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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - A powerful portrait of a Jewish German family divided by exile, abandonment and emigration.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Collected poems from one of the twentieth century's most influential voices.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'One of the great originals of modern European poetry and Portugal's premier modernist.'--Washington Post.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - AWashington PostandLos Angeles TimesBest Book of the Year.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - In the landmark thirtieth installment of the bestselling series the New Yorker has called 'an unusually potent cocktail of atmosphere and event,' Guido Brunetti is forced to confront an unimaginable crime.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - A brilliantly twisty and unusual literary thriller for fans of Gillian Flynn, Jo Nesbø, Kate Atkinson and Tana French, which asks the question: Can you ever really shed your skin.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - ''We are the apes who tell stories,' writes William Bernstein. 'And no matter how misleading the narrative, if it is compelling enough it will nearly always trump the facts.' As Bernstein shows in his eloquent and persuasive new book, The Delusions of Crowds, throughout human history, compelling stories have catalyzed the spread of contagious narratives through susceptible groups-with enormous, often disastrous consequences. Inspired by Charles Mackay's nineteenth-century classic Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds, Bernstein engages with mass delusion with the same curiosity and passion, but armed with the latest scientific research that explains the biological, evolutionary, and psychosocial roots of human irrationality. Bernstein tells the stories of dramatic religious and financial manias in western society over the last 500 years-from the Anabaptist Madness that afflicted the Low Countries in the 1530s to the dangerous End-Times beliefs that animate ISIS and pervade today's polarized America; and from the South Sea Bubble to the Enron scandal and dot-com bubbles of recent years. In Bernstein's supple prose, the participants are as colorful as their motivation- invariably 'the desire to improve one's well-being in this life or the next.' As revealing about human nature as they are historically significant, Bernstein's chronicles reveal the huge cost and alarming implications of mass mania: for example, belief in dispensationalist End-Times has over decades profoundly affected U.S. Middle East policy. Bernstein observes that if we can absorb the history and biology of mass delusion, we can recognize it more readily in our own time and avoid its often dire consequences'.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'In the first line of Ocean State, we learn that a high school student was murdered, and we find out who did it. The story that unfolds from there with incredible momentum is thus one of the build-up to and fall-out from the murder, told through the alternating perspectives of the four women at its heart. Angel, the murderer, Carol, her mother, and Birdy, the victim, all come alive on the page as they converge in a climax both tragic and inevitable. Watching over it all is the retrospective testimony of Angel's younger sister Marie, who reflects on that doomed autumn of 2009 with all the wisdom of hindsight. Angel and Birdy love the same teenage boy, frantically and single mindedly, and are moved by the intensity of their feelings to extremes neither could have anticipated. O'Nan's expert hand paints a fully realized portrait of these women, but also weaves a compelling and heartbreaking story of working-class life in Ashaway, Rhode Island'.