This Is Water: Some Thoughts, Delivered on a Significant Occasion, about Living a Compassionate Life, Hardcover - David Foster Wallace

Only once did David Foster Wallace give a public talk on his views on life, during a commencement address given in 2005 at Kenyon College. The spee...

A unique portrait of the life and death of a writer who inspired a generation

DescriptionWhat makes life worth living? If you ask Lord Birthday, the answer is visor hats. And lighthouses. And the stranger who gave him a half-...

From the author of the beloved New York Times best-selling The End of Your Life Book Club, an inspiring and magical exploration of the power of boo...

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Teoria corzilor aduna pentru prima oara celebrele eseuri despre tenis ale lui David Foster Wallace, insotite de o eleganta introducere a scriitorul...

Asta este apa. Cateva ganduri despre cum sa traiesti o viata plina de compasiune, exprimate la o ocazie speciala Credem ca o sa-ti placa pentru ca:...

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Reducere. Where do you begin with a writer as original and brilliant as David Foster Wallace? Here--with a carefully considered selection of his extraordinar...

Reducere. Life is short. You can, if you work hard and are lucky, get more of almost anything, but you can't get more time. Time only goes one way. The avera...

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

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Reducere. The agents at the IRS Regional Examination Center in Peoria, Illinois, appear ordinary enough to newly arrived trainee David Foster Wallace. But as...

Reducere. Nothing About This is Easy and Here is Why is a short book that has taken a lifetime to write. It is filled with little stories from Mari Stein's A...

Reducere. DescriptionIn this thought-provoking and playful short story collection, David Foster Wallace nudges at the boundaries of fiction with inimitable w...

Reducere. Is infinity a valid mathematical property or a meaningless abstraction? The nineteenth-century mathematical genius Georg Cantor's answer to this qu...

Reducere. Girl with Curious Hair is replete with David Foster Wallace's remarkable and unsettling reimaginations of reality. From the eerily "real, " almost ...

Reducere. Un adevarat tur de forta, cu multiple personaje, niveluri de lectura, intrigi, interpretari si semnificatii, al caror liant este Lenore Beadsman, e...

DescriptionAn expanded edition featuring new interviews and an introduction by the editor, a New York Times journalist and friend of the author A u...

Following on from her advocacy of religion The Case For God, Armstrong makes the case for compassion, in this urgent appeal to establish empathy an...

A hilarious, heartfelt memoir about one woman's midlife obsession with Benedict Cumberbatch, and the liberating power of reclaiming our passions as...

Matura sistemului - David Foster Wallace

DescriptionOn its ten-year anniversary of publication, we are pleased to re-issue this popular title. Editor Michael Schut presents a rare collecti...

When a women receives an unexpected positive pregnancy test, abortion often seems like the best or only option for a fulfilling future. Unplanned G...

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Reducere. In this important and thought-provoking work, Karen Armstrong one of the most original thinkers on the role of religion in the modern world provide...

A hilarious argument in favor of taking life a smidge less seriouslyPopular humor writer Anna Lind Thomas had an epiphany after her essay about a h...

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