From a former marine and Yale Law School graduate, a powerful account of growing up in a poor Rust Belt town that offers a broader, probing look at the struggles of America’s white working class Hillbilly Elegy is a passionate and personal analysis of a culture in crisis—that of white working-class Americans. The decline of this group, a demographic of our country that has been slowly...

Baldwin's ground-breaking second novel, which established him as one of the great American writers of his time 'Audacious... remarkable... elegant and courageous' Caryl Phillips David, a young American in 1950s Paris, is waiting for his fiancée to return from vacation in Spain. But when he meets Giovanni, a handsome Italian barman, the two men are drawn into an...

Verwandle deine Lieblings-Pokémon in prächtige Papierkunstwerke!Ob Pikachu, Evoli oder Bisasam - in diesem Buch findest du detaillierte Schritt-für-Schritt-Anleitungen, um 10 Pokémon ganz einfach nachzufalten.Alle benötigten Papierbogen für die Origami-Figuren sind im Buch enthalten.Worauf wartest du noch - falte gleich los!Dieses Pokémon-Bastelbuch enthält:- buntes Origami-Papier für alle...

UGLY FIVE BB UNCASED GERMAN Sie gelten als die die 'hässlichen Fünf' der afrikanischen Wildnis: das hässliche Gnu, die scheußliche Hyäne, der kahle Geier, das borstige Warzenschwein und der bucklige Marabu. Bei Julia Donaldson singen und stapfen die hässlichen Fünf glücklich durch die Welt. Denn sie wissen längst, was ihre Kinder gerne rufen: 'Ihr fünf seid so schön, seid die...

Vier Geschichten, die uns lehren, aus der Vergangenheit über die Zukunft zu lernen und den Blick nach vorn zu öffnen. Was wäre, wenn du in die Vergangenheit reisen könntest? "Bevor der Kaffee kalt wird" erzählt die Legende von einem bestimmten Sessel in einem bestimmten Café in Japan. Wer sich in den Sessel setzt, darf in die Vergangenheit zurück, aber nur solange, bis der Kaffee kalt wird....

Jack Torrance’s new job at the Overlook Hotel is the perfect chance for a fresh start. As the off-season caretaker at the atmospheric old hotel, he’ll have plenty of time to spend reconnecting with his family and working on his writing. But as the harsh winter weather sets in, the idyllic location feels ever more remote... and more sinister. And the only one to notice the strange and...

Why has human history unfolded so differently across the globe? In his Pulitzer Prize-winning book, Jared Diamond puts the case that geography and biogeography, not race, moulded the contrasting fates of Europeans, Asians, Native Americans, sub-Saharan Africans, and aboriginal Australians. An ambitious synthesis of history, biology, ecology and linguistics, Guns, Germs and Steel remains a...

Now a Major Motion Picture from Director Luca Guadagnino, Starring Armie Hammer and Timothée Chalamet, and Written by Three-Time Oscar(TM) Nominee James Ivory The Basis of the Oscar-Winning Best Adapted Screenplay A New York Times Bestseller A USA Today Bestseller A Los Angeles Times Bestseller A Vulture Book Club Pick An...

For decades, the medical community has looked to a variety of reasons for why we age, and the consensus is that no one dies of old age; they die of age-related diseases. That's because ageing is not a disease – it is inevitable. But what if everything you think you know about ageing is wrong? What if ageing is a disease? And that disease is curable. In LIFESPAN, Dr. David Sinclair, one of the...

The most famous confidence-boosting book ever published; with sales of over 16 million copies worldwide Millions of people around the world have improved their lives based on the teachings of Dale Carnegie. In How to Win Friends and Influence People, he offers practical advice and techniques, in his exuberant and conversational style, for how to get out of a mental rut and make life more...

The best introductory book on wine to come along in years” (The Washington Post) from the creators of the award-winning Wine Folly website Red or white? Cabernet or merlot? Light or bold? What to pair with food? Drinking great wine isn’t hard, but finding great wine does require a deeper understanding of the fundamentals.   Wine Folly: The Essential Guide to Wine...

Cold cases get hot in this unputdownable mystery from Jennifer Lynn Barnes, no.1 New York Times bestselling author of The Inheritance Games series. Perfect for fans of A Good Girl\'s Guide to Murder. Cassie is a natural at reading people. Piecing together the tiniest details, she can tell you who you are and what you want. But it\'s not a skill that...

This magnificent large-format illustrated book takes you down to the most spectacular wrecks in the Baltic Sea. This unique sea holds close toere are nearly 100,000 wrecks on the seabed here – many of them in surprisingly well keptgood condition. The unique qualities of the Baltic, with its cold water and the historic lack of shipworms, has help to preserved the shipwrecks better than anywhere...

The first book in the breathtaking DELIRIUM trilogy. They say that the cure for love will make me happy and safe forever. And I've always believed them. Until now. Now everything has changed. Now, I'd rather be infected with love for the tiniest sliver of a second than live a hundred years suffocated by a lie. There was a time when love was the most important thing in the world. People would...

Kafka on the Shore is powered by two remarkable characters: a teenage boy, Kafka Tamura, who runs away from home either to escape a gruesome oedipal prophecy or to search for his long-missing mother and sister; and an aging simpleton called Nakata, who never recovered from a wartime affliction and now is drawn toward Kafka for reasons that, like the most basic activities of daily life, he...

This revised and expanded edition of the bestselling book, The Personal MBA by Josh Kaufman, gives you everything you need to transform your business, your career or your working life forever. An MBA at a top school is an enormous investment in time, effort and cold, hard cash. And if you don't want to work for a consulting firm or an investment bank, the chances are it simply isn't worth...

Meet five friendly kittens in this charming addition to the much-loved That's not my… series. Babies love the best-selling That’s not my… books with their bold illustrations, patches to stroke, and a mouse to spot on every page, all designed to develop sensory and language awareness.

In the Middle Ages there were gaols and dungeons, but punishment was for the most part a spectacle. In this provocative work, Michel Foucault argues that the development of the Western system of prisons, police and legal hierarchies have merely shifted the focus of social control from our bodies to our souls.

With Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead, International Booker Prize-winner Olga Tokarczuk returns with a subversive, entertaining noir novel.

Angel poznaje Dirka w nowej szkole, w greckiej części Nikozji, gdzie przeprowadziła się jej rodzina. Razem realizują projekt fotograficzny, zapuszczając się w coraz dalsze części wyspy. Jakie tajemnice może odkryć przed nimi jedno przypadkowe zdjęcie? Powieść dla młodzieży Lost World to wyjątkowa metoda nauki angielskiego łącząca lekturę wciągającej historii oraz...