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The Other Bennet Sister
A Novel
Av Janice Hadlow, Serena Jones
Häftad, 2021
299 kr
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A NPR CONCIERGE BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR "Jane fans rejoice! . . . Exceptional storytelling and a true delight." Helen Simonson, author of the New York Times bestselling novels Major Pettigrew's Last Stand and The Summer Before the War Mary, the bookish ugly duckling of Pride and Prejudice s five …
Dawn of Everything
A New History of Humanity
Av David Graeber, David Wengrow
Häftad, 2023
289 kr
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INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A dramatically new understanding of human history, challenging our most fundamental assumptions about social evolution—from the development of agriculture and cities to the origins of the state, democracy, and inequality—and revealing new possibilities for human …
Black Wave
Saudi Arabia, Iran, and the Forty-year Rivalry That Unraveled Culture, Religion, and Collective Memory in the Middle East
Av Kim Ghattas
Häftad, 2021
249 kr
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A New York Times Notable Book of 2020 [A] sweeping and authoritative history" ( The New York Times Book Review ), Black Wave is an unprecedented and ambitious examination of how the modern Middle East unraveled and why it started with the pivotal year of 1979. Kim Ghattas seamlessly weaves …
The Anatomy of Genres
How Story Forms Explain the Way the World Works
Av John Truby
Häftad, 2022
5,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
233 kr
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A guide to understanding the major genres of the story world by the legendary writing teacher and author of The Anatomy of Story , John Truby. Most people think genres are simply categories on Netflix or Amazon that provide a helpful guide to making entertainment choices. Most people are wrong. …
Fall of Heaven
The Pahlavis and the Final Days of Imperial Iran
Häftad, 2018
5,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (2)
336 kr
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An immersive, gripping account of the rise and fall of Iran's glamorous Pahlavi dynasty, written with the cooperation of the late Shah's widow, Empress Farah, Iranian revolutionaries and US officials from the Carter administration. In this remarkably human portrait of one of the twentieth century's …
Last Summer in the City
A Novel
Häftad, 2022
219 kr
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The first novel from award-winning author Gianfranco Calligarich to be published in English, Last Summer in the City is a witty and despairing classic of Italian literature. Biting, tragic, and endlessly quotable, this translated edition features an introductory appreciation from longtime fan New …
Walkable City
How Downtown Can Save America, One Step at a Time (Tenth Anniversary Edition)
Av Jeff Speck
Häftad, 2022
236 kr
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TENTH ANNIVERSARY EDITION WINNER OF THE GREEN PRIZE FOR SUSTAINABLE LITERATURE Updated with 100+ pages of new material and a foreword by Janette Sadik-Khan The bestselling urban planning book of the past decade, translated into seven languages, Walkable City has changed the conversation on …
The Shock Doctrine
The Rise of Disaster Capitalism
Av Naomi Klein
Häftad, 2008
4,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (4)
269 kr
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The bestselling author of No Logo shows how the global "free market" has exploited crises and shock for three decades, from Chile to Iraq In her groundbreaking reporting, Naomi Klein introduced the term "disaster capitalism." Whether covering Baghdad after the U.S. occupation, Sri Lanka in the wake …
Homicide
A Year on the Killing Streets
Av David Simon, Riva Hocherman
Häftad, 2006
331 kr
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Solid Ivory
Memoirs
Häftad, 2022
232 kr
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The irreverent, brilliant memoirs of the legendary filmmaker James Ivory In Solid Ivory , a carefully crafted mosaic of memories, portraits, and reflections, the Academy Award–winning filmmaker James Ivory, a partner in the legendary Merchant Ivory Productions and the director of A Room with a View …
I Want to Keep Smashing Myself Until I Am Whole
An Elias Canetti Reader
Av Elias Canetti, Joshua Cohen
Häftad, 2022
297 kr
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A career-spanning collection of writings by the Nobel laureate Elias Canetti, edited and introduced by Pulitzer Prize winner Joshua Cohen. He embarked on no adventures, he was in no war. He was never in prison, he never killed anyone. He neither won nor lost a fortune. All he ever did was live in …
Housekeeping
A Novel (Fortieth Anniversary Edition)
Häftad, 2020
277 kr
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" In the plain-spokenness of its language, the grace and dignity of its characters, the simplicity of its story and its intimations of spiritual transcendence, Housekeeping is a book that transformed how I see my place in the world." - David Marchese, The New York Times Magazine Winner of the …
Among Flowers
A Walk in the Himalaya
Häftad, 2020
5,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
221 kr
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In this travel memoir, the acclaimed novelist Jamaica Kincaid chronicles a three-week trek through Nepal, the spectacular and exotic Himalayan land, where she and her companions are gathering seeds for planting at home. The natural world and, in particular, plants and gardening are central to …
Ransomware Hunting Team
A Band of Misfits' Improbable Crusade to Save the World from Cybercrime
Av Renee Dudley, Daniel Golden
Häftad, 2023
274 kr
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Scattered across the world, an elite team of code crackers is working tirelessly to thwart the defining cyber scourge of our time. You’ve probably never heard of them. But if you work for a school, a business, a hospital, or a municipal government, or simply cherish your digital data, you may be …
City of Saints and Madmen
A Novel
Häftad, 2022
288 kr
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From Jeff VanderMeer, the author of Borne and Annihilation , comes the paperback reissue of his cult classic City of Saints and Madmen . In this reinvention of the literature of the fantastic, you hold in your hands an invitation to a place unlike any youve ever visitedan invitation delivered by …
Unwritten Book
An Investigation
Häftad, 2023
251 kr
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One of our most interesting and bold writers . . . [offers] a characteristically wild effort that defies genre distinctions, flits from the profound to the mundane with fierce intelligence and searching restlessness, and at its best, delves deep into the recesses of the human heart with courageous …
The Graves Are Walking
The Great Famine and the Saga of the Irish People
Av John Kelly
Häftad, 2013
293 kr
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The Facemaker
A Visionary Surgeon's Battle to Mend the Disfigured Soldiers of World War I
Häftad, 2023
232 kr
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A New York Times Bestseller Enthralling. Harrowing. Heartbreaking. And utterly redemptive. Lindsey Fitzharris hit this one out of the park. Erik Larson, author of The Splendid and the Vile Lindsey Fitzharris, the award-winning author of The Butchering Art , presents the compelling, true story of …
Wolf in White Van
Häftad, 2015
296 kr
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From his small apartment in southern California, he orchestrates fantastic adventures where possibilities, both dark and bright, open in the boundaries between the real and the imagined. As the creator of "Trace Italian" a text-based, role-playing game that's played through the mail. Sean guides …
Mr. Potter
A Novel
Häftad, 2024
227 kr
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The “revelatory” ( The New York Review of Books ) story of an ordinary man, his century, and his home. Jamaica Kincaid’s first obsession, the island of Antigua, comes vibrantly to life under the gaze of Mr. Potter, an illiterate chauffeur who makes his living along the wide, open roads that pass …
From the Ruins of Empire
The Revolt Against the West and the Remaking of Asia
Häftad, 2013
236 kr
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Pankaj Mishra's From the Ruins of Empire offers a surprising, gripping narrative depicting the thinkers whose ideas shaped contemporary China, India, and the Muslim world. A little more than a century ago, independent thinkers across Asia sought to frame a distinct intellectual tradition that would …
Touched by the Sun
My Friendship with Jackie
Av Carly Simon
Häftad, 2020
173 kr
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The instant New York Times bestseller | Named one of the ten best books of 2019 by People magazine A chance encounter at a summer party on Martha’s Vineyard blossomed into an improbable but enduring friendship. Carly Simon and Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis made an unlikely pair—Carly, a free and …
The Faithful Executioner
Life and Death, Honor and Shame in the Turbulent Sixteenth Century
Häftad, 2013
275 kr
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THE EXTRAORDINARY STORY OF A RENAISSANCE-ERA EXECUTIONER AND HIS WORLD, BASED ON A RARE AND OVERLOOKED JOURNAL. In a dusty German bookshop, the noted historian Joel F. Harrington stumbled upon a remarkable document: the journal of a sixteenth-century executioner. The journal gave an account of the …
Gardener and the Carpenter
What the New Science of Child Development Tells Us About the Relationship Between Parents and Children
Häftad, 2017
202 kr
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In The Gardener and the Carpenter, Alison Gopnik, one of the world's leading child psychologists, illuminates the paradoxes of parenthood from a scientific perspective and shatters the myth of "good parenting". Caring deeply about our children is part of what makes us human. Yet the thing we call …
