haunt anyone who seeks to understand a country whose ongoing struggles continue to command the world''s attention. By turns moving and funny, Last Days in Babylon is an adventure story, a riveting history and a timely reminder that behind today''s headlines are real people whose lives are caught in the crossfire of misunderstanding, prejudice and ambition.
Last Days in Babylon
The Exile of Iraq's Jews, the Story of My Family
AvMarina Benjamin
Häftad, Engelska, 2008
286 kr
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Middlepause
on life after youth
AvMarina Benjamin
Häftad, Engelska, 2017
5,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster:(1)
113 kr
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In a society obsessed with living longer and looking younger, what does middle age mean today?Spurred by her own brutal propulsion into menopause, Marina Benjamin’s clear-eyed account of our middle years takes inspiration from literature and philosophy to weigh the challenges and opportunities of mid-life. It offers an inspired and expanded vision of how to be middle-aged happily and harmoniously, without sentiment or delusion.
Little Give
the unsung, unseen, undone work of women
AvMarina Benjamin
Inbunden, Engelska, 2023
170 kr
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Featured in Stylist’s ‘Can’t Miss’ Books of 2023Sometimes I think that carrying — other people, the continuity of history, generational identity, the emotional load of the everyday — is the main thing that women do.In Marina Benjamin’s new set of interlinked essays, she turns her astute eye to the tasks once termed ‘women’s work’. From cooking and cleaning to caring for an ageing relative, A Little Give depicts domestic life anew: as a site of paradox and conflict, but also of solace and profound meaning. Here, productivity sits alongside self-erasure, resentment with tenderness, and the animal self is never far away, perpetually threatening to break through.Drawing on the work of figures such as Natalia Ginzburg, Paula Rego, and Virginia Woolf, Benjamin writes with fierce candour of the struggle to overwrite the gender conditioning that pulls her back into ‘the mud-world of pre-feminism’ even as she attempts to haul herself out. From her upbringing as the child of immigrants with fixed traditional values, to looking after her mother and seeing her teenager move out of home, she examines her relationships with family, community, her body, even language itself. Ultimately, she shows that a woman’s true work may lie at the heart of her humanity, in the pursuit both of transformation and of deep acceptance.
Little Give
the unsung, unseen, undone work of women
AvMarina Benjamin
E-bok
Engelska, 2023
224 kr
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Featured in Stylist’s ‘Can’t Miss’ Books of 2023
Sometimes I think that carrying — other people, the continuity of history, generational identity, the emotional load of the everyday — is the main thing that women do.
In Marina Benjamin’s new set of interlinked essays, she turns her astute eye to the tasks once termed ‘women’s work’. From cooking and cleaning to caring for an ageing relative, A Little Give depicts domestic life anew: as a site of paradox and conflict, but also of solace and profound meaning. Here, productivity sits alongside self-erasure, resentment with tenderness, and the animal self is never far away, perpetually threatening to break through.
Drawing on the work of figures such as Natalia Ginzburg, Paula Rego, and Virginia Woolf, Benjamin writes with fierce candour of the struggle to overwrite the gender conditioning that pulls her back into ‘the mud-world of pre-feminism’ even as she attempts to haul herself out. From her upbringing as the child of immigrants with fixed traditional values, to looking after her mother and seeing her teenager move out of home, she examines her relationships with with family, community, her body, even language itself. Ultimately, she shows that a woman’s true work may lie at the heart of her humanity, in the pursuit both of transformation and of deep acceptance.
Middlepause
on turning fifty
AvMarina Benjamin
E-bok
Engelska, 2016
232 kr
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In a society obsessed with living longer and looking younger, what does middle age nowadays mean? How should a fifty-something be in a world ceaselessly redefining ageing, youth, and experience?
The Middlepause offers hope, and heart. Cutting through society’s clamorous demands to work longer and stay young, it delivers a clear-eyed account of midlife’s challenges. Spurred by her own brutal propulsion into menopause, Marina Benjamin weighs the losses, joys and opportunities of our middle years, taking inspiration from literature and philosophical example. She uncovers the secret misogynistic history of HRT, and tells us why a dose of Jung is better than a trip to the gym. Attending to ageing parents, the shock of bereavement, parenting a teenager, and her own health woes, she emerges into a new definition of herself as daughter, mother, citizen and woman.
Marina Benjamin suggests there’s comfort and guidance in memory, milestones and margins, and offers an inspired and expanded vision of how to be middle-aged happily and harmoniously, without sentiment or delusion, making The Middlepause a companion, and a friend.
PRAISE FOR MARINA BENJAMIN
‘Lucid and sophisticated … A restrained but wonderful guide to the convulsive changes of 50 and over … This is a book that yields valuable insights on almost every page.’ The Guardian
‘Benjamin has conjured something philosophically poised and poetic from an unlikely subject, as much about the sanctuary of place and coming to terms with time, seasons and life’s cycles, and all rendered with clarity and calm.’ The Saturday Age
Middlepause
On Life After Youth
AvMarina Benjamin
Häftad, Engelska, 2017
222 kr
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A Little Give: The Unsung, Unseen, Undone Work of Women
AvMarina Benjamin
Häftad, Engelska, 2023
239 kr
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Zwischenzeiten. Vom Erleben der mittleren Jahre
Vom Verstehen der Wechseljahre
AvMarina Benjamin
E-bok
Tyska, 2020
219 kr
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Marina Benjamin erzählt von den mittleren Jahren einer Frau – ganz persönlich, kulturhistorisch versiert und kunstvoll literarisch. Ausgangspunkt ihres Schreibens ist ihr eigener Körper, den sie Stück für Stück vermisst, um so die seelischen, körperlichen, sozialen und familiären Umwälzungen zu erfassen, die es mit sich bringt, wenn man aus den Rhythmen und Rollen heraustritt, die das Leben zuvor bestimmt haben. Sie berichtet von Einschnitten und Verlusten, zeigt aber auch, wie es gelingen kann, das Gleichgewicht wiederzugewinnen. Dieses Buch erklärt endlich vollkommen aufrichtig, was es als Frau bedeutet, in die mittleren Jahre zu kommen, und ist ein zutiefst erhellender Begleiter.
Zwischenzeiten. Vom Verstehen der Wechseljahre
AvMarina Benjamin
Inbunden, Tyska, 2020
281 kr
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Insomnia
AvMarina Benjamin
Häftad, Vietnamesiska
890 kr
Skickas inom 3-6 vardagar
Mellantid
AvMarina Benjamin
E-bok
Svenska, 2018
169 kr
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Boken Mellantid är en ögonöppnare. Brittiska journalisten och författaren Marina Benjamin skriver där avväpnande, lättsamt och idéhistoriskt berikande om klimakteriet.

Maria Domellöf-Wik, Göteborgs-Posten

Det här är en bok för alla som vill spy på självhjälpsböcker med käcka tillrop om att livet börjar vid femtio. Den ser på åldrandet med klarsyn och inte utan sorg, men med en stark vilja att utforska alla aspekter av det. Vad händer med förhållandet till en ännu äldre mor? Vad händer när en dotter börjar bli vuxen? Bland vännerna, som blir ännu viktigare, utspelar sig en tragedi. En av dem drabbas av en aggressiv cancer och går bort, dryga femtio år fyllda. Jämfört med henne har författaren ändå en framtid, vilket drabbar henne med starka känslor av skuld.

Mellantid är indelad i kapitel med rubriker som Hud, Ryggrad, Muskler och Inälvor, men det är en bok som når så mycket längre än att beskriva det kroppsliga åldrandet. Det är en bok om livet. Om den del vi helst inte pratar om.

Boken Mellantid är en ögonöppnare. Brittiska journalisten och författaren Marina Benjamin skriver där avväpnande, lättsamt och idéhistoriskt berikande om klimakteriet.

Maria Domellöf-Wik, Göteborgs-Posten

Marina Benjamin har skrivit om [klimakteriet] i en personlig, bildad och skarp essä om ämnet, där hon utgår från medicinhistoria, psykologi – och sin egen svarta humor.

Gunilla Kindstrand, SvD

Störst tröst och mest visdom finner jag i nyutkomna boken ”Mellantid”, en idéhistorisk, filosofisk och personlig bok om övergångsåldern, där den brittiska författaren Marina Benjamin brottas med en kultur som uppmanar kvinnor att dölja och förneka åldrandet.

Åsa Sandell, Sydsvenskan

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Marina Benjamin – författare

Insomnia

Mellantid : om att fylla 50

Rocket Dreams

Rocket Dreams: How the Space Age Shaped Our Vision of a World Beyond

Last Days in Babylon

Last Days in Babylon

Last Days in Babylon

Last Days in Babylon

Middlepause

Little Give

Little Give

Middlepause

Middlepause

A Little Give: The Unsung, Unseen, Undone Work of Women

Zwischenzeiten. Vom Erleben der mittleren Jahre

Zwischenzeiten. Vom Verstehen der Wechseljahre

Insomnia

Mellantid

Mina sidor

Mina sidor

Hjälp

Hjälp

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Om Bokus

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