en-US Fri, 02 May 2025 13:00:40 -0700 60 144 41 /images/layout/goodreads_logo_144.jpg 68210 Housekeeping, Marilynne Robinson returns with an intimate tale of three generations, from the Civil War to the 20th century: a story about fathers and sons and the spiritual battles that still rage at America's heart. In the words of Kirkus, it is a novel "as big as a nation, as quiet as thought, and moving as prayer. Matchless and towering." GILEAD tells the story of America and will break your heart.]]> 247 Marilynne Robinson 031242440X Izunia 0 3.84 2004
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]]> 58733693 Remarkably Bright Creatures, an exploration of friendship, reckoning, and hope, tracing a widow's unlikely connection with a giant Pacific octopus.

After Tova Sullivan's husband died, she began working the night shift at the Sowell Bay Aquarium, mopping floors and tidying up. Keeping busy has always helped her cope, which she's been doing since her eighteen-year-old son, Erik, mysteriously vanished on a boat in Puget Sound over thirty years ago.

Tova becomes acquainted with curmudgeonly Marcellus, a giant Pacific octopus living at the aquarium. Marcellus knows more than anyone can imagine but wouldn't dream of lifting one of his eight arms for his human captors--until he forms a remarkable friendship with Tova.

Ever the detective, Marcellus deduces what happened the night Tova's son disappeared. And now Marcellus must use every trick his old invertebrate body can muster to unearth the truth for her before it's too late.

Shelby Van Pelt's debut novel is a gentle reminder that sometimes taking a hard look at the past can help uncover a future that once felt impossible.]]> 368 Shelby Van Pelt 0063204150 Izunia 0 4.35 2022
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]]> 6656 This Everyman’s Library edition–containing in one volume all three cantos, Inferno, Purgatorio, and Paradiso–includes an introduction by Nobel Prize—winning poet Eugenio Montale, a chronology, notes, and a bibliography. Also included are forty-two drawings selected from Botticelli’s marvelous late-fifteenth-century series of illustrations.

Translated in this edition by Allen Mandelbaum, The Divine Comedy begins in a shadowed forest on Good Friday in the year 1300. It proceeds on a journey that, in its intense recreation of the depths and the heights of human experience, has become the key with which Western civilization has sought to unlock the mystery of its own identity.

Mandelbaum’s astonishingly Dantean translation, which captures so much of the life of the original, renders whole for us the masterpiece of that genius whom our greatest poets have recognized as a central model for all poets.]]> 798 Dante Alighieri 0679433139 Izunia 0 4.08 1320
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]]> 125217 287 Elizabeth Bishop 0701178027 Izunia 0 4.34 1980
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average rating: 4.34
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]]> 2014412 416 Richard Davenport-Hines 0099442566 Izunia 0 3.50 1995
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]]> 34656246
In The Black Swan Taleb outlined a problem; in Antifragile he offers a definitive solution: how to gain from disorder and chaos while being protected from fragilities and adverse events. For what he calls the "antifragile" is one step beyond robust, as it benefits from adversity, uncertainty and stressors, just as human bones get stronger when subjected to stress and tension.

Taleb stands uncertainty on its head, making it desirable, and proposing that things be built in an antifragile manner. Extremely ambitious and multidisciplinary, Antifragile provides a blueprint for how to behave-and thrive-in a world we don't understand and which is too uncertain for us to even try to understand. He who is not antifragile will perish. Why is the city state better than the nation state, why is debt bad for you, and why is almost everything modern bound to fail? The book covers innovation, health, biology, medicine, life decisions, politics, foreign policy, urban planning, war, personal finance, and economic systems. Throughout, the voice and recipes of the ancient wisdom from Phoenician, Roman, Greek, and Medieval sources are heard loud and clear.]]> 519 Nassim Nicholas Taleb Izunia 0 4.17 2012
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]]> 35743 580 Günter Grass 0099483505 Izunia 0 3.96 1959
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]]> 35696171
Is the world really falling apart? Is the ideal of progress obsolete? In this elegant assessment of the human condition in the third millennium, cognitive scientist and public intellectual Steven Pinker urges us to step back from the gory headlines and prophecies of doom, which play to our psychological biases. Instead, follow the data: In seventy-five jaw-dropping graphs, Pinker shows that life, health, prosperity, safety, peace, knowledge, and happiness are on the rise, not just in the West, but worldwide. This progress is not the result of some cosmic force. It is a gift of the Enlightenment: the conviction that reason and science can enhance human flourishing.

Far from being a naïve hope, the Enlightenment, we now know, has worked. But more than ever, it needs a vigorous defense. The Enlightenment project swims against currents of human nature–tribalism, authoritarianism, demonization, magical thinking–which demagogues are all too willing to exploit. Many commentators, committed to political, religious, or romantic ideologies, fight a rearguard action against it. The result is a corrosive fatalism and a willingness to wreck the precious institutions of liberal democracy and global cooperation.

With intellectual depth and literary flair, Enlightenment Now makes the case for reason, science, and humanism: the ideals we need to confront our problems and continue our progress.]]> 576 Steven Pinker 0525427570 Izunia 0 4.18 2018
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Iza’s Ballad is the story of a woman who loses her life’s companion and a mother trying to get close to a daughter whom she has never truly known. It is about the meeting of the old-fashioned and the modern worlds and the beliefs we construct over a lifetime.]]> 340 Magda Szabó Izunia 0 currently-reading, 2023 4.25 1963
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]]> 33876085 1088 Paul Auster 0571324657 Izunia 0 currently-reading, 2023 4.03 2017
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]]> 25550614 622 Jim Blandy 1491927283 Izunia 0 4.65 2015
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]]> 43196393 Die praktischen Informationen und umfangreichen Checklisten dieses Ratgebers bringen Sie sicher ans Ziel - von der Haussuche bis zur Schlüsselübergabe.

Mit vielen Checklisten für die gründliche Hausbesichtigung.

Mit:
-Immobilien aus verschiedenen Baujahren und ihre charakteristischen Merkmale.
-Einschätzungs des Sanierungs- und Moderisierungs-bedarfs
-Beurteilung von Kaufpreis und Kaufvertrag
-Kommentierte Beispiele von Kaufverträgen
-Alle wichtigen Regelungen der aktuellen Energieeinsparverordnung (EnEV)]]> 238 Peter Burk 3863360982 Izunia 0 4.60
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]]> 18543130 531 Paula I. Figoni 1299640206 Izunia 0 4.43 2003
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Alice Munro po otrzymaniu Nagrody Nobla wycofała się z życia publicznego i nie udziela wywiadów. Autorka kultowych opowiadań mieszka w niewielkim, ale uroczym mieście nad jeziorem Ontario. Michał Nogaś specjalnie dla Państwa postanowił podążyć tropem pisarki. Gdy już tracił nadzieję na spotkanie z Noblistką, spotkał ją po prostu w kawiarni. Jak się dalej potoczyła ta historia?

W książce znajdą się również nigdy niepublikowane wywiady z Olgą Tokarczuk czy Dorotą Masłowską, nowe rozmowy z Mariuszem Szczygłem, który zdradza jakie książki ratują mu życie, pierwszy wspólny wywiad Agnety Pleijel i Macieja Zaremby Bielawskiego, opowieść Małgorzaty Rejmer o albańskich kobietach i rozmowę z Jerzym Pilchem o tym, jak napisać dobry felieton.

„Z niejednej półki�� to również wstrząsające wywiady z brazylijskimi pisarzami �� Michelem Laubem i Bernardo Kucinskim oraz rozmowy z trzema laureatami Literackiej Nagrody Nobla - Olgą Tokarczuk, Swietłaną Aleksjijewicz i Orhanem Pamukiem, a także czołówką światowych twórców i twórczyń, m. in.: Margaret Atwood, Paulem Austerem, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Siri Hustvedt, Javierem Marasem, Karlem Ove Knausgardem czy Elizabeth Strout.]]> 688 Michał Nogaś 8326836001 Izunia 0 4.46 2020
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]]> 4845 Discover the timeless techniques and strategies that help you:]]> 914 Steve McConnell 0735619670 Izunia 0 4.30 1993
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