knopf doubleday publishing group nov 1996 (6 Ergebnisse)

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Nobel Prize winner Yasunari Kawabata's Thousand Cranes is a luminous story of desire, regret, and the almost sensual nostalgia that binds the living to the dead. While attending a traditional tea ceremony in the aftermath of his parents' deaths, Kikuji encounters his father's former mistress, Mrs. Ota. At first Kikuji is appalled by her indelicate nature, but it is not long before he succumbs to passion-a passion with tragic and unforeseen consequences, not just for the two lovers, but also for Mrs. Ota's daughter, to whom Kikuji's attachments soon extend. Death, jealousy, and attraction convene around the delicate art of the tea ceremony, where every gesture is imbued with profound meaning.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Finalist for Pulitzer Prize for General NonfictionFinalist for National Book Critics Circle Award for NonfictionPronged ants, horned humans, a landscape carved on a fruit pit--some of the displays in David Wilson's Museum of Jurassic Technology are hoaxes. But which ones As he guides readers through an intellectual hall of mirrors, Lawrence Weschler revisits the 16th-century 'wonder cabinets' that were the first museums and compels readers to examine the imaginative origins of both art and science.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This magisterial volume follows the death of ancient traditions, the triumph of new classes, and the emergence of new technologies, sciences, and ideologies, with vast intellectual daring and aphoristic elegance. Part of Eric Hobsbawm's epic four-volume history of the modern world, along with The Age of Capitalism, The Age of Empire, and The Age of Extremes.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Robinson, W Heath (illustrator). Neuware - 'Puss in Boots,' 'Blue Beard,' 'Tom Thumb,' and other beloved fairy tale classics, as set down by the man who first rescued them from the oral tradition in the 17th century. Contains six color plates and 30 black-and-white illustrations.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - One of Time Magazine's Best Books of the Year.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - A monumental work--the story of the Jewish people told through the story of Jewish cooking--The Book of Jewish Food traces the development of both Ashkenazic and Sephardic Jewish communities and their cuisine over the centuries. The 800 magnificent recipes, many never before documented, represent treasures garnered bu Roden through nearly 15 years of traveling around the world. 50 photos & illustrations.