Random house dez 1997 (19 Ergebnisse)

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - In Anne McCaffrey's New York Times bestselling Dragonseye, join Weyrleaders, Holders, and Craftmasters in the creation of the legendary Star Stones and the teaching ballads of Pern!It's been two hundred years since the deadly Thread fell like rain upon Pern, devouring everything in its path. No one alive remembers that first horrific onslaught and no one believes in its returnexcept for the dragonriders. For two centuries they have been practicing and training, passing down from generation to generation the formidable Threadfighting techniques. Now the ominous signs are appearing: the violent winter storms and volcanic eruptions that are said to herald the approach of the Red Star and its lethal spawn. But one stubborn Lord Holder, Chalkin of Bitra, refuses to believe--and that disbelief could spell disaster. So as the dragonriders desperately train to face a terrifying enemy, they and the other Lord Holders must find a way to deal with Chalkinbefore history repeats itself and unleashes its virulence on all of Pern. . . . …

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - When Zack is given the chance to swim with dolphins on a trip to Florida, he dives right in. But before long, Zack is surprised to find that the dolphins are trying to tell him something and even more surprised that he can understand and talk to them! There's definitely something fishy going on here! Could it be genuine animal communication And can Zack and his new friends get their signals straight and salvage an old sunken ship filled with treasure. Davis, Jack E. (illustrator).…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - An outlaw's legacy. In a remote corner of Utah lies the secret outlaw kingdom of Ben Curry. For fifteen years Curry has ruled supreme, as his men have pulled jobs from Canada to Mexico. But the king is getting old. he wants to turn his legacy over to someone younger, tougher. Mike Bastian is Ben's adopted son, a young man who can handle a knife, a gun, his fists, but a man who's never broken the law. Now, as treachery explodes among Ben's riders, and two honest lawmenTyrel Sackett and Borden Chantrybegin to zero in on the gang, Mike must choose.between his loyalty to Ben and his yearning for a different life. Yet when the guns start echoing off the Vermilion Cliffs, the time for choosing is overand the time for battle has begun.…

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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - From New York Times bestselling author Eric Jerome Dickey comes 'a high-spirited celebration of black sisterhood' that 'brims with humor, outrageousness, and affection.'\*Valerie, Inda, and Chiquita are three women looking for love in Los Angeles.Valerie became the perfect wife to please her husband, Walter, whose football career has gone nowhere-along with their marriage. Then she meets Daniel. Valerie's divorced sister, Inda, has Raymond, who has a hot body, smooth moves-and another girlfriend on the side. Now Inda's scheming to get even. After telling her last boyfriend to hit the road, Chiquita takes up with Thaddeus, Inda and Valerie's irresistible brother. Has Chiquita finally found a good man Sexy and in-your-face, Sister, Sister depicts a modern world where woman may have to alter their dreams, yet never stop embracing tomorrow.\*Publishers Weekly.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Charles Murray believes that America's founders had it right--strict limits on the power of the central government and strict protection of the individual are the keys to a genuinely free society. In What It Means to Be a Libertarian, he proposes a government reduced to the barest essentials: an executive branch consisting only of the White House and trimmed-down departments of state, defense, justice, and environment protection; a Congress so limited in power that it meets only a few months each year; and a federal code stripped of all but a handful of regulations.Combining the tenets of classical Libertarian philosophy with his own highly-original, always provocative thinking, Murray shows why less government advances individual happiness and promotes more vital communities and a richer culture. By applying the truths our founders held to be self-evident to today's most urgent social and political problems, he creates a clear, workable vision for the future.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - NATIONAL BESTSELLER A startling vision of what the cycles of history predict for the future. USA WeekendWilliam Strauss and Neil Howe will change the way you see the world and your place in it.With blazing originality,The Fourth Turningilluminates the past, explains the present, and reimagines the future. Most remarkably, it offers an utterly persuasive prophecy about howAmerica s past will predict its future. Strauss and Howe base this vision on a provocative theory of American history. The authors look back five hundred years and uncover a distinct pattern: Modern history moves in cycles, each one lasting about the length of a long human life, each composed of four eras or 'turnings' that last about twenty years and that always arrive in the same order.In The Fourth Turning, the authors illustrate these cycles using abrilliant analysis of the post-World War II period.First comes a High, a period of confident expansion as a new order takes root after the old has been swept away. Next comes an Awakening, a time of spiritual exploration and rebellion against the now-established order. Then comes an Unraveling, an increasingly troubled era in which individualism triumphs over crumbling institutions. Last comes a Crisis the Fourth Turning when society passes through a great and perilous gate in history. Together, the four turnings comprise history's seasonal rhythm of growth, maturation, entropy, and rebirth.The Fourth Turningoffers bold predictions about how all of us can prepare, individually and collectively, for America s next rendezvous with destiny. …

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER OVER 3.5 MILLION COPIES SOLD Lose weight, lower cholesterol, and reverse the damages from heart disease, adult-onset diabetes, and more, using this invaluable high-protein/low-carbohydrate medically proven diet program. If you've been living the low-fat, no-fat way and still haven't lost weight, stop blaming yourself! Instead, turn to the breakthrough metabolic program that replaces lifelong dieting with lifelong health. Based on cutting-edge research, this revolutionary yet simple regimen calls for a new way of eating: a protein-rich, moderate-fat, low-carbohydrate diet that will help you feeling better and more energetic within a week and help correct blood sugar levels, high blood pressure, and elevated cholesterol within three weeks. Not your traditional diet plan, Protein Power teaches you: that you can eat the foods you love, including meats (even steaks, bacon, and burgers), cheeses, and eggs how to make the best selections at fine restaurants or fast-food chains the best supplements for jump-starting your metabolism to burn fat how to include wine in your diet for enjoyment and health muscle-building strength-training exercises tips for maintaining motivation to rethink the current wisdom on fat intake (science has shown that fat does not make you fat!) and more!With nearly 100 easy-to-prepare, inexpensive, and mouthwatering recipes, along with complete meal plans suitable for family dining or formal entertaining, it's never been easier to lose weight without sacrificing the foods you love.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - A Penguin Classic A best seller in his lifetime though neglected in recent years, Edwin Arlington Robinson (1869-1935) is due to be restored to his rightful place in literary history as one of the first great American Modernist poets. His poetry was revolutionary, though it looked deceptively conventional because it was written in metre and rhyme. He cast aside the stiff archaism and prettiness favoured by his contemporaries, instead employing everyday language with dramatic power, wit, and sensitivity. His lyric poems illuminate ordinary people, especially the downtrodden, the bereft, and the mistunderstood. In the process he created the gallery of character portraits for which he is most fondly remembered, among them Eben Flood, Aunt Imogen, Isaac and Archibald, Miniver Cheevy and Richard Cory. 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 - "Rice is our modern messenger of the occult, whose nicely updated dark-side passion plays twist and turn in true Gothic form."San Francisco ChronicleIn a gripping feat of storytelling, Anne Rice continues the extraordinary Vampire Chronicles that began with the now-classic Interview with the Vampire. For centuries, Lestatvampire-hero, enchanter, seducer of mortalshas been a courted prince in the dark and flourishing universe of the living dead. Now he is alone. And in his overwhelming need to destroy his doubts and his loneliness, Lestat embarks on the most dangerous enterprise he has undertaken in all the years of his haunted existence. Praise for The Tale of the Body Thief "Tinged with mystery, full of drama . . . The story is involving, the twists surprising."People "Fast-paced . . . . mesmerizing . . . silkenly sensuous . . . No one writing today matches her deftness with the [sensual]."The Atlanta Journal-Constitution "Hypnotic . . . masterful."Cosmopolitan.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Part of the generation that produced Ernest Hemingway and Ford Madox Ford, John Dos Passos wrote one of the most grimly honest portraits of World War I. Three Soldiers portrays the lives of a trio of army privates: Fuselli, an Italian American store clerk from San Francisco; Chrisfield, a farm boy from Indiana; and Andrews, a musically gifted Harvard graduate from New York. Hailed as a masterpiece on its original publication in 1921, Three Soldiers is a gripping exploration of fear and ambition, conformity and rebellion, desertion and violence, and the brutal and dehumanizing effects of a regimented war machine on ordinary soldiers. 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 - "[Sigrid Undset] should be the next Elena Ferrante." SlateA Penguin ClassicKristin Lavransdatter interweaves political, social, and religious history with the daily aspects of family life to create a colorful, richly detailed tapestry of Norway during the fourteenth-century. The trilogy, however, is more than a journey into the past. Undset's own lifeher familiarity with Norse sagas and folklore and with a wide range of medieval literature, her experiences as a daughter, wife, and mother, and her deep religious faithprofoundly influenced her writing. Her grasp of the connections between past and present and of human nature itself, combined with the extraordinary quality of her writing, sets her works far above the genre of 'historical novels.' This new translation by Tina Nunnallythe first English version since Charles Archer's translation in the 1920scaptures Undset's strengths as a stylist. Nunnally, an award-winning translator, retains the natural dialog and lyrical flow of the original Norwegian, with its echoes of Old Norse legends, while deftly avoiding the stilted language and false archaisms of Archer's translation. In addition, she restores key passages left out of that edition.Undset's ability to present a meticulously accurate historical portrait without sacrificing the poetry and narrative drive of masterful storytelling was particularly significant in her homeland. Granted independence in 1905 after five hundred years of foreign domination, Norway was eager to reclaim its national history and culture. Kristin Lavransdatter became a touchstone for Undset's contemporaries, and continues to be widely read by Norwegians today. In the more than 75 years since it was first published, it has also become a favorite throughout the world.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 - 'Stimulating and provocative . . . a simple do-it-yourself dream interpretation kit.'-The Washington Post The stress and anxiety of everyday life is often too much for our conscious minds to bear-and the answers we seek can only be found beyond our waking minds. Most of us remember at least some of our dreams. But do you know how to interpret their meaning and use them to solve your toughest problems Dr. Ann Faraday's classic Dream Power has helped more than 500,000 people recognize the importance of their dreams and learn how to use the messages and information they reveal to enrich their lives. This acclaimed dream primer will help you learn: The difference between dreams and 'dreamlets' Hints for recalling forgotten or repressed dreams The true meaning of REM sleep Realistic dream interpretation How to use your dreams for creative inspiration And much more 'Entertaining and comprehensive, Dr. Faraday has obviously mined from her own dreams a self-knowledge that has been extraordinarily helpful.'-Los Angeles Times 'Faraday's background fits the topic admirably. . . . She believes that we should not leave dream research to the therapist but that each of us should deepen his self-knowledge by analyzing his own dreams. . . . Helpful.'-Psychology Today 'Dream Power changed my life.'-Barbara Seaman, author of Free and Female. …

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - "Jackson at her best: plumbing the extraordinary from the depths of mid-twentieth-century common. [Just an Ordinary Day] is a gift to a new generation."San Francisco ChronicleAcclaimed in her own time for her short story "The Lottery" and her novel The Haunting of Hill Houseclassics ranking with the work of Edgar Allan PoeShirley Jackson blazed a path for contemporary writers with her explorations of evil, madness, and cruelty. Soon after her untimely death in 1965, Jackson's children discovered a treasure trove of previously unpublished and uncollected stories, many of which are brought together in this remarkable collection. Here are tales of torment, psychological aberration, and the macabre, as well as those that display her lighter touch with humorous scenes of domestic life. Reflecting the range and complexity of Jackson's talent, Just an Ordinary Day reaffirms her enduring influence and celebrates her singular voice, rich with magic and resonance. Praise for Shirley Jackson "[Jackson's] work exerts an enduring spell."Joyce Carol Oates "Shirley Jackson's stories are among the most terrifying ever written."Donna Tartt "An amazing writer . . . If you haven't read [Jackson] you have missed out on something marvelous."Neil Gaiman "Shirley Jackson is unparalleled as a leader in the field of beautifully written, quiet, cumulative shudders."Dorothy Parker "An author who not only writes beautifully but who knows what there is, in this world, to be scared of."Francine Prose "The world of Shirley Jackson is eerie and unforgettable."A. M. Homes "Jackson enjoyed notoriety and commercial success within her lifetime, and yet it still hardly seems like enough for a writer so singular. When I meet readers and other writers of my generation, I find that mentioning her is like uttering a holy name."Victor LaValle.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -NOW THE ACCLAIMED HBO SERIES GAME OF THRONESTHE MASTERPIECE THAT BECAME A CULTURAL PHENOMENONHere is the first book in the landmark series that has redefined imaginative fiction and become a modern masterpiece. A GAME OF THRONESIn a land where summers can last decades and winters a lifetime, trouble is brewing. The cold is returning, and in the frozen wastes to the North of Winterfell, sinister and supernatural forces are massing beyond the kingdom's protective Wall. At the center of the conflict lie the Starks of Winterfell, a family as harsh and unyielding as the land they were born to. Sweeping from a land of brutal cold to a distant summertime kingdom of epicurean plenty, here is a tale of lords and ladies, soldiers and sorcerers, assassins and bastards, who come together in a time of grim omens. Amid plots and counterplots, tragedy and betrayal, victory and terror, the fate of the Starks, their allies, and their enemies hangs perilously in the balance, as each endeavors to win that deadliest of conflicts: the game of thrones.A GAME OF THRONES A CLASH OF KINGS A STORM OF SWORDS A FEAST FOR CROWS A DANCE WITH DRAGONSPetersen Buchimport GmbH, Weidestraße 122 a, 22083 Hamburg 864 pp. Englisch.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Paul William Roberts's journeys through India span twenty years, and in Empire of the Soul, he creates a dazzling mosaic, by turns tragic and comic, of the subcontinent and its people. From the crumbling palaces of maharajas to the slums of Calcutta; from the ashrams of holy men to a millionaire drug dealer's heavily guarded fortress on India's border with China, Roberts captures the lure of this enigmatic land-this empire of the soul. 'India is a harsh mistress,' he writes. 'She seems to appreciate individual sacrifice so little. Yet she has never wanted for lovers.'.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -NATIONAL BESTSELLER Discover the game-changing theory of the cycles of history and what past generations can teach us about living through times of upheavalwith deep insights into the roles that Boomers, Generation X, and Millennials have to playnow with a new preface by Neil Howe."One of the best efforts to give us an integrated vision of where we are going."The Wall Street JournalFirst comes a High, a period of confident expansion. Next comes an Awakening, a time of spiritual exploration and rebellion. Then comes an Unraveling, in which individualism triumphs over crumbling institutions. Last comes a Crisisthe Fourth Turningwhen society passes through a great and perilous gate in history.William Strauss and Neil Howe will change the way you see the worldand your place in it. With blazing originality, The Fourth Turning illuminates the past, explains the present, and reimagines the future. Most remarkably, it offers an utterly persuasive prophecy about how America's past will predict what comes next.Strauss and Howe base this vision on a provocative theory of American history. The authors look back five hundred years and uncover a distinct pattern: Modern history moves in cycles, each one lasting about the length of a long human life, each composed of four twenty-year erasor "turnings"that comprise history's seasonal rhythm of growth, maturation, entropy, and rebirth. Illustrating this cycle through a brilliant analysis of the postWorld War II period, The Fourth Turning offers bold predictions about how all of us can prepare, individually and collectively, for this rendezvous with destiny.Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, 36244 Bad Hersfeld 400 pp. Englisch.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -NOW THE ACCLAIMED HBO SERIES GAME OF THRONESTHE MASTERPIECE THAT BECAME A CULTURAL PHENOMENONHere is the first book in the landmark series that has redefined imaginative fiction and become a modern masterpiece. A GAME OF THRONESIn a land where summers can last decades and winters a lifetime, trouble is brewing. The cold is returning, and in the frozen wastes to the North of Winterfell, sinister and supernatural forces are massing beyond the kingdom's protective Wall. At the center of the conflict lie the Starks of Winterfell, a family as harsh and unyielding as the land they were born to. Sweeping from a land of brutal cold to a distant summertime kingdom of epicurean plenty, here is a tale of lords and ladies, soldiers and sorcerers, assassins and bastards, who come together in a time of grim omens. Amid plots and counterplots, tragedy and betrayal, victory and terror, the fate of the Starks, their allies, and their enemies hangs perilously in the balance, as each endeavors to win that deadliest of conflicts: the game of thrones.A GAME OF THRONES A CLASH OF KINGS A STORM OF SWORDS A FEAST FOR CROWS A DANCE WITH DRAGONS 864 pp. Englisch.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -NATIONAL BESTSELLER Discover the game-changing theory of the cycles of history and what past generations can teach us about living through times of upheavalwith deep insights into the roles that Boomers, Generation X, and Millennials have to playnow with a new preface by Neil Howe."One of the best efforts to give us an integrated vision of where we are going."The Wall Street JournalFirst comes a High, a period of confident expansion. Next comes an Awakening, a time of spiritual exploration and rebellion. Then comes an Unraveling, in which individualism triumphs over crumbling institutions. Last comes a Crisisthe Fourth Turningwhen society passes through a great and perilous gate in history.William Strauss and Neil Howe will change the way you see the worldand your place in it. With blazing originality, The Fourth Turning illuminates the past, explains the present, and reimagines the future. Most remarkably, it offers an utterly persuasive prophecy about how America's past will predict what comes next.Strauss and Howe base this vision on a provocative theory of American history. The authors look back five hundred years and uncover a distinct pattern: Modern history moves in cycles, each one lasting about the length of a long human life, each composed of four twenty-year erasor "turnings"that comprise history's seasonal rhythm of growth, maturation, entropy, and rebirth. Illustrating this cycle through a brilliant analysis of the postWorld War II period, The Fourth Turning offers bold predictions about how all of us can prepare, individually and collectively, for this rendezvous with destiny. 400 pp. Englisch.…