Sven: 759 books

“IL MILITE IGNOTO DELLA SECONDA GUERRA MONDIALE ADESSO HA IL SUO MONUMENTO”  Morgenavisen, Norvegia Sentiamo i cingoli dei carri armati in avvicinamento. –Un T-34. Devono averci scoperti, sussurra Fratellino. - Non muovetevi finché non è qui, poi ce la filiamo! L’orribile stridore...

“UNO STRAORDINARIO ROMANZO BELLICO” Alan Silitoe I soldati del 27esimo Reggimento Panzer sono costretti a ripiegare. Devono compiere una terribile ritirata dopo la pioggia di bombe alleate sulle città tedesche. I cingoli dei carri armati solcano la steppa russa nella gelida morsa dell’inverno...

“UN NARRATORE STRAORDINARIO” De Telegraaf, Olanda Almeno un battaglione di carri lanciafiamme gira su se stesso come una mandria di cinghiali impazziti. Lunghe lingue ardenti di fiamme sbuffano dalle torrette e bruciano tutto ciò che incontrano. Dalla prigione GPU escono frotte di prigionieri...

Innovation disrupts things. Can it disrupt unemployment? Internet co-inventor Vint Cerf and David Nordfors, co-founders of i4j Innovation for Jobs, say IT and artificial intelligence should be seen as tools for tailoring meaningful new jobs for workers. In this groundbreaking book they present ideas,...

Despite the accepted fact that a substantial part of the risk and return of any portfolio comes from asset allocation, we find today that the majority of investment professionals worldwide are focused on security selection. Multi-Asset Investing: A Practitioner’s Framework questions this basic structure...

Conventional wisdom says that Europe’s crisis is a financial crisis. But is this really the case? In Industrial Poverty, economist Sven R. Larson, challenges this view and suggests instead that Europe is in a state of permanent economic decline. The crisis, says Larson, is in fact a welfare-state...

"[A] THOUGHTFUL AND HEARTFELT BOOK...A literary cri de coeur--a lament for literature and everything implicit in it." --The Washington Post In our zeal to embrace the wonders of the electronic age, are we sacrificing our literary culture? Renowned critic Sven Birkerts believes the answer...

The Art Of series is a new line of books reinvigorating the practice of craft and criticism. Each book will be a brief, witty, and useful exploration of fiction, nonfiction, or poetry by a writer impassioned by a singular craft issue. The Art Of volumes will provide a series of sustained examinations...

Trenchant, expansive essays on the cultural consequences of ongoing, all-permeating technological innovation In 1994, Sven Birkerts published The Gutenberg Elegies, his celebrated rallying cry to resist the oncoming digital advances, especially those that might affect the way we read literature...

Sven Lindqvist is one of our most original writers on race, colonialism, and genocide, and his signature approach-uniting travelogues with powerful acts of historical excavation-renders his books devastating and unforgettable. Now, for the first time, Lindqvist’s most beloved works are available...

Other Walk is a series of autobiographical pieces by the master of reflection and slow time Throughout his life, Sven Birkerts, one of the country's foremost literary critics, has carved out time for himself—to walk, to swim, to read, to contemplate. Now in his late fifties, he has clocked...

A shocking insight into the brutalities faced by ordinary soldiers and the atrocities committed in the name of survival. Dispassionately we stared at the bloody scene. It had become an everyday sight. The 27th Penal Regiment care nothing for Hitler's war. They fight only to stay alive....

Sie sind auf der Suche nach dem wohl spannendsten Krimi-Adventskalender des Jahres? Erst eins, dann zwei, dann drei, dann vier … Lassen Sie sich von 24 hochkarätigen deutschsprachigen Krimi-Autorinnen und Autoren auf eine mörderische Adventszeit einstimmen. In 24 Kurzkrimis wird quer durch die...

Evo Morales is one of the world's most controversial political leaders. His story is extraordinary: poor shepherd-boy, persecuted coca grower, self-professed admirer of Ché Guevara, hero of the anti-globalization movement, and first indigenous president of modern Latin America. The story of the social...