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The Penguin Book of Outer Space Exploration - NASA and the Incredible Story of Human Spaceflight - Bok - Häftad

The Penguin Book of Outer Space Exploration - NASA and the Incredible Story of Human Spaceflight - Bok - Häftad

The fascinating story of how NASA sent humans to explore outer space, told through a treasure trove of historical documents--publishing in celebration of NASA''s 60th anniversary and with a foreword by Bill Nye\An extremely useful and thought provoking documentary journey through the maze of space history. There is no wiser or more experienced navigator through the twists and turns and ups and downs than John Logsdon.\ -James Hansen, New York Times bestselling author of First..

SEK 170.00
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Victoria (Penguin Monarchs) - Queen, Matriarch, Empress - Bok av Jane Ridley - Häftad

Victoria (Penguin Monarchs) - Queen, Matriarch, Empress - Bok av Jane Ridley - Häftad

Part of the Penguin Monarchs series: short, fresh, expert accounts of England''s rulers in a collectible format.      Queen Victoria inherited the throne at 18 and went on to become the longest-reigning female monarch in history, in a time of intense industrial, cultural, political, scientific and military change within the United Kingdom and great imperial expansion outside of it (she was made Empress of India in 1876). Overturning the established picture of the dour old..

SEK 116.00
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The Tales of Ise - Bok - Häftad

The Tales of Ise - Bok - Häftad

One of the three seminal works of Japanese literature—a beautiful collection of poems and tales that offers an unparalleled insight into ancient JapanAlong with the Tale of Genji and One Hundred Poets, One Poem Each, the Tales of Ise is considered one of the three most important works of Japanese literature. A poem-tale collection from the early Heian period, it contains many stories of amorous adventures, faithful friendship, and travels in exile, framing the exquisite..

SEK 176.00
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Russian Emigre Short Stories from Bunin to Yanovsky - Bok - Häftad

Russian Emigre Short Stories from Bunin to Yanovsky - Bok - Häftad

A landmark anthology that will introduce many extraordinary, unknown Russian writers to an English-language readership for the first time       Fleeing Russia amid the chaos of the Russian Revolution and subsequent Civil War, many writers went on to settle in Paris, Berlin and elsewhere and forged new lives in exile. Much of their subsequent work, published in Russian language magazines and books, is entirely unknown in the West and has only been recently discovered in Russia..

SEK 180.00
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Poet's Pub - Bok av Eric Linklater - Häftad

Poet's Pub - Bok av Eric Linklater - Häftad

A literary Cheers—filled with British charm and witComprised of an entertaining series of vignettes that occur at the Pelican Pub in Downish, England, Poet''s Pub is a humor-filled collection of stories by award winner Eric Linklater—one of the original titles commissioned by Penguin Classics founder Allen Lane—and again available to American readers. When an Oxford poet named Saturday Keith assumes control of the Pelican Pub, what he desires most is the peace..

SEK 146.00
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The Will to Power - Bok av Friedrich Nietzsche - Häftad

The Will to Power - Bok av Friedrich Nietzsche - Häftad

New to Penguin Classics, The Will to Power contains some of Nietzsche''s most fascinating and combative writings on nihilism, metaphysics and the future of Europe.   Assembled by Nietzsche’s sister after his death, The Will to Power is a collection of the philosopher’s reflections and theories taken from his unpublished not. Covering topics such as nihilism, Christianity, morality, and the famous “will to power,” the book was controversially presented as Nietzsche’s..

SEK 176.00
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The Malice of Waves - Bok av Mark Douglas-Home - Häftad

The Malice of Waves - Bok av Mark Douglas-Home - Häftad

One of the most unique crime series ever continues with a missing persons investigation.      Cal McGill is the sea detective: an oceanographer and one-of-a-kind investigator who uses his knowledge of the waves to find where objects came from, or track where they''ve gone. For five years Priest''s Island has guarded the mystery of Max Wheeler''s disappearance. In this isolated township on the edge of the Atlantic, there are no secrets -- except what really happened to fourteen-year-old..

SEK 156.00
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Haunted Castles - Bok av Ray Russell - Häftad

Haunted Castles - Bok av Ray Russell - Häftad

Horror legend Ray Russell’s haunting and macabre stories, including “perhaps the finest example of the modern Gothic ever written” (Stephen King), with a foreword by acclaimed filmmaker Guillermo del Toro   Haunted Castles is the definitive, complete collection of Ray Russell’s masterful Gothic horror stories, including the famously terrifying novella trio of “Sardonicus,” “Sanguinarius,” and “Sagittarius.” The characters that..

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Black Panther - Bok av Don McGregor - Inbunden

Black Panther - Bok av Don McGregor - Inbunden

The Penguin Classics Marvel Collection presents the origin stories, seminal tales, and characters of the Marvel Universe to explore Marvel’s transformative and timeless influence on an entire genre of fantasy.   A Penguin Classics Marvel Collection Edition   Collects Fantastic Four #52-53 (1966); Jungle Action #6-21 (1973-1976). It is impossible to imagine American popular culture without Marvel Comics. For decades, Marvel has published groundbreaking visual narratives that sustain..

SEK 500.00
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Black Panther - Bok av Don McGregor - Häftad

Black Panther - Bok av Don McGregor - Häftad

The Penguin Classics Marvel Collection presents the origin stories, seminal tales, and characters of the Marvel Universe to explore Marvel’s transformative and timeless influence on an entire genre of fantasy.   A Penguin Classics Marvel Collection Edition   Collects Fantastic Four #52-53 (1966); Jungle Action #6-21 (1973-1976). It is impossible to imagine American popular culture without Marvel Comics. For decades, Marvel has published groundbreaking visual narratives that sustain..

SEK 318.99
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Captain America - Bok av Jack Kirby - Häftad

Captain America - Bok av Jack Kirby - Häftad

The Penguin Classics Marvel Collection presents the origin stories, seminal tales, and characters of the Marvel Universe to explore Marvel’s transformative and timeless influence on an entire genre of fantasy.   A Penguin Classics Marvel Collection Edition   Collects Captain America Comics #1 (1941); the Captain America stories from Tales of Suspense #59, #63-68, #75-81, #92-95, #110-113 (1964-1969); “Captain America…Commie Smasher” from Captain America #78 (1954)...

SEK 336.00
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Captain America - Bok av Jack Kirby - Inbunden

Captain America - Bok av Jack Kirby - Inbunden

The Penguin Classics Marvel Collection presents the origin stories, seminal tales, and characters of the Marvel Universe to explore Marvel’s transformative and timeless influence on an entire genre of fantasy.   A Penguin Classics Marvel Collection Edition   Collects Captain America Comics #1 (1941); the Captain America stories from Tales of Suspense #59, #63-68, #75-81, #92-95, #110-113 (1964-1969); “Captain America…Commie Smasher” from Captain America #78 (1954)...

SEK 500.00
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Daisy Miller and Other Tales - Bok av Henry James - Häftad

Daisy Miller and Other Tales - Bok av Henry James - Häftad

A wonderful new collection of Henry James’s short stories about Americans in Europe   Daisy Miller is one of Henry James’s great heroines: a young, independent American traveling in Europe, whose flouting of social conventions has the potential to lead to catastrophe. Her story is here accompanied by six more riffing on a classic Jamesian theme: the clash between the old world and new, Europe and America.   For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher..

SEK 140.00
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Leviathan - Bok av Thomas Hobbes - Häftad

Leviathan - Bok av Thomas Hobbes - Häftad

\During the time men live without a common Power to keep them all in awe, they are in that condition which is called Warre\Written during the turmoil of the English Civil War, Leviathan is an ambitious and highly original work of political philosophy. Claiming that man''s essential nature is competitive and selfish, Hobbes formulates the case for a powerful sovereign—or \Leviathan\—to enforce peace and the law, substituting security for the anarchic freedom he believed human..

SEK 170.00
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The Flip Side - 'Utterly adorable and romantic. I feel uplifted!' Giovanna Fletcher - Bok av James Bailey - Häftad

The Flip Side - 'Utterly adorable and romantic. I feel uplifted!' Giovanna Fletcher - Bok av James Bailey - Häftad

FALL IN LOVE WITH THIS HILARIOUSLY ROMANTIC STORY ABOUT A SECOND CHANCE AT LOVE . . .'Charming, funny and very relatable!' JOSIE SILVER'Made me laugh out loud, cry my heart out and put a big grin on my face' 5***** Reader Review'Utterly adorable and romantic. I feel uplifted!' GIOVANNA FLETCHER________It's love . . . what could go wrong?When Josh proposes in a pod on the London Eye at New Years' Eve, he thinks it's perfect.Until she says no.And they have to spend the next 29 excruciating minutes..

SEK 119.00
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The 120 Days of Sodom - Bok av Marquis de Sade - Häftad

The 120 Days of Sodom - Bok av Marquis de Sade - Häftad

A new translation of Sade’s most notorious, shocking, and influential novel. Winner of the 2017 Scott Moncrieff Prize  This distressing but hugely important text has influenced countless individuals throughout history: Flaubert and Baudelaire both read Sade; the surrealists were obsessed with him; film-makers like Pasolini saw parallels with twentieth-century history in his writings; and feminists such as Andrea Dworkin and Angela Carter clashed over him. This new translation brings..

SEK 176.00
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The Penguin Book of the Undead - Bok - Häftad

The Penguin Book of the Undead - Bok - Häftad

The walking dead from 15 centuries haunt this compendium of ghostly visitations through the ages, exploring the history of our fascination with zombies and other restless souls.   Since ancient times, accounts of supernatural activity have mystified us. Ghost stories as we know them did not develop until the late nineteenth century, but the restless dead haunted the premodern imagination in many forms, as recorded in historical narratives, theological texts, and personal letters. The Penguin..

SEK 160.00
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Roots of Yoga - Bok av James Mallinson - Häftad

Roots of Yoga - Bok av James Mallinson - Häftad

The first single, reliable collection of primary material from the source traditions of yoga   Despite the immense popularity of yoga today, there is surprisingly little knowledge of its roots among practitioners. This book brings together, for the first time, the core teachings of yoga in the words of their authors, rather than in the secondary versions of modern interpreters. Including key passages from the Upanishads, the Buddhist and Jaina traditions, the yoga sections of the Indian Tantras,..

SEK 170.00
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Hedda Gabler and Other Plays - Bok av Henrik Ibsen - Häftad

Hedda Gabler and Other Plays - Bok av Henrik Ibsen - Häftad

A collection of four plays by the famed playwright, including Hedda Gabler, which features one of the most infamous women characters in theaterA Penguin ClassicOne of the most renowned playwrights of all time, Norwegian-born Henrik Ibsen was an influential figure in the development of realist theater. Hedda Gabler, arguably Ibsen’s greatest work, is a tumultuous and sweeping play about a woman contending with her own dissatisfaction at the turn of the nineteenth century. Considered by..

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The Penguin Book of the Prose Poem - From Baudelaire to Anne Carson - Bok av Jeremy Noel-Tod - Häftad

The Penguin Book of the Prose Poem - From Baudelaire to Anne Carson - Bok av Jeremy Noel-Tod - Häftad

An essential anthology that puts contemporary geniuses Eileen Myles and Margaret Atwood in conversation with literary classics Charles Baudelaire and Oscar Wilde about the liberating and unique combination of poetry and proseA Penguin Classic The prose poem has proven one of the most innovative and versatile poetic forms of recent years. In the century-and-a-half since Charles Baudelaire, Emma Lazarus, Oscar Wilde and Ivan Turgenev spread the notion of a new kind of poetry, this \genre with..

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The Ultimate Ambition in the Arts of Erudition - Bok av Shihab al-Din al-Nuwayri - Häftad

The Ultimate Ambition in the Arts of Erudition - Bok av Shihab al-Din al-Nuwayri - Häftad

For the first time in English, a catalog of the world through fourteenth-century Arab eyes—a kind of Schott’s Miscellany for the Islamic Golden Age   An astonishing record of the knowledge of a civilization, The Ultimate Ambition in the Arts of Erudition catalogs everything known to exist from the perspective of a fourteenth-century Egyptian scholar and litterateur. More than 9,000 pages and thirty volumes—here abridged to one volume, and translated into English for the first..

SEK 166.00
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The Vikings - Bok av Else Roesdahl - Häftad

The Vikings - Bok av Else Roesdahl - Häftad

Thoroughly updated and with a new foreword  \The Viking Age is shot through with the spirit of adventure. For 300 years, from just before AD800 until well into the eleventh century, the Vikings affected almost every region accessible to their ships, and left traces that are still part of life today.\ Far from being just \wild, barbaric, axe-wielding pirates,\ the Vikings created complex social institutions, oversaw the coming of Christianity to Scandinavia, and made a major impact on European..

SEK 156.00
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Maigret at Picratt's - Inspector Maigret #36 - Bok av Georges Simenon - Häftad

Maigret at Picratt's - Inspector Maigret #36 - Bok av Georges Simenon - Häftad

“One of the greatest writers of the twentieth century . . . Simenon was unequaled at making us look inside, though the ability was masked by his brilliance at absorbing us obsessively in his stories.” —The GuardianWhen a Montmarte stripper overhears a plot to murder a countess, Inspector Maigret is on the case   Arlette, a beautiful young dancer at Picratt’s in Montmartre, reports to her local police station that she overheard two men at her club talking about planning..

SEK 136.00
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The Penguin Book of Haiku - Bok - Häftad

The Penguin Book of Haiku - Bok - Häftad

First Penguin volume Of best Japanese haiku Vivid translations  Now a global poetry, the haiku was originally a Japanese verse form that flourished from the sixteenth to nineteenth centuries. Although renowned for its minimalism and brevity, usually running three lines in seventeen syllables, and by its use of natural imagery to make Zen-like observations about reality, in fact the haiku is much more: it can be erotic, funny, crude and mischievous. Presenting over a thousand exemplars in vivid..

SEK 176.00
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The Praetorians - Bok av Jean Larteguy - Häftad

The Praetorians - Bok av Jean Larteguy - Häftad

Jean Lartéguy''s unflinching sequel to The Centurions, a searing novel of modern warfare admired by military experts, with a foreword by General Stanley McChrystal   Based on the events of May 1958 in France and Algeria, The Praetorians picks up in the footsteps of The Centurions, which was called “a stunning reflection of modern war” by Stanley McChrystal. After turning to tactics of guerilla warfare, a group of French paratroopers serving in the Algerian War is called to..

SEK 166.00
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