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Zustand: good. Befriedigend/Good: Durchschnittlich erhaltenes Buch bzw. Schutzumschlag mit Gebrauchsspuren, aber vollständigen Seiten. / Describes the average WORN book or dust jacket that has all the pages present.

Paperback. Zustand: Fine. 'This is the most important conversation of our time, and Tegmark's thought-provoking book will help you join it' Stephen Hawking THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER. DAILY TELEGRAPH AND THE TIMES BOOKS OF THE YEAR SELECTED AS ONE OF BARACK OBAMA'S FAVOURITE BOOKS OF 2018 AI is the future - but what will that future look like? Will superhuman intelligence be our slave, or become our god? Taking us to the heart of the latest thinking about AI, Max Tegmark, the MIT professor whose work has helped mainstream research on how to keep AI beneficial, separates myths from reality, utopias from dystopias, to explore the next phase of our existence. How can we grow our prosperity through automation, without leaving people lacking income or purpose? How can we ensure that future AI systems do what we want without crashing, malfunctioning or getting hacked? Should we fear an arms race in lethal autonomous weapons? Will AI help life flourish as never before, or will machines eventually outsmart us at all tasks, and even, perhaps, replace us altogether? 'This is a rich and visionary book and everyone should read it' The Times.

Illustrierte Originalbroschur. Zustand: Gut. 3. Auflage. 161 (11) Seiten. 19,8 cm. Paperback. Guter Zustand. Einband etwas knittrig. "Nichts Überflüssiges belastet die strenge, dichte Prosa, und doch erinnert der assoziative Stil zuweilen an James Joyce." (Neue Zürcher Zeitung). "Eine tour de force an Präzision und Komik." (The Times Literary Supplement). "A talented and genuinely imaginative writer, McEwan's details often grow into strange, powerful images the ironies, throughout this impressive collection are tellingly weighted." -- Julian Barnes. "A brilliant performance There's an assured and terribly macabre depravity about Ian McEwan's short stories as if some of the characters from early Angus Wilson had been painted by Francis Bacon." -- Anthony Thwaite, Observer. "Ian McEwan writes to shock and succeeds -- All his stories have a feeling of impending evil -- It is a tour de force of concision, and funny, too, in a deadpan manner." -- TLS. "A brilliant performance -- There's an assured and terribly macabre depravity about Ian McEwan's short stories -- as if some of the characters from early Angus Wilson had been painted by Francis Bacon." -- Observer. "His writing is exact, tender, funny, voluptuous, disturbing." -- The Times. - First Love, Last Rites is a collection of short stories by Ian McEwan. It was first published in 1975 by Jonathan Cape and re-issued in 1997 by Vintage. Context: The collection is McEwan's first published work and was regarded by the author (along with his second collection of short stories, In Between the Sheets) as an opportunity to experiment and find his voice as a writer. In an interview with Christopher Ricks in 1979, McEwan commented, "They were a kind of laboratory for me. They allowed me to try out different things, to discover myself as a writer." As a piece of work that portrays McEwan, the writer, at his youngest, it is perhaps fitting that the dominant theme is that of adolescence, of the blurry and perilous divide between childhood and adulthood; in addition themes of sex, perversion, and the grotesque in its many forms feature throughout. Stories: The book is composed of eight short stories, with the title story coming seventh: "Homemade" "Solid Geometry" "Last Day of Summer" "Cocker at the Theatre" "Butterflies" "Conversation with a Cupboard Man" "First Love, Last Rites" "Disguises". . Reception: McEwan's collection was well-received by critics. In the Dictionary of Literary Biography, John Fletcher explained, "Such writing would be merely sensational if it were not, like Kafka's, pointed, so accurate, so incapable indeed of being appalled. In contemporary writing one has to turn to French literature to encounter a similar contrast between the elegance of the language and the disturbing quality of the material; in writing in English McEwan is wholly unique."[3] Critic Robert Towers described McEwan's England in The New York Review of Books as a "flat, rubble-strewn wasteland, populated by freaks and monsters, most of them articulate enough to tell their own stories with mesmerizing narrative power and an unfaltering instinct for the perfect, sickening detail"; Towers called the collection "possibly the most brilliantly perverse and sinister batch of short stories to come out of England since Angus Wilson's The Wrong Set."[4] Film adaptations: The title story was adapted for a 1997 film of the same name. The film stars Natasha Gregson Wagner as Sissel and Giovanni Ribisi as Joey. It was directed by Jesse Peretz. "Butterflies" has been adapted twice for cinema. In 1988 by Wolfgang Becker under the German title Schmetterlinge and in 2005 by Max Jacoby under its original English title. "Solid Geometry" was also adapted by Channel 4 in 2002 into a short film of the same name. This adaptation was directed by Denis Lawson and stars Ewan McGregor as Phil and Ruth Millar as Maisie. Aus: en-wikipedia-First_Love,_Last_Rites Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 190.

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. A searing psychological thriller of trauma, dark academia, complicity, and revenge, revealing the horrors that happen in the dark, the girls who become cautionary tales, and the guilty who go unpunished. Until now. "A smart, dark, feminist revenge thriller" pHEAT MAGAZINE Barnes & Noble Thriller of the month Three campfire secrets. Two witnesses. One dead in the trees. And the woman, thirty years later, bent on making the guilty finally pay. 1988. A group of outcasts gather at a small, prestigious arts camp nestled in the Maine woods. They're the painters: bright, hopeful, teeming with potential. But secrets and dark ambitions rise like smoke from a campfire, and the truths they tell will come back to haunt them in ways more deadly than they dreamed. 2018. Esteemed art professor Max Durant arrives at his protege's remote home to view her graduate thesis collection. He knows Audra is beautiful and brilliant. He knows being invited into her private world is a rare gift. But he doesn't know that Audra has engineered every aspect of their weekend together. Every detail, every conversation. Audra has woven the perfect web. Only Audra knows what happened that summer in 1988. Max's secret, and the dark things that followed. And even though it won't be easy, Audra knows someone must pay. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. The world has become a battleground in a war which no side is winning. But for those determined to retain power, the prolonged stalemate cannot be tolerated so desperate measures must be taken. Max Halloran has no idea. He's living the brief and glorious life of a hunter-killer pilot. He's an ace in the air, on his way up through the ranks, in love, and with his family's every need provided for in thanks for his service, Max has everything . . . . . . right up until he hears something he shouldn't have, and refuses to let it go. Suddenly he's risking his life and the lives of all those he cares about for a secret which could expose corruption at the highest levels, and change the course of the war. One man, one brief conversation . . . a whole world of trouble . . . The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

Softcover. Zustand: Gut bis sehr gut. Der Band versammelt die für die akademische Gedenkfeier für Michael Stolleis (19412021) am 24. Juni 2022 verfassten Vorträge. Sie würdigen die vielfältigen Facetten des Juristen und Historikers, des Wissenschaftlers wie des Hochschullehrers. Einige Aufsätze beleuchten im Anschluss an sein Werk die Wissenschaftsgeschichte des deutschen Völkerrechts" oder die Geschichte des Kolonialrechts; andere stellen seine große Bedeutung für europäische Kolleginnen und Kollegen heraus. Doch alle Beiträge durchzieht ein Grundgedanke: dass Rechtsgeschichte und Rechtsgeschichten untrennbar zusammengehören, wie es Stolleis in seinem letzten Buch unter dem Titel recht erzählen" (2021) meisterhaft vorführte. So halten persönliche Erinnerungen von Freunden und Wegbegleiter das Andenken an den einzigartigen Erzähler vom Recht fest. Auch Michael Stolleis selbst kommt noch einmal in einem wieder abgedruckten Gespräch über Väter, Bildungswege und Zeitgenossenschaft zu Wort. This volume presents the lectures written for the academic memorial service for Michael Stolleis (19412021) on June 24, 2022. They pay tribute to the many facets of the jurist and historian, the scientist as well as the university teacher. Tying in with his work, some essays shed light on the academic history of "German international law" or the history of colonial law; others highlight his great importance for European colleagues. Yet through all the contributions runs one basic idea: that legal history and legal histories inseparably belong together, as Stolleis masterfully demonstrated in his last book bearing the title "recht erzählen" (2021). Thus, personal recollections of friends and academic companions sustain the memory of an unique narrator of law. Michael Stolleis himself also has his say once again in a reprinted conversation about fathers, educational paths and contemporaneity.

Originalbroschur. Zustand: Gut. 212 S. Ein gutes und sauberes Exemplar. - LESSONS FROM A DECADE OF WAR -- A Hard Education. Learning From Afghanistan and Iraq. Gideon Rose and Jonathan Tepperman -- More Small Wars. Counterinsurgency Is Here to Stay. Max Boot -- Pick Your Battles. Ending America's Era of Permanent War. Richard K. Betts -- Withdrawal Symptoms The Bungling of the Iraq Exit. Rick Brennan -- Homeward Bound? Don't Hype the Threat of Returning Jihadists. Daniel Byman and Jeremy Shapiro -- The Good War? What Went Wrong in Afghanistan and How to Make It Right. Peter Tomsen -- ESSAYS Opening Indonesia. A Conversation With Joko Widodo. The Mission for Manila. A Conversation With Benigno Aquino III -- The Unraveling. How to Respond to a Disordered World. Richard N. Haass -- China's Imperial President. Xi Jinping Tightens His Grip. Elizabeth C. Economy -- Normal Countries. The East 25 Years After Communism. Andrei Shleifer and Daniel Treisman -- The End of the Military-Industrial Complex How the Pentagon Is Adapting to Globalization. William J. Lynn III -- The Strategic Logic of Trade. New Rules of the Road for the Global Market. Michael Froman -- Culture War. The Case Against Repatriating Museum Artifacts. James Cuno -- Promises to Keep. Crafting Better Development Goals. Bjorn Lomborg -- Misrule of the Few. How the Oligarchs Ruined Greece. Pavlos Eleftheriadis. Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 550.

Zustand: Very Good. 1st edition. Cloth, dj, F/VG. xi+260pp, b/w frontis, 14pp b/w plates, index, dustjacket a little grubby to the rear panel, a nice copy. A biography and intimate portrait of Sir Max Beerbhom, cartoonist, essayist and novelist. 500 grams.

Zustand: Very Good. 1st edition. Cloth, dj, F/VG. xi+260pp, b/w frontis, 14pp b/w plates, index, ink name to fep, dustjacket a little grubby to the rear panel, complete with Book Society wrap round band, a nice copy. A biography and intimate portrait of Sir Max Beerbhom, cartoonist, essayist & novelist.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'Profoundly moving. An astonishing book, a true work of art' Max Porter, author of Grief is the Thing with Feathers From the critically acclaimed author of The Vagrants, a devastating and utterly original novel on grief and motherhood'Days: the easiest possession. The days he had refused would come, one at a time. They would wait, every daybreak, with their boundless patience and indifference, seeing if they could turn me into an ally or an enemy to myself.'A woman's teenage son takes his own life. It is incomprehensible. The woman is a writer, and so she attempts to comprehend her grief in the space she knows best: on the page, as an imagined conversation with the child she has lost. He is as sharp and funny and serious in death as he was in life itself, and he will speak back to her, unable to offer explanation or solace, but not yet, not quite, gone. Where Reasons End is an extraordinary portrait of parenthood, in all its painful contradictions of joy, humour and sorrow, and of what it is to lose a child. 'A masterpiece. This book haunts me more than any other novel I've read in recent years' Garth Greenwell, author of What Belongs to You'Heart-wrenching, fearless, and unlike anything you've ever read' Esquire'I sit here shaken and, I think, changed by this work' Katherine Boo, author of Behind the Beautiful Forevers'A devastating read, but also a tender one, filled with love, complexity, and a desire for understanding' Nylon'The most intelligent, insightful, heart-wrenching book of our time' Sean Andrew Greer, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Less'Captures the affections and complexity of parenthood in a way that has never been portrayed before' The Millions'Ethereal and electric, radiating unthinkable pain and profound love' Buzzfeed.

Zustand: Sehr gut. Zustand: Sehr gut | Seiten: 198 | Sprache: Englisch | Produktart: Bücher.

Kartoniert / Broschiert. Zustand: New. Gives an account of the author s journey by rail through Asia. This work describes the many places, cultures, sights and sounds he experienced and the fascinating people he met. It also shows how he is drawn into conversation with fellow passengers, from Mo.

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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Angela Pusey had sung her last song. At 3:30 one fine afternoon, a small blow to the back of the head cut her off in midnote and a grateful village breathed a sigh of relief. Aside from an outraged music lover, who would've wished the middle-aged spinster permanently silenced Actually, who wouldn't have ! Until her final breath, the vicious, prying snoop had meticulously collected bits and pieces of other people's lives .from scraps of conversation, pilfered correspondence and spying moments. Angela Pewsey knew something about everyone in the village of Inching Round.and everything about some folks. In gloating, threatening letters, she let them know their secrets were no longer safe .and those poison pen letters spelled an invitation to murder. Now Angela's venomous pen had been stilled but her hate-filled diary remaiinded to reveal the murderers name! The bumbling village police are quite off the track with their 'fanciful tramp' theory; none of the locals believe it and certainly not young London solicitor Firth Prentice or 'Long Tom' Fowler, the somber inspector just down from Scotland Yard. The Voice of the Corpse (1948) is an outstanding example of post-Second World War mystery fiction which combines excellent dialogue, fine characterization and pervasive irony in a gripping tale of suspense.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - A philosophical memoir about becoming a father in an increasingly terrible world - can I hope the child growing in my partner's womb will have a good-enough life In a conversation reported by his friend and literary executor Max Brod, Franz Kafka speculated that we human beings who are alive today are merely 'nihilistic thoughts, suicidal thoughts, that come into God's head.' But luckily, 'our world is only a bad mood of God, a bad day of his.' Outside of the manifestation of the world as we know it, there is 'plenty of hope, an infinite amount of hope - but not for us.'In Infinitely Full of Hope, Tom Whyman argues that Kafka is right. Our world, right now, is terrible: our overall sense of history is one in which we simply lurch from disaster to disaster, where nothing ever gets any better and no one ever learns anything. And the world has made us terrible as well.Part memoir, part theory, and part reflection on fatherhood, Infinitely Full of Hope asks how we can cling to hope in an increasingly unstable and terrifying world.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'Civilization rests on a series of successful conversations.' Sam HarrisNeuroscientist, philosopher, podcaster and bestselling author Sam Harris, has been exploring some of the greatest questions concerning the human mind, society, and the events that shape our world.Harris's search for deeper understanding of how we think has led him to engage and exchange with some of our most brilliant and controversial contemporary minds - Daniel Kahneman, Robert Sapolsky, Anil Seth and Max Tegmark - in order to unpack and clarify ideas of consciousness, free will, extremism, and ethical living.For Harris, honest conversation, no matter how difficult or contentious, represents the only path to moral and intellectual progress.Featuring eleven conversations from the hit podcast, these electric exchanges fuse wisdom with rigorous interrogation to shine a light on what it means to make sense of our world today.'I don't have many can't miss podcasts, but Making Sense is right at the top of that short list.' - Stephen Fry'Sam Harris is the most intellectually courageous man I know.' - Richard Dawkins.

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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Druck auf Anfrage Neuware - Printed after ordering - Essay from the year 2017 in the subject History Europe - Other Countries - Middle Ages, Early Modern Age, grade: A\*, , course: History, language: English, abstract: The study examines the primary cause of the crusades. The crusades were an enterprise constructed out of inherently religious concerns. Jerusalem had been closed to Christian pilgrims and the Christian Byzantines were under threat from Muslim factions to the east.A similar trend was followed in the subsequent three major crusades. An alleged Muslim aggression would be countered by an apparently righteous Christian counter-attack. This threat was labelled by the papacy as a threat to all of Christendom and, for a population whose lives were dominated by religion, this was a very grave threat indeed. For kings and nobility religion was at once a fashionable expense and a very real subject of devotion. For the poor, the church was a place for conversation and celebration, confession and communion; with entire communities gathering there to do everything from celebrating Michaelmas to listening to a sermon condemning them all as sinners.Inevitably, religion would provide an underlying stimulus and justification for this act of violence undertaken in the name of God; but it would by no means be the only influence. As it is in today's society, money was an inescapable necessity of life and the restrictions which it imposed would play an important role in deciding the course and outcome of the crusades. Furthermore, any venture which required international cooperation, and especially one of this magnitude, would inevitably be restricted by the uncompromising labyrinth of temporal and papal politics.

Zustand: guter Zustand. 112 S., Broschur, 1. Auflage 1983, gut bis sehr gut. Keine Eintragungen. Buch.

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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Lucas, Trevor (illustrator). Neuware - Girl! WHAT you gonna DO with your Money Money Matters for Kids - This book was designed to stimulate the interest of financial education for young people ages 5 to 12. This book introduces its reader to the idea of saving money and can be used as supplemental research to any elementary school financial literacy/educational program. The goal of the book is to expand the readers financial knowledge, stimulate conversation with a trusted adult and promote an interest in financial education. This book is one in a series (look for the women and teen versions). The author hopes to encourage an interest in money matters and financial literacy in youth.

Zustand: Sehr gut. 264 S. Ein gutes und sauberes Exemplar. - DER RAUM Raumansichten in den Raincoat Drawings. Das Trügerische des Gewohnten -- Exkurs: Künstlerische Raumgestaltungen nach Max Raphael -- Architektonische Formen und Raumgestaltung im plastischen Werk -- Architektonische Fragmente -- Architektonische Elemente und Raum in den begehbaren Installationen -- Die "Floor Pieces" -- A Place Called Abroad und Streetwise -- Double Bind -- Munoz' Raumkonzeption -- Die Bedeutung von Segment für das Verständnis von Munoz' Raumkonzeption -- Munoz und der barocke Raum -- FIGUR UND RAUM Figurentypen und Typisierung der menschlichen Figur -- Die Figuren der Conversation Pieces -- Frühe Figuren: Puppen, Zwerge, Ballerinas -- Die "Allerweltsmenschen" -- Typisierung als künstlerisches Mittel -- Die Figur als Plastik: Das Statuarische -- Exkurs: Parallelen in der Figurendarstellung bei Munoz und Francisco Goya -- A Place Called Abroad: Allgegenwärtige Fremdheit -- Streetwise -- Double Bind: Absurde Existenz in Zwischenräumen -- Figurengruppen ohne Architektur. Conversation Pieces und "Chinesen" -- Raumkonstituierung durch Figurenensembles -- Das Zusammenspiel von Figur und Raum: Skulptur und Installation Munoz und der Minimalismus -- DIE KONSTRUKTION DES WIRKLICHEN Parallelen und Unterschiede in den Installationen von Munoz und Ilya Kabakov -- Munoz' Raumkonzeption als Grundlage für eine inhaltliche Gesamtinterpretation seines Werkes. ISBN 9783496014157 Sprache: Deutsch Gewicht in Gramm: 700 Mit zahlr. auch farb. Abb. Originalbroschur.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Druck auf Anfrage Neuware - Printed after ordering - Research Paper (undergraduate) from the year 2011 in the subject Business economics - General, grade: 5 Creditpoints, University of West Hungary , course: Grundlagen von Forschungsmethoden, language: English, abstract: The following tasks have been discussed with University Professor Dr. XX in a personal conversation on 4/18/2011:Select 3 articles or subjects from the topics management, leadership, organization of an English-speaking scientific magazine (e.g., Harvard Business Review) and describe all 3 on max. 15 pages, regarding the following methodical approach:1.)Is the target defined clearly (one can recognize what the author intends, what he wants)2.)Is the approach clear and logical How can the approach be assessed3.)Is the method suitable for the subject, which method was used, how can the method be assessed4.)Assessment of the conclusion / of the summary (does it answer the questions (e.g., point 1), is it compatible with the target, has the target been reached.

Zustand: Gut. 100 S. Einband leicht berieben. - Mythologies: Art and the Market. Jeffrey Deitch interviewed by Matthew Collings -- Young Necrophiliacs, Old Narcissists. Donald Kuspit -- Expression and Exhaustion: Art and Criticism in the Sixties Part II. Charles Harrison -- The Picture as Process: The Work of Ina Barfuss and Thomas Wachweger. Wolfgang Max Faust -- A Bootful of Brains: Walter Dahn. Wilfried Dickhoff -- Frank Bowling: In Search of an El Dorado. Dennis De Caires -- Alison Wilding: Sailing On. Lynne Cooke -- Being an Artist is Not a Goal: Georg Herold. Interviewed by Barbara Catoir -- Donald Lipski's Book of Knowledge. Barry Schwahsky -- AR TIST'S PAGES: Albert Irvin -- Enzo Cucchi. A conversation with Paola Igliori -- Joshua Reynolds. Tim Hilton -- Cries and Whispers. Stuart Morgan. Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 550 Mit zahlr. auch farb. Abb. Originalbroschur.

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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Fourteen-year-old Max Howarth is living with anorexia. With the help of his therapist and his supportive, but flawed, family, he's trying his best to maintain his health. But things spiral out of control, and his eating disorder threatens to isolate him from everyone he loves. Beautifully crafted and honestly written, this debut YA novel tells the story of one boy's year-long journey toward recovery.\* 'The raw and real portrayal of anorexia from a group often left out of the conversation.' -Kirkus Reviews, STARRED Review\* '[A] no-holds-barred debut novel based on the author's own experiences as a tween will be a significant addition to any library.' -Booklist, STARRED ReviewIn most ways, Max is like any other teenager. He's dealing with family drama, crushes, and high school-all while trying to have fun, play video games, and explore his hobbies. But Max is also living with anorexia and finds it impossible to be honest with his loved ones-they just don't understand what he's going through.Starting at Christmas, a series of triggering events disrupt Max's progress toward recovery, sending him down a year-long spiral of self-doubt and dangerous setbacks. With no one to turn to, Max journals his innermost thoughts and feelings, writing to 'Ana,' the name he's given his anorexia. While that helps for a while, Ana's negative voice grows, amplifying his fears.When Max gets an unusual present from his older brother, a geocache, it becomes a welcome distraction from his problems. He hides it in the forest near their house and soon gets a message from the mysterious 'E.' Although Max is unsure of the secret writer's identity, they build a bond, and it's comforting to finally have someone to confide in. As Max's eating disorder pulls him further away from his family and friends, this connection keeps him going, leading him back to the people who love and support him.Writing from his own experiences with anorexia, Samuel Pollen's The Year I Didn't Eat is a powerful and uplifting story about recovery and the connections that heal us.

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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER | READ WITH JENNA BOOK CLUB PICK AS FEATURED ON TODAY This may be the most epic love story I ve ever, ever read. Jenna Bush Hager on TODAYAn intimate and lyrical celebration of great love, great art, and the sacrifices we make for bothFor fifty years, Abe and Jane have been coming to Central Park, as starry-eyed young lovers, as frustrated and exhausted parents, as artists watching their careers take flight. They came alone when they needed to get away from each other, and together when they had something important to discuss. The Park has been their witness for half a century of love. Until now.Jane is dying, and Abe is recounting their life together as a way of keeping them going: the parts they knew their courtship and early marriage, their blossoming creative lives and the parts they didn t always want to know the determined young student of Abe s looking for a love story of her own, and their son, Max, who believes his mother chose art over parenthood, and who has avoided love and intimacy at all costs. Told in various points of view, even in conversation with Central Park, these voices weave in and out to paint a portrait as complicated and essential as love itself. An homage to New York City, to romance, and even to loss, This Is a Love Story tenderly and suspensefully captures deep truths about life and marriage in radiant prose. It is about love that endures despite what life throws at us, or perhaps even because of it.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - I experienced my transition as a form of resistance, but in reality it only affirmed the same stereotypes that had done me harm to begin with. Trying to prevent myself from committing suicide by becoming less recognizably female was an attempt at resistance that, politically, functioned in many ways as a form of capitulation. Many feminists are concerned about the way transgender ideology naturalizes patriarchal views of sex stereotypes, and encourages transition as a way of attempting to escape misogyny. In this brave and thoughtful book, Max Robinson goes beyond the 'before' and 'after' of the transition she underwent and takes us through the processes that led her, first, to transition in an attempt to get relief from her distress, and then to detransition, as she discovered feminist thought and community. The author makes a case for a world in which all medical interventions for the purpose of assimilation are open to criticism. This book is a far-reaching discussion of women's struggles to survive under patriarchy, which draws upon a legacy of radical and lesbian feminist ideas to arrive at conclusions. Robinson's bold discussion of both transition and detransition is meant to provoke a much-needed conversation about who benefits from transgender medicine and who has to bear the hidden cost of these interventions. Transition is not an unconstrained choice when we are fast-tracked to medical intervention as if being female was a tumor that required immediate removal to save our lives.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Freed, Max (illustrator). Neuware - You are about to step into an alternative world than the one that you know. And before you enter, bring a pair of flippers, an umbrella, and a great deal appetite for humor. Through your adventure, you'll receive potent doses of satire, humor, sarcasm, logic, and 'what if' scenarios. And if you're lucky, you may even find (and have a conversation with) yourself, there.