Автор: Powers Richard Название: Echo Maker ISBN: 0099506025 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780099506027 Издательство: Random House - Penguin Рейтинг: Цена: 1451.00 р. Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ.
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 Издательство: Random House - Penguin Рейтинг: Цена: 1319.00 р. Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ.
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: Richard Powers Название: Galatea 2.2 ISBN: 0312423136 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780312423131 Издательство: Holtzbrink(MPS)/MPS Рейтинг: Цена: 1839.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
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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: Richard Powers Название: Gain ISBN: 0312429096 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780312429096 Издательство: Holtzbrink(MPS)/MPS Рейтинг: Цена: 1839.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
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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 Название: Bewilderment ISBN: 1785152645 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781785152641 Издательство: Random House - Penguin Рейтинг: Цена: 1847.00 р. Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ.
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: Powers, Richard Название: The Overstory ISBN: 1785151649 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781785151644 Издательство: Random House - Penguin Рейтинг: Цена: 1847.00 р. Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ.
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: Gold Bug Variations ISBN: 1784709727 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781784709723 Издательство: Random House - Penguin Рейтинг: Цена: 1451.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
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 Sr Dr Richard Название: Pathways to Spiritual Understanding ISBN: 1498445055 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781498445054 Издательство: Неизвестно Цена: 2826.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Автор: Richard Powers Название: Echo Maker ISBN: 0099516128 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780099516125 Издательство: Random House - Penguin Цена: 923.00 р. Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ.
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On a winter night on a remote road in Nebraska, twenty-seven-year-old Mark Schluter's truck turns over in a near fatal accident. His older sister, Karin, his only close relative, returns reluctantly to their hometown to nurse Mark back from a traumatic head injury. But when he emerges from a protracted coma, Mark believes that this woman - who looks, acts, and sounds just like his sister - is really an identical impostor.
Shattered by her brother's refusal to recognise her, Karin contacts the cognitive neurologist Gerald Weber, famous for his case studies describing the infinitely bizarre worlds of brain disorder. Weber recognises Mark as a very unusual case of Capgras syndrome and is keen to investigate. But what he discovers in Mark begins to undermine even his own sense of self.
Meanwhile, Mark, armed only with a note left by an anonymous witness, attempts to learn what happened on the night of his accident. The truth of that evening will change the lives of all three beyond recognition.
Set against the spectacular spring migrations of American Sandhill cranes, The Echo Maker is a profound and riveting novel that explores how memory, instinct and relationships make us who we are.
Автор: McAdams Richard H Название: Expressive Powers of Law ISBN: 0674975480 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780674975484 Издательство: Harvard University Press Рейтинг: Цена: 4269.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
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When asked why people obey the law, legal scholars usually give two answers. Law deters illicit activities by specifying sanctions, and it possesses legitimate authority in the eyes of society. Richard McAdams shifts the prism on this familiar question to offer another compelling explanation of how the law creates compliance: through its expressive power to coordinate our behavior and inform our beliefs.
"McAdams's account is useful, powerful, and--a rarity in legal theory--concrete...McAdams's treatment reveals important insights into how rational agents reason and interact both with one another and with the law. The Expressive Powers of Law is a valuable contribution to our understanding of these interactions." --Harvard Law Review
"McAdams's analysis widening the perspective of our understanding of why people comply with the law should be welcomed by those interested either in the nature of law, the function of law, or both...McAdams shows how law sometimes works by a power of suggestion. His varied examples are fascinating for their capacity both to demonstrate and to show the limits of law's expressive power." --Patrick McKinley Brennan, Review of Metaphysics
