Verlag: Brand: Vintage Canada, 1999
ISBN 10: 0676972179 ISBN 13: 9780676972177
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Softcover. Zustand: Good. On a chilly February day, two old friends meet in the throng outside a London crematorium to pay their last respects to Molly Lane. Both Clive Linley and Vernon Halliday had been Molly's lovers in the days before they reached their current Clive is Britain's most successful modern composer, and Vernon is editor of the newspaper The Judge. Gorgeous, feisty Molly had other lovers, too, notably Julian Garmony, Foreign Secretary, a notorious right-winger tipped to be the next prime minister. In the days that follow Molly's funeral, Clive and Vernon will make a pact with consequences that neither could have foreseen. Each will make a disastrous moral decision, their friendship will be tested to its limits, and Julian Garmony will be fighting for his political life. A sharp contemporary morality tale, cleverly disguised as a comic novel, Amsterdam is "as sheerly enjoyable a book as one is likely to pick up this year" (The Washington Post Book World).
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Verlag: Brand: Vintage, 2010
ISBN 10: 1400043603 ISBN 13: 9781400043606
Anbieter: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, USA
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Hardcover. Zustand: Good. First Edition. No story has been more central to Americas history this century than the rise of Barack Obama, and until now, no journalist or historian has written a book thatfully investigates the circumstances and experiences of Obamas life or explores the ambition behind his rise.Those familiar with Obamas own best-selling memoiror his campaign speeches know the touchstones and details that he chooses to emphasize, but now-from a writer whose gift for illuminating the historical significanceof unfolding events is without peer-we have a portrait, at once masterly and fresh,nuanced and unexpected, of a young man in search of himself,and of a rising politician determined to become the first African-American president.The Bridge offers the most complete account yet ofObamas tragic father, a brilliant economist who abandonedhis family and ended his life as a beaten man;of his mother, Stanley Ann Dunham,who had a child as a teenager and then built her career as an anthropologist living and studying in Indonesia;and of the succession of elite institutions that first exposed Obamato the social tensions and intellectual currentsthat would force him to imagine and fashion an identity for himself. Through extensive on-the-record interviews with friends and teachers, mentors and disparagers, family members and Obama himself,David Remnick allows us to see how a rootless, unaccomplished, and confused young mancreated himself first as a community organizer in Chicago, anexperience that would not only shape his urge to work in politics but give him a home and a community, and that would propel him to Harvard Law School, where his sense of a greater mission emerged.Deftly setting Obamas political career against the galvanizing intersection of race and politics in Chicagos history, Remnick shows us how that citys complex racial legacy would make Obamas forays into politics a source of controversy and bare-knuckle tactics: his clashes with older black politicians in the Illinois State Senate, his disastrous decision to challenge the former Black Panther Bobby Rush for Congress in 2000, the sex scandals that would decimate his more experienced opponents in the 2004 Senate race, and the story-from both sides-of his confrontation with his former pastor, Jeremiah Wright.By looking at Obamas political rise through the prism of our racial history, Remnick gives us the conflicting agendas of black politicians: the dilemmas of men like Jesse Jackson, John Lewis, and Joseph Lowery,heroes of the civil rights movement, who are forced to reassess old loyalties and understand the priorities of a new generation of African-American leaders.The Bridge revisits the American drama of race, from slavery to civil rights, and makes clear how Obamas quest is not just his own but is emblematic of a nation where destiny is defined by individuals keen to imagine a future that is different from the reality of their current lives.
Verlag: Brand: Vintage, 2013
ISBN 10: 1400043131 ISBN 13: 9781400043132
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Hardcover. Zustand: Good. First Edition. An extraordinary literary event, a major new novel by the PEN/Faulkner winner and acclaimed master: a sweeping, seductive, deeply moving story set in the years after World War II.From his experiences as a young naval officer in battles off Okinawa, Philip Bowman returns to America and finds a position as a book editor. It is a time when publishing is still largely a private affair-a scattered family of small houses here and in Europe-a time of gatherings in fabled apartments and conversations that continue long into the night. In this world of dinners, deals, and literary careers, Bowman finds that he fits in perfectly. But despite his success, what eludes him is love. His first marriage goes bad, another fails to happen, and finally he meets a woman who enthralls him-before setting him on a course he could never have imagined for himself.Romantic and haunting, All That Is explores a life unfolding in a world on the brink of change. It is a dazzling, sometimes devastating labyrinth of love and ambition, a fiercely intimate account of the great shocks and grand pleasures of being alive.
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Verlag: Brand: Vintage Canada, 2009
ISBN 10: 0307355950 ISBN 13: 9780307355959
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Softcover. Zustand: Good. The Hells Angels. The Bandidos. Asian triads. Russian mobsters and corrupt cops. Even the KKK. Just part of a days work for Alex Caine, an undercover agent who has seen it all.Alex Caine started life as a working-class boy from Quebec who always thought hed end up in a blue-collar job. But after a tour in Vietnam and a stretch in prison on marijuana-possession charges, he fell into the cloak-and-dagger world of a contracted agent or kite: infiltrating criminal groups that cops across North America and around the globe were unable to penetrate themselves.Thanks to his quick-wittedness and his tough but unthreatening demeanour, Caine could fit into whatever unsavoury situation he found himself. Over twenty-five years, his assignments ran the gamut from bad-ass bikers to triad toughs. When a job was over, hed slip away to a new part of the continent or world, where he would assume a new identity and then go back to work on another group of bad guys.Told with page-turning immediacy, Befriend and Betray gives a candid look behind the scenes at some familiar police operations and blows the lid off others that law enforcement would much prefer to keep hidden. And it offers an unvarnished account of the toll such a life takes, one that often left Caine to wonder who he really was, behind those decades of assumed identities. Or whether justice was ever truly served.From the Hardcover edition.
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Verlag: Brand: Vintage Books, 1963
ISBN 10: 0394435087 ISBN 13: 9780394435084
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Softcover. Zustand: Good. First Edition. Before this book first appeared in 1963, most historians wrote as if the continental expansion of the United States were inevitable. What is most impressive, Henry Steele Commager and Richard Morris declared in 1956, is the ease, the simplicity, and seeming inevitability of the whole process. The notion of inevitability, however, is perhaps only a secular variation on the theme of the expansionist editor John L. OSullivan, who in 1845 coined one of the most famous phrases in American history when he wrote of our manifest destiny to overspread the continent allotted by Providence for the free development of our yearly multiplying millions. Frederick Merk rejected inevitability in favor of a more contingent interpretation of American expansionism in the 1840s. As his student Henry May later recalled, Merk loved to get the facts straight.<br />- From the Foreword by John Mack Faragher.
Verlag: Brand: Vintage, 2006
ISBN 10: 1400044561 ISBN 13: 9781400044566
Anbieter: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, USA
Hardcover. Zustand: New. An original and deeply insightful biography of Abraham Lincoln, already awarded the prestigious Lincoln Prize.As a defender of national unity, a leader in war, and the emancipator of slaves, Abraham Lincoln lays ample claim to being the greatest of our presidents. But the story of his rise to greatness is as complex as it is compelling. In this superb biography, the highly regarded Oxford University historian Richard Carwardine examines Lincoln both in his dramatic political journey and in his nation-shaping White House years. Through his groundbreaking research, Carwardine probes the sources of Lincolns moral and political philosophy. We see how, while pursuing office, Lincoln drew strength from public opinion and the machinery of his party. We see him, as a wartime president, recognizing the limits as well as the possibilities of power, and the necessity of looking for support beyond his own administration. We see how he turned to the churches, to their humanitarian agencies, and to the volunteer Union Army for allies in his struggle to end slavery.In illuminating the political talents that went hand in hand with large and serious moral purpose, Carwardine gives us a fresh, important portrait of the incomparable Abraham Lincoln.
Verlag: Brand: Vintage Canada, 2023
ISBN 10: 0676972594 ISBN 13: 9780676972597
Anbieter: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, USA
Softcover. Zustand: Good. 4th Printing. Book by Gabor Mate.
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Verlag: Brand: Vintage Contemporaries/ Vintag, 2002
ISBN 10: 0143012312 ISBN 13: 9780143012313
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Softcover. Zustand: Good. First Paperback. Product Description In this superb new collection from one of our best and best-loved writers, nine stories draw us immediately into that special place known as Alice Munro territory-a place where an unexpected twist of events or a suddenly recaptured memory can trace the arc of an entire life. The fate of a strong-minded housekeeper with a "frizz of reddish hair,"just entering the dangerous country of old-maidhood, is unintentionally (and deliciously) reversed by a teenaged girls practical joke. A college student, visiting her aunt for the first time, stumbles on a long-hidden secret and its meaning in her own life. An inveterate philanderer finds the tables turned when he puts his wife into an old-age home. A young cancer patient, stunned by good news, discovers a perfect bridge to her suddenly regained future. A woman, remembering an afternoon's wild lovemaking with a stranger, realizes how the memory of that encounter has both changed for her and sustained her through a lifetime.Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage provides the deep pleasures and rewards that Alice Munro's large and ever-growing audience has come to expect. About the Author Alice Munro grew up in Wingham, Ontario, and attended the University of Western Ontario. She has published sixteen books - Dance of the Happy Shades; Lives of Girls and Women, Something Ive Been Meaning to Tell You; Who Do You Think You Are?; The Moons of Jupiter; The Progress of Love; Friend of My Youth; Open Secrets; Selected Stories; The Love of a Good Woman; Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage; Runaway; The View from Castle Rock; Alice Munros Best, Too Much Happiness, and Dear Life. During her distinguished career she has been the recipient of many awards and prizes, including the recent Nobel Prize in Literature which cited her as a master of the contemporary short story. Here at home she has won too many awards to list, including three Governor Generals Literary Awards, two Giller Prizes, several Trillium Prizes and a number of Libris Awards. Elsewhere she has won the Rea Award for the Short Story, the Lannan Literary Award, Englands W. H. Smith Book Award, Italys Pescara prize, the United States National Book Critics Circle Award, and the Edward MacDowell Medal in literature. Her stories have appeared in The New Yorker, The Atlantic Monthly, Saturday Night, The Paris Review, and other publications, and her collections have been translated into thirteen languages.Alice Munro divides her time between Clinton, Ontario, and Comox, British Columbia.
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Verlag: Brand: Vintage, 2013
ISBN 10: 034580421X ISBN 13: 9780345804211
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Softcover. Zustand: Good. 1. Pages: 49 Language: Spanish Publisher: Vintage Books Hill. Napoleon. Stone. W. Clement.
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Verlag: Brand: Vintage Canada, 2008
ISBN 10: 030735704X ISBN 13: 9780307357045
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Softcover. Zustand: Good. Product DescriptionA smart, accessible and funny cultural analysis of The Simpsons, its inside stories and the world it reflects.From Bart Simpson to Monty Burns, the Internet boom to the slow drowning of Tuvalu, Planet Simpson explores how one of the most popular shows in television history has changed the way we look at our bewildering times. Award-winning journalist Chris Turner delves into the most esoteric of Simpsons fansites and on-line subcultures, the shows inside jokes, its sharpest parodies and its ongoing love-hate relationship with celebrity to reveal a rarity of literary accomplishment and pop-cultural import - something never before achieved by a cartoon.Complementing its satirical brilliance, The Simpsons boasts a beloved cast of characters, examined here in playful and scrupulous detail: Homer, selfish, tyrannical and not too bright, but always contentedly beholden to his family; Bart, pre-teen nihilist and punk icon; Lisa, junior feminist crusader; and Marge, archetypical middle-American mother, perpetually dragging her family kicking and screaming to higher moral ground. And while the voice actors behind the regular cast have eschewed celebrity, Turner considers why a stunning host of guests - Hollywood icons and has-beens, politicians, professional athletes, poets and pop stars - have submitted themselves to the parodic whims of the Simpsons writers.Intelligent and rambunctious, absorbing and comic, Planet Simpson mines this modern cultural institution for its imaginative, hilarious, but always dead-on, reflections on our world.Excerpt from Planet SimpsonThree Fun Facts About Doh!1. The Oxford English Dictionary defines doh as Expressing frustration at the realization that things have turned out badly or not as planned, or that one has just said or done something foolish.2. The origins of Doh! A Tracey Ullman-era Simpsons script called for Homer to respond to an unfortunate turn of events thus: [annoyed grunt]. Dan Castellaneta, the voice-actor who plays Homer, improvised the exclamation, Doh! It stuck.3. The godfather of Doh! Dan Castellaneta freely admits that he lifted Homers famous yelp from James Finlayson, a Scottish actor who played a bald, cross-eyed villain in a number of Laurel & Hardy films in the 1930s. Finlaysons annoyed grunt was a more drawn-out groan - Doooohhh! Castellaneta sped it up to create Homers trademark.Review"Award-winning magazine (Shift) writer and Calgarian Chris Turner has produced and absolutely must-have tome for the many Simpsons freaks, not just an over-sized fans guide but an absorbing take on why it matters."-Toronto Star"Apparently, without my knowing, enough time officially passed to lay proper judgement on the 90s. And here it is: Chris Turners Planet Simpson, a brilliant critique of western culture from the mid-90s to the present using his favourite TV show - The Simpsons - as the model, the backdrop, the mirror, the imperfect world-in-miniature.Turner understands pop culture in a way few others of his generation have been able to articulate thus far."-The Record (Kitchener-Waterloo)About the AuthorChris Turners pop-culture and technology reporting for Shift earned him six National Magazine Awards in three years, including the Presidents Medal for General Excellence in 2001, the highest honour in Canadian magazine writing. His acclaimed Shift essay The Simpsons Generation was reprinted in newspapers across North America. His writing has also appeared regularly in Time, The Globe and Mail and the National Post Business magazine. Turner lives in Calgary.Excerpt. Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved.INTRODUCTION: The Birth of the Simpsonian InstitutionI wish it was the sixtiesI wish I could be happyI wish, I wish, I wish that something would happen-Radiohead, The BendsOnce in a great while, we are privileged to experience a television event so extraordinary, it becomes part of our shar.
Verlag: Brand: VINTAGE (RAND), 1992
ISBN 10: 0749399465 ISBN 13: 9780749399467
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Softcover. Zustand: Good. New Ed. BRAND NEW, Exactly same ISBN as listed, Please double check ISBN carefully before ordering.
Verlag: Bear Brand Manufacturing Co./Iva Rose Vintage Reproductions:, 2005
Anbieter: PASCALE'S BOOKS, NORTH READING, MA, USA
Spiral Bound Softcover. Zustand: Fine. 192 pages, illustrated with b&w photographs. "This book is a reproduction, first published in 2005, is an unabridged republication of the work originally published in 1911 by Bear Brand Manufacturing Co., New York." FINE SPIRAL BOUND SOFTCOVER. Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.
Verlag: Bear Brand Manufacturing Co./Iva Rose Vintage Reproductions:, 2005
Anbieter: PASCALE'S BOOKS, NORTH READING, MA, USA
Spiral Bound Softcover. Zustand: Fine. 192 pages, illustrated with b&w photographs. "This book is a reproduction, first published in 2005, is an unabridged republication of the work originally published in 1915 by Bear Brand Manufacturing Co., New York." FINE SPIRAL BOUND SOFTCOVER. Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.
Verlag: Brand: Vintage, 2013
ISBN 10: 0345805399 ISBN 13: 9780345805393
Anbieter: Books of the Smoky Mountains, Del Rio, TN, USA
Zustand: very good. Gently used book with ongoing seller support until you're fully satisfied with your purchase.
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Verlag: Brand: Vintage Canada, 2007
ISBN 10: 0676979459 ISBN 13: 9780676979459
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Verlag: Brand: Vintage Books, 2002
ISBN 10: 1860469884 ISBN 13: 9781860469886
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Verlag: Brand: Vintage Espanol, 2013
ISBN 10: 0345807057 ISBN 13: 9780345807052
Anbieter: Books of the Smoky Mountains, Del Rio, TN, USA
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Verlag: Brand: Vintage Digital, 2012
ISBN 10: 0224083368 ISBN 13: 9780224083362
Anbieter: Front Cover Books, Denver, CO, USA
Zustand: new.
Verlag: Brand: Vintage Antique Classics, 2009
ISBN 10: 0982352719 ISBN 13: 9780982352717
Anbieter: Front Cover Books, Denver, CO, USA
Zustand: new.
Verlag: Brand: Vintage Pressworks, 2000
ISBN 10: 0970688407 ISBN 13: 9780970688408
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Verlag: Brand: Vintage Canada, 2007
ISBN 10: 0676979661 ISBN 13: 9780676979664
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Verlag: Brand: Vintage Espanol, 2013
ISBN 10: 0345805364 ISBN 13: 9780345805362
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Softcover. Zustand: Good. Viajé, amé, perdí, confié y me traicionaron.En una posada en tierra de nadie, un hombre de dispone a relatar, por primera vez, la auténtica historia de su vida. Una historia que únicamente él conoce y que ha quedado diluida tras los rumores y los cuentos de taberna que lo han convertido en un personaje legendario a quien todos daban ya por muerto: Kvothemúsico, mendigo, ladrón, estudiante, mago, héroe y asesino. Ahora va a revelar la verdad sobre sí mismo. Y para ello debe empezar por el principio: su infancia en una troupe de artistas nómadas, los aos viviendo como un ladrón en las calles de una gran ciudad y su llegada a una universidad donde esperaba encontrar todas las respuestas que había estado buscando.
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Verlag: Brand: Vintage Digital, 2004
ISBN 10: 0712667873 ISBN 13: 9780712667876
Anbieter: Front Cover Books, Denver, CO, USA
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Verlag: Brand: Vintage Canada, 2002
ISBN 10: 0676973779 ISBN 13: 9780676973778
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Verlag: Brand: VINTAGE BOOKS CANADA, 2004
ISBN 10: 0676975380 ISBN 13: 9780676975383
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Verlag: Brand: Vintage, 1972
ISBN 10: 0394718518 ISBN 13: 9780394718514
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Softcover. Zustand: Good. <b>The debut poetry collection from one of feminisms most passionate voices, with a new preface by the author</b><br /><br /> Well before Robin Morgan was known as a feminist leader, literary magazines published her as a serious poet, and in 1979 she received a National Endowment for the Arts Creative Writing Fellowship in poetry. <i>Monster</i>, her first collection, originally published in 1972, contains work that will astonish, disorient, and move readers in powerful ways.<br /><br /> But <i>Monster</i> is more than just a book; it has become a phenomenon. Written at a time of political turmoil during the birth of contemporary feminism, the title poem was adopted by women as the anthem of the womens movement; it was chanted at demonstrations and some of its lines became slogans. Arraignment stirred an international controversy over Ted Hughess influence on Sylvia Plaths suicide-complete with lawsuits, the banning of this book, and the publication of underground, pirated feminist editions, all of which Morgan reveals in her new preface.<br /><br /> From her well-wrought poems in classical forms to the searing energy and poignant lyricism of the longer, later ones, Morgans work when it was first released spoke to women hungry for validation of their own reality-and the book sold thirty thousand copies in hardcover alone in its first six months, which was unheard of for poetry. <br /><br /> Available now for the first time in years, <i>Monster </i>is an intense, propulsive journey deep into the heart of one of feminisms greatest heroes.<br />
Verlag: Brand: Vintage, 2012
ISBN 10: 0307951189 ISBN 13: 9780307951182
Anbieter: Books of the Smoky Mountains, Del Rio, TN, USA
Zustand: very good. Gently used book with ongoing seller support until you're fully satisfied with your purchase.
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Verlag: Brand: Vintage Digital, 1999
ISBN 10: 0712666869 ISBN 13: 9780712666862
Anbieter: Front Cover Books, Denver, CO, USA
Zustand: new.
Verlag: Brand: VINTAGE GUITAR MAGAZINE, 2007
ISBN 10: 1884883192 ISBN 13: 9781884883194
Anbieter: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, USA
Softcover. Zustand: Good. (Book). The Official Vintage Guitar Magazine Price Guide continues to be the industry-leading reference for values on vintage and collectible guitars, basses, lap steels, mandolins, ukuleles, banjos, amps, and effects. The expanded 2008 edition spans over 500 pages and includes information on more than 1,400 brands and more than 1,000 photos, plus a detailed look at the "hows" and "whys" of the collectible instrument market. This guide is the only such work to cover all this in one very affordable volume!.
Verlag: Brand: Vintage Guitar Books, 2004
ISBN 10: 1884883168 ISBN 13: 9781884883163
Anbieter: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, USA
Softcover. Zustand: Good. 2005 ed. Now in its 14th year The Official Vintage Guitar Price Guide continues to be the most accurate, authoritative, and detailed publication to tackle the seemingly impossible task of placing values on thousands of vintage and recent-model guitars, amps, basses, effects pedals, mandolins, lapsteels, and ukuleles. Plus, the VG Price Guide is the only one to do it all in one book! Authors Alan Greenwood and Gil Hembree have again expanded their ultimate price guide to over 400 pages, featuring histories, details, and values on over 1,200 brands, with over 800 photos of all forms of vintage instruments, amps, and effects. The VG Price Guide combines thorough research with its user-friendly format, employing quick-find page headings, page-edge tabs, a comprehensive index, and a dealer directory that puts you just an e-mail or phone call away from guitar buyers and sellers in every region of the country. Also included is an in-depth look at the factors that drive the collectible instrument market, explaining the "hows and whys" in regard to the values of vintage and used equipment.