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Verlag: Penguin Books Ltd (UK) Mai 2010, 2010
ISBN 10: 0141047984ISBN 13: 9780141047980
Anbieter: Smartbuy, Einbeck, Deutschland
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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - In these breathtaking intellectual adventure stories, covering everything from criminology to ketchup, job interviews to dog training, Malcolm Gladwell looks under the surface of everyday life to show how the most ordinary subjects can illuminate the most extraordinary things about us and our world.'Masterpieces in the art of the essay' Steven Pinker, The New York Times'Beautiful . brings together the writing that made Gladwell the extraordinary figure he is today . one of the most imaginative non-fiction writers of his generation' Ian Sample, Guardian 'Chatty, perceptive, impish and amiable . Comes exuberantly close to . what goes on inside other people's heads' Philip Womack, Daily Telegraph 'Gladwell makes the world seem fresh and exciting again' Evening Standard 410 pp. Englisch.
Verlag: Penguin Books Ltd (UK) Mai 2010, 2010
ISBN 10: 0141043768ISBN 13: 9780141043760
Anbieter: Smartbuy, Einbeck, Deutschland
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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - From the bestselling author behind the addictive, award-winning HBO sensation BIG LITTLE LIES comes the compelling and thought-provoking story of love, life and memory'Gripping, thought-provoking and funny' MARIE CLAIRE______________How can ten years of your life just disappear Alice is twenty-nine.She adores sleep, chocolate, and her ramshackle new house.She's newly engaged to the wonderful Nick, and is pregnant with her first baby. But there's just one problem.That was ten years ago . . .Alice slipped in her step-aerobics class, hit her head and lost a decade.Now she's a grown-up, bossy mother of three in the middle of a nasty divorce and her beloved sister Elisabeth isn't speaking to her.This is her life, but not as she knows it.Just how many mistakes can you make in a decade Can she ever get back to the woman she used to be ______________'Captivating' Closer'Funny and knowing about what we choose to remember, and fight to forget' O Magazine'A bittersweet tale by a gifted writer' Woman's WeeklyPraise for Liane Moriarty'Moriarty writes vividly, wittily and wickedly' Sunday Express'Mistress of the razor-sharp observation' Kate Morton'An extraordinary talent' Nicole Kidman'Keeps you guessing to the very end - perfect summer read' Reese Witherspoon 495 pp. Englisch.
Verlag: Penguin Books Ltd (UK) Mai 2010, 2010
ISBN 10: 0141042133ISBN 13: 9780141042138
Anbieter: Smartbuy, Einbeck, Deutschland
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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Discover the sixth book in the ludicrously inaccurately named Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy trilogy, as broadcast on BBC Radio 4 and featuring original cast members including Simon Jones, Geoff McGivern, Mark Wing-Davey and Sandra Dickinson.Arthur Dent led a perfectly ordinary, uneventful life until the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy hurled him deep into outer space. Now he's convinced a cruelly indifferent universe is out to get him. And who can blame him His life is about to collide with a pantheon of unemployed gods, a lovestruck green alien, a very irritating computer and at least one very large slab of cheese. If, that is, everyone's favourite renegade Galactic President can get him off planet Earth before it is destroyed . . . again.'A triumph, fabulous. Colfer has given us a delight' Observer'I haven't read anything in a long time that made me laugh as much' The Times'Chock-full of fanciful, inventive one-liners and asides, brimming with a burning sense of the ridiculousness of life' Independent on Sunday'The best post-mortem impersonation I have ever read' Mark Lawson, Guardian 339 pp. Englisch.