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World War Z
An Oral History of the Zombie War
Av Max Brooks
Häftad, 2019
149 kr
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It began with rumours from China about another pandemic. Then the cases started to multiply and what had looked like the stirrings of a criminal underclass, even the beginning of a revolution, soon revealed itself to be much, much worse.Faced with a future of mindless man-eating horror, humanity …
Things We Didn't Talk About When I Was a Girl
Häftad, 2019
126 kr
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Why would a good person commit a terrible act?Fifteen years ago, Jeannie’s relationship with a close friend ended in rape. With the rise of the #MeToo movement, recurring nightmares of the event that plagued her as a girl have returned. To process her conflicted feelings of betrayal and take back …
How Not to be a Doctor
And Other Essays
Av John Launer
Häftad, 2019
122 kr
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The essential book on how not to be a doctor - and how to be a better one.Drawn from his popular medical columns over the years, John Launer shares fifty of his best-loved essays, covering topics from essentials skills they don’t teach you in medical school to his poignant account of being a …
Gravity
Why What Goes up Must Come Down
Av Brian Clegg
Häftad, 2013
132 kr
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How did we come to understand the force that binds the universe together? In Gravity, Brian Clegg offers a succinct history of gravity from the perspectives of great thinkers including Aristotle, Galileo, Newton, Einstein and today’s leading scientists. He explores theories of general relativity, …
Black Girl from Pyongyang
In Search of My Identity
Häftad, 2024
5,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
131 kr
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The extraordinary true story of a West African girl’s upbringing in North Korea under the guardianship of President Kim Il Sung.In 1979, aged only seven, Monica Macias was sent from West Africa to the unfamiliar surroundings of North Korea by her father, the President of Equatorial Guinea, to be …
Through Two Doors at Once
The Enigmatic Story of our Quantum Reality
Häftad, 2023
119 kr
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The clearest, most accessible explanation yet of the amazing world of quantum mechanics.How can matter behave both like a particle and a wave? Does a particle exist before we look at it or does the very act of looking bring it into reality? Is there a place where the quantum world ends and our …
Why Won't You Apologize?
Healing Big Betrayals and Everyday Hurts
Häftad, 2018
3,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
138 kr
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With her trademark wit, Harriet Lerner offers a joyful and sanity-saving guide to setting things right.Renowned psychologist and bestselling author of The Dance of Anger sheds new light on the two most important words in the English language, "I'm sorry," and offers a unique perspective on the …
My Life in France
The life story of Julia Child - 'exuberant, affectionate and boundlessly charming' New York Times
Av Julia Child
Häftad, 2022
131 kr
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When Julia Child arrived in Paris in 1948, ‘a six-foot-two-inch, thirty-six-year-old, rather loud and unserious Californian’, she barely spoke a word of French and didn’t know the first thing about cooking.As she fell in love with French culture - buying food at local markets, sampling the local …
Georgia in the Mountains of Poetry
Häftad, 2019
157 kr
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Peter Nasmyth has lived in and travelled extensively throughout Georgia for the last 32 years. Georgia in the Mountains of Poetry is his fascinating account of this historically rich and drama loving country, based on his travels and hundreds of wide-ranging interviews. Reprinted numerous times, it …
Spirit Engineer
Winner of the HWA Debut Crown Award
Av A. J. West
Häftad, 2022
127 kr
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WINNER OF THE HWA DEBUT CROWN AWARD‘A fiendishly clever tale of ambition, deception, and power’ DERREN BROWNBelfast, 1914. Two years after the sinking of the Titanic, high society has become obsessed with spiritualism, attending séances in the hope they might reach their departed loved ones.William …
Divided Mind
The Epidemic of Mindbody Disorders
Häftad, 2024
180 kr
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In his groundbreaking, perennially popular book that helped change the way we think about our health - now repackaged for a new generation of readers - Dr Sarno offers a guide to the range of psychosomatic (mindbody) disorders, which can include chronic pain, carpal tunnel, sexual dysfunction, IBS …
Fall of Civilizations
Stories of Greatness and Decline
Av Paul Cooper
Inbunden, 2024
288 kr
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THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER'You need to read this book' Cal Flyn, author of Islands of Abandonment'Cooper is a phenomenon' Max Hastings, Sunday Times**Based on the hit podcast with over 200 million streams**The world is full of ruins. From the Colosseum of Rome to the crumbling suburbs of Detroit, …
Closure Limited
And Other Zombie Tales
Av Max Brooks
Häftad, 2012
84 kr
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Written in his trademark style, these tales combine horror, drama, and socio-political commentary to explore the aftermath of the zombie apocalypse. Stories range from a company staffed by human survivors, offering gory revenge on their former zombie attackers, to a vampire who realises too late …
London Underground
50 Things To See and Do
Häftad, 2026
145 kr
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Experience the Tube like never before and discover the top 50 unusual things to do and see on the London Underground.Explore the rarest routes, take historic rides, visit abandoned stations, uncover secret shortcuts, discover letter-based odysseys and embark on unique Tube challenges with this …
On Thin Ice
A Radio 4 Book of the Week: An Explorer's Memoir of Siberia, Surveillance and Survival
Häftad, 2026
210 kr
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'This almost insanely intrepid and dangerous trek in remotest Siberia is astonishing in itself. But it also brings invaluable experience of Russian reactions to the war against Ukraine. Altogether extraordinary' Colin Thubron, author of The Amur RiverIn early 2022, Charlie Walker set out to hike …
Viva La Madness
Häftad, 2020
150 kr
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Hiding out in the Caribbean until the heat dies down from his last job, X is thinking it’s time to ditch the resort life and calls up his old friend Morty to plot his return to London.But he’s hardly stepped off the plane when his associates, Sonny King and Roy ‘Twitchy’ Burns, get on the wrong …
Man Who Wasn't There
Tales from the Edge of the Self
Häftad, 2020
123 kr
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Reveals the mind boggling neuroscience connecting brain, body, mind, and society, by examining a range of brain disorders, in the tradition of Oliver Sacks.Identifying what makes up the nature of the human mind has long been neuroscience's greatest challenge - a mystery perhaps never to be fully …
Twenty Something
The Quarter-life Crisis of Jack Lancaster
Häftad, 2006
139 kr
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'Twenty Something' introduces us to Jack Lancaster, who, at only 25 is far too young to be having a mid-life crisis, but who's going to have a pretty good shot at it anyway.
Twenty Something
The Quarter-life Crisis of Jack Lancaster
Häftad, 2007
114 kr
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'Twenty Something' introduces us to Jack Lancaster, who, at only 25 is far too young to be having a mid-life crisis, but who's going to have a pretty good shot at it anyway.
Beta Male
Häftad, 2012
114 kr
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Sam Hunt is a confused modern male in his very late twenties. A work-shy, commitment-phobic would-be actor, he is beginning to worry that turning thirty might just be the last straw. Flatmate Alan, the sensible one, has just been proposed to by his girlfriend Jess, with his femme fatale boss …
Dardanelles Disaster
Winston Churchill's Greatest Failure
Häftad, 2010
135 kr
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The British Navy's failed attempt to capture Constantinople and secure a sea route to Russia in 1915 marked a turning point of World War I. Acclaimed naval military historian Dan van der Vat argues that the disaster at the Dardanelles not only prolonged the war for two years and brought Britain to …
Revolution in Mind
The Creation of Psychoanalysis
Häftad, 2010
5,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
174 kr
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How did Freudian Theory come together as a body of ideas, and how did these ideas attract followers who spread this model of mind throughout the West? Makari contextualises Freud's early psychological work amid the great changes occurring in late-nineteenth-century European science, philosophy, and …
Young Michelangelo
Inbunden, 2011
233 kr
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This is a long-awaited and authoritative reinterpretation of the early life and career of arguably the greatest artist in history. Author John T. Spike surveys Michelangelo's early life from birth to his early thirties, probing the thinking, artistic evolution and yearnings of a young man …
Eat, Pray Love in Rome
Häftad, 2011
113 kr
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Experience the Rome that changed and inspired Elizabeth Gilbert to write the international bestseller Eat, Pray, Love. When Luca Spaghetti (yes, that's really his name) was asked to show Elizabeth around Rome he had no idea how his life was about to change. She embraced his Roman zest for life and …
Effie
The Passionate Lives of Effie Gray, John Ruskin and John Everett Millais
Häftad, 2012
138 kr
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The scandalous love triangle at the heart of the Victorian art world. Effie Gray, a Scottish beauty, was the heroine of a great Victorian love story. Married at nineteen to John Ruskin, she found herself trapped in a loveless and unconsummated union. When her husband invited his protégé John …
Dead Men
Häftad, 2012
120 kr
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'Fascinating.' TelegraphBirdie Bowers is a woman with a dead man's name. Her parents had been fascinated by Henry 'Birdie' Bowers, one of Captain Scott's companions on his ill-fated polar expedition. A hundred years after the death of Bowers and Scott, she sets out to discover what really happened …
Harlem Hellfighters
The extraordinary story of the legendary black regiment of World War I
Av Max Brooks
Häftad, 2015
167 kr
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A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER In 1919, the 369th infantry regiment - the Harlem Hellfighters as the Germans called them - marched home triumphantly from World War I. They had spent more time in combat than any other American unit, never losing a foot of ground to the enemy and winning countless …
Going Solo
The Extraordinary Rise and Surprising Appeal of Living Alone
Häftad, 2013
147 kr
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In 1950, only 22% of adults were single. Today, more than 50% of adults are. Though conventional wisdom tells us that living by oneself leads to loneliness and isolation, most solo dwellers - compared with their married counterparts - are more likely to eat out and exercise, sign up for art and …
Black Venus
Häftad, 2014
176 kr
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In nineteenth century Paris, the young bohemian Charles Baudelaire roams the streets. Dressed impeccably - thanks to an inheritance that is quickly vanishing - and lost in the decadences of alcohol and opium, he is about to meet one woman destined to change his life forever: the beautiful Haitian …
Sleep in Peace Tonight
Häftad, 2016
124 kr
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January, 1941. The Blitz is devastating England. Food supplies are low and tube stations have become bomb shelters. As the U.S. maintains its sceptical isolationist position, Winston Churchill knows that Britain is doomed without the aid of its powerful ally.As bombs rain down over London, a weary …
