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Notes from Underground and the Double - Fyodor Dostoyevsky - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Notes from Underground and the Double - Fyodor Dostoyevsky - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

''That sense of the meaninglessness of existence that runs through much of twentieth-century writing - from Conrad and Kafka, to Beckett and beyond - starts in Dostoyevsky''s work'' Malcolm BradburyAlienated from society and paralysed by a sense of his own insignificance, the anonymous narrator of Dostoyevsky''s Notes from Underground tells the story of his tortured life. With bitter irony, he describes his refusal to become a worker in the ''anthill'' and his gradual withdrawal from society. The seemingly ordinary world of St Petersburg takes on a nightmarish quality in The Double when a government clerk encounters a man who looks exactly like him - his double perhaps, or possibly the darker side of his own personality. Like Notes from Underground , this is a masterly tragi-comic study of human consciousness.Translated by Ronald Wilks with an Introduction by Robert Louis Jackson

DKK 117.00
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My East End - Gilda O'neill - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

My East End - Gilda O'neill - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Gilda O''Neill''s The East End traces the East End of London - cockneys, criminals, street markets, pub singalongs, dog racing, jellied eels. London''s East End it is a place at once appealing and unruly, comforting and incomprehensible. Gilda O''Neill, an East Ender herself shows there is more to this fascinating area than a collection of cliched images. Using oral history and more traditional sources she builds up a powerful image of this community - bringing to us, with wit and honesty, the real story of London''s East End.''Every page is a delight. Every chapter made vivid by a writer who has poured heart and soul into her book'' Daily Mail ''A rich tapestry... a finely detailed examination of our not so distant past. Her book is as much a piece of history as the accounts it contains'' Time Out Gilda O''Neill was born and brought up in the East End. She left school at fifteen but returned to education as a mature student. She wrote full-time and continued to live in the East End with her husband and family. Sadly she died on 24 September 2010 after a short illness.

DKK 159.00
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East End Chronicles - Ed Glinert - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

East End Chronicles - Ed Glinert - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

The East End: Roman burial ground, medieval rubbsih tip, Victorian hell hole, WW2 bombing aarget, 21st century gentrification template. Always a rum place, the industrial revolution replaced rose bushes and hedgerows with metallic roads and iron railways, mud banks gve way to deeo-water docks and sweatshops. East End Chronicles tells the story of this part of London tht has always enthralled writers and readers through the bizarre, the unusual, the arcane and the mysterious. Chapters on the Silk Weavers of Spitalfields; Docks, Dockers and River Pirates; Murder and Mayhem on the Radcliffe Highway; Myths and MytHmakers; The Blitz and Bombs; The Jewish Ghetto and more reveal the real underbelly of the history of the East End.

DKK 161.00
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Journey's End - R. C. Sherriff - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Journey's End - R. C. Sherriff - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Hailed by George Bernard Shaw as ''useful [corrective] to the romantic conception of war'', R.C. Sherriff''s Journey''s End is an unflinching vision of life in the trenches towards the end of the First World War, published in Penguin Classics.Set in the First World War, Journey''s End concerns a group of British officers on the front line and opens in a dugout in the trenches in France. Raleigh, a new eighteen-year-old officer fresh out of English public school, joins the besieged company of his friend and cricketing hero Stanhope, and finds him dramatically changed. Laurence Olivier starred as Stanhope in the first performance of Journey''s End in 1928; the play was an instant stage success and remains a remarkable anti-war classic.R.C. Sherriff (1896-1975) joined the army shortly after the outbreak of the First World War, serving as a captain in the East Surrey regiment. After the war, an interest in amateur theatricals led him to try his hand at writing. Following rejection by many theatre managements, Journey''s End was given a single performance by the Incorporated Stage Society, in which Lawrence Olivier took the lead role. The play''s enormous success enabled Sherriff to become a full-time writer, with plays such as Badger''s Green (1930), St Helena (1935), and The Long Sunset (1955); though he is also remembered as a screenplay writer, for films such as The Invisible Man (1933), Goodbye Mr Chips (1933) and The Dam Busters (1955).If you enjoyed Journey''s End , you might like Robert Graves''s Goodbye to All That , available in Penguin Modern Classics.''Its unrelenting tension, and its regard for human decency in a vast world of human waste, are impressive and, even now, moving''Clive Barnes

DKK 110.00
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The End of Overeating - David Kessler - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

The End of Overeating - David Kessler - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Uncover the truth behind our food addiction - and learn how to break the cycle Many of us find ourselves powerless in front of a bag of crisps, a packet of biscuits, the last slice of pizza. Why is it that we simply can''t say no?In The End of Overeating David Kessler, the man who took on the tobacco industry, exposes how modern food manufacturers have hijacked the brains of millions by turning our meals into perfectly engineered portions of fat, salt and sugar, turning us into addicts in the process. The result is a ticking time-bomb of growing obesity, heart conditions and a mass of health problems around the globe. Examining why we''re so often powerless in the face of such food, Kessler reveals how our appetites have been and are increasingly hijacked by hyper-palatable foods that encourage us to keep eating - all the time. With a special focus on the growing problems in the UK and Europe, Kessler lays out a clear plan and vital tools for reclaiming control over our cravings.

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Double Vision - Pat Barker - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Double Vision - Pat Barker - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

From the Booker Prize-winning and Women''s Prize-shortlisted author of The Silence of the Girls A powerfully thought-provoking portrait of modern warfare from one of the modern masters of war fiction''Barker is one of our most significant contemporary novelists'' Daily Telegraph ''The characters grab hold at the beginning and never loosen their grip. Barker holds us by the sheer beauty of her writing'' Financial Times ''Barker has a quite extraordinary ability to combine complexity and clarity and to make both seem parts of the same whole'' Sunday Times Returning to Afghanistan after his photographer friend is killed by a sniper, war reporter Stephen Sharkey seeks release from his nightmares in an England seemingly at peace with itself. Questioning man''s inhumanity to man both abroad and at home, and whether love really can be the great redeemer, Double Vision is a searing novel of conflict in modern times.

DKK 159.00
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Parade's End - Ford Madox Ford - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Parade's End - Ford Madox Ford - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Ford Madox Ford''s great masterpiece exploring love and identity during the First World War, in a Penguin Classics edition with an introduction by Julian Barnes. A masterly novel of destruction and regeneration, Parade''s End follows the story of aristocrat Christopher Tietjens as his world is shattered by the First World War. Tracing the psychological damage inflicted by battle, the collapse of England''s secure Edwardian values - embodied in Christopher''s wife, the beautiful, cruel socialite Sylvia - and the beginning of a new age, epitomized by the suffragette Valentine Wannop, Parade''s End is an elegy for both the war dead and the passing of a way of life.''The finest English novel about the Great War''Malcolm Bradbury''The best novel by a British writer ... It is also the finest novel about the First World War. It is also the finest novel about the nature of British society''Anthony Burgess''There are not many English novels which deserve to be called great: Parade''s End is one of them''W.H. Auden''The English prose masterpiece of the time''William Carlos Williams

DKK 141.00
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Winter's End - John Rickards - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Winter's End - John Rickards - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

They have the body of a slaughtered woman. They have a half-naked man standing over her. They have no idea how to make him talk. And so they call in ex-FBI interrogator Alex Rourke to the traumatized Maine town of Winter''s End. But as Rourke probes the mind of the enigmatic ''Nicholas'', he is forced to re-examine his own past .... Strange things have been happening in Winter''s End. The question is why. And if the man in custody does hold the answers to crimes both present and past, then Alex will have to get to them - and quickly. Because it soon becomes clear that what Nicholas has been waiting for from the beginning - is Alex Rourke.

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Howards End - David Lodge - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Howards End - David Lodge - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

A meticulously-observed drama of class warfare, E.M. Forster''s Howards End explores the conflict inherent within English society, unveiling the character of a nation as never before. This Penguin Classics edition includes an introduction and notes by David Lodge.''Only connect...''A chance acquaintance brings together the preposterous bourgeois Wilcox family and the clever, cultured and idealistic Schlegel sisters. As clear-eyed Margaret develops a friendship with Mrs Wilcox, the impetuous Helen brings into their midst a young bank clerk named Leonard Bast, who lives at the edge of poverty and ruin. When Mrs Wilcox dies, her family discovers that she wants to leave her country home, Howards End, to Margaret. Thus as Forster sets in motion a chain of events that will entangle three different families, he brilliantly portrays their aspirations to personal and social harmony.David Lodge''s introduction provides an absorbing and eloquent overture to the 1910 novel that established Forster''s reputation as an important writer, and that he himself later referred to as ''my best novel''. This edition also contains a note on the text, suggestions for further reading, and explanatory notes.E. M. Forster (1879-1970) was a noted English author and critic and a member of the Bloomsbury group. His first novel, Where Angels Fear To Tread appeared in 1905. The Longest Journey appeared in 1907, followed by A Room With A View (1908), based partly on the material from extended holidays in Italy with his mother. Howards End (1910) was a story that centered on an English country house and dealt with the clash between two families, one interested in art and literature, the other only in business. Maurice was revised several times during his life, and finally published posthumously in 1971.If you enjoyed Howard''s End , you might like Forster''s A Room with a View , also available in Penguin Classics.

DKK 126.00
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The Pelvic Floor Bible - Jane Simpson - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

The Pelvic Floor Bible - Jane Simpson - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Straightforward, no-nonsense guidance on one of the most vital (and often ignored) women''s health and wellbeing issues . A must-read! (Rebecca Schiller CEO of Birthrights, the human rights in childbirth charity and author of The No-Guilt Pregnancy Plan ) *Learn how to treat common problems such as stress incontinence, overactive bladder and prolapse *Get back into shape post-pregnancy *Enjoy a healthy sex life at every stage of your life

DKK 126.00
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Howards End - E. M. Forster - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Howards End - E. M. Forster - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

The Penguin English Library Edition of Howards End by E. M. Forster ''The poor cannot always reach those whom they want to love, and they can hardly ever escape from those whom they love no longer. We rich can'' ''Only connect.'' is the idea at the heart of this book, a heartbreaking and provocative tale of three families at the beginning of the twentieth century: the rich Wilcoxes, the gentle, idealistic Schlegels and the lower-middle class Basts. As the Schlegel sisters try desperately to help the Basts and educate the close-minded Wilcoxes, the families are drawn together in love, lies and death. Frequently cited as E. M. Forster''s finest work, Howards End brilliantly explores class warfare, conflict and the English character.The Penguin English Library - 100 editions of the best fiction in English, from the eighteenth century and the very first novels to the beginning of the First World War.

DKK 107.00
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Revenge of the Mooncake Vixen - Marilyn Chin - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Revenge of the Mooncake Vixen - Marilyn Chin - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

''Oh Lord! Here come the Double Happiness Twins . . .'' The Double Happiness Twins are Moonie and Mei Ling. The Double Happiness is the Chinese restaurant in California where they help out their meat-cleaver-wielding grandmother - when they''re not causing uproar and mayhem. And Revenge of the Mooncake Vixen is the story of the sisters, their Grandma, a lot of animals and the topsy-turvy, surreal experience of being a pair of strangers in a very, very strange land indeed.

DKK 161.00
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West End Chronicles - Ed Glinert - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

West End Chronicles - Ed Glinert - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

The streets and squares of the West End of London, some of the most famous in the world, have been home to poets and pop stars, world-renowned artists and revolutionary anarchists. They have been a playground of gangsters and gamblers, secret agents and religious visionaries. The exploits of these and many other colourful characters are recounted in Ed Glinert''s latest volume. Packed with atmospheric incident and detail, it''s a treasure trove of stories of the people, places and events at the hub of the world''s most exciting city.

DKK 141.00
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The End - Ian Kershaw - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

The End - Ian Kershaw - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Named Book of the Year by the Sunday Times , TLS , Spectator , Sunday Telegraph , Daily Mail and Scotland on Sunday , Ian Kershaw''s The End is a searing account of the final months of Nazi Germany, laying bare the fear and fanaticism that drove a nation to destruction. In almost every major war there comes a point where defeat looms for one side and its rulers cut a deal with the victors, if only in an attempt to save their own skins. In Hitler''s Germany, nothing of this kind happened: in the end the regime had to be stamped out town by town with an almost unprecedented level of brutality.Just what made Germany keep on fighting?Why did its rulers not cut a deal to save their own skins?And why did ordinary people continue to obey the Fuhrer''s suicidal orders, with countless Germans executing their own countrymen for desertion or defeatism?''Nuanced and sophisticated ... undoubtedly a masterpiece'' - Mail on Sunday ''Gripping yet scholarly ... the best attempt by far to answer the complex question of why Nazi Germany carried on fighting to total self-destruction'' - Antony Beevor, Telegraph ''Masterly ... Kershaw''s gripping and boldly intelligent work of scholarship ... will surely become the standard account of the Nazi system''s terrible final phase'' - Financial Times ''Brilliant ... utterly terrifying'' - Sunday Times , Books of the Year

DKK 168.00
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The End of Enlightenment - Richard Whatmore - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

The End of Enlightenment - Richard Whatmore - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

''A brilliant and revelatory book about the history of ideas'' David Runciman ''Fascinating and important'' Ruth Scurr The Enlightenment is popularly seen as the Age of Reason, a key moment in human history when ideals such as freedom, progress, natural rights and constitutional government prevailed. In this radical re-evaluation, historian Richard Whatmore shows why, for many at its centre, the Enlightenment was a profound failure.By the early eighteenth century, hope was widespread that Enlightenment could be coupled with toleration, the progress of commerce and the end of the fanatic wars of religion that were destroying Europe. At its heart was the battle to establish and maintain liberty in free states – and the hope that absolute monarchies such as France and free states like Britain might even subsist together, equally respectful of civil liberties. Yet all of this collapsed when states pursued wealth and empire by means of war. Xenophobia was rife and liberty itself turned fanatic. The End of Enlightenment traces the changing perspectives of economists, philosophers, politicians and polemicists around the world, including figures as diverse as David Hume, Adam Smith, Edmund Burke and Mary Wollstonecraft. They had strived to replace superstition with reason, but witnessed instead terror and revolution, corruption, gross commercial excess and the continued growth of violent colonialism.Returning us to these tumultuous events and ideas, and digging deep into the thought of the men and women who defined their age, Whatmore offers a lucid exploration of disillusion and intellectual transformation, a brilliant meditation on our continued assumptions about the past, and a glimpse of the different ways our world might be structured - especially as the problems addressed at the end of Enlightenment are still with us today.

DKK 291.00
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The End of Enlightenment - Richard Whatmore - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

The End of Enlightenment - Richard Whatmore - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

''A brilliant work of intellectual interpretation by our foremost historian of Enlightenment ideas. Whatmore rescues the Enlightenment from today''s circular debates and places it where it belongs: in the pulsing, chaotic era of its genesis and demise'' Christopher de BellaigueThe Enlightenment is popularly seen as the Age of Reason, a key moment in human history when ideals such as freedom, progress, natural rights and constitutional government prevailed. In this radical re-evaluation, historian Richard Whatmore shows why, for many at its centre, the Enlightenment was a profound failure.By the early eighteenth century, hope was widespread that Enlightenment could be coupled with toleration, the progress of commerce and the end of the fanatic wars of religion that were destroying Europe. At its heart was the battle to establish and maintain liberty in free states – and the hope that absolute monarchies such as France and free states like Britain might even subsist together, equally respectful of civil liberties. Yet all of this collapsed when states pursued wealth and empire by means of war. Xenophobia was rife and liberty itself turned fanatic.The End of Enlightenment traces the changing perspectives of economists, philosophers, politicians and polemicists around the world, including figures as diverse as David Hume, Adam Smith, Edmund Burke and Mary Wollstonecraft. They had strived to replace superstition with reason, but witnessed instead terror and revolution, corruption, gross commercial excess and the continued growth of violent colonialism.Returning us to these tumultuous events and ideas, and digging deep into the thought of the men and women who defined their age, Whatmore offers a lucid exploration of disillusion and intellectual transformation, a brilliant meditation on our continued assumptions about the past, and a glimpse of the different ways our world might be structured - especially as the problems addressed at the end of Enlightenment are still with us today.

DKK 152.00
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End Times - Peter Turchin - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

End Times - Peter Turchin - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

THE THOUGHT BOOK OF THE YEAR, THE TIMES A GUARDIAN BOOK OF THE YEAR '' Game of Thrones -style intra-elite conflict meets big data'' TLS ''Extraordinary. . . the culmination of many years of highly original and innovative work'' Bloomberg One of the most iconoclastic thinkers of our time offers a brilliant new theory of how society works What leads to political turbulence and social breakdown? How do elites maintain their dominant position? And why do ruling classes sometimes suddenly lose their grip on power? For decades, complexity scientist Peter Turchin has been studying world history like no-one else. Assembling vast databases mined from 10,000 years of human activity, and then developing new models, he has transformed the way we learn from the past. End Times is the result: a ground-breaking account of how society works.The lessons, he argues, are clear. When the balance of power between the ruling class and the majority tips too far in favour of elites, income inequality surges. The rich get richer, the poor further impoverished. As more people try to join the elite, frustration with the establishment brims over, often with disastrous consequences. Elite overproduction led to state breakdown in imperial China, in medieval France, in the American Civil War - and it is happening now.But while we are far along the path toward violent political rupture, Turchin''s models also light the way to a brighter future. Drawing insight from those occasions in history where the balance was restored, End Times also points towards a different future: an escape from the patterns of the past. BEST BOOKS OF SUMMER 2023: THE GUARDIAN * THE TIMES * SUNDAY TIMES

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The Spy and the Traitor - Ben Macintyre - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

The Spy and the Traitor - Ben Macintyre - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

THE NO.1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER An exciting Cold War story about a KGB double agent, by one of Britain''s greatest historians and the ultimate gift for anyone who loves a good spy thriller! ''The best true spy story I have ever read'' John le Carré ________________ On a warm July evening in 1985, a middle-aged man stood on the pavement of a busy avenue in the heart of Moscow, holding a plastic carrier bag. In his grey suit and tie, he looked like any other Soviet citizen. The bag alone was mildly conspicuous, printed with the red logo of Safeway, the British supermarket.The man was a spy. A senior KGB officer, for more than a decade he had supplied his British spymasters with a stream of priceless secrets from deep within the Soviet intelligence machine. No spy had done more to damage the KGB. The Safeway bag was a signal: to activate his escape plan to be smuggled out of Soviet Russia. So began one of the boldest and most extraordinary episodes in the history of spying.Ben Macintyre reveals a tale of espionage, betrayal and raw courage that changed the course of the Cold War forever . . . ________________ ''The world''s most important spy since the Second World War. Mercilessly gripping'' Sunday Times ''Extraordinary. His best book yet'' John Preston, Evening Standard ''A remarkable story of one man''s courage'' The Times, Book of the Week Ben Macintyre, Sunday Times bestseller, August 2023

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The End of Everything - Katie Mack - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

The End of Everything - Katie Mack - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE ECONOMIST, OBSERVER, NEW SCIENTIST, BBC FOCUS, INDEPENDENT AND WASHINGTON POST ''A rollicking tour of the wildest physics. . . Like an animated discussion with your favourite quirky and brilliant professor'' Leah Crane, New Scientist ''Weird science, explained beautifully'' - John Scalzi We know the universe had a beginning. But what happens at the end of the story? With lively wit and wry humour, astrophysicist Katie Mack takes us on a mind-bending tour through each of the cosmos'' possible finales: the Big Crunch, Heat Death, Vacuum Decay, the Big Rip and the Bounce. Guiding us through major concepts in quantum mechanics, cosmology, string theory and much more, she describes how small tweaks to our incomplete understanding of reality can result in starkly different futures. Our universe could collapse in upon itself, or rip itself apart, or even - in the next five minutes - succumb to an inescapable expanding bubble of doom.This captivating story of cosmic escapism examines a mesmerizing yet unfamiliar physics landscape while sharing the excitement a leading astrophysicist feels when thinking about the universe and our place in it. Amid stellar explosions and bouncing universes, Mack shows that even though we puny humans have no chance of changing how it all ends, we can at least begin to understand it. The End of Everything is a wildly fun, surprisingly upbeat ride to the farthest reaches of all that we know.

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Toward the End of Time - John Updike - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Toward the End of Time - John Updike - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Ben Turnbull is a 66 year-old retired investment consultant living north of Boston in the year 2020. A recent war between the United States and China has thinned the population and brought social chaos. Nevertheless, Ben''s life, traced by his journal entries over the course of the year, retains much of its accustomed comforts. Something of a science buff, he finds his personal history cuaght up in the dysjunctions and vagaries of the ''many universes''; his identity branches into variants extending back through history and ahead in the evolution of the universe, as both it and his own mortal, nature-shrouded existence move toward the end of time ...

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Far from the East End - Iris Jones Simantel - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Far from the East End - Iris Jones Simantel - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

** Saga Magazine ''Life Story'' competition winner** From the streets of London to the Welsh countryside, evacuee Iris Simantel tells of her desperate search for somewhere to belong in Far From the East End .Born in 1938 under threat of looming war, Iris spent her early years playing in the rubble of bombed buildings in Dagenham by day and cowering in a dusty shelter at night. But the hardships of poverty and the dreaded Blitz could not match the pain she felt at her parents'' indifference. She prayed that just once her mother would hold her when the bombs rained down. But loneliness only intensified when she was evacuated.Finding the nurturing home she had always dreamt of in her adopted Welsh parents, she wonders what, when she returns to London after the war, will be waiting for her. Will she ever be able to love her philandering father, depressive mother and an angry, bullying brother? Will her family even survive? Or will she have to look farther afield for the affection she so longs for? Prepare to be taken on a beautiful and emotional journey with Iris Simantel''s nostalgic memoir, Far from the East End .Iris Simantel is the acclaimed winner of the Saga Magazine ''Life Story'' competition, telling of her evacuation from Dagenham to Wales, and her family''s post-War move to South Oxney. She now lives in Devon.

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The End of Nature - Bill Mckibben - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

The End of Nature - Bill Mckibben - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

One of the earliest warnings about climate change and one of environmentalism''s lodestars ''Nature, we believe, takes forever. It moves with infinite slowness,'' begins the first book to bring climate change to public attention.Interweaving lyrical observations from his life in the Adirondack Mountains with insights from the emerging science, Bill McKibben sets out the central developments not only of the environmental crisis now facing us but also the terms of our response, from policy to the fundamental, philosophical shift in our relationship with the natural world which, he argues, could save us. A moving elegy to nature in its pristine, pre-human wildness, The End of Nature is both a milestone in environmental thought, indispensable to understanding how we arrived here.

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World Without End - Jean Marc Jancovici - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

World Without End - Jean Marc Jancovici - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

THE #1 INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER*A Financial Times Most Anticipated Book of 2024* “Can a graphic novel save the planet? Perhaps.” – Elizabeth Kolbert Is this the end of the world? Perhaps not. In this eye-opening, hopeful and hugely entertaining bestseller, a climate expert takes a leading graphic novelist on a journey to understand the profound changes that our planet is undergoing. The scientist, Jean-Marc Jancovici, walks us through just about everything: from the innermost workings of our minds to toothbrushes, office jobs, and oil; ancient history and modern geopolitics; economics and ecology; the unfolding climate crisis and its consequences for us all. As he describes the world we live in - a world whose future is deeply uncertain - the artist, Christophe Blain, listens and draws.Coming face to face with global warming, the unlikely duo - along with Mother Nature, Pop Eye and Jiminy Cricket, among others - create a picture of what the solution to our predicament actually looks like. Yes, we have a fossil-fuel problem, but simply switching to renewable energy won’t fix it. We can and must rethink everything: our energy supply, our economies and our whole world. They leave us with an inspiring vision of the future in which food, education, housing, transport and communities - in other words, all of us - work together and, with a few technological fixes, succeed in creating a world without end. “Masterful and unforgettable... A testament to the power of the graphic novel" - Marjane Satrapi, author of Persepolis “READ. THIS. BOOK. ” - Eliza Griswold, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Over 1 million copies sold since publication, The Guardian , October 2024

DKK 241.00
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The End of Average - Todd Rose - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

The End of Average - Todd Rose - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

''Must the tyranny of the group rule us from cradle to grave? Absolutely not, says Todd Rose in a subversive and readable introduction to what has been called the new science of the individual ... Readers will be moved'' Abigail Zuger, The New York Times ''Groundbreaking ... The man who can teach you how not to be average'' Anna Hart, Daily Telegraph ''Fascinating, engaging, and practical. The End of Average will help everyone - and I mean everyone - live up to their potential'' Amy Cuddy, author of Presence ''Lively and entertaining ... a cheering story of how the square pegs among us can build successful lives despite being unable or unwilling to fit into round holes'' Matthew Reisz, Times Higher Education ''Heartening . . . a worthwhile read for the aspiring nonconformist'' Iain Morris, Observer

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