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La recerca de la utopia a Auroville, una història d'amor i de mort

de Akash Kapur ...

Traducido por Octavi Gil Pujol ...

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Llibre de l'any segons The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal i CNN, entre d'altresSom a finals dels anys seixanta, i dos amants es troben en un àrid terreny al sud de l'Índia. John Walker és l'elegant descendent d'una poderosa família estatunidenca de la costa est, i Diane Maes, una atractiva hippy belga. Hi han fet cap per construir un món nou, Auroville, una comunitat utòpica internacional ... Leer más

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Llibre de l'any segons The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal i CNN, entre d'altresSom a finals dels anys seixanta, i dos amants es troben en un àrid terreny al sud de l'Índia. John Walker és l'elegant descendent d'una poderosa família estatunidenca de la costa est, i Diane Maes, una atractiva hippy belga. Hi han fet cap per construir un món nou, Auroville, una comunitat utòpica internacional
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Better to Have Gone

Love, Death, and the Quest for Utopia in Auroville

de Akash Kapur ...

*Named a Best Book of the Year by The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, CNN, New Statesman, Air Mail, and more * Longlisted for the Chautauqua Prize * Recipient of a Whiting Grant***A “haunting and elegant” (The Wall Street Journal) story about love, faith, the search for utopia—and the often devastating cost of idealism.It’s the late 1960s, and two lovers converge on an arid patch of earth in ... Leer más

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*Named a Best Book of the Year by The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, CNN, New Statesman, Air Mail, and more * Longlisted for the Chautauqua Prize * Recipient of a Whiting Grant***A “haunting and elegant” (The Wall Street Journal) story about love, faith, the search for utopia—and the often devastating cost of idealism.It’s the late 1960s, and two lovers converge on an arid patch of earth in
... Leer más

Disponible también en: Audiolibro
India Becoming

A Portrait of Life in Modern India

de Akash Kapur ...

A New Republic Editors' and Writers' Pick 2012**A New Yorker Contributors' Pick 2012A portrait of incredible change and economic development, of social and national transformation told through individual lives**The son of an Indian father and an American mother, Akash Kapur spent his formative years in India and his early adulthood in the United States. In 2003, he returned to his birth country ... Leer más

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A New Republic Editors' and Writers' Pick 2012**A New Yorker Contributors' Pick 2012A portrait of incredible change and economic development, of social and national transformation told through individual lives**The son of an Indian father and an American mother, Akash Kapur spent his formative years in India and his early adulthood in the United States. In 2003, he returned to his birth country
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L'Inde de demain

Les Indiens face à la mondialisation

de Akash Kapur ...

Traducido por Pierre Reignier ...

Dinnombrables livres ont été écrits sur la montée en puissance de lAsie mais on trouve rarement dans ces récits généralistes la richesse de détails, les nuances que nous offre Akash Kapur dans LInde de demain.Pour comprendre la métamorphose du pays de son enfance, il est parti à la rencontre dIndiens de tous âges, de toutes classes sociales, dans les villes et les campagnes. Il a tiré de son ... Leer más

$26.99 USD

Dinnombrables livres ont été écrits sur la montée en puissance de lAsie mais on trouve rarement dans ces récits généralistes la richesse de détails, les nuances que nous offre Akash Kapur dans LInde de demain.Pour comprendre la métamorphose du pays de son enfance, il est parti à la rencontre dIndiens de tous âges, de toutes classes sociales, dans les villes et les campagnes. Il a tiré de son
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Conversations and Monologues

de Akash Kapur ...

Summing up six years of learning, writing, and growing, Conversations and Monologues is Akashs debut poetry collection. Spanning themes such as love, loss, apathy, and more, this book will take you to places that are happy, melancholic, and sometimes, just playfully absurd. So dig in and settle down for a series of conversations on joys, sorrows, and living. ... Leer más

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Summing up six years of learning, writing, and growing, Conversations and Monologues is Akashs debut poetry collection. Spanning themes such as love, loss, apathy, and more, this book will take you to places that are happy, melancholic, and sometimes, just playfully absurd. So dig in and settle down for a series of conversations on joys, sorrows, and living.
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Better to Have Gone

Love, Death, and the Quest for Utopia in Auroville

de Akash Kapur ...

Narrado por Vikas Adam ...

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12 hora 38 minutos

*Named a Best Book of the Year by The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, CNN, New Statesman, Air Mail, and more * Longlisted for the Chautauqua Prize * Recipient of a Whiting Grant***A “haunting and elegant” (The Wall Street Journal) story about love, faith, the search for utopia—and the often devastating cost of idealism.It’s the late 1960s, and two lovers converge on an arid patch of earth in ... Leer más

$26.99 USD

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*Named a Best Book of the Year by The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, CNN, New Statesman, Air Mail, and more * Longlisted for the Chautauqua Prize * Recipient of a Whiting Grant***A “haunting and elegant” (The Wall Street Journal) story about love, faith, the search for utopia—and the often devastating cost of idealism.It’s the late 1960s, and two lovers converge on an arid patch of earth in
... Leer más

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Joan: A Novel of Joan of Arc

de Katherine J. Chen ...

Narrado por Hannah Morrish ...

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14 hora 6 minutos

**“This is not your grandmother’s St. Joan. . . . If every generation gets the Joan it deserves, ours could do worse than an ass-kicking, avenging angel fighting simply for the right to fight.”—The New York Times Book ReviewWINNER OF THE AMERICAN LIBRARY IN PARIS BOOK AWARD • “It is as if Chen has crept inside a statue and breathed a soul into it, re-creating Joan of Arc as a woman for our time.” ... Leer más

$22.99 USD

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**“This is not your grandmother’s St. Joan. . . . If every generation gets the Joan it deserves, ours could do worse than an ass-kicking, avenging angel fighting simply for the right to fight.”—The New York Times Book ReviewWINNER OF THE AMERICAN LIBRARY IN PARIS BOOK AWARD • “It is as if Chen has crept inside a statue and breathed a soul into it, re-creating Joan of Arc as a woman for our time.”
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American Fascists

The Christian Right and the War on America

de Chris Hedges ...

Narrado por Chris Hedges, Eunice Wong ...

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8 hora 10 minutos

Twenty-five years ago, when Pat Robertson and other radio and televangelists first spoke of the United States becoming a Christian nation that would build a global Christian empire, it was hard to take such hyperbolic rhetoric seriously. Today, such language no longer sounds like hyperbole but poses, instead, a very real threat to our freedom and our way of life. In American Fascists, veteran ... Leer más

$16.99 USD

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Twenty-five years ago, when Pat Robertson and other radio and televangelists first spoke of the United States becoming a Christian nation that would build a global Christian empire, it was hard to take such hyperbolic rhetoric seriously. Today, such language no longer sounds like hyperbole but poses, instead, a very real threat to our freedom and our way of life. In American Fascists, veteran
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The Jewel House

Elizabethan London and the Scientific Revolution

de Deborah E. Harkness ...

Narrado por Kate Reading ...

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14 hora 13 minutos

Bestselling author Deborah E. Harkness explores the streets, shops, back alleys, and gardens of Elizabethan London, where a boisterous and diverse group of men and women shared a keen interest in the study of nature. These assorted merchants, gardeners, barber-surgeons, midwives, instrument makers, mathematics teachers, engineers, alchemists, and other experimenters, she contends, formed a ... Leer más

$21.99 USD

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Bestselling author Deborah E. Harkness explores the streets, shops, back alleys, and gardens of Elizabethan London, where a boisterous and diverse group of men and women shared a keen interest in the study of nature. These assorted merchants, gardeners, barber-surgeons, midwives, instrument makers, mathematics teachers, engineers, alchemists, and other experimenters, she contends, formed a
... Leer más

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Blue Angel

A Novel

de Francine Prose ...

Narrado por Zach Villa ...

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11 hora 47 minutos

**The National Book Award Finalist from acclaimed New York Times bestselling author Francine Prose—now the major motion picture Submission“Screamingly funny … Blue Angel culminates in a sexual harassment hearing that rivals the Salem witch trials.” —USA Today**It's been years since Swenson, a professor in a New England creative writing program, has published a novel. It's been even longer since ... Leer más

$28.99 USD

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**The National Book Award Finalist from acclaimed New York Times bestselling author Francine Prose—now the major motion picture Submission“Screamingly funny … Blue Angel culminates in a sexual harassment hearing that rivals the Salem witch trials.” —USA Today**It's been years since Swenson, a professor in a New England creative writing program, has published a novel. It's been even longer since
... Leer más

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A Swim in a Pond in the Rain

In Which Four Russians Give a Master Class on Writing, Reading, and Life

de George Saunders ...

Narrado por George Saunders, Phylicia Rashad, Nick Offerman, Glenn Close, Keith David, Rainn Wilson, BD Wong, Renée Elise Goldsberry ...

Completo

14 hora 44 minutos

From the New York Times bestselling, Booker Prize–winning author of Lincoln in the Bardo and Tenth of December comes a literary master class on what makes great stories work and what they can tell us about ourselves—and our world today.For the last twenty years, George Saunders has been teaching a class on the Russian short story to his MFA students at Syracuse University. In A Swim in a Pond in ... Leer más

$22.99 USD

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From the New York Times bestselling, Booker Prize–winning author of Lincoln in the Bardo and Tenth of December comes a literary master class on what makes great stories work and what they can tell us about ourselves—and our world today.For the last twenty years, George Saunders has been teaching a class on the Russian short story to his MFA students at Syracuse University. In A Swim in a Pond in
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Walking to Samarkand

The Great Silk Road from Persia to Central Asia

de Bernard Ollivier ...

Narrado por Nigel Patterson ...

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11 hora 10 minutos

Walking to Samarkand is journalist Bernard Ollivier's stunning account of the second leg of his 7,200-mile walk from Istanbul, Turkey, to Xi'an, China, along the Silk Road—the longest and perhaps most mythical trade route of all time.After crossing the final mountain passes of Turkish Kurdistan, Ollivier sets foot in Iran, keen on locating vestiges of the silk trade as he passes through Persia's ... Leer más

$24.99 USD

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Walking to Samarkand is journalist Bernard Ollivier's stunning account of the second leg of his 7,200-mile walk from Istanbul, Turkey, to Xi'an, China, along the Silk Road—the longest and perhaps most mythical trade route of all time.After crossing the final mountain passes of Turkish Kurdistan, Ollivier sets foot in Iran, keen on locating vestiges of the silk trade as he passes through Persia's
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