Senest opdateret 19. august
fra 2008-11-11 på forlaget Vintage
ISBN: 03-0738-623-6
pris: 120 kr – stand: ★★★★★★
Vægt: 400 gram
A luminous essay collection about loneliness, contentment, and the books and cities that have shaped the experience of a Nobel Prize winner and the acclaimed author of My Name is Red. "One of the essential writers that both East and West can gratefully claim as their own.” —The New York Times Book Review In the three decades that Nobel prize-winning author Orhan Pamuk has devoted himself to writing fiction, he has also produced scores of witty, moving, and provocative essays and articles. He engages the work of Nabokov, Kundera, Rushdie, and Vargas Llosa, among others, and he discusses his own books and writing process. We also learn how he lives, as he recounts his successful struggle to quit smoking, describes his relationship with his daughter, and reflects on the controversy he has attracted in recent years. Here is a thoughtful compilation of a brilliant novelist's best nonfiction.
Senest opdateret 19. august
fra 1997 på forlaget Wordsworth Editions
ISBN: 18-5326-189-0
Kategori: Skønlitteratur
pris: 90 kr – stand: ★★★★★★
Vægt: 100 gram
Guy de Maupassant was a master of the short story. This collection displays his lively diversity, with tales that vary in theme and tone, ranging from tragedy and satire to comedy and farce.
Senest opdateret 19. august
fra 2014-06-27 på forlaget Tony Seba
ISBN: 06-9221-053-9
pris: 170 kr – stand: ★★★★★★
The industrial age of energy and transportation will be over by 2030. Maybe before. Exponentially improving technologies such as solar, electric vehicles, and autonomous (self-driving) cars will disrupt and sweep away the energy and transportation industries as we know it. The same Silicon Valley ecosystem that created bit-based technologies that have disrupted atom-based industries is now creating bit- and electron-based technologies that will disrupt atom-based energy industries. Clean Disruption projections (based on technology cost curves, business model innovation as well as product innovation) show that by 2030: - All new energy will be provided by solar or wind. - All new mass-market vehicles will be electric. - All of these vehicles will be autonomous (self-driving) or semi-autonomous. - The new car market will shrink by 80%. - Even assuming that EVs don't kill the gasoline car by 2030, the self-driving car will shrink the new car market by 80%. - Gasoline will be obsolete. Nuclear is already obsolete. - Up to 80% of highways will be redundant. - Up to 80% of parking spaces will be redundant. - The concept of individual car ownership will be obsolete. - The Car Insurance industry will be disrupted. The Stone Age did not end because we ran out of rocks. It ended because a disruptive technology ushered in the Bronze Age. The era of centralized, command-and-control, extraction-resource-based energy sources (oil, gas, coal and nuclear) will not end because we run out of petroleum, natural gas, coal, or uranium. It will end because these energy sources, the business models they employ, and the products that sustain them will be disrupted by superior technologies, product architectures, and business models. This is a technology-based disruption reminiscent of how the cell phone, Internet, and personal computer swept away industries such as landline telephony, publishing, and mainframe computers. Just like those technology disruptions flipped the architecture of information and brought abundant, cheap and participatory information, the clean disruption will flip the architecture of energy and bring abundant, cheap and participatory energy. Just like those previous technology disruptions, the Clean Disruption is inevitable and it will be swift.
Senest opdateret 19. august
fra 2011 på JP Forlag
ISBN: 87-7692-184-0
Kategori: Biografier
pris: 90 kr – stand: ★★★★★★
Vægt: 1100 gram
Storbritanniens tidligere premierminister beretter om sin politiske karriere, fra han blev valgt til leder af Labour i 1994, til han forlod posten som premierminister i 2007
Senest opdateret 19. august
fra 2019-10-29 på forlaget Simon & Schuster
ISBN: 19-8212-025-8
Kategori: Historie:Verden
pris: 170 kr – stand: ★★★★★★
Vægt: 600 gram
Co-founder of The Carlyle Group and patriotic philanthropist David M. Rubenstein takes readers on a sweeping journey across the grand arc of the American story through revealing conversations with our greatest historians. In these lively dialogues, the biggest names in American history explore the subjects they’ve come to so intimately know and understand. — David McCullough on John Adams — Jon Meacham on Thomas Jefferson — Ron Chernow on Alexander Hamilton — Walter Isaacson on Benjamin Franklin — Doris Kearns Goodwin on Abraham Lincoln — A. Scott Berg on Charles Lindbergh — Taylor Branch on Martin Luther King — Robert Caro on Lyndon B. Johnson — Bob Woodward on Richard Nixon —And many others, including a special conversation with Chief Justice John Roberts Through his popular program The David Rubenstein Show, David Rubenstein has established himself as one of our most thoughtful interviewers. Now, in The American Story, David captures the brilliance of our most esteemed historians, as well as the souls of their subjects. The book features introductions by Rubenstein as well a foreword by Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden, the first woman and the first African American to lead our national library. Richly illustrated with archival images from the Library of Congress, the book is destined to become a classic for serious readers of American history. Through these captivating exchanges, these bestselling and Pulitzer Prize–winning authors offer fresh insight on pivotal moments from the Founding Era to the late 20th century.
Senest opdateret 19. august
fra 2005 på forlaget Penguin Books
ISBN: 0-141-02198-5
pris: 120 kr – stand: ★★★★★★
Vægt: 200 gram
A whimsical linguistic tour of foreign words and phrases that do not have precise English-language equivalents includes such entries as the world's longest-known palindrome, the Dutch rendering of the sound of Rice Krispies cereal, and the Bolivian word that means, "I was rather too drunk last night and it's all their fault." 50,000 first printing.
Senest opdateret 19. august
fra 2009 på forlaget HarperCollins UK
ISBN: 00-0731-075-7
pris: 90 kr – stand: ★★★★★★
Vægt: 300 gram
A tale reminiscent of "Hamlet" that also celebrates the alliance between humans and dogs follows speech-disabled Wisconsin youth Edgar, who bonds with three yearling canines and struggles to prove that his sinister uncle is responsible for his father's death.
Senest opdateret 19. august
fra 2010 på forlaget Random House
ISBN: 00-9953-545-9
Kategori: Skønlitteratur
pris: 90 kr – stand: ★★★★★★
Vægt: 400 gram
A tale spanning the end of the Victorian era through World War I finds famous children's book author Olive Wellwood taking in a runaway and exposing the boy to dark truths about her family's summer bacchanals at their rambling country house.
Senest opdateret 19. august
fra 2001 på forlaget Kluwer Avademic Publiahers
ISBN: 1-4020-0131-2
Kategori: Kommunikation
pris: 370 kr – stand: ★★★★★★
Vægt: 500 gram
Hereafter you will find a first: a comprehensive textbook on the communication of sciencein theory and practice! Is there a need for such a textbook? Obviously, yes! Whether you are a scientist, a science journalist, a science teacher, a science museum specialist, a scientific website designer, a science historian, a science entertainer, a member of a scientific society or club, a science tinkerer - there is always a chance that you will be enthusiastic about the job of communicating science, but uncertain about whether you do it well. This book exposes you to the practices of others by reviewing science communication case studies or by inviting you to plunge into the underlying rationale of theoretical approaches to science communication. These are different opportunities for comparing your experience with the practices or reflections of others. The conversation can even be established and furthered with the authors of some of these case studies or of the theories presented in this book by using their website and possibly their email addresses. This book, like a composite, gathers contributions from experts from most of the above mentioned fields. A lot of practices are discussed and they are among the very best practices according to common professional wisdom in the field. Those practices are also reflected upon in an attempt to be somewhat theoretical.
Senest opdateret 19. august
fra 2012
Kategorier: Historie:Europa, Krimi/spænding, Skønlitteratur
pris: 120 kr – stand: ★★★★★★
Vægt: 750 gram
Han gør Londons fortid levende og beskriver byens gader og huse, så de står klart for læseren; samtidig bliver man klogere på Englands fortid. Og hører bl.a. om, hvordan over- og underhuset blev til. Hvordan lavene i London fungerede. Hvordan kvinderne kæmpede for stemmeret o.s.v. Almindeligvis er det personer, som er udgangspunkt for historiske romaner, men når det er Edward Rutherfurd, der fortæller, tager han i stedet for udgangspunkt i et sted. Han har tidligere skrevet om Sarum, Russka og Nyskoven i England, og her har han så kastet sig over London. Historien starter år 54 f. Kr., hvor Julius Cæsar invaderer England. Rutherfurd placerer familien, der bliver forfader til slægten Dogget/Ducket i begivenhedernes centrum, og fortæller gennem dem om Cæsars erobring af England. Så springer historien frem til år 251 e. Kr., hvor England er en romersk provins. Hovedpersonen er Julius, der bliver kaldt duck. Han er forelsket i en gift kvinde, men for at få hende må han have fat i penge, så han bliver involveret i falskmøntneri. En forbrydelse, der straffes med døden. I næste kapitel ryger vi frem til år 604 e. Kr., og nu hører vi om, hvordan kristendommen begynder at blive hovedreligion i England, og sådan springer kapitlerne tidsmæssigt fremad. ”London” er en stor roman, både fysisk og historisk. Sidemæssigt er den på 952 sider, og historisk strækker den sig fra før Kristi fødsel op til i dag. Rutherfurd slår i de enkelte kapitler ned på store og små historiske begivenheder og fortæller dem ud fra almindelige menneskers synspunkt. Han skaber en række slægter, der bruges som fortællere, og det går både op og ned for familierne. AfJette S. F. Holst Det, jeg godt kan lide ved ”London”, er måden Rutherfurd fortæller en god historie på og samtidig gør det til et interessant stykke Englandshistorie. Han gør Londons fortid levende og beskriver byens gader og huse, så de står klart for læseren. Samtidig bliver man klogere på Englands fortid og hører bl.a. om, hvordan over- og underhuset blev til. Hvordan lavene i London fungerede. Hvordan kvinderne kæmpede for stemmeret o.s.v. På grund af længden er ”London” ikke en roman, man lige sluger på en aften. Men den er bestemt ikke kedelig af den grund. Tværtimod synes jeg, det er dejligt at have en roman, man kan vende tilbage til aften efter aften og nyde et par timers godt selskab med. Så er man til en god, tyk, historisk roman, er ”London” bestemt et godt valg.
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