knopf doubleday publishing group dez 2021 (7 Ergebnisse)

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - America's most original and controversial literary critic writes trenchantly about forty-eight masterworks spanning the Western traditionfrom Don Quixote to Wuthering Heights to Invisible Manin his first book devoted exclusively to narrative fiction.In this valedictory volume, Yale professor Harold Bloomwho for more than half a century was regarded as America's most daringly original and controversial literary criticgives us his only book devoted entirely to the art of the novel. With his hallmark percipience, remarkable scholarship, and extraordinary devotion to sublimity, Bloom offers meditations on forty-eight essential works spanning the Western canon, from Don Quixote to Book of Numbers; from Wuthering Heights to Absalom, Absalom!; from Les Misérables to Blood Meridian; from Vanity Fair to Invisible Man. Here are trenchant appreciations of fiction by, among many others, Austen, Balzac, Dickens, Tolstoy, James, Conrad, Lawrence, Le Guin, and Sebald.Whether you have already read these books, plan to, or simply care about the importance and power of fiction, Harold Bloom is your unparalleled guide to understanding literature with new intimacy.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - An insightful, joyful tour of the transformative powers of starting something new, no matter your age from the bestselling author of Traffic and You May Also Like Vanderbilt elegantly and persuasively tackles one of the most pernicious of the lies we tells ourselves that the pleasures of learning are reserved for the young. Malcolm Gladwell, bestselling author of OutliersWhy do so many of us stop learning new skills as adults Are we afraid to be bad at something Have we forgotten the sheer pleasure of beginning from the ground up Inspired by his young daughter s insatiable curiosity, Tom Vanderbilt embarks on a yearlong quest of learning purely for the sake of learning. Rapturously singing Spice Girls songs in an amateur choir, losing games of chess to eight-year-olds, and dodging scorpions at a surf camp in Costa Rica, Vanderbilt tackles five main skills but learns so much more. Along the way, he interviews dozens of experts about the fascinating psychology and science behind the benefits of becoming an adult beginner and shows how anyone can get better at beginning again and, more important, why they should take those first awkward steps. Funny, uplifting, and delightfully informative, Beginners is about how small acts of reinvention, at any age, can make life seem magical.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Behr, Robbi (illustrator). Neuware - After getting a fortune cookie with the message, 'Practice makes perfect,' Ben meets new student Darby, who claims to be perfect and offers to teach Ben his secrets.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -'Tom Bissell is one of America's best and most interesting writers.' --Stephen King, from the introduction to Flight or Fright: 17 Turbulent TalesFrom the best-selling author of The Disaster Artist, a new collection of stories that range from laugh-out-loud funny to disturbingly dark--unflinching portraits of women and men struggling to bridge the gap between art and lifeA young and ingratiating assistant to a movie star makes a blunder that puts his boss and a major studio at grave risk. A couple hires a partner for a threesome to rejuvenate their relationship after the birth of their child. An assistant at a prestigious literary journal reconnects with a middle school frenemy and finds that his carefully constructed world of refinement cannot protect him from his past. In these and other stories, Tom Bissell vividly renders the complex worlds of characters on the brink of artistic and personal crisis--writers, actors, and other creative types who see things slightly differently from the rest of us. Surreal, poignant, squirmingly awkward--and always just a little bit off--this collection is a brilliant new offering from one of the most versatile and talented writers in America today.Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, 36244 Bad Hersfeld 224 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'For decades, people have turned to the words of Alan Watts for guidance, support, and spiritual sustenance. In his classic works of philosophy--which helped to interpret and promote Buddhism, Taoism, and Hinduism to Western readers--Watts tapped into ancient ideas, but presented them in ways that spoke to everyone. Possessed of 'the rare gift of 'writing beautifully the unwritable'' (Los Angeles Times), Watts was a master of the pithy turn of phrase, and his writing is marked by an uncanny ability to make complicated ideas and advice accessible: 'Problems that remain persistently insoluble should always be suspected as questions asked in the wrong way'; 'unless one is able to live fully in the present, the future is a hoax'; 'belief clings, but faith lets go.' This collection brings together some of his most timeless words of wisdom to reflect upon and to live by, and to read for inspiration, for knowledge, and for growth'.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR A hugely ambitious, "delightfully readable, genuinely informative" portrait(The New York Times) of the two-centuries-long entwined histories of Iran and Americatwo powers who were once allies and now adversariesby an admired historianand former journalist.In this rich, fascinating history, John Ghazvinian traces the complex story of the relations between these two nations back to the Persian Empire of the eighteenth centurythe subject of great admiration by Thomas Jefferson and John Quincy Adamsand an America seen by Iranians as an ideal to emulate for their own government. Drawing on years of archival research both in the United States and Iranincluding access to Iranian government archives rarely available to Western scholarsthe Iranian-born, Oxford-educated historian leads us through the four seasons of U.S.Iran relations: the spring of mutual fascination; the summer of early interactions; the autumn of close strategic ties; and the long, dark winter of mutual hatred. Ghazvinian makes clear where, how, and when it all went wrong. America and Iran shows why two countries that once had such heartfelt admiration for each other became such committed enemiesand why it didn't have to turn out this way.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'Tom Bissell is one of America's best and most interesting writers.' --Stephen King, from the introduction to Flight or Fright: 17 Turbulent TalesFrom the best-selling author of The Disaster Artist, a new collection of stories that range from laugh-out-loud funny to disturbingly dark--unflinching portraits of women and men struggling to bridge the gap between art and lifeA young and ingratiating assistant to a movie star makes a blunder that puts his boss and a major studio at grave risk. A couple hires a partner for a threesome to rejuvenate their relationship after the birth of their child. An assistant at a prestigious literary journal reconnects with a middle school frenemy and finds that his carefully constructed world of refinement cannot protect him from his past. In these and other stories, Tom Bissell vividly renders the complex worlds of characters on the brink of artistic and personal crisis--writers, actors, and other creative types who see things slightly differently from the rest of us. Surreal, poignant, squirmingly awkward--and always just a little bit off--this collection is a brilliant new offering from one of the most versatile and talented writers in America today.