The Nobel Lecture, Hardcover

Reducere. Published for the first time in a beautiful collectible edition, the essential lecture delivered by the 2016 recipient of the Nobel Prize in Litera...

Published for the first time in book form, the lecture delivered by the 2016 recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature, Bob Dylan.

Reducere. "We cannot change the cards we are dealt, just how we play the hand."---Randy Pausch A lot of professors give talks titled "The Last Lecture." Prof...

Reducere. "We cannot change the cards we are dealt, just how we play the hand."---Randy Pausch A lot of professors give talks titled "The Last Lecture." Prof...

A revelatory examination of the Nobel Peace Prize--the most prestigious, admired, and controversial honor of our time. The Nobel Prize, regardless ...

"I would like . . . to help dreamers, they find it hard to get on in life." -- Alfred Nobel Alfred Nobel, born in Sweden in 1833, was a brilliant i...

Reducere. Almost everyone has heard of the Nobel Prize, a collection of prizes awarded for accomplishments in science, medicine, literature, and peace. But f...

Reducere. One day in 1996, the neuroscientist Eric R. Kandel took a call from his project officer at the National Institute of Mental Health, who informed hi...

This biography covers the scientific and human aspects of Marie's life, detailing her tumultuous personal history at a time of social upheaval, and...

Discover some of the inspirational men and women who have received Nobel Prizes in Physics, Chemistry and Medicine from 1901 to the present day, am...

Reducere. DescriptionBertha von Suttner was a pioneer in the peace movement at the end of the 19th century, while Alfred Nobel earned his fortune on the inve...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Alexander UnzickerDid the Nobel Prize In Physics in 2013 Make Einstein Turn In His Grave? The Higgs Fake - How Particle Phy...

The first-ever account of the world's leading prize written by a prominent insider in the Nobel system.

Gordon Gould woke up one night in his Bronx, New York, apartment, opened a laboratory notebook and wrote: "Some rough calculations on the feasibili...

In these essays Mahfouz comments on Egyptian politics, the role of Parliament and the institutional changes that took place in Egypt after Honsi Mu...

In the late 1930s and early 1940s, Roger Martin du Gard was one of the most famous writers in the Western world. He won the Nobel Prize for Literat...

Reducere. Even the greatest minds in medicine have been terribly, terribly wrong.The inventor of the lobotomy won a Nobel prize in medicine for destroying hi...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCAuthor(s): Abdulrazak GurnahNumber of pages: 272Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 129 x 198 x 20Cover type: Pap...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCAuthor(s): Abdulrazak GurnahNumber of pages: 304Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 129 x 198 x 22Cover type: Pap...

1948. Japan is rebuilding her cities after the calamity of WWII, her people putting defeat behind them and looking to the future. The celebrated pa...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCAuthor(s): Abdulrazak GurnahNumber of pages: 208Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 129 x 199 x 23Cover type: Pap...

The story of the winners of the world's most prestigious prize, now updated to include the 2009 recipients.

During her lifelong service to the poorest of the poor, Mother Teresa became an icon of compassion to people of all religions, and none.

Reducere. An illuminating collection of inspirational poems by a Nobel Laureate While traveling through one of the poorest regions in India, W. B. Yeats was ...

The never-before-told account of the intersection ofsome of the most insightful minds of the 20th century, and a fascinating look at how war, resis...

Engines of industry, expressions of ego or will, tall towers are nonetheless, when they pierce the shared skies, intensely public. We may ask of th...

This book, "A voyage round the world, . in his britannic majesty's sloop, resolution, commanded by Capt. James Cook, during the years 1772, 3, 4, a...

This book, "The way of the eagle", by Charles John Biddle, is a replication of a book originally published before 1919. It has been restored by hum...

This book, "Lays from the land of the Gael", by Anna Louisa Hildebrand, is a replication. It has been restored by human beings, page by page, so th...

''Thomas Mann este poate unul dintre cei mai sfasiati artisti din secolul nostru. Nevoia de a se dedica operei nu este contrazisa, ca la Kafka, de ...

Considerata imorala de Biserica Catolica si de guvernul generalului Franco, Stupul (1951), capodopera lui Cela, a fost interzisa in Spania pentru m...

Romanul imprumuta de la Vergiliu ceva din normativul sacru al literaturii europene. Inovatia reconstituie in cheia noului roman un corp narativ pol...

Dupa ce isi ucide fratele intr-un moment de frustrare, Cain ajunge la o intelegere cu un Dumnezeu care capata o ciudata aparenta dictatoriala si sc...

Avem de‑a face, prin urmare, cu doua epoci apuse, insa din intrebarile pe care si le pun personajele, ni se sugereaza, cu blinda ironie, ca s-ar pu...

Dintre cele trei romane dedicate clanului Snopes, Catunul ilustreaza cel mai bine denuntarea pe care Faulkner o face snopesism-ului - si, de asemen...

Neinfrantii contine o serie de povestiri , actiunea se petrece in comitatul Yoknapatawpha, care au centru familia Sartoris (familia care apare pent...

Poate cel mai accesibil si mai romantic volum din Trilogia familiei Snopes, Orasul urmareste traseul existential ascendent al lui Flem Snopes, simb...

Un roman care analizeaza natura raului, inspirat din operele lui T.S. Eliot si Freud. O poveste sumbra, foarte violenta pentru acele vremuri (carte...

Scris in 1929, Sartoris este primul dintre cele cincisprezece romane dedicate comitatului Yoknapatawpha, dar si prima opera de maturitate, reprezen...

Una dintre cele mai importante creatii existentialiste ale lui Jean-Paul Sartre, Zidul (1939) este o colectie de cinci nuvele, reprezentative pentr...

Mai 1905, trei pusti din Jefferson. Lucius Priest, in varsta de 11 ani, este convins de Boon Hogganbeck, unul dintre angajatii familiei sale, sa fu...

Suprema lui creatie umoristica este plasata in Cotul Frantuzului, o comunitate din tinutuil Yoknapatawpha cel populat de albi, lipsit atat de repre...

Erika, fiica-model si celibatara la treizeci si cinci de ani, preda la Conservatorul din Viena, merge la peep show-uri si frecventeaza localuri dub...

Ca si in romanele anterioare ale scriitorului portughez, in Pestera se confrunta doua universuri distincte: unul aflat intr-un rapid proces de disp...

Cutreierind lumea si timpurile, calatorul fara virsta perturba povestile unei intregi distributii de personaje familiare – Noe, Moise, Isaac –, sch...

Reducere. Orhan Pamuk este laureatul Premiului Nobel pentru Literatura in anul 2006. Istanbul impleteste in paginile unei singure carti doua povesti la fel d...

Povestea celor doua eroine ale romanului Amantele, Paula si Brigitte, se petrece intr-un orasel austriac de munte. Aparent, cele doua femei au cara...

Mama este povestea unei femei aparent neinsemnate, dintr-o lume indepartata si ingropata in istorie. Romanul zugraveste intr-un limbaj viu portretu...

Lucarna este un roman de atmosfera, in care personajele sint lasate sa respire, sa-si exprime nemultumirile, sa evolueze ca intr-o piesa de teatru ...

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