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  • The Twenty-Seventh City

    A Novel

    Series series Picador Modern Classics
    **25th Anniversary EditionPicador Modern ClassicsPublished in 1988, Jonathan Franzen's The Twenty-Seventh City is the debut novel of a writer who would come to define our times.**St. Louis, Missouri, is a quietly dying river city until it hires a new police chief: a charismatic young woman from Bombay, India, named S. Jammu. No sooner has Jammu been installed, though, than the city's leading ... Leer más

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  • Simply Faulkner

    Series Libro 4 - Great Lives
    “As Philip Weinstein suggests, there is no better way to begin than by plunging into the work of William Faulkner. But it’s immensely useful to have at one’s elbow a knowledgeable guide, and there is none better than Weinstein. He himself is a brilliant writer—clear, concrete, smart, suggestive—and this short book represents an ideal introduction to the major work of America’s most important ... Leer más

    $9.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Time's Bounty

    Rethinking Aging

    “A guide to growing old with grace and wisdom.”—Kirkus**“An elegant rumination....Wise, unvarnished.”—Publishers WeeklyChange your perspective about aging. Here is a bracing view of the surprises that lie ahead, as age enkindles in us new expressions of life.**Our culture isn’t kind towards age. The dominant drive is to celebrate youth, and striving for more and more of everything, while age, we ... Leer más

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  • Climate Change and Global Health

    Primary, Secondary and Tertiary Effects

    There is increasing understanding that climate change will have profound, mostly harmful effects on human health. In this authoritative book, international experts examine long-recognized areas of health concern for populations vulnerable to climate change, describing effects that are both direct, such as heat waves, and indirect, such as via vector-borne diseases. Set in a broad international, ... Leer más

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  • Jonathan Franzen

    The Comedy of Rage

    Jonathan Franzen: The Comedy of Rage is the first critical biography of one of today's most important novelists. Drawing on unpublished emails and both published and private interviews, Philip Weinstein conveys the feel and heft of Franzen's voice as he ponders the purposes and problems of his life and art, from his earliest fiction to his most recent novel, Purity.Franzen's work raises major ... Leer más

    $22.99 USD

  • Wetlands and Human Health

    Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
    The book addresses the interactions between wetlands and human health and well-being. A key feature is the linking of ecology-health and the targeting of practitioners and researchers. The environmental health problems of the 21st Century cannot be addressed by the traditional tools of ecologists or epidemiologists working in their respective disciplinary silos; this is clear from the emergence ... Leer más

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  • Individualism

    The Cultural Logic of Modernity

    Individualism: The Cultural Logic of Modernity explores ideas of the modern sovereign individual in the western cultural tradition. Divided into two sections, this volume surveys the history of western individualism in both its early and later forms: chiefly from the sixteenth to the eighteenth centuries, and then individualism in the twentieth century.These essays boldly challenge not only the ... Leer más

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  • Becoming Faulkner

    The Art and Life of William Faulkner

    William Faulkner was the greatest American novelist of the twentieth century, yet he lived a life marked by a pervasive sense of failure. Throughout his career, he remained haunted by his inability to master a series of personal and professional challenges: his less-than-heroic military career; the loss of his brother in an airplane crash; a disappointing stint as a Hollywood screenwriter; and a ... Leer más

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  • Audiolibro

    Simply Faulkner

    Narrado por Milton Bagby ...
    Series Audiolibro 4 - Great Lives

    Completo

    3 hora 56 minutos

    Nobel Laureate and two-time Pulitzer Prize-winner William Faulkner (1897–1962) was one of America’s greatest and most celebrated writers, whose work reflects and, at the same time, questions the South's most deeply held values. His novel The Sound and the Fury is frequently cited as one of the best books of all time, and all of his works powerfully explore complex societal and family issues that ... Leer más

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  • Audiolibro

    Jonathan Franzen

    The Comedy of Rage

    Narrado por Tom Zingarelli ...

    Completo

    6 hora 26 minutos

    Jonathan Franzen's work raises major questions about the possibilities of contemporary fiction: How does one appeal to a broad mass of mainstream readers, on the one hand, while persuading connoisseurs, on the other, that one's fiction has is high art? Even more acutely, how did Franzen move from the rage that animates his first two novels to the more generous comic stance of the two later novels ... Leer más

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    A Novel

    Louis Holland arrives in Boston in a spring of ecological upheaval (a rash of earthquakes on the North Shore) and odd luck: the first one kills his grandmother. Louis tries to maintain his independence, but falls in love with a Harvard seismologist whose discoveries about the earthquakes' cause complicate everything. ... Leer más

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  • How to Be Alone

    Essays

    Musings on postmodern America by the National Book Award–winning author: "Why be alone? For the pleasure of reading books such as this." — Entertainment WeeklyHow to Be Alone is a powerful collection of nonfiction by the New York Times–bestselling author of novels including The Corrections, Freedom, and Crossroads. While the essays range in subject matter from the sex-advice industry to the way a ... Leer más

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