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Verlag: Knopf Doubleday Publishing G., US, 2009
ISBN 10: 009952368XISBN 13: 9780099523680
Anbieter: Infinity Books Japan, Tokyo, TKY, Japan
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Zustand: Very Good. The Gods That Failed: How the Financial Elite Have Gambled Away Our Futures by Larry Elliott, Dan Atkinson A devastating assault on the delusional, faith-based thinking that markets can, unaided, create heaven on earth. Since the late Sixties, control of our economy has passed into the hands of a new elite of super-rich free-market operatives and their colleagues in n ational and international institutions. These New Olympians, so named becau se of their remoteness from everyday life and their lack of accountability, are unconcerned with - in fact, hostile to - job security, social tranquil ity and the traditional middle-class aspiration for both the good life and the quiet life. This group has sought to insulate itself from democratic challenge and to m ake "irreversible" the legal changes from which it has profited so enormous ly. Aside from the obnoxious principles involved, the rule of this financia l elite has brought not prosperity but sluggish growth in living standards, a debt explosion, and now a major crisis of international proportions as a vast borrowing bubble starts to deflate. Elliott and Atkinson argue that the coming crisis will shatter all remaining faith in the empty dogmas of "shareholder value" and "labour flexibility.".
Verlag: Knopf Doubleday Publishing G., US, 1999
ISBN 10: 0385476760ISBN 13: 9780385476768
Anbieter: Infinity Books Japan, Tokyo, TKY, Japan
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Zustand: Very Good. The vitality and accessibility of Fritjof Capra's ideas have made him perha ps the most eloquent spokesperson of the latest findings emerging at the fr ontiers of scientific, social, and philosophical thought. In his internatio nal bestsellers The Tao of Physics and The Turning Point, he juxtaposed phy sics and mysticism to define a new vision of reality. In The Web of Life, C apra takes yet another giant step, setting forth a new scientific language to describe interrelationships and interdependence of psychological, biolog ical, physical, social, and cultural phenomena-the "web of life." During the past twenty-five years, scientists have challenged conventional views of evolution and the organization of living systems and have develope d new theories with revolutionary philosophical and social implications. Fr itjof Capra has been at the forefront of this revolution. In The Web of Lif e, Capra offers a brilliant synthesis of such recent scientific breakthroug hs as the theory of complexity, Gaia theory, chaos theory, and other explan ations of the properties of organisms, social systems, and ecosystems. Capr a's surprising findings stand in stark contrast to accepted paradigms of me chanism and Darwinism and provide an extraordinary new foundation for ecolo gical policies that will allow us to build and sustain communities without diminishing the opportunities for future generations. Now available in paperback for the first time, The Web of Life is cutting-edge science writing in the tradition of James Gleick's Chaos, Gregory Bateson's Mind and Matter, and Ilya Prigogine's Order Out of Chaos.
Verlag: Knopf Doubleday Publishing G., US, 2006
ISBN 10: 0307275973ISBN 13: 9780307275974
Anbieter: Infinity Books Japan, Tokyo, TKY, Japan
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Zustand: Very Good. A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. The residents and neighbors of 44 Scotland Street and the city of Edinburgh come to vivid life in these gently satirical, wonderfully perceptive seria l novels, featuring six-year-old Bertie, a remarkably precocious boy--just ask his mother. Back are all our favorite denizens of a Georgian townhouse in Edinburgh. Be rtie the immensely talented six year old is now enrolled in kindergarten, a nd much to his dismay, has been clad in pink overalls for his first day of class. Bruce has lost his job as a surveyor, and between admiring glances i n the mirror, is contemplating becoming a wine merchant. Pat is embarking o n a new life at Edinburgh University and perhaps on a new relationship, cou rtesy of Domenica, her witty and worldly-wise neighbor. McCall Smith has mu ch in store for them as the brief spell of glorious summer sunshine gives w ay to fall a season cursed with more traditionally Scottish weather. Full of McCall Smith's gentle humor and sympathy for his characters, Espresso Tales is also an affectionate portrait of a city and its people who, in the author's own words, "make it one of the most vibrant and interesting places in the world.".
Verlag: Knopf Doubleday Publishing G., US, 2004
ISBN 10: 0375714588ISBN 13: 9780375714580
Anbieter: Infinity Books Japan, Tokyo, TKY, Japan
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Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. Taking us through the upheavals in biological thought which made The Origin s of Species possible, Jonathan Miller introduces us to that odd revolution ary, Charles Darwin - a remarkably timid man who spent most of his life in seclusion; a semi-invalid riddled with doubts, fearing the controversy his theories might unleash; yet also the man who finally undermined belief in G od's creation. Along the way we meet a fascinating cast of characters: Darw in's scientific predecessors, his contemporaries (including Alfred Russell Wallace, whose anticipation of natural selection forced Darwin to publish), his opponents, and his successors whose work in modern genetics provided n ecessary modifications to Darwin's own work. Splendidly illustrated, this clever, witty, highly informative book is the perfect introduction to Darwin's life and thought.
Verlag: Knopf Doubleday Publishing G., US, 1997
ISBN 10: 0679747303ISBN 13: 9780679747307
Anbieter: Infinity Books Japan, Tokyo, TKY, Japan
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Paperback. Zustand: Good. In the 1890s, "Lower California" is a land adrift, peopled by Indians and h alf-breeds, and now by the French as well. The Indians are indifferent to W estern notions of time and industry. The French, on the other hand, are suf ficiently meticulous to import 2,348 pieces of cast iron to the desolate mi ning town of Santa Sofia, there to be assembled into a church under the sup ervision of a disciple of the renowned Gustave Eiffel. This wildly impractical venture is the starting premise for this new novel by the author of The Five Gates of Hell, a writer the Washington Post has c alled "a virtuoso of the hallucinatory." As Theophile Valence attempts to r e-create Paris in an outpost of hell--and his wife, Suzanne, arouses the do omed passions of an American prospector and a Mexican army officer--Air and Fire fuses adventure and romance into a magnificent tale of conflicting pa ssions and cultures. "Absorbing . . . More than anything else, it is the prose oin which Thomson evokes [his character's] mental life that, with the concentration of a magnifying glass, kindles this novel's fire."--The New Yorker.
Verlag: Knopf Doubleday Publishing G., US, 2005
ISBN 10: 0307276902ISBN 13: 9780307276902
Anbieter: Infinity Books Japan, Tokyo, TKY, Japan
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Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. A story of drug and alcohol abuse and rehabilitation as it has never been t old before. Recounted in visceral, kinetic prose, and crafted with a forthr ightness that rejects piety, cynicism, and self-pity, it brings us face-to- face with a provocative new understanding of the nature of addiction and th e meaning of recovery. By the time he entered a drug and alcohol treatment facility, James Frey ha d taken his addictions to near-deadly extremes. He had so thoroughly ravage d his body that the facilityís doctors were shocked he was still alive. The ensuing torments of detoxification and withdrawal, and the never-ending ur ge to use chemicals, are captured with a vitality and directness that recal ls the seminal eye-opening power of William Burroughsís Junky. But A Million Little Pieces refuses to fit any mold of drug literature. Ins ide the clinic, James is surrounded by patients as troubled as he is - incl uding a judge, a mobster, a one-time world-champion boxer, and a fragile fo rmer prostitute to whom he is not allowed to speak ó but their friendship a nd advice strikes James as stronger and truer than the clinicís droning dog ma of How to Recover. James refuses to consider himself a victim of anythin g but his own bad decisions, and insists on accepting sole accountability f or the person he has been and the person he may become-which runs directly counter to his counselors' recipes for recovery. James has to fight to find his own way to confront the consequences of the life he has live.
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Verlag: Knopf Doubleday Publishing G., US, 1993
ISBN 10: 0679735984ISBN 13: 9780679735984
Anbieter: Infinity Books Japan, Tokyo, TKY, Japan
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Paperback. Zustand: Good. Granny Catchprice runs her family business (and her family) with senility, cunning, and a handbag full of explosives. Her daughter Cathy would rather be singing Country & Western than selling cars, while Benny Catchprice, six teen and seriously psychopathic, wants to transform a failing auto franchis e into an empire--and himself into an angel. Out of the confrontation betwe en the Catchprices and their unwitting nemesis, a beautiful and very pregna nt agent of the Australian Taxation Office, Peter Carey, author of Oscar an d Lucinda, creates an endlessly surprising and fearfully convincing novel.
Verlag: Knopf Doubleday Publishing G., US, 1996
ISBN 10: 0679765611ISBN 13: 9780679765615
Anbieter: Infinity Books Japan, Tokyo, TKY, Japan
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Paperback. Zustand: Good. A great international bestseller, the book in which, on the eve of the mill ennium, Pope John Paul II brings to an accessible level the profoundest the ological concerns of our lives. He goes to the heart of his personal belief s and speaks with passion about the existence of God; about the dignity of man; about pain, suffering, and evil; about eternal life and the meaning of salvation; about hope; about the relationship of Christianity to other fai ts and that of Catholicism to other branches of the Christian faith.With th e humility and generosity of spirit for which he is known, John Paul II spe aks directly and forthrightly to all people. His message: Be not afraid!.
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Verlag: Knopf Doubleday Publishing G., US, 1999
ISBN 10: 0679776877ISBN 13: 9780679776871
Anbieter: Infinity Books Japan, Tokyo, TKY, Japan
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Paperback. Zustand: Good. "Full of surprises and unusual revelations . . . an informed and disturbing portrait of the new American badlands."-Chicago Tribune "[Kaplan is] tireless, curious, and smart. . . . I cannot imagine anyone wi ll concoct a more convincing scenario for the American future." -Thurston C larke, The New York Times With the same prescience and eye for telling detail that distinguished his bestselling Balkan Ghosts, Robert Kaplan now explores his native country, t he United States of America. His starting point: the conviction that Americ a is a country not in decline but in transition, slowly but inexorably shed ding its identity as a monolithic nation-state and assuming a radically new one. Everywhere Kaplan travels-from St. Louis, Missouri, to Portland, Oregon, fr om the forty-ninth parallel to the banks of the Rio Grande-he finds an Amer ica ever more fragmented along lines of race, class, education, and geograp hy. An America whose wealthy communities become wealthier and more fortress -like as they become more closely linked to the world's business capitals t han to the desolate ghettoes next door. An America where the political boun daries between the states-and between the U.S. and Canada and Mexico-are be coming increasingly blurred, betokening a vast open zone for trade, commerc e, and cultural interaction, the nexus of tomorrow's transnational world. N ever nostalgic or falsely optimistic, bracingly unafraid of change and its consequences, Kaplan paints a startling portrait of post-Cold War America-a great nation entering the final, most uncertain phase of its history. Here is travel writing with the force of prophecy. "Lively .
Verlag: Knopf Doubleday Publishing G., US, 1992
ISBN 10: 0679736239ISBN 13: 9780679736233
Anbieter: Infinity Books Japan, Tokyo, TKY, Japan
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Paperback. A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. Pulitzer-Prize-winning author Bernard Bailyn brings us a book that combines portraits of American revolutionaries with a deft exploration of the ideas that moved them and still shape our society today.
Verlag: Knopf Doubleday Publishing G., US, 2008
ISBN 10: 0307279863ISBN 13: 9780307279866
Anbieter: Infinity Books Japan, Tokyo, TKY, Japan
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Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. Doctor Impossible-evil genius, would-be world conqueror-languishes in priso n. Shuffling through the cafeteria line with ordinary criminals, he wonders if the smartest man in the world has done the smartest thing he could with his life. After all, he's lost every battle he's ever fought. But this pri son won't hold him forever. Fatale-half woman, half high-tech warrior-used to be an unemployed cyborg. Now, she's a rookie member of the world's most famous super-team, the Champ ions. But being a superhero is not all flying cars and planets in peril-she learns that in the locker rooms and dive bars of superherodom, the men and women (even mutants) behind the masks are as human as anyone. Soon I Will Be Invincible is a wildly entertaining first novel, brimming with attitude and humor-an emotionally resonant look at good and evil, love and loss, power and glory.
Verlag: Knopf Doubleday Publishing G., US, 1986
ISBN 10: 0394744187ISBN 13: 9780394744186
Anbieter: Infinity Books Japan, Tokyo, TKY, Japan
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Paperback. Zustand: Good. From an award-winning, national bestselling author comes a "ferociously fun ny" novel (The Los Angeles Times) about an advice columnist in Vermont whos e life is about to be turned upside down. Lucy Spenser, the Miss Lonelyhearts of a chic counter-cultural magazine, finds her unflappable Vermont life completely upended by her teenaged soap-opera-star niece, Nicole, and her hangers-on.
Verlag: Knopf Doubleday Publishing G., US, 1999
ISBN 10: 0375701214ISBN 13: 9780375701214
Anbieter: Infinity Books Japan, Tokyo, TKY, Japan
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Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting.The spine remains undamaged. A triumphant memoir by the former editor-in-chief of French Elle that revea ls an indomitable spirit and celebrates the liberating power of consciousne ss. In 1995, Jean-Dominique Bauby was the editor-in-chief of French Elle, the f ather of two young children, a 44-year-old man known and loved for his wit, his style, and his impassioned approach to life. By the end of the year he was also the victim of a rare kind of stroke to the brainstem. After 20 days in a coma, Bauby awoke into a body which had all but stopped working: only his left eye functioned, allowing him to see and, by blinking it, to make clear that his mind was unimpaired. Almost miraculously, he wa s soon able to express himself in the richest detail: dictating a word at a time, blinking to select each letter as the alphabet was recited to him sl owly, over and over again. In the same way, he was able eventually to compo se this extraordinary book. By turns wistful, mischievous, angry, and witty, Bauby bears witness to his determination to live as fully in his mind as he had been able to do in his body. He explains the joy, and deep sadness, of seeing his children and of hearing his aged father's voice on the phone. In magical sequences, he imagines traveling to other places and times and of lying next to the woman he loves. Fed only intravenously, he imagines preparing and tasting the full flavor of delectable dishes. Again and again he returns to an "inexhaustible reservoir of sensations," keeping in touch with him.
Verlag: Knopf Doubleday Publishing G., US, 1997
ISBN 10: 0679767851ISBN 13: 9780679767855
Anbieter: Infinity Books Japan, Tokyo, TKY, Japan
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Paperback. Zustand: Good. Bringing to life the fabulous, colorful panorama of New Orleans in the firs t flush of the jazz era, this book tells the story of Buddy Bolden, the fir st of the great trumpet players-some say the originator of jazz-who was, in any case, the genius, the guiding spirit, and the king of that time and pl ace. In this fictionalized meditation, Bolden, an unrecorded father of Jazz, remains throughout a tantalizingly ungraspable phantom, the central mysteries of his life, his art, and his madness remaining felt but never quite pinned down. Ondaatje's prose is at times startlingly lyrical, and as he chases Bolden through documents and scenes, the novel partakes of the very best sort of modern detective novel-one where the enigma is never resolved, but allowed to manifest in its fullness. Though more 'experimental' in form than either The English Patient or In the Skin of a Lion, it is a fitting addition to the renowned Ondaatje oeuvre.
Verlag: Knopf Doubleday Publishing G., US, 2012
ISBN 10: 0307477479ISBN 13: 9780307477477
Anbieter: Infinity Books Japan, Tokyo, TKY, Japan
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Paperback. Zustand: Good. Notes From Your Bookseller A Visit From The Goon Squad's characters are more human than some flesh and blood people. Full of all the ups and downs of living an actual life, this is the story of pasts begetting futures, and the paths we all walk, someti mes together. NATIONAL BESTSELLER â ¢ NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE WINNER â ¢ With music puls ing on every page, this startling, exhilarating novel of self-destruction a nd redemption "features characters about whom you come to care deeply as yo u watch them doing things they shouldn't, acting gloriously, infuriatingly human" (The Chicago Tribune). One of The Atlantic's Great American Novels of the Past 100 Years Bennie is an aging former punk rocker and record executive. Sasha is the pa ssionate, troubled young woman he employs. Here Jennifer Egan brilliantly r eveals their pasts, along with the inner lives of a host of other character s whose paths intersect with theirs. "Pitch perfect. Darkly, rippingly funny. Egan possesses a satirist's eye and a romance novelist's heart." --The New York Times Book Review.
Verlag: Knopf Doubleday Publishing G., US, 1982
ISBN 10: 0394708423ISBN 13: 9780394708423
Anbieter: Infinity Books Japan, Tokyo, TKY, Japan
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Zustand: Very Good. A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. Great Issues in American History: From Reconstruction to the Present Day, 1 864-1981 by Richard Hofstadter The third volume in Great Issues In American History, From Reconstruction t o the Present Day is now updated and revised to include another decade of A merican history. Beatrice K. Hofstadter, wife of the late Richard Hofstadte r and herself an historian who worked with him closely on the original edit ion, has added a new section covering 1970 to 1981 and rearranged other sec tions in the light of what has since proved to be of lasting importance. Th is collection of significant documents in American history now goes from Li ncoln's Proclamation on the Wade-Davis Bill on July 8, 1864, to Reagan's Ad dress on Arms Control Negotiations on November 18, 1981. Volume I From Settlement to Revolution. 1584-1776 Edited by Clarence L. Ver Steeg an d Richard Hofstadter Volume Il From the Revolution to the Civil War. 1765-1865 Edited by Richard Hofstadter.
Verlag: Knopf Doubleday Publishing G., US, 2010
ISBN 10: 0307386309ISBN 13: 9780307386304
Anbieter: Infinity Books Japan, Tokyo, TKY, Japan
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Zustand: Very Good. A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. A sweeping and sensuous novel of a son's quest to recover his family's lost masterpieces, looted by the Nazis during the occupation. Max Berenzon's father is the most successful art dealer in Paris, owner of the Berenzon Gallery, home to both Picasso and Matisse. To Max's great surprise, his father forbids him from entering the family business, choosing instead to hire a beautiful and brilliant gallery assistant named Rose Clément. When Paris falls to the Nazis, the Berenzons survive in hiding, but when they return in 1944 their gallery is empty, their priceless collection vanished. In a city darkened by corruption and black martketers, Max chases his twin obsessions: the lost paintings and Rose Clément.
Verlag: Knopf Doubleday Publishing G., US, 1994
ISBN 10: 0679742565ISBN 13: 9780679742562
Anbieter: Infinity Books Japan, Tokyo, TKY, Japan
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Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. The Game is a lush and disturbing novel portraying a sibling rivalry which compels the reader to reconsider the uses and misuses of imagination. when they were little girls, Cassandra and Julia played a game in which they entered an alternate world modeled on the landscapes of Arthurian romance. Now the sisters are grown, and hostile strangers-until a figure from their past, a man they once both loved and suffered over, reenters their lives.
Verlag: Knopf Doubleday Publishing G., US, 1995
ISBN 10: 0679767304ISBN 13: 9780679767305
Anbieter: Infinity Books Japan, Tokyo, TKY, Japan
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Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. A breaved father stalks his son's killer. A woman cries alone by her television screen. A devout teenager wrestles with his faith and sexuality. Here, in these twenty-three stories, Andre Dubus turns fiction into an act of compassion. For readers new to Dubus, this is the perfect starting point. For fans of his, this is an essential, must-have collection.
Verlag: Knopf Doubleday Publishing G., US, 1996
ISBN 10: 0679755012ISBN 13: 9780679755012
Anbieter: Infinity Books Japan, Tokyo, TKY, Japan
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Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. From Thomas McGuane on Idaho's Snake River to Louise Erdrich on the tallgrass prairies of her native North Dakota to Carl Hiaasen combing the imperiled fishing grounds of the Florida Keys, some of the country's finest writers celebrate the geography that The Nature Conservancy has designated as "Last Great Places.".
Verlag: Knopf Doubleday Publishing G., US, 2019
ISBN 10: 0804173168ISBN 13: 9780804173162
Anbieter: Infinity Books Japan, Tokyo, TKY, Japan
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Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting.The spine remains undamaged. An uproarious novel from the celebrated author of Single, Carefree, Mellow about the challenges of a good marriage, the delight and heartache of raisi ng children, and the irresistible temptation to wonder about the path not t aken. "Heart-piercing and, crucially, very funny." --The New York Times When Graham Cavanaugh divorced his first wife it was to marry his girlfrien d, Audra, a woman as irrepressible as she is spontaneous and fun. But, Grah am learns, life with Audra can also be exhausting, constantly interrupted b y chatty phone calls, picky-eater houseguests, and invitations to weddings of people he's never met. Audra firmly believes that through the sheer forc e of her personality she can overcome the most socially challenging interac tions, shepherding her son through awkward playdates and origami club, and even deciding to establish a friendship with Graham's first wife, Elspeth. Graham isn't sure he understands why Audra longs to be friends with the wom an he divorced. After all, former spouses are hard to categorize--are they enemies, old flames, or just people you know really, really well? And as Gr aham and Audra share dinners, holidays, and late glasses of wine with his f irst wife he starts to wonder: How can anyone love two such different women ? Did I make the right choice? Is there a right choice? A hilarious and rueful debut novel of love, marriage, infidelity, and origami, Standard Deviation never deviates from the superb.
Verlag: Knopf Doubleday Publishing G., US, 2006
ISBN 10: 0767913736ISBN 13: 9780767913737
Anbieter: Infinity Books Japan, Tokyo, TKY, Japan
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Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. NATIONAL BESTSELLER â ¢ At once an incredible adventure narrative and a penet rating biographical portrait--the bestselling author of Destiny of the Repu blic brings us the true story of Theodore Roosevelt's harrowing exploration of one of the most dangerous rivers on earth. The River of Doubt--it is a black, uncharted tributary of the Amazon that s nakes through one of the most treacherous jungles in the world. Indians arm ed with poison-tipped arrows haunt its shadows; piranhas glide through its waters; boulder-strewn rapids turn the river into a roiling cauldron. After his humiliating election defeat in 1912, Roosevelt set his sights on the most punishing physical challenge he could find, the first descent of a n unmapped, rapids-choked tributary of the Amazon. Together with his son Ke rmit and Brazil's most famous explorer, Cândido Mariano da Silva Rondon, Ro osevelt accomplished a feat so great that many at the time refused to belie ve it. In the process, he changed the map of the western hemisphere forever . Along the way, Roosevelt and his men faced an unbelievable series of hardships, losing their canoes and supplies to punishing whitewater rapids, and enduring starvation, Indian attack, disease, drowning, and a murder within their own ranks. Three men died, and Roosevelt was brought to the brink of suicide. The River of Doubt brings alive these extraordinary events in a powerful nonfiction narrative thriller that happens to feature one of the most famous Americans who ever live.
Verlag: Knopf Doubleday Publishing G., US, 2007
ISBN 10: 0385515456ISBN 13: 9780385515450
Anbieter: Infinity Books Japan, Tokyo, TKY, Japan
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Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good/Very Good. An ex-lib edition. Two women, Chloe Dale, an artist comfortably ensconced in bucolic suburbia, and Salome Drago, a wily, seductive refugee from a country that no longer exists, confront each other in a Manhattan restaurant, and the battle lines are drawn. Toby Dale, son of the artist and ardent suitor of the refugee, is in no position to choose sides. Outside, the drumbeats for the impending invasion of Iraq drown out all argument, and those who object will soon be reduced to standing in the street. The story of two families-suspicious, territorial, naïve in their confidence that they are free of the past-Trespass unfolds with commanding force. It is a bracing, tender novel for the 21st century.
Verlag: Knopf Doubleday Publishing G., US, 2001
ISBN 10: 0375703012ISBN 13: 9780375703010
Anbieter: Infinity Books Japan, Tokyo, TKY, Japan
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Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. An insightful and comprehensive look at Asia on the rise--a "masterful job of describing Asia's anguish and ambition" (The Washington Post Book World) --from the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalists and bestselling authors of Ha lf a Sky and Tightrope The 1997 economic crisss in Asia heaped devastation upon millions. Yet Nich olas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn argue that it was the best thing that could have happened to Asia. It destroyed the cronyism, protectionism, and govern ment regulation that had been crippling Asian business for decades, and it left in its wake a vast region of resilient and determined millions poised to wrest economic, diplomatic and military power from the West. Thunder from the East is a riveting look at a complex region, a fascinating panoply of compelling characters, and a prophetic analysis from arguably the West's most informed and intelligent writers on Asia.
Verlag: Knopf Doubleday Publishing G., US, 1999
ISBN 10: 0679781420ISBN 13: 9780679781424
Anbieter: Infinity Books Japan, Tokyo, TKY, Japan
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Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. A modern classic of manhood, marginalization, survival, and transcendence-- and a lyrical memoir of coming of age on the streets of Spanish Harlem. "A report from the guts and heart of a submerged population group . It cl aims our attention and emotional response." --The New York Times Book Revie w Thirty years ago Piri Thomas made literary history with this lacerating mem oir. Here was the testament of a born outsider: a Puerto Rican in English-s peaking America; a dark-skinned morenito in a family that refused to acknow ledge its African blood. Here was an unsparing document of Thomas's plunge into the deadly consolations of drugs, street fighting, and armed robbery-- a descent that ended when the twenty-two-year-old Piri was sent to prison f or shooting a cop. As he recounts the journey that took him from adolescence in El Barrio to a lock-up in Sing Sing to the freedom that comes of self-acceptance, faith, and inner confidence, Piri Thomas gives us a book that is as exultant as it is harrowing and whose every page bears the irrepressible rhythm of its author's voice.
Verlag: Knopf Doubleday Publishing G., US, 2010
ISBN 10: 0307454541ISBN 13: 9780307454546
Anbieter: Infinity Books Japan, Tokyo, TKY, Japan
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Paperback. Zustand: Good. Notes From Your Bookseller This is where the captivating series starring Lisbeth Salander began, now a mainstay on any best-of-thrillers list. This series is all about the unfor gettable heroine who is all things wonderful. Intelligently and uniquely wr itten, it simply can't be missed. ONE OF TIME MAGAZINE'S 100 BEST MYSTERY AND THRILLER BOOKS OF ALL TIME â ¢ #1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER â ¢ The thrilling first book in the Girl with the Dragon Tattoo series featuring Lisbeth Salander: "Combine the chilly Swedish back drop and moody psychodrama of a Bergman movie with the grisly pyrotechnics of a serial-killer thriller, then add an angry punk heroine and a down-on-h is-luck investigative journalist, and you have the ingredients of Stieg Lar sson's first novel" (The New York Times). â ¢ Also known as the Millennium se ries Harriet Vanger, a scion of one of Sweden's wealthiest families disappeared over forty years ago. All these years later, her aged uncle continues to se ek the truth. He hires Mikael Blomkvist, a crusading journalist recently tr apped by a libel conviction, to investigate. He is aided by the pierced and tattooed punk prodigy Lisbeth Salander. Together they tap into a vein of u nfathomable iniquity and astonishing corruption. Look for the latest book in the Girl with the Dragon Tattoo series, The Girl in the Eagle's Talons!.
Verlag: Knopf Doubleday Publishing G., US, 1994
ISBN 10: 0679753826ISBN 13: 9780679753827
Anbieter: Infinity Books Japan, Tokyo, TKY, Japan
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Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. Mohawk, New York, is one of those small towns that lie almost entirely on t he wrong side of the tracks. Its citizens, too, have fallen on hard times. Dallas Younger, a star athlete in high school, now drifts from tavern to po ker game, losing money, and, inevitably, another set of false teeth. His ex -wife, Anne, is stuck in a losing battle with her mother over the care of h er sick father. And their son, Randall, is deliberately neglecting his scho ol work-because in a place like Mohawk it doesn't pay to be too smart. In Mohawk, Pulitzer Prize-winning author, Richard Russo, explores these lives with profound compassion and flint-hard wit. Out of derailed ambitions and old loves, secret hatreds and communal myths, he has created a richly plotted, densely populated, and wonderfully written novel that captures every nuance of America's backyard.
Verlag: Knopf Doubleday Publishing G., US, 2009
ISBN 10: 0307455084ISBN 13: 9780307455086
Anbieter: Infinity Books Japan, Tokyo, TKY, Japan
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Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. The first installment of David Peace's electrifying Red Riding Quartet vividly brings to life a gritty, dangerous working class city tormented by a series of brutal murders. Nineteen Seventy-Four follows Eddie Dunford, the newly minted crime correspondent for the Yorkshire Post. His first story is about Clare Kemplay, a young girl recently found brutally murdered. While the police department and other crime reporters at the newspaper believe it's an isolated incident, Eddie finds a pattern between Clare's disappearance and those of other girls from a few years earlier. Despite his better judgment, and against the advice of others, he starts to dig deep. What he finds is a nightmare of corruption, violence, blackmail, and obsession that ultimately leads to a shocking, explosive conclusion.
Verlag: Knopf Doubleday Publishing G., US, 1990
ISBN 10: 0679729038ISBN 13: 9780679729037
Anbieter: Infinity Books Japan, Tokyo, TKY, Japan
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Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. The complete screenplay of Rob Reiner's enormously funny and moving film, W hen Harry Met Sally--a romantic comedy about the difficult, frustrating, aw ful, funny search for happiness in an American city, where the primary emot ion is unrequited love. "A winner, a lavishly romantic lark, brimming over with style, intelligence and flashing wit." --Peter Travers, Rolling Stone Written by Nora Ephron, author of screenplays for Silkwood and Heartburn (from her own bestselling novel)--When Harry Met Sally is as hilarious on the page as it is on the screen. The book includes an introduction by the author.
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Verlag: Knopf Doubleday Publishing G., US, 2018
ISBN 10: 0804172714ISBN 13: 9780804172714
Anbieter: Infinity Books Japan, Tokyo, TKY, Japan
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Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting.The spine remains undamaged. In 1995, Iowa native Bill Bryson took a motoring trip around Britain to exp lore that green and pleasant land. The uproarious book that resulted, Notes from a Small Island, is one of the most acute portrayals of the United Kin gdom ever written. Two decades later, Bryson--now a British citizen--set ou t again to rediscover his adopted country. In these pages, he follows a str aight line through the island--from Bognor Regis to Cape Wrath--and shows u s every pub, stone village, and human foible along the way. Whether he is dodging cow attacks in Torcross, getting lost in the H&M on Kensington High Street, or--more seriously--contemplating the future of the nation's natural wonders in the face of aggressive development, Bryson guides us through the old and the new with vivid detail and laugh-out-loud humor. Irreverent, endearing, and always hilarious, The Road to Little Dribbling is filled with Bill Bryson's deep knowledge and love of his chosen home.