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  • Is That a Fish in Your Ear?

    Translation and the Meaning of Everything

    af David Bellos ...
    People speak different languages, and always have. The Ancient Greeks took no notice of anything unless it was said in Greek; the Romans made everyone speak Latin; and in India, people learned their neighbours' languages - as did many ordinary Europeans in times past. But today, we all use translation to cope with the diversity of languages. Without translation there would be no world news, not ... Læs mere

    86,02 kr.

  • Bird in a Cage

    Oversat af David Bellos ...
    'The French master of noir' ObserverIt felt like the slipknot on a rope round my chest was being tightened without pityTrouble is the last thing Albert needs. Travelling back to his childhood home on Christmas Eve to mourn his mother's death, he finds the loneliness and nostalgia of his Parisian quartier unbearable... Until, that evening, he encounters a beautiful, seemingly innocent woman at a ... Læs mere

    62,91 kr. eller Gratis med Kobo Plus

  • Dear Reader

    af Paul Fournel ...
    Oversat af David Bellos ...
    There's a lot of good to be said about publishing, mainly about the food. The books, though - Robert Dubois feels as if he's read the books, but still they keep coming back to him, the same old books just by new authors. Maybe he's ready to settle into the end of his career, like it's a tipsy afternoon after a working lunch. But then he is confronted with a gift: a piece of technology, a gizmo, a ... Læs mere

    71,91 kr. eller Gratis med Kobo Plus

  • Who Owns This Sentence?

    A History of Copyrights and Wrongs

    Copyright is everywhere. Your smartphone incorporates thousands of items of intellectual property. Someone owns the reproduction rights to photographs of your dining table. At this very moment, battles are raging over copyright in the output of artificial intelligence programs. Not only books but wallpaper, computer programs and cuddly toys are now deemed to be intellectual properties - making ... Læs mere

    120,19 kr.

  • Ninety-Three

    af Victor Hugo ...
    Oversat af David Bellos ...
    A new translation by David Bellos of the last great novel by France’s greatest novelistIn the turmoil of the French Revolution, the year 1793 represented the peak of bloody revolutionary violence. Victor Hugo plunges into this tumultuous period with a story of courage and betrayal across the political classes. As the revolution rages, three characters – a nobleman turned revolutionary, a devoted ... Læs mere

    172,12 kr.

  • The Novel of the Century

    The Extraordinary Adventure of Les Misérables

    af David Bellos ...
    **GUARDIAN BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2017'Never mind those self-help manuals urging that some classic novel may change your life; in this sparkling study of the birth, growth and afterlife of Hugo's evergreen blockbuster, David Bellos argues that Les Misérables already has' Boyd Tonkin, Economist'Any reader who hasn't yet embarked on Hugo's book might be converted to the idea by this one' Daniel Hahn, ... Læs mere

    94,63 kr.

  • On Leave

    A Novel

    Oversat af David Bellos ...
    A long-lost French novel in which three soldiers return home from an unpopular, unspeakable warWhen On Leave was published in Paris in 1957, as France's engagement in Algeria became ever more bloody, it told people things they did not want to hear. It vividly described what it was like for soldiers to return home from an unpopular war in a faraway place. The book received a handful of reviews, it ... Læs mere

    94,11 kr.

  • The Great Wall of China as a Climate Frontier

    Climatic and Historical Perspectives on the Ordos Region

    Serier serie Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    The Great Wall—the most imposing manifestation of Chinese frontier history—crosses a vast territory subject to political, environmental and climatic instabilities that the volume approaches as mutually conditioning, focusing on the Ordos region. This has been a central point of contact between sedentary East Asian and nomadic Inner Asian peoples throughout Chinese premodern history (500 BCE-1800). ... Læs mere

    1.307,67 kr.

  • Chronicle In Stone

    Serier serie Canons
    During the Second World War, a young boy witnesses his hometown in Albania fall to a series of invaders: first Italian fascists, then the Greeks, the Italians once again and finally Nazi hordes. Amid floods and bombings, he undergoes another kind of turbulence - growing up.Chronicle in Stone is an early masterpiece from the winner of the inaugural Man Booker International Prize and one of the most ... Læs mere

    98,99 kr.

  • Life

    A User's Manual

    af Georges Perec ...
    Oversat af David Bellos ...
    In this ingenious book Perec creates an entire microcosm in a Paris apartment block. Serge Valene wants to make an elaborate painting of the building he has made his home for the last sixty years. As he plans his picture, he contemplates the lives of all the people he has ever known there. Chapter by chapter, the narrative moves around the building revealing a marvellously diverse cast of ... Læs mere

    94,63 kr.

  • How to Deal With Idiots

    (and stop being one yourself)

    af Maxime Rovere ...
    Oversat af David Bellos ...
    Idiocy is all around us, whether it's the uncle spouting conspiracy theories, the colleagues who repeat your point but louder, or the commuters who still don't know how to use an escalator. But what is the answer to this perpetual scourge?Here, philosopher Maxime Rovere turns his attention to the murkiest of intellectual corners. With warmth, wit and wisdom, he illuminates a new understanding of ... Læs mere

    85,99 kr.

  • Georges Perec: A Life in Words

    af David Bellos ...
    "It's hard to see how anyone is ever going to better this User's Manual to the life of Georges Perec" - Gilbert Adair, Sunday TimesWinner of the Prix Goncourt for Biography, 1994George Perec (1936-82) was one of the most significant European writers of the twentieth century and undoubtedly the most versatile and innovative writer of his generation.David Bellos's comprehensive biography - which ... Læs mere

    129,07 kr.