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A First Course in Quantitative Finance
Tootekood: A30267686 GTIN: 9781108411431 Majandus, rahandus, äri ja juhtimine
This new and exciting book offers a fresh approach to quantitative finance and utilises novel features, including stereoscopic images which permit 3D visualisation of complex subjects without the need for additional tools. Offering an integrated approach to the subject, A First Course in Quantitative Finance introduces students to the architecture of complete financial markets before exploring the concepts and models of modern portfolio theory, derivative pricing and fixed income products in both complete and incomplete market settings. Subjects are organised throughout in a way that encourages a gradual and parallel learning process of both the economic concepts and their mathematical descriptions, framed by additional perspectives from classical utility theory, financial economics and behavioural finance. Suitable for postgraduate students studying courses in quantitative finance, financial engineering and financial econometrics as part of an economics, finance, econometric or mathematics program, this book contains all necessary theoretical and mathematical concepts and numerical methods, as well as the necessary programming code for porting algorithms onto a computer.
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71,68 €
A First Course in String Theory
Tootekood: A5881557 GTIN: 9780521880329 Matemaatika ja teadus
Zwiebach is once again faithful to his goal of making string theory accessible to undergraduates. This text now includes AdS/CFT correspondence, as well introducing superstrings. With almost 300 problems and exercises it is perfectly suited for introductory courses for students with a background in physics.
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87,74 €
A First Harvest
Tootekood: A64280212 GTIN: 9781966848219 Books
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A First Harvest
Tootekood: A64280550 GTIN: 9781966848196 Books
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22,76 €
A First Time for Everything
Tootekood: A49805173 GTIN: 9781464245268 Laste, teismeliste ja hariduslik
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8,90 €
A First-Rate Madness: Uncovering the Links Between Leadership and Mental Illness
Tootekood: A18884550 GTIN: 9780143121336 Ühiskond ja sotsiaalteadused
The New York Times bestseller"Ghaemi isn't the first to claim that madness is a close relative of genius, or even the first to extend this idea into politics. But he does go further than others...His explanations are elegant, too - intuitively accurate and banked off the latest psychiatric research." -NewsweekHistorians have long puzzled over the apparent mental instability of great and terrible leaders alike: Napoleon, Lincoln, Churchill, Hitler, and others. In A First-Rate Madness, Nassir Ghaemi, director of the Mood Disorders Program at Tufts Medical Center, offers a myth-shattering exploration of the powerful connections between mental illness and leadership and sets forth a controversial, compelling thesis: The very qualities that mark those with mood disorders also make for the best leaders in times of crisis. From the importance of Lincoln's "depressive realism" to the lackluster leadership of exceedingly sane men as Neville Chamberlain, A First-Rate Madness overturns many of our most cherished perceptions about greatness and the mind.
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20,06 €
A Fish Like Me
Tootekood: A62676684 GTIN: 9781665942577 Books
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17,08 €
A Fishboy Named . . . Sashimi
Tootekood: A50978383 GTIN: 9781250360007 Books
From bestseller Dan Santat comes a hilarious new graphic novel series starring a creature with the head of a fish, the body of a boy, and the chance to have the best adventure ever!In the town of Barnacle Bay, a creature lurks. He's come from the ocean, in search of others like him. He is... A FISH BOY NAMED SASHIMI!To fit in with humans, Sashimi sneaks into an elementary school and pretends to be a student. But he's clearly a fish out of water!When Sashimi finds out the whole town is on the hunt for the Beast of Barnacle Bay-a creature who sounds a lot like Sashimi-hijinks ensue! Fortunately, with the help of a new friend and the class goldfish, Sashimi figures out a way to stay afloat.
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7,36 €
A Fisherman of the Inland Sea
Tootekood: A47054217 GTIN: 9781399620291 Ilukirjandus ja sellega seotud esemed
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10,07 €
A Flag Worth Dying for: The Power and Politics of National Symbols
Tootekood: A31056236 GTIN: 9781501168345 Books
Originally published under title: Worth dying for. London: Elliot and Thompson, 2016.
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18,58 €
A Flame Among the Seas
Tootekood: A65518094 GTIN: 9798988896890 Books
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33,37 €
A Flat Place
Tootekood: A47946728 GTIN: 9780241994337 Ajalugu ja arheoloogia
A surprising and lyrical journey—part memoir, part nature book—meditating on the meaning of "flatness" and its literary tradition to find ways to understand ourselves and our trauma in one of nature’s most undervalued wonders.Does the concept of "flat" have an undeservedly bad rap? There are centuries’ worth of adoration for rolling hills and dramatic, mountainous landscapes. In contrast, flat landscapes are forgettable and seemingly unworthy of poetic or artistic attention.Noreen Masud suffers from complex post-traumatic stress the product of a profoundly disrupted and unstable childhood. It flattens her emotions, blanks out parts of her memory, and colours her world with anxiety. Undertaking a pilgrimage around Britain's flatlands, seeking solace and belonging, she weaves her impressions of the natural world with poetry, folklore and history, and with recollections of her own early life.Masud's British-Pakistani heritage makes her a partial outsider in these both coloniser and colonised, inheritor and dispossessed. Here violence lies beneath the fantasy of pastoral innocence, and histories of harm are interwoven with nature's power to heal. Here, as in her own family history, are many stories that resist the telling. She pursues these paradoxes fearlessly across the flat, haunted spaces she loves, offering a startlingly strange, vivid and intimate account of the land beneath her feet.Masud combines memoir, nature writing, and literary reflection to explore what can be drawn from these powerful places, and to understand her own experience of complex trauma and post-traumatic stress, as well as grief and loss. A Flat Place is a book that drives to the heart of what it means to experience place — bodily and psychologically — and the healing properties of literature and landscape.
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11,99 €
A Fleeting Moment in My Country: The Last Years of the LTTE De-Facto State
Tootekood: A20149787 GTIN: 9780984525546 Ajalugu ja arheoloogia
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21,31 €
A Flicker in the Dark
Tootekood: A42694369 GTIN: 9780008454487 Ilukirjandus ja sellega seotud esemed
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10,45 €
A Floating World. Movement and Impermanence in Japanese Art: Museum Angewandte Kunst
Tootekood: A50731501 GTIN: 9783753307145 Kunst
Weathered, Centuries-old Wooden Sculptures. A Broken Tea Bowl, Repaired With Gold Lacquer. Hokusai's Great Wave: An Archetypal Expression Of Beauty And Mortal Danger. All These Elements Are Found In A Floating World, Accompanying A 2025 Exhibition At The Museum Angewandte Kunst In Frankfurt, Germany. Priceless Items Held By The Museum Are Complemented By The Works Of Contemporary Artists, Portraying Japan As A Nation That Has Created A Unique Aesthetic Language Of The Ephemeral. In A Place Where Earthquakes, Tsunamis And Human-made Catastrophes Can Snatch Away Life At Any Moment, An Art Flourishes That Is In Constant Awareness Of The Precious Fragility Of Our Existence--in A Breathtakingly Beautiful, Quiet And Fascinating Celebration Of Transience. Also In This Stunning Volume Are Images Depicting Human Life With And On The Water, Cherry Blossom Festivals And Courtly Butterfly Dances. Stephan Von Der Schulenburg. On The Occasion Of An Exhibition Held At Museum Angewandte Kunst, Frankfurt Am Main, January 31 -april 27, 2025. Includes Bibliographical References.
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26,06 €
A Flower Traveled in My Blood: The Incredible True Story of the Grandmothers Who Fought to Find a Stolen Generation of Children
Tootekood: A50057411 GTIN: 9781668017142 Books
For readers of Say Nothing and The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, the epic true story of the Abuelas de Plaza de Mayo—grandmothers who fought to find their stolen grandchildren during Argentina’s brutal dictatorship.In the early hours of March 24th, 1976, the streets of Buenos Aires rumbled with tanks as soldiers seized the presidential palace and toppled Argentina’s leader. The country was now under the control of a military junta, with army chief Jorge Rafael Videla at the helm. With quiet support from the United States and tacit approval from Argentina’s people, who were tired of constant bombings and gunfights, the junta swiftly launched the National Reorganization Process or El Proceso—a bland name masking their ruthless campaign to crush the political left and instill the country with “Western, Christian” values. The junta held power until 1983 and decimated a generation. One of the military’s most diabolical acts was disappearing hundreds of pregnant women. Patricia Roisinblit was among them, a mother and leftist revolutionary labeled “subversive” and abducted while eight months pregnant with her second child. She gave birth in captivity, making one last call to her mother, Rosa, before she was never heard from again. Her newborn son was one of hundreds of babies secretly given to other families, many of them headed by police or military officers. For Rosa and other mothers of pregnant daughters and daughters-in-law, their grief was twofold—the disappearances of their children, and the theft of their grandchildren. A group of fierce grandmothers formed the Abuelas de Plaza de Mayo, dedicated to finding the stolen infants and seeking justice from a nation that betrayed them. A Flower Traveled in My Blood is Rosa and the Abuelas’ extraordinary story, told by a journalist with unique access. With authority and compassion, Haley Cohen Gilliland brings this tale to life, tracing the lives of young mother Patricia, grandmother Rosa, and stolen newborn, Guillermo. At a time when speaking out meant death, the Abuelas confronted military officers and launched protests to reach international diplomats and journalists. They became detectives, adopting disguises to see suspected grandchildren, and even working alongside an American scientist to pioneer groundbreaking genetics tests. A compelling mystery and deeply researched account of a pivotal era in world history, A Flower Traveled in My Blood takes readers on a journey of love, resilience, and redemption, revealing new truths about memory, identity, and family.
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A FOOD LOVE STORY
Tootekood: A64849527 GTIN: 9781776195169 Elustiil, hobid ja vaba aeg
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A Fool's Kabbalah
Tootekood: A49179106 GTIN: 9781685891657 Ilukirjandus ja sellega seotud esemed
In the ruins of postwar Europe, the world's leading expert on the Kabbalah and Jewish mysticism goes on a hair-raising journey to recover sacred books stolen by the Nazis . . .At the end of the Second World War Gershom Scholem, the magisterial scholar of Jewish mysticism, is commissioned by the Hebrew University in what was then British-ruled Palestine to retrieve a lost world. He is sent to sift through the rubble of Europe in search of precious Jewish books stolen by the Nazis or hidden by the Jews themselves in secret places throughout the ravaged continent.The search takes him into ruined cities and alien wastelands. The terrible irony of salvaging books that had outlasted the people for whom they’d been written leaves Dr. Scholem longing for the kind of magic that had been the merely theoretical subject of his lamplit studies.Steve Stern's A Fool’s Kabbalah, a novel featuring numerous real-life historic figures, reimagines Gershom Scholem’s quest and how it sparked in him the desire to realize the legacy of his dear friend, the brilliant philosopher Walter Benjamin.At the heart of that legacy was the idea that humor is an essential tool of redemption. In a parallel narrative, Menke Klepfisch, self-styled jester and incorrigible scamp, attempts to subvert, through his antic behavior, the cruelties of the Nazi occupation of his native village.As Menke’s efforts collide with the monstrous reality of the Holocaust, we see—in another place and time--evidence that Dr. Scholem, in defiance of his austere reputation, has begun to develop the anarchic characteristics of a clown.A Fool’s Kabbalah intertwines the stories of these 2 quixotic characters, who, though poles apart, complement one another in their tragicomic struggles to oppose the supreme evil of history, using only the weapons of humor and a little magic.
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15,09 €
A Football Odyssey: Passion, Politics & the Beautiful Game
Tootekood: A64240634 GTIN: 9781915693525 Sport ja aktiivne vaba aeg
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20,89 €
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A Forager's Guide to Wild Drinks: Ferments, infusions and thirst-quenchers for every season
Tootekood: A48517802 GTIN: 9781837760138 Elustiil, hobid ja vaba aeg
Brew up your own delicious and nutritious drinks from foraged wild plants and enjoy them throughout the year with this beautiful and practical bookAn illustrated guide to wild ingredient-based drinks featuring 100 plants to forage, where to find them, which parts to safely use, an overview of their uses in drinks, and delicious recipes. The book celebrates year-round foraging and feasting, from soothing winter warmers and delicate botanical teas to energy-boosting tonics and zingy summer coolers. Liz’s expertise and enthusiasm are truly infectious, and her readers will soon be happily gathering their own wild harvest. She includes step-by-step instructions for the basic processes for making 11 types of drinks, including wines, beers, ciders, kombuchas, teas, coffees, juices, tinctures, and tonics.
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28,00 €
A Forbidden Alchemy
Tootekood: A50044224 GTIN: 9781398546912 Ilukirjandus ja sellega seotud esemed
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A Forbidden Alchemy
Tootekood: A63370155 GTIN: 9781398537323 Ilukirjandus ja sellega seotud esemed
'This book is a pressure-cooked vial crafted with perfect romantic tension and pure gangster-style grit ... I loved every chapter' RAVEN KENNEDY, Sunday Times bestselling author of the Plated Prisoner series. Australian BookTok star Stacey McEwan's stunning new slow-burn romantasy duology traces a fated pair who stumble upon a world-changing secret in youth and are catapulted into a violent class war in adulthood, finding each other amidst love, loss and devasting betrayals.Nina Harrow and Patrick Colson are only twelve years old when they are whisked from their disenfranchised mining towns to dazzling Belavere City to test for magical abilities. Nina's lifelong dream is to become an Artisan, a powerful elemental mage who fulfills the city's grand ambitions, while Patrick wants only to reunite with his family of Craftsmen in the mines. But together, they discover a devastating secret: Artisans aren't born, they're chosen. With this information, they part ways. Patrick returns home, while Nina finds her place as one of the rarest, most coveted types of Artisan.When a Craftsman revolution ignites years later, Nina is captured by Patrick's rebel group - and he hasn't forgotten her. In fact, he needs her help for a mission that could shift the tides against Belavere City. She reluctantly agrees to aid him, battling the sparks between them. But when Nina's first love reappears, asking her to betray Patrick for the Artisans, she faces an impossible choice that will determine the fate of their world. A concoction of all the best romantasy tropes:Elemental magic Found familyTension & Slow burn Political Intrigue / Class WarWhat readers and authors have been saying about A Forbidden Alchemy:'If I could give this book more than 5 stars I would ... This story has the morally gray characters of my dreams!! ... I will be telling everyone that I know to read this book. I NEED MORE!!' READER REVIEW, 5 stars'I'm never going to shut up about this book ... the romantasy book you'll never get over' HANNAH NICOLE MAEHRER, internationally bestselling author of Assistant to the Villain'It catapults readers into an immersive romance, a rustic setting, dynamic characters, a world of secrets, ghastly betrayals ... I am obsessed with this book ... this is the best romantasy I've read' READER REVIEW, 5 stars
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10,07 €
A Forbidden Alchemy
Tootekood: A63827616 GTIN: 9781668076194 Books
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17,09 €
A Forbidden Alchemy: an exhilarating slow burn romantasy of first loves and betrayals
Tootekood: A49804986 GTIN: 9781398537293 Ilukirjandus ja sellega seotud esemed
Australian BookTok star Stacey McEwan’s stunning new slow-burn romantasy duology traces a fated pair who stumble upon a world-changing secret in youth and are catapulted into a violent class war in adulthood, finding each other amidst love, loss, and devasting betrayals.
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22,09 €
A Foreigner's Collection of English Jokes: From Dad Jokes to Dark Humour
Tootekood: A63925062 GTIN: 9783912306002 Elustiil, hobid ja vaba aeg
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14,79 €
A Forest Journey: The Role of Trees in the Fate of Civilization
Tootekood: A39117041 GTIN: 9781938340970 Ajalugu ja arheoloogia
A Foundational Conservation Story RevivedAncient writers observed that forests always recede as civilizations develop and grow. The great Roman poet Ovid wrote that before civilization began, “even the pine tree stood on its own very hills” but when civilization took over, “the mountain oak, the pine were felled.”This happened for a simple reason: trees have been the principal fuel and building material of every society over the millennia, from the time urban areas were settled until the middle of the nineteenth century. To this day trees still fulfill these roles for a good portion of the world’s population.Without vast supplies of wood from forests, the great civilizations of Sumer, Assyria, Egypt, Crete, Greece, Rome, the Islamic World, Western Europe, and North America would have never emerged. Wood, in fact, is the unsung hero of the technological revolution that has brought us from a stone and bone culture to our present age.Until the ascendancy of fossil fuels, wood was the principal fuel and building material from the dawn of civilization. Its abundance or scarcity greatly shaped, as A Forest Journey ably relates, the culture, demographics, economy, internal and external politics and technology of successive societies over the millennia.The Forest Journey was originally published in 1989 and updated in 2005. The book's comprehensive coverage of the major role forests have played in human life -- told with grace, fluency, imagination, and humor -- gained it recognition as a Harvard Classic in Science and World History and as one of Harvard's "One Hundred Great Books." Others receiving the honor include such luminaries as Stephen Jay Gould and E.O. Wilson. This is a foundational conservation story that should not be lost in the archives. This new, updated and revised edition emphasizes the importance of forests in the fight against global warming and the urgency to protect what remains of the great trees and forests of the world.
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28,24 €
A Forest Of Vanity And Valour
Tootekood: A45125011 GTIN: 9781739821814 Ilukirjandus ja sellega seotud esemed
An aggressive debt collector banished from the kingdom. Now his life depends on his ability to help the less fortunate... Vireo Reinhold relishes collecting his monarch's proper dues. Working hard to prolong and fund the king's never-ending war, the self-centered official revels in the perks of luxury that come with his unorthodox role. But his world upends when he unearths an ancient spellbook that promises to unlock a shadowy, forgotten magic. Embroiled in a secret affair with a fellow noble's wife, Vireo is mortified when he's forced to commit an unthinkable act. Driven into exile, no longer able to coerce the vulnerable, and with the powerful tome in his enemy's hands, the fallen agent's only shot at survival hangs on his skills at saving others. Can Vireo redeem himself as the people's champion before they all fall to a sinister fate? A Forest of Vanity and Valour is the dark first book in the Tales of Levanthria fantasy-retelling series. If you like fast-paced action, evil-to-good transformations, and classic stories with a twist, then you'll love A.P Beswick's ominous tale.Buy A Forest of Vanity and Valour to fight for what's right today!
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A Forest Of Vanity And Valour
Tootekood: A62532361 GTIN: 9781739821838 Ilukirjandus ja sellega seotud esemed
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37,08 €
A Forest, Darkly
Tootekood: A62223807 GTIN: 9781835412565 Ilukirjandus ja sellega seotud esemed
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10,07 €
A Forgery of Fate
Tootekood: A50090719 GTIN: 9780593650615 Laste, teismeliste ja hariduslik
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15,87 €
A Forgery of Fate
Tootekood: A62294839 GTIN: 9798217116829 Laste, teismeliste ja hariduslik
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10,45 €
A Forgery of Fate
Tootekood: A63579463 GTIN: 9781399714860 Laste, teismeliste ja hariduslik
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11,22 €
A Forgery of Fate: the New York Times bestselling romantic fantasy standalone
Tootekood: A50948184 GTIN: 9781399714822 Laste, teismeliste ja hariduslik
Beauty and the Beast meets The Little Mermaid in an East Asian-inspired world in this romantic fantasy standalone from Elizabeth Lim, the New York Times bestselling author of Six Crimson Cranes.
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24,02 €
A Forsaken Prophecy
Tootekood: A63828128 GTIN: 9781668076279 Books
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A Forsaken Prophecy: the second book in the exhilarating romantasy series from New York Times bestselling author, Stacey McEwan
Tootekood: A63885873 GTIN: 9781398537330 Ilukirjandus ja sellega seotud esemed
In a world of high-class magic and gangster grit, a star-crossed couple must decide where their loyalties lie in the sizzling romantasy follow-up to BookTok star Stacey McEwan's New York Times & USA Today bestseller, A Forbidden AlchemyIn Belavere Trench, the Artisans and the Craftsmen are at war. Patrick, the last Alchemist, and Nina, the world's only known earth Charmer, have been captured by the Artisans, putting Patrick's rebel union in a precarious position.Though he hasn't forgiven Nina her betrayals, Patrick has other things to worry about. He is finally reunited with his father, a prisoner of the Artisans, and the group lands a narrow escape only with the help of Nina's first love, Theo.Decoding an ancient prophecy, they set off in search of an infinite supply of idium that will determine the course of the war, should it prove more than a myth. Fleeing across Craftsman towns on the brink, they will encounter old friends - and enemies - in search of answers.
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22,88 €
A Fortunate Universe
Tootekood: A39159265 GTIN: 9781108747400 Books
An engaging defence and critique of the various arguments from both science and religion on the fine-tuning of the Universe.
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23,07 €
A Fortunate Woman: A Country Doctor's Story
Tootekood: A43826446 GTIN: 9781529071177 Biograafia, Kirjandus ja kirjandusuuringud
When Polly Morland is clearing out her mother’s house she finds a book that will lead her to a remarkable figure living on her own doorstep: the country doctor who works in the same remote, wooded valley she has lived in for many years. This doctor is a rarity in contemporary medicine – she knows her patients inside out, and their stories are deeply entwined with her own.In A Fortunate Woman, with its beautiful photographs by Richard Baker, Polly Morland has written a profoundly moving love letter to a landscape, a community and, above all, to what it means to be a good doctor.
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A Fortune of Sand: A Novel
Tootekood: A63563417 GTIN: 9798217093243 Ilukirjandus ja sellega seotud esemed
The daughter of an automotive magnate escapes to an artistic retreat that holds more secrets—and more intrigue—than she could have ever imagined, in this Prohibition-era novel from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Salt to the Sea.Detroit, 1927. A city of smoke and ambition, where glittering wealth conceals a graveyard of secrets.Marjorie Lennox is the youngest daughter of a powerful automotive dynasty, a family known for money, not manners. Artistic, impulsive, and always slightly out of step, Marjorie has long been dismissed by her controlling father and self-absorbed siblings. But when she secretly applies to an exclusive arts program funded by an elusive benefactor, she sees a chance to redefine herself on her own terms.The building is grand. The participants are gifted. But something…is off.The program is uncomfortably restrictive. Doors lock at odd hours. Strange sounds echo through the halls amid whispers that women are disappearing. And the handsome benefactor’s presence—mostly absent, yet somehow everywhere—begins to unnerve her. As Marjorie’s sense of self begins to slip, so does her grip on the truth. What happens to women who don’t fit neatly into a gilded frame?Set against the crumbling grandeur of 1920s Detroit and inspired by actual, long-buried historical events, A Fortune of Sand is a haunting mosaic of glamour and grift—a novel about those who vanish, and those who demand to be seen.
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22,43 €
A Forty Year Kiss
Tootekood: A50895066 GTIN: 9781464221279 Books
"A story that captures the hope, grace, and joy of new love--but also the mistakes, scar tissue, and regret of past love. It's a wonder to behold, a novel capable of such breadth. This is the kind of book that makes me a better human." --Nathan Hill, New York Times bestselling author of The Nix and WellnessFrom the critically acclaimed author of Shotgun Lovesongs comes an exquisitely written, small-town story about one couple's hard-won second chance at love, forty years after their divorce, now in trade paperback. Charlie and Vivian parted ways after just four years of marriage. Too many problems, too many struggles, even though the love didn't quite die. When Charlie returns to Wisconsin forty years later, he's not sure what he'll find. He is sure of one thing -- he must try to reconnect with Vivian to pick up the broken pieces of their past. But forty years is a long time. It's forty years of other relationships, forty years of building new lives, and forty years of long-held regrets, mistakes, and painful secrets.A brave and triumphant exploration of redemption and sunset triumph, A Forty Year Kiss is a once-in-a-lifetime love story, written with dazzling lyricism and remarkable clarity of spirit, from a celebrated author at the top of his game. It's a literary valentine that promises to be a love story for the ages.
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15,36 €
A Founding Mother: A Novel of Abigail Adams
Tootekood: A63501429 GTIN: 9780063234765 Ilukirjandus ja sellega seotud esemed
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17,08 €
A Fractured Mind: My Life with Multiple Personality Disorder
Tootekood: A4467501 GTIN: 9781401308681 Biograafia, Kirjandus ja kirjandusuuringud
The harrowing, insightful, and courageous account of a prominent man's struggle with multiple personalities Robert Oxnam was a high-profile, successful man: A renowned scholar and president of the Asia Society, he appeared frequently on television and traveled the world as a sought-after expert. But what the millions of people who'd seen him didn't know--what even those closest to him didn't know--was that Oxnam suffered from multiple personality disorder. It was only after an intervention staged by family and friends, in response to frequent blackouts and episodic rages assumed to be alcohol-driven, that he sought treatment with Dr. Jeffery Smith; the first of his eleven personalities emerged in a session in 1990. After years of treatment, he has integrated them into three: Robert, Wanda, and Bobby, who take turns narrating this remarkable, unprecedented chronicle.
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20,04 €
A Fragile Enchantment
Tootekood: A46829582 GTIN: 9781250892836 Laste, teismeliste ja hariduslik
In this romantic fantasy of manners from New York Times bestselling author Allison Saft, a magical dressmaker commissioned for a royal wedding finds herself embroiled in scandal when a gossip columnist draws attention to her undeniable chemistry with the groom.Niamh Ó Conchobhair has never let herself long for more. The magic in her blood that lets her stitch emotions and memories into fabric is the same magic that will eventually kill her. Determined to spend the little time she has left guaranteeing a better life for her family, Niamh jumps at the chance to design the wardrobe for a royal wedding in the neighboring kingdom of Avaland. But Avaland is far from the fairytale that she imagined. While young nobles attend candlelit balls and elegant garden parties, unrest brews amid the working class. The groom himself, Kit Carmine, is prickly, abrasive, and begrudgingly being dragged to the altar as a political pawn. But when Niamh and Kit grow closer, an unlikely friendship blossoms into something more-until an anonymous gossip columnist starts buzzing about their chemistry, promising to leave them alone only if Niamh helps to uncover the royal family's secrets. The rot at the heart of Avaland runs deep, but exposing it could risk a future she never let herself dream of, and a love she never thought possible.Transporting readers to a Regency England-inspired fantasy world, A Fragile Enchantment is a sweeping romance threaded with intrigue, unforgettable characters, and a love story for the ages.
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15,09 €
A Fragile Enchantment
Tootekood: A47274950 GTIN: 9781510112117 Laste, teismeliste ja hariduslik
In this romantic fantasy of manners from New York Times bestselling author Allison Saft, a magical dressmaker commissioned for a royal wedding finds herself embroiled in scandal when a gossip columnist draws attention to her undeniable chemistry with the groom.Niamh Ó Conchobhair has never let herself long for more. The magic in her blood that lets her stitch emotions and memories into every dress she makes is the same one that will kill her—sooner rather than later—and she’s determined to spend the little time she has left guaranteeing a better life for her family. When she’s commissioned to design the wardrobe for a nearby kingdom’s royal wedding, she knows this is her one chance to make something of herself.Niamh arrives in Avaland, where young nobles are making their debuts into society during the candlelit balls and elegant garden parties that fill the social Season. The only damper on the festivities is the groom himself: Kit Carmine, prickly, abrasive, and begrudgingly being dragged to the altar as a desperate political act. Beneath Avaland’s glittery façade, unrest is brewing, and an anonymous gossip columnist has been spreading rumors about corruption within the royal family. As Niamh grows closer to Kit, an unlikely friendship begins to blossom into something more…until the columnist starts buzzing about her chemistry with the prince, promising to leave her alone only if she helps uncover the royal family’s secrets. Niamh discovers that the rot at the heart of Avaland goes far deeper than she bargained for—but exposing it could risk a future she never let herself dream of, and a love she never thought possible.Transporting readers to a Regency England-inspired fantasy world, A Fragile Enchantment is a sweeping romance threaded with intrigue, unforgettable characters, and a love story for the ages.
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10,07 €
A Fragile Life: Accepting Our Vulnerability
Tootekood: A49915157 GTIN: 9780226840109 Filosoofia ja religioon
Offering a guide on how to positively engage suffering, Todd May ultimately lays out a new way of thinking about how we exist in the world, one that reassures us that our suffering, rather than a failure of physical or psychological resilience, is a powerful and essential part of life itself It is perhaps our noblest cause, and certainly one of our oldest: to end suffering. Think of the Buddha, Chuang Tzu, or Marcus Aurelius: stoically composed figures impervious to the torments of the wider world, living their lives in complete serenity-and teaching us how to do the same. After all, isn't a life free from suffering the ideal? Isn't it what so many of us seek? Absolutely not, argues Todd May in this provocative but compassionate book. In a moving examination of life and the trials that beset it, he shows that our fragility, our ability to suffer, is actually one of the most important aspects of our humanity. May starts with a simple but hard truth: suffering is inevitable. At the most basic level, we suffer physically-a sprained ankle or a bad back. But we also suffer insults and indifference. We suffer from overburdened schedules and unforeseen circumstances, from moral dilemmas and emotional heartaches. Even just thinking about our own mortality-the fact that we only live one life-can lead us to tremendous suffering. No wonder philosophies such as Buddhism, Taosim, Stoicism, and even Epicureanism-all of which counsel us to rise above these plights-have had appeal over the centuries. May highlights the tremendous value of these philosophies and the ways they can guide us toward better lives, but he also exposes a major drawback to their tenets: such invulnerability is too emotionally disengaged from the world, leading us to place too great a distance between ourselves and our experience. Rather than seeking absolute immunity, he argues most of us just want to hurt less and learn how to embrace and accept what suffering we do endure in a meaningful way.
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20,51 €
A Fragrance Called Love
Tootekood: A41031074 GTIN: 9781634422215 Books
Satomi Nonomura is a very lovely but lazy woman. Spending most of her days eating junk food and playing video games, she has her own personal slave--her feeble cousin--to cook and clean for her. Whenever he asks "Sato-nee" for some help, Satomi knows that she can walk all over him and he'll always be there to take it. Unfortunately that's not the case anymore, because due to Satomi's selfishness, he's moving out, leaving Satomi to realize how deeply she cares for him. It's now or never for Sato-nee to show her true feelings to her little slave and if she needs to be a little rough, she'll go all in!
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A Frame for Life: The Designs of StudioIlse
Tootekood: A22290055 GTIN: 9780847838578 Kunst
The renowned designer and style guru Ilse Crawford showcases her body of influential, holistic work for the first time, articulating her groundbreaking philosophies for design and living. Studioilse, the award-winning design studio founded by Ilse Crawford, bridges the worlds of interior design, architecture, and product design with the philosophy of putting the human being at the center. Fascinated by what drives us and makes us feel alive, Crawford says: "When I look at making spaces, I don’t just look at the visual. I’m much more interested in the sensory thing, in thinking about it from the human context, the primal perspective, the thing that touches you." Featuring Studioilse’s work to date, from private residences to hotels, restaurants, and retail projects, this book illustrates the effectiveness of design grounded in human needs and desires. Layering materials and textures, combined with her understanding of human behavior, Crawford’s designs are sensual and accessible. A forerunner of the holistic design movement a decade ago, her humanistic approach has now become the norm. This volume illustrates why Crawford’s design philosophy is so seminal—her work has influenced not only a generation of Dutch and European designers, but also Americans due to her acclaimed Soho House New York. With new photography and essays by Crawford and design critic Edwin Heatcote, this inspirational volume is sure to be one of the most important design books of the year.
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57,31 €
A French volunteer of the war of independence
Tootekood: A30554980 GTIN: 9780649282982 Ajalugu ja arheoloogia
Trieste Publishing has a massive catalogue of classic book titles. Our aim is to provide readers with the highest quality reproductions of fiction and non-fiction literature that has stood the test of time. The many thousands of books in our collection have been sourced from libraries and private collections around the world.The titles that Trieste Publishing has chosen to be part of the collection have been scanned to simulate the original. Our readers see the books the same way that their first readers did decades or a hundred or more years ago. Books from that period are often spoiled by imperfections that did not exist in the original. Imperfections could be in the form of blurred text, photographs, or missing pages. It is highly unlikely that this would occur with one of our books. Our extensive quality control ensures that the readers of Trieste Publishing's books will be delighted with their purchase. Our staff has thoroughly reviewed every page of all the books in the collection, repairing, or if necessary, rejecting titles that are not of the highest quality. This process ensures that the reader of one of Trieste Publishing's titles receives a volume that faithfully reproduces the original, and to the maximum degree possible, gives them the experience of owning the original work.We pride ourselves on not only creating a pathway to an extensive reservoir of books of the finest quality, but also providing value to every one of our readers. Generally, Trieste books are purchased singly - on demand, however they may also be purchased in bulk. Readers interested in bulk purchases are invited to contact us directly to enquire about our tailored bulk rates.
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A Frequency Dictionary of Spanish: Core Vocabulary for Learners
Tootekood: A30719002 GTIN: 9781138686540 Ühiskond ja sotsiaalteadused
A FREQUENCY DICTIONARY OF SPANISH has been fully revised and updated, including over 500 new entries, making it an invaluable resource for students of Spanish.
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56,89 €