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17 produkter
Haunted Wood
A History of Childhood Reading
Av Sam Leith
Häftad, 2025
169 kr
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The Sunday Times Non-Fiction Book of the Year 2025A Sunday Times, Irish Times, Financial Times, Independent, Daily Mail, TLS, Economist, Prospect, Evening Standard and New Statesman Book of the Year 2024'A MARVEL' PHILIP PULLMANThe stories we read as children matter a great deal. The best ones are …
Coincidence Engine
Av Sam Leith
E-bok, 2012
110 kr
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“A tremendous novel—droll, savvy, original. An invigorating blast of fiction.” —William Boyd , Author of Any Human Heart and Restless .” A hurricane sweeps off the Gulf of Mexico and, in the back country of Alabama, assembles a passenger jet out of old bean cans and junkyard waste. This piques the …
Lord Berners
The Last Eccentric
Av Sam Leith
Häftad, 2008
275 kr
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Here lies Lord Berners/One of life's learners,Thanks be to the Lord/He was never bored.So reads the epitaph on the gravestone of Lord Berners. In its witty way, it hints at his range of accomplishment. He was a composer (admired by Stravinsky), writer, painter, aesthete and eccentric, indeed in …
Lord Berners
The Last Eccentric
Av Sam Leith
E-bok, 2012
182 kr
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Here lies Lord Berners/One of life's learners,Thanks be to the Lord/He was never bored.So reads the epitaph on the gravestone of Lord Berners. In its witty way, it hints at his range of accomplishment. He was a composer (admired by Stravinsky), writer, painter, aesthete and eccentric, indeed in …
Haunted Wood
A History of Childhood Reading
Av Sam Leith
E-bok, 2024
266 kr
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The Sunday Times Non-Fiction Book of the Year 2025A Sunday Times, Irish Times, Financial Times, Independent, Daily Mail, TLS, Economist, Prospect, Evening Standard and New Statesman Book of the Year 2024'A MARVEL' PHILIP PULLMANThe stories we read as children matter a great deal. The best ones are …
Coincidence Engine
Av Sam Leith
E-bok, 2011
113 kr
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Shortlisted for the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for Comic Fiction ''A tremendous novel - droll, savvy, original. An invigorating blast of fiction'' William Boyd ''A superbly entertaining brain-twister'' The Times A hurricane sweeps off the Gulf of Mexico and in the back-country of Alabama, …
Our Times in Rhymes
Being a Prosodical Chronicle of Our Damnable Age
Av Sam Leith
E-bok, 2019
102 kr
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A parliament of fools, or a confederacy of dunces? Blethering celebrities and blundering politicians, royal babies and right royal cock-ups, milkshake madness and vegan sausage rolls - and, of course, the long and winding road to Brexit. If ever the times were ripe for a return to the high days of …
Our Times in Rhymes
Being a Prosodical Chronicle of Our Damnable Age
Av Sam Leith
Inbunden, 2019
139 kr
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A parliament of fools, or a confederacy of dunces? Blethering celebrities and blundering politicians, royal babies and right royal cock-ups, milkshake madness and vegan sausage rolls - and, of course, the long and winding road to Brexit. If ever the times were ripe for a return to the high days of …
Words Like Loaded Pistols: The Power of Rhetoric from the Iron Age to the Information Age
Av Sam Leith
Häftad, 2023
251 kr
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Write to the Point
How to be Clear, Correct and Persuasive on the Page
Av Sam Leith
Häftad, 2018
127 kr
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Writing tends to make people anxious, and with good reason. The first sentence of a job application letter can consign it to the bin. A speech intended to rouse can put a room to sleep. A mistimed tweet can cost you your job. And a letter to a beloved may aim to convey feelings of tenderness but …
Write to the Point
How to be Clear, Correct and Persuasive on the Page
Av Sam Leith
E-bok, 2017
125 kr
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Writing tends to make people anxious, and with good reason. The first sentence of a job application letter can consign it to the bin. A speech intended to rouse can put a room to sleep. A mistimed tweet can cost you your job. And a letter to a beloved may aim to convey feelings of tenderness but …
You Talkin' To Me?
Rhetoric from Aristotle to Trump and Beyond ...
Av Sam Leith
Häftad, 2019
149 kr
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Rhetoric gives our words the power to inspire. But it's not just for politicians: it's all around us, whether you're buttering up a key client or persuading your children to eat their greens. You have been using rhetoric yourself, all your life. After all, you know what a rhetorical question is, …
You Talkin' To Me?
Rhetoric from Aristotle to Obama
Av Sam Leith
E-bok, 2011
118 kr
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Rhetoric gives our words the power to inspire. But it''s not just for politicians: it''s all around us, whether you''re buttering up a key client or persuading your children to eat their greens. You have been using rhetoric yourself, all your life. After all, you know what a rhetorical question is, …
Haunted Wood
A History of Childhood Reading
Av Sam Leith
Inbunden, 2024
375 kr
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The Sunday Times Non-Fiction Book of the Year 2025A Sunday Times, Irish Times, Financial Times, Independent, Daily Mail, TLS, Economist, Prospect, Evening Standard and New Statesman Book of the Year 2024*The perfect Christmas gift for booklovers*'A MARVEL' PHILIP PULLMANThe stories we read as …
Coincidence Engine
Av Sam Leith
Häftad, 2012
110 kr
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Shortlisted for the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for Comic Fiction‘A tremendous novel - droll, savvy, original. An invigorating blast of fiction' William Boyd‘A superbly entertaining brain-twister' The TimesA hurricane sweeps off the Gulf of Mexico and in the back-country of Alabama, …
Sod's Law
Why Life Always Lands Butter Side Down
Av Sam Leith
Häftad, 2009
108 kr
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To every explorer with his map upside down, to every air-traffic controller suddenly receiving Magic FM through his headphones, to every astronomer whose new planet turns out to be a bit of bran-flake on the eyepiece of his telescope, Sod's Law says: you are not alone. Sam Leith tells the hilarious …
