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182 produkter
Fortune's Formula
The Untold Story of the Scientific Betting System That Beat the Casinos and Wall Street (Expanded 20th Anniversary Edition)
Häftad, 2025
5,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
239 kr
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In 1956 two Bell Labs scientists discovered the scientific formula for getting rich. One was mathematician Claude Shannon, neurotic father of our digital age, whose genius is ranked with Einstein's. The other was John L. Kelly Jr., a Texas-born, gun-toting physicist. Together they applied the …
Alphabetical Diaries
Av Sheila Heti
Häftad, 2025
258 kr
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Named a Recommended Read of the Year by The New Yorker and a New York Times Critics Top Book of the Year One of The Los Angeles Times 's 15 Best Books of the Year One of The New Statesman 's 20 Best Books of the Year An Electric Literature and Literary Hub Best Nonfiction Book of the Year A …
Judaism Is About Love
Recovering the Heart of Jewish Life
Av Shai Held
Häftad, 2025
249 kr
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In the face of centuries of this widespread misrepresentation, Rabbi Shai Held - one of the most important Jewish thinkers in America today - recovers the heart of the Jewish tradition, offering the radical and moving argument that love belongs as much to Judaism as it does to Christianity. …
Lucy
A Novel
Häftad, 2025
266 kr
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A portrait of an indelible young woman, Kincaids second novel is vivid, true and necessary ( Los Angeles Times ). Lucy, a teenage girl from the West Indies, comes to North America to work as an au pair for Lewis and Mariah and their four children. Lewis and Mariah are a thrice-blessed …
Fordlandia
The Rise and Fall of Henry Ford's Forgotten Jungle City
Av Greg Grandin, Riva Hocherman
Häftad, 2010
254 kr
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From Pulitzer Prize-winning author Greg Grandin comes the stunning, never before told story of the quixotic attempt to recreate small-town America in the heart of the Amazon In 1927, Henry Ford, the richest man in the world, bought a tract of land twice the size of Delaware in the Brazilian Amazon. …
Enshittification
Why Everything Suddenly Got Worse and What to Do About It
Häftad, 2026
219 kr
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Enshittification: It's not just you- the internet sucks now. It's been enshittified . That was no accident, and it's not gonna fix itself. Here's how we'll disenshittify it so we can have a new, good internet. We are all living through the Enshittocene-the Great Enshittening-a time in which the …
The Ultimate Hidden Truth of the World . . .
Essays
Av David Graeber, Nika Dubrovsky
Häftad, 2025
239 kr
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Drawn from more than two decades of pathbreaking writing, the iconic and bestselling David Graeber's most important essays and interviews. "The ultimate hidden truth of the world is that it is something that we make, and could just as easily make differently," wrote David Graeber. A renowned …
Small Place
Häftad, 2025
176 kr
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A brilliant look at colonialism and its effects in Antigua, by the author of Annie John. Lyrical, sardonic, and forthright, A Small Place magnifies our vision of one small place with Swiftian wit and precision. Jamaica Kincaids expansive essay candidly appraises the ten-by-twelve-mile island in …
Right-Wing Women
Häftad, 2025
219 kr
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Andrea Dworkin wrote Right-Wing Women in 1983 - a crucial and deeply illuminating analysis of the right's position on abortion, homosexuality, antisemitism, female poverty, and antifeminism. Forty years later, the book feels more vibrant, clear-eyed, and visionary than ever, especially as these …
Woman Hating
Häftad, 2025
229 kr
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A classic work in the canon of radical feminist thinking, Andrea Dworkin's 1974 debut Woman Hating is a stunning exploration of how women, and the idea of women, have been treated through the centuries. From fairy tales to erotic novels to medieval witch burnings, Dworkin uncovers the ways in which …
Family Papers
A Sephardic Journey Through the Twentieth Century
Häftad, 2021
174 kr
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For centuries, the bustling port city of Salonica was home to the sprawling Levy family. As leading publishers and editors, they helped chronicle modernity as it was experienced by Sephardic Jews across the Ottoman Empire. The wars of the twentieth century, however, redrew the borders around them, …
The Lexus and the Olive Tree
Understanding Globalization
Häftad, 2012
4,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
392 kr
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Alec
A Novel
Häftad, 2022
5,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
277 kr
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William di Canzio’s Alec, inspired by Maurice, E. M. Forster’s secret novel of a happy same-sex love affair, tells the story of Alec Scudder, the gamekeeper Maurice Hall falls in love with in Forster’s classic, published only after the author's death.Di Canzio follows their story past the end of …
Babi Yar
A Document in the Form of a Novel; New, Complete, Uncensored Version
Av Anatoly Kuznetsov, A. Anatoli
Häftad, 2023
251 kr
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An internationally acclaimed documentary novel that describes one of the largest single mass executions of the Holocaust from an author who witnessed it.
Etty Hillesum
Häftad, 1996
289 kr
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For the first time, Etty Hillesum's diary and letters appear together to give us the fullest possible portrait of this extraordinary woman in the midst of World War II. In the darkest years of Nazi occupation and genocide, Etty Hillesum remained a celebrant of life whose lucid intelligence, …
Bright-sided
How Positive Thinking Is Undermining America
Häftad, 2010
214 kr
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A sharp-witted knockdown of America's love affair with positive thinking and an urgent call for a new commitment to realism.
Ignorance and Bliss
On Wanting Not to Know
Av Mark Lilla
Häftad, 2025
249 kr
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"A wise and wonderfully enjoyable book. Mark Lilla treats weighty matters with a light touch, in an elegant prose style that crackles with dry wit . . . Invigorating." John Banville, The Guardian A dazzling exploration of our wish to remain innocent and ignorantand its consequences. Aristotle …
Pornography
Men Possessing Women
Häftad, 2025
5,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
251 kr
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Andrea Dworkin's seminal 1981 work on the issue of pornography argues that the industry serves only to harm and oppress women. Her discussion of pornography as an outgrowth of the power that men exert over women - the power of owning, the power of money, and the power of sex, among others - still …
Brother Brontë
A Novel
Häftad, 2026
215 kr
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The year is 2038, and the formerly bustling town of Three Rivers, Texas, is a surreal wasteland. Under the authoritarian thumb of its tech industrialist mayor, Pablo Henry Crick, the town has outlawed reading and forced most of its mothers to work as indentured laborers at the Big Tex Fish Cannery, …
Coming Plague
Newly Emerging Diseases in a World Out of Balance
Häftad, 2020
280 kr
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A New York Times bestseller The definitive account of the infectious diseases threatening humanity by Pulitzer Prize –winning investigative journalist Laurie Garrett "Prodigiously researched . . . A frightening vision of the future and a deeply unsettling one." —Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times …
Flashlight
A Novel
Av Susan Choi
Häftad, 2026
287 kr
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A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: The New Yorker * Time * New York * The Washington Post * NPR * Los Angeles Times * The Boston Globe * The Guardian * Vanity Fair * Elle * Town & Country * Oprah Daily * The New York Post * 48 Hills * Financial Times * The Economist * Esquire (UK) * Kirkus Reviews * Electric …
The Bonfire of the Vanities
A Novel
Av Tom Wolfe
Häftad, 2025
348 kr
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Reissued for today’s reader with a cover by the renowned artist Seymour Chwast and an introduction by the critically acclaimed author Taffy Brodesser-Akner, The Bonfire of the Vanities is vintage Tom Wolfe at his best. “No one has portrayed New York Society this accurately and devastatingly since …
Revenge
Eleven Dark Tales
Av Yoko Ogawa
Häftad, 2025
268 kr
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"It's not just Murakami but also the shadow of Borges that hovers over this mesmerizing book [and] one may detect a slight bow to the American macabre of E.A. Poe. Ogawa stands on the shoulders of giants, as another saying goes. But this collection may linger in your mind it does in mine as a …
Defying Hitler
A Memoir
Häftad, 2026
254 kr
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Written in 1939 and unpublished until 2000, Sebastian Haffner’s memoir of the rise of Nazism in Germany offers a unique portrait of the lives of German citizens between the wars. Covering the period between 1907 and 1933, his eyewitness account describes a country in constant flux, where civilians …
The Diving Pool
Three Novellas
Av Yoko Ogawa
Häftad, 2025
277 kr
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The first major English translation of one of contemporary Japan’s bestselling and most celebrated authors. From Akutagawa Prize–winning author Yoko Ogawa comes a trio of novellas about love, motherhood, fertility, obsession, and how even the most innocent gestures contain a hairline crack of cruel …
Parade
A Novel
Av Rachel Cusk
Häftad, 2025
268 kr
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Winner of the Goldsmiths Prize Named a Best Book of the Year (So Far) by The New Yorker and Vulture From Rachel Cusk, author of the Outline trilogy, comes this startling, exhilarating novel that once again expands the notion of what fiction can be and do. Midway through his life, the artist G …
