Verlag: Brand: Overlook Hardcover, 2005
ISBN 10: 1585677086 ISBN 13: 9781585677085
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Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. In a final installment of the trilogy that began with No Angel and Something Dangerous, Barty Miller, rescued from hardscrabble origins by the Lytton family, rises to the head of a publishing company and faces a decision that could prove devastating to the Lyttons' empire. 6.3075.
Verlag: Brand: Overlook Hardcover, 2007
ISBN 10: 1585678767 ISBN 13: 9781585678761
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Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. As the story begins, a lonely woman vanishes while out on her morning run. Then a 22-year-old girl never returns from a walk. An old man disappears too. When fresh-faced policewoman Freya Graffham is assigned to the case, she runs the risk of getting too invested--too involved--in the action. Alongside the enigmatic detective Chief Inspector Simon Serrallier, she must unravel the mystery before events turn too gruesome. Written with intelligence, compassion, and a knowing eye--in the tradition of the fabulous mysteries of Ruth Rendell and P.D. James--The Various Haunts of Men is an enthralling journey into the heart of a wonderfully developed town, and into the very mind of a killer. 1.653.
Verlag: Brand: Overlook Hardcover, 2009
ISBN 10: 1590202694 ISBN 13: 9781590202692
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Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Jeremy Coller, a pioneer in the world of private equity, argues that there are three basic personality types in the arena of invention. The Principal, Broker, and Consultant each display certain traits that dictate the potential for success, but few people have the full package. Failure results when an individual who excels in one area of competence attempts to become all things. In Splendidly Unreasonable Inventors, Coller focuses on the individual rather the invention and explores the ways in which he or she did or did not succeed in bringing their vision to fruition. On one level, the book is a collection of fascinating stories packed with quirky, often humorous nuggets of information. On another level, these stories provide an unconventional look at the processes and personalities that created products that changed the world, including: Jonas Salk and the polio vaccine; King Gillette and the safety razor; Alfred Nobel and dynamite; Sam Colt and the revolver; Rudolph Diesel and the diesel engine. 1.2325.
Verlag: Brand: Overlook Hardcover, 2006
ISBN 10: 1585676829 ISBN 13: 9781585676828
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Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Traces the post-World War II partnership of General Douglas MacArthur and Emperor Hirohito, profiling the statuses of both nations before and after the war while offering insight into how the efforts of both men set the groundwork for modern American-Japanese relations. By the author of A Few Bloody Noses. 1.87.
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Verlag: Brand: Overlook Hardcover, 2007
ISBN 10: 158567897X ISBN 13: 9781585678976
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Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Hiding her gambling addiction in her outside persona as a pious Muslim mother of four who is coping with the loss of a son to AIDS, Abeeda finds herself sinking into an increasingly shadowy world of deception, danger, and painful memories. 1.45.
Verlag: Brand: Overlook Hardcover, 2003
ISBN 10: 1585674818 ISBN 13: 9781585674817
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Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Routinely making decisions that have dangerous consequences, strong-willed aristocrat's daughter Celia Lytton sets in motion a series of events during World War I that have a particular impact on her family, a destitute woman, and others. 75,000 first printing. 2.3925.
Verlag: Brand: Overlook Hardcover, 2010
ISBN 10: 1590202864 ISBN 13: 9781590202869
Anbieter: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, USA
Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. The Crusades were the bridge between medievl and modern history, between feudalism and colonialism. In many ways, the lttle explored later Crusades were the most significant of them all, for thy made the crisis truly global. The Last Crusaders is about the perio's last great conflict between East and West, and the titanic contest betwee Habsburg-led Christendom and the Ottoman Empire in the fifteenth and ixteenth centuries. From the great naval campaigns and the ferocious struggl to dominate the North African shore, the conflict spread out along trde routes, consuming nations and cultures, destroying dynasties, and spawing the first colonial empires in South America and the Indian Ocean. The Last Crsaders is narrative history at its richest and most compelling. REVIW: "This is an ambitious project and The Last Crusaders provides narrative history on the grand scale." --Daily Telegraph "Barnaby Rogerson paints a vivid canvas, sweeping n scope and full of memorable detail.The author is especially good at narrating in gripping, andoften grisly, detail the great sieges and battles that punctuated thi struggle. The book is furnished with excellent maps, a useful chronologial chart, numerous illustrations, and a very full bibliography. The wriing is engaging and vivid, never pedantic. Any history buff will find this bok a pleasure." -ForeWord Review "Rogerson's narrative colorsthe conflicts of the sixteenth century with the derring-do of kings, corsair, and crusaders; this book will keep readers up long past bedtime" -- Foreord Magazine "This thoroughly readable book provides a vibrant ad well-organized account of this tumultuous, lesser-known period of histoy. Highly recommended for both students and general readers." - Library Jornal STARRED REVIEW "The Last Crusaders is a fascinating istory of the great conflict between Christianity and Islam from the mid-140s to the mid-1500s.Rogerson proves himself a skillful storyteller as he recunts the deeds and misdeeds of both sides." -Internet Review of BooksAUTHORBIO: Barnaby Rogerson is the author of more than a dozen books, ncluding The Heirs of Muhammad: Islam's First Century and the Origins ofthe Sunni-Shia Schism, The Prophet Muhammad: A Biography, and A History of Noth Africa. He has lived and worked in many parts of the Arab world, and currently resides in London. 1.75.
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Verlag: Brand: Overlook Hardcover, 2013
ISBN 10: 1468306626 ISBN 13: 9781468306620
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Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. How does your dog remember where it buried its bone but you can't find your keys? And do we really only use ten percent of our brains? In A Very Short Tour of the Mind, Michael C. Corballis answers these questions and more. The human mind is arguably the most complex organ in the universe. Modern computers might be faster, and whales might have larger brains, but neither can match the sheer intellect or capacity for creativity that we humans enjoy. In this gem of a book, Corballis introduces us to what we've learned about the intricacies of the human brain over the last fifty years. Leading us through behavioral experiments and neuroscience, cognitive theory and Darwinian evolution with his trademark wit and wisdom, Corballis punctures a few hot-air balloons; "Unleash the creativity of your right brain!") and explains just what we know--and don't know--about our own minds. 1.4.
Verlag: Brand: Overlook Hardcover, 2005
ISBN 10: 1585676802 ISBN 13: 9781585676804
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Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Working with Ippolito's letters and ledgers, recently uncovered in an archive in Modena, Italy, Mary Hollingsworth has pieced together a fascinating and undeniably titillating tale of this Renaissance cardinal and his road to power and wealth in sixteenth 1.9575.
Verlag: Brand: Overlook Hardcover, 2005
ISBN 10: 1585677205 ISBN 13: 9781585677207
Anbieter: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, USA
Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. The settlement of Tasmania by Europeans began two hundred years ago. Nicholas Shakespeare first went there, having heard of the islands exceptional beauty, because it was famously remote. He soon decided that this was where he wanted to live. Only later did he discover a cache of letters written by an ancestor as corrupt as he was colorful: Anthony Fenn Kemp, the so-called Father of Tasmania. On his mothers side, too, Shakespeare found he had unknown Tasmanian relations; a pair of spinsters who had never left their farm except once, in 1947, to buy shoes. Their journal recounted a saga beginning in Northern England in the 1890s with a dashing but profligate ancestor who, having played tennis with the Kaiser, ended his life in disgrace in the Tasmanian bush. In this fascinating history of two turbulent centuries in an apparently idyllic place, Shakespeare effortlessly weaves the history of the island with his multiple stories, a cast of unlikely characters from Errol Flynn to the King of Iceland, a village full of Chatwins, and, inevitably, a family of Shakespeares. 1.48.
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Verlag: Brand: Overlook Hardcover, 2000
ISBN 10: 1585670626 ISBN 13: 9781585670628
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Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. The renowned literary critic shares his profiles of Woody Allen, David Mamet, Ingmar Bergman, Frank Sinatra, Roseanne, Irving Berlin, Bob Hope, Mike Nichols, Arthur Miller, and Wallace Shawn, among other cultural icons. 15,000 first printing. 2.146.
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Verlag: Brand: Overlook Hardcover, 1974
ISBN 10: 0879510072 ISBN 13: 9780879510077
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Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Richard Corliss 2.639.
Verlag: Brand: Overlook Hardcover, 2011
ISBN 10: 1590201841 ISBN 13: 9781590201848
Anbieter: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, USA
Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. NASCAR's 60-year history is rich with varied lore about heroic racers, incredible races, and love of family. There are profiles of true NASCAR stars: Bill France; Bobby and Davey Allison; Dale Earnhardt and Dale Earnhardt, Jr.; Tony Stewart; Richard, Kyle, and Adam Petty, among other legends of the speedway. TV Guide motorsports reporter Edelstein's painstaking journalistic work, combined with his encyclopedic knowledge and love of the sport, make NASCAR Legends an essential book for anyone drawn to the roaring magic of the track. 1.7545.
Verlag: Brand: Overlook Hardcover, 2003
ISBN 10: 1585673773 ISBN 13: 9781585673773
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Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. From amassing sacred relics to collecting celebrity memorabilia, the impulse to hoard has gripped humankind throughout the centuries. But what is it that drives people to possess objects that have no conceivable use? To Have and To Hold is a captivating tour of collectors and their treasures from medieval times to the present, from a cabinet containing unicorn horns and a Tsar's collection of teeth to the macabre art of embalmer Dr. Frederick Ruysch, the fabled castle of William Randolph Hearst, and the truly preoccupied men who stockpile food wrappers and plastic cups. An engrossing story of the collector as bridegroom, deliriously, obsessively happy, wed to his possessions, till death do us part. 1.885.
Verlag: Brand: Overlook Hardcover, 2001
ISBN 10: 1585671401 ISBN 13: 9781585671403
Anbieter: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, USA
Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Terrified by the frightening world that surrounds her, from her family and school to the voodoo priestess who holds her mother in thrall, Ellen, an eleven-year-old African-American girl growing up in Detroit in the 1960s, desperately searches for a safe refuge and finds an ally in a neighbor who struggles to restore her trust in people. A first novel. 15,000 first printing. 1.595.
Verlag: Brand: Overlook Hardcover, 1994
ISBN 10: 0879515376 ISBN 13: 9780879515379
Anbieter: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, USA
Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Traces the life of the French film director, describes his childhood as the son of the famous painter, and looks at each of his major films 2.9725.
Verlag: Brand: Overlook Hardcover, 2005
ISBN 10: 158567589X ISBN 13: 9781585675890
Anbieter: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, USA
Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. The Mountbatten Maritime Prize-winning author of Maritime Supremacy provides a dramatic description of historical naval warfare combined with an analysis of the causes of victory, offering insight into how sea powers often prevailed over land-based empires. 17,500 first printing. 2.494.
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Verlag: Brand: Overlook Hardcover, 2001
ISBN 10: 1585671924 ISBN 13: 9781585671922
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Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Late in the morning of May 27th, 1941, the German battleship Bismarck was sunk by an overwhelming British armada in a fierce battle that lasted ninety minutes. Admiral Gnther Ltjens, Captain Ernst Lindemann and 2,206 men of her crew were lost; only 115 survived.Five days earlier, at 5:00 p.m. on May 22nd, an RAF reconnaissance plane flying low off the coast of Norway spotted four large warships in the sea below. At 32,000 tons apiece, the sight of the battle cruisers Scharnhorst and Gneisenau was shocking enough; even more so was the sight of the 42,000-ton sister ships the pride of the German navyBismarck and Tirpitz, ships shrouded in myth, awesome and mysterious behemoth's of destruction. Their purpose in these waters was obvious and chilling: the German navy was sending this powerful four- battleship task force to seize control of the North Atlantic sea lanes. What was at stake in the late spring of 1941 was nothing less than the survival of a free Britain. With almost all of Europe under Hitler's thumb, and the United States still frustratingly neutral, Britain alone was left to fight Germany. The only hope lay in the convoy route across the North Atlantic to the United Statesthe "arsenal of democracy"and the promise of its vast industrial might and agricultural bounty. The fate of Britain and the United Statesthe fate of the free worldhung in the balance as the German flotilla made for the open seas. All knew that the destruction of the Bismarck would be a dramatic turning point in the war.Noted historians Bercuson and Herwig have uncovered much new information on the Bismarck, including a close examination of the wreck itself, discovered on the ocean floor only in 1989. In addition, hitherto closed British and United States diplomatic files have been opened, revealing secret diplomatic maneuverings between Churchill and Roosevelt. This new information has allowed them to tell the full story of the Bismarck for the first time, from the key strategic decisions of the national leaders, to the gripping hour-by-hour account of the battle. This is history of the best sort, at once vivid and authoritativethe definitive account of one of the most dramatic and momentous events of the Second World War. 4.35.
Verlag: Brand: Overlook Hardcover, 2002
ISBN 10: 158567267X ISBN 13: 9781585672677
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Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. The illustrations in this volume include rarely seen drawings from Kafka's workbooks, images of the Prague environment that inspired his nightmarish works, photos of Kafka with friends and colleagues, and reproductions of letters, manuscripts, and first edition book jackets. 1.0875.
Verlag: Brand: Overlook Hardcover, 2004
ISBN 10: 1585676012 ISBN 13: 9781585676019
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Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. An innovative history of the English language draws on the rich diversity of dialects of nonstandard English speakers and regional accents all around the world, as well as the dialects that appear in a variety of literary classics, to explain the colorful variety and significance of the language. 20,000 first printing. 2.
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Verlag: Brand: Overlook Hardcover, 2013
ISBN 10: 1468304933 ISBN 13: 9781468304930
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Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. The solution, says Daniel Clery in this deeply researched and revelatory book, is to be found in the original energy source: the Sun itself. There, at its center, the fusion of 620 million tons of hydrogen every second generates an unfathomable amount of energy. By replicating even a tiny piece of the Suns power on Earth, we can secure all the heat and energy we would ever need. Nuclear fusion scientists have pursued this simple yet extraordinary ambition for decades. Skeptics say it will never work but, as A Piece of the Sun makes clear, large-scale nuclear fusion is scientifically possible-and has many advantages over other options. Fusion is clean, green and virtually limitless and Clery argues passionately and eloquently that the only thing keeping us from proving its worth is our politicians shortsightedness. The world energy industry is worth trillions of dollars, divert just a tiny fraction of that into researching fusion and we would soon know if it is workable. Timely and authoritative, A Piece of the Sun is a rousing call-to-arms to seize this chance of avoiding the looming energy crisis. 1.74.
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Verlag: Brand: Overlook Hardcover, 2013
ISBN 10: 1590204654 ISBN 13: 9781590204658
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Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Returning home to New York brings with it memories of childhood, many of them painful, and yet Harper could never have prepared himself for the truth. Confronted with the reality of his father's existence, Harper finds himself seduced by a lifestyle that he seems to have inherited--an underworld life of power, treachery, and menace. As he desperately tries to uncover the facts of his own past, he is faced with one lie after another, and with each new discovery he becomes more and more entangled in a dark and shocking conspiracy. From the acclaimed author of A Quiet Belief in Angels and A Simple Act of Violence, City of Lies is a tense and gripping thriller, each twist and turn more shocking than the last. 1.7.
Verlag: Brand: Overlook Hardcover, 2003
ISBN 10: 1585674753 ISBN 13: 9781585674756
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Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. A year's worth of authentic tsarist Russia recipes, recently revised, provides for a wide range of courses and meals and includes instructions on how to prepare such dishes as Potato Pirozhki with Mushroom Filling, Carp la Russe, and Almond Cake with Apricot Wine Filling. 10,000 first printing. 1.4.
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Verlag: Brand: Overlook Hardcover, 2009
ISBN 10: 1590202287 ISBN 13: 9781590202289
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Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. From Publishers WeeklyBritish travel writer Bennett informs and endears in his quixotic quest to trace the provenance of his underpants in order to learn something about the commercial and industrial processes on which [his] easy existence depends. Despite his publisher's misgivings, the author travels to the outskirts of Shanghai, posing as an underwear buyer and scheming his way into factories and showrooms to piece together the (increasingly) mysterious origins of his underpants. He heads toward the cotton factories, where few Westerners venture and the population is ethnically closer to Afghan than Chinese, and sober accounts vie with marvelously silly escapades around Bangkok and rural Thailand in search of rubber trees (or more specifically, the origins of his elastic waistband). Bennett's education in the world of global commerce sparkles with humor and sharp observations on modern China's competing strains of enduring Confucianism, vestigial communism and the government's ruthless economic ambitions. (July)Copyright Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.Product DescriptionAbout the AuthorJoe Bennett was educated at Brighton College and Cambridge University. After teaching English in a variety of countries he became a newspaper columnist and a writer of travel books. He lives in New Zealand. 1.4935.
Verlag: Brand: Overlook Hardcover, 2008
ISBN 10: 1590200632 ISBN 13: 9781590200636
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Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Evaluates media messages that promote the early maturation and sexualization of pre-adolescent girls, drawing on examples from pop culture and other sources to reveal the detrimental and restrictive definitions of sexuality in media while counseling parents and caregivers on how to raise sexually healthy young women in spite of negative influences. 1.5225.
Verlag: Brand: Overlook Hardcover, 2010
ISBN 10: 1590203321 ISBN 13: 9781590203323
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Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Taking the reader from 1852 to the present day, his work covers the ascent of the United States into the role left open by Britains decline, and the position of Russian and Germany as contrary powers. 2.175.
Verlag: Brand: Overlook Hardcover, 1997
ISBN 10: 0879518022 ISBN 13: 9780879518028
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Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. The focus is on Mahlers last decade, his tempestuous marriage to the alluring Alma Schindler, his work as a "summer composer" in isolated huts in the country, his revolutionary achievements as director of the Vienna opera and his final years in America. But it sets the stage by looking into Mahlers earlier career as a talented, ambitious, and often ruthless conductor. In her memoirs Alma drew Mahler as a sickly, cerebral recluse. Arnold Schoenberg called him a "saint." Leonard Bernstein, largely responsible for the Mahler "boom" in the Sixties, found a "secret shame" at the heart of Mahlers music, "the shame of being a Jew and the shame of being ashamed." Jonathan Carr looks behind these myths, and using letters, diaries, and other material hitherto unavailable in English, he brilliantly challenges some of the most widely held assumptions about Mahler. 1.885.
Verlag: Brand: Overlook Hardcover, 2002
ISBN 10: 1585672106 ISBN 13: 9781585672103
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Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Gopal-or Ram Das Baba, as his devotees refer to him-is the son of a devout Brahmin family who has spent a lifetime seeking the ultimate truth of spiritual knowledge. His journey as a mystic is filled with illuminating visions, severe tribulations, and an unwavering faith, and he fulfills his destiny as a highly evolved Sadhu through ordeals of monastic bliss, tantric awakening, madness, and transexuality. As his life nears its end he meets a young man who belongs to a very different India. A profound relationship develops. In an age that dismisses divine vision as hallucination, and the desire for a union with God as a symptom of mental illness, Sudhir Kakar's richly detailed novel explores the mind-bending issues that plague the life of the modern thinker. Here are the struggles between emotion and reason; faith and logic-the fundamental questions that carry one from agony to ecstasy and back again. 1.334.
Verlag: Brand: Overlook Hardcover, 2005
ISBN 10: 158567690X ISBN 13: 9781585676903
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Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Yet Alexander Cruden is remembered today not so much for his mighty work as for the widespread belief that he was mad. Born in Scotland in 1699, Cruden spent much of his life in and out of asylums. In fact, just weeks after completing his Concordance, he 2.
Verlag: Brand: Overlook Hardcover, 2003
ISBN 10: 1585672637 ISBN 13: 9781585672639
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Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. A portrait of the celebrated Russian author's life includes coverage of his lifelong passion for butterflies and the forces that resulted in his exile and the loss of his family and social position. Reprint. 3.19.