Životopis Harryho Trumana, který působil ve funkci prezidenta. Autor, bývalý britský ministr financí a vnitra, svoji pozornost zaměřuje především na prezidentské období, ale neopomíjí ani mládí či "tichý konec" Rooseveltova nástupce.
The phenomenal #1 "New York Times" bestseller and Oprah's Book Club( pick is now in mass market paperback. This spellbinding novel of responsibility and family, betrayal and redemption is an exquisitely written, profoundly human masterpiece.
A guide for people who are searching for spirituality, Lessons of the Lotus helps readers find their individual paths by exploring the nature of spirituality with ways of making it relevant to their daily lives.These ways include specific meditations, mind-body techniques, visualizations, and reflections. Beyond a rich resource of spiritual practice, this book helps people bring the fruits of their spiritual growth to their relationships, careers, and other aspects of living. Through numerous examples, readers see how the insight, patience, love, understanding, and peace of their practice can touch their daily lives and transform them forever. Each chapter includes a section called "Ask Yourself" that is designed to stimulate reflection on the topic and invite the reader to participate actively in defining their spirituality. Specific chapters cover topics such as karma, transitory death, giving, and relationships with family and loved ones.
With the same lethal blend of prophecy and social satire she brought to her now classic The Handmaid's Tale, margaret Atwood gives us a keenly prescient novel about the future of humanity--and its present. Humanity here equals Snowman, who lives in a tree because genetically engineered wolvogs and pigoons make the ground too dangerous. His only company are the beautiful, placid creatures who have replaced Homo sapiens. To tell how this came about, Atwood re-creates a time much like our own, when Snowman was named Jimmy. When he loved an elusive, degraded girl called Oryx and a sardonic genius called Crake, who wanted to correct some glitches in the human experiment. Out of their relationship comes a book that is at once a nightmarish revision of Genesis and an all-too-plausible postscript to Apocalypse.
This novel explores the tribes and communities, conflicts and superstitions, flora and fauna of a wholly spellbinding an imaginary seventh continent. In these seven tales Jim Crace travels a strange and wonderful landscape, as fabulous as it is eerily familiar.