knopf doubleday publishing group okt 2007 (10 Ergebnisse)

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - A collection of masterful stories from the bestselling, award-winning author of A Visit from the Goon Squad: Boldly modulated tales of displacement and blazing moments of truth. Riveting, vaguely Hitchcockian. Piercingly tender. Outstanding' (The New York Times Book Review).These elegant and poignant stories Egan's first collection deal with loneliness and longing, regret and desire. Egan s characters models and housewives, bankers and schoolgirls are united by their search for something outside their own realm of experience. They set out from locations as exotic as China and Bora Bora, as cosmopolitan as downtown Manhattan, or as familiar as suburban Illinois to seek their own transformations. The stories in Emerald City are seamless evocations of self-discovery.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'A love story of astonishing power.' - NewsweekThe International Bestseller and modern literary classic by Nobel Prize-winning author Gabriel Garcia MarquezIn their youth, Florentino Ariza and Fermina Daza fall passionately in love. When Fermina eventually chooses to marry a wealthy, well-born doctor, Florentino is devastated, but he is a romantic. As he rises in his business career he whiles away the years in 622 affairs--yet he reserves his heart for Fermina. Her husband dies at last, and Florentino purposefully attends the funeral. Fifty years, nine months, and four days after he first declared his love for Fermina, he will do so again.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - A fresh, engaging look at how 32 carved pieces on a board forever changed our understanding of war, art, science, and the human brain.Chess is the most enduring and universal game in history. Here, bestselling author David Shenk chronicles its intriguing saga, from ancient Persia to medieval Europe to the dens of Benjamin Franklin and Norman Schwarzkopf. Along the way, he examines a single legendary game that took place in London in 1851 between two masters of the time, and relays his own attempts to become as skilled as his Polish ancestor Samuel Rosenthal, a nineteenth-century champion. With its blend of cultural history and Shenk's lively personal narrative, The Immortal Game is a compelling guide for novices and aficionados alike.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER The epic novel based on the life of Valentino Achak Deng who, along with thousands of other children the so-called Lost Boys was forced to leave his village in Sudan at the age of seven and trek hundreds of miles by foot, pursued by militias, government bombers, and wild animals, crossing the deserts of three countries to find freedom. When he finally is resettled in the United States, he finds a life full of promise, but also heartache and myriad new challenges. Moving, suspenseful, and unexpectedly funny, What Is the What is an astonishing novel that illuminates the lives of millions through one extraordinary man. A testament to the triumph of hope over experience, human resilience over tragedy and disaster. Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times'An absolute classic. Compelling, important, and vital to the understanding of the politics and emotional consequences of oppression.' People.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Beloved for his fanciful and engrossing children's literature, controversial for his enthusiasm for British imperialism, Rudyard Kipling remains one of the most widely read writers of Victorian and modern English literature. In addition to writing more than two dozen works of fiction, including Kim and The Jungle Book, Kipling was a prolific poet, composing verse in every classical form from the epigram to the ode. Kipling's most distinctive gift was for ballads and narrative poems in which he drew vivid characters in universal situations, articulating profound truths in plain language. Yet he was also a subtle, affecting anatomist of the human heart, and his deep feeling for the natural world was exquisitely expressed in his verse. He was shattered by World War I, in which he lost his only son, and his work darkened in later years but never lost its extraordinary vitality. All of these aspects of Kipling's poetry are represented in this selection, which ranges from such well-known compositions as 'Mandalay" and 'If" to the less-familiar, emotionally powerful, and personal epigrams he wrote in response to the war.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - A magnificent history of the American conquest of the West; 'a story full of authority and color, truth and prophecy' (The New York Times Book Review).In the summer of 1846, the Army of the West marched through Santa Fe, en route to invade and occupy the Western territories claimed by Mexico. Fueled by the new ideology of 'Manifest Destiny,' this land grab would lead to a decades-long battle between the United States and the Navajos, the fiercely resistant rulers of a huge swath of mountainous desert wilderness.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Now joining Everyman's Library-the most extensive and distinguished collectible library of the world's greatest works-is an appealing new collection in a small Pocket Classics format, perfect for gift giving and reading pleasure.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The definitive portrait of one of the most important cultural figures in American history: Walt Disney.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Kahlil Gibran (illustrator). Neuware - For the first time, all the major works of this beloved writer are gathered together in one hardcover volume.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - A lavishly illustratedtourof thirty-six spectacular houses and gardens, whose owners come from the worlds of fashion, music, art, and society drawn fromthe pages of Vogue and Vogue Living as well as never-before-published images by iconic photographers Foreword by Calvin KleinVogue Living: Houses, Gardens, People takes you to the private realms of style-makers around the world, captured by such celebrated photographers as Miles Aldridge, Cecil Beaton, Jonathan Becker, Eric Boman, Oberto Gili, François Halard, Horst P. Horst, Annie Leibovitz, Sheila Metzner, Mario Testino, Tim Walker, and Bruce Weber, among many others. Their dazzling photographs bring to life interiors and exteriors, modern and classical, that are both inspiring and transporting. Writers like Hamish Bowles, Joan Juliet Buck, Dodie Kazanjian, Eve MacSweeney, Julia Reed, Marina Rust, and Vicki Woods take us behind the scenes to give us an intimate view of the owners and how they live.Here are Madonna s romantic rural retreat in the depths of the English countryside and Oscar de la Renta s coral-stone Palladian mansion on the coast of the Dominican Republic; Michael and Eva Chow s epic Los Angeles manse and shoe maestro Christian Louboutin s magical houseboat on the Nile; Donna Karan s Zenlike Manhattan aerie and legendary tastemaker Marella Agnelli s enchanted villa and gardens in the Palmeraie of Marrakesh; Julian and Olatz Schnabel s operatic downtown loft and childrenswear designer Rachel Riley s miniature château on the Loire; celebrated landscape gardener Fernando Caruncho s innovative Spanish gardens and Houghton, David Cholmondeley s magnificent English stately home; Janet de Botton s idyllic Provençal estate; and four decades of Karl Lagerfeld s endlessly surprising houses, both innovative and palatial.Vogue Living: Houses, Gardens, People is an irresistible voyage through some of the world s most beautiful and private gardens and interiors.