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-Titulo Original : The Revenant: A Novel Of Revenge-Fabricante : Picador-Descripcion Original: BESTSELLER The year is 1823, and the trappers of the Rocky Mountain Fur Company live a brutal frontier life. Hugh Glass is among the company’s finest men, an experienced frontiersman and an expert tracker. But when a scouting mission puts him face-to-face with a grizzly bear, he is viciously mauled and not expected to survive. Two company men are dispatched to stay behind and tend to Glass before he dies. When the men abandon him instead, Glass is driven to survive by one desire: revenge. With shocking grit and determination, Glass sets out, crawling at first, across hundreds of miles of uncharted American frontier. Based on a true story, The Revenant is a remarkable tale of obsession, the human will stretched to its limits, and the lengths that one man will go to for retribution...

-Titulo Original : The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test-Fabricante : Picador-Descripcion Original: Tom Wolfe's The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test ushered in an era of New Journalism, "An American classic" (Newsweek) that defined a generation. "An astonishing book" (The New York Times Book Review) and an unflinching portrait of Ken Kesey, his Merry Pranksters, LSD, and the 1960s...

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-Titulo Original : Cant Stop Wont Stop: A History Of The Hip-Hop Generation (PICADOR USA)-Fabricante : Picador-Descripcion Original: is a powerful cultural and social history of the end of the American century, and a provocative look into the new world that the hip-hop generation created. Forged in the fires of the Bronx and Kingston, Jamaica, hip-hop became the Esperanto of youth rebellion and a generation-defining movement. In a post-civil rights era defined by deindustrialization and globalization, hip-hop crystallized a multiracial, polycultural generation's worldview, and transformed American politics and culture. But that epic story has never been told with this kind of breadth, insight, and style. Based on original interviews with DJs, b-boys, rappers, graffiti writers, activists, and gang members, with unforgettable portraits of many of hip-hop's forebears, founders, and mavericks, including DJ Kool Herc, Afrika Bambaataa, Chuck D, and Ice Cube, Can't Stop Won't Stop chronicles the events, the ideas, the music, and the art that marked the hip-hop generation's rise from the ashes of the 60's into the new millennium...

-Titulo Original : Call Me By Your Name: A Novel-Fabricante : Picador-Descripcion Original: Bestseller A Bestseller A Bestseller A Book Club Pick Andre Aciman's Call Me by Your Name is the story of a sudden and powerful romance that blossoms between an adolescent boy and a summer guest at his parents’ cliffside mansion on the Italian Riviera. Each is unprepared for the consequences of their attraction, when, during the restless summer weeks, unrelenting currents of obsession, fascination, and desire intensify their passion and test the charged ground between them. Recklessly, the two verge toward the one thing both fear they may never truly find again: total intimacy. It is an instant classic and one of the great love stories of our time. Winner of the Lambda Literary Award for Ficition A New York Times Notable Book of the Year • A Publishers Weekly and The Washington Post Best Book of the Year • A New York Magazine "Future Canon" Selection • A Chicago Tribune and Seattle Times (Michael Upchurch's) Favorite Favorite Book of the Yea...

-Titulo Original : My Misspent Youth-Fabricante : Picador-Descripcion Original: Now back in print, author of The Unspeakable Meghan Daums acclaimed cult classic that revitalized the personal essay for a new generation of writersMeghan Daum is one of the most celebrated nonfiction writers working today, widely recognized for the fresh, provocative approach with which she unearths hidden fault lines in the American landscape. From her well-remembered New Yorker essays about the financial demands of big-city ambition and the ethereal, strangely old-fashioned allure of cyber relationships to her dazzlingly hilarious riff in Harpers about musical passions that give way to middle-brow paraphernalia, Daum delves into the center of things while closely examining the detritus that spills out along the way. She speaks to questions at the root of the contemporary experience, from the search for authenticity and interpersonal connection in a society defined by consumerism and media; to the disenchantment of working in a glamour profession; to the catastrophic effects of living among New York Citys terminal hipsters.With precision and well-balanced irony, Daum implicates herself as readily as she does the targets that fascinate and horrify her. In this stirring and surprising collection we see the emergence of a talented new voice in American writing. Review “Maybe you once found yourself in the dimming light of your twenties. And maybe someone handed you a copy of the book My Misspent Youth and maybe you thought, Finally, someone has written exactly how I feel.” New York Magazine“An empathetic reporter and a provocative autobiographer ... I finished it in a single afternoon, mesmerized and sputtering.” Caleb Crain, The Nation“Throughout this book, there are a surprising number of moments when your jaw just drops in amazement at what [Daum is] saying. Even when shes being funny, her writing has a clarity and intensity that just makes you feel awake.” Ira Glass“Meghan Daum is not an eccentric exhibitionist or a self-indulgent memoirist. Her world is suburban New Jersey girlhood, Vassar, publishing, and the disillusionment that results when the reality of ones life falls short of expectations. Daum approaches the first lesson of adulthood--that the prosaic will intrude on the fantastic every time--without ever dissolving into cynicism.” The New York Times Book Review“People I know still talk about Meghan Daums 2001 debut essay collection, My Misspent Youth. Nobody writing about her generation was more incisive or entertaining than she.” Sigrid Nunez About the Author Meghan Daum is the author of the essay collection The Unspeakable: And Other Subjects of Discussion. She is also the editor of the anthology Selfish, Shallow, and Self-Absorbed: Sixteen Writers on the Decision Not to Have Kids. Her other books include the essay collection My Misspent Youth, the novel The Quality of Life Report, and Life Would Be Perfect If I Lived In That House, a memoir. Since 2005, Meghan has been an opinion columnist for The Los Angeles Times, writing on political, cultural, and social affairs. She has contributed to public radios Morning Edition, Marketplace, and This American Life, and has written for numerous publications, including The New Yorker, Harpers Magazine, GQ, Vogue, Harpers Bazaar, and The New York Times Magazine. She lives in Los Angeles...

-Titulo Original : The Mirror & The Light: A Novel (Wolf Hall Trilogy, 3)-Fabricante : Picador-Descripcion Original: The brilliant #1 New York Times bestsellerNamed a best book of 2020 by The New York Times, The Washington Post, TIME, The Guardian, and many more With The Mirror & the Light, Hilary Mantel brings to a triumphant close the trilogy she began with her peerless, Booker Prize-winning novels, Wolf Hall and Bring Up the Bodies. She traces the final years of Thomas Cromwell, the boy from nowhere who climbs to the heights of power, offering a defining portrait of predator and prey, of a ferocious contest between present and past, between royal will and a common man’s vision: of a modern nation making itself through conflict, passion and courage. The story begins in May 1536: Anne Boleyn is dead, decapitated in the space of a heartbeat by a hired French executioner. As her remains are bundled into oblivion, Cromwell breakfasts with the victors. The blacksmith’s son from Putney emerges from the spring’s bloodbath to continue his climb to power and wealth, while his formidable master, Henry VIII, settles to short-lived happiness with his third queen, Jane Seymour. Cromwell, a man with only his wits to rely on, has no great family to back him, no private army. Despite rebellion at home, traitors plotting abroad and the threat of invasion testing Henry’s regime to the breaking point, Cromwell’s robust imagination sees a new country in the mirror of the future. All of England lies at his feet, ripe for innovation and religious reform. But as fortune’s wheel turns, Cromwell’s enemies are gathering in the shadows. The inevitable question remains: how long can anyone survive under Henry’s cruel and capricious gaze?Eagerly awaited and eight years in the making, The Mirror & the Light completes Cromwell’s journey from self-made man to one of the most feared, influential figures of his time. Portrayed by Mantel with pathos and terrific energy, Cromwell is as complex as he is unforgettable: a politician and a fixer, a husband and a father, a man who both defied and defined his age. Review The Wolf Hall trilogy is probably the greatest historical fiction accomplishment of the past decade. The New York Times Book ReviewThe Mirror & the Light is the triumphant capstone to Mantel’s trilogy on Thomas Cromwell, the son of a blacksmith who rose to become the consigliere of Henry VIII...The world is blotted out as you are enveloped in the sweep of a story rich with conquest, conspiracy and mazy human psychology…. Mantel is often grouped with writers of historical fiction, [but] the more apt, and useful, comparison might be with Robert Caro, the biographer of Robert Moses and Lyndon Johnson, the great anatomizer of political power. Parul Sehgal, The New York TimesThe searing finale of Hilary Mantel’s magnificent trilogy...Mantel is clear-eyed yet compassionate in depicting her coldly calculating, covertly idealistic protagonist and the equally complex people he encounters in his rise and fall from power. Dense with resonant metaphors and alive with discomfiting ideas, The Mirror & the Light provides a fittingly Shakespearean resolution to Mantel’s magisterial work. The Washington PostWolf Hall, a decade ago, was a sensational character study that electrified an often-visited slice of history. The Mirror & the Light marks a triumphant end to a spellbinding story. NPRCromwell [has] a depth at once Shakespearean and modernist. He could be Hamlet, or the title character of one of Freud’s case studies...The dissolution of Cromwell coincides with his unmooring in time... One moment he is sucked into his childhood; the next, he is hurled into the sphere of the angels. Judith Shulevitz, The AtlanticBreathtaking...The plot here is shaped as meticulously as any thriller…. With this trilogy, Mantel has redefined what the historical novel is capable of...Taken together, her Cromwell novels are, for my money, the greatest English novels of this century. Someone give the Booker Prize judges the rest of the year off...

-Titulo Original : How To Hide An Empire: A History Of The Greater United States-Fabricante : Picador-Descripcion Original: Named one of the ten best books of the year by the Chicago TribuneA Publishers Weekly best book of 2019 | A 2019 NPR Staff PickA pathbreaking history of the United States’ overseas possessions and the true meaning of its empireWe are familiar with maps that outline all fifty states. And we are also familiar with the idea that the United States is an “empire,” exercising power around the world. But what about the actual territories the islands, atolls, and archipelagos this country has governed and inhabited?In How to Hide an Empire, Daniel Immerwahr tells the fascinating story of the United States outside the United States. In crackling, fast-paced prose, he reveals forgotten episodes that cast American history in a new light. We travel to the Guano Islands, where prospectors collected one of the nineteenth century’s most valuable commodities, and the Philippines, site of the most destructive event on U.S. soil. In Puerto Rico, Immerwahr shows how U.S. doctors conducted grisly experiments they would never have conducted on the mainland and charts the emergence of independence fighters who would shoot up the U.S. Congress.In the years after World War II, Immerwahr notes, the United States moved away from colonialism. Instead, it put innovations in electronics, transportation, and culture to use, devising a new sort of influence that did not require the control of colonies. Rich with absorbing vignettes, full of surprises, and driven by an original conception of what empire and globalization mean today, How to Hide an Empire is a major and compulsively readable work of history. Review To call this standout book a corrective would make it sound earnest and dutiful, when in fact it is wry, readable and often astonishing. Immerwahr knows that the material he presents is serious, laden with exploitation and violence, but he also knows how to tell a story, highlighting the often absurd space that opened up between expansionist ambitions and ingenuous self-regard . . . It’s a testament to Immerwahr’s considerable storytelling skills that I found myself riveted by his sections on Hoover’s quest for standardized screw threads, wondering what might happen next. Jennifer Szalai, New York Times [Immerwahrs] book is written in 22 brisk chapters, full of lively characters, dollops of humor, and surprising facts . . . It entertains and means to do so. But its purpose is quite serious: to shift the way that people think about American history . . . Immerwahr convincingly argues that . . . the United States replaced colonies with chemistry, and partially substituted technology for territory. It is a powerful and illuminating economic argument . . . the book succeeds in its core goal: to recast American history as a history of the Greater United States. . . . deserves a wide audience, and it should find one. Patrick Iber, The New Republic “[How to Hide an Empire] is full of pop-culture references and interesting anecdotes that challenge common sense. Immerwahr’s point is not to condemn empire but to explain it. And by doing so, he helps us better understand American foreign and military policy in the present and the future . . . At its best, Immerwahr’s book describes not only a forgotten history but a history of forgetting itself.” Adrian Chen, New YorkConsistently both startling and absorbing . . . Immerwahr vividly retells the early formation of the [United States], the consolidation of its overseas territory, and the postwar perfection of its pointillist global empire, which extends influence through a vast constellation of tiny footprints. Harpers [Immerwahr] writes in the manner of an entertaining and informative lecturer who cannot wait to tell the class his latest discovery from the archives . . . Gore Vidal was fond of referring to Imperial America, and not in an approving way. Were he alive to read this book he would probably endorse it, perhaps only regretting that he had not ...

-Titulo Original : Artificial Intelligence A Guide For Thinking Humans-Fabricante : Picador-Descripcion Original: Melanie Mitchell separates science fact from science fiction in this sweeping examination of the current state of AI and how it is remaking our worldNo recent scientific enterprise has proved as alluring, terrifying, and filled with extravagant promise and frustrating setbacks as artificial intelligence. The award-winning author Melanie Mitchell, a leading computer scientist, now reveals AI’s turbulent history and the recent spate of apparent successes, grand hopes, and emerging fears surrounding it.In Artificial Intelligence, Mitchell turns to the most urgent questions concerning AI today: How intelligent really are the best AI programs? How do they work? What can they actually do, and when do they fail? How humanlike do we expect them to become, and how soon do we need to worry about them surpassing us? Along the way, she introduces the dominant models of modern AI and machine learning, describing cutting-edge AI programs, their human inventors, and the historical lines of thought underpinning recent achievements. She meets with fellow experts such as Douglas Hofstadter, the cognitive scientist and Pulitzer Prize-winning author of the modern classic Godel, Escher, Bach, who explains why he is “terrified” about the future of AI. She explores the profound disconnect between the hype and the actual achievements in AI, providing a clear sense of what the field has accomplished and how much further it has to go. Interweaving stories about the science of AI and the people behind it, Artificial Intelligence brims with clear-sighted, captivating, and accessible accounts of the most interesting and provocative modern work in the field, flavored with Mitchell’s humor and personal observations. This frank, lively book is an indispensable guide to understanding today’s AI, its quest for “human-level” intelligence, and its impact on the future for us all. Review Mitchell knows what she’s talking about. Even better, she’s a clear, cogent and interesting writer . . . Artificial Intelligence has significantly improved my knowledge when it comes to automation technology, [but] the greater benefit is that it has also enhanced my appreciation for the complexity and ineffability of human cognition. John Warner, Chicago TribuneWithout shying away from technical details, this survey provides an accessible course in neural networks, computer vision, and natural-language processing, and asks whether the quest to produce an abstracted, general intelligence is worrisome . . . Mitchell’s view is a reassuring one. The New Yorker[A] surprisingly lucid introduction to techniques that are making computers smarter. Kirkus Mitchell . . . ably illustrates the current state of artificial intelligence, debunking claims about computers that match or surpass human intelligence . . . Taking care to keep the text accessible, Mitchell lightens things with amusing facts, such as how Star Trek’s ship computer remains the gold standard for many AI researchers. This worthy volume should assuage lay readers’ fears about AI, while also reassuring people drawn to the field that much work remains to be done. Publishers WeeklyMitchell’s lucid, clear-eyed account of the state of AI - spanning its history, current status, and future prospects - returns again and again to the idea that computers simply aren’t like you and me . . . The author does an excellent job establishing that machines are not close to demonstrating humanlike intelligence, and many readers will be reassured to know that we will not soon have to bow down to our computer overlords. Barbara Spindel, The Christian Science MonitorIn Mitchell’s telling, artificial intelligence (AI) raises extraordinary issues that have disquieting implications for humanity. AI isn’t for the faint of heart, and neither is this book for nonscientists . . . she is a good writer with broad knowledge of the topic . . . and a canny mindfulness of both the merits and problems of AI...

-Titulo Original : The Beekeepers Apprentice Or, On The Segregation Of The Queen (a Mary Russell Mystery, 1)-Fabricante : Picador-Descripcion Original: The Twentieth-Anniversary Edition of the First Novel of the Acclaimed Mary Russell Series by Edgar Award-Winning Author Laurie R. King.An Agatha Award Best Novel Nominee * Named One of the Centurys Best 100 Mysteries by the Independent Mystery Booksellers AssociationIn 1915, Sherlock Holmes is retired and quietly engaged in the study of honeybees in Sussex when a young woman literally stumbles onto him on the Sussex Downs. Fifteen years old, gawky, egotistical, and recently orphaned, the young Mary Russell displays an intellect to impress even Sherlock Holmes. Under his reluctant tutelage, this very modern, twentieth-century woman proves a deft protegee and a fitting partner for the Victorian detective. They are soon called to Wales to help Scotland Yard find the kidnapped daughter of an American senator, a case of international significance with clues that dip deep into Holmess past. Full of brilliant deduction, disguises, and danger, The Beekeepers Apprentice, the first book of the Mary Russell-Sherlock Holmes mysteries, is remarkably beguiling (The Boston Globe). Review “King has stepped onto the sacred literary preserve of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, poached Holmes, and brilliantly brought him to life again.” The Washington Post Book World“A fascinating and often moving account of a friendship so unusual and so compelling that one almost accepts it as being historically real.” The Denver Post“Enchanting...The Beekeepers Apprentice is real Laurie R. King, not faux Conan Doyle, and for my money, its better than the original.” San Jose Mercury News“Rousing...Riveting...Suspenseful.” Chicago Sun-Times“Wonderfully original and entertaining...absorbing from beginning to end.” Booklist“Remarkably beguiling.” The Boston Globe From the Back Cover In 1915, long since retired from his crime-fighting days, Sherlock Holmes is engaged in a reclusive study of honeybees on the Sussex Downs. Never did the Victorian detective think to meet an intellect matching his own-until his acquaintance with Miss Mary Russell, a young twentieth-century lady whose mental acuity is equaled only by her penchant for deduction, disguises, and danger. Under Holmess reluctant tutelage, Russell embarks on a case involving a landowners mysterious fever and the kidnapping of an American senators daughter in the wilds of Wales. Then a near-fatal bomb on her doorstep-and another on Holmess-sends the two sleuths on the trail of a murderer who scatters bizarre clues and seems utterly without motive. The villains objective, however, is quite unequivocal: to end Russell and Holmess partnership-and then their lives. About the Author Laurie R. King is the Edgar Award-winning author of the Kate Martinelli novels and the acclaimed Mary Russell-Sherlock Holmes mysteries, as well as a few stand-alone novels. The Beekeeper’s Apprentice, the first in her Mary Russell series, was nominated for an Agatha Award and was named one of the Century’s Best 100 Mysteries by the Independent Mystery Booksellers Association. A Monstrous Regiment of Women won the Nero Wolfe Award. She has degrees in theology, and besides writing she has also managed a coffee store and raised children, vegetables, and the occasional building. She lives in northern California...

-Titulo Original : The Red Tent-Fabricante : Picador-Descripcion Original: In this modern classic interpretation of the biblical story of Dinah, Anita Diamant imagines the traditions and turmoils of ancient womanhood--the world of The Red Tent, a New York Times bestseller and the basis of the A&E/Lifetime mini-series.Twentieth Anniversary Edition In the Bible, Dinahs life is only hinted at in a brief and violent detour within the more familiar chapters of the Book of Genesis that tell of her father, Jacob, and his twelve sons.The Red Tent begins with the story of the mothers--Leah, Rachel, Zilpah, and Bilhah--the four wives of Jacob. They love Dinah and give her gifts that sustain her through childhood, a calling to midwifery, and a new home in a foreign land. Dinahs story reaches out from a remarkable period of early history and creates an intimate connection with the past.Deeply affecting, The Red Tent combines rich storytelling and the valuable achievement of presenting a new view of biblical womens lives. Review “Diamant vividly conjures up the ancient world of caravans, shepherds, farmers, midwives, slaves, and artisans....Her Dinah is a compelling narrator that has timeless resonance.” Merle Rubin, The Christian Science Monitor“A full-bodied novel.” Susan Adler, Hadassah magazine About the Author Anita Diamant is the author of The Red Tent, a word-of-mouth bestseller and the Booksense Best Fiction selection. She is also the author of the novels Good Harbor, The Last Days of Dogtown and Day After Night, a collection of essays, Pitching My Tent, as well as six books about contemporary Jewish life, including The New Jewish Wedding and Choosing a Jewish Life: A Guidebook for People Converting to Judaism. Diamant grew up in Newark, New Jersey, and Denver, Colorado. She has a bachelor’s degree from Washington University in St. Louis and a master’s in English from the State University of New York at Binghamton. She lives in Massachusetts with her husband. Excerpt. © Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved. The Red Tent A Novel: Tenth Anniversary Edition By Anita Diamant Picador USA Copyright © 2007 Anita DiamantAll right reserved. ISBN: 9780312427290 Prologue We have been lost to each other for so long. My name means nothing to you. My memory is dust. This is not your fault, or mine. The chain connecting mother to daughter wasbroken and the word passed to the keeping of men, who had no way of knowing.That is why I became a footnote, my story a brief detour between the well-knownhistory of my father, Jacob, and the celebrated chronicle of Joseph, mybrother. On those rare occasions when I was remembered, it was as a victim.Near the beginning of your holy book, there is a passage that seems to say Iwas raped and continues with the bloody tale of how my honor was avenged. Its a wonder that any mother ever called a daughter Dinah again. But some did.Maybe you guessed that there was more to me than the voiceless cipher in thetext. Maybe you heard it in the music of my name: the first vowel high andclear, as when a mother calls to her child at dusk; the second sound soft, forwhispering secrets on pillows. Dee-nah. No one recalled my skill as a midwife, or the songs I sang, or the bread Ibaked for my insatiable brothers. Nothing remained except a few mangled detailsabout those weeks in Shechem. There was far more to tell. Had I been asked to speak of it, I would have begunwith the story of the generation that raised me, which is the only place tobegin. If you want to understand any woman you must first ask about her motherand then listen carefully. Stories about food show a strong connection. Wistfulsilences demonstrate unfinished business. The more a daughter knows the detailsof her mothers life-without flinching or whining-the stronger the daughter. Of course, this is more complicated for me because I had four mothers, each ofthem scolding, teaching, and cherishing something different about me, giving medifferent gifts, cursi...

-Titulo Original : Virgin Suicides (Picador Modern Classics, 2)-Fabricante : Picador-Descripcion Original: The national bestseller from Jeffrey Eugenides, the Pulitzer Prize–Winning Author of Middlesex and The Marriage Plot With a New Introduction by Emma Cline Adapted into a critically acclaimed film by Sofia Coppola, The Virgin Suicides is a modern classic, a lyrical and timeless tale of sex and suicide that transforms and mythologizes suburban middle-American life. First published in 1993, The Virgin Suicides announced the arrival of a major new American novelist. In a quiet suburb of Detroit, the five Lisbon sisters?beautiful, eccentric, and obsessively watched by the neighborhood boys?commit suicide one by one over the course of a single year. As the boys observe them from afar, transfixed, they piece together the mystery of the familys fatal melancholy, in this hypnotic and unforgettable novel of adolescent love, disquiet, and death. Jeffrey Eugenides evokes the emotions of youth with haunting sensitivity and dark humor and creates a coming-of-age story unlike any of our time...

-Titulo Original : The Brothers Karamazov (bicentennial Edition) A Novel In Four Parts With Epilogue-Fabricante : Picador-Descripcion Original: About the Author Fyodor Dostoyevsky (1821-81) was a Russian writer of novels, short stories and essays. His most famous work includes Crime and Punishment, The Idiot and The Brothers Karamazov. He is considered to be one of Europes major novelists.Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky were awarded the PEN/ Book-of-the-Month Translation Prize for The Brothers Karamazov and have also translated Dostoevskys Crime and Punishment, Notes from Underground, Demons, and The Idiot. Winner of the Pen/Book-of-the-Month Club Translation PrizeThe award-winning translation of Fyodor Dostoevskys classic novel of psychological realism.The Brothers Karamasov is a murder mystery, a courtroom drama, and an exploration of erotic rivalry in a series of triangular love affairs involving the “wicked and sentimental” Fyodor Pavlovich Karamazov and his three sons the impulsive and sensual Dmitri; the coldly rational Ivan; and the healthy, red-cheeked young novice Alyosha. Through the gripping events of their story, Dostoevsky portrays the whole of Russian life, is social and spiritual striving, in what was both the golden age and a tragic turning point in Russian culture. This award-winning translation by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky remains true to the verbalinventiveness of Dostoevsky’s prose, preserving the multiple voices, the humor, and the surprising modernity of the original. It is an achievement worthy of Dostoevsky’s last and greatest novel. Review “[Dostoevsky is] at once the most literary and compulsively readable of novelists we continue to regard as great . . . The Brothers Karamazov stands as the culmination of his art--his last, longest, richest and most capacious book. [This] scrupulous rendition can only be welcomed. It returns to us a work we thought we knew, subtly altered and so made new again.” Donald Fanger, Washington Post Book World“It may well be that Dostoevskys [world], with all its resourceful energies of life and language, is only now--and through the medium of this translation--beginning to come home to the English-speaking reader.” John Bayley, The New York Review of Books“Heartily recommended to any reader who wishes to come as close to Dostoevskys Russian as it is possible.” Joseph Frank, Princeton University“Far and away the best translation of Dostoevsky into English that I have seen . . . faithful . . . extremely readable . . . gripping.” Sidney Monas, University of Texa...

-Titulo Original : The House By The Lake One House, Five Families, And A Hundred Years Of German History-Fabricante : Picador-Descripcion Original: Longlisted for the Orwell PrizeNamed a Best Book of the Year by The Times (London), New Statesman (London), Daily Express (London), and Commonweal MagazineIn the summer of 1993, Thomas Harding traveled to Germany with his grandmother to visit a small house by a lake on the outskirts of Berlin. It had been a holiday home for her and her family, but in the 1930s, she had been forced to flee to England as the Nazis swept to power. Nearly twenty years later, the house was government property and soon to be demolished. It was Harding’s legacy, one that had been loved, abandoned, fought over a house his grandmother had desired until her death. Could it be saved? And should it?When Harding began to make inquiries, he unearthed secrets that had lain hidden for decades about the lives of the five families who had lived there: a wealthy landowner, a prosperous Jewish family, a renowned composer, a widow and her children, and a Stasi informant. The house had been the site of domestic bliss and of contentment, but also of terrible grief and tragedy. As its story began to take shape, Harding realized that there was a chance to save it, but in doing so, he would have to resolve his own family’s feelings towards their former homeland and a hatred handed down through the generations. Review Fascinating revelations abound . . . [A] powerful book. The EconomistA fascinating window on a tumultuous period. Financial TimesThe House by the Lake meticulously chronicles two linked feats of reclamation: the authors reconstruction of the houses life and times, and his quest to restore the building itself. . . . This is a tale of multiple dispossessions, but also of adaptation and resiliency. Julia M. Klein, The Boston GlobeAn epic, fact-filled, multi-voiced saga told with pace, verve, and warmth, and rich in fascinating revelations. . . . Masterful. Minneapolis Star TribuneIn his absorbing personal history, The House by the Lake: One House, Five Families, and a Hundred Years of German History, Harding recounts, with a measured pathos, the experiences of a succession of tenants. It is a story of aspiration, fleeting joy, escape and the small-scale dramas of domestic life. . . . For all the political and personal upheaval detailed here, Harding writes with a restraint thats all the more impressive given his personal connection to the material. . . . Harding makes excellent use of eyewitness testimony, interviews with Gross Glienicke villagers, family papers, government archives and other documents, as he moves across a century of time. NewsdayBreathtaking in scope and intimate in its detail, Hardings book is a groundbreaking and revelatory history of Germany, told over nearly a century through the story of a small wooden house. Anne Hammock, Florida Times-Union Book of the WeekBy tracing the lives of the different families who lived there, Harding sheds fresh light on the German 20th century, a tale of war, spies, murder and political, racial and social division. His account of the house is a superb work of social history, told with tremendous narrative verve. The Sunday Times (London)This is a history that is often poignant, sometimes heartening, and never other than intimate. . . . This is a gentle but rewarding book, carefully tuned into the marginal voices recorded in the history of one small house by a lake. Clare Mulley, The Spectator (UK)Diamond-brilliant . . . If a webcam had been left on at number 101 Gross Glienicke for 90 years, the record could not have been more vivid or revelatory. Hardings research, from eyewitness accounts to the files of ministries, is jaw-dropping. This is an extraordinary book. Five Stars. Sunday Express (UK)This emblem of tyranny [the Berlin Wall] was just another fact of life for those living in its shadow. And that is, perhaps, the most important lesson of Hardings book. History, which we learn about as a series of ideological abstractions, is ...

-Titulo Original : Life Isnt Everything Mike Nichols, As Remembered By 150 Of His Closest Friends.-Fabricante : Picador-Descripcion Original: About the Author Ash Carter, a senior editor at Esquire, was previously an editor and staff writer at Town & Country.Sam Kashner is a contributing editor at Vanity Fair and writer of Sinatraland (a New York Times and L.A. Times Notable Book); When I Was Cool: My Life At the Jack Kerouac School; he co-authored of the New York Timesbestsellers Furious Love: Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton, and the Marriage of the Century and The Fabulous Bouvier Sisters: The Tragic and Glamorous Lives of Jackie and Lee. An up close and personal portrait of a legendary filmmaker, theater director, and comedian, drawing on candid conversations with his closest friends in show business and the arts from Dustin Hoffman and Meryl Streep to Natalie Portman and Lorne Michaels. The work of Mike Nichols pervades American cultural consciousness from The Graduate and Whos Afraid of Virginia Woolf? to Angels in America, The Birdcage, Working Girl, and Primary Colors, not to mention his string of hit plays, including Barefoot in the Park and The Odd Couple. If that weren’t enough, he was also one half of the timelessly funny duo Nichols & May, as well as a founding member of the original improv troupe. Over a career that spanned half a century, Mike Nichols changed Hollywood, Broadway, and comedy forever. Most fans, however, know very little of the person behind it all. Since he never wrote his memoirs, and seldom appeared on television, they have very little sense of his searching intellect or his devastating wit. They dont know that Nichols, the great American director, was born Mikail Igor Peschkowsky, in Berlin, and came to this country, speaking no English, to escape the Nazis. They dont know that Nichols was at one time a solitary psychology student, or that a childhood illness caused permanent, life-altering side effects. They dont know that he withdrew into a debilitating depression before he finally got it right, in his words, by marrying Diane Sawyer.Here, for the first time, Ash Carter and Sam Kashner offer an intimate look behind the scenes of Nichols life, as told by the stars, moguls, playwrights, producers, comics and crewmembers who stayed loyal to Nichols for years. Life Isnt Everything is a mosaic portrait of a brilliant and original director known for his uncommon charm, wit, vitality, and genius for friendship, this volume is also a snapshot of what it meant to be living, loving, and making art in the 20th century. Review “Some of the best writing about Hollywood.” John Simon, The New York TimesManna from heaven, its brilliantly orchestrated polyphony bringing him, his work, and his world to vivid life...It is properly celebratory and deliciously filled with his bons mots, but from its opening pages, it shirks none of the complexity of the man, acknowledging the darkness so close to the shining surface… The breadth of the witnesses is remarkable, as are their candor and perceptiveness. Simon Callow, The New York Review of BooksA People magazine “Book of the Week”A fascinating oral history of Nichols’s career. . . . [Kashner and Carter] have intelligently chosen to concentrate on the career rather than the life, and on Nichols’s working methods and artistic techniques. Most of the 150 voices . . . speak eloquently both of the enormous intelligence Nichols brought to almost every project he was involved in and of the deep respect he accorded his collaborators. Brooke Allen, Wall Street Journal “Captivating… what stands out in the memories of Nichols’ many colleagues is his ability to guide actors.” Associated PressWhat, exactly, would one wish for a sizable room filled with 50 years of ones closest friends and collaborators to say behind ones back (if one happened to be arguably/inarguably the most charming, talented, fascinating, entertaining person any of them ever met)? This book. Wes AndersonFunny, incisive, kind, wicked, daring, gripping, sad, human. Kind of like a M...

-Titulo Original : Natashas Dance A Cultural History Of Russia-Fabricante : Picador-Descripcion Original: History on a grand scale--an enchanting masterpiece that explores the making of one of the worlds most vibrant civilizationsA Peoples Tragedy, wrote Eric Hobsbawm, did more to help us understand the Russian Revolution than any other book I know. Now, in Natashas Dance, internationally renowned historian Orlando Figes does the same for Russian culture, summoning the myriad elements that formed a nation and held it together.Beginning in the eighteenth century with the building of St. Petersburg--a window on the West--and culminating with the challenges posed to Russian identity by the Soviet regime, Figes examines how writers, artists, and musicians grappled with the idea of Russia itself--its character, spiritual essence, and destiny. He skillfully interweaves the great works--by Dostoevsky, Stravinsky, and Chagall--with folk embroidery, peasant songs, religious icons, and all the customs of daily life, from food and drink to bathing habits to beliefs about the spirit world. Figess characters range high and low: the revered Tolstoy, who left his deathbed to search for the Kingdom of God, as well as the serf girl Praskovya, who became Russian operas first superstar and shocked society by becoming her owners wife. Like the European-schooled countess Natasha performing an impromptu folk dance in Tolstoys War and Peace, the spirit of Russianness is revealed by Figes as rich and uplifting, complex and contradictory--a powerful force that unified a vast country and proved more lasting than any Russian ruler or state. Review “Scintillating. . .an exceptional history of Russian culture and a joy to read.” San Francisco Chronicle“Stunning and ambitious. . .Figes captures nothing less than Russians complex and protean notions regarding their national identity.” The Atlantic Monthly“Staggering. . .A vivid, entertaining, and enlightening account of what it has meant to be culturally a Russian over the last three centuries.” Los Angeles Times“[A] masterly work.” New York Review of Books“A big, bold, interpretative cultural history.” Foreign Affairs About the Author Orlando Figes is the author of A Peoples Tragedy, Natashas Dance, and The Crimean War, among other books. His works have been translated into twenty-seven languages. A professor of history at Birkbeck, University of London and a frequent contributor to The New York Review of Books, Figes is the recipient of the Wolfson History Prize, the W. H. Smith Literary Award, and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. He lives in London...

-Titulo Original : Sleights Of Mind What The Neuroscience Of Magic Reveals About Our Everyday Deceptions-Fabricante : Picador-Descripcion Original: Stephen Macknik and Susana Martinez-Conde, the founders of the exciting new discipline of neuromagic, have convinced some of the worlds greatest magicians to allow scientists to study their techniques for tricking the brain. The implications of neuromagic go beyond illuminating our behavior; early research points to new approaches for everything from the diagnosis of autism to marketing techniques and education. Fun and accessible, Sleights of Mind is a tour through consciousness, attention, and deception via the marriage of professional magic and cognitive neuroscience (Vanessa Schipani, The Scientist). Review “Sleights of Mind makes brain science so much fun, youll swear the authors are as clever as Houdini.” Scientific American Book Club“Magic is the place where our senses and beliefs fail us in magnificent ways. In this exciting book Stephen, Susana, and Sandra explore what magic and illusions can teach us about our fallible human nature--coming up with novel and fascinating observations.” Dan Ariely, author of Predictability Irrational“Steve and Susana are two of the most innovative scientists I know. They arent content to just conduct elegant experiments (although they do plenty of those, too). Instead, theyre determined to explore those places where neuroscience intersects the mysterious and the magical, from visual illusions to Vegas card tricks. This book doesnt just change the way you think about sleight of hand and David Copperfield - it will also change the way you think about the mind.” Jonah Lehrer, author of How We Decide and Proust Was A Neuroscientist.“Ive long wished that there was a book that explained the art of magic from the point of view of cognitive neuroscience. Magic is a goldmine of information about the brain, as well as a source of fascination to laypeople. This is the book weve all been waiting for.” Steven Pinker PhD, author of The Stuff of Thought“This is a highly original book. Science and magic have much in common. They both take seemingly inexplicable events and provide elegantly simple answers that enthrall the observer. The authors have done an admirable job in exploring this idea and also suggest ways in which the two disciplines can cross fertilize each other.” VS Ramachandran MD PhD, author of Phantoms in the Brain“Stephen Macknik and Susana Martinez-Condes Sleights of Mind gives non-magicians a real up-close look at the true secrets of magic. They are revealing the real knowledge jealously guarded by all great performers...I know my fellow magicians are all going to be as jazzed as I am to read about how sophisticated magical techniques and state-of-the-art brain science combine.” Mac King, headliner, Harrahs Las Vegas“In Sleights of Mind, authors Stephen Macknik and Susana Martinez-Conde persistently remind us that the human mind is a bad data-taking device. And its this fact that enables the science of magic to exist at all.” Neil deGrasse Tyson, author of The Pluto Files“The authors make easily comprehensible the effects of neural adaptation, afterimages, occlusion, perspective, saccades, inattentional blindness, expectations and the pliability of memory...Entertaining.” Kirkus“In their illuminating book, brain experts Martinez-Conde and Macknik make their case that magicians are some of the most skilled neuroscientists around...By tricking readers into having fun learning neuroscience, the authors bring the newly minted field of neuromagic to center stage.” Laura Sanders, Science News“This book offers a revolutionary look a the science behind magic--what leads the mind to believe tricks are real and how magicians actually use the brains own logic to acheive this.” Phillip Manning, Science Book News“If you want to learn more about neuromagic, take a peek at Macknik and Martinez-Condes most recent book. It explains how theyve investigated the tricks of some of the worlds greatest magicians to find out how the brain...