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Brand: Stephen Westaby
EAN: 9780008196783
Categoria: Libri e riviste
SHORTLISTED FOR THE COSTA BIOGRAPHY PRIZE\n \n\n\n \n THE SUNDAY TIMES NO.2 BESTSELLER\n \n\n\n \n WINNER OF THE BMA PRESIDENT'S AWARD 2017\n \n\n\n An incredible memoir from one of the world's most eminent heart surgeons, recalling some of the most remarkable and poignant cases he's worked on.\n\n\n Grim Reaper sits on the heart surgeon's shoulder. A slip of the hand and life ebbs away.\n\n\n The balance between life and death is so delicate, and the heart surgeon walks that rope between the two. In the operating room there is no time for doubt. It is flesh, blood, rib-retractors and pumping the vital organ with your bare hand to squeeze the life back into it. An off-day can have dire consequences - this job has a steep learning curve, and the cost is measured in human life. Cardiac surgery is not for the faint of heart.\n\n\n Professor Stephen Westaby took chances and pushed the boundaries of heart surgery. He saved hundreds of lives over the course of a thirty-five year career and now, in his astounding memoir, Westaby details some of his most remarkable and poignant cases - such as the baby who had suffered multiple heart attacks by six months old, a woman who lived the nightmare of locked-in syndrome, and a man whose life was powered by a battery for eight years.\n\n\n A powerful, important and incredibly moving book, Fragile Lives offers an exceptional insight into the exhilarating and sometimes tragic world of heart surgery, and how it feels to hold someone's life in your hands.
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13.74 EUR
Stephen Westaby Fragile Lives: A Heart Surgeon's Stories Of Life And Death On The Operating Table
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Spedizione: 2.7 EUR
Brand: Stephen Westaby
EAN: 9780008196783
Categoria: Libri e riviste
SHORTLISTED FOR THE COSTA BIOGRAPHY PRIZE\n \n\n\n \n THE SUNDAY TIMES NO.2 BESTSELLER\n \n\n\n \n WINNER OF THE BMA PRESIDENT'S AWARD 2017\n \n\n\n An incredible memoir from one of the world's most eminent heart surgeons, recalling some of the most remarkable and poignant cases he's worked on.\n\n\n Grim Reaper sits on the heart surgeon's shoulder. A slip of the hand and life ebbs away.\n\n\n The balance between life and death is so delicate, and the heart surgeon walks that rope between the two. In the operating room there is no time for doubt. It is flesh, blood, rib-retractors and pumping the vital organ with your bare hand to squeeze the life back into it. An off-day can have dire consequences - this job has a steep learning curve, and the cost is measured in human life. Cardiac surgery is not for the faint of heart.\n\n\n Professor Stephen Westaby took chances and pushed the boundaries of heart surgery. He saved hundreds of lives over the course of a thirty-five year career and now, in his astounding memoir, Westaby details some of his most remarkable and poignant cases - such as the baby who had suffered multiple heart attacks by six months old, a woman who lived the nightmare of locked-in syndrome, and a man whose life was powered by a battery for eight years.\n\n\n A powerful, important and incredibly moving book, Fragile Lives offers an exceptional insight into the exhilarating and sometimes tragic world of heart surgery, and how it feels to hold someone's life in your hands.
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Brand: Mark O'connell
EAN: 9781783781980
Categoria: Libri e riviste
WINNER OF THE WELLCOME BOOK PRIZE 2018\nShortlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize 2017\n\nA stunning new non-fiction voice tackles an urgent question... what next for mankind?\n\n\n'Troubling and humorous, this is one of my current give-it-to-everyone books - I buy six copies at a time'\nJeanette Winterson
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- Mark O'connell -
12.49 EUR
Mark O'connell To Be A Machine: Adventures Among Cyborgs, Utopians, Hackers, And The Futurists Solving The Modest Problem Of Death
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Spedizione: 2.7 EUR
Brand: Mark O'connell
EAN: 9781783781980
Categoria: Libri e riviste
WINNER OF THE WELLCOME BOOK PRIZE 2018\nShortlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize 2017\n\nA stunning new non-fiction voice tackles an urgent question... what next for mankind?\n\n\n'Troubling and humorous, this is one of my current give-it-to-everyone books - I buy six copies at a time'\nJeanette Winterson
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Brand: Joshua Williamson;xermanico Xermanico
EAN: 9781779511997
Categoria: Libri e riviste
Dark Nights: Death Metal, the blockbuster sequel to the 2017 event by Scott Snyder and Greg Capullo, rocked comics shops in 2020--and now DC collects this essential tie-in tale starring the Justice League, written by Snyder's frequent collaborator Joshua Williamson! As this epic begins, Nightwing is on a mission to Brimstone Bay to rescue the evil Legion of Doom from the clutches of Perpetua--but to do so, he'll need help from none other than Lex Luthor! Along the way, fans will see a reunion of New Teen Titans Nightwing, Cyborg, and Starfire; Detective Chimp will reveal his darkest secret; Hawkgirl hunts the Martian Manhunter; and, at last, the Legion of Doom will be freed--but will they help the Justice League or betray them? Collects Justice League #53-57.
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- Joshua Williamson;xermanico Xermanico -
18.74 EUR
Joshua Williamson;xermanico Xermanico Justice League: Death Metal
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Spedizione: 2.7 EUR
Brand: Joshua Williamson;xermanico Xermanico
EAN: 9781779511997
Categoria: Libri e riviste
Dark Nights: Death Metal, the blockbuster sequel to the 2017 event by Scott Snyder and Greg Capullo, rocked comics shops in 2020--and now DC collects this essential tie-in tale starring the Justice League, written by Snyder's frequent collaborator Joshua Williamson! As this epic begins, Nightwing is on a mission to Brimstone Bay to rescue the evil Legion of Doom from the clutches of Perpetua--but to do so, he'll need help from none other than Lex Luthor! Along the way, fans will see a reunion of New Teen Titans Nightwing, Cyborg, and Starfire; Detective Chimp will reveal his darkest secret; Hawkgirl hunts the Martian Manhunter; and, at last, the Legion of Doom will be freed--but will they help the Justice League or betray them? Collects Justice League #53-57.
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Brand: Various
EAN: 9781779510068
Categoria: Libri e riviste
In 2017 writer Scott Snyder and artist Greg Capullo took the bold and bombastic sensibilities that made their Batman run a fan-favourite and broadened their scope to include other icons from the DC Universe. The result: Dark Nights: Metal one of the most popular and consequential DC stories in recent memory. What do the world s mightiest heroes feel right before combat? As the Dark Multiverse envelops the Earth, unveil how the heroes prepare for battle in what could be the last fight for their existence if the Justice League knows anything, it s that heroes never go down without a fight! Collects Dark Nights: Death Metal The Last 52: War of the Multiverse #1, Dark Nights: Death Metal The Last Stories of the DCU #1.
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- Various -
21.24 EUR
Various Dark Nights: Death Metal: War Of The Multiverses
Lafeltrinelli.it
Spedizione: 2.7 EUR
Brand: Various
EAN: 9781779510068
Categoria: Libri e riviste
In 2017 writer Scott Snyder and artist Greg Capullo took the bold and bombastic sensibilities that made their Batman run a fan-favourite and broadened their scope to include other icons from the DC Universe. The result: Dark Nights: Metal one of the most popular and consequential DC stories in recent memory. What do the world s mightiest heroes feel right before combat? As the Dark Multiverse envelops the Earth, unveil how the heroes prepare for battle in what could be the last fight for their existence if the Justice League knows anything, it s that heroes never go down without a fight! Collects Dark Nights: Death Metal The Last 52: War of the Multiverse #1, Dark Nights: Death Metal The Last Stories of the DCU #1.
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Brand: Arlen Grad Gaines;meredith Englander Polsky
EAN: 9781785927508
Categoria: Libri e riviste
Winner of a Moonbeam Children's Book Award 2017\nI Have a Question about... is a 2018 Winner of the Moonbeam Children's Book Award Silver Medal for Best Book Series - Non-Fiction \n\nDeath is a difficult topic for any parent or educator to explain to a child, perhaps even more so when they are autistic or have other special needs. This book is designed specifically to help children with these additional needs to understand what happens when someone dies. \n\nThe first book of its kind, I Have a Question about Death uses straightforward text and images to walk children through what it means when someone dies, as well as ways they might want to react or to think about the person. Using clear illustrations throughout and with information for parents and guardians, this book is essential for families who need to talk about death with any child aged 5-11.
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- Arlen Grad Gaines;meredith Englander Polsky -
17.49 EUR
Arlen Grad Gaines;meredith Englander Polsky I Have A Question About Death: Clear Answers For All Kids, Including Children With Autism Spectrum Disorder Or Other Special Needs
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Spedizione: 2.7 EUR
Brand: Arlen Grad Gaines;meredith Englander Polsky
EAN: 9781785927508
Categoria: Libri e riviste
Winner of a Moonbeam Children's Book Award 2017\nI Have a Question about... is a 2018 Winner of the Moonbeam Children's Book Award Silver Medal for Best Book Series - Non-Fiction \n\nDeath is a difficult topic for any parent or educator to explain to a child, perhaps even more so when they are autistic or have other special needs. This book is designed specifically to help children with these additional needs to understand what happens when someone dies. \n\nThe first book of its kind, I Have a Question about Death uses straightforward text and images to walk children through what it means when someone dies, as well as ways they might want to react or to think about the person. Using clear illustrations throughout and with information for parents and guardians, this book is essential for families who need to talk about death with any child aged 5-11.
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- Brian Brivati -
25 EUR
Brian Brivati Icarus: The Life And Death Of The Abraaj Group
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Brand: Brian Brivati
EAN: 9781785907180
Categoria: Libri e riviste
In 2017, Arif Naqvi and The Abraaj Group were on the brink of changing the world of private equity. Abraaj was a pioneer of a new model of impact investing built on the idea that making money and doing good are not mutually exclusive. It had helped transform communities and companies across the Middle East, Asia, Africa and Latin America by investing in healthcare, education and clean energy, and in 2017 it was on the threshold of closing a new fund that would provide $6 billion worth of investment to these emerging markets. But then it all came crashing down.\n\nOn 10 April 2019, after landing at London Heathrow, Naqvi was arrested on fraud charges. He is facing extradition to the United States and a potential prison sentence of up to 291 years if he is found guilty.\n\nThe dominant media narrative has painted Naqvi as a thief and fraudster, the so-called key man in an organised criminal conspiracy. But in this explosive new book, which is based on extensive research and interviews with key players, Brian Brivati discovers that things are not quite what they seem and finds that in this case of alleged fraud there is actually no money missing. Icarus explores how Abraaj found itself caught in the middle of a geopolitical war between the United States and China and when it would not bow to the whims of these global behemoths, economic hitmen tried to wipe it out.
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EAN: 9781785907180
Categoria: Libri e riviste
In 2017, Arif Naqvi and The Abraaj Group were on the brink of changing the world of private equity. Abraaj was a pioneer of a new model of impact investing built on the idea that making money and doing good are not mutually exclusive. It had helped transform communities and companies across the Middle East, Asia, Africa and Latin America by investing in healthcare, education and clean energy, and in 2017 it was on the threshold of closing a new fund that would provide $6 billion worth of investment to these emerging markets. But then it all came crashing down.\n\nOn 10 April 2019, after landing at London Heathrow, Naqvi was arrested on fraud charges. He is facing extradition to the United States and a potential prison sentence of up to 291 years if he is found guilty.\n\nThe dominant media narrative has painted Naqvi as a thief and fraudster, the so-called key man in an organised criminal conspiracy. But in this explosive new book, which is based on extensive research and interviews with key players, Brian Brivati discovers that things are not quite what they seem and finds that in this case of alleged fraud there is actually no money missing. Icarus explores how Abraaj found itself caught in the middle of a geopolitical war between the United States and China and when it would not bow to the whims of these global behemoths, economic hitmen tried to wipe it out.
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Brand: Silva Kito
EAN: 9788833611556
Categoria: Libri e riviste
È il 14 settembre 2017. Luis e Tania, due amici segretamente innamorati, notano dei disordini nella loro città: Iria sta per essere presa d’assalto dai morti viventi. In uno scenario distopico Luis e Tania si troveranno a combattere due guerre: una contro gli zombie, l’altra più intima tra le crepe dei loro cuori. Le loro vite s’intrecceranno a quella di Angelica, l’erede ideale di Luis, e agli eroi del quotidiano, rappresentati dagli uomini delle forze dell’ordine. Il lettore scoverà le paure di ogni singolo individuo e questa città invasa da zombie diverrà la metafora del nichilismo del mondo contemporaneo. L’unica via di salvezza per l’umanità è rappresentata dal valore della vera amicizia.
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- Silva Kito -
17 EUR 17.9 EUR
Silva Kito Life X Death. Day One. Ediz. Italiana
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Spedizione: 2.7 EUR
Brand: Silva Kito
EAN: 9788833611556
Categoria: Libri e riviste
È il 14 settembre 2017. Luis e Tania, due amici segretamente innamorati, notano dei disordini nella loro città: Iria sta per essere presa d’assalto dai morti viventi. In uno scenario distopico Luis e Tania si troveranno a combattere due guerre: una contro gli zombie, l’altra più intima tra le crepe dei loro cuori. Le loro vite s’intrecceranno a quella di Angelica, l’erede ideale di Luis, e agli eroi del quotidiano, rappresentati dagli uomini delle forze dell’ordine. Il lettore scoverà le paure di ogni singolo individuo e questa città invasa da zombie diverrà la metafora del nichilismo del mondo contemporaneo. L’unica via di salvezza per l’umanità è rappresentata dal valore della vera amicizia.
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- Ephraim Mattos;scott Mcewen -
40 EUR
Ephraim Mattos;scott Mcewen City Of Death: Humanitarian Warriors In The Battle Of Mosul
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Brand: Ephraim Mattos;scott Mcewen
EAN: 9781546081821
Categoria: Libri e riviste
After leaving the US Navy SEAL Teams in Spring of 2017, Ephraim Mattos, age 24, flew to Iraq to join a small group of volunteer humanitarians known as the Free Burma Rangers, who were working on the frontlines of the war on ISIS. \n\nUntil being shot by ISIS on a suicidal rescue mission, Mattos witnessed unexplainable acts of courage and sacrifice by the Free Burma Rangers who, while under heavy machine gun and mortar fire, assaulted across ISIS minefields, used themselves as human shields, and sprinted down ISIS infested streets-all to retrieve wounded civilians.\n\nIn City of Death: Humanitarian Warriors In the Battle of Mosul, Mattos recounts in vivid detail what he saw and felt while he and the other Free Burma Rangers evacuated the wounded, conducted rescue missions, and at times fought shoulder-to-shoulder with the Iraqi Army against ISIS. Filled with raw and emotional detail of what it's like to come face-to-face with death, this is the harrowing and uplifting true story of a small group of men who laid down their lives to save the lives of the Iraqi people and who chose to live or die by the words, \"Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.\"\n\nAs the co-Author of the #1 New York Times bestselling American Sniper, Scott McEwen has teamed up with Mattos to help create an unforgettable true story of an American warrior turned humanitarian forced to fight his way into and out of a Hell on Earth created by ISIS
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EAN: 9781546081821
Categoria: Libri e riviste
After leaving the US Navy SEAL Teams in Spring of 2017, Ephraim Mattos, age 24, flew to Iraq to join a small group of volunteer humanitarians known as the Free Burma Rangers, who were working on the frontlines of the war on ISIS. \n\nUntil being shot by ISIS on a suicidal rescue mission, Mattos witnessed unexplainable acts of courage and sacrifice by the Free Burma Rangers who, while under heavy machine gun and mortar fire, assaulted across ISIS minefields, used themselves as human shields, and sprinted down ISIS infested streets-all to retrieve wounded civilians.\n\nIn City of Death: Humanitarian Warriors In the Battle of Mosul, Mattos recounts in vivid detail what he saw and felt while he and the other Free Burma Rangers evacuated the wounded, conducted rescue missions, and at times fought shoulder-to-shoulder with the Iraqi Army against ISIS. Filled with raw and emotional detail of what it's like to come face-to-face with death, this is the harrowing and uplifting true story of a small group of men who laid down their lives to save the lives of the Iraqi people and who chose to live or die by the words, \"Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.\"\n\nAs the co-Author of the #1 New York Times bestselling American Sniper, Scott McEwen has teamed up with Mattos to help create an unforgettable true story of an American warrior turned humanitarian forced to fight his way into and out of a Hell on Earth created by ISIS
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- J. C. Jeremy Hobson -
25 EUR
J. C. Jeremy Hobson David Shepherd: Artist And Conservationist
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Brand: J. C. Jeremy Hobson
EAN: 9781846893322
Categoria: Libri e riviste
In 1975, David Shepherd wrote The Man Who Loves Giants – an autobiography. Even though he was only forty-four, he had already achieved more than most could have in three lifetimes. In the intervening years, until his death in 2017, he painted a huge variety of subjects; founded the David Shepherd Wildlife Foundation; renovated and restored everything from steam engines to dolls’ houses; and appeared on both radio and television.\n\n‘Being the extrovert I am,’ he once said, ‘I like things large and exciting … especially elephants …’ However, this enthusiasm wasn’t restricted to animals; it extended to his love and ownership of several full-sized steam engines, including locomotive number 92203, otherwise known as Black Prince.\n\nDavid’s friends ranged from showbiz celebrities to well-known sportsmen and women; and British and European royalty to internationally influential politicians and presidents. He was awarded the Order of the Golden Ark by Prince Bernhard of the Netherlands for his services to conservation in Zambia, and the Order of Distinguished Service, First Class, by President Kaunda. Her Majesty The Queen presented David with the OBE and CBE.\n\nDavid’s first gallery successes were not of the African wildlife for which he is now best known. London scenes, planes, boats and trains have long featured in his portfolio – as do English landscapes and bygone rural life.\n\nSince David’s autobiography, no book has dealt so comprehensively with his life, painting, and conservation work as this biography by J. C. Jeremy Hobson, professional author and David’s youngest son-in-law. With access to family archives and photographs, private diaries and reminiscences, this is a unique portrait of a remarkable man.
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EAN: 9781846893322
Categoria: Libri e riviste
In 1975, David Shepherd wrote The Man Who Loves Giants – an autobiography. Even though he was only forty-four, he had already achieved more than most could have in three lifetimes. In the intervening years, until his death in 2017, he painted a huge variety of subjects; founded the David Shepherd Wildlife Foundation; renovated and restored everything from steam engines to dolls’ houses; and appeared on both radio and television.\n\n‘Being the extrovert I am,’ he once said, ‘I like things large and exciting … especially elephants …’ However, this enthusiasm wasn’t restricted to animals; it extended to his love and ownership of several full-sized steam engines, including locomotive number 92203, otherwise known as Black Prince.\n\nDavid’s friends ranged from showbiz celebrities to well-known sportsmen and women; and British and European royalty to internationally influential politicians and presidents. He was awarded the Order of the Golden Ark by Prince Bernhard of the Netherlands for his services to conservation in Zambia, and the Order of Distinguished Service, First Class, by President Kaunda. Her Majesty The Queen presented David with the OBE and CBE.\n\nDavid’s first gallery successes were not of the African wildlife for which he is now best known. London scenes, planes, boats and trains have long featured in his portfolio – as do English landscapes and bygone rural life.\n\nSince David’s autobiography, no book has dealt so comprehensively with his life, painting, and conservation work as this biography by J. C. Jeremy Hobson, professional author and David’s youngest son-in-law. With access to family archives and photographs, private diaries and reminiscences, this is a unique portrait of a remarkable man.
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Brand: Richard Skinner
EAN: 9780571333233
Categoria: Libri e riviste
A new edition of Richard Skinner's classic novel about the life of Mati Hari, released to coincide with the 100-year anniversary of her death, October 2017.\n\nWhen Margaretha Zelle, a young woman living in The Hague, answers a lonely hearts advertisement she becomes drawn into a relationship with an army captain twice her age. After a hasty wedding, they depart for Indonesia, where the marriage collapses amid infidelity and violence. Seeking a new life, Margaretha returns to Europe and travels to Paris, where she adopts the stage name Mata Hari, reinventing herself as an exotic dancer. In her new role she attracts the attention of numerous admirers, many of whom are officers, ready to share their secrets with a woman of notorious allure and intrigue, as Europe lurches towards explosive conflict.
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11.24 EUR
Richard Skinner The Red Dancer
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Spedizione: 2.7 EUR
Brand: Richard Skinner
EAN: 9780571333233
Categoria: Libri e riviste
A new edition of Richard Skinner's classic novel about the life of Mati Hari, released to coincide with the 100-year anniversary of her death, October 2017.\n\nWhen Margaretha Zelle, a young woman living in The Hague, answers a lonely hearts advertisement she becomes drawn into a relationship with an army captain twice her age. After a hasty wedding, they depart for Indonesia, where the marriage collapses amid infidelity and violence. Seeking a new life, Margaretha returns to Europe and travels to Paris, where she adopts the stage name Mata Hari, reinventing herself as an exotic dancer. In her new role she attracts the attention of numerous admirers, many of whom are officers, ready to share their secrets with a woman of notorious allure and intrigue, as Europe lurches towards explosive conflict.
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Brand: Douglas Thompson;christine Keeler
EAN: 9781789461374
Categoria: Libri e riviste
In her own words, the life of the beautiful young model and dancer who helped to bring down the Tory government of Harold Macmillan - the 'Profumo Affair' remains the greatest political sex scandal in recent British history.\n\nFollowing Christine Keeler's death in December 2017, it is now possible to update her book to include revelations that she did not wish to be published in her lifetime. The result is a revised and updated book containing material that has never been officially released, which really does lift the lid on just how far the Establishment will go to protect its own.\n\nPublished to coincide with the BBC's major new six-part TV drama series, The Trial of Christine Keeler, starring Sophie Cookson as Keeler and James Norton as Stephen Ward
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Douglas Thompson;christine Keeler Secrets And Lies: The Trials Of Christine Keeler
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Spedizione: 2.7 EUR
Brand: Douglas Thompson;christine Keeler
EAN: 9781789461374
Categoria: Libri e riviste
In her own words, the life of the beautiful young model and dancer who helped to bring down the Tory government of Harold Macmillan - the 'Profumo Affair' remains the greatest political sex scandal in recent British history.\n\nFollowing Christine Keeler's death in December 2017, it is now possible to update her book to include revelations that she did not wish to be published in her lifetime. The result is a revised and updated book containing material that has never been officially released, which really does lift the lid on just how far the Establishment will go to protect its own.\n\nPublished to coincide with the BBC's major new six-part TV drama series, The Trial of Christine Keeler, starring Sophie Cookson as Keeler and James Norton as Stephen Ward
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Brand: Tommy Sissons
EAN: 9781914420658
Categoria: Libri e riviste
\"The land of men is an untouched one. It is the companionship of quiet. It is so many\ndarkened boats, heading their own way, in the night.\"\n\n\nLeeds, 2017. Disaffected journalist Fred Whitby and his mother visit Grandad Norman\nfollowing the death of his callous second wife, Brenda. Norman has relapsed into alcoholism.\nBrenda's daughter and her husband have invaded the house.\n\n\nWhilst writing a diary in attempt to revive his creativity, Fred finds himself cast adrift in his\nfamily history, trying frantically to piece together the fragmented memories, half-truths,\nsecrets and mythologies that lie therein. Disappearances. Post-war protection rackets. An\nIRA bomb plot. Romantic rivalries. The kidnap of a traitorous miner. \n\nAs spectres of the past\nmeet with the looming presence of a post-truth future, Fred must navigate the illogical and\n\nunprovable stories of his grandfather and come to terms with the absence of irrecoverable\nvoices in his quest for whatever truth and meaning remains.
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- Tommy Sissons -
13.74 EUR
Tommy Sissons Cautious, A Boat Adrift
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Spedizione: 2.7 EUR
Brand: Tommy Sissons
EAN: 9781914420658
Categoria: Libri e riviste
\"The land of men is an untouched one. It is the companionship of quiet. It is so many\ndarkened boats, heading their own way, in the night.\"\n\n\nLeeds, 2017. Disaffected journalist Fred Whitby and his mother visit Grandad Norman\nfollowing the death of his callous second wife, Brenda. Norman has relapsed into alcoholism.\nBrenda's daughter and her husband have invaded the house.\n\n\nWhilst writing a diary in attempt to revive his creativity, Fred finds himself cast adrift in his\nfamily history, trying frantically to piece together the fragmented memories, half-truths,\nsecrets and mythologies that lie therein. Disappearances. Post-war protection rackets. An\nIRA bomb plot. Romantic rivalries. The kidnap of a traitorous miner. \n\nAs spectres of the past\nmeet with the looming presence of a post-truth future, Fred must navigate the illogical and\n\nunprovable stories of his grandfather and come to terms with the absence of irrecoverable\nvoices in his quest for whatever truth and meaning remains.
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- Simon Moreton -
25 EUR
Simon Moreton Where?
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Brand: Simon Moreton
EAN: 9781908213877
Categoria: Libri e riviste
In 2017, Simon Moreton's father fell suddenly ill and died. His death sent the author back to his childhood home in rural Shropshire trying to process his grief by revisiting his family's time as transplants to the countryside. \n\nThe story centres around Titterstone Clee Hill, and Caynham, the nearby village in which the author lived as a child. There are tales of empty mansions, of being bullied; cooking with his Dad, messing around with his brother, exploring forests; being an adult faced with an ill father; history and folklore of the Clee Hills; of high-society scandals, prejudice and fear; industrial decline and automation; haunted cliff faces; working on a radar station; of being a kid, of hospitals, of growing old, of the seasons passing, of his family, of his father and his kindnesses; of how he became whatever it is he was, and how this big hill was a backdrop to so much of it.\n\nIn a memoir that that combines prose, illustration, photos, archival texts, and more, Where? weaves a gentle story that slips and slides in time and geography, creating connections across geographies, histories, families, times, and circumstance all to answer the question - 'where are you from?'\n\nWhere? is more than a graphic novel, it is a treatise on grief, on childhood, nature, and belonging. It is a challenge to think differently about what it means to be 'from' somewhere, and how the political urgency of early twenty-first century living needs us to be more critical of our stories, reclaiming what is valuable to us from the grip of those who would take our histories and use them for division and exploitation.
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EAN: 9781908213877
Categoria: Libri e riviste
In 2017, Simon Moreton's father fell suddenly ill and died. His death sent the author back to his childhood home in rural Shropshire trying to process his grief by revisiting his family's time as transplants to the countryside. \n\nThe story centres around Titterstone Clee Hill, and Caynham, the nearby village in which the author lived as a child. There are tales of empty mansions, of being bullied; cooking with his Dad, messing around with his brother, exploring forests; being an adult faced with an ill father; history and folklore of the Clee Hills; of high-society scandals, prejudice and fear; industrial decline and automation; haunted cliff faces; working on a radar station; of being a kid, of hospitals, of growing old, of the seasons passing, of his family, of his father and his kindnesses; of how he became whatever it is he was, and how this big hill was a backdrop to so much of it.\n\nIn a memoir that that combines prose, illustration, photos, archival texts, and more, Where? weaves a gentle story that slips and slides in time and geography, creating connections across geographies, histories, families, times, and circumstance all to answer the question - 'where are you from?'\n\nWhere? is more than a graphic novel, it is a treatise on grief, on childhood, nature, and belonging. It is a challenge to think differently about what it means to be 'from' somewhere, and how the political urgency of early twenty-first century living needs us to be more critical of our stories, reclaiming what is valuable to us from the grip of those who would take our histories and use them for division and exploitation.
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Mugabe's Legacy: Coups, Conspiracies, And The Conceits Of Power In Zimbabwe
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EAN: 9781787387713
Categoria: Libri e riviste
Zimbabwe's party-internal 'coup' of 2017, and deposed president Robert Mugabe's death nearly two years later, demand careful, historically nuanced explanation. How did Mugabe gain and retain power over party and state for four decades? Did the suspected and nearly real 'coups', the conspiracies behind them, and their concurrent mythomaniacal conceits ultimately, ironically, spell his near-tragic end? Has Mugabe's particular mode of power reached a finality with his own downfall, as his successors struggle more to balance Zimbabwe's political contradictions? Will the phalanxes arrayed against Mugabe's control fray further, as Zimbabwe fades?\n \nMugabe's Legacy delves deeply into such questions, drawing on more than forty years of archival and interview-based research on Zimbabwe's political history and current precariousness. Starting with the mid-1970s, it traces how Machiavellian moves allowed Mugabe to reach the apex of the Zimbabwe African National Union's already slippery slopes, through the complexities of Cold War, regional, ideological, generational, inter- and intra-party tensions. The lessons learned by the president and the nascent ruling party then turned gradually inward, ultimately arriving at a near-collapse that may now pervade all of the country's political space. David B. Moore vividly charts this rise and fall, all the way to Zimbabwe's tenuous chaos today.
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Zimbabwe's party-internal 'coup' of 2017, and deposed president Robert Mugabe's death nearly two years later, demand careful, historically nuanced explanation. How did Mugabe gain and retain power over party and state for four decades? Did the suspected and nearly real 'coups', the conspiracies behind them, and their concurrent mythomaniacal conceits ultimately, ironically, spell his near-tragic end? Has Mugabe's particular mode of power reached a finality with his own downfall, as his successors struggle more to balance Zimbabwe's political contradictions? Will the phalanxes arrayed against Mugabe's control fray further, as Zimbabwe fades?\n \nMugabe's Legacy delves deeply into such questions, drawing on more than forty years of archival and interview-based research on Zimbabwe's political history and current precariousness. Starting with the mid-1970s, it traces how Machiavellian moves allowed Mugabe to reach the apex of the Zimbabwe African National Union's already slippery slopes, through the complexities of Cold War, regional, ideological, generational, inter- and intra-party tensions. The lessons learned by the president and the nascent ruling party then turned gradually inward, ultimately arriving at a near-collapse that may now pervade all of the country's political space. David B. Moore vividly charts this rise and fall, all the way to Zimbabwe's tenuous chaos today.
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Brand: Leonie Charlton
EAN: 9781913207977
Categoria: Libri e riviste
Seven years after her mother’s death, Leonie Charlton is still gripped by memories of their fraught relationship. In May 2017, Leonie trekked through the Outer Hebrides in the company of a friend and their Highland Ponies in search of closure. When Leonie’s pony has a serious accident, she begins to realise that finding peace with her mother is less important than letting go.\n\n\n\nLeonie Charlton blends travel and nature writing with intimate memoir in this beautifully written account of grief and acceptance.
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Leonie Charlton Marram: Memories Of Sea And Spider Silk
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Brand: Leonie Charlton
EAN: 9781913207977
Categoria: Libri e riviste
Seven years after her mother’s death, Leonie Charlton is still gripped by memories of their fraught relationship. In May 2017, Leonie trekked through the Outer Hebrides in the company of a friend and their Highland Ponies in search of closure. When Leonie’s pony has a serious accident, she begins to realise that finding peace with her mother is less important than letting go.\n\n\n\nLeonie Charlton blends travel and nature writing with intimate memoir in this beautifully written account of grief and acceptance.
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Brand: Ben Barres
EAN: 9780262539548
Categoria: Libri e riviste
Ben Barres was known for his groundbreaking scientific work and for his groundbreaking advocacy for gender equality in science. In this memoir, completed shortly before his death from pancreatic cancer in December 2017, Barres (born in 1954) describes a life full of remarkable accomplishments--from his childhood as a precocious math and science whiz to his experiences as a female student at MIT in the 1970s to his female-to-male transition in his forties, to his scientific work and role as teacher and mentor at Stanford. After his transition, Barres was able to realize how differently male and female scientists were treated. He became an advocate for gender equality in science, and later in life responded pointedly to Larry Summers's speculation that women were innately unsuited to be scientists. Privileged white men, Barres writes, \"miss the basic point that in the face of negative stereotyping, talented women will not be recognized.\" At Stanford, Barres made important discoveries about glia, the most numerous cells in the brain, and he describes some of his work. \"The most rewarding part of his job,\" however, was mentoring young scientists. That, and his advocacy for women and transgender scientists, ensures his legacy.
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Ben Barres The Autobiography Of A Transgender Scientist
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Brand: Ben Barres
EAN: 9780262539548
Categoria: Libri e riviste
Ben Barres was known for his groundbreaking scientific work and for his groundbreaking advocacy for gender equality in science. In this memoir, completed shortly before his death from pancreatic cancer in December 2017, Barres (born in 1954) describes a life full of remarkable accomplishments--from his childhood as a precocious math and science whiz to his experiences as a female student at MIT in the 1970s to his female-to-male transition in his forties, to his scientific work and role as teacher and mentor at Stanford. After his transition, Barres was able to realize how differently male and female scientists were treated. He became an advocate for gender equality in science, and later in life responded pointedly to Larry Summers's speculation that women were innately unsuited to be scientists. Privileged white men, Barres writes, \"miss the basic point that in the face of negative stereotyping, talented women will not be recognized.\" At Stanford, Barres made important discoveries about glia, the most numerous cells in the brain, and he describes some of his work. \"The most rewarding part of his job,\" however, was mentoring young scientists. That, and his advocacy for women and transgender scientists, ensures his legacy.
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Brand: Erica Wagner
EAN: 9781408837788
Categoria: Libri e riviste
A New Statesman Book of the Year for 2017\n\nHis father conceived of the Brooklyn Bridge, but it was Washington Roebling who built this iconic feat of human engineering after his father's tragic death. It has stood for more than 130 years and is now as much a part of New York as the Statue of Liberty or the Empire State Building. Yet, as recognisable as the bridge is, its builder is too often forgotten. \n \n The Chief Engineer is a brilliant examination of the life of one of America's most distinguished engineers. Roebling's experience as an engineer building bridges in the Union Army during the civil War has never before been documented, and played a central role in the bridge that links Brooklyn and Manhattan. The Brooklyn Bridge took fourteen dramatic years to complete, and the personal story that lay behind that construction is told here for the first time. \n \nThe Chief Engineer is an engaging portrait of a brilliant and driven man, and of the era in which he lived. Meticulously researched, and written with revealing archival material only recently uncovered, including Washington Roebling's own memoir that was previously thought to be lost to history, in The Chief Engineer Erica Wagner relates the fascinating history of the bridge and its maker.
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Erica Wagner Chief Engineer: The Man Who Built The Brooklyn Bridge
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Brand: Erica Wagner
EAN: 9781408837788
Categoria: Libri e riviste
A New Statesman Book of the Year for 2017\n\nHis father conceived of the Brooklyn Bridge, but it was Washington Roebling who built this iconic feat of human engineering after his father's tragic death. It has stood for more than 130 years and is now as much a part of New York as the Statue of Liberty or the Empire State Building. Yet, as recognisable as the bridge is, its builder is too often forgotten. \n \n The Chief Engineer is a brilliant examination of the life of one of America's most distinguished engineers. Roebling's experience as an engineer building bridges in the Union Army during the civil War has never before been documented, and played a central role in the bridge that links Brooklyn and Manhattan. The Brooklyn Bridge took fourteen dramatic years to complete, and the personal story that lay behind that construction is told here for the first time. \n \nThe Chief Engineer is an engaging portrait of a brilliant and driven man, and of the era in which he lived. Meticulously researched, and written with revealing archival material only recently uncovered, including Washington Roebling's own memoir that was previously thought to be lost to history, in The Chief Engineer Erica Wagner relates the fascinating history of the bridge and its maker.
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Brand: Paula Hollingsworth
EAN: 9780745968605
Categoria: Libri e riviste
2017 marks the 200th anniversary of the death of Jane Austen, whose six completed novels have never been out of print. \n\nBest known for her novels, 'Sense and Sensibility', 'Pride and Prejudice', 'Mansfield Park', and 'Emma', first published anonymously, Jane commented, critiqued and illuminated the life of the English upper classes. But did Jane's writings highlight anything about her own spirituality?\n\nIn this celebratory book, Paula Hollingsworth explores Jane Austen's gentle but strong faith and the effect it had both on her life and her writing. Drawing on Jane's life story, her letters, her friendships, her books and the characters portrayed, Paula shows the depth of Jane Austen's spirituality.
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Paula Hollingsworth The Spirituality Of Jane Austen
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Brand: Paula Hollingsworth
EAN: 9780745968605
Categoria: Libri e riviste
2017 marks the 200th anniversary of the death of Jane Austen, whose six completed novels have never been out of print. \n\nBest known for her novels, 'Sense and Sensibility', 'Pride and Prejudice', 'Mansfield Park', and 'Emma', first published anonymously, Jane commented, critiqued and illuminated the life of the English upper classes. But did Jane's writings highlight anything about her own spirituality?\n\nIn this celebratory book, Paula Hollingsworth explores Jane Austen's gentle but strong faith and the effect it had both on her life and her writing. Drawing on Jane's life story, her letters, her friendships, her books and the characters portrayed, Paula shows the depth of Jane Austen's spirituality.
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Brand: Jonathan F. P. Rose
EAN: 9780062234735
Categoria: Libri e riviste
2017 PROSE Award Winner: Outstanding Scholarly Work by a Trade Publisher In the vein of Jane Jacobs's The Death and Life of Great American Cities and Edward Glaeser's Triumph of the City, Jonathan F. P. Rose-a visionary in urban development and renewal-champions the role of cities in addressing the environmental, economic, and social challenges of the twenty-first century. Cities are birthplaces of civilization; centers of culture, trade, and progress; cauldrons of opportunity-and the home of eighty percent of the world's population by 2050. As the 21st century progresses, metropolitan areas will bear the brunt of global megatrends such as climate change, natural resource depletion, population growth, income inequality, mass migrations, education and health disparities, among many others. In The Well-Tempered City, Jonathan F. P. Rose-the man who \"repairs the fabric of cities\"-distills a lifetime of interdisciplinary research and firsthand experience into a five-pronged model for how to design and reshape our cities with the goal of equalizing their landscape of opportunity.\nDrawing from the musical concept of \"temperament\" as a way to achieve harmony, Rose argues that well-tempered cities can be infused with systems that bend the arc of their development toward equality, resilience, adaptability, well-being, and the ever-unfolding harmony between civilization and nature. These goals may never be fully achieved, but our cities will be richer and happier if we aspire to them, and if we infuse our every plan and constructive step with this intention. A celebration of the city and an impassioned argument for its role in addressing the important issues in these volatile times, The Well-Tempered City is a reasoned, hopeful blueprint for a thriving metropolis-and the future.
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Jonathan F. P. Rose The Well-tempered City: What Modern Science, Ancient Civilizations, And Human Nature Teach Us About The Future Of Urban Life
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Brand: Jonathan F. P. Rose
EAN: 9780062234735
Categoria: Libri e riviste
2017 PROSE Award Winner: Outstanding Scholarly Work by a Trade Publisher In the vein of Jane Jacobs's The Death and Life of Great American Cities and Edward Glaeser's Triumph of the City, Jonathan F. P. Rose-a visionary in urban development and renewal-champions the role of cities in addressing the environmental, economic, and social challenges of the twenty-first century. Cities are birthplaces of civilization; centers of culture, trade, and progress; cauldrons of opportunity-and the home of eighty percent of the world's population by 2050. As the 21st century progresses, metropolitan areas will bear the brunt of global megatrends such as climate change, natural resource depletion, population growth, income inequality, mass migrations, education and health disparities, among many others. In The Well-Tempered City, Jonathan F. P. Rose-the man who \"repairs the fabric of cities\"-distills a lifetime of interdisciplinary research and firsthand experience into a five-pronged model for how to design and reshape our cities with the goal of equalizing their landscape of opportunity.\nDrawing from the musical concept of \"temperament\" as a way to achieve harmony, Rose argues that well-tempered cities can be infused with systems that bend the arc of their development toward equality, resilience, adaptability, well-being, and the ever-unfolding harmony between civilization and nature. These goals may never be fully achieved, but our cities will be richer and happier if we aspire to them, and if we infuse our every plan and constructive step with this intention. A celebration of the city and an impassioned argument for its role in addressing the important issues in these volatile times, The Well-Tempered City is a reasoned, hopeful blueprint for a thriving metropolis-and the future.
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Brand: Matt Colquhoun
EAN: 9781912248872
Categoria: Libri e riviste
Egress is the first book to consider the legacy and work of the writer, cultural critic and cult academic Mark Fisher.Narrated in orbit of his death as experienced by a community of friends and students in 2017, it analyses Fisher's philosophical trajectory, from his days as a PhD student at the University of Warwick to the development of his unfinished book on Acid Communism. Taking the word \"egress\" as its starting point-a word used by Fisher in his book The Weird and the Eerie to describe an escape from present circumstances as experiences by the characters in countless examples of weird fiction-Egress considers the politics of death and community in a way that is indebted to Fisher's own forms of cultural criticism, ruminating on personal experience in the hope of making it productively impersonal.
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Matt Colquhoun Egress: On Mourning, Melancholy And Mark Fisher
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Brand: Matt Colquhoun
EAN: 9781912248872
Categoria: Libri e riviste
Egress is the first book to consider the legacy and work of the writer, cultural critic and cult academic Mark Fisher.Narrated in orbit of his death as experienced by a community of friends and students in 2017, it analyses Fisher's philosophical trajectory, from his days as a PhD student at the University of Warwick to the development of his unfinished book on Acid Communism. Taking the word \"egress\" as its starting point-a word used by Fisher in his book The Weird and the Eerie to describe an escape from present circumstances as experiences by the characters in countless examples of weird fiction-Egress considers the politics of death and community in a way that is indebted to Fisher's own forms of cultural criticism, ruminating on personal experience in the hope of making it productively impersonal.
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Brand: Cory Taylor
EAN: 9781782119784
Categoria: Libri e riviste
SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2017 STELLA PRIZE\n\nIn the year before her death, as she struggled with an untreatable illness, Cory Taylor began to write about her experiences, the patterns of her life, and of those she had lost. Dying is about vulnerability and strength, courage and humility, and anger. It is also about the acceptance that it takes to live a good life and say goodbye to it in peace.
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Cory Taylor Dying: A Memoir
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Brand: Cory Taylor
EAN: 9781782119784
Categoria: Libri e riviste
SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2017 STELLA PRIZE\n\nIn the year before her death, as she struggled with an untreatable illness, Cory Taylor began to write about her experiences, the patterns of her life, and of those she had lost. Dying is about vulnerability and strength, courage and humility, and anger. It is also about the acceptance that it takes to live a good life and say goodbye to it in peace.
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Brand: Jodi Picoult
EAN: 9781444788037
Categoria: Libri e riviste
A RICHARD AND JUDY BOOK CLUB 2017 PICK \nA SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER\nA NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER\n\nThe best books make you see differently. This is one of them. The eye-opening new novel from Jodi Picoult, with the biggest of themes: birth, death, and responsibility.\n\nWhen a newborn baby dies after a routine hospital procedure, there is no doubt about who will be held responsible: the nurse who had been banned from looking after him by his father. \n\nWhat the nurse, her lawyer and the father of the child cannot know is how this death will irrevocably change all of their lives, in ways both expected and not.\n\nSmall Great Things is about prejudice and power; it is about that which divides and unites us.\n\nIt is about opening your eyes. \n\nSOON TO BE A MAJOR FILM STARRING VIOLA DAVIS AND JULIA ROBERTS\n\nMAD HONEY, the stunning and compelling Sunday Times bestseller by Jodi Picoult and Jennifer Finney Boylan is available now.
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Jodi Picoult Small Great Things: The Bestselling Novel You Won't Want To Miss
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Brand: Jodi Picoult
EAN: 9781444788037
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A RICHARD AND JUDY BOOK CLUB 2017 PICK \nA SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER\nA NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER\n\nThe best books make you see differently. This is one of them. The eye-opening new novel from Jodi Picoult, with the biggest of themes: birth, death, and responsibility.\n\nWhen a newborn baby dies after a routine hospital procedure, there is no doubt about who will be held responsible: the nurse who had been banned from looking after him by his father. \n\nWhat the nurse, her lawyer and the father of the child cannot know is how this death will irrevocably change all of their lives, in ways both expected and not.\n\nSmall Great Things is about prejudice and power; it is about that which divides and unites us.\n\nIt is about opening your eyes. \n\nSOON TO BE A MAJOR FILM STARRING VIOLA DAVIS AND JULIA ROBERTS\n\nMAD HONEY, the stunning and compelling Sunday Times bestseller by Jodi Picoult and Jennifer Finney Boylan is available now.
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Brand: Vernon Watkins
EAN: 9781857548471
Categoria: Libri e riviste
Brought back into print in 2017 to mark the 50th anniversary of Vernon Watkins' death. Vernon Watkins (1906-1967) was called by Kathleen Raine: 'the greatest lyric poet of my generation.' Dylan Thomas referred to him as: 'the most profound and greatly accomplished Welshman writing poems in English', or, in a letter, as 'the only other poet except me whose poetry I really like today.' Philip Larkin wrote: 'In Vernon's presence poetry seemed like a living stream, in which one had only to dip the vessel of one's devotion. He made it clear how one could, in fact, 'live by poetry'; it was a vocation, at once difficult as sainthood and easy as breathing.' All Watkins's poetry was published by Faber & Faber in his lifetime, and he was friends with such widely differing poets as: W.B. Yeats, T.S. Eliot, David Jones, Dylan Thomas, Marianne Moore, Philip Larkin, R.S. Thomas and Kathleen Raine. When he died, in 1967, he was being considered for poet laureate, after the death of John Masefield. Since that time, however, although a few have continued to praise his poetry very highly, public awareness of it has ceased almost completely, creating a bizarre gap in the perception of 20th Century poetry.100 years after Watkins's birth (June 27th, 1906), \"New Selected Poems of Vernon Watkins\" offers the first widely available selection of his poetry since his death, with a new introduction and notes, outlining the literary and biographical context of his work, and a foreword by Rowan Williams, the Archbishop of Canterbury. It is a rare joy thus to be reintroducing the work of a major poet to a new generation of readers.
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Vernon Watkins : New Selected Poems
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Brand: Vernon Watkins
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Categoria: Libri e riviste
Brought back into print in 2017 to mark the 50th anniversary of Vernon Watkins' death. Vernon Watkins (1906-1967) was called by Kathleen Raine: 'the greatest lyric poet of my generation.' Dylan Thomas referred to him as: 'the most profound and greatly accomplished Welshman writing poems in English', or, in a letter, as 'the only other poet except me whose poetry I really like today.' Philip Larkin wrote: 'In Vernon's presence poetry seemed like a living stream, in which one had only to dip the vessel of one's devotion. He made it clear how one could, in fact, 'live by poetry'; it was a vocation, at once difficult as sainthood and easy as breathing.' All Watkins's poetry was published by Faber & Faber in his lifetime, and he was friends with such widely differing poets as: W.B. Yeats, T.S. Eliot, David Jones, Dylan Thomas, Marianne Moore, Philip Larkin, R.S. Thomas and Kathleen Raine. When he died, in 1967, he was being considered for poet laureate, after the death of John Masefield. Since that time, however, although a few have continued to praise his poetry very highly, public awareness of it has ceased almost completely, creating a bizarre gap in the perception of 20th Century poetry.100 years after Watkins's birth (June 27th, 1906), \"New Selected Poems of Vernon Watkins\" offers the first widely available selection of his poetry since his death, with a new introduction and notes, outlining the literary and biographical context of his work, and a foreword by Rowan Williams, the Archbishop of Canterbury. It is a rare joy thus to be reintroducing the work of a major poet to a new generation of readers.
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Brand: Richard Wagamese
EAN: 9781771622295
Categoria: Libri e riviste
\"The most profound truth in the universe is this: that we are all one drum and we need each other.\" -Richard Wagamese, One Drum\n\n\n\nFans of Richard Wagamese's writing will be heartened by the news that the bestselling author left behind a manuscript he'd been working on until shortly before his death in 2017. One Drum welcomes readers to unite in ceremony to heal themselves and bring harmony to their lives and communities.\n\n\n\nIn One Drum, Wagamese wrote, \"I am not a shaman. Nor am I an elder, a pipe carrier, or a celebrated traditionalist. I am merely one who has trudged the same path many of this human family has-the path of the seeker, called forward by a yearning I have not always understood.\"\n\n\n\nOne Drum draws from the foundational teachings of Ojibway tradition, the Grandfather Teachings. Focusing specifically on the lessons of humility, respect and courage, the volume contains simple ceremonies that anyone anywhere can do, alone or in a group, to foster harmony and connection. Wagamese believed that there is a shaman in each of us, and we are all teachers and in the world of the spirit there is no right way or wrong way.\n\n\n\nWriting of neglect, abuse and loss of identity, Wagamese recalled living on the street, going to jail, drinking too much, feeling rootless and afraid, and then the feeling of hope he gained from connecting with the spiritual ways of his people. He expressed the belief that ceremony has the power to unify and to heal for people of all backgrounds. \"When that happens,\" he wrote, \"we truly become one song and one drum beating together in a common purpose-and we are on the path to being healed.\"
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Richard Wagamese One Drum: Stories And Ceremonies For A Planet
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\"The most profound truth in the universe is this: that we are all one drum and we need each other.\" -Richard Wagamese, One Drum\n\n\n\nFans of Richard Wagamese's writing will be heartened by the news that the bestselling author left behind a manuscript he'd been working on until shortly before his death in 2017. One Drum welcomes readers to unite in ceremony to heal themselves and bring harmony to their lives and communities.\n\n\n\nIn One Drum, Wagamese wrote, \"I am not a shaman. Nor am I an elder, a pipe carrier, or a celebrated traditionalist. I am merely one who has trudged the same path many of this human family has-the path of the seeker, called forward by a yearning I have not always understood.\"\n\n\n\nOne Drum draws from the foundational teachings of Ojibway tradition, the Grandfather Teachings. Focusing specifically on the lessons of humility, respect and courage, the volume contains simple ceremonies that anyone anywhere can do, alone or in a group, to foster harmony and connection. Wagamese believed that there is a shaman in each of us, and we are all teachers and in the world of the spirit there is no right way or wrong way.\n\n\n\nWriting of neglect, abuse and loss of identity, Wagamese recalled living on the street, going to jail, drinking too much, feeling rootless and afraid, and then the feeling of hope he gained from connecting with the spiritual ways of his people. He expressed the belief that ceremony has the power to unify and to heal for people of all backgrounds. \"When that happens,\" he wrote, \"we truly become one song and one drum beating together in a common purpose-and we are on the path to being healed.\"
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Brand: Stefan Hertmans
EAN: 9780099598046
Categoria: Libri e riviste
WINNER OF THE VONDEL PRIZE 2017\n\n LONGLISTED FOR THE 2017 MAN BOOKER INTERNATIONAL PRIZE\n\n Selected as a Book of the Year 2016 in The Times, Sunday Times and The Economist, and one of the 10 Best Books of 2016 in the New York Times\n\nShortly before his death, Stefan Hertmans' grandfather Urbain Martien gave his grandson a set of notebooks containing the detailed memories of his life. He grew up in poverty around 1900, the son of a struggling church painter who died young, and went to work in an iron foundry at only 13. Afternoons spent with his father at work on a church fresco were Urbain's heaven; the iron foundry an inferno.\n\nDuring the First World War, Urbain was on the front line confronting the invading Germans, and ever after he is haunted by events he can never forget. The war ends and he marries his great love, Maria Emelia, but she dies tragically in the 1919 flu epidemic. Urbain mourns her bitterly for the rest of his life but, like the obedient soldier he is, he marries her sister at her parents' bidding. The rest is not quite silence, but a marriage with a sad secret at its heart, and the consolations found in art and painting. War and Turpentine is the imaginative reconstruction of a damaged life across the tumultuous decades of the twentieth century; a deeply moving portrayal of family, grief, love and war.
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Stefan Hertmans War And Turpentine
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Brand: Stefan Hertmans
EAN: 9780099598046
Categoria: Libri e riviste
WINNER OF THE VONDEL PRIZE 2017\n\n LONGLISTED FOR THE 2017 MAN BOOKER INTERNATIONAL PRIZE\n\n Selected as a Book of the Year 2016 in The Times, Sunday Times and The Economist, and one of the 10 Best Books of 2016 in the New York Times\n\nShortly before his death, Stefan Hertmans' grandfather Urbain Martien gave his grandson a set of notebooks containing the detailed memories of his life. He grew up in poverty around 1900, the son of a struggling church painter who died young, and went to work in an iron foundry at only 13. Afternoons spent with his father at work on a church fresco were Urbain's heaven; the iron foundry an inferno.\n\nDuring the First World War, Urbain was on the front line confronting the invading Germans, and ever after he is haunted by events he can never forget. The war ends and he marries his great love, Maria Emelia, but she dies tragically in the 1919 flu epidemic. Urbain mourns her bitterly for the rest of his life but, like the obedient soldier he is, he marries her sister at her parents' bidding. The rest is not quite silence, but a marriage with a sad secret at its heart, and the consolations found in art and painting. War and Turpentine is the imaginative reconstruction of a damaged life across the tumultuous decades of the twentieth century; a deeply moving portrayal of family, grief, love and war.
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Brand: Alison Macleod
EAN: 9781408863787
Categoria: Libri e riviste
SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2017 GOVERNOR GENERAL'S LITERARY AWARDS\n\nAcutely observed, evocative collection of short stories from the Man Booker Prize-longlisted author of Unexploded, blending fiction, biography and memoir\n\nHovering on the border of life and death, these stories form a ground-shifting collection, taking us into history, literature and the hidden lives of iconic figures. \n\nIn 1920s Nova Scotia, as winter begins to thaw, a woman emerges from mourning and wears a new fur coat to a dance that will change everything. A teenager searches for his lover on a charged summer evening in 2011, as around him London erupts in anger. A cardiac specialist lingers on the edge of consciousness as he awaits a new heart - and is transported to an attic room half a century ago. In an ancient Yorkshire churchyard, the author visits Sylvia Plath's grave and makes an unexpected connection across time. On a trip to Brighton, reluctant jihadists face the ultimate spiritual test. And at Charleston, Angelica Garnett, child of the Bloomsbury Group, is overcome by the past, all the beloved ghosts that spring to life before her eyes. \n\nPrecise, playful and evocative, these exquisitely crafted stories explore memory, the media and mortality, unfolding at the line between reality and fiction. Written with vigorous intelligence and delicate insight, this collection captures the surprising joys, small tragedies and profound truths of existence.
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EAN: 9781408863787
Categoria: Libri e riviste
SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2017 GOVERNOR GENERAL'S LITERARY AWARDS\n\nAcutely observed, evocative collection of short stories from the Man Booker Prize-longlisted author of Unexploded, blending fiction, biography and memoir\n\nHovering on the border of life and death, these stories form a ground-shifting collection, taking us into history, literature and the hidden lives of iconic figures. \n\nIn 1920s Nova Scotia, as winter begins to thaw, a woman emerges from mourning and wears a new fur coat to a dance that will change everything. A teenager searches for his lover on a charged summer evening in 2011, as around him London erupts in anger. A cardiac specialist lingers on the edge of consciousness as he awaits a new heart - and is transported to an attic room half a century ago. In an ancient Yorkshire churchyard, the author visits Sylvia Plath's grave and makes an unexpected connection across time. On a trip to Brighton, reluctant jihadists face the ultimate spiritual test. And at Charleston, Angelica Garnett, child of the Bloomsbury Group, is overcome by the past, all the beloved ghosts that spring to life before her eyes. \n\nPrecise, playful and evocative, these exquisitely crafted stories explore memory, the media and mortality, unfolding at the line between reality and fiction. Written with vigorous intelligence and delicate insight, this collection captures the surprising joys, small tragedies and profound truths of existence.
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Brand: Jane Jesmond
EAN: 9780857308498
Categoria: Libri e riviste
Six decades. Seven people. One unspeakable secret.\n\n 1957. A catastrophe occurs at the pharmaceutical lab in Coventry where sixteen-year-old Wilf is working for the summer. A catastrophe that needs to be covered up at all costs.\n\n 2017. Phiney is shocked by the death of her grandfather, Wilf, who has jumped from a railway bridge at a Coventry station. Journalist Mat Torrington is the only witness.\n\n Left with a swarm of unanswered questions, Phiney, Mat and Wilf's wife, Dora, begin their own enquiries into Wilf's death. It is soon clear that these two events, sixty years apart, are connected - and that Wilf is not the only casualty.\n\n But what is the link? And can they find out before any more lives are lost?
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