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Set in the near future of 2020, this disconcerting philosophical fantasydepicts an America devastated by a war with China that has left its populace decimated, its government a shambles, … Mehr…

Set in the near future of 2020, this disconcerting philosophical fantasydepicts an America devastated by a war with China that has left its populace decimated, its government a shambles, and its natural resources tainted. The hero is Ben Turnbull, a sixty-six-year-old retired investment counselor, who, like Thoreau, sticks close to home and traces the course of one Massachusetts year in his journal. Something of a science buff, he finds that his disrupted personal history has been warped by the disjunctions and vagaries of the "many-worlds" hypothesis derived from the indeterminacy of quantum theory. His identity branches into variants extending back through the past and forward into the evolution of the universe, as both it and his own mortal, nature-haunted existence move toward the end of time.John Updike was born in 1932, in Shillington, Pennsylvania. He graduated from Harvard College in 1954, and spent a year in Oxford, England, at the Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art. From 1955 to 1957 he was a member of the staff of The New Yorker, and since 1957 lived in Massachusetts. He was the father of four children and the author of more than fifty books, including collections of short stories, poems, essays, and criticism. His novels won the Pulitzer Prize (twice), the National Book Award, the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Rosenthal Award, and the Howells Medal. A previous collection of essays, Hugging the Shore, received the 1983 National Book Critics Circle Award for criticism. John Updike died on January 27, 2009, at the age of 76., Random House Publishing Group, 1998-08-25, 6, Michael O'Mara, 2022. Paperback. New. New softcover in printed wraps. Text is clean and free of marks or underlining. Includes bibliography, index, and b&w photographs. 272 pp. Fast shipping in a secure book box mailer with tracking. From the publisher, "Spend 24 hours with the ancient Athenians. See the city through their eyes as it teeters on the edge of the fateful war that would end its golden age. Athens, 416 BC. A tenuous peace holds. The city-state's political and military might are feared throughout the ancient world; it pushes the boundaries of social, literary and philosophical experimentation in an era when it has a greater concentration of geniuses per capita than at any other time in human history. Yet even geniuses go to the bathroom, argue with their spouse and enjoy a drink with friends. During the course of a day we meet 24 Athenians from all strata of society - from the slave-girl to the councilman, the vase painter to the naval commander, the housewife to the hoplite - and get to know what the real Athens was like by spending an hour in their company. We encounter a different one of these characters every chapter, with each chapter forming an hour in the life of the ancient city. We also get to spy on the daily doings of notable Athenians through the eyes of regular people as the city hovers on the brink of the fateful war that will destroy its golden age., Michael O'Mara, 2022, 6, Harper Collins Publishers (Australia) Pty Ltd, 2010. First Edition. Softcover. Good Condition. First impression. Size: Octavo 8vo (standard book size). 515 pages. Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. No foxing in this copy. Edges browned slightly. This book is currently IN STOCK and would be shipped directly from our Australian address.. One of Australia's most respected journalists turns his unflinching gaze to the big issues that affect us George Negus is one of Australia's most respected journalists. As the host of SBS TV's Dateline, and in his earlier international programs Foreign Correspondent and 60 Minutes, George has traversed the world, meeting and interviewing politicians, philosophers, peace-brokers, philanthropists, presidents, princes and pundits. From Al Gore and Bob Geldof to Mikhail Gorbachev and Colonel Gaddafi, from the Dalai Lama and Desmond Tutu to Naomi Wolf, Richard Branson and Cherie and Tony Blair, the list of Negus interviewees is as varied as it is extraordinary. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: Politics & Government; ISBN: . ISBN/EAN: 9780732276249. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 3815. . 9780732276249, Harper Collins Publishers (Australia) Pty Ltd, 2010, 2.5, Hamburg, Germany: Rowohlt Verlag GmbH, 2008. A5 - A German language edition hardcover book in very good condition with a dust jacket in very good condition. A tight, clean, sound copy in black paper covered boards and a dark brown ribbon marker with very light overall shelf wear with a slight bump to the bottom right corner of the front board. The dust jacket shows very minor overall shelf wear with some very slight overall edge wear and rubbing. Der sechsjährige Sol, die sechsjährige Erra: In wie unterschiedlichen Lebenswelten wachsen sie auf! Sol, verwöhnt, altklug und öfter im Internet unterwegs, als seine gluckenhafte Mutter erfahren darf, lebt in jenem Land, in dem <<Gott mit Bush befreunder ist>>. Erra, das glückliche Mädchen mit der Wunderstimme, das in Trümmern spielt, salutiert noch vor Adolf Hitler. Erra ist Sols Urgrossmutter. Über Generationen sind die beiden verbunden, und dennoch liegt in dieser Genealogie ein unentdecktes Geheimnis verborgen. Was ist etwa mit dem hässlichen Muttermal an Sols Schläfe, das er sich wegoperieren lässt? Was mit dem grenzenlosen Hass seines Vaters? Niemand setzt sich auf dieselbe Weise an den Tisch der Geschichte, und Lüge, Untreue und Verrat bestimmen die Art, wie sie in dieser Familie von Generation zu Generation weitergegeben wird. Es bleibt den aufmerksamen Kindern überlassen, die Brüche und Verwerfungen in den Erzählungen ihrer Eltern zu deuten. Und so mit Hilfe ihrer klaren, nur scheinbar naiven Stimmen, führt uns Nancy Huston über vier Generationen und durch mehrere Kontinente ins Zentrum des diesem Roman zugrundeliegenden Rätsels. <<Ein winziger Makel>> ist ein spannendes, raffiniert und originell konstruiertes Buch, zeitkritisch, politisch, aber auch sehr intim und berührend. Nancy Huston wurde 1953 in Calgary, Kanada, geboren, wuchs in den USA auf. Seit 1973 lebt sie in Paris. Sie ist mit dem Linguisten und Philosophen Tzvetan Todorov verheiratet und hat zwei Kinder. Huston hat zahlreiche Romane und Sachbücher veröffentlicht; für ihr Werk wurde sie in Kanada u.a. mit dem Governor General's Award for Fiction und in Frankreich mit dem Prix Goncourt des Lycéens ausgezeichnet. Für <<Ein winziger Makel>> erhielt sie 2006 den Prix Femina; das Buch war in Frankreich ein Nr.-1-Bestseller. A novel about four generations of a German family and the enduring effects of a dark secret about the family's origins. The novel is organized in reverse chronological order proceeding from 2004 to 1944 and is divided into four sections in which the narration is provided by a child. Like the novel's transition in time, there is an equally broad movement in space with the settings shifting from the West Coast of the United States to the East, from Haifa to Toronto to Munich. The story begins with with the experiences of the gifted six-year-old Sol. He is sheltered by an over-protective mother. Surgery to remove a congenital birthmark goes badly and the extended family travels to great-grandmother's childhood home in Munich. Once there, Sol witnesses a physical struggle between his great-grandmother and his great-aunt which is a trigger to send the narrative thread back through the childhood of Sol's father, his grandmother, and finally his great-grandmother living in 1944 Munich. Nancy Huston was born in 1953 in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. She was written novels and nonfiction in French and English and has made some noted translations of her own works. Huston grew up in Canada, Germany, and the United States. She left Sarah Lawrence College in New York to attend the École des Hautes Études in Paris, where she studied linguistics and semiotics with the French philosopher and critic Roland Barthes. In the 1970s she was active in the women’s movement and went on to teach at Columbia University’s Institute for Feminist Studies in Paris in the 1980s. After Barthes’s death in 1980, Huston decided to remain in France and shifted her work as a writer to the production of novels. She later married the Franco-Bulgarian literary theorist and philosopher Tzvetan Todorov. Her earlier nonfiction works have been somewhat controversial but her fiction has received wide, international critical acclaim. Her first novel, 'Les Variations Goldberg (The Goldberg Variations)', was short-listed for the Prix Femina. In 1993 she was awarded the Governor General’s Award for best French-language novel for 'Cantique des plaines (Plainsong)'. Her later novels include 'Virevolte (Slow Emergencies)', 'L’Empreinte de l’ange (The Mark of the Angel)', and 'Dolce agonia'. She received the Prix Femina a second time, for 'Lignes de faille (Fault Lines)' and it was also shortlisted for the Orange Prize. She has published twelve novels so far and continues to live in Paris with her husband and two children. 5.4"x8.3", 367 pages. Zufriedenheit garantiert (satisfaction guaranteed).. German Language Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall., Rowohlt Verlag GmbH, 2008, 3, U.S.A.: Scholar Select. Reprint . Soft cover. Fine. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. A very crisp and clean used copy; almost new and unread condition; gift quality! Red and black wrapper with white lettering. 48 very clean unmarked and uncreased informative and historical pages nicely enhanced by black and white illustrations! "They were then at war with the powerful and dreaded Senecas - whom Lawson styles Sinnagers. While he was at the Sapona town, some of the Toteras warriors came to visit their allies. Lawson was struck with their appearance. He describes them, In his quaint idiom, as 'tall, likely men, having great plenty of buffaloes, elks and bears, with every sort of deer, amongst them, which strong food makes large, robust bodies.' In another place he adds: 'These five nations of the Toteros, Saponas, Kelauwees, Aconechos and Scholoories are lately come amongst us, and may contain in all about 730 men, women and children.........., Scholar Select, 5, United States: Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1985. First American Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Firmly bound and clean black boards, no writing inside. Browning on back end paper. Light handling wear on the jacket, mostly on the corners and along the top edge, including a very small tear on the top front edge Numbers are printed inside, 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1. The first printing of the first United States edition., Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1985, 2.75, UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.[Complete number line 1 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2.] FINE/FINE.No owner inscrptn and no price-clip (£14.99) to dw/dj.Bright, crisp,clean,glossy laminated,colour photographic illustrated front panel of dw/dj,with red+white lettering,critics' reviews of author's last previously published title 'A Philosophical Investigation' to rear panel; with negligible shelf-wear and creasing to edges and corners - no major nicks or tears present.Top+fore-edges very lightly toned but clean: contents bright, tight,clean,solid and sound - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners, appears unread - apart from my own collation.Bright,crisp, generally clean - rear board with 3 spots/splashes,sharp-cornered, publisher's original plain black cloth boards with bright,crisp,stamped gilt letters to spine/backstrip and immaculate plain white endpapers.UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,1-243pp [paginated] includes 25 chapters; plus [unpaginated] half-title+title pages,a dedication,acknowledgements,an epigram and 2pp blanks at the rear. In the new St Petersburg everyone is driven: by hunger,by fear,by greed. The state shops are empty and among struggling private enterprise organised crime is flourishing.An investigator from Moscow is sent by the overstretched militia to learn more about the burgeoning Russian mafia. No one knows more about the subject than detective Yevgeni Ivanovich Grushko: determined and laconic,he pursues the mafia with a single-mindedness verging on obsession.A Molotov cocktail is thrown through the window of a fancy restaurant.Grushko is suspicious when he finds its cold room stacked high with prime cuts of meat.Mikhail Milyukin,a prominent investigative journalist,is found in a car left in a forest,a neat bullet wound in the back of his head.In the boot lies a Georgian gangster, his mouth shot to pieces in gruesome admonition.As Grushko investigates Milyukin's murder,a bloody and brutal war breaks out between the gangster factions,but this does not explain all the loose threads.Why had the Department tapped Milyukin's phone? Why had Milyukin tried to hire a bodyguard two days before his death? Why was a pimp,whom Milyukin had helped put in the zone,let out after serving only half his sentence,and why was Milyukin's widow holding out on them? As Grushko and the investigator unravel a tangled web of deviousness and brUtality,they reveal a truth which is far more disturbing than anything they had imagined,and whose consequences threaten even Grushko's own family.'Dead Meat',Philip Kerr's gripping and tense new thriller,gives a fascinating insight into the dark side of life in the new Russia. Since April 2013,again in March 2015,and in this year too,the UK Post Office has altered it's Pricing in Proportion template,altering it's prices, weight allowances,dimensions and lowered it's qualifying compensation rates too!So,please contact rpaxtonden@blueyonder.co.uk ,for correct shipping/ P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page!, LONDON.CHATTO & WINDUS LTD.,1993., 5, Harper Collins., 2009. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 1st ed 1st printing 2009 NOT 2008 as stated elsewhere which is copyright date. Fine other than light label abrasion to front end paper, jacket immaculate and very clean throughout., Harper Collins., 2009, 5, 1843. The history of Northumberland and Montour Counties in Pennsylvania, is recalled through a mixture of colorful tales and factual data in this New 54 Page Booklet, reprinted primarily from four hard-to-find vintage books. The spiral-bound booklet is printed one-sided on 60# paper, with the print size adjusted to fit 8 1/2 x 11 paper. A vinyl sheet protects the front cover. Source books include: Historical Collections of the State of Pennsylvania (1843) by Sherman Day; An Illustrated History of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania (1876) by William Egle, M.D.; Pennsylvania, a Guide to the Keystone State compiled by WPA writers; and My Pennsylvania, a 1946 project of the Bureau of Publications, Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. (Some Information may be repeated in various excerpts, but often with a different slant or with additional details.) The communities mentioned include: Centralia, Danville, Exchange, Fishers Ferry, Georgetown, Herndon, Kulpmount, Limestoneville, Mausdale, McCunesville, McEwensville, Milton (formerly Milltown), Mooresburg, Mt. Carmel, Northumberland, Paxinos, Shamokin, Snyderstown, Sunbury, Washingtonville, Watsonburg, Weigh Scales, and White Hall. The Day and Egle histories cover the early development of this area, while excerpts from the WPA book, give a nostalgic glimpse from a 1940 vantage point, including interesting historical notes, especially as they relate to sightseeing possibilities. There is occasionally some duplication of material, but often with a different slant or with additional details. Among the many and diverse subjects in the booklet are: First Settlers; Physical Features; Transportation Improvements; Chief Shikellimus, father of Logan and friend of the missionaries, Rev. David Brainerd, Count Zinzendorf, Bishop Johannes Von Watteville and other missionaries; Madame Montour; Indian atrocities; the Committee of Safety of Northumberland during the Revolutionary War; the Shamokin Coal and Iron Co.; Dr. Joseph Priestley, the distinguished scientist and philosopher; Recollections of the venerable Mrs. Grant and of an early French visitor to the area; Fort Augusta; the Capture of and Freelands Fort; Doctor Plunketts Expedition; Whiskey Rebellion incident; Duel in 1805; Captain Daniel Montgomery and family; Iron Foundries in Danville; State Hospital for the Insane; Coal Dredging in the Susquehanna; Thomas Edisons light plant in Sunbury; Pathetic legend of John Penn and Mary Cox; Coal Bootlegging, snake pie, a wife worth having; and other interesting bits of history and trivia. The recently added excerpt from the third book includes a 1940s map of the county, several photos and a concise update of the county's progress as it looked shortly after World War II. ILLUSTRATIONS include Public Square in Sunbury; Distant View of Northumberland; Churches in Milton; On the Susquehanna, above Milton; the Susquehanna Junction at Northumberland (full page); Montour Court House in Danville; and the State Hospital for the Insane, Danville. . Limited Edition Reprint. Spiral/Comb . New/No Jacket. 8.5" x 11". Private Press., 1843, 6, ISBN: 9781848132788Bloomsbury Publishing PLC | 15 April 2009Paperback | 272 pagesDescriptionRefusing to take part in war is as old as war itself. This wide-ranging and original book brings together four different bodies of knowledge to examine the practice of conscientious objection: historical and philosophical analyses of conscientious objection as a critique of compulsory military service and militarization; feminist, LGBT and queer analyses of conscientious objection as a critique of patriarchy, sexism, and heterosexism; activist and academic analyses of conscientious objection as a social movement and individual act of resistance; legal analyses of the status of conscientious objection in international and national law.Conscientious objection is an increasingly important subject of academic and political debate in countries including the US, Israel and Turkey. This book provides a much needed introduction and tool for making sense of the history of nation-states in the 20th century and understanding the political developments of the early 21st century., 0, London: HarperCollins, 2001 0002571234. Hardback. First Edition. First Printing. Fine/Fine. Like new. Collectible. DW is not price-clipped. No inscriptions or annotations. 706 pages plus many extra pages of B/W plates. (736 pages in all.) Detailed index. Conradi's book was well received. John Updike commented: "There would be no need to complain of literary biographies [...] if they were all as good." Dame Iris Murdoch has played a major role in English life and letters for nearly half a century. As A.S.Byatt notes, she is ‘absolutely central to our culture’. As a novelist, as a thinker, and as a private individual, her life has significance for our age. There is a recognizable Murdoch world, and the adjective ‘Murdochian’ has entered the language to describe situations where a small group of people interract intricately and strangely. Her story is as emotionally fascinating as that of Virginia Woolf, but far less well-known; hers has been an adventurous, highly eventful life, a life of phenomenal emotional and intellectual pressures, and her books portray a real world which is if anything toned down as well as mythicised. For Iris’s formative years, astonishingly, movingly and intimately documented by Conradi’s meticulous research, were spent among the leading European and British intellectuals who fought and endured the Second World War, and her life like her books was full of the most extraordinary passions and profound relationships with some of the most inspiring and influential thinkers,artists, writers and poets of that turbulent time and after. A full and revealing biography of one of the century’s greatest English writers and an icon to a generation."In Iris: A Memoir, Iris Murdoch's husband, John Bayley, charted in tender if often terrifying detail the writer and philosopher's final years battling against Alzheimer's Disease. Rather than duplicate Bayley, Peter Conradi's extensive and scholarly biography, Iris Murdoch: A Life, wisely devotes the majority of its attention to exploring Murdoch's formative years. Conradi, a close friend whose dog was immortalised in one of Murdoch's novels, occasionally gets bogged down in minutiae... On the whole though his painstaking attention to detail pays immense dividends; reminding us of the sheer inventiveness of Murdoch's work revealing that her life was if anything "more improbably packed with strange coincidences than her plots". Born into an unorthodox Irish Protestant family, she never lost her sense of being an outsider in England -- a theme meditated upon in several of her finest novels. At Oxford University just before the Second World War she was a dedicated member of the Communist Party and an avowed bohemian. Stalin and a wartime spell in the civil service dimmed her commitment to Communism (in the 1980s she even voted Conservative) but she always remained a "free spirit". One former lover described her as being "monumentally unfaithful" and throughout her adult life she conducted numerous affairs with men and women. If her fictions sometimes presented interrelations of almost Shakespearean complexity, Murdoch's own trysts with Nobel Prizewinner Elias Canetti, the novelist Brigid Brophy and the philosopher Philippa Foot were no less dramatic. Later she praised monogamy, attacking the very promiscuity of her youth. Conradi acknowledges rather than condemns Murdoch's contradictions, presenting us with a fallible, mercurial human being -- the inspiring college lecturer who was sometimes too wrapped up in her own problems to teach; the advocate of tolerance who could be censorious; the existentialist who questioned freedom as a value in morals and the novelist who sought critical approval and yet was nauseated by praise" --Travis Elborough. ., London: HarperCollins, 2001 0002571234, 0, **Retro copy- Lao Tzu's Tao Te Ching:, or Book of the Way -A New English Version PB June, 1991 by Stephen Mitchell - Perennial classics -- elegant, two-color, pocket-size edition of the bestselling spiritual classic in its finest,Offers the essence of each word and makes Lao Tsu's teaching immediate and alive., In eighty-one brief chapters, Lao-tzu's Tao Te Ching, or Book of the Way, provides advice that imparts balance and perspective, a serene and generous spirit, and teaches us how to work for the good with the effortless skill that comes from being in accord with the Taothe basic principle of the universe. Laozi was a philosopher and poet of ancient China. He is best known as the reputed author of the Tao Te Ching and the founder of philosophical Taoism, but he is also revered as a deity in religious Taoism and traditional Chinese religions. Although a legendary figure, he is usually dated to around the 6th century BC and seen as a contemporary of Confucius, but some historians contend that he actually lived during the Warring States period of the 5th or 4th century BC. Laozi is traditionally regarded as the author of the Daodejing (Tao Te Ching). It is one of the most significant treatises in Chinese cosmogony. As with most other ancient Chinese philosophers, Laozi often explains his ideas by way of paradox, analogy, appropriation of ancient sayings, repetition, symmetry, and rhyme. ... Lao Tzu's Tao Te Ching:, or Book of the Way -A New English Version PB June, 1991 - reprint- Publisher: Harpercollins - Perennial- (June 1991) Contributor Stephen Mitchell -111 pages- about 0.5 x 4.5 x 7.5 in. ISBN-: 0060916087, 9780060916084, - Ruth Reaser..LAX Vespa, Los Angeles Culver City- maybe this will do it!-At least you know what you're getting into-City-Media Mail USPS-you get the copy you were viewing carefully Drop kick-packed to protect it - in - transit.... 7 Days Coast to Coast, quicker if you're closer... Tao Ching 5391 PB SHLB 8, Harper Perennial, 2.5<

ISBN: 9780060916084

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