His Natural Life
Author : Marcus Clarke
Publisher :
Page : 494 pages
File Size : 24,97 MB
Release : 1878
Category : Australian fiction
ISBN :
For the Term of His Natural Life
Author : Marcus Clarke
Publisher :
Page : 510 pages
File Size : 15,73 MB
Release : 1886
Category :
ISBN :
Book Description
For the Term of His Natural Life
Author : Marcus Clarke
Publisher : Library of Alexandria
Page : 770 pages
File Size : 22,76 MB
Release :
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1465525459
Book Description
Searching for the Secret River
Author : Kate Grenville
Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 13,26 MB
Release : 2011
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1459620011
Book Description
'Searching for the Secret River is the extraordinary story of how Kate Grenville came to write her award-winning novel, The Secret River. It all began with her ancestor Solomon Wiseman transported to New South Wales for the term of his natural life who later became a wealthy man and built his colonial mansion on the Hawkesbury. Increasingly obse...
The Better Angels of Our Nature
Author : Steven Pinker
Publisher : Penguin Books
Page : 834 pages
File Size : 46,57 MB
Release : 2012-09-25
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 0143122010
Book Description
Faced with the ceaseless stream of news about war, crime, and terrorism, one could easily think this is the most violent age ever seen. Yet as bestselling author Pinker shows in this startling and engaging new work, just the opposite is true.
The Laws of Human Nature
Author : Robert Greene
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 626 pages
File Size : 35,99 MB
Release : 2018-10-23
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 0698184548
Book Description
From the #1 New York Times-bestselling author of The 48 Laws of Power comes the definitive new book on decoding the behavior of the people around you Robert Greene is a master guide for millions of readers, distilling ancient wisdom and philosophy into essential texts for seekers of power, understanding and mastery. Now he turns to the most important subject of all - understanding people's drives and motivations, even when they are unconscious of them themselves. We are social animals. Our very lives depend on our relationships with people. Knowing why people do what they do is the most important tool we can possess, without which our other talents can only take us so far. Drawing from the ideas and examples of Pericles, Queen Elizabeth I, Martin Luther King Jr, and many others, Greene teaches us how to detach ourselves from our own emotions and master self-control, how to develop the empathy that leads to insight, how to look behind people's masks, and how to resist conformity to develop your singular sense of purpose. Whether at work, in relationships, or in shaping the world around you, The Laws of Human Nature offers brilliant tactics for success, self-improvement, and self-defense.
Life
Author : Keith Richards
Publisher : Little, Brown
Page : 474 pages
File Size : 13,85 MB
Release : 2010-11-12
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0316178721
Book Description
The long-awaited autobiography of Keith Richards, guitarist, songwriter, singer, and founding member of the Rolling Stones. With The Rolling Stones, Keith Richards created the songs that roused the world, and he lived the original rock and roll life. Now, at last, the man himself tells his story of life in the crossfire hurricane. Listening obsessively to Chuck Berry and Muddy Waters records, learning guitar and forming a band with Mick Jagger and Brian Jones. The Rolling Stones's first fame and the notorious drug busts that led to his enduring image as an outlaw folk hero. Creating immortal riffs like the ones in "Jumping Jack Flash" and "Honky Tonk Women." His relationship with Anita Pallenberg and the death of Brian Jones. Tax exile in France, wildfire tours of the U.S., isolation and addiction. Falling in love with Patti Hansen. Estrangement from Jagger and subsequent reconciliation. Marriage, family, solo albums and Xpensive Winos, and the road that goes on forever. With his trademark disarming honesty, Keith Richard brings us the story of a life we have all longed to know more of, unfettered, fearless, and true.
The Natural
Author : Bernard Malamud
Publisher : Random House
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 33,4 MB
Release : 2017-08-24
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1446419126
Book Description
This is a book about heroism - of sorts. Roy Hobbs has an immense natural gift for playing baseball. He could become one of the great ones of the game, a player unmatched in his time - a hero. But his first hard-won big chance ends violently, at the hands of a crazy girl, and then it is years before he gets another shot. At last, in a few short seasons, or never, he must achieve the towering reputation that he feels is his right.
Stories of Your Life and Others
Author : Ted Chiang
Publisher : Knopf
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 43,43 MB
Release : 2010-10-26
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1931520895
Book Description
From the author of Exhalation, an award-winning short story collection that blends "absorbing storytelling with meditations on the universe, being, time and space ... raises questions about the nature of reality and what it is to be human" (The New York Times). Stories of Your Life and Others delivers dual delights of the very, very strange and the heartbreakingly familiar, often presenting characters who must confront sudden change—the inevitable rise of automatons or the appearance of aliens—with some sense of normalcy. With sharp intelligence and humor, Chiang examines what it means to be alive in a world marked by uncertainty, but also by beauty and wonder. An award-winning collection from one of today's most lauded writers, Stories of Your Life and Others is a contemporary classic. Includes “Story of Your Life”—the basis for the major motion picture Arrival
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao (Pulitzer Prize Winner)
Author : Junot Díaz
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 31,16 MB
Release : 2008-09-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1594483299
Book Description
Winner of: The Pulitzer Prize The National Book Critics Circle Award The Anisfield-Wolf Book Award The Jon Sargent, Sr. First Novel Prize A Time Magazine #1 Fiction Book of the Year One of the best books of 2007 according to: The New York Times, San Francisco Chronicle, New York Magazine, Entertainment Weekly, The Boston Globe, Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, People, The Village Voice, Time Out New York, Salon, Baltimore City Paper, The Christian Science Monitor, Booklist, Library Journal, Publishers Weekly, New York Public Library, and many more... Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American Read Oscar is a sweet but disastrously overweight ghetto nerd who—from the New Jersey home he shares with his old world mother and rebellious sister—dreams of becoming the Dominican J.R.R. Tolkien and, most of all, finding love. But Oscar may never get what he wants. Blame the fukú—a curse that has haunted Oscar’s family for generations, following them on their epic journey from Santo Domingo to the USA. Encapsulating Dominican-American history, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao opens our eyes to an astonishing vision of the contemporary American experience and explores the endless human capacity to persevere—and risk it all—in the name of love.
