Author: Șerban Andronescu
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Romanian language
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
Diccionario breve rumano-inglés
Author: Șerban Andronescu
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Romanian language
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Romanian language
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
Richelieu, Or The Conspiracy
Author: Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 114
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 114
Book Description
Solenoid
Author: Mircea Cartarescu
Publisher: Deep Vellum Publishing
ISBN: 164605203X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 653
Book Description
NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF 2022 by the New Yorker, Publishers Weekly, The Financial Times, Words Without Borders A highly-acclaimed master work of fiction from Mircea Cărtărescu, author of Blinding, Solenoid is an existence (and eventually a cosmos) created by forking paths. Based on Cărtărescu's own experience as a high school teacher, Solenoid begins with the mundane details of a diarist's life and quickly spirals into a philosophical account of life, history, philosophy, and mathematics. The novel is grounded in the reality of Romania in the late 1970s and early 1980s, including frightening health care, the absurdities of the education system, and the misery of family life, while on a broad scale Solenoid's investigations of other universes, dimensions, and timelines attempt to reconcile the realms of life and art. The text includes sequences in a tuberculosis preventorium, encounters with an anti-death protest movement, a society of dream investigators, and an extended visit to the miniscule world of dust mites living on a microscope slide. One character asks another: When you rush into the burning building, will you save the newborn or the artwork? Combining fiction with autobiography and history—Nikola Tesla and Charles Hinton, for example, appear alongside the Voynich manuscript—Solenoid searches for escape routes through the alternate dimensions of life and art, as various monstrous realities erupt within the present.
Publisher: Deep Vellum Publishing
ISBN: 164605203X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 653
Book Description
NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF 2022 by the New Yorker, Publishers Weekly, The Financial Times, Words Without Borders A highly-acclaimed master work of fiction from Mircea Cărtărescu, author of Blinding, Solenoid is an existence (and eventually a cosmos) created by forking paths. Based on Cărtărescu's own experience as a high school teacher, Solenoid begins with the mundane details of a diarist's life and quickly spirals into a philosophical account of life, history, philosophy, and mathematics. The novel is grounded in the reality of Romania in the late 1970s and early 1980s, including frightening health care, the absurdities of the education system, and the misery of family life, while on a broad scale Solenoid's investigations of other universes, dimensions, and timelines attempt to reconcile the realms of life and art. The text includes sequences in a tuberculosis preventorium, encounters with an anti-death protest movement, a society of dream investigators, and an extended visit to the miniscule world of dust mites living on a microscope slide. One character asks another: When you rush into the burning building, will you save the newborn or the artwork? Combining fiction with autobiography and history—Nikola Tesla and Charles Hinton, for example, appear alongside the Voynich manuscript—Solenoid searches for escape routes through the alternate dimensions of life and art, as various monstrous realities erupt within the present.
The Runaway Brain
Author: Christopher Wills
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780002552752
Category : Anthropologie, Humanbiologie
Languages : en
Pages : 358
Book Description
You might not suspect it, but we are currently living through a revolution in scientific knowledge. What we know about the human brain's workings and about the earliest history of our distant humanoid ancestors changes almost weekly. This book looks at current scientific theory.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780002552752
Category : Anthropologie, Humanbiologie
Languages : en
Pages : 358
Book Description
You might not suspect it, but we are currently living through a revolution in scientific knowledge. What we know about the human brain's workings and about the earliest history of our distant humanoid ancestors changes almost weekly. This book looks at current scientific theory.
Subject Index of Modern Books Acquired
Author: British Library
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Best books
Languages : en
Pages : 624
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Best books
Languages : en
Pages : 624
Book Description
Kandahar Cockney
Author: James Fergusson
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 392
Book Description
The remarkable and touching story of a singular friendship between the author (an affluent Western correspondent) and his Pashtun interpreter who meet in an Afghan war-zone and resume their friendship when Mir becomes an asylum seeker in London's East End. In the spring of 1997, James Fergusson, a young freelance British correspondent, encounters a local Pashtun interpreter named Mir in rebel-controlled Afghanistan. They soon become firm friends, with Mir an invaluable guide not only to the battle zone, but to the country's complex politics, culture and traditions. Not long after James's return home, Mir and his family are forced to flee Afghanistan, fearing for their lives. When Mir arrives in London seeking asylum, it is to James that he turns for help. Now their roles reverse: the guided becomes the guide as James introduces Mir to the bewildering customs of the infidel West. Yet in many ways it is Mir who remains the guide -- this time to a side of his own homeland that James had never noticed or engaged with before. He discovers whole communities of Afghans scattered throughout London, and the shadow economy in which asylum seekers are forced to work. He accompanies Mir throug
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 392
Book Description
The remarkable and touching story of a singular friendship between the author (an affluent Western correspondent) and his Pashtun interpreter who meet in an Afghan war-zone and resume their friendship when Mir becomes an asylum seeker in London's East End. In the spring of 1997, James Fergusson, a young freelance British correspondent, encounters a local Pashtun interpreter named Mir in rebel-controlled Afghanistan. They soon become firm friends, with Mir an invaluable guide not only to the battle zone, but to the country's complex politics, culture and traditions. Not long after James's return home, Mir and his family are forced to flee Afghanistan, fearing for their lives. When Mir arrives in London seeking asylum, it is to James that he turns for help. Now their roles reverse: the guided becomes the guide as James introduces Mir to the bewildering customs of the infidel West. Yet in many ways it is Mir who remains the guide -- this time to a side of his own homeland that James had never noticed or engaged with before. He discovers whole communities of Afghans scattered throughout London, and the shadow economy in which asylum seekers are forced to work. He accompanies Mir throug
Earth
Author: Richard Fortey
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0307574334
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 450
Book Description
The acclaimed author of Trilobite! and Life takes us on a grand tour of the earth’s physical past, showing how the history of plate tectonics is etched in the landscape around us. • "Absorbing.... Cinematic.... The ultimate travel book, a guidebook that should be read by every person who wants to really know and understand the place we live on." —The New York Times Beginning with Mt. Vesuvius, whose eruption in Roman times helped spark the science of geology, and ending in a lab in the West of England where mathematical models and lab experiments replace direct observation, Richard Fortey tells us what the present says about ancient geologic processes. He shows how plate tectonics came to rule the geophysical landscape and how the evidence is written in the hills and in the stones. And in the process, he takes us on a wonderful journey around the globe to visit some of the most fascinating and intriguing spots on the planet.
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0307574334
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 450
Book Description
The acclaimed author of Trilobite! and Life takes us on a grand tour of the earth’s physical past, showing how the history of plate tectonics is etched in the landscape around us. • "Absorbing.... Cinematic.... The ultimate travel book, a guidebook that should be read by every person who wants to really know and understand the place we live on." —The New York Times Beginning with Mt. Vesuvius, whose eruption in Roman times helped spark the science of geology, and ending in a lab in the West of England where mathematical models and lab experiments replace direct observation, Richard Fortey tells us what the present says about ancient geologic processes. He shows how plate tectonics came to rule the geophysical landscape and how the evidence is written in the hills and in the stones. And in the process, he takes us on a wonderful journey around the globe to visit some of the most fascinating and intriguing spots on the planet.
Basic Marketing
Author: Tom Cannon
Publisher: Burns & Oates
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 484
Book Description
An undergraduate text integrating international research with a diverse selection of European cases. Features discussion questions (new to this edition) and case studies with exercises, plus humorous bandw illustrations and cartoons. This fourth edition reinforces the international, especially European, coverage introduced in earlier editions, and expands coverage of strategy and development, technology and innovation, ethical and environmental issues, and changes created by mass customization. Distributed by Books International. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Publisher: Burns & Oates
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 484
Book Description
An undergraduate text integrating international research with a diverse selection of European cases. Features discussion questions (new to this edition) and case studies with exercises, plus humorous bandw illustrations and cartoons. This fourth edition reinforces the international, especially European, coverage introduced in earlier editions, and expands coverage of strategy and development, technology and innovation, ethical and environmental issues, and changes created by mass customization. Distributed by Books International. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Positively Fearless
Author: Vera Peiffer
Publisher: eBook Partnership
ISBN: 0954722779
Category : Self-Help
Languages : en
Pages : 203
Book Description
A self-help manual by well-known hypnotherapist and psychotherapist Vera Peiffer, offering up-to-date solutions for anyone who wants to overcome their fears, phobias, panic attacks, anxiety or obsessive-compulsive disorder. This updated and extended edition is available only as an ebook and comes with a free MP3 recording. Start living again!
Publisher: eBook Partnership
ISBN: 0954722779
Category : Self-Help
Languages : en
Pages : 203
Book Description
A self-help manual by well-known hypnotherapist and psychotherapist Vera Peiffer, offering up-to-date solutions for anyone who wants to overcome their fears, phobias, panic attacks, anxiety or obsessive-compulsive disorder. This updated and extended edition is available only as an ebook and comes with a free MP3 recording. Start living again!
Earthly Powers
Author: Michael Burleigh
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0061741450
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 941
Book Description
In this masterful, stylish, and authoritative book, Michael Burleigh gives us an epic history of the battles over religion in modern Europe, examining the complex and often lethal ways in which politics and religion have interacted and influenced each other over the last two centuries. From the French Revolution to the totalitarian movements of the twentieth century, Earthly Powers is a uniquely powerful portrait of one of the great tensions of modern history—one that continues to be played out on the world stage today.
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0061741450
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 941
Book Description
In this masterful, stylish, and authoritative book, Michael Burleigh gives us an epic history of the battles over religion in modern Europe, examining the complex and often lethal ways in which politics and religion have interacted and influenced each other over the last two centuries. From the French Revolution to the totalitarian movements of the twentieth century, Earthly Powers is a uniquely powerful portrait of one of the great tensions of modern history—one that continues to be played out on the world stage today.