Galatea 2.2, Powers Richard

Автор: Powers Richard
Название: Echo Maker
ISBN: 0099506025 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780099506027
Издательство: Random House - Penguin
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Описание: From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Overstory, an intense, thrilling novel about a near fatal accident and its devastating consequences. On a winter night, Mark Schluter`s truck turns over in a near-fatal accident.

Автор: Powers, Richard
Название: The Overstory
ISBN: 1784708240 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781784708245
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Описание: *THE MILLION-COPY GLOBAL BESTSELLER *WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR FICTION*A wondrous, exhilarating novel about nine strangers brought together by an unfolding natural catastrophe. 'It changed how I thought about the Earth and our place in it' Barack ObamaAn artist inherits a hundred years of photographic portraits, all of the same doomed American chestnut. A hard-partying undergraduate in the late 1980s electrocutes herself, dies, and is sent back into life by creatures of air and light.

A hearing- and speech-impaired scientist discovers that trees are communicating with one another. An Air Force crewmember in the Vietnam War is shot out of the sky, then saved by falling into a banyan. This is the story of these and five other strangers, each summoned in different ways by the natural world, who are brought together in a last stand to save it from catastrophe.

'It's not possible for Powers to write an uninteresting book' Margaret Atwood'Really, just one of the best novels, period' Ann Patchett'Radical and exciting' Jessie Burton'Breath-taking' Barbara Kingsolver

Автор: Powers, Richard
Название: The Overstory
ISBN: 1784877913 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781784877910
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Описание: ** WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR FICTION **A wondrous, exhilarating novel about nine strangers brought together by an unfolding natural catastrophe. The perfect literary escape. An artist inherits a hundred years of photographic portraits, all of the same doomed American chestnut.

A hard-partying undergraduate in the late 1980s electrocutes herself, dies, and is sent back into life by creatures of air and light. A hearing- and speech-impaired scientist discovers that trees are communicating with one another. An Air Force crewmember in the Vietnam War is shot out of the sky, then saved by falling into a banyan.

This is the story of these and five other strangers, each summoned in different ways by the natural world, who are brought together in a last stand to save it from catastrophe. 'It changed how I thought about the Earth and our place in it' Barack Obama'Really, just one of the best novels, period' Ann Patchett, author of The Dutch HouseVINTAGE EARTH is a collection of novels to transform our relationship with the natural world. Each one is a work of creative activism, a blast of fresh air, a seed from which change can grow.

The books in this series reconnect us to the planet we inhabit - and must protect. Discover great writing on the most urgent story of our times.

Автор: Richard Powers
Название: Galatea 2.2
ISBN: 0312423136 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780312423131
Издательство: Holtzbrink(MPS)/MPS
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Dazzling...a cerebral thriller that's both intellectually engaging and emotionally compelling, a lively tour de force.--Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times

After four novels and several years living abroad, the fictional protagonist of Galatea 2.2--Richard Powers--returns to the United States as Humanist-in-Residence at the enormous Center for the Study of Advanced Sciences. There he runs afoul of Philip Lentz, an outspoken cognitive neurologist intent upon modeling the human brain by means of computer-based neural networks. Lentz involves Powers in an outlandish and irresistible project: to train a neural net on a canonical list of Great Books. Through repeated tutorials, the device grows gradually more worldly, until it demands to know its own name, sex, race, and reason for existing.

Автор: Powers, Richard
Название: Bewilderment
ISBN: 1529115256 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781529115253
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Описание: Covering the full research process from design to dissemination, this new edition from internationally-renowned visual methods expert Claudia Mitchell includes guidance on maintaining ethical practice, handling visual data after it is collected, working with archived material and presenting findings to different audiences.

Автор: Powers Richard
Название: Gold Bug Variations
ISBN: 1784709727 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781784709723
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Описание: From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Overstory, an enthralling story about desire, new love and the mysteries of scienceThe Gold Bug Variations is a double love story of two young couples separated by a distance of twenty-five years.

Автор: Powers, Richard
Название: The Overstory
ISBN: 1785151649 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781785151644
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Описание: The Overstory unfolds in concentric rings of interlocking fables that range from antebellum New York to the late twentieth-century Timber Wars of the Pacific Northwest and beyond. An Air Force loadmaster in the Vietnam War is shot out of the sky, then saved by falling into a banyan. An artist inherits a hundred years of photographic portraits, all of the same doomed American chestnut. A hard-partying undergraduate in the late 1980s electrocutes herself, dies and is sent back into life by creatures of air and light. A hearing- and speech-impaired scientist discovers that trees are communicating with one another. These four, and five other strangers – each summoned in different ways by trees – are brought together in a last and violent stand to save the continent’s few remaining acres of virgin forest. There is a world alongside ours – vast, slow, interconnected, resourceful, magnificently inventive and almost invisible to us. This is the story of a handful of people who learn how to see that world and who are drawn up into its unfolding catastrophe.

Автор: Powers Richard
Название: The Time of Our Singing
ISBN: 1250829674 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781250829672
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"The last novel where I rooted for every character, and the last to make me cry." - Marlon James, Elle

From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Overstory and the Oprah's Book Club selection Bewilderment comes Richard Powers's magnificent, multifaceted novel about a supremely gifted--and divided--family, set against the backdrop of postwar America.

On Easter day, 1939, at Marian Anderson's epochal concert on the Washington Mall, David Strom, a German Jewish йmigrй scientist, meets Delia Daley, a young Black Philadelphian studying to be a singer. Their mutual love of music draws them together, and--against all odds and their better judgment--they marry. They vow to raise their children beyond time, beyond identity, steeped only in song. Jonah, Joseph, and Ruth grow up, however, during the civil rights era, coming of age in the violent 1960s, and living out adulthood in the racially retrenched late century. Jonah, the eldest, "whose voice could make heads of state repent," follows a life in his parents' beloved classical music. Ruth, the youngest, devotes herself to community activism and repudiates the white culture her brother represents. Joseph, the middle child and the narrator of this generation-bridging tale, struggles to find himself and remain connected to them both.

Richard Powers's The Time of Our Singing is a story of self-invention, allegiance, race, cultural ownership, the compromised power of music, and the tangled loops of time that rewrite all belonging.

Автор: Powers, Richard
Название: Bewilderment
ISBN: 1785152645 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781785152641
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Описание: This book is based on one of the most important influences on student learning: teachers who believe that they can improve their students` achievements. Along with this, the book explores the notion that this powerful belief can also exist between students, enhancing their achievements but also preparing them for real world encounters and job demands.

Автор: Richard Powers
Название: Gain
ISBN: 0312429096 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780312429096
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From Pulitzer Prize-winning and bestselling author Richard Powers, Gain braids together two stories on very different scales.

In one, Laura Body, divorced mother of two and a real-estate agent in the small town of Lacewood, Illinois, plunges into a new existence when she learns that she has ovarian cancer. In the other, Clare & Company, a soap manufacturer begun by three brothers in nineteenth-century Boston, grows over the course of a century and a half into an international consumer products conglomerate based in Laura's hometown. Clare's stunning growth reflects the kaleidoscopic history of America; Laura Body's life is changed forever by Clare. The novel's stunning conclusion reveals the countless invisible connections between the largest enterprises and the smallest lives.

Автор: Powers, Richard (author)
Название: Three farmers on their way to a dance
ISBN: 1848871406 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781848871403
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Описание: The story of an enduring image influenced by forgotten histories, and a novel of obsession in the age of technology.

Автор: Schultes, Richard Evans Hofmann, Albert Ratsch, Christian
Название: Plants of the gods
ISBN: 0892819790 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780892819799
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Описание: World-renowned anthropologist and ethnopharmacologist Christian Ratsch provides the latest scientific updates to this classic work on psychoactive flora by two eminent researchers.