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Verlag: Penguin Books Ltd Feb 2002, 2002
ISBN 10: 0141469048ISBN 13: 9780141469041
Anbieter: Smartbuy, Einbeck, Deutschland
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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Popular and portable, The Paris Mapguide-now in its second edition-contains everything visitors need to know to enjoy themselves in, get the best out of, and find their way around Paris. Its colorful, informative maps are easy to read and convenient to handle-no unfolding necessary. As terrific as the easily readable maps are, however, there is much more here. Packed into these 64 pages is a surprising amount of information about the many different sights and activities to see and do in and around the City of Light. 64 pp. Deutsch.
Verlag: Penguin Books Ltd Feb 2002, 2002
ISBN 10: 0141183403ISBN 13: 9780141183404
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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Anaïs Nin's Little Birds is published in Penguin Modern Classics.Anaïs Nin's second volume of erotic short stories after Delta of Venus, Little Birds is broader in scope, encompassing the entire breadth of human sensuality. Each of the 13 stories captures a moment of pure desire, in all its complexity and paradoxical simplicity.Anaïs Nin (1903-77), born in Paris, was the daughter of a Franco-Danish singer and a Cuban pianist. Her first book - a defence of D. H. Lawrence - was published in the 1930s. Her prose poem, House of Incest (1936) was followed by the collection of three novellas, collected as Winter of Artifice (1939). In the 1940s she began to write erotica for an anonymous client, and these pieces are collected in Delta of Venus and Little Birds (both published posthumously). During her later years Anaïs Nin lectured frequently at universities throughout the USA, in 1974 and was elected to the United States National Institute of Arts and Letters.If you enjoyed Little Birds, you might like Nin's Delta of Venus, also available in Penguin Modern Classics.'One of the most extraordinary and unconventional writers of this century'The New York Times Book Review 144 pp. Deutsch.
Verlag: Penguin Books Ltd Feb 2002, 2002
ISBN 10: 0141187034ISBN 13: 9780141187037
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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Ngugis erster Roman erzählt vom Leben in kenyanischen Hichland zu jener Zeit, als die weiße Eroberung erst ein bedrohlicher Schatten war.Waiyaki wächst in der traditionellen Dorfgemeinschaft des Kikuyu-Stammes auf und wird von seinem Vater als spritueller Führer und Erneuerer des Dorfes eingeweiht. Er besucht eine christliche Missionsschule, aber als er sich in ein Mädchen aus dem chrstianisierten Nachbardorf verliebt, kommt es zum tragischen, ausweglosen Konflikt mit dem Stamm.Waiyaki, der sich nicht bekehren läßt, andererseits zum besten seines Volkes das Wissen der Weißen in einer unabhängigen Kikuyu-Schule vermittelt, steht dazwischen: ein Opfer der Zerrissenheit, die bis heute das moderne Afrika zeichnet. 160 pp. Deutsch.
Verlag: Penguin Books Ltd Feb 2002, 2002
ISBN 10: 014118437XISBN 13: 9780141184371
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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - When the first atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima in August 1945, killing 100,000 men, women and children, a new era in human history opened. This book presents an account of six men and women who struggled to cope with catastrophe and with often crippling disease. 208 pp. Deutsch.
Verlag: Penguin Books Ltd Feb 2002, 2002
ISBN 10: 0141186992ISBN 13: 9780141186993
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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - A masterly story of myth, rebellion, love, friendship and betrayal from one of Africa's great writers, Ngugi wa Thiong'o's A Grain of Wheat includes an introduction by Abdulrazak Gurnah, author of By the Sea, in Penguin Modern Classics.It is 1963 and Kenya is on the verge of Uhuru - Independence Day. The mighty british government has been toppled, and in the lull between the fighting and the new world, colonized and colonizer alike reflect on what they have gained and lost. In the village of Thabai, the men and women who live there have been transformed irrevocably by the uprising. Kihika, legendary rebel leader, was fatally betrayed to the whiteman. Gikonyo's marriage to the beautiful Mumbi was destroyed when he was imprisoned, while her life has been shattered in other ways. And Mugo, brave survivor of the camps and now a village hero, harbours a terrible secret. As events unfold, compromises are forced, friendships are betrayed and loves are tested.Kenyan novelist and playwright Ngugi wa Thiong'o is the author of Weep Not Child (1964), The River Between (1965), and Petals of Blood (1977). Ngugi was chair of the Department of Literature at the University of Nairobi from 1972 to 1977. He left Kenya in 1982 and taught at various universities in the United States before he became professor of comparative literature and performance studies at New York University in 1992.If you enjoyed A Grain of Wheat, you might like Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart, also available in Penguin Modern Classics.'With Ngugi history is a living tissue . this book adds cubits to his already considerable stature'Guardian 272 pp. Deutsch.
Verlag: Penguin Books Ltd Feb 2002, 2002
ISBN 10: 0141186585ISBN 13: 9780141186580
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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Is it possible to die a happy death This title tells the story of a young Algerian, Mersault, who defies society's rules by committing a murder and escaping punishment, then experimenting with different ways of life and finally dying a happy man. 112 pp. Englisch.
Verlag: Penguin Books Ltd Feb 2002, 2002
ISBN 10: 0141007206ISBN 13: 9780141007205
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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - What is happening in the brain when we drink too much alcohol, get high on ecstasy or experience road rage Emotion, says internationally acclaimed neuroscientist Susan Greenfield, is the building block of consciousness. As our minds develop we create a personalized inner world based on our experiences. But during periods of intense emotion, such as anger, fear or euphoria, we can literally lose our mind, returning to the mental state we experienced as infants. Challenging many preconceived notions, Susan Greenfield's groundbreaking book seeks to answer one of science's most enduring mysteries: how our unique sense of self is created. 272 pp. Deutsch.
Verlag: Penguin Books Ltd Feb 2002, 2002
ISBN 10: 0140439153ISBN 13: 9780140439151
Anbieter: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Deutschland
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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Seducer, gambler, necromancer, swindler, swashbuckler, poet, self-made gentleman, bon vivant, Giacomo Casanova was not only the most notorious lover of the Western world, but a supreme story teller. He lived a life stranger than most fictions, and the tale of his own adventures is his most compelling story, and one that remained unfinished at the time of his death. This new selection contains all the highlights of Casanova's life: his youth in Venice as a precocious ecclesiastic; his dabbling in the occult; his imprisonment and thrilling escape; and his amorous conquests, ranging from noblewomen to nuns.
Verlag: Penguin Books Ltd Feb 2002, 2002
ISBN 10: 0141185309ISBN 13: 9780141185309
Anbieter: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Deutschland
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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Truman Capote was born in New Orleans in 1925 and was raised in various parts of the south, his family spending winters in New Orleans and summers in Alabama and New Georgia. By the age of fourteen he had already started writing short stories, some of which were published. He left school when he was fifteen and subsequently worked for the New Yorker which provided his first - and last - regular job. Following his spell with the New Yorker, Capote spent two years on a Louisiana farm where he wrote Other Voices, Other Rooms (1948). He lived, at one time or another, in Greece, Italy, Africa and the West Indies, and travelled in Russia and the Orient. He is the author of many highly praised books, including A Tree of Night and Other Stories (1949), The Grass Harp (1951), Breakfast at Tiffany's (1958), In Cold Blood (1965), which immediately became the centre of a storm of controversy on its publication, Music for Chameleons (1980) and Answered Prayers (1986), all of which are published by Penguin. Truman Capote died in August 1984.