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Sprache: Englisch
Verlag: Scribe Publications, United Kingdom, London, 2023
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Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. SHORTLISTED FOR THE INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE What if one half of a pair of twins no longer wants to live? What if the other cant live without them? This question lies at the heart of Jente Posthumas deceptively simple What Id Rather Not Think About. The narrator is a twin whose brother has recent…ly taken his own life. She looks back on their childhood, and tells of their adult lives: how her brother tried to find happiness, but lost himself in various men and the Bhagwan movement, though never completely. In brief, precise vignettes, full of gentle melancholy and surprising humour, Posthuma tells the story of a depressive brother, viewed from the perspective of the sister who both loves and resents her twin, struggles to understand him, and misses him terribly. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.
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Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. A World Book Night book. A New York Timesbestselling book about the extraordinary abilities of mans best friend. When Cat Warren adopted Solo, an unruly German shepherd puppy, she soon began to wonder what shed let herself in for. Solos boundless energy was what made him loveable but it also made h…im exhausting, and difficult to train. Then she struck upon an idea: what Solo needed was something to do. Like many dogs, Solo was destined to work: using his nose to help the police locate missing people. In this lively, accessible book, Warren details Solos journey from troublesome pup to expert cadaver dog, and explores the fascinating hidden world of animals that do essential work and the handlers who train them. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.
Sprache: Englisch
Verlag: Scribe Publications, United Kingdom, London, 2021
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Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. Its summer behind the Iron Curtain, and six girls are about to swim their way to the Olympics and a new life. In an unnamed Soviet state, six girls meet each day to swim. At first, they play, splashing each other and floating languidly on the waters surface. But soon the game becomes something more…. They hone their bodies relentlessly. Their skin shades into bruises. They barter cigarettes stolen from the factory where they work for swimsuits to stretch over their sunburnt skin. They tear their legs into splits, flick them back and forth, like herons. They force themselves to stop breathing. When they find themselves representing their country as synchronised swimmers in the Olympics, they seize the chance they have been waiting for to escape and begin new lives. Scattered around the globe, six women live in freedom. But will they ever be able to forget what they left behind? The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.
Sprache: Englisch
Verlag: Scribe Publications, United Kingdom, London, 2017
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Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. Film star. Icon. Agitator. Martyr. Paul Robeson was a brilliant student and champion athlete who abandoned a career in law to find worldwide fame as a performer and activist. He was undoubtedly the most famous African American of his time before losing everything for the sake of his principles. The… son of a former slave, Robesons life took him to Hollywood via the Harlem Renaissance and Londons West End. While he stunned audiences with his performances of Ol Man River and Othello, he also championed social justice around the world, travelling from the coal-mining towns of Wales, to the frontiers of the Spanish Civil War, and to the Soviet Union. Yet privately Robeson was a troubled figure, burdened by his role as a symbol for the African-American people and an international advocate for the working class. His stratospheric rise would reach its end in the courtroom of the McCarthy hearings. Today, Robeson is largely unknown, his legacy obscured by the forces of history that destroyed him. Jeff Sparrow traces Robesons career, showing how his remarkable life tells the story of the twentieth century and illuminates todays reality. From Black Lives Matter to Putins United Russia, Sparrow explores questions of race in America, political freedom in Moscow, and the legacy of communism in Europe. Part travelogue, part biography, it is a story of political ardour, heritage, and trauma a luminous portrait of a man and an urgent reflection on the politics that define us now. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.
Sprache: Englisch
Verlag: Scribe Publications, United Kingdom, London, 2022
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Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. A BOOK TO LOOK OUT FOR IN 2022 FOR BBC, i-D MAGAZINE, AND FOYLES An unsparing story of modern-day Britain, told with brilliant flashes of humour and humanity. In a condemned tower block in Glasgow, the final occupant, a young man uplifted by angels and plagued by demons, searches for life in the vo…ids: vacant flats that will never be lived in again. Out in the world, he stumbles into the city, moving from one surreal situation to the next, encountering others on the margins of society, embracing friendship and camaraderie wherever it is offered, grappling with who he is and what shape his future might take. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.
Sprache: Englisch
Verlag: Scribe Publications, United Kingdom, London, 2017
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Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. A Sunday Times bestseller now with revised and expanded content on the exciting new science about the gut-brain link. Our gut is as important as our brain or heart, yet we know very little about how it works and many of us are too embarrassed to ask questions. In Gut, Giulia Enders breaks this tabo…o, revealing the latest science on how much our digestive system has to offer. From our miraculous gut bacteria which can play a part in obesity, allergies, depression and even Alzheimers to the best position to poo, this entertaining and informative health handbook shows that we can all benefit from getting to know the wondrous world of our inner workings. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.
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Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. A Top Five bestseller in Germany. Teenagers are people too! But what kind? Slaves to consumerism, ruined by porn, and always willing to trade in Grannys Christmas present for a bag of weed or a vodka and Red Bull? Until now, weve always seen the lives of adolescents through the eyes of worried pare…nts, overworked and overstressed teachers, or even family therapists. Now, for the first time, a 15-year-old lifts the lid on what makes teenagers tick. Here is an insiders report on the adolescent world of social media, computer games, fashion, love in the age of the internet, and those moments when everything just seems to get on top of you. And on parents, who only want the best for their offspring, but always seem to end up achieving just the opposite. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.
Sprache: Englisch
Verlag: Scribe Publications, United Kingdom, London, 2021
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Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. A Times Book of the Month for readers of Golden Hill and Cloud Atlas. It is 1800, and the future of Chicago hangs in the balance, to be decided on the outcome of a game of chess. Win or lose, the result will reverberate through the next 100 years of history, and the players lives, the lives of thei…r descendants, and the city itself will never be the same again. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.
Sprache: Englisch
Verlag: Scribe Publications, United Kingdom, London, 2019
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Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. What if you arent who you think you are? What if you dont really know the people closest to you? And what if your most deeply-held beliefs turn out to be wrong? In Stop Being Reasonable, philosopher and journalist Eleanor Gordon-Smith tells six lucid, gripping stories that show the limits of human…reason. From the woman who realised her husband harboured a terrible secret, to the man who left the cult he had been raised in since birth, and the British reality TV contestant who, having impersonated someone else for a month, discovered he could no longer return to his former identity, all of the people interviewed radically altered their beliefs about the things that matter most. What made them change course? How should their reversals affect how we think about our own beliefs? And in an increasingly divided world, what do they teach us about how we might change the minds of others? Inspiring, perceptive, and often moving, Stop Being Reasonable explores the place where philosophy and real life meet. Ultimately, it argues that when it comes to finding out whats true or convincing others about what we know, being rational might involve our hearts as well as our minds. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.
Sprache: Englisch
Verlag: Scribe Publications, United Kingdom, London, 2018
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Paperback. Zustand: Good. A Daily Telegraph book of the year. This is a landmark in science writing that resurrects from the vaults of neglect the polymath Jerome Cardano, a Milanese of the sixteenth century. Who is he? A gambler and blasphemer, inventor and chancer, plagued by demons and anxieties, astrologer to kings, emperors…, and popes, and the unacknowledged discoverer of the mathematical foundations of quantum physics. The Quantum Astrologer's Handbook, like Jerome, has multiple occupations: it is at once a biography, a history of science, an explanation of quantum theory, and an engrossing story which reads like the best kind of novel. It is a science book like no other about a scientist like no other. . The book has been read but remains in clean condition. All pages are intact and the cover is intact. Some minor wear to the spine.
Sprache: Englisch
Verlag: Scribe Publications, United Kingdom, London, 2019
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Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. A New York Times bestseller and a Book of the Year for the Evening Standard and The Times. Is getting a little less comfortable the key to living a happier, healthier life? When journalist Scott Carney came across a picture of a man in his fifties sitting on a glacier in just his underwear, he assu…med it must be a hoax. Dutch guru Wim Hof claimed he could control his body temperature using his mind and teach others to do the same. Sceptical, Carney signed up to Hofs one-week course, not realising that it would be the start of a four-year journey to unlock his own evolutionary potential. From hyperventilating in a Polish farmhouse to underwater weight training in California, and eventually climbing Mt Kilimanjaro wearing just shorts and running shoes, Carney travelled the world testing out unorthodox methods of body transformation and discovering the science behind them. In What Doesnt Kill Us he explains how getting a little less comfortable can help us to unlock our lost evolutionary strength. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.
Sprache: Englisch
Verlag: Scribe Publications, United Kingdom, London, 2018
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Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. A Daily Telegraph book of the year. This is a landmark in science writing that resurrects from the vaults of neglect the polymath Jerome Cardano, a Milanese of the sixteenth century. Who is he? A gambler and blasphemer, inventor and chancer, plagued by demons and anxieties, astrologer to kings, emp…erors, and popes, and the unacknowledged discoverer of the mathematical foundations of quantum physics. The Quantum Astrologer's Handbook, like Jerome, has multiple occupations: it is at once a biography, a history of science, an explanation of quantum theory, and an engrossing story which reads like the best kind of novel. It is a science book like no other about a scientist like no other. . The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.
Sprache: Englisch
Verlag: Scribe Publications, United Kingdom, London, 2018
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Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. An inventive, spirited novel about a pioneering woman who was shamed for daring to challenge male dominance in the arts and sciences four centuries ago. Margaret Cavendish was the first woman to address the Royal Society and the first Englishwoman to write explicitly for publication. Wildly unconve…ntional, she was championed by her forward-thinking husband and nicknamed Mad Madge by her many detractors. Later, Virginia Woolf would write, What a vision of loneliness and riot the thought of Margaret Cavendish brings to mind! Unjustly neglected by history, here Margaret is brought intimately and memorably to life, tumbling pell-mell across the pages of this exhilarating novel a portrait of a woman whose ambitions were centuries ahead of her time. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.
Sprache: Englisch
Verlag: Scribe Publications, United Kingdom, London, 2019
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Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. Find the happiness of emptiness. Few things scare us more than inner emptiness. The presumed emptiness of coma or dementia scares us so much that we even sign living wills to avoid these states. Yet as Zen masters have long known, inner emptiness can also be productive and useful. We can reach this… state through meditation, concentration, music, or even during sex. In fact, our brain loves emptiness it makes us happy. Leading brain researcher Niels Birbaumer investigates the pleasure in emptiness and how we can take advantage of it. He explains how to overcome the evolutionary attentiveness of your brain and take a break from thinking a skill thats more important than ever in an increasingly frantic world. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.
Sprache: Englisch
Verlag: Scribe Publications, United Kingdom, London, 2018
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Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. A vibrant and enchanting novel from one of Koreas most celebrated writers. When 14-year-old Bugeye and his mother arrive at Flower Island a vast landfill site on the outskirts of Seoul they soon become part of the eclectic community of impoverished outsiders who make their living weeding recyclable…s from the rubbish. Then, one night, Bugeye notices mysterious lights dancing around the landfill Could it be the islands ancient spirits? Is his luck about to change? Familiar Things depicts a society on the edge of dizzying economic and social change. It is a haunting reminder to us all to be careful of what we throw away. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.
Sprache: Englisch
Verlag: Scribe Publications, United Kingdom, London, 2022
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Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. From award-winning writer Anjali Joseph, a compelling new novel about a dysfunctional love affair. Meet Ved, a British investor heading back to his Indian roots with a business proposition: a lightbulb called the everlasting Lucifer. Meet Keteki, an art curator with a nomadic lifestyle, on her way…home to Assam. In Heathrow airport, on the way to Mumbai, their paths cross, sparking a love affair that soon turns into an intricate power game and a complicated journey towards intimacy. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.
Sprache: Englisch
Verlag: Scribe Publications, United Kingdom, London, 2018
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Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. Whatever you fear, come close my dear Youre tucked in safe for always here And I will never not be near Because of our love umbrella From this award-winning creative duo comes a book about the wonder of ever-present love. A stunning celebration of the joy and comfort that is always with us, whereve…r we roam in the big, wild world. Whos under your Love Umbrella? The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.
Sprache: Englisch
Verlag: Scribe Publications, United Kingdom, London, 2024
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Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. Stylist Best New Fiction of 2024 A Bookseller One to Watch Manny and the Baby stood out for me from the first few lines. The beautifully balanced prose, the wonderful story, and sumptuous detail are constructed with poetic precision and held my attention right until the very end. Jacqueline Crooks,… author of Fire Rush An incredibly special writer, thoughtful and energetic, occasionally savage, wise beyond her years, with an eye and an ear for syntax that is masterful . Varaidzo is the future, and Manny and the Baby is a book for the ages. Nikesh Shukla Included in NetGalleys 2024 Hot List London, 1936. Two sisters are ready to take the city and the world by storm. Bath, 2012. Two young Black men are figuring out who they are, and who they want to become. Manny Powell is forthright, intellectual, and determined to make her mark on the London literary scene. Her younger sister, Rita The Baby, just wants to dance. Chasing their dreams across smoky Soho jazz clubs, they soon find themselves part of the burgeoning Black ambition movement, and must learn how to navigate it as women. As tensions rise, and fascism and war snap at their heels, Rita finds herself drawn to the mysterious mimic and trumpeter, Ezekiel Brown, from Jamaica, and the trio are faced with choices that will alter their lives forever. Itai has fled London to his late fathers flat in Bath. Listening to cassette tapes his father made, he realises there is a lot he doesnt know about the mans life who is Rita? Why did his father record her life story? And might she hold the answers to Itais questions? Meanwhile, his developing friendship with Josh, a young athlete who moonlights as a dealer to fund his training, is on unsteady ground. As the country prepares for the 2012 Olympics, Josh is under increasing pressure from his bosses to find out just what the hell Itai is really doing in their city. Manny and the Baby is a character-driven debut novel, full of heart, about what it means to be Black and British, now and in the past. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.
Sprache: Englisch
Verlag: Scribe Publications, United Kingdom, London, 2023
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Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. From the author of Mrs Engels and The Sisters Mao, an intimate family memoir about filial love and its limits, separation, and loss. Gavin is spending the quarantine with his eighty-year-old mother, whose mind is slowly slipping away. He has returned home to care for her and to write a novel. But a…ll he can write about is her. In this frank and revealing memoir, he unspools an intimate story of his upbringing and early adulthood: feeling out of place as a child, homophobic bullying at school, his brothers mental illness and drug addiction, his fathers sudden death, his own devastating diagnosis, his struggles and triumphs as a writer, and above all, his relationship with his mother. Her brightness shines a light over his childhood, but her betrayal of his teenage self leads to years of resentment and disconnection. Now, he must find a way to reconcile with her, before it is too late. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.
Sprache: Englisch
Verlag: Scribe Publications, United Kingdom, London, 2023
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Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. LONGLISTED FOR THE INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE A joyful family saga about free will, forgiveness, and how we are all interconnected. In October 1989, triplet babies are born into chaos in a Swedish hospital. Over two decades later, the siblings are scattered around the world, barely speaking. Sebast…ian is in London working for a mysterious scientific organisation and falling in love. Clara has travelled to Easter Island to join a doomsday cult. And the third triplet, Matilda, is in Sweden, practising being a stepmother. Then something happens that forces them to reunite. Their mother calls with worrying news: their father has gone missing and she has something to tell them, a twenty-five-year secret that will change all their lives 'Hilarious' CLAIRE LOMBARDO 'Playfully experimental' THE GUARDIAN 'Magnificent' THE TELEGRAPH. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.
Sprache: Englisch
Verlag: Scribe Publications, United Kingdom, London, 2021
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Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. Police officers are obliged to give an account of every incident they are involved in. But what happened today will never be logged. Because thats what police solidarity means: what happens in the van stays in the van. Well, not always. Not this time. What really happens behind the walls of a polic…e station? To answer this question, investigative journalist Valentin Gendrot put his life on hold for two years and became the first journalist in history to infiltrate the police undetected. Within three months of training to become an officer, he was given a permit to carry a weapon in public. And although he lived in daily fear of being discovered, in his book Gendrot hides nothing. Assigned to work in a tough area of Paris where tensions between the law and locals ran high, Gendrot witnessed police brutality, racism, blunders, and cover-ups. But he also saw the oppressive working conditions that officers endured, and mourned the tragic suicide of a colleague. Asking important questions about who holds institutional power and how we can hold them to account, Cop is a gripping expose of a world never before seen by outsiders. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.
Sprache: Englisch
Verlag: Scribe Publications, United Kingdom, London, 2017
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Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. The lyrical, bestselling 2014 German Book Prize winner, from the winner of the 2023 Georg Buchner Prize. It is 1989, and a young literature student named Ed, fleeing unspeakable tragedy, travels to the Baltic island of Hiddensee. Long shrouded in myth, the island is a notorious destination for hipp…ies, idealists, and those at odds with the East German state. On the island, Ed stumbles upon the Klausner, Hiddensees most popular restaurant, and ends up washing dishes there, despite his lack of papers. Although he is keen to remain on the sidelines, Ed feels drawn towards the charismatic Kruso, unofficial leader of the seasonal workers. Everyone dances to Krusos tune. He is on a mission but to what end, and at what cost? Ed finds himself drawn ever deeper into the islands rituals, and ever more in need of Krusos acceptance and affection. As the wave of history washes over the German Democratic Republic, the friends grip on reality loosens and life on the island will never be the same. PRAISE FOR LUTZ SEILER An enigmatic Bildungsroman, adapting the literary trope of the island refuge to the dying days of East German socialism English readers can delight in this prizewinning translation from Tess Lewis, which renders Seilers vision in prose of startling clarity. The Saturday Age Kruso [is] the first worthy successor to Thomas Manns Magic Mountain to appear in contemporary German literature. Der Spiegel. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.
Sprache: Englisch
Verlag: Scribe Publications, United Kingdom, London, 2019
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Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. Winner of the German Book Prize, from the winner of the 2023 Georg Buchner Prize. It is 1989, and a young literature student named Ed travels to the Baltic island of Hiddensee, a notorious destination for hippies, idealists, and those at odds with the East German state. On Hiddensee, Ed joins the c…ommunity of seasonal workers, led by the charismatic, enigmatic Kruso. At night, they secretly help the refugees who have come to the island seeking passage to the West. But Kruso is preoccupied by another kind of freedom freedom of the mind. As the wave of history washes over the German Democratic Republic, the friends grip on reality loosens and life on the island will never be the same. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.
Sprache: Englisch
Verlag: Scribe Publications, United Kingdom, London, 2023
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Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. A stunning, multi-perspective epic about class division, the contraints of gender roles, and the history of India. After living in the US for years, Maneka Roy returns home to India to mourn the loss of her mother and finds herself in a new world. The booming city of Hrishipur where her father now…lives is nothing like the part of the country where she grew up, and the more she sees of this new, sparkling city, the more she learns that nothing and no one here is as it appears. Ultimately, it will take an unexpected tragic event for Maneka and those around her to finally understand just how fragile life is in this city built on aspirations. Written from the perspectives of ten different characters, Oindrila Mukherjees incisive debut novel explores class divisions, gender roles, and stories of survival within a society that is constantly changing and becoming increasingly Americanised. Its a story about India today, and people impacted by globalisation everywhere: a tale of ambition, longing, and bitter loss that asks what it really costs to try to build a dream. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.
Sprache: Englisch
Verlag: Scribe Publications, Australia, London, 2014
Serie: Buch 1 von 2 - Bad Arguments
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Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. Have you read (or stumbled into) one too many irrational online debates? Ali Almossawi certainly had, so he wrote An Illustrated Book of Bad Arguments! This handy guide is here to bring the internet age a much needed dose of old-school logic (really old-school, a la Aristotle). Here are cogent expl…anations of the straw man fallacy, the slippery slope argument, the ad hominem attack, and other common attempts at reasoning that fall short plus a beautifully drawn menagerie of animals who (adorably) commit every logical faux pas. Rabbit thinks a strange light in the sky must be a UFO because no one can prove otherwise (the appeal to ignorance). And Lion doesnt believe that gas emissions harm the planet because, if that were true, he wouldnt like the result (the argument from consequences). Once you learn to recognise these abuses of reason, they start to crop up everywhere from parliamentary debate to YouTube comments which makes this geek-chic book a must for anyone in the habit of holding opinions. Its the antidote to fuzzy thinking, with furry animals! The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.
Sprache: Englisch
Verlag: Scribe Publications, United Kingdom, London, 2018
- Softcover
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Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. A jaw-dropping re-evaluation of everything we thought we knew about men, women, and sex. Men are biologically programmed to want sex with lots of different women, whereas women are designed to stay true to one person, right? Wrong. In Untrue, New York Times -bestselling author Wednesday Martin reve…als that we are just at the beginning of understanding womens sexuality properly. From New York to Namibia to a conference of sex researchers in Montreal, she takes us on a journey to understand women who refuse monogamy,posing questions about why we became sexually exclusive in the first place. Martin attends all-female sex parties where married straight women fulfill their fantasies; considers contemporary societies where women take many lovers; analyses how the invention of the plough suppressed female autonomy; andpresents fascinating researchabout why women stray (their motivations are not so different from mens). Frank and myth busting, Untrue validates the desires of women everywhere, including the silent majority in committed relationships who struggle with staying faithful. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.
Sprache: Englisch
Verlag: Scribe Publications, United Kingdom, London, 2019
- Softcover
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Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2020 OCM BOCAS PRIZE FOR CARIBBEAN LITERATURE What are you? Tessa McWatt knows first-hand that the answer to this question, often asked of people of colour by white people, is always more complicated than it seems. Is the answer English, Scottish, British, Caribbean, Portuguese,… Indian, Amerindian, French, African, Chinese, Canadian? Like most families, hers is steeped in myth and the anecdotes of grandparents and parents who view their histories through the lens of desire, aspiration, loss, and shame. In Shame On Me she unspools all the interwoven strands of her inheritance, and knits them back together using additional fibres from literature and history to strengthen the weave of her refabricated tale. She dismantles her own body and examines it piece by piece to build a devastating and incisively subtle analysis of the race debate as it now stands, in this stunningly written exploration of who and what we truly are. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.
Sprache: Englisch
Verlag: Scribe Publications, United Kingdom, London, 2020
- Softcover
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Paperback. Zustand: Good. What is the best diet? Do I need to choose between low fat and low carb? Should I give up gluten, dairy, or meat? Two bestselling experts provide the answers to your most burning food and diet questions in this informative, accessible book that will transform your health. Bittman and Katz cut through al…l the noise about what to eat with clear, science-based facts, in an easy-to-digest Q and A format, covering everything from basic nutrients to superfoods to fad diets. They answer questions like: What is a calorie, and are all calories the same? Is there an ideal weight? Should I follow a Mediterranean, Paleo, or vegan diet? Is breakfast really the most important meal of the day? Can intermittent fasting help me to lose weight? Could an anti-inflammatory diet improve my health? What is a flexitarian? Filtering the science of nutrition through a lens of common sense and clarity, How To Eat provides real answers on how to achieve good health, longevity, and vitality. The book has been read but remains in clean condition. All pages are intact and the cover is intact. Some minor wear to the spine.
Sprache: Englisch
Verlag: Scribe Publications, United Kingdom, London, 2017
- Softcover
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Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. Who will prevail the woman or the ghost? For five years Edie has worked for the Elysian Society, a secretive organisation that provides a very specialised service: its clients come to reconnect with their dead loved ones by channelling them through living Bodies. Edie is one such Body, perhaps the…best in the team, renowned for her professionalism and discretion. But everything changes when Patrick, a distraught husband, comes to look for traces of his drowned wife in Edie. The more time that Edie spends as the glamorous, enigmatic Sylvia, the closer she comes to falling in love with Patrick. And the more mysterious the circumstances around Sylvias death appear. As Edie falls under Sylvias spell, she must discover not only the couples darkest secrets, but also her own long-buried memories and desires before it's too late. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.
Sprache: Englisch
Verlag: Scribe Publications, United Kingdom, London, 2022
- Softcover
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Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. From New York Times bestselling author and Mountain Goats singer/songwriter John Darnielle, an epic, gripping novel about murder, truth, artistic obsession, and the dangers of storytelling. Gage Chandler is descended from kings. Thats what his mother always told him. Chandler is a true crime writer…, with one grisly success and movie adaptation to his name, along with a series of subsequent lesser efforts that have paid the bills but not much more. But now he is being offered the chance for his big break: to move into the house which locals call The Devil House in which a briefly notorious pair of murders occurred, apparently the work of disaffected 1980s teens. He begins his research with diligence and enthusiasm, but soon the story leads him into a puzzle he never expected his own work and what it means, the very core of what he does and who he is. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.
