Verlag: W. W. Norton & Company Jun 2023, 2023
ISBN 10: 1324051221 ISBN 13: 9781324051220
Anbieter: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Deutschland
Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Ponyboy unravels in his Paris apartment. Cut to the bar. Cut to the back room. Ponyboy is strung out and struggling. He is falling into the widening chasm between who he is-trans, electrically so-and the blank canvas his girlfriend, Baby, wants him to be.
Verlag: W. W. Norton & Company Jun 2023, 2023
ISBN 10: 1324064382 ISBN 13: 9781324064381
Anbieter: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Deutschland
Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Inside our heads we carry around an infinite and endlessly unfolding map of the world. Navigation is one of the most ancient neural abilities we have-older than language. In Dark and Magical Places, Christopher Kemp embarks on a journey to discover the remarkable extent of what our minds can do.
Verlag: W. W. Norton & Company Jun 2023, 2023
ISBN 10: 1324052090 ISBN 13: 9781324052098
Anbieter: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Deutschland
Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - We are living in a new urban age, and its most tangible expression is the 'supertall': megastructures that are dramatically bigger, higher and more ambitious than any in history.
Verlag: W. W. Norton & Company Jun 2023, 2023
ISBN 10: 1324052104 ISBN 13: 9781324052104
Anbieter: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Deutschland
Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - We know that our diet influences our health. But is there more to the adage 'you are what you eat ' Connecting the dots from agriculture to medicine, geologist David R. Montgomery and biologist Anne Biklé argue we overlook the other half of a healthy diet: how we grow our food.
Verlag: W. W. Norton & Company Jun 2023, 2023
ISBN 10: 1324064471 ISBN 13: 9781324064473
Anbieter: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Deutschland
Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Many people know the tale: In 1814 Francis Scott Key witnessed the British bombardment of Fort McHenry and the heroism of America's defenders; seeing the American flag still flying at first light inspired him to pen his famous lyric. What people don't know, however, is how a topical broadside ballad rose to become the nation's anthem and today's magnet for controversy.
Verlag: W. W. Norton & Company Jun 2023, 2023
ISBN 10: 1324050934 ISBN 13: 9781324050933
Anbieter: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Deutschland
Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - In this astonishing volume of poems and lyric prose, Whiting Award-winner A. Van Jordan mourns the deaths of Black people, particularly Black children, at the hands of police officers. Jordan draws comparisons to Black characters in Shakespearean plays: Caliban and Sycorax fromThe Tempest, Aaron the Moor fromTitus Andronicus, and the eponymous antihero ofOthello. What do these characters, and the ways they are defined by the white figures who surround them, have in common with Tamir Rice, Trayvon Martin, and other Black people killed in the twenty-first century Balancing this investigation with recognition of the joy of Black youth before the world takes hold, Jordan expresses the preciousness and precarity of life.
Verlag: W. W. Norton & Company Jun 2023, 2023
ISBN 10: 1324003790 ISBN 13: 9781324003793
Anbieter: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Deutschland
Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'Houston spread like a glass of milk spilled on the wobbling table of Texan plains,' Micah Fields writes in this unique and poetic blend of reportage, history, and memoir. Developed as the commercial hub of the Texas cotton and sugarcane industries, Houston was designed for profit, not stability. Its first residents razed swamplands into submission to construct a maze of highways and suburbs, giving the city a sprawling, centerless energy where feral cats, alligators, and poisonous snakes flourished in the bayous as storms and floods rattled coastal Texas.
Verlag: W. W. Norton & Company Jun 2023, 2023
ISBN 10: 1324051000 ISBN 13: 9781324051008
Anbieter: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Deutschland
Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Set in Soweto, the urban heartbeat of South Africa, Innards tells the intimate stories of everyday black folks processing the savagery of apartheid with grit, wit, and their own distinctive bewildering humor. Rich with the thrilling textures of township language and life, it braids the voices and perspectives of an indelible cast of characters into a breathtaking collection flush with forgiveness, rage, ugliness, and beauty. Meet a fake PhD and ex-freedom fighter who remains unbothered by his own duplicity, a girl who goes mute after stumbling upon a burning body, twin siblings nursing a scorching feud, and a woman unraveling under the weight of a brutal encounter with the police. At the heart of these stories about deceit and ambition, appalling violence, familial turmoil, and love is South Africa's history of slavery, colonization, and apartheid. Like many Americans today, Innards' characters must navigate the shadows of the recent past alongside the uncertain opportunities of the promised land.
Verlag: W. W. Norton & Company Jun 2023, 2023
ISBN 10: 1324006102 ISBN 13: 9781324006107
Anbieter: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Deutschland
Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - After decades as a long-haul trucker, Finn Murphy left the road and settled in Boulder County, Colorado. Before long he noticed that many of his neighbors were captivated by the prospect of vast riches in 'the Hemp Space.' When hemp was legalized, after eighty years in federal exile, Colorado became the center of a hemp growing and processing boom. Figuring he'd harvest some of that easy money, Murphy bought a thirty-six-acre farm. What could go wrong Well, pretty much everything.
Verlag: W. W. Norton & Company Jun 2023, 2023
ISBN 10: 039328591X ISBN 13: 9780393285918
Anbieter: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Deutschland
Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Amber Kivinen is moving to Mars. Or at least, she will be if she wins a chance to join MarsNow. She and twenty-three reality TV contestants from around the world-including attractive Israeli soldier Adam, endearing fellow Canadian Pichu, and an assortment of science nerds and wannabe influencers-are competing for two seats on the first human-led mission to Mars, sponsored by billionaire Geoff Task.
Verlag: W. W. Norton & Company Jun 2023, 2023
ISBN 10: 0393531686 ISBN 13: 9780393531688
Anbieter: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Deutschland
Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - In the last two decades, innovation, data analysis and technology have driven a tectonic shift in the sports business. Game of Edges is the story of how sports franchises evolved, on and off the field, from raggedly run small businesses into some of the most systematically productive companies around.
Verlag: W. W. Norton & Company Jun 2023, 2023
ISBN 10: 1324000325 ISBN 13: 9781324000327
Anbieter: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Deutschland
Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - In 1913, an unlikely friendship blossomed between Henry Ford and famed naturalist John Burroughs. When their mutual interest in Ralph Waldo Emerson led them to set out in one of Ford's Model Ts to explore the Transcendentalist's New England, the trip would prove to be the first of many excursions that would take Ford and Burroughs, together with an enthusiastic Thomas Edison, across America.