Random house publishing group jun 2017 (14 Ergebnisse)

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - 'Driving, wild and hilarious' (The Washington Post), here is the incredible 'memoir' of the legendary actor, gambler, raconteur, and Saturday Night Live veteran. When Norm Macdonald, one of the greatest stand-up comics of all time, was approached to write a celebrity memoir, he flatly refused, calling the genre 'one step below instruction manuals.' Norm then promptly took a two-year hiatus from stand-up comedy to live on a farm in northern Canada. When he emerged he had under his arm a manuscript, a genre-smashing book about comedy, tragedy, love, loss, war, and redemption. When asked if this was the celebrity memoir, Norm replied, 'Call it anything you damn like.'.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Lose up to 16 Pounds in 14 Days with Quick and Delicious Morning Meals!From the team behind the bestselling Eat This, Not That! and Zero Belly series,Zero Belly Breakfasts will have you looking and feeling great in no time flat, thanks to hundreds of delicious and nutritious breakfast secretsand more than 100 mouthwatering recipes you can prepare in minutes! Zero Belly Breakfasts is part of the revolutionary new plan to turn off your fat genes and help keep you lean for life! Nutrition expert David Zinczenko, the New York Times bestselling author of the Abs Diet series, Eat This, Not That! series, and Zero Sugar Diet, has spent his entire career learning about belly fatwhere it comes from and what it does to us. And what he knows is this: There is no greater threat to you and your familyand to your health and your happiness. Zero Belly Breakfasts will help you lose up to 16 pounds in 14 days melt away stubborn fat, from your belly first put an end to bloating and discomfort detox from unhealthy foods so you can enjoy all-day energy turn off your fat-storage genes and make long-term weight loss effortless look and feel younger and healthier than ever! You'll be stunned and inspired by the results of an amazing 500-person test panelmen and women who lost weight quickly, and with ease, following the original Zero Belly diet, which included many of these breakfasts. In just the first 14 days Bob McMicken, 51, lost 16.3 pounds Kyle Cambridge, 28, lost 15 pounds Martha Chesler, 54, lost 11 pounds Matt Brunner, 43, lost 14 pounds Here's what makes Zero Belly breakfasts so effective:1. They help you keep the weight off.2. They help you eat less.3. They're the most important meal of the dayfor fat burn.4. They taste amazing! Regardless of your health history, your lifestyle, or even your genes, Zero Belly Breakfasts will give you the power to flatten your belly, heal your body, soothe your soul, and wake up happier than ever.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The tour-de-force, hair-raising new novel from Herman Koch, the New York Times bestselling author of The Dinner and Summer House with Swimming Pool Once a celebrated writer, M had his greatest success with a suspense novel based on a real-life disappearance. It told the story of a history teacher who went missing one winter after having a brief affair with a beautiful student of his. The teacher was never found. Upon publication, M's novel was a runaway bestseller, one that marked his international breakthrough. That was years ago, and now M's career is fading. But not when it comes to his bizarre, seemingly timid neighbor who keeps a close eye on him and his wife. Why From alternating points of view, where no one is to be trusted, Herman Koch weaves together an intricate tale of a writer in decline, a teenage couple in love, a missing teacher, and a single book that entwines all of their fates. Thanks to M's novel, supposedly a work of fiction, everyone seems to be linked forever, until something unexpected spins the 'story' off its rails. With ever increasing tension, his signature sardonic wit and world-renowned sharp eye for human failings, Herman Koch once again spares nothing and no one in his gripping new novel, a barbed performance that suspends readers in the mysterious space between fact and fiction.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - "A perfectly executed, exquisitely reported parable of the Internet age and the wild, mad adventure that is start-up culture."Charles DuhiggFortune, mania, genius, philanthropythe Pulitzer Prizewinning author of Mountains Beyond Mountains presents an "expertly reported [and] deftly written" (San Francisco Chronicle) account of Paul English, the founder of Kayak and Lola.In A Truck Full of Money, Tracy Kidder, the "master of the nonfiction narrative" (The Baltimore Sun), tells the story of Paul English, a kinetic and unconventional inventor and entrepreneur, who as a boy rebelled against authority. Growing up in working-class Boston, English discovers a medium for his talents the first time he sees a computer. As a young man, despite suffering from what would eventually be diagnosed as bipolar disorder, he begins his pilgrim's journey through the ups and downs in the brave new world of computers. Relating to the Internet as if it's an extension of his own mind, English discovers that he has a talent for conceiving innovative enterprises and building teams that can develop them, becoming "a Pied Piper" of geeks.With the power of a consummate storyteller, Tracy Kidder casts a fresh, critical, and often humorous eye on the way new ideas and new money are reshaping our culture and the world. A Truck Full of Money takes us inside the mind of a mesmerizing figure who is unique and yet a representative creature of our entrepreneurial agebold, big-hearted, and as unpredictable as America itself.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Originally published in hardcover in 2016.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK From the author of The Chalk Artist, this beloved collection of linked stories is "one of the most astute and engaging books about American family life to have come our way in quite a while" (The Boston Globe). In this beloved collection of linked short stories, Allegra Goodman writes with wit and compassion about three generations of Markowitzes: Rose, the displaced, cantankerous matriarch; her devoted son, Henry, an aesthete living abroad; his younger brother, Ed, a Georgetown scholar specializing in terrorism; Ed's wife, Sarah, a housewife with stalled literary ambitions; and their eldest daughter, Miriam, whose budding Orthodoxy bewilders her parents. Through the rhythm of ordinary family ritualsweddings, holiday dinners, hospital vigilsGoodman breathes extraordinary life into a cast of characters who reverberate with authenticity and never fail to speak their minds. Praise for The Family Markowitz "These stories sound like no one else's. . . . Goodman is brilliant at capturing the clutter of both interior and exterior life."Los Angeles Times "Entertaining . . . The Family Markowitz has great consistency and charm."Claire Messud, The New York Times Book Review "A revelation . . . Goodman's prose has a steady, silent reserve that always indicates she has bigger things in mind."Dwight Garner, Salon "One of the most astute and engaging books about American family life to have come our way in quite a while . . . [Allegra Goodman] has a gift for conveying the peculiar subtleties of Jewish culture."The Boston Globe"Funny and wise and keenly observed . . . one of the most engaging, maddening, and recognizable families to come along in years . . . an enchanting book."Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - An updated and expanded edition of a trusted resource, which explains how to use diet, exercise, stress control, and hormone treatments to maintain thyroid health The Thyroid Solution is a must-read for anyone who suffers from thyroid disease. Written by a medical pioneer and leading authority in the field of thyroid research, this groundbreaking book offers Dr. Ridha Arem's practical program for maintaining thyroid health through diet, exercise, and stress controland through his revolutionary medical plan, which combines two types of hormone treatments and produces astounding results. This revised edition includes information on the discovered links between thyroid issues and fatigue a unique treatment program to overcome the physical and mental effects of thyroid disease the best ways to combat Hashimoto's thyroiditis and Graves' disease optimal treatment of thyroid imbalance before, during, and after pregnancy strategies to minimize cardiovascular risks related to thyroid disease how thyroid hormone affects weight, metabolism, and eating behavior Featuring a thyroid- and immune-system-friendly diet for healthy and successful weight loss, inspiring patient histories, and interviews that document the dramatic success of Dr. Arem's bold new treatments, The Thyroid Solution remains the essential resource for doctors and patients on maintaining thyroid and immune-system wellness.Praise for The Thyroid Solution"Dr. Arem uncovers the root causes of thyroid disease and lays out an innovative program to help you overcome thyroid dysfunction."Amy Myers, M.D."Clear, comprehensive, and incredibly useful . . . the best thyroid resource I have ever read."Kathleen DesMaisons, Ph.D., author ofYour Last Diet!"Quite simply the best thyroid book on the market today . . . Dr. Arem validates what I have found in my practice for more than twenty years, especially the importance of T3. I highly recommend this book."Elizabeth Lee Vliet, M.D., author ofScreaming to Be Heard: Hormone Connections Women Suspect . . . and Doctors Still Ignore.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - For readers of Paula McLain, Nancy Horan, and Melanie Benjamin, this captivating novel is inspired by a little-known interlude in the artist s life. A tasty blend of romance, mystery, and French cooking. Margaret Atwood, via Twitter The French Riviera, spring 1936: It s off-season in the lovely seaside village of Juan-les-Pins, where seventeen-year-old Ondine cooks with her mother in the kitchen of their family-owned Café Paradis. A mysterious new patron who s slipped out of Paris and is traveling under a different name has made an unusual request to have his lunch served to him at the nearby villa he s secretly rented, where he wishes to remain incognito. Pablo Picasso is at a momentous crossroads in his personal and professional life and for him, art and women are always entwined. The spirited Ondine, chafing under her family s authority and nursing a broken heart, is just beginning to discover her own talents and appetites. Her encounter with Picasso will continue to affect her life for many decades onward, as the great artist and the talented young chef each pursue their own passions and destiny. New York, present day: Céline, a Hollywood makeup artist who s come home for the holidays, learns from her mother, Julie, that Grandmother Ondine once cooked for Picasso. Prompted by her mother s enigmatic stories and the hint of more family secrets yet to be uncovered, Céline carries out Julie s wishes and embarks on a voyage to the very town where Ondine and Picasso first met. In the lush, heady atmosphere of the Côte d Azur, and with the help of several eccentric fellow guests attending a rigorous cooking class at her hotel, Céline discovers truths about art, culture, cuisine, and love that enable her to embrace her own future. Featuring an array of both fictional characters and the French Riviera s most famous historical residents, set against the breathtaking scenery of the South of France, Cooking for Picasso is a touching, delectable, and wise story, illuminating the powers of trust, money, art, and creativity in the choices that men and women make as they seek a path toward love, success, and joie de vivre.Praise for Cooking for Picasso Intrigue, art, food, and deception are woven together in a tale of love and betrayal around the life and legacy of Picasso. Touching and true, this well-written narrative made me long for my mother s coq au vin and for the sun of Juan-les-Pins. Jacques Pépin, chef, TV personality, author.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - A recovering Mad Man throws down the ultimate challenge to his profession: Innovate or die.The ad apocalypse is upon us. Today millions are downloading ad-blocking software, and still more are paying subscription premiums to avoid ads. This $600 billion industry is now careening toward outright extinction, after having taken for granted a captive audience for too long, leading to lazy, overabundant, and frankly annoying ads. Make no mistake, Madison Avenue: Traditional advertising, as we know it, is over. In this short, controversial manifesto, Andrew Essex offers both a wake-up call and a road map to the future. In The End of Advertising, Essex gives a brief and pungent history of the rise and fall of Adland a story populated by snake-oil salesmen, slicksters, and search-engine optimizers. But his book is no eulogy. Instead, he boldly challenges global marketers to innovate their way to a better ad-free future. With trenchant wit and razor-sharp insights, he presents an essential new vision of where the smart businesses could be headed a broad playing field where ambitious marketing campaigns provide utility, services, gifts, patronage of the arts, and even blockbuster entertainment. In this utopian landscape, ads could become so enticing that people would pay yes, pay to see them.Praise for The End of Advertising New York media types aren t quick to pass up a party, even one celebrating a book that predicts their demise. . . . The future of marketing will need to rely on creative, innovative models, Mr. Essex wrote, pointing to The Lego Movie and New York s Citi Bike bicycle-share program as promising examples. The New York Times A rabble-rousing indictment of the ad industry from one of its own. Essex predicts that success will depend less on the ability to annoy and more on the capacity to create and entertain. Adam Grant, New York Times bestselling author of Originals and Give and Take Fresh and timely,The End of Advertisingis an eye-opening take on the current media landscape. And along with it, Essex provides a road map for how brands can reinvent themselves and navigate this new world. Arianna Huffington In this dynamic little book, Essex challenges brands even those of us who pride ourselves on thinking outside the box to think bigger still. He s got me thinking. Neil Blumenthal, co-founder of Warby Parker Mandatory reading for anyone who wants to get a message across in this age of authenticity. Alexis Ohanian, co-founder, Reddit.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - A tender affair and the redemptive power of art are at the core of this compelling novel from National Book Award finalist Allegra Goodman, 'a romantic realist who dazzles with wit [and] compassion' (The Wall Street Journal). Collin James is young, creative, and unhappy. A college dropout, he waits tables and spends his free time beautifying the streets of Cambridge, Massachusetts, with his medium of choice: chalk. Collin's art captivates passersby with its vibrant colors and intricate lines-until the moment he wipes it all away. Nothing in Collin's life is meant to last. Then he meets Nina. . . . The daughter of a tech mogul who is revolutionizing virtual reality, Nina Lazare is trying to give back as a high school teacher-but her students won't listen to her. When Collin enters her world, he inspires her to think bigger. Nina wants to return the favor-even if it means losing him. Against this poignant backdrop, Allegra Goodman paints a tableau of students, neighbors, and colleagues: Diana, a teenage girl trying to make herself invisible; her twin brother, Aidan, who's addicted to the games produced by Nina's father; and Daphne, a viral-marketing trickster who unites them all, for better or worse. Wise, warm, and enchanting, The Chalk Artist is both a finely rendered portrait of modern love and a celebration of all the realms we inhabit: real and imagined, visual and virtual, seemingly independent yet hopelessly tangled.Praise for The Chalk Artist'The virtual world Goodman conjures is as feverishly vivid as it is mysterious and alluring. Not since I pushed my way through C. S. Lewis's fusty mothballed wardrobe and stepped out into the frozen, pine-scented forests of Narnia can I remember being so effectively transported into a viscerally, sometimes terrifyingly plausible alternate universe. . . . This is a novel full of wit and spark. . . . Irresistible and arresting.'-The New York Times Book Review'Enjoyably sharp dialogue and convincing portraits of multiple mindsets and terrains . . . One can't help but marvel at how Goodman has captured the atmosphere of this virtual fantasy land so effectively in words.'-NPR 'Mesmerizing depictions of virtual-reality landscapes of 'Neverwhen' and 'Underworld' make the games' dangerous power over one of Nina's students very real.'-People'Goodman's latest combines fantastical flourishes (an imagined video game called 'Underworld') and realistic Cambridge details . . . in a narrative about art and ambition.'-The Boston Globe'Allegra Goodman creates suspense where you might least expect to find it.'-The Atlantic.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The iconic thriller series that inspired the upcoming streaming show on Prime Video, in development now!A labyrinth of secrets, revenge, sex, and manipulation come to life in this graphic novel adaptation of a "surprising and complex story of evil" (People) by #1 New York Times bestselling author Jonathan Kellerman.Two separate murders, strikingly similar in their grisly particulars, bring psychologist Alex Delaware and LAPD detective Milo Sturgis together once again to pool their crime-solving skills in the hunt for a homicidal maniac. But they're shocked to discover that another deranged murderer may be their best chance of cracking the case. Ardis Peake has been locked away in an asylum for the criminally insane for the last sixteen years, ever since he committed the horrifying massacre as a teenager that made him infamousand earned him the nickname "Monster." A pariah even among his fellow inmates, Peake is a lost cause to most of his doctors, and only staff psychologist Claire Argent took a keen interest in treating the caged killeruntil she turned up brutally slain in the trunk of her car. It is a death made all the more disturbing by the fact that it was seemingly predicted by Monster.While Milo searches for a connection between the killing of a struggling actor and Dr. Argent's nearly identical murder, Alex wonders what spurred the reportedly shy psychologist's intense fascination with the dangerously insane. But Claire Argent's personal life proves as barren as the empty home she left behind, and neither her ex-husband nor her colleagues can fill in the cryptic blanks. Only Ardis Peake, whose barely functioning mind lies buried deep in psychosis, seems somehow inexplicably linked to the world from which he's sealed off. And when he foresees another violent double slaying, Alex and Milo fear that their only hope of finding the truthand stopping the bloodshedmay be to follow a strange and menacing path into the dark heart and twisted psyche of a madman. Gaydos, Michael (illustrator).…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - One of the great works of Western literature, from perhaps the most important thinker of Christian antiquity, in a revolutionary new translation by one of today's leading classicists Sarah Ruden's fresh, dynamic translation of Confessions brings us closer to Augustine's intent than any previous version. It puts a glaring spotlight on the life of one individual to show how all lives have meaning that is universal and eternal. In this intensely personal narrative, Augustine tells the story of his sinful youth and his conversion to Christianity. He describes his ascent from a humble farm in North Africa to a prestigious post in the Roman Imperial capital of Milan, his struggle against his own overpowering sexuality, his renunciation of secular ambition and marriage, and the recovery of the faith his mother had taught him during his earliest years. Augustine's concerns are often strikingly contemporary, and the confessional mode he invented can be seen everywhere in writing today. Grounded in her command of Latin as it was written and spoken in the ancient world, Sarah Ruden's translation is a bold departure from its predecessorsand the most historically accurate translation ever. Stylistically beautiful, with no concessions made to suit later theology and ritual, Ruden's rendition will give readers a startling and illuminating new perspective on one of the central texts of Christianity.Praise for Confessions"[Ruden] has clearly thought deeply about what Augustine was trying to say."TheWall Street Journal"A translation of [Augustine's] masterwork that does justice both to him and to his God . . . Repeated small acts of attention to the humble, human roots of Augustine's imagery of his relations to God enable Ruden to convey a living sense of the Being before Whom we find him transfixed in prayer: 'Silent, long-suffering and with so much mercy in your heart.'"The New York Review of Books "Delightfully readable . . . In this lively translation filled with vivid, personal prose, Ruden introduces readers to a saint whom many will realize they only thought they knew. . . . Approaching her subject with deep religious and historical knowledge, [Ruden] chooses to translate Augustine as a performative, engaging storyteller rather than a systematic theologian."Publishers Weekly (starred review)"Ruden's translation makes Augustine's ancient text accessible to a new generation of readers with a real taste of the original Latin."Library Journal "[Ruden's] record as a translator of ancient texts . . . clearly establishes her considerable talent."Christianity Today.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - A 'biography of one of America's greatest generals-- and most misunderstood presidents'.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - From the co-author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Hamilton: The Revolution, the stunning story of five American radicals fighting for their ideals as the country goes mad around them 'Inspiring and entertaining.'-David Brooks, The New York Times 'It's not difficult to see why [Lin-Manuel] Miranda would have been attracted to [Jeremy] McCarter as a writing partner.'-The Wall Street Journal 'One of the exciting new nonfiction books this summer.'-Time Where do we find our ideals What does it mean to live for them-and to risk dying for them For Americans during World War I, these weren't abstract questions. Young Radicals tells the story of five activists, intellectuals and troublemakers who agitated for freedom and equality in the hopeful years before the war, then fought to defend those values in a country pitching into violence and chaos. Based on six years of extensive archival research, Jeremy McCarter's dramatic narrative brings to life the exploits of Randolph Bourne, the bold social critic who strove for a dream of America that was decades ahead of its time; Max Eastman, the charismatic poet-propagandist of Greenwich Village, whose magazine The Masses fought the government for the right to oppose the war; Walter Lippmann, a boy wonder of socialism who forged a new path to seize new opportunities; Alice Paul, a suffragist leader who risked everything to win women the right to vote; and John Reed, the swashbuckling journalist and impresario who was an eyewitness to-and a key player in-the Russian Revolution. Each of these figures sensed a moment of unprecedented promise for American life-politically, socially, culturally-and struggled to bring it about, only to see a cataclysmic war and reactionary fervor sweep it away. A century later, we are still fighting for the ideals these five championed: peace, women's rights, economic equality, freedom of speech-all aspects of a vibrant American democracy. The story of their struggles brings new light and fresh inspiration to our own.Praise for Young Radicals 'In this lively, if at times swooningly earnest, portrait of artists, activists, writers and intellectuals, McCarter chronicles a moment in American history when 'socialism, progressivism, modernism, and feminism all exploded at once.''-Newsday 'A brisk pace and sympathetic portraits make for an entertaining, well-researched history of a decade marked by ebullience, hope, and pain.'-Kirkus Reviews'McCarter's prose is engaging, moving, and, at times, laugh-out-loud funny. Recommended for young radicals today who want to understand past attempts to change the world in the face of repression.'-Library Journal (starred review).…