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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - From Rachel Kushner the celebrated, 'exceptionally talented, and philosophically minded writer,' (San Francisco Chronicle) and regular contributor to The New Yorker and The New York Times Magazine, a career-spanning collection of spectacular essays encompassing politics, culture, and art.Since her debut more than a decade ago, Rachel Kushner has firmly established herself as not only one of our finest fiction writers, but one of our most incisive essayists-each of her pieces is singular, brilliant, and itself a literary event. Now, in The Hard Crowd, Kushner gathers a selection of her writing over the course of the last twenty years that not only illuminates the themes that underpin her fiction, but addresses the most pressing political, artistic, and cultural issues of our times. In nineteen razor-sharp essays, The Hard Crowd spans literary journalism, memoir, cultural criticism, and writing about art and literature, including pieces on politics, social justice, and her personal relationships, as well as on Jeff Koons, Denis Johnson, and Marguerite Duras. Kushner takes us on a journey through a Palestinian refugee camp in East Jerusalem, the world of truckers, and the music scene of her hometown of San Francisco. Her stories are electric, incisive, and wry, and provide us the opportunity to witness the evolution and range of one of our most dazzling and fearless writers. 'Kushner writes with startling detail, imagination, and gallows humor.' -Entertainment Weekly 'The authority and precision of Kushner's writing is impressive, but it's the gorgeous ferocity that will stick with me.' -The Wall Street Journal.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - From celebrated Yale professor Valerie Hansen, a groundbreaking work of history showing that bold explorations and daring trade missions connected all of the world's great civilizations for the first time at the end of the first millennium.In history, myth often abides. It was long assumed that the centuries immediately prior to 1000 AD were lacking in any major cultural developments or geopolitical encounters, that the Europeans hadn't yet discovered North America, that the farthest anyone had traveled over sea was the Vikings' invasion of Britain. But how, then, to explain the presence of blonde-haired, blue-eyed people in Mayan temple murals in Chichen Itza, Mexico Could it be possible that the Vikings had found their way to the Americas during the height of the Mayan empire Valerie Hansen, a much honored historian, argues that the year 1000 was the world's first point of major cultural exchange and exploration. Drawing on nearly thirty years of research on medieval China and global history, she presents a compelling account of first encounters between disparate societies. As civilizations on at least five continents ventured outward, they spread technology, agriculture, and religion. These encounters, she shows, made it possible for Christopher Columbus to reach the 'New World' in 1492, and set the stage for the process of globalization that so dominates the modern era. For readers of Jared Diamond's Guns, Germs, and Steel and Yuval Noah Harari's Sapiens, The Year 1000 is an intellectually daring, provocative account that will make you rethink everything you thought you knew about how the modern world came to be. It will also hold up a mirror to the hopes and fears we experience today.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - One of Vogue's Best Books of 2019 \*Vogue, Best Novels of 2019 \*CrimeReads, Best Fiction Debuts of 2019 \*Star-Ledger, Top Ten New Jersey Authors of 2019 \*EsquireUK, Best Books of 2019 So Far \*People, Best New Books of the Week \*Southern Living, Best New Books of Winter 2019 \*Entertainment Weekly, Hottest Reads of January \*CosmoUK, Best New Books of January \*Vogue, Lit Hub, and CrimeReads, Most Anticipated Books of 2019 In this taut, arresting debut, a woman becomes fixated on her neighbor-the actress. Though the two women live just a few doors apart, a chasm lies between them. The actress, a celebrity with a charmed career, shares a gleaming brownstone with her handsome husband and three adorable children, while the recently separated narrator, unhappily childless and stuck in a dead-end job, lives in a run-down, three-story walk-up with her ex-husband's cat. As her fascination grows, the narrator's hold on reality begins to slip. Before long, she's collecting cast-off items from the actress's stoop and fantasizing about sleeping with the actress's husband. After a disastrous interaction with the actress at the annual block party, what began as an innocent preoccupation turns into a stunning-and irrevocable-unraveling. Immersive and darkly entertaining, Looker is a searing psychological portrait of obsession.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neu neuware, importqualität, auf lager - The wisest, richest, funniest, and most moving novel in years from Don DeLillo, one of the great American novelists of our time-an ode to language, at the heart of our humanity, a meditation on death, and an embrace of life. Jeffrey Lockhart's father, Ross, is a billionaire in his sixties, with a younger wife, Artis Martineau, whose health is failing. Ross is the primary investor in a remote and secret compound where death is exquisitely controlled and bodies are preserved until a future time when biomedical advances and new technologies can return them to a life of transcendent promise. Jeff joins Ross and Artis at the compound to say 'an uncertain farewell' to her as she surrenders her body. 'We are born without choosing to be. Should we have to die in the same manner Isn't it a human glory to refuse to accept a certain fate ' These are the questions that haunt the novel and its memorable characters, and it is Ross Lockhart, most particularly, who feels a deep need to enter another dimension and awake to a new world. For his son, this is indefensible. Jeff, the book's narrator, is committed to living, to experiencing 'the mingled astonishments of our time, here, on earth.' Don DeLillo's seductive, spectacularly observed and brilliant new novel weighs the darkness of the world-terrorism, floods, fires, famine, plague-against the beauty and humanity of everyday life; love, awe, 'the intimate touch of earth and sun.' Zero K is glorious.

Zustand: New. From a brilliant Brookings Institution writer, a vivid, timely, and insightful examination of the critical role that oceans play in the daily struggle for global power, in the bestselling tradition of Robert Kaplan s The Revenge of Geography.

Zustand: New. Synopsis coming soon.From #1 New York Times bestselling author Lisa See, one of those special writers capable of delivering both poetry and plot (The New York Times Book Review), a moving novel about tradition, tea farming, and .

Zustand: New. An insightful, riveting study of marriage. -People From the bestselling author of Ask Again, Yes, a masterful and absorbing (The New York Times) novel about a couple in a small town navigating the complexities of m.

Zustand: New. The definitive edition of the classic novel of love during wartime, featuring all of the alternate endings: Fascinating.serves as an artifact of a bygone craft, with handwritten notes and long passages crossed out, giving readers a sense of an author .

Zustand: New. From Rachel Kushner, a Booker Prize finalist, two-time National Book Award finalist, and one of the most gifted authors of her generation (The New York Times Book Review), comes a new novel about a seductive and cunning American woman who inf.

Kartoniert / Broschiert. Zustand: New. In the bestselling tradition of Nice Girls Don t Get the Corner Office, The Confidence Code, and How Women Rise, former PepsiCo chief operations officer Grace Puma and former Nike president of consumer-direct Christiana Smith Shi show women ho.

Zustand: New. A meditation on death and an embrace of death, this is the latest bestseller from acclaimed author Don DeLillo and is written with clinical precision and surgical sterilityA New York Times Notable Book A New York Times bestsell.

Zustand: New. Renowned poet Mary Jo Salter, whose command of verse forms and high intelligence is universally acknowledged, selects the poems for the 2024 edition of The Best American Poetry, a best anthology that really lives up to its title (.

Zustand: New. In the bestselling tradition of Charles Duhigg s The Power of Habit and Angela Duckworth s Grit, a renowned social psychologist demonstrates how a subtle turning of habits into rituals can clear a little space for everyday magic (The G.

Zustand: New. OPRAH S BOOK CLUB PICK - Instant New York Times Bestseller - Named one of the best books of 2023 by The Washington Post, Vanity Fair, The Boston Globe, Time, The New Yorker, and more.

Kartoniert / Broschiert. Zustand: New. Now includes a new essay, Naked Childhood, about Kushner s family, their converted school bus, and the Summers of Love in Oregon and San Francisco! The Hard Crowd is wild, wide-ranging, and unsparingly intelligent throughout. -T.

Zustand: New. In this instant New York Times bestseller, Angela Duckworth shows anyone striving to succeed that the secret to outstanding achievement is not talent, but a special blend of passion and persistence she calls grit. Inspiration for non-geniuses e.

Zustand: New. A gripping and heartfelt (The New York Times Book Review) story about two young brothers contending with the love they have for their abusive father, One of the Boys is one of the most striking debut novels of the year (Rolling Stone.

Zustand: New. Winner of the Jesse H. Jones Award for Best Work of Fiction from the Texas Institute of Letters * A San Francisco Chronicle Recommended Book of 2015 * Fiction Finalist for the 2015 Writers League of Texas Book Awards * A Kirkus Reviews Bes.

Zustand: New. This captivating illustration of the follies of trying to model and forecast the unpredictable world (Financial Times) is both empowering (The New Statesman, UK) and compelling (New Scientist) as it challenges our most fundamen.

Kartoniert / Broschiert. Zustand: New. On the New York Times bestseller list for over 20 weeks * A New York Times Notable Book * A Barack Obama Favorite * A National Book Award Finalist * Named a Best Book of the Year by Fresh Air, Time, Entertainment Weekly.

Kartoniert / Broschiert. Zustand: New. *NOW A NETFLIX LIMITED SERIES-from producer and director Shawn Levy (Stranger Things) starring Mark Ruffalo, Hugh Laurie, and newcomer Aria Mia Loberti* Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award finalist, the beloved inst.

Zustand: New. Amy Hempel is a master of the short story. This celebrated volume gathers together her complete work -- four short collections of stunning stories about marriages, minor disasters, and moments of revelation. With her inimitable compassion a.

Zustand: New. Slumdog Millionaire meets Ratatouille (The New York Times Book Review) in this delicious fairytale-like read (NPR) about family, nationality, and the mysteries of good taste.Born above his grandfather s modest restaur.

Kartoniert / Broschiert. Zustand: New. When a bookshop patron dies by suicide, his favorite store clerk must unravel the puzzle he left behind in this shocking, charming, thrilling (Associated Press) and award-winning debut novel.Lydia Smith lives her life hiding in plain sight.

Zustand: New. Now available in paperback from the King of Horror comes the dark and electrifying New York Times bestselling novel about addiction, religion, fanaticism, and what might exist on the other side of life.Finster, mysterioes, elektrisierendReviv.

Zustand: New. Now an AT&T Audience Original Series WINNER OF THE EDGAR AWARD FOR BEST NOVEL #1 New York Times bestseller! In a high-suspense race against time, three of the most unlikely heroes Stephen King has ever created try t.

Zustand: New. From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Glass Castle and Hang the Moon, Jeannette Walls s gripping novel transports us with her powerful storytelling.contemplates the extraordinary bravery needed to confront real-life.

Zustand: New. The bestselling, wonderfully unconventional, warmly conspiratorial.seriously good (The New York Times) literary memoir from the award-winning actress that has received fabulous and wide praise. There is no one else quite like Mary-Louise Park.

Zustand: New. A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER ONE of the TOP 10 BOOKS OF THE YEAR by THE NEW YORK TIMES * ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY * SLATE* THE PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER * Also named one of the BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR by Vanity.

Zustand: New. Winner of the 2023 PROSE Award for Excellence in Biological and Life Sciences and the 2023 Chautauqua Prize! Named a New York Times Notable Book and a Best Book of the Year by The Economist, Oprah.