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Verlag: HarperCollins UK Fourth Estate, 2011
Anbieter: Abrahamschacht-Antiquariat Schmidt, Freiberg, Deutschland
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8° Broschiert. ohne Schutzumschlag, geringe Gebrauchsspuren an Einband und Block, Block sauber und fest ohne Einträge Stichworte: Ellen 454 Englisch 450g.
Verlag: Harpercollins Uk; Fourth Estate, 2016
ISBN 10: 0008152071ISBN 13: 9780008152079
Anbieter: Antiquariat Buchhandel Daniel Viertel, Diez, Deutschland
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Zustand: Gut. In gutem Zustand 29782 ISBN 9780008152079 Sprache: Deutsch Gewicht in Gramm: 348 unknown_binding, Maße: 29 cm x 20 cm x 3 cm.
Verlag: Fourth Estate / HarperCollins UK, 2017
ISBN 10: 000735634XISBN 13: 9780007356348
Anbieter: Book Broker, Berlin, Deutschland
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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Sehr gut. Alle Bücher & Medienartikel von Book Broker sind stets in gutem & sehr gutem gebrauchsfähigen Zustand. Unser Produktfoto entspricht dem hier angebotenen Artikel, dieser weist folgende Merkmale auf: Helle/saubere Seiten in fester Bindung. Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 454.
Verlag: Harpercollins UK, Fourth Estate, 2009
ISBN 10: 0007314701ISBN 13: 9780007314706
Anbieter: AHA-BUCH, Einbeck, Deutschland
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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Gebraucht. Gebraucht - Gut GU - Beschädigungen, Verschmutzungen, ungelesenes Mängelexemplar, Versand Büchersendung - In the end days of WWII, a young German woman loses her 2-year old son in the bombings. Her father finds an orphan in the rubble, and they replace the child and resolve never to tell anyone, not even his father. But secrets have a way of coming out.
Verlag: Harpercollins UK, Fourth Estate, 2011
ISBN 10: 0007423330ISBN 13: 9780007423330
Anbieter: AHA-BUCH, Einbeck, Deutschland
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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Gebraucht. Gebraucht - Sehr gut SG - leichte Beschädigungen oder Verschmutzungen, ungelesenes Mängelexemplar, gestempelt, Versand Büchersendung - From the sugar plantations of Saint-Domingue to the lavish parlors of New Orleans at the turn of the 19th century, Isabel Allende's novel tells the story of a mulatta woman, a slave and concubine, determined to take control of her own destiny in a society where that would seem impossible. Born a slave on the island of Saint-Domingue - now known as Haiti - Tété is the product of violent union between an African mother she never knew and one of the white sailors who brought her into bondage. When twenty-year-old Toulouse Valmorain arrives on the island in 1770, it's with powdered wigs in his trunks and dreams of financial success in his mind. But running his father's plantation, Saint Lazare, is neither glamorous nor easy. Against the merciless backdrop of sugar cane fields, the lives of Tété and Valmorain grow ever more intertwined. When bloody revolution arrives at the gates of Saint Lazare, they flee the island for the decadence and opportunity of New Orleans. There, Tété finally forges a new life - but her connection to Valmorain is deeper than anyone knows and not so easily severed. Spanning four decades, 'Island Beneath the Sea' is the moving story of one woman's determination to find love amid loss, to offer humanity though her own has been so battered, and to forge her own identity in the cruellest of circumstances.
Verlag: Harpercollins UK, Fourth Estate, 1600
ISBN 10: 000754832XISBN 13: 9780007548323
Anbieter: AHA-BUCH, Einbeck, Deutschland
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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Gebraucht. Gebraucht - Sehr gut SG - leichte Beschädigungen oder Verschmutzungen, ungelesenes Mängelexemplar, gestempelt, Versand Büchersendung - Longlisted for the Guardian First Book Award. A stunning, heart-breaking debut - WE ARE NOT OURSELVES is both the intimate story of a family and an epic of the American Century. In this moving debut, Thomas masterfully paints the sprawling portrait of a family that heroically weathers an extraordinary storm. It is wise to the ways in which people happen, over time and with each other.
Verlag: Harpercollins UK, Fourth Estate, 2017
ISBN 10: 000824474XISBN 13: 9780008244743
Anbieter: AHA-BUCH, Einbeck, Deutschland
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Gebundene Ausgabe. Zustand: Gebraucht. Gebraucht - Sehr gut SG - leichte Beschädigungen oder Verschmutzungen, ungelesenes Mängelexemplar, gestempelt - The final instalment in this trilogy, from the much-loved author behind 'Notes To My Mother-In-Law' and 'How Many Camels Are There In Holland ' With the former title concentrating on her role as a mother, this final title explores her early life as an actress.
Verlag: Harpercollins UK, Fourth Estate
ISBN 10: 0008160635ISBN 13: 9780008160630
Anbieter: AHA-BUCH, Einbeck, Deutschland
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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Gebraucht. Gebraucht - Sehr gut SG - leichte Beschädigungen oder Verschmutzungen, ungelesenes Mängelexemplar, gestempelt - Meet Veblen: a passionate defender of the anti-consumerist views of her name-sake, the iconoclastic economist Thorstein Veblen. Shes an experienced cheerer-upper (mainly of her narcissistic, hypochondriac, controlling mother), an amateur translator of Norwegian, and a firm believer in the distinct possibility that the plucky grey squirrel following her around can understand more than it lets on. Meet her fiancé, Paul: the son of good hippies who were bad parents, a no-nonsense, high-flying neuroscientist with no time for squirrels. His recent work on a device to minimize battlefield trauma has led him dangerously close to the seductive Cloris Hutmacher, heiress to a pharmaceuticals empire, who is promising him fame and fortune through a shady-sounding deal with the Department of Defence. What could possibly go wrong.
Verlag: Harpercollins UK, Fourth Estate, 2018
ISBN 10: 0008126542ISBN 13: 9780008126544
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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - A SPECTATOR BOOK OF THE YEAR 'Unlike anything I've read. Haunting and huge, and funny and sensuous. It's wonderful' Tessa Hadley 'I just enjoyed it so very much' Philip Pullman It is the 17th century and a wall is being built around a great house. Wychwood is an enclosed world, its ornamental lakes and majestic avenues planned by Mr Norris, landscape-maker. A world where everyone has something to hide after decades of civil war, where dissidents shelter in the forest, lovers linger in secret gardens, and migrants, fleeing the plague, are turned away from the gate. Three centuries later, another wall goes up overnight, dividing Berlin, while at Wychwood, over one hot, languorous weekend, erotic entanglements are shadowed by news of historic change. A little girl, Nell, observes all. Nell grows up and Wychwood is invaded. There is a pop festival by the lake, a TV crew in the dining room and a Great Storm brewing. As the Berlin wall comes down, a fatwa signals a different ideological faultline and a refugee seeks safety in Wychwood. From the multi-award-winning author of The Pike comes a breathtakingly ambitious, beautiful and timely novel about game keepers and witches, agitators and aristocrats, about young love and the pathos of aging, and about how those who wall others out risk finding themselves walled in. Englisch.
Verlag: Harpercollins UK, Fourth Estate Mär 2018, 2018
ISBN 10: 0008203792ISBN 13: 9780008203795
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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Based on the true story of conjoined Russian twins, Masha and Dasha Krivoshlyapova, The Less You Know the Sounder You Sleep is a tale of survival and self-determination, innocence and lies. No one expects Dasha and Masha to live beyond childhood. Not the Soviet scientists who study them, the other 'defective' children who bully them, or the 'healthies' from whom the twins must be locked away. But they don't know Masha like her sister does. While Dasha is gentle and quiet and fears everything, her twin is fearless and irrepressible and determined they will survive. Whatever the cost. Through the seismic shifts of Stalin's communism to the beginnings of Putin's democracy, the sisters strive to be more than just 'the together twins', finding hope - and love - in the unlikeliest of places. But strength can come in many different forms and if Dasha is to live more than half a life she must find the courage to emerge from her sister's shadow. 448 pp. Englisch.
Verlag: Harpercollins UK, Fourth Estate Okt 2015, 2015
ISBN 10: 0008114897ISBN 13: 9780008114893
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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Best-selling author Joyce Carol Oates blends sexual violence, racism, brutality, and power in her latest incendiary novel. When a fourteen-year-old girl is the alleged victim of a terrible act of racial violence, the incident shocks and galvanises her community, exacerbating the racial tension that has been simmering in this New Jersey town for decades. Unfolding in a chorus of multiracial voices - from the police to the media to the victim and her family - which gather to reach a tense crescendo at the novel's climax, THE SACRIFICE offers a shocking new understanding of power and oppression, innocence and guilt, truth and sensationalism, justice and retribution - and the primal decisions we make to protect those we love. A chilling exploration of complex social, political, and moral themes, THE SACRIFICE is a major work of fiction from one of our most revered literary masters. Englisch.
Verlag: Harpercollins UK, Fourth Estate Jul 2017, 2017
ISBN 10: 0008170606ISBN 13: 9780008170608
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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - How do you find a missing actress in a city where everyone's playing a role 'FABULOUS!' Helen Simonson, author of Major Pettigrew's Last Stand 'Scintillating' Observer 'Vibrant and atmospheric' Daily Express Soho. 1965, When an American actress disappears from the Galaxy Theatre, her young dresser, Anna Treadway is determined to find out what happened to her. Anna's search will lead her through a London she barely knew existed: a city of reggae clubs and back street doctors, of dangerous prejudice and unexpected allies. She is aided by a disparate group of émigrés, each carrying secrets of their own. But before she can discover the truth about Iolanthe, Anna will need to open herself - to her past, her present and the possibility of love. 304 pp. Englisch.
Verlag: Harpercollins UK, Fourth Estate Feb 2017, 2017
ISBN 10: 0007459653ISBN 13: 9780007459650
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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Ten daring stories from 'a writer who seems capable of anything' (Guardian), the Booker Prize-shortlisted Philip Hensher Backdrops vary in this collection of stories from the author of The Northern Clemency - from turmoil in Sudan following the death of a politician in a plane crash, to southern India where a Soho hedonist starts to envisage the crump and soar of munitions. Each story, regardless of location, reveals a great writer at the peak of his powers. Englisch.
Verlag: Harpercollins UK, Fourth Estate Jul 2017, 2017
ISBN 10: 0008201757ISBN 13: 9780008201753
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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware 304 pp. Englisch.
Verlag: Harpercollins UK, Fourth Estate Feb 2018, 2018
ISBN 10: 000751736XISBN 13: 9780007517367
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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - An unforgettable collection of stories from Daniel Alarcón, one of the New Yorker's 20 best writers under 40, and one of the best storytellers of our time. Migration. Betrayal. Family secrets. Doomed love. Uncertain futures. In Daniel Alarcón's hands, these are transformed into deeply human stories with high stakes. In 'The Thousands', people are on the move and forging new paths; hope and heartbreak abound. A man deals with the fallout of his blind relatives' mysterious deaths and his father's mental breakdown and incarceration in 'The Bridge'. A gang member discovers a way to forgiveness and redemption through the haze of violence and trauma in 'The Ballad of Rocky Rontal'. And in the tour de force novella, 'The Auroras', a man severs himself from his old life and seeks to make a new one in a new city, only to find himself seduced and controlled by a powerful woman. Richly drawn, full of unforgettable characters, The King is Always Above the People reveals experiences both unsettling and unknown, and yet eerily familiar in this new world. Englisch.
Verlag: Harpercollins UK, Fourth Estate Jun 2017, 2017
ISBN 10: 0007462840ISBN 13: 9780007462841
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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - LONGLISTED FOR THE DSC PRIZE FOR SOUTH ASIAN LITERATURE 2017 In this tender, lyrical, and often funny novel, Anjali Joseph, author of Saraswati Park, shines a light on everyday life, illuminating its humour, beauty, and truth. There is a certain number of breaths each of us have to take, and no amount of care or carelessness can alter that. This is the story of two lives. Claire is a young single mother working in one of England's last remaining shoe factories, her adult life formed by a teenage relationship. Is she ready to move on from memory and the routine of her days Arun makes hand-sewn chappals at his home in Kolhapur. A recovered alcoholic, now a grandfather, he negotiates the newfound indignities of old age while returning in thought to the extramarital affair he had years earlier. These are lives woven through with the ongoing discipline of work and the responsibility and tedium of family life. Lives laced with the joys of friendship, the pleasure of sex, and the redemptive kindness of one's own children. This is the story of the living. In this tender, lyrical and often funny novel, Anajli Joseph, author of Saraswati Park, shines a light on everyday life, illuminating its humour, beauty, and truth. Englisch.
Verlag: Harpercollins UK, Fourth Estate Jan 2017, 2017
ISBN 10: 000816410XISBN 13: 9780008164102
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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - WHY WOULD ANYONE WANT TO LEAVE Green and Blue are sisters. Foxlowe is home. Outside is Bad. Green understands. Why can't Blue 'Will lure you in - then cut to the kill' Guardian 'Wonderfully tense' Emerald Street 'To read Foxlowe is not unlike wandering through Foxlowe itself on some long night: I felt never quite certain where the corridors might take me, nor whom I might meet on turning a corner; and in the final moments I found myself hurtling down a flight of steps into the dark' Sarah Perry, author of The Essex Serpent 'The ending is like a punch to the throat' The i 320 pp. Englisch.
Verlag: Harpercollins UK, Fourth Estate Jul 2017, 2017
ISBN 10: 0008167974ISBN 13: 9780008167974
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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - A powerful, compelling, topical novel about a relationship between a radio DJ and a teenage girl from the author of DYING YOUNG and DANIEL ISN'T TALKING Radio DJ Craig Kirtz took a shine to Bobbie when she was only thirteen years old, embroiling her in a secret life of sex and drugs. He remembers their relationship as a love affair. She remembers it as abuse. Thirty years later, shereturns to her hometown to testify against him. He denies the charges. And he has a witness Bobbie could not have anticipated - her own mother, who is now Craig's wife. Englisch.
Verlag: Harpercollins UK, Fourth Estate Mär 2018, 2018
ISBN 10: 0008188637ISBN 13: 9780008188634
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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - A glimpse into the extraordinary world of ambulance driving from the man behind the wheel. 'Heart-stopping, eye-opening and jaw-dropping. Sometimes painful, sometimes sad, often very, very funny' Craig Brown An S&M party gone horribly wrong A dead man locked in a car with a hungry bull terrier A teenage girl with suspicious abdominal pains And a man who's fainted, frightened he was allergic to his cheese and onion sandwich . It's just another day at work for Kit Wharton After a childhood picked in alcohol and punctuated by parental fighting, stints in journalism and house removals, Kit Wharton joined the NHS ambulance service. He hasn't looked back. This is his report from the front line: 999 calls that hurtle him to the critical moment in other peoples' lives. 240 pp. Englisch.
Verlag: Harpercollins UK, Fourth Estate Sep 2018, 2018
ISBN 10: 0008243794ISBN 13: 9780008243791
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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Three journeys. Three thousand years. One destination. The Devil's Highway is a thrilling, epic and timely tale of love, loss, fanaticism, heroism and sacrifice. 'Brilliant . a powerful meditation on the damages - and the good - we have wrought, and will wreak, on the living world' Robert Macfarlane, Book of the Year His fingers fastened about Her stone. He brought it to the light and held it to his nose. There was lightning locked inside. He rolled the stone in his palm to give it the heat of his body. She had come to him, catching his eye where she lay among dull flints. She alone among the stones had spoken. An ancient British boy, discovering a terrorist plot, must choose between his brother and his tribe. In the twenty-first century, two men - one damaged by war, another by divorce - clash over their differing claims on the land, and a young girl is caught between them. In the distant future, a gang of feral children struggles to reach safety in a burning world. A Roman road, an Iron Age hill fort, a hand-carved flint, and a cycle of violence that must be broken. As gripping as it is dazzling, The Devil's Highway is a bold and intimate novel that spans centuries and challenges our dearest assumptions about what it means to be civilised. Englisch.
Verlag: Harpercollins UK, Fourth Estate, 2015
ISBN 10: 000754877XISBN 13: 9780007548774
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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - A short-story collection from one of America's brightest young talents. In one of these intensely imaginative stories a young woman's furniture walks out on her. In another, the narrator feels compelled to deliver a takeout order that has incorrectly been phoned in to her. In a third, the petty details of a property transaction illuminate the complicated dependences and loves of a family. Following spiralling paths towards utterly logical, entirely absurd conclusions, Galchen's creations occupy a dreamlike dimension, where time is fluid and identities are best defined by the qualities they lack. The tales in this groundbreaking collection are secretly in conversation with canonical stories, allowing the reader the pleasure of discovering familiar favourites in new guises. Here 'The Lost Order' covertly recapitulates James Thurber's 'The Secret Life of Walter Mitty', while 'The Region of Unlikeness' playfully mirrors Jorge Luis Borges's 'The Aleph'. By turns realistic, fantastical and lyrical, all these marvellously uneasy stories share a deeply emotional core and are written in dryly witty, pitch-perfect prose. Whether exploring the tensions in a mother-daughter relationship or the finer points of time travel, Galchen is a writer of eye-opening ingenuity. 192 pp. Englisch.
Verlag: Harpercollins UK, Fourth Estate Okt 2018, 2018
ISBN 10: 0007585578ISBN 13: 9780007585571
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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - From New York Times bestselling author Amy Tan, a memoir on her life as a writer, her childhood and the symbiotic relationship between fiction and emotional memory. In Where the Past Begins, bestselling author of The Joy Luck Club and The Valley of Amazement Amy Tan is at her most intimate in revealing the truths and inspirations that underlie her extraordinary fiction. By delving into vivid memories of her traumatic childhood, confessions of self-doubt in her journals and heartbreaking letters to and from her mother, she gathers together evidence of all that made it both unlikely and inevitable that she would become a writer. Through spontaneous storytelling, she shows how a fluid fictional state of mind unleashed near-forgotten memories that became the emotional nucleus of her novels. Tan explores shocking truths uncovered by family memorabilia - the real reason behind an I.Q. test she took at age six, why her parents lied about their education, mysteries surrounding her maternal grandmother - and, for the first time publicly, writes about her complex relationship with her father, who died when she was fifteen. Written with candour and characteristic humour, Where the Past Begins takes readers into the idiosyncratic workings of her writer's mind, a journey that explores memory, imagination, and truth. Englisch.
Verlag: Harpercollins UK, Fourth Estate Dez 2017, 2017
ISBN 10: 0008235651ISBN 13: 9780008235659
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Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - As broadcast on BBC radio 4: the fifteen 'prequel' stories to the Costa Award-WinningReservoir 13. 'He leaves behind all other writers of his generation' Sarah Hall Midwinter in the early years of this century. A teenage girl on holiday has gone missing in the hills at the heart of England. The villagers are called up to join the search, fanning out across the moors as the police set up roadblocks and a crowd of news reporters descends on their usually quiet home. But the aftershocks of Becky Shaw's disappearance have origins long before then, and those in the village have losses, and secrets, and stories of their own. A woman remembers a son's inexperience - and a father's rage; a young wife pushes against the boundaries of her marriage, whilst an older one finds ways to ensure the survival of hers. A hunt for a birthday present takes an alarming turn, and a teenage game grows serious. Fresh hurts open old wounds, salvation comes from unexpected quarters and chance encounters release long-buried memories. First broadcast as a series of specially commissioned stories on BBC Radio 4, The Reservoir Tapes returns to the territory of the Booker-longlisted Reservoir 13, revealing the web of connections that bind us, and the many layers on which we all build our truths. 167 pp. Englisch.
Verlag: Harpercollins UK, Fourth Estate Sep 2018, 2018
ISBN 10: 0008281106ISBN 13: 9780008281106
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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'If you find the subject of food to be both vexing and transfixing, you'll love What She Ate' Elle Did you know that Eleanor Roosevelt dished up Eggs Mexican (a concoction of rice, fried eggs, and bananas) in the White House Or that Helen Gurley Brown's commitment to 'having it all' meant dining on supersized portions of diet gelatine In the irresistible What She Ate, Laura Shapiro examines the plates, recipe books and shopping trolleys of six extraordinary women, from Dorothy Wordsworth to Eva Braun.Delving into diaries, newspaper articles, cook books and more, Shapiro casts a different light on the usual narratives of women's lives. Finding meaning in every morsel, and looking through the lens of their attitudes towards food, she masterfully reveals the love and rage, desire and denial, need and pleasure, behind six remarkable appetites. Englisch.
Verlag: Harpercollins UK, Fourth Estate Apr 2017, 2017
ISBN 10: 0007521081ISBN 13: 9780007521081
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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - From the hugely respected journalist Miranda Sawyer, a very modern look at the midlife crisis - delving into the truth, and lies, of the experience and how to survive it, with thoughtfulness, insight and humour. 'You wake one day and everything is wrong. It's as though you went out one warm evening - an evening fizzing with delicious potential, so ripe and sticky-sweet you can taste it on the air - for just one drink . and woke up two days later in a skip. Except you're not in a skip, you're in an estate car, on the way to an out-of-town shopping mall to buy a balance bike, a roof rack and some stackable storage boxes.' Miranda Sawyer's midlife crisis began when she was 44. It wasn't a traditional one. She didn't run off with a Pilates teacher, or blow thousands on a trip to find herself. From the outside, all remained the same. Work, kids, marriage, mortgage, blah. Days, weeks and months whizzed past as she struggled with feeling - knowing - that she was over halfway through her life. It seemed only yesterday that she was 29, out and about. Out of Time is not a self-help book. It's an exploration of this sudden crisis, this jolt. It looks at how our tastes, and our bodies, change as we get older. It considers the unexpected new pleasures that the second half of life can offer, from learning to code to taking up running (slowly). Speaking to musicians and artists, friends and colleagues, Miranda asks how they too have confronted midlife, and the lessons, if any, that they've learned along the way. 288 pp. Englisch.
Verlag: Harpercollins UK, Fourth Estate, 2004
ISBN 10: 1841155802ISBN 13: 9781841155807
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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 20 years later The Music of the Primes is still a groundbreaking popular science book. This new edition features updates from the author and a foreword by actor and director, Simon McBurney. In 1859, the German mathematician Bernhard Riemann presented a paper to the Berlin Academy which would change the history of mathematics. The subject was the strange and enigmatic prime numbers. At the heart of the presentation was an idea, a hypothesis, that Riemann had not yet proved but which has come to obsess mathematicians for the last 150 years. No one knows if he ever found the proof; on his death his housekeeper burnt all the personal papers. Today, the hypothesis is considered by many the holy grail of mathematics but has significance far beyond maths. At the of the heart of the enigma is a prize much larger than just intellectual glory; not only is there a $1 million reward for the person who can crack it but also is the key to all banking and e-commerce security. It is the idea that brings together many other areas of science and has ramifications within Quantum Mechanics, Chaos Theory and the future of computing. In 'The Music of the Primes', one of Britain's leading mathematicians, Marcus du Sautoy, recounts the history of these elusive numbers. It is a story of eccentric and brilliant men, last minute escapes from death, strange journeys, dangerous ideas and the unquenchable thirst for knowledge that drove some men mad and others to unparalleled glory. du Sautoy also tells a coruscating history of Mathematics. Combining in-depth knowledge as a practitioner in the field with narrative flair, this book will become a classic of popular science writing and will rank alongside 'Chaos' and 'Fermat's Last Theorem' within the genre. The Riemann Hypothesis:- Compared to Fermat's Last Theorem, the Hypothesis is mathematicians' real Holy Grail- Is the only problem from Hilbert's 1900 Centenary Problems that was unproved in the 20th century and now has a $1 million reward for the person who cracks it.- The Hypothesis is the key to all Internet and e-commerce security 348 pp. Englisch.
Verlag: Harpercollins UK, Fourth Estate Feb 2016, 2016
ISBN 10: 0007533160ISBN 13: 9780007533169
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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - CREAM TEAS! SCHOOL DINNERS! SATANIC SURFERS! Join our heroes as they follow up a Norfolk Mystery with a bad case of . DEATH IN DEVON. Swanton Morley, the People's Professor, sets off for Devon to continue his history of England, The County Guides. Morley's daughter Miriam and his assistant Stephen Sefton pack up the Lagonda for a trip to the English Riviera. Morley has been invited to give the Founder's Day speech at All Souls School in Rousdon. But when the trio arrive they discover that a boy has died in mysterious circumstances. Was it an accident or was it - murder Join Morley, Sefton and Miram on another adventure into the dark heart of 1930s England. 320 pp. Englisch.
Verlag: Harpercollins UK, Fourth Estate Feb 2011, 2011
ISBN 10: 0007360789ISBN 13: 9780007360789
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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - A tremendous first novel from an exciting young author recently chosen as one of the Telegraph's '20 under 40' best UK writers. Famous for its electric chaos, the city of Bombay also accommodates pockets of calm. In one such space works Mohan, a contemplative man who has spent his life observing people from his seat as a letter-writer outside the main post office. But Mohan's lack of engagement with the world has caused a thawing of his marriage. At this delicate moment Mohan - and his wife, Lakshmi - are joined at their home in Saraswati Park by their nephew, Ashish, a sexually uncertain 19-year-old who has to repeat his final year in college. As the novel unfolds, the lives of each of the three characters are thrown into relief by the comical frustrations of family life: annoying relatives, unspoken yearnings and unheard grievances. When Lakshmi loses her only brother, she leaves Bombay for a relative's home to mourn not only the death of a sibling but also the vital force of her marriage. Ashish, meanwhile, embarks on an affair with a much richer boy in his college and, not long afterwards, succumbs to the overtures of his English tutor. As Mohan scribbles away in the margins of the sort of books he secretly hopes to write one day, he worries about whether his wife will return, what will become of Ashish, and if he himself will ever find his own voice to write from the margins about the centre of which he will never be a part. 300 pp. Englisch.
Verlag: Harpercollins UK, Fourth Estate Okt 2020, 2020
ISBN 10: 000832820XISBN 13: 9780008328207
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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - '.an essential and fascinating manual for every woman who wants to understand equality within an ever-changing, modern world.' Scarlett Curtis '.[this book] taught me more than any book has ever taught me about AI.' Chris Evans, Virgin Radio How To Talk To Robots, is your girls guide to Artificial Intelligence. Entrepreneur Tabitha Goldstaub welcomes you into the AI world with a warm embrace. She brilliantly breaks down the tech-bro barriers offering a straightforward introduction and makes clear the enormous benefits of understanding AI. If your social feed defines your spending habits or you've downloaded the latest filter to see what you'll look like when you are old or now connect with your doctor using an app, have applied for a job online or used your phone to arrive at work in record time, AI is playing a part in how you live, work and play. We live in an era where machines are taught to learn and act without human intervention and there are infinite possibilities to their applications. The risk of these technologies biasing against you is real, and this book will give you tools to navigate the current and future developments consciously. As well as explaining the risks Tabitha lays out the awesome benefits AI can offer. From spotting disease to tailoring education and tackling climate change the potential rewards are life-changing. Starting with a potted history, Tabitha shines a light on the many unsung heroines since the rise of AI in the 1960s. In conversation with Karen Hao she simply demonstrates how the technology works (and sometimes doesn't work!) and interviews a cross-section of women who use AI in their work today including Jeanette Winterson, Sharmadean Reid, Martha Lane Fox and Hannah Fry. This book doesn't just present the challenge; Tabitha offers supportive practical advice and shares an extensive list of books, films, courses and more for further exploration. However it is that you identify with womanhood, wherever you are in life, and whatever you do, this technology is inescapable and now is your time to make sure AI works for you - and not you for it! Englisch.
Verlag: Harpercollins UK, Fourth Estate Aug 2016, 2016
ISBN 10: 0008124337ISBN 13: 9780008124335
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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Small towns can hide big secrets, but Rocco Schiavone will do whatever it takes to bring them into the light. The second novel in the internationally bestselling series from Italian crime maestro Antonio Manzini. In an elegant apartment in a chilly Alpine town a cleaning lady makes a gruesome discovery: the body of her employer hanging from a chandelier in a dark room in an apparent suicide. Working the case is Deputy Police Chief Rocco Schiavone, banished from his beloved Rome to snowy, small-town Aosta. An incurable cynic, perpetually at war with the world - and the weather - Rocco is unconvinced that Esther killed herself. Armed with his intuition and his inimitable brand of morality, he begins to hunt for a killer. But as he digs deeper into Esther's life Rocco is increasingly troubled by personal matters: his dissatisfied girlfriend Nora; the very vocal memory of his deceased wife, Marina; and a score that still needs settling back in Rome. 320 pp. Englisch.