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Hana Khan Carries On - Uzma Jalaluddin - Bog - Atlantic Books - Plusbog.dk

Hana Khan Carries On - Uzma Jalaluddin - Bog - Atlantic Books - Plusbog.dk

One of Washington Post ''s best romance novels of 2021 _________________________ From the author of Ayesha At Last comes a sparkling new rom-com for fans of You''ve Got Mail . Hana Khan''s family-run halal restaurant is on its last legs. So when a flashy competitor gets ready to open nearby, bringing their inevitable closure even closer, she turns to her anonymously-hosted podcast, and her lively and long-lasting relationship with one of her listeners, for advice. But a hate-motivated attack on their neighbourhood complicates the situation further, as does Hana''s growing attraction for Aydin, the young owner of the rival business. Who might not be a complete stranger after all... A charmingly refreshing and modern love story, Uzma Jalaluddin''s tale is humorously warm and filled with gorgeous characters you won''t be able to forget. Now in development for film with Mindy Kaling and Amazon Studios.

DKK 119.00
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The Delusions of Crowds - William L Bernstein - Bog - Atlantic Books - Plusbog.dk

The Delusions of Crowds - William L Bernstein - Bog - Atlantic Books - Plusbog.dk

Inspired by Charles Mackay''s 19th-century classic Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds , William Bernstein engages with mass delusion with the same curiosity and passion, but armed with the latest scientific research that explains the biological, evolutionary and psychosocial roots of human irrationality. Bernstein tells the stories of dramatic religious and financial mania in western society over the last 500 years - from the Anabaptist Madness that afflicted the Low Countries in the 1530s to the dangerous end-times beliefs that animate ISIS and pervade today''s polarised nations; and from the South Sea Bubble to the Enron scandal and dot com bubbles of recent years. Through Bernstein''s supple prose, the participants are as colourful as their motivation, invariably ''the desire to improve one''s well-being in this life or the next.''As revealing about human nature as they are historically significant, Bernstein''s chronicles reveal the huge cost and alarming implications of mass mania as he observes that if we can absorb the history and biology of mass delusion, we can recognise it more readily in our own time and avoid its frequently dire impact.

DKK 155.00
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The Founders - Jimmy Soni - Bog - Atlantic Books - Plusbog.dk

The Founders - Jimmy Soni - Bog - Atlantic Books - Plusbog.dk

''A fascinating page-turner... An indispensable guide to modern innovation and entrepreneurship.'' Walter Isaacson, no. 1 bestselling author of Steve Jobs Perfect for readers of Elon Musk by Ashlee Vance and Zero to One by Peter Theil Out of PayPal''s ranks have come household names like Elon Musk, Peter Thiel, Max Levchin and Reid Hoffman. Since leaving Paypal, they have formed, funded, and advised the leading companies of our era, including Tesla, Facebook, YouTube, SpaceX, Yelp, Palantir, and LinkedIn, among many others. Yet for all their influence, the incredible story of where they started has gone largely untold. In The Founders, award-winning author Jimmy Soni narrates how a once-in-a-generation collaboration turned a scrappy start-up into one of the most successful businesses of all time. Facing bruising competition, internal strife, the emergence of widespread online fraud, and the devastating dot-com bust of the 2000s, their success was anything but certain. But they would go on to change our world forever.Informed by hundreds of interviews and unprecedented access to thousands of pages of internal material, The Founders explores how the seeds of so much of what drives the internet today were planted two decades ago.

DKK 126.00
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Dark Eden - Chris Beckett - Bog - Atlantic Books - Plusbog.dk

Dark Eden - Chris Beckett - Bog - Atlantic Books - Plusbog.dk

You live in Eden. You are a member of the Family, one of 532 descendants of Angela and Tommy. You shelter beneath the Forest''s lantern trees. Beyond the forest lie mountains so forbidding that no one has ever crossed them. The Oldest recount legends of a time when men and women made boats that could travel between worlds. One day, they will come back for you. You live in Eden. You are a member of the Family, one of 532 descendants of two marooned explorers. You huddle, slowly starving, in the warmth of geothermal trees, confined to one barely habitable valley of an alien, sunless world. You are John Redlantern . You will break the laws of Eden, shatter the Family and change history. You will be the first to kill another, the first to venture into the Dark and the first to discover the truth about Eden.

DKK 126.00
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A Ration Book Christmas - Jean Fullerton - Bog - Atlantic Books - Plusbog.dk

A Ration Book Christmas - Jean Fullerton - Bog - Atlantic Books - Plusbog.dk

''Food for the soul, it''s simply deliciously readable and enjoyable'' LoveReading In the darkest days of the Blitz, Christmas is more important than ever. With Christmas approaching, the Brogan family of London''s East End are braving the horrors of the Blitz. With the men away fighting for King and Country and the ever-present dangers of the German Luftwaffe''s nightly reign of death and destruction, the family must do all they can to keep a stiff upper lip. For Jo, the youngest of the Brogan sisters, the perils of war also offer a new-found freedom. Jo falls in love with Tommy, a man known for his dangerous reputation as much as his charm. But as the falling bombs devastate their neighbourhood and rationing begins to bite, will the Brogans manage to pull together a traditional family Christmas? And will Jo find the love and security she seeks in a time of such grave peril? Jean Fullerton, the queen of the East End saga, returns with a wonderful new nostalgic novel.

DKK 104.00
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Freeman's Conclusions - John Freeman - Bog - Atlantic Books - Plusbog.dk

Freeman's Conclusions - John Freeman - Bog - Atlantic Books - Plusbog.dk

Over the course of ten years, Freeman''s has introduced the English-speaking world to countless writers of international import and acclaim, from Olga Tokarczuk to Valeria Luiselli, while also spotlighting brilliant writers working in English, from Tommy Orange to Tess Gunty. Now, in its last issue, this unique literary project ponders all the ways of reaching a fitting conclusion.For Sayaka Murata, keeping up with the comings and goings of fashion and its changing emotional landscapes can mean being left behind, and in her poem ''Amenorrhea'' Julia Alverez experiences the end of the line as menopause takes hold. Yet sometimes an end is merely a beginning, as Barry Lopez meditates while walking through the snowy Oregonian landscapes. While Chinelo Okparanta''s story ''Fatu'' confronts the end of a relationship under the spectre of new life, other writers look towards aging as an opportunity for rebirth, such as Honorée Fanonne Jeffers, who takes on the role of being her own elder, comforting herself in the ways that her grandmother used to. Finally, in his comic story ''Everyone at Dinner Has a Max Von Sydow Story,'' Dave Eggers suggests that sometimes stories don''t have neat or clean endings - that sometimes the middle is enough.With new writing from Sandra Cisneros, Colum McCann, Omar El Akkad and Mieko Kawakami, Freeman''s: Conclusions is a testament to the startling power of literature to conclude in a state of beauty, fear and promise.

DKK 141.00
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How to Read Now - Elaine Castillo - Bog - Atlantic Books - Plusbog.dk

How to Read Now - Elaine Castillo - Bog - Atlantic Books - Plusbog.dk

'' I cannot say enough about How to Read Now... Check it out'' Roxane Gay '' A red-hot grenade... One of my favourite books of the year'' Jia Tolentino ''Energetically brilliant, warmly humane, incisively funny'' Andrew Sean Greer ''I gasped, shouted, and holler-laughed . . . Phenomenal'' R.O. Kwon ''A wake-up call. A broadside. A rich and brilliant war cry'' Chris Power How many times have we heard that reading builds empathy? That we can travel through books? How often have we were heard about the importance of diversifying our bookshelves? Or claimed that books saved our lives? These familiar words - beautiful, aspirational - are sometimes even true. But award-winning novelist Elaine Castillo has more ambitious hopes for our reading culture, and in this collection of linked essays, she moves to wrest reading away from the aspirations of uniting people in empathetic harmony and reposition it as thornier, ultimately more rewarding work. How to Read Now explores the politics and ethics of reading, and insists that we are capable of something better: a more engaged relationship not just with our fiction and our art, but with our buried and entangled histories. Smart, funny, galvanizing, and sometimes profane, Castillo attacks the stale questions and less-than-critical proclamations that masquerade as vital discussion: reimagining the cartography of the classics, building a moral case against the settler colonialism of lauded writers like Joan Didion, taking aim at Nobel Prize winners and toppling indie filmmakers, and celebrating glorious moments in everything from popular TV like The Watchmen to the films of Wong Kar-wai and the work of contemporary poets like Tommy Pico. At once a deeply personal and searching history of one woman''s reading life, and a wide-ranging and urgent intervention into our globalized conversations about why reading matters today, How to Read Now empowers us to embrace a more complicated, embodied form of reading, inviting us to acknowledge complicated truths, ignite surprising connections, imagine a more daring solidarity, and create space for a riskier intimacy - within ourselves, and with each other.

DKK 149.00
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How to Read Now - Elaine Castillo - Bog - Atlantic Books - Plusbog.dk

How to Read Now - Elaine Castillo - Bog - Atlantic Books - Plusbog.dk

'' I cannot say enough about How to Read Now... Check it out'' Roxane Gay '' A red-hot grenade... One of my favourite books of the year'' Jia Tolentino ''Energetically brilliant, warmly humane, incisively funny'' Andrew Sean Greer ''I gasped, shouted, and holler-laughed . . . Phenomenal'' R.O. Kwon ''A wake-up call. A broadside. A rich and brilliant war cry'' Chris Power How many times have we heard that reading builds empathy? That we can travel through books? How often have we were heard about the importance of diversifying our bookshelves? Or claimed that books saved our lives? These familiar words - beautiful, aspirational - are sometimes even true. But award-winning novelist Elaine Castillo has more ambitious hopes for our reading culture, and in this collection of linked essays, she moves to wrest reading away from the aspirations of uniting people in empathetic harmony and reposition it as thornier, ultimately more rewarding work. How to Read Now explores the politics and ethics of reading, and insists that we are capable of something better: a more engaged relationship not just with our fiction and our art, but with our buried and entangled histories. Smart, funny, galvanizing, and sometimes profane, Castillo attacks the stale questions and less-than-critical proclamations that masquerade as vital discussion: reimagining the cartography of the classics, building a moral case against the settler colonialism of lauded writers like Joan Didion, taking aim at Nobel Prize winners and toppling indie filmmakers, and celebrating glorious moments in everything from popular TV like The Watchmen to the films of Wong Kar-wai and the work of contemporary poets like Tommy Pico. At once a deeply personal and searching history of one woman''s reading life, and a wide-ranging and urgent intervention into our globalized conversations about why reading matters today, How to Read Now empowers us to embrace a more complicated, embodied form of reading, inviting us to acknowledge complicated truths, ignite surprising connections, imagine a more daring solidarity, and create space for a riskier intimacy - within ourselves, and with each other.

DKK 126.00
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Triumphs, Trophies and Troubles - Peter Bills - Bog - Atlantic Books - Plusbog.dk

Triumphs, Trophies and Troubles - Peter Bills - Bog - Atlantic Books - Plusbog.dk

FOREWORD by former Ireland fly half Ollie Campbell ''I was delighted, a few years ago, when Peter Bills agreed to write my autobiography. I have always admired his writing and his calm style of interviewing made it so easy for me to recall all my memories over the years. Triumphs, Trophies and Troubles has got Irish rugby just right in this the 150th anniversary season of the IRFU'' Willie John McBride ''In a world going all too fast, Peter Bills has the time, the wit and the attention to detail for stories that would otherwise be lost. His is an easy style, a remembering of times and values not just of the Saturday internationals past but of the grassroots members who keep rugby alive to this day.'' Keith Wood In late 2024 Ireland, with a population of just 7 million people, stood at the top of rugby union''s world rankings.Ireland''s rise to such an exalted position has been the great triumph of rugby''s professional era. For a nation that fought tooth and nail to keep the game amateur, their progress since 2000 has been extraordinary. The trophies, once so rare in Irish rugby hands, have become almost commonplace. Six Nations Championships, Triple Crowns, Millennium Trophies have all stood in the IRFU offices in Dublin.But that is the top tier of the game. What is the health of the sport at other levels all around Ireland? In this book award-winning international rugby writer Peter Bills seeks to take the pulse of the game at every level - schools, clubs, provinces - as well as the fast-expanding women''s game. For if rugby at grassroots level withers, the decline will affect everyone. And how can rugby learn to live side by side with the ubiquitous GAA?Featuring interviews with some legendary names of Irish rugby, such as Keith Wood, Willie John McBride, Tony Ward, Bill Mulcahy, Gordon D''Arcy, Trevor Ringland, Nigel Carr and Tommy Bowe, we also hear from men and women from junior and club rugby, at clubs like Dingle, Kinsale, Monkstown, Boyne, Westport, City of Derry, Donegal Town, Omagh and Oughterard. All of them are doing stirring work behind the scenes for their local clubs and communities as Bills goes in search of the soul of Irish rugby.

DKK 192.00
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