Hidden Valley Road: Inside the Mind of an American Family (Kolker Robert)(Pevná vazba)

Hidden Valley Road: Inside the Mind of an American Family (Kolker Robert)(Pevná vazba)

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - OPRAH'S BOOK CLUB PICK - ONE OF GQ's TOP 50 BOOKS OF LITERARY JOURNALISM IN THE 21st CENTURY - The heartrending story of a midcentury American family with twelve children, six of them diagnosed with schizophrenia, that became science's great hope in the quest to

Hidden Valley Road: Inside the Mind of an American Family (Kolker Robert)(Paperback)

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - OPRAH'S BOOK CLUB PICK - ONE OF GQ's TOP 50 BOOKS OF LITERARY JOURNALISM IN THE 21st CENTURY - The heartrending story of a midcentury American family with twelve children, six of them diagnosed with schizophrenia, that became science's great hope in the quest to

Hidden Valley Road (Kolker Robert)(Pevná vazba)

The heartrending story of a midcentury American family with twelve children, six of them diagnosed with schizophrenia, that became science's great hope in the quest to understand the

Hidden Valley Road (Kolker Robert)(Paperback / softback)

The heartrending story of a midcentury American family with twelve children, six of them diagnosed with schizophrenia, that became science's great hope in the quest to understand the

Warren Buffett: Inside the Ultimate Money Mind (Hagstrom Robert G.)(Pevná vazba)

In Warren Buffett: Inside the Ultimate Money Mind, Hagstrom breaks new ground with a deep analysis of Buffett's essential wisdom, an intricate mosaic of wide-ranging ideas and insights that Buffett calls a Money Mind. What exactly is a Money Mind? At one level, it's a way of thinking about major

Robert Motherwell - The Making of an American Giant (Jacobson Bernard)(Pevná vazba)

In Robert Motherwell: The Making of an American Giant, published to coincide with Motherwell's centenary, author Bernard Jacobson examines Motherwell's art in the context of 20th-century American culture. America's music and literature were indigenous triumphs, while its art was slowly learning to

Under the Water: Tales from the Hidden Valley (Porta Carles)(Pevná vazba)

Summer has finally arrived in the fourth book of Carle's Porta's Tales From The Hidden Valley series Beloved characters return in the final book of this whimsical series for fans of Tove Jansson's Moomins. Hidden in a remote place surrounded by high mountains, there lies a secret valley. There is

The Way to Rio Luna (Crdova Zoraida)(Pevná vazba)

For fans of The Land of Stories comes an adventure that reveals the secret warnings hidden inside all classic tales -- beware fairyland at all costs.Eleven-year-old Danny Monteverde believes in magic. He knows that pixie dust is real, that wardrobes act as portals, and that rabbit holes lead to

Human Comedy (Saroyan William)(Pevná vazba)

A novel of an American family in

The Godfather (Puzo Mario)(Pevná vazba)

The Godfather--the classic saga of an American crime family that became a global phenomenon--nominated as one of America's best-loved novels by PBS's The Great American Read. With its brilliant and brutal portrayal of the Corleone family, The Godfather burned its way into our national

American Weathervanes: The Art of the Winds (Shaw Robert)(Pevná vazba)

Camping Grounds: Public Nature in American Life from the Civil War to the Occupy Movement (Young Phoebe S. K.)(Pevná vazba)

An exploration of the hidden history of camping in American life that connects a familiar recreational pastime to camps for functional needs and political purposes. Camping appears to be a simple proposition, a time-honored way of getting away from it all. Pack up the car and hit the road in search

The Violence Inside Us: A Brief History of an Ongoing American Tragedy (Murphy Chris)(Pevná vazba)

'An engrossing, moving, and utterly motivating account of the human stakes of gun violence in America.'--Samantha Power, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Education of an Idealist Is America destined to always be a violent nation? This sweeping history by U.S. senator Chris Murphy explores the

B Is for Ballet: A Dance Alphabet (American Ballet Theatre) (Allman John Robert)(Pevná vazba)

An A-Z celebration of the world of ballet, from the renowned American Ballet Theatre. A is for arabesque, B is for Baryshnikov, and C is for Copp lia in this beautifully illustrated, rhyming A-Z of ballet terminology, stars, dances, positions, creators, history, and more. In partnership with the

Inside Out: The Prints of Mary Cassatt (Cassatt Mary)(Pevná vazba)

An intimate look at one of the most radical and groundbreaking printmakers of all time, the American Impressionist Mary CassattThis book examines the inventive experimentation and innovation of one of the finest and most creative printmakers of the 19th century. A contemporary of other superior

The Stakes: 2020 and the Survival of American Democracy (Kuttner Robert)(Pevná vazba)

Mars Rover Curiosity: An Inside Account from Curiosity's Chief Engineer (Manning Robert)(Pevná vazba)

The firsthand account of the trials and tribulations of engineering one of the most complex pieces of space technology, the Mars Rover Curiosity, by its chief engineer Rob Manning In the course of our enduring quest for knowledge about ourselves and our universe, we haven't found answers to one of

Mind, Matter and Motion (Lever Robert)(Pevná vazba)

This book is an adventurous foray into the subtle aspects of osteopathic diagnosis and treatment, the 'energetic' dimension in relation to the Lesion, the patient/practitioner exchange and touch; the clinical 'art' and the alchemy of practice. The role of visualisation and intention; the

The Band: Tales from the Hidden Valley: Tales from the Hidden Valley Book Three (Porta Carles)(Pevná vazba)

A bohemian Winnie the Pooh for artistic and musical children introduces a new adventure featuring the residents of the Hidden Valley as they figure out how to make friendships work. The third book in Tales from the Hidden Valley series captures the magic and energy of springtime in Spanish creator

An Open Secret: The Family Story of Robert and John Gregg Allerton (Syrett Nicholas L.)(Pevná vazba)

In 1922 Robert Allerton-described by the Chicago Tribune as the 'richest bachelor in Chicago'-met a twenty-two-year-old University of Illinois architecture student named John Gregg, who was twenty-six years his junior. Virtually inseparable from then on, they began publicly referring to one another

Robert Frank: Peru (Frank Robert)(Pevná vazba)

The weathered faces and dusty roads of Peru, compiled and sequenced by the master of the American photo-essayIn March 1949, Robert Frank mailed a birthday gift to his mother in Switzerland: A maquette of a series of photographs he had made during a visit to Peru between June and December of the

Survival Math - Notes on an All-American Family (Jackson Mitchell S.)(Pevná vazba)

The eagerly awaited memoir from Mitchell S. Jackson, winner of the Ernest Gaines Prize for Literary Excellence and Finalist of PEN/Hemingway

Robert Frank: Trolley--New Orleans: Moma One on One Series (Frank Robert)(Paperback)

In the midst of an extended road trip across the United States, Robert Frank pointed his camera lens at a passing trolley in New Orleans, took a single exposure, and then turned back to bustling Canal Street, where crowds of people swarmed the sidewalks. That single click of the shutter produced a

Working Girls: An American Brothel, Circa 1892 / The Private Photographs of William Goldman (Johnson Robert)(Pevná vazba)

Working Girls chronicles the unique and artful private photographs of commercial photographer William Goldman, whose collection of work captures the deep appreciation and understanding of the group of women who lived and worked at a brothel in Reading, Pennsylvania, circa 1892. Taken two decades