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Kind Are Her Answers: A Virago Modern Classic (Virago Modern Classics #318)
by Mary RenaultKit Anderson is married to Janet, a beautiful but narcissistic woman who seems more shallow to him as time goes by. Their relationship has become strained and cold. Immersing himself in his work as a doctor, Anderson takes consolation in his career. Then, one night he is called out to a dying patient, and meets Christie, who is taking care of her aunt. Warm and vivacious, Christie stands in stark contrast to Janet, providing the passion and intimacy that has been missing from his life.How long can their affair be kept secret and does Kit want what is best for Christie, or only for himself? In this assured, vivid novel, Mary Renault showcases the talents that would make her one of the twentieth century's most beloved novelists.
Kind Are Her Answers: A Virago Modern Classic (Vmc Ser. #67)
by Mary RenaultKit Anderson is married to Janet, a beautiful but narcissistic woman who seems more shallow to him as time goes by. Their relationship has become strained and cold. Immersing himself in his work as a doctor, Anderson takes consolation in his career. Then, one night he is called out to a dying patient, and meets Christie, who is taking care of her aunt. Warm and vivacious, Christie stands in stark contrast to Janet, providing the passion and intimacy that has been missing from his life.How long can their affair be kept secret and does Kit want what is best for Christie, or only for himself? In this assured, vivid novel, Mary Renault showcases the talents that would make her one of the twentieth century's most beloved novelists.
La invasió dels robots i altres relats d'Economia en colors: Segona temporada
by Xavier Sala i MartínPer a la majoria dels mortals, els camins que tria l'economia són obscurs, incomprensibles i misteriosos. Aquest llibre vol fer-los una mica més entretinguts, una mica més accessibles i una mica més... clars. En un increïble viatge pel camins de l'economia, ple de sorpreses i de descobriments, Xavier Sala i Martín ens explica, entre altres qüestions, per què la impaciència pot esdevenir catastròfica per als nostres fills o per què en uns països hi ha més estafadors i mentiders que en d'altres. Gràcies a aquest llibre, i d'una manera propera i divertida, entendrem l'economia com una eina que ens ajuda a comprendre millor el món que ens envolta i descobrirem que la humanitat ha millorat molt i, a més, ho ha fet molt ràpidament.
La invención de Morel
by Adolfo Bioy CasaresLa gran novela de amor y aventuras de Adolfo Bioy Casares, que definió con ella el curso de la literatura argentina. Hito de la literatura fantástica, La invención de Morel (1940) es una novela de amor y aventuras sobre los extraños acontecimientos que descubre un fugitivo al llegar a una isla desierta, en la que de pronto se manifiestan habitantes espectrales. Gracias a la brillante imaginación De Adolfo Bioy Casares, lo inexplicable hallará su razón de ser en un asombroso postulado científico, pero entretanto el narrador caerá presa de sus impulsos más irracionales, hasta vislumbrar no solo la realización de una pasión imposible, sino una suerte de inmortalidad. Sobre la obra: «No me parece una imprecisión o una hipérbole calificarla de perfecta».Jorge Luis Borges
Leap Over a Wall: Earthy Spirituality for Everyday Christians
by Eugene H. PetersonEugene Peterson’s vibrant, unforgettable exploration of one of the most memorable—and controversial—figures in Scripture: King David. The David story is the most extensively narrated single story in the Bible, and the Old Testaments reveals him both at his best and his worst. He is known as a shepherd, a psalmist, a fugitive, a war hero, a murderer, and a king whose legacy is marked by victories and moral failings alike. Peterson’s multi-dimensional portrait of this “man after God’s own heart” studies David’s humanity and examines his key relationships such as those with Saul, Goliath, Jonathan, Bathsheba, and Absolom. Uncompromisingly honest and remarkably insightful, Leap Over a Wall offers the hope that every event in David’s life was a confrontation with God, just as our every experience can hold divine encounter. A vision brought to life by one of the world’s most respected and influential theologians, the author of The Pastor, The Jesus Way, Practice Resurrection, and The Message, Leap Over a Wall is a unique opportunity to reconnect with David, a man simultaneously admirable, soulful, and dark, and one of the most complex and vital characters of the greatest story ever written. Ideal for personal devotional use, Bible study, or small group study.
Lectures on Don Quixote
by Vladimir NabokovOne of the twentieth century&’s greatest novelists offers his take on the Spanish classic. The author of Lolita and Pale Fire was not only a master of fiction but a distinguished literary critic as well. In this collection of lectures, which he delivered at Harvard in the early 1950s, Vladimir Nabokov shares insights based on a chapter-by-chapter synopsis of the seventeenth-century novel by Miguel de Cervantes, a timeless classic and one of the most deeply influential works in all of Western literature. Rejecting the common interpretation of Don Quixote as a warm satire, Nabokov perceives the work as a catalog of cruelty through which the gaunt knight passes. Edited and with a preface by Fredson Bowers, this volume offers &“a powerful, critical, and dramatic elaboration of the theme of illusion&” (V. S. Pritchett, The New York Review of Books).
Let Us Now Praise Famous Men (Penguin Modern Classics Ser.)
by James Agee Walker EvansPulitzer Prize-winning author James Agee and renowned photgrapher Walker Evans's Let Us Now Praise Famous Men is a landmark work of American photojournalism “renowned for its fusion of social conscience and artistic radicality” (The New York Times)In the summer of 1936, James Agee and Walker Evans set out on assignment for Fortune magazine to explore the daily lives of sharecroppers in the South. Their journey would prove an extraordinary collaboration and a watershed literary event when, in 1941, Let Us Now Praise Famous Men was first published to enormous critical acclaim. This unsparing record of place, of the people who shaped the land and the rhythm of their lives, is intensely moving and unrelentingly honest, and today ??—?? recognized by the New York Public Library as one of the most influential books of the twentieth century ??—?? it stands as a poetic tract of its time. With an elegant design as well as a sixty-four-page photographic prologue featuring archival reproductions of Evans's classic images, this historic edition offers readers a window into a remarkable slice of American history.
Life and Thought in the Greek and Roman World (Routledge Library Editions: The Ancient World)
by M. Cary T.J. HaarhofLife and Thought in the Greek and Roman World (1961) aims to provide a brief but comprehensive outline sketch of Greek and Roman civilization. It describes the geographic, political and social background of that civilization, and sets forth its main achievements in the fields of language and literature, scholarship and education, science and philosophy, art and religion. The authors have endeavoured throughout to present Greek and Roman civilization as an organic whole.
Los perros y los lobos
by Irène NémirovskyTeñida de marcados ecos autobiográficos, la novela se construye con retazos de la infancia y del exilio, la crisis de identidad, las historias de amor, todo sujeto a los azarosos caprichos del destino. Publicada por primera vez en 1940 -año en que Irène Némirovsky huyó de París en compañía de su marido y sus dos pequeñas hijas para refugiarse en un pueblo de la Borgoña-, ésta es la última obra que la autora de la magistral Suite francesa publicó en vida, dos años antes de su deportación y asesinato en Auschwitz. Ada y Harry Sinner, parientes lejanos, son dos jóvenes judíos procedentes de niveles sociales muy distintos a quienes un recuerdo infantil ha dejado una huella imborrable en sus vidas. Ada abandonó Ucrania poco antes de la revolución bolchevique, se ha casado con su primo Ben y lucha por abrirse camino como pintora. Harry, por su parte, ha contraído matrimonio con una joven francesa, hermosa, rica y católica, y se mueve en el mundo de las altas finanzas. Pero la fascinación que siente al contemplar dos cuadros de Ada en un escaparate lo llevan a recordar el mundo que ambos han dejado atrás. Con su destreza habitual para el retrato psicológico, Némirovsky delinea con claridad el torbellino de sentimientos de un clásico triángulo amoroso. Al hilo de los apasionados personajes, el relato transporta al lector desde Ucrania hasta el París de los años veinte, y la tensión narrativa crece sin cesar hasta la conclusión del relato. La crítica ha dicho...«Escrita con inmensa delicadeza y maestría, Los perros y los lobos es un logro extraordinario de la ficción europea.»The Sunday Times «Una nueva muestra del extraordinario talento de Némirovsky para ser a un tiempo una escritora épica e intimista.»La Stampa
Lost Men in the Grass
by Donald SuddabyOriginally published in 1940, the protagonist of Lost Men in the Grass is a chemist who invents a serum designed to prolong life, but which in fact enormously shrinks its subjects. It precedes Richard Matheson's famous novel The Incredible Shrinking Man (1956).
Lost Men in the Grass
by Donald SuddabyOriginally published in 1940, the protagonist of Lost Men in the Grass is a chemist who invents a serum designed to prolong life, but which in fact enormously shrinks its subjects. It precedes Richard Matheson's famous novel The Incredible Shrinking Man (1956).
Marketing Nutrition: Soy, Functional Foods, Biotechnology, and Obesity
by Brian WansinkAlthough encouraging people to eat more nutritiously can promote better health, most efforts by companies, health professionals, and even parents are disappointingly ineffective. Brian Wansink's Marketing Nutrition focuses on why people eat the foods they do, and what can be done to improve their nutrition. Wansink argues that the true challenge in marketing nutrition lies in leveraging new tools of consumer psychology (which he specifically demonstrates) and by applying lessons from other products' failures and successes. The key problem with marketing nutrition remains, after all, marketing.
Mathematics and the Imagination (Dover Books on Mathematics)
by James Newman Edward KasnerAnyone who gambles, plays cards, loves puzzles, or simply seeks an intellectual challenge will love this amusing and thought-provoking book. With wit and clarity, the authors deftly progress from simple arithmetic to calculus and non-Euclidean geometry. "Charming and exciting." -- Saturday Review of Literature. Includes 169 figures.
Modelling Waffen-SS Figures
by Calvin TanThis book explores the main patterns of Waffen-SS camouflage and dress and describes how to achieve these finishes in clear, step-by-step instructions. Advanced figure sculpting techniques, including conversions, are also featured, providing plenty of detail and diverse challenges to modellers of different abilities. Calvin Tan's superb base artwork and multi-layered painting technique are highlighted in this visually detailed, packed and engaging treatment of one of the most enduring, popular figure-modelling subject areas. The featured subjects include an SS-Sturmmann, an SS-Scharführer, and SS-Schütze, and a Panzergrenadier machine-gunner.
Modelling Waffen-SS Figures Grenadiers, 12th SS-Panzer-Division 'Hitler Jugend', Normandy, 1944
by Calvin TanWritten by one of the world's leading figure modellers, this guide features a main pattern of Waffen-SS camouflage and dress and describes in clear, step-by-step instructions how to achieve these finishes. Advanced figure sculpting techniques, including conversions, are also covered, providing plenty of detail and diverse challenges to modellers of different abilities. Calvin Tan's superb base artwork and his multi-layered painting technique are brought to the fore in this visually detailed and engaging treatment of one of the most popular figure-modelling subject areas. This title provides a detailed, step-by-step guide to modelling Grenadiers, 12th SS-Panzer-Division 'Hitler Jügend', Normandy, 1944. It also provides a comprehensive list of available aftermarket products and kits of all scales. This guide forms part of Osprey Modelling 23 Modelling Waffen-SS Figures ebook.
Modelling a Waffen-SS Figure SS-Scharführer, 1st SS-Panzer-Division 'Leibstandarte Adolf Hitler', Normandy, 1944
by Calvin TanWritten by one of the world's leading figure modellers, this guide features a main pattern of Waffen-SS camouflage and dress and describes in clear, step-by-step instructions how to achieve these finishes. Advanced figure sculpting techniques, including conversions, are also covered, providing plenty of detail and diverse challenges to modellers of different abilities. Calvin Tan's superb base artwork and his multi-layered painting technique are brought to the fore in this visually detailed and engaging treatment of one of the most popular figure-modelling subject areas. This title provides a detailed, step-by-step guide to modelling a SS-Scharführer, 1st SS-Panzer-Division 'Leibstandarte Adolf Hitler', Normandy, 1944. It also provides a comprehensive list of available aftermarket products and kits of all scales. This guide forms part of Osprey Modelling 23 Modelling Waffen-SS Figures ebook.
Modelling a Waffen-SS Figure SS-Schütze, 3rd SS-Panzer-Division 'Totenkopf' Vienna, 1945
by Calvin TanWritten by one of the world's leading figure modellers, this guide features a main pattern of Waffen-SS camouflage and dress and describes in clear, step-by-step instructions how to achieve these finishes. Advanced figure sculpting techniques, including conversions, are also covered, providing plenty of detail and diverse challenges to modellers of different abilities. Calvin Tan's superb base artwork and his multi-layered painting technique are brought to the fore in this visually detailed and engaging treatment of one of the most popular figure-modelling subject areas. This title provides a detailed, step-by-step guide to modelling a SS-Schütze, 3rd SS-Panzer-Division 'Totenkopf' Vienna, 1945. It also provides a comprehensive list of available aftermarket products and kits of all scales. This guide forms part of Osprey Modelling 23 Modelling Waffen-SS Figures ebook.
Modelling a Waffen-SS Figure SS-Sturmmann, 1st SS-Panzer-Division 'Leibstandarte Adolf Hitler', Kursk, 1943
by Calvin TanWritten by one of the world's leading figure modellers, this guide features a main pattern of Waffen-SS camouflage and dress and describes in clear, step-by-step instructions how to achieve these finishes. Advanced figure sculpting techniques, including conversions, are also covered, providing plenty of detail and diverse challenges to modellers of different abilities. Calvin Tan's superb base artwork and his multi-layered painting technique are brought to the fore in this visually detailed and engaging treatment of one of the most popular figure-modelling subject areas. This title provides a detailed, step-by-step guide to modelling a SS-Sturmmann, 1st SS-Panzer-Division 'Leibstandarte Adolf Hitler', Kursk, 1943. It also provides a comprehensive list of available aftermarket products and kits of all scales. This guide forms part of Osprey Modelling 23 Modelling Waffen-SS Figures ebook.
Moonless Night: The Second World War Escape Epic
by B A James“James is the sort of person they write legends about. A participant in the mass escape that was the basis for the movie The Great Escape.” —AudioFileFrom the moment he was shot down to the final whistle, Jimmy James’ one aim as a POW of the Germans was to escape. Moonless Night describes his experiences and those of his fellow prisoners in the most gripping and thrilling manner. The author made more than twelve escape attempts including his participation in The Great Escape, where fifty of the seventy-six escapees were executed in cold blood on Hitler’s orders.On re-capture, James was sent to the infamous Sachsenhausen Concentration Camp where, undeterred, he tunneled out. That was not the end of his remarkable story.Moonless Night has strong claim to be the finest escape story of the Second World War.“An amazing story.” —The Sunday Express
Mr Skeffington: A Virago Modern Classic
by Elizabeth Von ArnimBeauty; beauty. What was the good of beauty, once it was over? It left nothing behind it but acid regrets, and no heart at all to start fresh.' Approaching the watershed of her fiftieth birthday, Fanny, having long ago divorced Mr Skeffington and dismissed him from her thoughts for many years, is surprised to find herself thinking of him often. While attempting to understand this invasion, she meets, through a series of coincidences and deliberate actions, all those other men whose hearts she broke. But their lives have irrevocably changed and Fanny is no longer the exquisite beauty with whom they were all once enchanted. If she is to survive, Fanny discovers, she must confront a greatly altered perception of her self. With the delicate piquancy for which she is renowned, Elizabeth von Arnim here reveals the complexities involved in the process of ageing and in re-evaluating self-worth.
Murder within Murder (The Mr. and Mrs. North Mysteries #10)
by Richard Lockridge Frances LockridgeMr. and Mrs. North seek the killer of a terribly unpleasant society woman Miss Amelia Gipson doesn&’t tolerate foolishness. She doubts she&’s ever made a mistake, and it&’s unlikely she would change anything about her life—even if she knew she was in danger. While researching a famous murder case at the public library, she becomes ill at her desk. Within minutes, she&’s dead. Miss Gipson would be pleased with the coroner. He doesn&’t muck around when delivering the cause of death. There&’s simply no question: She was poisoned. Fortunately, Miss Gipson was one of Jerry North&’s authors, which means that the accomplished amateur sleuth has another case on his hands. With the help of his utterly brilliant—if slightly strange—wife, Pamela, Mr. North soon finds that the question isn&’t who wanted Miss Gipson dead, but who didn&’t.Murder within Murder is the 10th book in the Mr. and Mrs. North Mysteries, but you may enjoy reading the series in any order.
Native Son (Harper Perennial Deluxe Editions Ser.)
by Richard WrightRight from the start, Bigger Thomas had been headed for jail. It could have been for assault or petty larceny; by chance, it was for murder and rape. <P><P>Native Son tells the story of this young black man caught in a downward spiral after he kills a young white woman in a brief moment of panic. <P>Set in Chicago in the 1930s, Wright's powerful novel is an unsparing reflection on the poverty and feelings of hopelessness experienced by people in inner cities across the country and of what it means to be black in America.
Nine Times Nine
by Anthony Boucher'A fine craftsman' Ellery QueenThe man in the yellow robe had put the ancient curse of the Nine Times Nine on Wolfe Harrigan. And when Matt Duncan looked up from the croquet lawn that afternoon, he saw the man in the yellow robe in Wolfe Harrigan's study.When Matt got there, all the doors and windows were locked from the inside. But when the door was broken down, there was no man in a yellow robe in the room, and Wolfe Harrigan lay murdered on the floor. But at the time of the murder the man in the yellow robe was nowhere near the room.Who better to explain this miracle than Sister Ursula, a nun, whose childhood ambition was to become a policewoman?
Northrop Frye's Notebooks for Anatomy of Critcism
by Northrop Frye Robert D. DenhamNorthrop Frye's Anatomy of Criticism (1957) is widely regarded as a masterpiece of literary theory. The product of years of reading and reflection, the book's value extends far beyond its impact on criticism as a whole; ultimately, it must be viewed as a synoptic defense of liberal learning by one of the twentieth century's most distinguished critics. In this, the twenty-third volume of the Collected Works, editor Robert D. Denham presents the notebooks to the Anatomy, blue-prints, as it were, for Frye's comprehensive account of literary conventions. Composed from the late 1940s to 1956, the notebooks document the struggle Frye underwent to provide a structure for his work. This involved incorporating previously published essays and developing new material that would maintain the continuity of his argument. This fully annotated volume contains seventeen holograph notebooks, each illuminating some aspect of the grand structure that eventually emerged. Altogether, the notebooks offer an intimate picture of Frye's working process and a renewed appreciation for his magisterial accomplishment.
O último adeus
by Kate MortonMais de 10 milhões de leitores já se renderam à escrita de Kate Morton. TODAS AS FAMÍLIAS TÊM SEGREDOS. E BASTA UM SÓ DIA PARA TUDO MUDAR. O melhor romance da autora reconhecida mundialmente pelo público e a crítica. «Brilhante... O livro perfeitopara todo o tipo de leitores.» Library Journal Um menino desaparecido. Junho de 1933, em Loeanneth, a mansão de campo da família Edevane. Tudo está limpo e a brilhar, a postos para a tão esperada festa do Solstício de Verão. Alice Edevane, jovem de dezasseis anos que promete ser uma grande escritora, está especialmente empolgada. Não só encontrou o enredo perfeito para o romance que está a escrever como também se apaixonou perdidamente por quem não devia. Mas quando a meia-noite chega e os fogos-de-artifício iluminam o céu estival, a família Edevane terá sofrido uma perda tão grande que a fará abandonar Loeanneth para sempre... Uma casa abandonada. Setenta anos depois, Sadie Sparrow, investigadora da Scotland Yard, está na casa do avô, na Cornualha, a cumprir um período de descanso forçado. Um dia, por mero acaso, chega a uma velha casa abandonada rodeada de jardins silvestres e frondosos bosques e descobre a história de um menino desaparecido sem deixar rasto... Um mistério por resolver. Entretanto, no sótão de uma elegante casa em Hampstead, a formidável Alice Edevane, já velha, leva uma vida tão cuidadosamente planeada como os romances policiais que escreve. Até que uma jovem detective começa a fazer perguntas sobre o seu passado familiar, na tentativa de esclarecer a intricada teia de segredos de que Alice tentou fugir toda a vida. Uma história de mistério cheia de atmosfera, um romance absorvente como só Kate Morton sabe escrever. Sobre O último adeus: «A escritora fenómeno de vendas Kate Morton destaca-se mais uma vez com este romance de mistério, com a Inglaterra da década de 1930 como estimulante pano de fundo. A trama é impecável e as personagens, moldadas com habilidade e reunidas no fim do livro como resultado da investigação de Sparrow, ficam tão surpreendidas como os leitores com o desenvolvimento inesperado da história.»Publishers Weekly «Morton escreve com mestria romances com aroma a uma outra época e cheios de atmosfera, com tramas suficientes para encher o ático do castelo de Mildehurst.»Bookpage «Morton é a melhor criadora de mistérios cativantes.»People