Knopf doubleday publishing group aug 2021 (6 Ergebnisse)

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - As a groundbreaking chef and beloved cookbook author, Deborah Madison"The Queen of Greens" (The Washington Post)has profoundly changed the way generations of Americans think about cooking with vegetables, helping to transform "vegetarian" from a dirty word into a mainstream way of eating. But before she became a household name, Madison spent almost twenty years at the Zen Center in the midst of counterculture San Francisco. In this warm, candid, and refreshingly funny memoir, she tells the story of her life in foodand with it, the story of the vegetarian movementfor the very first time. From her childhood in Northern California's Big Ag heartland to sitting sesshin for hours on end at the Tassajara monastery; from her work in the kitchen of the then-new Chez Panisse to the birth of food TV to the age of farmers' markets everywhere, ?An Onion in My Pocket is a deeply personal look at the rise of vegetable-forward cooking and a manifesto for how to eat (and live) well today.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - From the acclaimed author of Taipei, a bold portrait of a writer working to balance all his lives artist, son, loner as he spins the ordinary into something monumental. An engrossing, hopeful novel about life, fiction, and where the two blur together.In 2014, a novelist named Li leaves Manhattan to visit his parents in Taipei for ten weeks. He doesn't know it yet, but his life will begin to deepen and complexify on this trip. As he flies between these two worlds--year by year, over four years--he will flit in and out of optimism, despair, loneliness, sanity, bouts of chronic pain, and drafts of a new book. He will incite and temper arguments, uncover secrets about nature and history, and try to understand how to live a meaningful life as an artist and a son. But how to fit these pieces of his life together Where to begin Or should he leave society altogether Exploring everyday events and scenes--waiting rooms, dog walks, family meals--while investigatively venturing to the edges of society, where culture dissolves into mystery, Lin shows what it is to write a novel in real time. Illuminating and deeply felt, as it builds toward a stunning, if unexpected, romance, Leave Society is a masterly story about life and art at the end of history.A VINTAGE ORIGINAL.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - In this 'superlative historical thriller' (Minneapolis Star Tribune) from the acclaimed author of Conclave, Fatherland, and Munich, the destinies of a British actress-turned-spy and a disillusioned German rocket engineer collide at the height of World War II 'Propulsive. . . . V2 features sophisticated weaponry, devious Nazis, moral compromise and Allied ingenuity.' --The Wall Street Journal>Meanwhile, Kay Caton-Walsh, a young English intelligence officer, is living through the turmoil of war. After she and her lover, an RAF officer, are caught in a V2 attack, she volunteers to ship out for newly liberated Belgium. Armed with little more than a slide rule and a few equations, Kay and her colleagues hope to locate and destroy the launch sites. But at this stage in the war it's hard to know who, if anyone, she can trust.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - An exciting and accessible new view of the evolution of human and animal life on Earth. From the author of national bestseller, Your Inner Fish, this extraordinary journey of discovery spans centuries, as explorers and scientists seek to understand the origins of life's immense diversity. Fossils, DNA, scientists with a penchant for suits of armor what s not to love BBC Wildlife MagazineOver billions of years, ancient fish evolved to walk on land, reptiles transformed into birds that fly, and apelike primates evolved into humans that walk on two legs, talk, and write. For more than a century, paleontologists have traveled the globe to find fossils that show how such changes have happened. We have now arrived at a remarkable moment prehistoric fossils coupled with new DNA technology have given us the tools to answer some of the basic questions of our existence: How do big changes in evolution happen Is our presence on Earth the product of mere chance This new science reveals a multibillion-year evolutionary history filled with twists and turns, trial and error, accident and invention. In Some Assembly Required, Neil Shubin takes readers on a journey of discovery spanning centuries, as explorers and scientists seek to understand the origins of life's immense diversity.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Stunning poems of obsession, loss, and the desire for a renewed self, from the award-winning poet"I thought I had left behind the darkness / of the heart," Arvio confesses in the poem "Small War." The love Arvio traces in these pages is indeed a battle, one in which the best-laid plans are shattered. Rarely has a poet tackled intimate love with so much invention and bravery. In poem after poem, we meet the troubling lover whose nearness and force undoes her. There are moments of reprieve: "my naked body and budding pleasure / in the weather of your presence. / Not whether your presence but how." The voice is vulnerable, self-knowing, often funny; the poet seems to be writing these poems to save herself from a devastating passion. Her weapons are a cascade of brash, freely spoken lines and a powerful command of metaphor, wielded in a search for meaning and understanding. These breathtaking love poems make the collection Arvio's most universal to date.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - A dazzling anthology of essays by some of the best writers of the past quarter century from Barry Lopez and Margo Jefferson to David Sedaris and Samantha Irby selected by acclaimed essayist Phillip Lopate. The first decades of the twenty-first century have witnessed a blossoming of creative nonfiction. In this extraordinary collection, Phillip Lopate gathers essays by forty-seven of America s best contemporary writers, mingling long-established eminences with newer voices and making room for a wide variety of perspectives and styles. The Contemporary American Essay is a monument to a remarkably adaptable form and a treat for anyone who loves fantastic writing. Hilton Als Nicholson Baker Thomas Beller Sven Birkerts Eula Biss Mary Cappello Anne Carson Terry Castle Alexander Chee Teju Cole Bernard Cooper Sloane Crosley Charles D Ambrosio Meghan Daum Brian Doyle Geoff Dyer Lina Ferreira Lynn Freed Rivka Galchen Ross Gay Louise Glück Emily Fox Gordon Patricia Hampl Aleksandar Hemon Samantha Irby Leslie Jamison Margo Jefferson Laura Kipnis David Lazar Yiyun Li Phillip Lopate Barry Lopez Thomas Lynch John McPhee Ander Monson Eileen Myles Maggie Nelson Meghan O Gieblyn Joyce Carol Oates Darryl Pinckney Lia Purpura Karen Russell David Sedaris Shifra Sharlin David Shields Floyd Skloot Rebecca Solnit Clifford Thompson Wesley YangAn Anchor Original.…