Produktart
Zustand
Einband
Weitere Eigenschaften
Land des Verkäufers
Verkäuferbewertung
Verlag: Penguin Books Ltd Jul 2006, 2006
ISBN 10: 0140297820ISBN 13: 9780140297829
Anbieter: Smartbuy, Einbeck, Deutschland
Buch
Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Stanley Williams, angst-ridden banker and boffin, wonders whether there's more to life than his daily nine-to-five grind. One night he's dragged to a disco at Piccadilly Circus and there he meets Jessie, an artiste, motormouth, ducker and diver. She swoops Stanley out of his soulless life and off on a rollercoaster road trip across Europe. 304 pp. Deutsch.
Verlag: Penguin Books Ltd Jul 2006, 2006
ISBN 10: 0141188251ISBN 13: 9780141188256
Anbieter: Smartbuy, Einbeck, Deutschland
Buch
Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Written when Camus was at the height of his powers as the youngest French writer to win the Nobel Prize for Literature. 128 pp. Englisch.
Verlag: Penguin Books Ltd Jul 2006, 2006
ISBN 10: 0141188510ISBN 13: 9780141188515
Anbieter: Smartbuy, Einbeck, Deutschland
Buch
Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'In general Glory is my happiest thing.' 'The fun of Glory is . . . to be sought in the echoing and linking of minor events, in back-and-forth switches, which produce an illusion of impetus; in an old daydream directly becoming the blessing of the ball hugged to one's chest, or in the casual vision of Martin's mother grieving beyond the time-frame of the novel in an abstraction of the future that the reader can only guess at, even after he has raced through the last seven chapters where a regular madness of structural twists and a masquerade of all characters culminate in a furious finale, although nothing much happens at the very end - just a bird perching on a wicket in the greyness of a wet day' - Vladimir Nabokov 192 pp. Englisch.
Verlag: Penguin Books Ltd Jul 2006, 2006
ISBN 10: 014101945XISBN 13: 9780141019451
Anbieter: Smartbuy, Einbeck, Deutschland
Buch
Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - WINNER OF THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTIONSHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZESUNDAY TIMES TOP TEN BESTSELLERFrom the acclaimed author of Swing Time, White Teeth and Grand Union, discover a brilliantly funny and deeply moving story about love and familyWhy do we fall in love with the people we do Why do we visit our mistakes on our children What makes life truly beautiful Set between New England and London, On Beauty concerns a pair of feuding families - the Belseys and the Kipps - and a clutch of doomed affairs. It puts low morals among high ideals and asks some searching questions about what life does to love. For the Belseys and the Kipps, the confusions - both personal and political - of our uncertain age are about to be brought close to home: right to the heart of family.'I didn't want to finish, I was enjoying it so much' Evening Standard'Thrums with intellectual sass and know-how' Literary Review'Filled with humour, generosity and contemporary sparkle' Daily Telegraph 'Satirical, wise and sexy' Washington Post 464 pp. Englisch.
Verlag: Penguin Books Ltd Jul 2006, 2006
ISBN 10: 0141029455ISBN 13: 9780141029450
Anbieter: Smartbuy, Einbeck, Deutschland
Buch
Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Tucker Max drinks to excess at inappropriate times, disregards social norms, indulges every whim, takes no responsibility for his actions, rebels against any authority, mocks idiots and posers, sleeps with more women than is safe or reasonable and generally just acts like an asshole. I Hope They Serve Beer In Hell contains everything the modern-day bounder that is Tucker Max has written since he started sharing his depraved reality with an audience of millions. 288 pp. Deutsch.
Verlag: Penguin Books Ltd Jul 2006, 2006
ISBN 10: 0141012935ISBN 13: 9780141012933
Anbieter: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Deutschland
Buch
Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Colin Tudge's The Secret Life of Trees: How they Live and Why they Matter explores the hidden role of trees in our everyday lives - and how our future survival depends on them. What is a tree As this celebration of the trees shows, they are our countryside; our ancestors descended from them; they gave us air to breathe. Yet while the stories of trees are as plentiful as leaves in a forest, they are rarely told. Here, Colin Tudge travels from his own back garden round the world to explore the beauty, variety and ingenuity of trees everywhere: from how they live so long to how they talk to each other and why they came to exist in the first place. Lyrical and evocative, this book will make everyone fall in love with the trees around them. 'A love-letter to trees'Financial Times 'One of those books you want everyone to have already read'Sunday Telegraph 'Wonderful, invaluable and timely. Tudge is as illuminating a guide as one could wish for'Daily Mail 'Everyone interested in the natural world will enjoy The Secret Life of Trees. I found myself reading out whole chunks to friends'The Times Books of the Year Colin Tudge started his first tree nursery in his garden aged 11, marking his life-long interest in trees. Always interested in plants and animals, he studied zoology at Cambridge and then began writing about science, first as features editor at the New Scientist and then as a documentary maker for the BBC. Now a full-time writer, he is a Fellow of the Linnean Society of London and visiting Research Fellow at the Centre of Philosophy at the London School of Economics. His books include The Variety of Life and So Shall We Reap.
Verlag: Penguin Books Ltd Jul 2006, 2006
ISBN 10: 0141441488ISBN 13: 9780141441481
Anbieter: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Deutschland
Buch
Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - E. M. Forster once described The Longest Journey as the book 'I am most glad to have written.' An introspective novel of manners at once comic and tragic, it tells of a sensitive and intelligent young man with an intense imagination and a certain amount of literary talent. He sets out full of hope to become a writer, but gives up his aspirations for those of the conventional world, gradually sinking into a life of petty conformity and bitter disappointments.For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.
Verlag: Penguin Books Ltd Jul 2006, 2006
ISBN 10: 0141022965ISBN 13: 9780141022963
Anbieter: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Deutschland
Buch
Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The Bible is moving, inspirational and endlessly fascinating - but is it true Starting with Genesis and the implicit background to the birth of Christ, the author sets out to discover how far biblical descriptions of people, places and events are confirmed or contradicted by external written and archaeological evidence.
Verlag: Penguin Books Ltd Jul 2006, 2006
ISBN 10: 0141025549ISBN 13: 9780141025544
Anbieter: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Deutschland
Buch
Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - With an introduction by the author, this volume includes three memoirs. 'Scouse Mouse' is a story of the author's 1930s childhood in a middle-class Liverpudlian household. 'Rum, Bum and Concertina' describes Melly's National Service as one of the most unlikely naval ratings. 'Owning Up' shows how he slipped into the world of the jazz revival.
Verlag: Penguin Books Ltd Jul 2006, 2006
ISBN 10: 0141022957ISBN 13: 9780141022956
Anbieter: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Deutschland
Buch
Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - From the second century AD to the conversion of the first Christian emperor, Constantine, Robin Lane Fox's Pagans and Christians in the Mediterranean World gives a fascinating new perspective on an extraordinary era. The transition from pagan to Christian in the ancient Mediterranean world was a process whose effects we still live with today. How did this monumental conversion come about How did Christianity compare and compete with the pagan gods in the Roman Empire This scholarly work, from award-winning historian Robin Lane Fox, places Christians and pagans side by side in the context of civic life and contrasts their religious experiences, visions, cults and oracles. Leading up to the time of the first Christian emperor, Constantine, the book aims to enlarge and confirm the value of contemporary evidence, some of which has only recently been discovered. 'This brilliant book is a wholly unexpected and central contribution to its subject. What is more it is readable and rereadable, even gripping' Peter Levi, Spectator 'Important and learned' Financial Times 'A massive and humane study.On my shelf it will rest with pride between Edward Gibbon and Peter Brown' Telegraph 'On the one hand a magisterial analysis and reconstruction of an apparently remote and alien society, on the other a detailed study of the single most significant process in our history' The Times Robin Lane Fox (b. 1946) is a Fellow of New College, Oxford, and a University Reader in Ancient History. His other books include The Classical World, Alexander the Great, Pagans and Christians and The Unauthorized Version. He was historical advisor to Oliver Stone on the making of Stone's film Alexander, for which he waived all his fees on condition that he could take part in the cavalry charge against elephants which Stone staged in the Moroccan desert.
Verlag: Penguin Books Ltd (UK) Jul 2006, 2006
ISBN 10: 0141187948ISBN 13: 9780141187945
Anbieter: Smartbuy, Einbeck, Deutschland
Buch
Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - A philosophical novel described by fellow existentialist Sartre as 'perhaps the most beautiful and the least understood' of his novels, Albert Camus' The Fall is translated by Robin Buss in Penguin Modern Classics.Jean-Baptiste Clamence is a soul in turmoil. Over several drunken nights in an Amsterdam bar, he regales a chance acquaintance with his story. From this successful former lawyer and seemingly model citizen a compelling, self-loathing catalogue of guilt, hypocrisy and alienation pours forth. The Fall (1956) is a brilliant portrayal of a man who has glimpsed the hollowness of his existence. But beyond depicting one man's disillusionment, Camus's novel exposes the universal human condition and its absurdities - for our innocence that, once lost, can never be recaptured .Albert Camus (1913-60) is the author of a number of best-selling and highly influential works, all of which are published by Penguin. They include The Fall, The Outsider and The First Man. Awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1957, Camus is remembered as one of the few writers to have shaped the intellectual climate of post-war France, but beyond that, his fame has been international.If you enjoyed The Fall, you might like Jean-Paul Sartre's Nausea, also available in Penguin Modern Classics.'An irresistibly brilliant examination of modern conscience'The New York Times'Camus is the accused, his own prosecutor and advocate. The Fall might have been called 'The Last Judgement' 'Olivier Todd 92 pp. Englisch.
Verlag: Penguin Books Ltd (UK) Jul 2006, 2006
ISBN 10: 0141012110ISBN 13: 9780141012117
Anbieter: Smartbuy, Einbeck, Deutschland
Buch
Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - From Nobel prize-winning economist Amartya Sen, The Argumentative Indian: Writings on Indian Culture, History and Identity brings together an illuminating selection of writings on contemporary India. India is an immensely diverse country with many distinct pursuits, vastly different convictions, widely divergent customs and a veritable feast of viewpoints. Out of these conflicting views spring a rich tradition of skeptical argument and cultural achievement which is critically important, argues Amartya Sen, for the success of India's democracy, the defence of its secular politics, the removal of inequalities related to class, caste, gender and community, and the pursuit of sub-continental peace. 'Profound and stimulating . the product of a great mind at the peak of its power' William Dalrymple, Sunday Times 'One of the most influential public thinkers of our times.This is a book that needed to have been written.It would be no surprise if it were to become as defining and as influential as work as Edward Said's Orientalism' Soumya Bhattacharya, Observer 'The winner of the 1998 Nobel prize in economics is a star in India . he deserves the recognition . shows that the argumentative gene is not just a part of India's make-up that can easily be wished away' The Economist Amartya Sen is Lamont University Professor at Harvard. He won the Nobel Prize in Economics in 1998 and was Master of Trinity College, Cambridge 1998-2004. His most recent books are The Idea of Justice, Identity and Violence and Development as Freedom. His books have been translated into thirty languages. 409 pp. Englisch.