Farrar publishing (78 résultats)

Soft cover. Etat : Good. PB/Gd. condition/250 pages - The true story of a sound. (K1849HI1). Book.

Soft cover. Etat : Good. PB/Gd. condition/182 pages - Essays and writings. (K1178HR3). Book.

Hardcover. Etat : New. Etat de la jaquette : New. New tightly bound hardcover in a new dust jacket. 8vo. (5.25 x 0.75 x 7.75 inches) Clean text free of marks or underlining. 208 pp. Fast shipping in a secure book box mailer with tracking. A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: NPR An urgent and compelling account of great bravery and passion. --Susan Orlean Award-winning journalist Delphine Minoui recounts the true story of a band of young rebels, a besieged Syrian town, and an underground library built from the rubble of war Reading is an act of resistance. Daraya is a town outside Damascus, the very spot where the Syrian Civil War began. Long a site of peaceful resistance to the Assad regimes, Daraya fell under siege in 2012. For four years, no one entered or left, and aid was blocked. Every single day, bombs fell on this place--a place of homes and families, schools and children, now emptied and broken into bits. And then a group searching for survivors stumbled upon a cache of books in the rubble. In a week, they had six thousand volumes; in a month, fifteen thousand. A sanctuary was born: a library where people could escape the blockade, a paper fortress to protect their humanity. The library offered a marvelous range of books--from Arabic poetry to American self-help, Shakespearean plays to stories of war in other times and places. The visitors shared photos and tales of their lives before the war, planned how to build a democracy, and tended the roots of their community despite shell-shocked soil. In the midst of the siege, the journalist Delphine Minoui tracked down one of the library's founders, twenty-three-year-old Ahmad. Over text messages, WhatsApp, and Facebook, Minoui came to know the young men who gathered in the library, exchanged ideas, learned English, and imagined how to shape the future, even as bombs kept falling from above. By telling their stories, Minoui makes a far-off, complicated war immediate and reveals these young men to be everyday heroes as inspiring as the books they read. The Book Collectors is a testament to their bravery and a celebration of the power of words. .…

Hardcover. Etat : Used-Like New. Used Like New hardcover in a New dust jacket. Publisher's overstock mark on the bottom of the text block. Pages are clean and free of marks or underlining. 8vo. (6.29 x 0.94 x 9.35 inches) Includes authors' notes and index. 432 pp. Fast shipping in a secure book box mailer with tracking. This is a book for everyone who has developed an unexpected nostalgia for political 'norms' during the Trump years . . . Other books on the Trump White House expertly detail the mayhem inside; this book builds on those works to detail its consequences. --Carlos Lozada (one of twelve books to read to understand what's going on) Perhaps the most penetrating book to have been written about Trump in office. --Lawrence Douglas, The Times Literary Supplement The definitive account of how Donald Trump has wielded the powers of the American presidency The extraordinary authority of the U.S. presidency has no parallel in the democratic world. Today that authority resides in the hands of one man, Donald J. Trump. But rarely if ever has the nature of a president clashed more profoundly with the nature of the office. Unmaking the Presidency tells the story of the confrontation between a person and the institution he almost wholly embodies. From the moment of his inauguration, Trump has challenged our deepest expectations of the presidency. But what are those expectations, where did they come from, and how great is the damage? As editors of the "invaluable" (The New York Times) Lawfare website, Susan Hennessey and Benjamin Wittes have attracted a large audience to their hard-hitting and highly informed commentary on the controversies surrounding the Trump administration. In this book, they situate Trump-era scandals and outrages in the deeper context of the presidency itself. How should we understand the oath of office when it is taken by a man who may not know what it means to preserve, protect, and defend something other than himself? What aspects of Trump are radically different from past presidents and what aspects have historical antecedents? When has he simply built on his predecessors' misdeeds, and when has he invented categories of misrule entirely his own? By setting Trump in the light of history, Hennessey and Wittes provide a crucial and durable account of a presidency like no other. .…

Paperback. Etat : New. A clean crisp well preserved 2019 Farrar, Straus and Giroux Publishing softcover in a fine tight binding. Little to no shelf wear. Text is bright and free of marks or underlining. Fast shipping in a secure book box mailer with tracking. "The father of cognitive neuroscience" illuminates the past, present, and future of the mind-brain problem How do neurons turn into minds? How does physical "stuff"--atoms, molecules, chemicals, and cells--create the vivid and various worlds inside our heads? The problem of consciousness has gnawed at us for millennia. In the last century there have been massive breakthroughs that have rewritten the science of the brain, and yet the puzzles faced by the ancient Greeks are still present. In The Consciousness Instinct, the neuroscience pioneer Michael S. Gazzaniga puts the latest research in conversation with the history of human thinking about the mind, giving a big-picture view of what science has revealed about consciousness. The idea of the brain as a machine, first proposed centuries ago, has led to assumptions about the relationship between mind and brain that dog scientists and philosophers to this day. Gazzaniga asserts that this model has it backward--brains make machines, but they cannot be reduced to one. New research suggests the brain is actually a confederation of independent modules working together. Understanding how consciousness could emanate from such an organization will help define the future of brain science and artificial intelligence, and close the gap between brain and mind. Captivating and accessible, with insights drawn from a lifetime at the forefront of the field, The Consciousness Instinct sets the course for the neuroscience of tomorrow. . …

Soft cover. Etat : Good. Gd. condition - Ackerley's own virtues as a writer . (TI4). Book.

Hardcover. Etat : Good. Gd. condition - Mississippi during the civil rights movement - (AN18467z). Book.

Soft cover. Etat : Good. PB/pub.1992/Gd. condition/256 pages - This volume contains three essential works. [AE527056]. Book.

Hardcover. Etat : Good. Hardcover/pub.1982/Gd. condition/610 pages - Singer has given of his best as a consummate story teller and stylist in the short stories and in the numerous and fantastic long stories. [KN925020]. Book.

Paperback. Etat : Used: Good. 2nd Edition-1966. A nice softcover copy with a tight and square binding. Text is clean. Covers are good but spine is faded. Previous owner's name is written on first front end page. Careful packaging and fast shipping. We recommend EXPEDITED MAIL for even faster delivery.…

Hardcover. Etat : Good. PB/pub.1984/Gd. condition/343 pages - A memoir. [TH432592]. Book.

Soft cover. Etat : Good. PB/pub.1979/Gd. condition/557 pages - The twenties from notebooks and diaries of the period. [TK831194]. Book.

Soft cover. Etat : Good. PB/pub.1988/Fair condition/133 pages - A preteen story distinguishes itself from the pack in a number of ways. [TK630945]. Book.

Soft cover. Etat : Good. PB/pub.1988/Gd. condition/243 pages- When are the 1970's going to begin? (Z19027). Book.

Soft cover. Etat : Good. PB/pub.1987/Gd. condition/187 pages- The autobiography of an African boy. (E87996). Book.

Hardcover. Etat : Good. Hardcover/pub.1968/Gd. condition/593 pages - The extraordinary career of the House Committe on Un-American Activities. [AR428352]. Book.

Soft cover. Etat : Good. PB/Gd. condition/245 pages - A bedazzlement of popular entertainment. (K1566HR7). Book.

Soft cover. Etat : Good. PB/Gd. condition/401 pages - An autiobiography by John H. Franklin and historian. (K1155HR3). Book.

Hardcover. Etat : Good. Hardcover/pub.1997/Gd. condition/211 pages - Based on the recollections of the authors late husband's childhood. A journey into manhood. [TH632780]. Book.

Hardcover. Etat : Good. Hardcover/pub.1990/Gd. condition/340 pages - The author presents his second collection of stories to appear in English. [AN830379]. Book.

Soft cover. Etat : Good. PB/pub.1960/Fair condition/376 pages - Many people's lives depend on the fact that they live in today's Mexico City, where the air is clear and yet filled with the old gods and devils still struggling to overcome the new. [KI523851]. Book.

Soft cover. Etat : Good. PB/pub.1982/Fair condition/393 pages - A selection from fifteen of the earlier works, many of which have been long out of print. The qualities of style and versatility and an authoritive work on this nation's past. [K911348]. Book.

Soft cover. Etat : Good. PB/Pub.1984/Gd condition/191 pages - An english author entertaining a professor of english literature from overseas. [K28429]. Book.

Hardcover. Etat : Good. Hardcover/pub.1961/Gd. condition/89 pages - A tremendous piece of work. Hewn in the heroic scale: The whiteman's world implacably taking over the red man's, with all the ferocity, heroism and heartbre ak that accompanied manifest destiny's southwest ward course. [KH818824]. Book. …

Hardcover. Etat : Good. Hardcover/pub.1990/Gd. condition/369 pages - Murder and cover-up in the case of CBS correspondent George Polk. [TA131371]. Book.

Soft cover. Etat : Good. PB/pub.1974/Fair condition/152 pages - A survival manual for women. [TR435114]. Book.

Soft cover. Etat : Good. PB/pub.1987/Gd. condition/282 pages - This text makes clear the root causes of violence as a consequence of our misguided child-rearing practices. [AN830324]. Book.

Hardcover. Etat : Good. Hardcover/pub.1956/Gd. condition/478 pages - The only accurately edited and translated work and it is basic source history on the discovery and conquest of Mexico. [KI824125]. Book.

Hardcover. Etat : Good. Hardcover/pub.1989/VG condition/373 pages - Why me explores Sammy's glittery West Coast lifestyle and the toll its excesses took. [KR923416]. Book.

Hardcover. Etat : Good. Hardcover/pub.1928/Fair condition/429 pages - The aim of this text was to convey expressions to those unaccustomed in a clear, simple manner. The modes of Oriental modes of expression is discussed. [A N730241]. Book.