From award-winning author R. F. Kuang comes Babel, a thematic response to The Secret History and a tonal retort to Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell that grapples with student revolutions, colonial resistance, and the use of language and translation as the dominating tool of the British empire.Traduttore, traditore: An act of translation is always an act of betrayal.1828. Robin Swift, orphaned by cholera in Canton, is brought to London by the mysterious Professor Lovell. There, he trains for years in Latin, Ancient Greek, and Chinese, all in preparation for the day he'll enroll in Oxford University's prestigious Royal Institute of Translation-also known as Babel.Babel is the world's center for translation and, more importantly, magic. Silver working-the art of manifesting the meaning lost in translation using enchanted silver bars-has made the British unparalleled in power, as its knowledge serves the Empire's quest for colonization.For Robin, Oxford is a utopia dedicated to the pursuit of knowledge. But knowledge obeys power, and as a Chinese boy raised in Britain, Robin realizes serving Babel means betraying his motherland. As his studies progress, Robin finds himself caught between Babel and the shadowy Hermes Society, an organization dedicated to stopping imperial expansion. When Britain pursues an unjust war with China over silver and opium, Robin must decide...Can powerful institutions be changed from within, or does revolution always require violence?
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Engánchate al fenómeno Valeria.Te vas a enamorar!Valeria es escritora de historias de amor.Valeria vive el amor de forma sublime.Valeria tiene tres amigas: Nerea, Carmen y Lola.Valeria vive en Madrid.Valeria ama a Adrián hasta que conoce a Víctor.Valeria necesita sincerarse consigo misma.Valeria llora, Valeria ríe, Valeria camina...Pero el sexo, el amor y los hombres no son objetivos fáciles.Valeria es especial.Como tú.En los zapatos de Valeria se autopublicó en Amazon y en pocotiempo conquistó a cientos de lectores y se situó en los primerospuestos de la lista de más vendidos de ficción. Altamente divertida,emotiva y sensual, Valeria llega para conquistar a aquellos lectoresque se enamoraron con Federico Moccia o Blue Jeans y que ahora quieren algo más.La crítica y los bloggers han dicho...«Divertida, sensual, tierna [...]. Una oportunidad de descubrir elamor y so?ar con la vida que cada una nos merecemos.»Revista AR«No sé cómo me ha secuestrado Benavent pero exijo un dueloal amanecer por las horas que me ha robado o, en su defecto, lassiguientes peripecias de estas mujeres.»Mideclipse.com«Está siendo un fenómeno literario [...]. Es divertida,fresca, adictiva, tierna, pasional... lo tiene todo.»Blog Inés y sus libros«Encontraréis elementos que harán la novelairresistible. Hay amor, pasión, erotismo [...], también habrásituaciones de mucho humor.»Blog Promesas de amor«Sentiremos en nuestras carnes las vidas de lascuatro mujeres que campan a sus anchas por las páginas y nos veremosidentificados: nos reiremos porque todos hemos cometido alguna de lasestupideces que nos propone Elísabet Benavent, se nos encogerá el pu?o cuando veamos lo que sufren las protagonistas, y cerraremos el libroesperando mucho más de estas cuatro amigas que luchan entre la jauríamadrile?a para ser felices, para labrarse un futuro, y para sentirseellas mismas, incluso cuando la vida es tan pu?etera que parece que no hay salida.»Librosyliteratura.es«Este es un libro muy fresco, divertido, rápido de leer y que te deja con ganas de más. [...] Un libro que me hasorprendido.»Blog Cazadoras del romance«En los zapatos de Valeria ha sido toda unarevelación, una novela muy entretenida, fresca, aparentementedivertida pero que guarda muchísimos sentimientos y escenas tancercanas que cualquiera de nosotras podría sentirse identificada.»Blog Paisajes románticos«Un libro fresco, moderno, divertido,entretenido y ameno que nos hará pasar un momento estupendo entre suspáginas.»Blog Momentos de silencio compartido«En los zapatos de Valeria es unode los libros más entretenidos que he leído en los últimos meses.Enganchada, es ameno y de fácil lectur
Die Geschichte von »Der Junge im gestreiften Pyjama« ist schwer zu beschreiben. Normalerweise geben wir an dieser Stelle ein paar Hinweise auf den Inhalt, aber bei diesem Buch - so glauben wir - ist es besser, wenn man vorher nicht weiß, worum es geht. Wer zu lesen beginnt, begibt sich auf eine Reise mit einem neunjährigen Jungen namens Bruno. (Und doch ist es kein Buch für Neunjährige.) Früher oder später kommt er mit Bruno an einen Zaun. Zäune wie dieser existieren auf der ganzen Welt.Preise und Auszeichnungen für »Der Junge im gestreiften Pyjama«:Nominiert für den Deutschen Jugendliteraturpreis 2008 (Jugendjury)Buch des Monats Dezember 2007 der Deutschen Akademie für Kinder- und Jugendliteratur e.V., VolkachEmpfehlungsliste des Katholischen Kinder- und Jugendbuchpreises 2008Ausgezeichnet als Penguin Orange Readers' Group Book of the Year 2009Ausgezeichnet mit dem Irish Book Award: Bestes Kinderbuch des JahresAusgezeichnet mit dem Listener's Choice Book of the Year: Bestes Hörbuch des Jahres (UK)Nominiert für die Carnegie Medal (UK)Nominiert für den Ottakar's Book Prize (UK)Nominiert für den Paolo Ungari Prize (Italien)
The first part of a new Clone Wars duet features a group of embattled medics on the planet Drongar who struggle to save lives in the midst of the devastating conflict around them. Original.
Fed Up With Illness? Now You Can Overcome It With This Lifesaving Nutritional Program Cancer. Hepatitis. Migraines. Arthritis. Heart Disease. Emphysema. For years, the medical establishment has called these chronic or life-threatening diseases "incu
Milton H. Erickson has been called the most influential hypnotherapist of our time. Part of his therapy was his use of teaching tales, which through shock, surprise, or confusion with genius use of questions, puns, and playful humor helped people to see their situations in a new way. In this book Sidney Rosen has collected over one hundred of the tales. Presented verbatim and accompanied by Dr. Rosen's commentary, they are grouped under such headings as Motivating Tales, Reframing, and Capturing the Innocent Eye."
Epictetus observed that although everyday life is fraught with difficulty, a life of virtue is within reach. By putting into practice the 93 witty, wise, and razor-sharp instructions, this work helps readers learn to gracefully meet the challenges of everyday life as well as life's inevitable major losses and disappointments.
Written by an anonymous figure who wished for the book to be published posthumously, "Meditations on the Tarot" is a timely contribution toward the rediscovery and renewal of the Christian contemplative tradition of the Fathers of the Church and the High Middle Ages.
Now in its seventh edition, Wheelock's Latin retains its signature core of authentic Latin readings, taken not only from classical literature, drama, and poetry, but also from inscriptions, artifacts, and even graffiti showing the ancient Romans' everyday use of Latin: Latin as a living language.
Bushnell's "New York Times" bestseller that launched the HBO series that became a cultural phenomenon celebrates it's tenth anniversary and is now available in mass-market paperback.
Wander into the immersive illustrated universe of Beatrice Blue. Filled with playful characters, enchanting natural scenery, and captivating narratives, Beatrice's designs will appeal to everyone's inner child. Her fantastic use of vibrant color and lumino
Philip Kotler's name is synonymous with marketing. His textbooks have sold more than 3 million copies in 20 languages and are read as the marketing gospel in 58 countries. Now Kotler on Marketing offers his long-awaited, essential guide to marketing
September 8, 1900, began innocently in the seaside town of Galveston, Texas. Even Isaac Cline, resident meteorologist for the U.S. Weather Bureau, failed to grasp the true meaning of the strange deep-sea swells and peculiar winds that greeted the city that morning. Mere hours later, Galveston found itself submerged by a monster hurricane that completely destroyed the town and killed over 6,000 people in what remains the greatest natural disaster in American history -- and Isaac Cline found himself the victim of a devastating personal tragedy.Using Cline's own telegrams, letters, and reports, the testimony of scores of survivors, and our latest understanding of the science of hurricanes, Erik Larson builds a chronicle of one man's heroic struggle and fatal miscalculation in the face of a storm of unimaginable magnitude. Thrilling, powerful, and unrelentingly suspenseful, Isaac's Storm is the story of what can happen when human arrogance meets the uncontrollable force of nature.
A celebrated return of Robert Frank’s seminal photobook, The Americans, to Aperture's catalog—one of the most important bodies of photographic work ever made In the nearly seven decades since its publication in France in 1958, and in the United States in 1959, Robert Frank’s The Americans has become one of the most influential and enduring works of American photography. Through eighty-three photographs taken across the country, Frank unveiled an America that had gone previously unacknowledged—confronting its people with an underbelly of racial inequality, corruption and injustice, and the stark reality of the American Dream. Frank’s point of view—at once startling and tenacious—is imbued with humanity and lyricism, painting a poignant and incomparable portrait of the nation at a turning point in history. This edition of The Americans is a celebrated return of an iconic title to Aperture’s catalog, more than a half-century after the Aperture and Museum of Modern Art edition was published in 1968. Presented on the centennial of Frank’s birth and a major exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art, it has been produced following the finest tritone printing from the 2008 edition for which Frank was personally involved in every step of the design and production. Frank’s exacting vision, distinct style, and poetic insight changed the course of twentieth-century photography, and influenced subsequent generations of photographers, including Lee Friedlander, Nan Goldin, Danny Lyon, Joel Meyerowitz, Ed Ruscha, and Gary Winogrand. Now extolled as one of the most groundbreaking photobooks of all time, The Americans remains as powerful and provocative as it was upon publication and continues to resonate with audiences today.
With over 11 million copies in print, What to Expect: The First Year, now in a completely revised third edition, is the world's best-selling, best-loved guide to the instructions that babies don't come with, but should.
Ferenc Molnár (1878-1952) is perhaps best known in the world for his brilliant drawing room comedies such as The Swan and The Guardsman. But in Hungary it was his novel for young people, The Paul Street Boys (1907), which insured his lasting popularity. Translated into English in 1927 and here updated, the novel about two gangs of boys fighting a war for a piece of land, a derelict building site which to them is a cherished symbol of freedom, is still the same fascinating story it was nearly a century ago. "At the time Ferenc Molnár wrote The Paul Street Boys, Cooper's Indian war-stories were extremely popular in Hungary and there is the flavour of their morality in this book," writes Mátyás Sárközi, Molnár's grandson, in his Preface to the present edition. "There are examples of good camaraderie, loyalty, idealism, but Molnár always manages to save himself from being just a shade too sentimental. Like Mark Twain he has the wit and the good writer's sense to mix the grotesque with the pathetic." A true world classic of its kind, The Paul Street Boys, which has been out of print for decades, is a juvenile classic that has lost none of its magic.
Language: English, Binding: Paperback, Number of pages: 824, Publishers: Amazon Digital Services LLC - Kdp, Author: Saint Nikodemos Of the Holy Mountain, ISBN-13: 9798300328849, Date of issue: 2024
Language: English, Binding: Paperback, Number of pages: 96, Publishers: Scholastic, Author: Brianna C. Walsh, ISBN-13: 9781339013985, Date of issue: 2023
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The Art of Persuasion teaches you how to get what you want when you want it. You would love to have that ability, right? After studying some of the most successful men and women in modern history, author Bob Burg noticed how many comm
Technical English 2e is a four-level course for students in technical or vocational education, and for company employees in training at work. It covers the core language and skills that students need to communicate successfully in all technical and indust
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