Portrait in Death

Barbara Earl Thomas: The Geography of Innocence, Paperback - Catharina Manchanda

133,99 RON 143,99 RON

Reducere. Barbara Earl Thomas's new body of work carries within it the sediments of history and grapples with race and the color line. At the heart of it lie...

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Pol Pot: Anatomy of a Nightmare - Philip Short

134,54 RON 192,20 RON

Reducere. The text sparkles with shrewdly plausible inferences mortared into a compelling narrative... Short is excellent at coining pithy summations of poli...

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Edgar Allen Poe: His Life and Legacy, Paperback - Jeffrey Meyers

137,99 RON 147,99 RON

Reducere. This biography of Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849), a giant of American literature who invented both the horror and detective genres, is a portrait of e...

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Dead Souls by Nikolai Gogol: Unabridged 1842 Original Version, Paperback - Nikolai Gogol

138,99 RON 148,99 RON

Reducere. Dead Souls is a novel by Nikolai Gogol, first published in 1842, and widely regarded as an exemplar of 19th-century Russian literature. The purpose...

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Billy Above the Roofs, Paperback - Bob Ross

138,99 RON 148,99 RON

Reducere. Bob Ross writes with an authenticity as poetic and unforgiving as the Nebraska Sandhills themselves. The nine connected stories Billy Above the Roo...

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Damned to Fame: The Life of Samuel Beckett, Paperback - James Knowlson

139,99 RON 149,99 RON

Reducere. Damned to Fame is the brilliant and insightful portrait of Nobel Prize-winning author Samuel Beckett, mysterious and reclusive master of twentieth-...

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The Lone Samurai: The Life of Miyamoto Musashi, Paperback - William Scott Wilson

140,99 RON 150,99 RON

Reducere. Miyamoto Musashi (1584‒1645) was the legendary samurai known throughout the world as a master swordsman, spiritual seeker, and author of the classi...

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Eight Days to Live, Paperback - Iris Johansen

140,99 RON 150,99 RON

Reducere. DescriptionNumber-one New York Times bestselling author Iris Johansen delivers a thriller that will chill you to the core: Eve Duncan's adopted dau...

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Broadchurch, Paperback - Erin Kelly

141,99 RON 151,99 RON

Reducere. In the sleepy British seaside town of Broadchurch, Detective Ellie Miller has just returned from vacation, only to learn that she's been passed ove...

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Break on Through: The Life and Death of Jim Morrison, Paperback - James Riordan

143,99 RON 154,99 RON

Reducere. Thirty-five years after his death in Paris at age twenty-seven, Jim Morrison's iconic legend remains as powerful as ever, swathed in the mists of m...

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Marie Curie: A Life, Paperback - Susan Quinn

143,99 RON 154,99 RON

Reducere. One hundred years ago, Marie Curie discovered radioactivity, for which she won the Nobel Prize in physics. In 1911 she won an unprecedented second ...

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A Perfect Union: Dolley Madison and the Creation of the American Nation, Paperback - Catherine Allgor

143,99 RON 154,99 RON

Reducere. "Delightful and discerning . . . In this evocative study a remarkable woman, creator of the 'first lady' role, comes vividly to life."--The New Yor...

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Enter Night: A Biography of Metallica, Paperback - Mick Wall

145,99 RON 156,99 RON

Reducere. Sprung from the roots of 70s hard rock, Metallica defined the look and sound of 1980s heavy metal, just as Led Zeppelin had for hard rock and the S...

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The Great Mistake, Hardcover - Jonathan Lee

146,99 RON 157,99 RON

Reducere. An exultant novel of New York City at the turn of the twentieth century, about one man's rise to fame and fortune, and his mysterious murder--"rive...

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Francis of Assisi: A New Biography, Hardcover - Augustine Thompson O. P.

148,99 RON 159,99 RON

Reducere. Among the most beloved saints in the Catholic tradition, Francis of Assisi (c. 1181-1226) is popularly remembered for his dedication to poverty, hi...

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Good Grief: On Loving Pets, Here and Hereafter, Hardcover - E. B. Bartels

148,99 RON 159,99 RON

Reducere. An unexpected, poignant, and personal account of loving and losing pets, exploring the singular bonds we have with our companion animals, and how t...

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Seeing Ghosts: A Memoir, Hardcover - Kat Chow

149,99 RON 160,99 RON

Reducere. For readers of Helen Macdonald and Elizabeth Alexander, an intimate and haunting portrait of grief and the search for meaning from a singular new t...

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Rembrandt, Paperback - Christopher White

154,99 RON 165,99 RON

Reducere. DescriptionRembrandt is among the few outstanding artists of universal appeal. Yet he remains an elusive figure, too often the subject of romantic ...

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The Portable Malcolm X Reader, Paperback - Manning Marable

155,99 RON 166,99 RON

Reducere. A look at Malcolm X's life and times from his Pulitzer Prize winning biographer, Manning Marable Manning Marable's Pulitzer Prize winning biography...

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The Greatest Communicator: What Ronald Reagan Taught Me about Politics, Leadership, and Life, Hardcover - Dick Wirthlin

155,99 RON 166,99 RON

Reducere. The outpouring of grief and heartfelt tributes following Ronald Reagan's death demonstrated the love and admiration people still have for our natio...

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The Search for John Lennon: The Life, Loves, and Death of a Rock Star, Hardcover - Lesley-Ann Jones

158,99 RON 170,99 RON

Reducere. Pulling back the many hidden layers of John Lennon's life, Lesley-Ann Jones closely tracks the events and personality traits that led to the rock s...

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In the Face of Death We Are Equal, Hardcover - Mu Cao

158,99 RON

"Those who know me call me Old He, and they also know that I've worked in a crematorium for my entire life." Here begins Mu Cao's novel In the Face...

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King and Emperor: A New Life of Charlemagne, Paperback - Janet L. Nelson

158,99 RON 170,99 RON

Reducere. "King and Emperor takes on the compelling suspense of good detective work as well as good history."--The Wall Street Journal Charles I, often known...

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Naked (in Italy): A Memoir About the Pitfalls of La Dolce Vita, Hardcover - M. E. Evans

159,99 RON 171,99 RON

Reducere. New author M.E. Evans debuts with a profoundly intimate and wildly entertaining portrait of a young woman trying to cope with life's lemons by drow...

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Wild Thing: The Short, Spellbinding Life of Jimi Hendrix, Hardcover - Philip Norman

160,99 RON 172,99 RON

Reducere. Over fifty years after his death, Jimi Hendrix (1942-1970) is celebrated as the greatest rock guitarist of all time. But before he was setting guit...

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Notes on an Execution, Paperback - Danya Kukafka

160,99 RON 172,99 RON

Reducere. A searing portrait of the complicated women caught in the orbit of a serial killer. . . . Compassionate and thought-provoking. -BRIT BENNETT, #1 Ne...

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The Nine Lives of Pakistan: Dispatches from a Precarious State, Hardcover - Declan Walsh

161,99 RON 173,99 RON

Reducere. Declan Walsh is one of the New York Times's most distinguished international correspondents. His electrifying portrait of Pakistan over a tumultuou...

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The Famished Road: Introduction by Vanessa Guignery, Hardcover - Ben Okri

163,99 RON

A beautiful hardcover Contemporary Classics edition of Nigerian author Ben Okri's lushly imaginative novel, which was awarded the Booker Prize in 1...

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As I Knew Him: My Dad, Rod Serling, Paperback - Anne Serling

166,99 RON 178,99 RON

Reducere. In this deeply intimate and soulful memoir about her father, Anne Serling reveals the fun-loving dad and family man behind the serious figure the p...

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Studs Lonigan, Paperback - James T. Farrell

169,99 RON 181,99 RON

Reducere. Collected here in one volume is James T. Farrell's renowned trilogy of the youth, early manhood, and death of Studs Lonigan: Young Lonigan, The You...

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The Shadowy Third: Love, Letters, and Elizabeth Bowen, Paperback - Julia Parry

170,99 RON 182,99 RON

Reducere. 'A fascinating and moving portrait of love, loyalty and infidelity.' Sarah WatersA sudden death in the family delivers Julia Parry a box of love le...

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Painting Is a Supreme Fiction: Writings by Jesse Murry, 1980-1993, Paperback - Jesse Murry

170,99 RON 182,99 RON

Reducere. Art writing, theory, poetry and more from a leading champion of "painting as a poetic act"This unprecedented collection compiles the writings of ar...

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Me & Patsy Kickin' Up Dust: My Friendship with Patsy Cline, Hardcover - Loretta Lynn

170,99 RON 182,99 RON

Reducere. Me & Patsy Kickin' Up Dust shares the"important and inspiring" (Miranda Lambert) never-before-told complete story of the remarkable relationship be...

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Catherine the Great: Love, Sex, and Power, Paperback - Virginia Rounding

171,99 RON 184,99 RON

Reducere. From the acclaimed author of Grandes Horizontales comes a book that the Washington Post calls "a vivid portrait of a sensual and intellectual woman...

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Bogie and Bacall - William J. Mann

173,60 RON 248,00 RON

Reducere. Bogie & Bacall: The Surprising True Story of Hollywood's Greatest Love Affair From the noted Hollywood biographer and author of The Contender comes...

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Carrie Fisher: A Life on the Edge, Hardcover - Sheila Weller

175,99 RON

DescriptionA remarkably candid biography of the remarkably candid--and brilliant--Carrie FisherIn her 2008 bestseller, Girls Like Us, Sheila Weller...

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Ninety-Nine Glimpses of Princess Margaret, Hardcover - Craig Brown

176,99 RON

A witty and profound portrait of the most talked-about English royalShe made John Lennon blush and Marlon Brando tongue-tied. She iced out Princess...

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My Penguin Year: Living with the Emperors, Hardcover - Lindsay McCrae

177,99 RON 190,99 RON

Reducere. DescriptionAn unprecedentedly intimate portrait of an emperor penguin colony in Antarctica, by a Bafta Award-winning BBC director of photography wh...

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Charles Addams: A Cartoonist's Life, Hardcover - Linda H. Davis

178,99 RON 191,99 RON

Reducere. In this first biography of the great cartoonist, Charles Addams, written with exclusive access to Addam's intimates and his private papers, we fina...

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So What: The Life of Miles Davis, Paperback - John Szwed

181,99 RON 194,99 RON

Reducere. Musical genius, visionary artist, enigma -- more than ten years after his death, Miles Davis still looms large as a cultural icon. In this, the fir...

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King and Emperor: A New Life of Charlemagne, Hardcover - Janet L. Nelson

185,99 RON 199,99 RON

Reducere. DescriptionCharles I, often known as Charlemagne, is one of the most extraordinary figures ever to rule an empire. Driven by unremitting physical e...

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Bernard of Clairvaux: An Inner Life, Hardcover - Brian Patrick McGuire

186,99 RON 200,99 RON

Reducere. In this intimate portrait of one of the Middle Ages' most consequential men, Brian Patrick McGuire delves into the life of Saint Bernard of Clairva...

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Napoleon - Ruth Scurr

188,99 RON

A revelatory portrait of Napoleon to mark the 200th anniversary of his death, written for our own time, not in power politics or epic battles, but ...

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The Letters of Ernest Hemingway: Volume 5, 1932-1934: 1932-1934, Hardcover - Ernest Hemingway

190,99 RON 204,99 RON

Reducere. The Letters of Ernest Hemingway, Volume 5, spanning 1932 through May 1934, traces the completion and publication of Death in the Afternoon and Winn...

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Stewards in the Kingdom: A Theology of Life in All Its Fullness, Paperback - R. Scott Rodin

191,99 RON 205,99 RON

Reducere. DescriptionToo often we think stewardship concerns only the money we give to the church. But in the image of the steward, the Bible offers a perspe...

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Calamity, Hardcover - Libbie Hawker

192,99 RON 206,99 RON

Reducere. Her name is synonymous with the West. Her celebrity has spread to the East Coast and California, traveling down the new-laid railroads and along th...

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Mishima, Aesthetic Terrorist: An Intellectual Portrait, Paperback - Andrew Rankin

194,99 RON

Half a century after his shocking samurai-style suicide, Yukio Mishima (1925-1970) remains a deeply controversial figure. Though his writings and l...

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Seamus Heaney, Paperback - Helen Vendler

202,99 RON 217,99 RON

Reducere. Join Professor Helen Vendler in her course lecture on the Yeats poem "Among School Children." View her insightful and passionate analysis along wit...

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John Marshall: Definer of a Nation, Paperback - Jean Edward Smith

203,99 RON 218,99 RON

Reducere. A New York Times Notable Book of 1996It was in tolling the death of Chief Justice John Marshall in 1835 that the Liberty Bell cracked, never to rin...

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The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson (Hardcover) - Emily Dickinson

203,99 RON 218,99 RON

Reducere. DescriptionThis complete compendium of Emily Dickenson's poetry offers the reader a vivid portrait of one of Massachusetts' most famous and enigmat...

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For Glory and Bolivar: The Remarkable Life of Manuela Saenz, Paperback - Pamela S. Murray

203,99 RON 218,99 RON

Reducere. She was a friend, lover, and confidante of charismatic Spanish American independence hero Simon Bolivar and, after her death, a nationalist icon in...

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The Jane Austen Collection - Jane Austen

207,99 RON

Pride and Prejudice - An elegant tableau revolving around the five Bennett daughters, including clever, strong-spirited Elizabeth. Austen's masterp...

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The Exile: Portrait of An American Mother, Hardcover - Pearl S. Buck

208,99 RON 223,99 RON

Reducere. The Exile: Portrait of an American Mother is Pearl S. Buck'sintensely moving memoir of her mother, Caroline (Carrie) Stulting Sydenstricker, whoset...

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The Picture of Dorian Gray, Hardcover - Oscar Wilde

209,99 RON 224,99 RON

Reducere. A narcissistic young man falls under the influence of a hedonist who declares that beauty and sensual fulfillment are all that matters. To ensure t...

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The Weidners in Wartime: Letters of Daily Survival and Heroism Under Nazi Rule, Hardcover - Janet Holmes Carper

210,99 RON 225,99 RON

Reducere. The Weidners in Wartime is the intimate story, told in their own words, of a family separated by war. Despite the dangers of writing under the insp...

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Acute Misfortune: The Life and Death of Adam Cullen, Hardcover - Erik Jensen

210,99 RON 225,99 RON

Reducere. Acute Misfortune is an unflinching portrait of talent and addiction.In 2008, the artist Adam Cullen invited journalist Erik Jensen to stay in his s...

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Schopenhauer: A Biography, Paperback - David E. Cartwright

224,99 RON 240,99 RON

Reducere. Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860) was one of the most original and provocative thinkers of the nineteenth century. He spent a lifetime striving to un...

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Emerson, Paperback - Robert D. Richardson

238,99 RON 255,99 RON

Reducere. Ralph Waldo Emerson is one of the most important figures in the history of American thought, religion, and literature. The vitality of his writings...

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In Byron's Wake: The Turbulent Lives of Lord Byron's Wife and Daughter: Annabella Milbanke and ADA Lovelace, Paperback - Miranda Seymour

240,99 RON 257,99 RON

Reducere. A masterful portrait of two remarkable women, revealing how two turbulent lives were always haunted by the dangerously enchanting, quicksilver spir...

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Miyamoto Musashi: A Life in Arms, Paperback - William De Lange

243,99 RON 261,99 RON

Reducere. THE FIRST FULLY ILLUSTRATED BIOGRAPHY OF JAPAN'S GREATEST SWORDSMANMiyamoto Musashi (1584-1645) is the most celebrated swordsman in Japanese histor...

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Ancient Mesopotamia: Portrait of a Dead Civilization, Paperback - A. Leo Oppenheim

255,99 RON

Description"This splendid work of scholarship . . . sums up with economy and power all that the written record so far deciphered has to tell about ...

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Buddy Bolden and the Last Days of Storyville, Paperback - Danny Barker

259,99 RON 278,99 RON

Reducere. DescriptionThe first volume of Barker's memoirs, A Life in Jazz, followed him from New Orleans into the big bands of Cab Calloway and Benny Carter....

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The Coffin Ship: Life and Death at Sea During the Great Irish Famine, Hardcover - Cian T. McMahon

261,99 RON 280,99 RON

Reducere. A vivid, new portrait of Irish migration through the letters and diaries of those who fled their homeland during the Great Famine The standard stor...

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The Order Has Been Carried Out: History, Memory, and Meaning of a Nazi Massacre in Rome, Paperback - Alessandro Portelli

271,99 RON 291,99 RON

Reducere. On March 24, 1944, Nazi occupation forces in Rome killed 335 unarmed civilians in retaliation for a partisan attack the day before. Portelli has cr...

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A Journey to Freedom: Richard Oakes, Alcatraz, and the Red Power Movement, Hardcover - Kent Blansett

273,99 RON

DescriptionThe first book-length biography of Richard Oakes, a Red Power activist of the 1960s who was a leader in the Alcatraz takeover and the In...

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After the Last Sky: Palestinian Lives, Paperback - Edward Said

277,99 RON 297,99 RON

Reducere. A searing portrait of Palestinian life and identity that is at once an exploration of Edward Said's unclaimable past and a testimony to the lives o...

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Batman: The Definitive History of the Dark Knight in Comics, Film, and Beyond, Hardcover - Andrew Farago

304,99 RON

DescriptionThe Caped Crusader. The Dark Knight. The World's Greatest Detective. Bats. Since his 1939 debut in the pages of Detective Comics, Batman...

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Built for Speed: A Year in the Life of Pronghorn, Hardcover - John A. Byers

337,99 RON 361,99 RON

Reducere. DescriptionNorth America's fastest mammal, the pronghorn, can accelerate explosively from a standing start to a top speed of 60 miles per hour - bu...

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The Rise of Analytic Philosophy, 1879-1930: From Frege to Ramsey, Paperback - Michael Potter

364,99 RON

In this book Michael Potter offers a fresh and compelling portrait of the birth of modern analytic philosophy, viewed through the lens of a detaile...

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This Land: An American Portrait, Hardcover - Jack Spencer

370,99 RON 396,99 RON

Reducere. Jarred by the 9/11 attacks, photographer Jack Spencer set out in 2003 -in hopes of making a few 'sketches' of America in order to gain some clarity...

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