penguin publishing group okt 2014 (16 Ergebnisse)

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -The classic boyhood adventure tale, updated with a new introduction by noted Mark Twain scholar R. Kent Rasmussen. Nominated as one of America's best-loved novels by PBS's The Great American ReadA consummate prankster with a quick wit, Tom Sawyer dreams of a bigger fate than simply being a 'rich boy.' Yet through the novel's humorous escapades-from the famous episode of the whitewashed fence to the trial of Injun Joe-Mark Twain explores the deeper themes of the adult world, one of dishonesty and superstition, murder and revenge, starvation and slavery.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.Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, 36244 Bad Hersfeld 272 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The classic boyhood adventure tale, updated with a new introduction by noted Mark Twain scholar R. Kent Rasmussen.Nominated as one of America s best-loved novels by PBS s The Great American ReadA consummate prankster with a quick wit, Tom Sawyer dreams of a bigger fate than simply being a rich boy. Yet through the novel s humorous escapades from the famous episode of the whitewashed fence to the trial of Injun Joe Mark Twain explores the deeper themes of the adult world, one of dishonesty and superstition, murder and revenge, starvation and slavery.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.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The classic boyhood adventure tale, updated with a new introduction by noted Mark Twain scholar R. Kent Rasmussen and a foreword by Azar Nafisi, author ofReading Lolita in TehranandThe Republic of ImaginationIn recent years, neither the persistent effort to clean up the racial epithets in Mark Twain sAdventures of Huckleberry Finnnor its consistentuse in the classroom have diminished, highlightingthe novel s wide-ranging influence andits continued importance in American society.An incomparable adventure story, it is a vignetteof a turbulent, yet hopeful epoch in Americanhistory, defining the experience of a nation invoices often satirical, but always authentic.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.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Now in a riveting new verse translation Jason and the Argonauts (also known as the Argonautica), is the only surviving full account of Jason's voyage on the Argo in quest of the Golden Fleece aided by the sorceress princess Medea. Written in third century B.C., this epic story of one of the most beloved heroes of Greek mythology, with its combination of the fantastical and the real, its engagement with traditions of science, astronomy and medicine, winged heroes, and a magical vessel that speaks, is truly without exact parallel in classical or contemporary Greek literature and is now available in an accessible and engaging translation.Apollonius of Rhodes published his first version of the Argonautica sometime in the middle of the third century B.C. At the end of his life he was director of the famous Library of Alexandria, which was the principal storehouse of all literature and learning at the time.Aaron Poochigian, born in 1973, is a poet and an associated lecturer in Classics at The Ohio State University and has translated the Penguin Classics edition of Stung with Love: Poems and Fragments by Sappho, as well as works by Aeschylus and Aratus. He lives in New York City. Benjamin Acosta-Hughes is Professor of Greek and Latin at The Ohio State University. He is the author of several works of nonfiction, including Arion's Lyre: Archaic Lyric into Hellenistic Poetry.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Louisa May Alcott's enchanting Christmas stories, presented in a beautiful hardcover edition perfect for giving as a gift.A Merry Christmas collects the best holiday stories of Louisa May Alcott, from the yuletide festivities of Marmee and her 'little women' to the moving 'What Love Can Do'. Deeply influenced by real-life events, including characters based on Alcott's family members and drawing from her experiences participating in the suffrage and abolitionist movements, these stories have the authentic texture and detail of Christmas in nineteenth-century America.Louisa May Alcott was born in Germantown, Pennsylvania, in 1832. Her family later moved to Concord, Massachusetts, where Alcott was influenced by their neighbours Nathaniel Hawthorne, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and Henry David Thoreau. At a young age, Louisa took on some of the family's financial burdens, working as a domestic, a teacher, and a writer. In 1868 and 1869, fame and fortune came with the publication of Little Women. The author of many novels and an active campaigner for temperance and women's suffrage, Alcott died in 1888.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - \*Now with a new afterword containing never-before-seen research on the identity of the spy ring's most secret member, Agent 355'This is my kind of history book. Get ready. Here's the action." BRAD MELTZER, bestselling author of The Fifth Assassin and host of DecodedWhen George Washington beat a hasty retreat from New York City in August 1776, many thought the American Revolution might soon be over. Instead, Washington ralliedthanks in large part to a little-known, top-secret group called the Culper Spy Ring. He realized that he couldn't defeat the British with military might, so he recruited a sophisticated and deeply secretive intelligence network to infiltrate New York.Drawing on extensive research, Brian Kilmeade and Don Yaeger have offered fascinating portraits of these spies: a reserved Quaker merchant, a tavern keeper, a brash young longshoreman, a curmudgeonly Long Island bachelor, a coffeehouse owner, and a mysterious woman. Long unrecognized, the secret six are finally receiving their due among the pantheon of American heroes.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The memoir of a young diplomat's wife who must reinvent her dream of living in Parisone dish at a timeWhen journalist Ann Mah's diplomat husband is given a three-year assignment in Paris, Ann is overjoyed. A lifelong foodie and Francophile, she immediately begins plotting gastronomic adventures à deux. Then her husband is called away to Iraq on a year-long postalone. Suddenly, Ann's vision of a romantic sojourn in the City of Light is turned upside down.So, not unlike another diplomatic wife, Julia Child, Ann must find a life for herself in a new city. Journeying through Paris and the surrounding regions of France, Ann combats her loneliness by seeking out the perfect pain au chocolat and learning the way the andouillette sausage is really made. She explores the history and taste of everything from boeuf Bourguignon to soupe au pistou to the crispiest of buckwheat crepes. And somewhere between Paris and the south of France, she uncovers a few of life's truths.Like Sarah Turnbull's Almost French and Julie Powell's New York Times bestseller Julie and Julia, Mastering the Art of French Eating is interwoven with the lively characters Ann meets and the traditional recipes she samples. Both funny and intelligent, this is a story about loveof food, family, and France.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The perfect gift for parents everywhere, from the New York Timesbestselling author of Goodnight iPad.The parody of If You Give a Mouse a Cookie that every parent will relate to. If you give in to temptation andgive a bored little mouse your iPhone, even for ten minutes, he s probably going to beam to some faraway place beyond time, space, and the sound of your pleading voice. And if he s that far gone, he won t have any idea what s going on around him, and he might end up missing out on all the real fun. From the New York Times-bestselling author of Goodnight iPad comes a delightful new commentary on the perils of our tech-obsessed lives and a fully charged romp for readers of all ages.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - From the #1 international bestselling author of The Etymologicon and The Horologicon comes an education in the art of articulation, from the King James Bible to Katy Perry?From classic poetry to pop lyrics, from Charles Dickens to Dolly Parton, even from Jesus to James Bond, Mark Forsyth explains the secrets that make a phrase-such as 'O Captain! My Captain!' or 'To be or not to be'-memorable. In his inimitably entertaining and wonderfully witty style, he takes apart famous phrases and shows how you too can write like Shakespeare or quip like Oscar Wilde. Whether you're aiming to achieve literary immortality or just hoping to deliver the perfect one-liner, The Elements of Eloquence proves that you don't need to have anything important to say-you simply need to say it well. In an age unhealthily obsessed with the power of substance, this is a book that highlights the importance of style.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - From #1 New York Times bestselling author Nora Roberts comes the final novel in a trilogy about the land we re drawn to, the family we learn to cherish, and the people we long to love Book Three of The Cousins O Dwyer TrilogyBlood MagickCounty Mayo is rich in the traditions of Ireland, legends that Branna O Dwyer fully embraces in her life and in her work as the proprietor of The Dark Witch shop, which carries soaps, lotions, and candles for tourists, made with Branna s special touch.Branna s strength and selflessness hold together a close circle of friends and family along with their horses and hawks and her beloved hound. But there s a single missing link in the chain of her life: love She had it once for a moment with Finbar Burke, but a shared future is forbidden by history and blood. Which is why Fin has spent his life traveling the world to fill the abyss left in him by Branna, focusing on work rather than passion.Branna and Fin s relationship offers them both comfort and torment. And though they succumb to the heat between them, there can be no promises for tomorrow. A storm of shadows threatens everything that their circle holds dear. It will be Fin s power, loyalty, and heart that will make all the difference in an age-old battle between the bonds that hold their friends together and the evil that has haunted their families for centuries.Don t miss the other books in the Cousins O Dwyer TrilogyDark WitchShadow Spell.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Compelling, essentialreading for understanding theunderpinnings of psychopathy. M. E. Thomas, authorof Confessions of a SociopathFor his first fifty-eight years, James Fallon wasby all appearances a normal guy. A successfulneuroscientist and professor, he d been raisedin a loving family, married his high schoolsweetheart, and had three kids and lots offriends. Then he learned a shocking truth thatwould not only disrupt his personal and professionallife, but would lead him to questionthe very nature of his own identity.While researching serial killers, he uncovered apattern in their brain scans that helped explaintheir cold and violent behavior. Astonishingly,his own scan matched that pattern. And a fewmonths later he learned that he was descendedfrom a long line of murderers. Fallon set out toreconcile the truth about his own brain witheverything he knew as a scientist about themind, behavior, and personality.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - TOGETHER FOR THE FIRST TIME, BOTH OF NICHOLSON BAKER'S BRILLIANT NOVELS FEATURING BELOVED HERO AND POET PAUL CHOWDER A New York Times notable book and a national bestseller, Nicholson Baker's The Anthologist introduces his quirkiest and most unforgettable protagonist yet, the 'erudite, unpretentious, and often hilarious" (The New Yorker) Paul Chowder.Chowder really needs to write an introduction to his new anthology of verse, Only Rhymeit's the first work his editor has sent him in monthsbut he's having a hard time getting started. Not only is his career floundering, but his girlfriend, Roz, just moved out. Perhaps unsurprisingly, Chowder can't keep his mind from drifting to the sufferings of the great poets, from Tennyson and Yeats to Roethke, Merwin, to every poet who's been published in The New Yorker. As he ponders the strange power and musicality of language, and adjusts to his newly single life, Chowder's introduction slowly but surely begins to take shape.A wholly entertaining and beguiling love story, and the first novel in the chronicles of Paul Chowderwhich is followed by Traveling Sprinkler in this same volumeThe Anthologist is 'a loving and superbly witty homage to poetryand to life" (The Boston Globe).

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - A renowned physician shares her complete 10-day digestive tune-up for women, with important revelations about good gastrointestinal health.Many so-called cures for women's bloating and indigestion, from juice cleanses to specialty diets, are based on junk science. For women seeking true relief from that overall feeling of discomfort in any size jeans, Dr. Robynne Chutkan has the perfect plan for feeling light, tight, and bright in ten days. Gutbliss offers:

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The founder of Blackwater offers the gripping true story of the world's most controversial military contractor.In 1997, former Navy SEAL Erik Prince started a business that would recruit civilians for the riskiest security jobs in the world. As Blackwater's reputation grew, demand for its services escalated, and its men eventually completed nearly 100,000 missions for both the Bush and Obama administrations.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Be sure to check out IRON AMBITION: My Life with Cus D'Amato by Mike Tyson'Raw, powerful and disturbing-a head-spinning take on Mr. Tyson's life.'-Wall Street Journal Philosopher, Broadway headliner, fighter, felon-Mike Tyson has defied stereotypes, expectations, and a lot of conventional wisdom during his three decades in the public eye. Bullied as a boy in the toughest, poorest neighborhood in Brooklyn, Tyson grew up to become one of the most ferocious boxers of all time-and the youngest heavyweight champion ever. But his brilliance in the ring was often compromised by reckless behavior. Yet-even after hitting rock bottom-the man who once admitted being addicted 'to everything' fought his way back, achieving triumphant success as an actor and newfound happiness and stability as a father and husband. Brutal, honest, raw, and often hilarious, Undisputed Truth is the singular journey of an inspiring American original.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - A New York Times bestseller! The star ofAnimal Planet s hit television series My Cat from Hell,Jackson Galaxy, shows cat owners everywhere how to make their homes both cat-friendly and chic. Cat owners know the struggles of creating living spaces that are both functional and stylish for owner and cat. Don t just go to your local pet shop and adorn your home with unattractive cat towers and kitty beds. In Catification, Jackson Galaxy, the star of Animal Planet s My Cat from Hell, and Kate Benjamin, founder of a popular catdesign website,walk readers through a step-by-step process of designing an attractive home that is also an optimal environment for cats. This gorgeously designed, full-color book includes more than twenty fun DIY projects, from kitty beds and litter boxes to catios (cat patios) that will be sure to make readers and their cats purr in approval.