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War Is A Racket - Smedley D Butler - Bog - Dauphin Publications - Plusbog.dk

War Is A Racket - Smedley D Butler - Bog - Dauphin Publications - Plusbog.dk

"War is a Racket" is marine general, Smedley Butler's classic treatise on why wars are conducted, who profits from them, and who pays the price. Few people are as qualified as General Butler to advance the argument encapsulated in his book's sensational title. When "War is a Racket" was first published in 1935, Butler was the most decorated American soldier of his time. He had lead several successful military operations in the Caribbean and in Central America, as well as in Europe during the First World War. Despite his success and his heroic status, however, Butler came away from these experiences with a deeply troubled view of both the purpose and the results of warfare.

DKK 105.00
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Rembrandt Would Have Loved You - Ruth Padel - Bog - Vintage Publishing - Plusbog.dk

Rembrandt Would Have Loved You - Ruth Padel - Bog - Vintage Publishing - Plusbog.dk

Ruth Padel''s passionate new collection is a woman''s eye view of a love affair, with darker undercurrents of mortality and loss. Shifting between vulnerability and guilt, innocence and doubt, tenderness and frustration, teasing reproach and the exaltation of deep love and sexual happiness, Padel''s extraordinarily bold and intimate book explores the complexity of emotions that go with falling in love. Wonderfully versatile in tone, it blends the lyrical and the colloquial, formality and wit, myth and the Spice Girls. It includes the poem that won the 1996 National Poetry Competition ''Icicles round a tree in Dumfriesshire''.

DKK 141.00
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Emerald - Ruth Padel - Bog - Vintage Publishing - Plusbog.dk

Emerald - Ruth Padel - Bog - Vintage Publishing - Plusbog.dk

An elegy to a lost mother, Emerald is the moving new collection from prize-winning poet Ruth Padel ‘Here in deep earth, the black blossom of mourning still sifting within me I remembered that emerald was my birthstone …’Prize-winning poet Ruth Padel’s heartfelt new collection is a grief observed: an elegy for her mother on her death at the age of ninety-seven.Exploring the riches of emerald lore, Padel follows the glint of green – ‘green for awakening / for bringing life back from the dead’ – from memories of her mother, a naturalist, to the black honeycomb of a Colombian emerald mine and sunset-pink of the Emerald City, Jaipur. Beneath everything shines the jewel itself, ‘the only stone in which the flaws are prized’. Beautifully carved and cadenced, Emerald is a moving chronicle of value and loss, and a celebration of all that is precious in the life that remains.

DKK 148.00
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The Racket - Conor Niland - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

The Racket - Conor Niland - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

THE NO. 1 BESTSELLER WINNER OF THE WILLIAM HILL SPORTS BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD 2024 '' A s elegant and powerful as a Federer backhand ... It’s Kitchen Confidential for tennis.'' Ed Caesar ''Well worth a read if you want the inside track on life on the lower rungs of the tennis circuit. Warts and all.'' Judy Murray ---- When Conor Niland was 16, he was chosen to hit with Serena Williams at Nick Bollettieri''s famed tennis academy. Conor, the Irish junior number one, was feeling a bit homesick. Serena, also 16, already owned her own house beside the academy.Conor Niland knows what it''s like when Roger Federer walks into the dressing room ( ''Ciao, bonjour, hello!'' ), and he has had the exquisitely terrible experience of facing Novak Djokovic in the world''s biggest tennis stadium - while suffering from food poisoning. But he never reached the very top. The Racket is the story of pro tennis''s 99%: the players who roam the globe in hope of climbing the rankings and squeaking into the Grand Slam tournaments. It brings us into a world where a few dozen super-rich players - travelling with coaches and physios - share a stage with lonely touring pros whose earnings barely cover their expenses. Painting a vivid picture of the social dynamics on tour, the economics of the game, and the shadows cast by gambling and doping, The Racket is a witty and revealing underdog''s memoir and a unique look inside a fascinating hidden world. ---- ''Conor Niland may only have managed a career-high ranking of 129 – only ? that is some achievement in itself! – but The Racket, his account of how he managed this, is up there with the best half-dozen books on tennis ever written.'' Geoff Dyer ''Blending a passion for his chosen sport with a realistic study of the traumas of the tour, The Racket offers a brilliant insight from Ireland’s greatest ever tennis player.’ John Boyne ''A brilliant, unvarnished look at a brutal sporting life.'' Michael Foley, Sunday Times ‘One of the best Irish sports books of the last decade’ Kieran Shannon, Irish Examiner ''This will rightly join the list of The Best Irish Sports Books Ever Written. A superb insight into professional tennis from the ground up'' Paul Howard ''I ate this book up ... reveals the sacrifices, commitment and decidedly unglamorous side of life on the tennis circuit'' Sinéad Moriarty ''A really wonderful read ... Conor Niland has delivered an all-timer for tennis and sports journalism'' Ashlee Vance ‘Genuinely such a brilliant book, a brilliant read’ Ciarán Murphy, Second Captains ‘Unsparing in his depiction of the drudgery of tennis’ Mike Jakeman, Spectator ‘Compelling’ Tennis365.com ''Brilliant book, I inhaled it'' Jonathan Drennan, Sydney Morning Herald ''Devoured it in a day ... I''ve read many tennis autobiographies: this is one of the very best'' Charles Arthur ''If it''s not a contender for Sports Book of the Year, the world has gone mad.'' Fionn Davenport, Off The Ball ''Sure to become a must read of the tennis literature canon'' Paul Perry ‘Witty and insightful … an homage to the game he clearly still loves’ Anna Carey, Irish Times ‘Honest and droll’ Laura Slattery, Irish Times '' His funny, sometimes painful, memoir, is a brilliant insider''s look at the brutally competitive world of tennis as well as a meditation on moments missed by inches.'' Sunday Independent'' A crushing reminder of the grist from which sporting greatness emerges'' The Economist ‘A visceral, melancholy and often self-lacerating book … History is usually written by the winners, but this intelligent, unvarnished, emotionally draining memoir shows why an also-ran’s perspective can be just as valuable’ Andrew Lynch, The Business Post ''A brutally honest assessment of his career and the effort it took to take him to the margins of the world’s elite.'' Tom Lyons, The Currency ‘An excellent book’ Denis Hurley, Irish Farmers Journal'' A searingly honest account of the real world of tennis’ Irish Country Living

DKK 126.00
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Darwin - Ruth Padel - Bog - Vintage Publishing - Plusbog.dk

Darwin - Ruth Padel - Bog - Vintage Publishing - Plusbog.dk

In these extraordinary poems, using multiple viewpoints - from Darwin himself, to his beloved wife Emma, and even, at one point, the orangutang at London Zoo - Ruth Padel illuminates the development of Darwin''s thought, the drama of the discovery of evolution, and the fluctuating emotions of Darwin the husband, the naturalist and the tender father, in a powerful tribute to her famous ancestor. Shortlisted for the 2009 Costa Poetry Award.

DKK 119.00
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Fusewire - Ruth Padel - Bog - Vintage Publishing - Plusbog.dk

Fusewire - Ruth Padel - Bog - Vintage Publishing - Plusbog.dk

Fusewire has the fierce historical awareness and linguistic energy of Ruth Padel''s previous collections but moves into new territory and new clarity. Poems on British activity in Ireland through the ages intrude on an intensely moving series of love poems which reverse sexual clichés of colonisation: here Britain is female and Ireland the high-profile man.From the prize-winning poet of Rembrandt Would Have Loved You, Voodoo Shop and The Soho Leopard, all shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Prize.

DKK 139.00
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The Woman Racket - Steve Moxon - Bog - Imprint Academic - Plusbog.dk

The Woman Racket - Steve Moxon - Bog - Imprint Academic - Plusbog.dk

His first book, The Great Immigration Scandal (2004), blew the whistle on abuses within the Home Office and led to the resignation of the immigration minister, Beverley Hughes. Although attacked at the time by the government and the ''liberal'' media for alarmism, Moxon''s analysis has now been adopted by most of the major political parties. Indeed his views on the dangers of multiculturalism were even echoed by the Chairman of the Commission for Racial Equality, leading the Evening Standard to claim ''Moxon appears not so much a racist as a visionary''. But immigration was never his primary interest, in fact he joined the Home Office in order to study its HR policy, as part of a decade-long investigation of men–women. This book is the result. Notwithstanding its provocative title, The Woman Racket is a serious scientific investigation into one of the key myths of our age – that women are oppressed by the ''patriarchal’ traditions of Western societies. Drawing on the latest developments in evolutionary psychology, Moxon finds that the opposite is true – men, or at least the majority of low-status males – have always been the victims of deep-rooted prejudice. As the prejudice is biologically derived, it is unconscious and can only be uncovered with the tools of scientific psychology. The book reveals this prejudice in fields as diverse as healthcare, employment, family policy and politics: compared to the long and bloody struggle for universal male suffrage, women were given the vote ‘in an historical blink of the eye’.

DKK 138.00
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52 Ways Of Looking At A Poem - Ruth Padel - Bog - Vintage Publishing - Plusbog.dk

52 Ways Of Looking At A Poem - Ruth Padel - Bog - Vintage Publishing - Plusbog.dk

Ever wondered about how to really interpret poetry? Puzzled about metre, rhyming and stanzas? Presented in language thoroughly accessible for all, poet and writer Ruth Padel demystifies poetic style, structure and meaning in this comprehensive anthology of modern poems Based on the author’s popular column in The Independent on Sunday, each poem is accompanied by an informative and entertaining explanatory excerpt by Padel. Featuring an assortment of contemporary poets from Carol Ann Duffy to Seamus Heaney, the collection thematically encompasses universal subjects of love, sex, family, death, as well as more obscure matters – for instance, loneliness when listening to the shipping forecast. A poem for each week of the year, Padel’s exploration of the literary form expertly combines technical analysis with imaginative, creative interpretation – sure to make any reader fall in love with the modern verse. ‘She argues away the idea that contemporary poetry is "difficult": all it needs is a little work and the rewards are great’ Sunday Times

DKK 141.00
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The Poem and the Journey - Ruth Padel - Bog - Vintage Publishing - Plusbog.dk

The Poem and the Journey - Ruth Padel - Bog - Vintage Publishing - Plusbog.dk

Prize-winning poet Ruth Padel is renowned as a guide to understanding today''s poetry. Her much-loved 52 Ways of Looking at a Poem introduced the contemporary poetry scene and discussed individual poems. Her new book, invaluable for all who want to write as well as read poems, reveals the journey of thought, language and music within sixty more poems and also shows how poems fortify us on the journey of our lives, in a collection of essays written in elegant, accessible prose.

DKK 139.00
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We Are All From Somewhere Else - Ruth Padel - Bog - Vintage Publishing - Plusbog.dk

We Are All From Somewhere Else - Ruth Padel - Bog - Vintage Publishing - Plusbog.dk

*First published as The Mara Crossing , now with new and updated material* ''A prodigy, a book of wonders. Wonder, pity and terror, the searing section of voices in transit coercing compassion - and beyond that, empathy'' Independent Home is where you start from, but where is a swallow''s real home? And what does ''native'' mean if the English oak is an immigrant from Spain? In ninety richly varied poems and illuminating prose interludes, Ruth Padel weaves science, myth, wild nature and human history to conjure a world created and sustained by migration - from the millennia-old journeys of cells, trees, birds and beasts to Geese battle raging winds over Mount Everest, lemurs skim precipices in Madagascar and wildebeest, at the climax of their epic trek from Tanzania, braving a river filled with the largest crocodiles in Africa. Human migration has shaped civilisation but today is one of the greatest challenges the world faces. In a series of incisive portraits, Padel turns to the struggles of human displacement - the Flight into Egypt, John James Audubon emigrating to America (feeding migrant birds en route), migrant workers in Mumbai and refugees labouring over a drastically changing planet - to show how the purpose of migration, for both humans and animals, is survival.

DKK 141.00
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Girl - Ruth Padel - Bog - Vintage Publishing - Plusbog.dk

Girl - Ruth Padel - Bog - Vintage Publishing - Plusbog.dk

A f resh and questioning look at girlhood and its icons, unravelling the millennia of myth woven around girls. ''A sensual exploration of two female archetypes'' Guardian ''One of our most gifted poets ... This is tender and exquisite poetry'' Mona Arshi, author of Small Hands In Girl , Ruth Padel presents a triptych of interlocking sequences. A moving retelling of the Christian story transforms the Virgin Mary into a girl in a Primark T-shirt, facing a life shaped by divine will. Unearthed from the Cretan labyrinth, a prehistoric Snake Goddess is reshaped at the hands of a male archaeologist.Between these evocative figures, myth turns personal. Delicately crafted lyrics, sometimes taking adventurous shapes, explore snapshots from the poet’s own life blended with archetypes from India, European fairy tale, ancient Greece and Urban Dictionary: girl as soul, girl as creative energy, girl as the sacred power of nature, vulnerable but unstoppable. ‘Listening to the snowmelt / of the patriarchy’, Girl is an urgent, revelatory work for today. **A Poetry Book Society Special Commendation**''Dazzling'' Kim Moore, author of All the Men I Never Married ''Beautiful'' Linda Gregerson, author of The Selvedge

DKK 141.00
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The Soho Leopard - Ruth Padel - Bog - Vintage Publishing - Plusbog.dk

The Soho Leopard - Ruth Padel - Bog - Vintage Publishing - Plusbog.dk

Beautiful, disturbing and a pleasure to read, Ruth Padel''s new poems are her most ambitious yet, adding animal legend and zoological science to her glitteringly imaginative canvas. With her gift for bringing together experiences and tones of voice that normally stay far apart, she sweeps us from Dulwich Pizza Hut to ancient Siberia, King''s Cross to nineteenth-century Burma. We meet Socrates, urban foxes, Louisiana alligators and the endangered Amur leopard in poems resonating with sensuous delight in nature, but also with history and loss.Finally, a Chinese painter searches for tigers in a forest doomed to the sawmill while the minister who sold it scoffs an aphrodisiac bowl of tiger-penis soup.Hallucinatory and lyrical, passionately musical, seething with life, The Soho Leopard explores our human need for wildness- and also for stories, wherever we find them. A wonderfully ferocious new collection from one of our most exciting poets.

DKK 139.00
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Beethoven Variations - Ruth Padel - Bog - Vintage Publishing - Plusbog.dk

Beethoven Variations - Ruth Padel - Bog - Vintage Publishing - Plusbog.dk

From the author of the bestselling Darwin: A Life in Poems , Ruth Padel’s new collection follows in the footsteps of one of the world’s greatest composers, Beethoven, and investigates what his life and music might mean to us today Two hundred and fifty years since Beethoven was born, Ruth Padel goes on a personal search for him, retracing his steps through war-torn Europe of the early nineteenth century, delving into his music, letters, diaries and the conversation books he used when deaf, to uncover the man behind the legend. Her quest, exploring the life of one of the most creative artists who ever lived, turns more personal than she expects, taking her into the sources of her own creativity and musicality. From a deeply musical family herself, Padel’s parents met through music, and she grew up playing chamber music on viola – Beethoven’s instrument as a child. Her father’s grandfather, a concert pianist born on the German–Danish border, studied in Leipzig with a friend of Beethoven before immigrating to the UK. The poems in this illuminating biography in verse conjure not only Beethoven’s life and personality, but her own music-making and love both of the European music-making tradition to which her father’s family belongs, and to the continent itself Europe.

DKK 134.00
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Tigers In Red Weather - Ruth Padel - Bog - Little, Brown Book Group - Plusbog.dk

Tigers In Red Weather - Ruth Padel - Bog - Little, Brown Book Group - Plusbog.dk

When Ruth Padel saw an advert for a cheap break to India, she decided to visit what she had always wanted to see: tropical jungle and a wildlife sanctuary. Her impromptu trip was the start of a remarkable two-year journey in search of that most elusive and beautiful animal: the tiger. Armed with her granny''s opera glasses and a pair of Tunisian trainers, she sets off across Asia to ask the question: can the tiger be saved from extinction in the wild? Plunging into leech-infested jungles, she tracks tigers by jeep, by elephant and on foot, from Bangladesh to Bhutan, from China to far-east Russia. The result is a unique blend of natural history, travel literature and memoir, and an intimate portrait of an animal we have loved and feared almost to destruction.

DKK 139.00
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Learning to Make an Oud in Nazareth - Ruth Padel - Bog - Vintage Publishing - Plusbog.dk

Learning to Make an Oud in Nazareth - Ruth Padel - Bog - Vintage Publishing - Plusbog.dk

''Making is our defence against the dark...'' Through images of conflict and craftsmanship, Ruth Padel’s powerful new poems address the Middle East, tracing a quest for harmony in the midst of destruction . An oud, the central instrument of Middle Eastern music , is made and broken. An ancient synagogue survives attacks, a Palestinian boy in a West Bank refugee camp learns capoeira, and a guide shows us Bethlehem''s Church of the Nativity during a siege. At the heart of the book are Christ’s last words from the Cross.Uniting this moving collection is the common ground shared by Judaism, Christianity and Islam: a vision of human life as pilgrimage and struggle but also as music and making. With care and empathy, Ruth Padel suggests how rifts in the Holy Land speak to conflict in our own hearts. ''We identify. Some chasm / through the centre must be in and of us all.''

DKK 146.00
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Daughters of The Labyrinth - Ruth Padel - Bog - Little, Brown Book Group - Plusbog.dk

Daughters of The Labyrinth - Ruth Padel - Bog - Little, Brown Book Group - Plusbog.dk

''An immersive novel, steeped in the history and folklore of Crete: transporting, historically informative story-telling'' Sunday Times ''A moving, superbly written exploration of a family with dark secrets. Crete itself becomes one of the main characters in the story'' Irish Times , Best Books 2021 ---------- This was my home. This harbour and sea. These golden alleys. But the town I grew up in has disappeared. Broken by the death of her husband, Ri, a successful international artist living in London, returns to her ancestral home of Crete. The Greek island is known for its ancient myth and mass tourism, but when Ri returns she finds a secret, darker history. As the home she left deals with a looming Brexit, and the home she rediscovered grapples with a refugee crisis, Ri confronts her changing identity. Unearthing stories from her family''s past leaves a permanent mark on her understanding of herself, her relationship to her country, and her art. Lyrical, unsettling and evocative, Daughters of the Labyrinth explores the power of buried memory and the grip of the past on the present, and questions how well we can ever know our own family. ---------- '' Daughters of the Labyrinth is a novel about a daughter''s passionate quest for the truth about what happened to her parents in Crete during the German occupation. It is also a sumptuous and sensuous evocation of Crete itself, its landscape and culture. Ruth Padel''s brings a poet''s eye to this world of great physical beauty and gnarled legacy'' Colm Tóibín

DKK 119.00
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