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It's a Gas - Mark Miodownik - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

''A delight'' Dara O Briain ''A witty, smart writer who has a great talent'' Bill Gates'' A winning blend of education and anecdote'' Clive Cookson, FT W hy are most gases invisible, odourless and tasteless? Why do some poison us and others make us laugh? And why do some power our engines while others make drinks fizzy? In It''s a Gas , Mark Miodownik masterfully reveals an invisible world through his unique brand of scientific storytelling. Taking us back to that exhilarating – and often dangerous – moment when scientists tried to work out exactly what they had discovered, Miodownik shows that gases are the formative substances of our modern world, each with its own weird and wonderful personality.We see how seventeenth-century laughing gas parties led to the first use of anaesthetics in surgery, how the invention of the air valve in musical instruments gave us bicycles, cars and trainers, and how gases made us masters of the sea (by huge steamships) and skies (via extremely flammable balloons). This delight of a book reveals the immense importance of gases to modern civilisation.

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It's a Gas - Mark Miodownik - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

''A delight'' Dara O Briain ''A witty, smart writer who has a great talent'' Bill Gates W hy are most gases invisible, odourless and tasteless? Why do some poison us and others make us laugh? And why do some power our engines while others make drinks fizzy? In It''s a Gas , Mark Miodownik masterfully reveals an invisible world through his unique brand of scientific storytelling. Taking us back to that exhilarating – and often dangerous – moment when scientists tried to work out exactly what they had discovered, Miodownik shows that gases are the formative substances of our modern world, each with its own weird and wonderful personality.We see how seventeenth-century laughing gas parties led to the first use of anaesthetics in surgery, how the invention of the air valve in musical instruments gave us bicycles, cars and trainers, and how gases made us masters of the sea (by huge steamships) and skies (via extremely flammable balloons). This delight of a book reveals the immense importance of gases to modern civilisation.

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This Way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen - Tadeusz Borowski - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Tadeusz Borowski’s concentration camp stories were based on his own experiences surviving Auschwitz and Dachau. In spare, brutal prose he describes a world where where the will to survive overrides compassion and prisoners eat, work and sleep a few yards from where others are murdered; where the difference between human beings is reduced to a second bowl of soup, an extra blanket or the luxury of a pair of shoes with thick soles; and where the line between normality and abnormality vanishes. Published in Poland after the Second World War, these stories constitute a masterwork of world literature.

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The Futurological Congress - Stanislaw Lem - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

''A giant of twentieth-century science fiction'' Guardian ''This Room Guaranteed BOMB-FREE. From the Management''Hapless cosmonaut Ijon Tichy has been sent back to earth to attend the Eighth Futurological Congress in smog-bound, overpopulated Costa Rica, holed up with an assortment of scientists in a luxury hotel (fully equipped with tear gas sprinklers in case things get out of hand). But when an unfortunate incident occurs involving a revolution and hallucinogenic drugs in the water supply, Tichy finds himself shot, frozen and thawed out in a future beyond anything he could ever have imagined.

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Exterminator! - William S. Burroughs - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

A man, dispirited by ageing, endeavours to steal a younger man’s face; a doctor yearns for a virus that might eliminate his discomfort by turning everyone else into doubles of himself; a Colonel lays out the precepts of the life of DE (Do Easy); conspirators posthumously succeed in blowing up a train full of nerve gas; a mandrill known as the Purple Better One runs for the presidency with brutal results; and the world drifts towards apocalypses of violence, climate and plague. The hallucinatory landscape of William Burroughs’ compellingly bizarre, fragmented novel is constantly shifting, something sinister always just beneath the surface.

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Bubbles: A Ladybird Expert Book - Helen Czerski - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Part of the new Ladybird Expert series, Bubbles is a clear, surprising and entertaining introduction to the science of bubbles. Bubbles are beautiful, ephemeral, fun, fragile, jolly and slightly unpredictable. We''re all familiar with them, but we don''t often ask what they actually are . The great scientists of the Western world - Robert Hooke, Isaac Newton, Lord Rayleigh and more - studied bubbles seriously. They recognised that they had a lot to say about the nature of the physical world, and they poked, prodded and listened to find out what it was. In the years since, we''ve learned that this bulbous arrangement of liquid and gas does things that neither the gas or the liquid could do by itself. Written by the celebrated physicist and oceanographer Helen Czerski, Bubbles explores how everything from the way drinks taste to the Earth''s temperature are influenced by bubbles. This book has a message: never underestimate a bubble!Written by the leading lights and most outstanding communicators in their fields, the Ladybird Expert books provide clear, accessible and authoritative introductions to subjects drawn from science, history and culture. For an adult readership, the Ladybird Expert series is produced in the same iconic small hardback format pioneered by the original Ladybirds. Each beautifully illustrated book features the first new illustrations produced in the original Ladybird style for nearly forty years.

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The War of the Worlds - H. G. Wells - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

''The classic tale of alien invasion, and still the best'' The Times The first modern depiction of extra-terrestrials attacking the earth, The War of the Worlds remains one of the most influential of all science-fiction works. It shows the whole of human civilization under threat, as terrifying, tentacled Martians land in England, build gigantic killing machines, destroy all in their path with black gas and burning rays and feast on the warm blood of trapped, still-living human prey. The forces of the Earth, however, may prove harder to beat than they at first appear.Edited by Patrick Parrinder with an Introduction by Brian Aldiss and Notes by Andy Sawyer

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The Three Electroknights - Stanislaw Lem - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

''What use to a being that lives beneath a sun are jewels of gas and silver stars of ice?'' From a giant of twentieth-century science fiction, these four miniature space epics feature crazy inventors, surreal worlds, robot kings and madcap machines.Penguin Modern: fifty new books celebrating the pioneering spirit of the iconic Penguin Modern Classics series, with each one offering a concentrated hit of its contemporary, international flavour. Here are authors ranging from Kathy Acker to James Baldwin, Truman Capote to Stanislaw Lem and George Orwell to Shirley Jackson; essays radical and inspiring; poems moving and disturbing; stories surreal and fabulous; taking us from the deep South to modern Japan, New York''s underground scene to the farthest reaches of outer space.

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The New Map - Daniel Yergin - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

''The direction of travel in the global energy system seems clear: a historic shift away from fossil fuels is under way. Who better to chart it than Daniel Yergin? ... a flair for dramatic detail and sprightly insights'' Pilita Clark, Financial Times The Pulitzer Prize-winning author and global energy expert reveals how climate change and the shale revolution in oil and gas are shaking the global order, challenging nations and industries, and accelerating a second energy revolution - the quest for renewables and for ''net zero carbon''.UPDATED WITH A NEW EPILOGUE''A tour de force'' David Von Drehle, Washington Post ''A kaleidoscopic survey of seemingly every geopolitical development in history, all seen through the lens of energy . . . Admirable, well-researched, highly readable'' Keith Johnson, Foreign Policy

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Ways of Sunlight - Sam Selvon - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

''A delightful book, a pleasure to read and reflect over afterwards ... for humour, sprightliness and downright exuberance at being alive'' Sunday Times ''You could be lonely as hell in the city, then one day you look around you and you realise everybody else is lonely too'' This irresistible, bittersweet collection of short stories from the supreme chronicler of West Indian lives in Britain brings together two worlds: Trinidad and London. Here is an illicit love affair on a plantation, gossip and rivalry between village washerwomen, a boy rebelling against his parents'' traditions. Here too is life after leaving for England: hustling for work, eking out money for the gas meter in winter, dancing in clubs, discovering romance in a night-time park, experiencing unexpected kindness, dreams and disenchantment.

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The Purple Cloud - M. P. Shiel - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Dark, desolate and fantastical, The Purple Cloud was a pioneer in the genre of apocalyptic novels, and the first great science fiction work of the twentieth century. It inspired authors such as H. P. Lovecraft and Stephen King. The Purple Cloud tells the grandly bleak story of Adam Jeffson: the first man to reach the North Pole and the last man left alive on earth. A sweet-smelling, deadly cloud of poisonous gas has devastated the world, and as Jeffson travels the stricken globe in search of human life, he slowly succumbs to madness, and unleashes fire and destruction on his planet. John Sutherland''s introduction discusses M. P. Shiel''s dissolute life, the originality of his book and its place within the context of ''last man'' novels. This edition also includes a chronology, notes and further reading.

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The Future of Humanity - Michio Kaku - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

A SUNDAY TIMES BOOK OF THE YEARThe No.1 bestselling author of The Future of the Mind brings us a stunning new vision of our future in space Human civilization is on the verge of living beyond Earth. But how will it happen? World-renowned physicist Michio Kaku takes us on a journey to the future, introducing the mind-boggling developments in robotics, nanotechnology and biotechnology that will one day enable us to make our homes among the stars.''With admirable clarity and ease, Kaku explains how we might colonize not only Mars but some of the rocky moons of the gas giants Jupiter and Saturn . . . The book has an infectious, can-do enthusiasm'' Steven Poole, The Wall Street Journal ''Kaku grounds his readers in science happening right now, while throwing open the windows to imagine where it might lead in a thousand years'' Adam Frank, The New York Times Book Review ''Kaku is an international treasure and a man of infectious enthusiasm'' The Times

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Final Option - Clive Cussler - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

JOIN JUAN CABRILLO AND THE OREGON AS THEY GO UP AGAINST THEIR TWIN NEMESES IN THIS BLISTERING NOVEL FROM ADVENTURE KING, CLIVE CUSSLER''An all-out nonstop action thriller . . . the best one yet. The story hits the gas pedal and never taps the brakes'' Daily Mail __________When a routine mission is compromised, Captain Juan Cabrillo learns of a sinister plot. Off the Brazilian coast is another one-legged captain, with a ship just like the Oregon.Same weaponry, same technology, same ability to evade capture.And when this wolf in sheep''s clothing begins sinking innocent vessels, the truth becomes clear: Someone is out to frame Cabrillo and his crew.Not only is this impersonator as cunning as Cabrillo - his ship is also every bit as dangerous. Who is this nemesis from Cabrillo''s past?What is it that they''re after? To find answers will require terrible sacrifices from Cabrillo, his crew and even the Oregon itself . . . __________ ''Cussler is hard to beat'' Daily Mail ''The Adventure King'' Sunday Express ''Nobody does it better . . . nobody!'' Stephen Coonts ''Just about the best storyteller in the business'' New York Post

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Black Wind - Dirk Cussler - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

FOLLOW DIRK PITT ON THE TRAIL OF AN DECADES-OLD MYSTERY, FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR AND GRAND MASTER OF ADVENTURE, CLIVE CUSSLER In the dark, final days of World War Two, two submarines set out from Japan bearing a deadly virus destined for US cities. But neither boat was heard of again . . . Present day: NUMA Special Projects Director Dirk Pitt rescues a team of scientists from a deadly cloud of poison gas in the North West Pacific.Discovering that this was no natural phenomenon, Pitt is quickly on the hunt for a pair of lost WWII submarines and their deadly cargo.But he soon learns that he''s not the only one searching for the virus: a sinister group of very able terrorists are aiming to relaunch the attack on the US some sixty years later. With time running out, only Dirk Pitt and the NUMA team stand between evil forces and a terrifying assault on America''s west coast . . . With pulse-pounding suspense and jaw-dropping action on almost every page, Black Wind is a Clive Cussler story that no adventure junkie dare miss. Praise for Clive Cussler: ''No holds barred adventure . . . a souped-up treat'' Daily Mirror ''Frightening and full of suspense . . . unquestionably entertaining'' Daily Express

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Architecture - Barnabas Calder - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

A groundbreaking history of architecture told through the relationship between buildings and energy The story of architecture is the story of humanity. The buildings we live in, from the humblest pre-historic huts to today''s skyscrapers, reveal our priorities and ambitions, our family structures and power structures. And to an extent that hasn''t been explored until now, architecture has been shaped in every era by our access to energy, from fire to farming to fossil fuels.In this ground-breaking history of world architecture, Barnabas Calder takes us on a dazzling tour of some of the most astonishing buildings of the past fifteen thousand years, from Uruk, via Ancient Rome and Victorian Liverpool, to China''s booming megacities. He reveals how every building - from the Parthenon to the Great Mosque of Damascus to a typical Georgian house - was influenced by the energy available to its architects, and why this matters.Today architecture consumes so much energy that 40% of the world''s greenhouse gas emissions come from the construction and running of buildings. If we are to avoid catastrophic climate change then now, more than ever, we need beautiful but also intelligent buildings, and to retrofit - not demolish - those that remain. Both a celebration of human ingenuity and a passionate call for greater sustainability, this is a history of architecture for our times.

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Game of Throw-ins - Ross O'carroll Kelly - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

''Ireland''s finest comic creation since Father Ted'' Hot Press I was a rugby player with a great future behind me. A 35-year-old father-of-five with an expanding waistline, who was trying to survive the bloody battlefield we call life. My son was locked in a violent turf war with a rival Love/Hate tour operator, my daughter was in love with a boy who looked like Justin Bieber, and my old dear was about to walk up the aisle with a 92-year-old billionaire who thought it was still 1936.I was, like, staring down the barrel of middle age with the contentment of knowing that I was the greatest Irish rugby player who no one in Ireland had ever actually heard of. Until a chance conversation with an old Jesuit missionary made me realize that it wasn''t enough.I was guided, as if by GPS, to a muddy field in - let''s be honest - Ballybrack. And there I finally discovered my destiny - to keep a struggling Seapoint team in Division 2B of the All Ireland League. Or die trying.''Hides a heart of darkness beneath the layers of craic and great gas and great story-telling and human warmth. Ross O''Carroll-Kelly is Ireland!'' Irish Times ''A cracking and hilariously witty read'' Irish Independent ''Book after book, Ross O''Carroll-Kelly delivers the goods ... Howard is in a league of his own'' Sunday Business Post

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How to Avoid a Climate Disaster - Bill Gates - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

In this urgent, authoritative book, Bill Gates sets out a wide-ranging, practical - and accessible - plan for how the world can get to zero greenhouse gas emissions in time to avoid a climate catastrophe. Bill Gates has spent a decade investigating the causes and effects of climate change. With the help of experts in the fields of physics, chemistry, biology, engineering, political science, and finance, he has focused on what must be done in order to stop the planet''s slide toward certain environmental disaster. In this book, he not only explains why we need to work toward net-zero emissions of greenhouse gases, but also details what we need to do to achieve this profoundly important goal.He gives us a clear-eyed description of the challenges we face. Drawing on his understanding of innovation and what it takes to get new ideas into the market, he describes the areas in which technology is already helping to reduce emissions, where and how the current technology can be made to function more effectively, where breakthrough technologies are needed, and who is working on these essential innovations. Finally, he lays out a concrete, practical plan for achieving the goal of zero emissions-suggesting not only policies that governments should adopt, but what we as individuals can do to keep our government, our employers, and ourselves accountable in this crucial enterprise.As Bill Gates makes clear, achieving zero emissions will not be simple or easy to do, but if we follow the plan he sets out here, it is a goal firmly within our reach.

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Haywire - Andrew Hindmoor - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

‘In this fascinating book, Andrew Hindmoor makes sense of the tangled past we have just lived through ... sprinkling wit, insight and analytical verve over his energetic narrative. In contemporary British political history, his will be the distinctive voice of his generation' Peter Hennessy Vladimir Lenin, an occasional resident of North London who went on to other things, has been credited with once saying that there are decades where nothing happens but weeks when decades happen. The first two and a half decades of this century in Britain have had plenty of those weeks. Indeed, our recent history has at times resembled an episode of Casualty, the long-running BBC hospital drama in which every hedge trimmer slips, every gas pipe leaks, every piece of scaffolding collapses and everyone ends up in intensive care. In Haywire Andrew Hindmoor makes sense of the deluge of events which have rained down on Britain since 2000, from the Iraq War to financial collapse, austerity to Brexit, as well as more easily forgotten moments such as the MP’s expenses scandal. He shows not simply how one crisis has quickly followed another, but how each crisis has compounded the next, so that disaster feels like the new normal. Has Britain simply been the victim of a particularly prolonged run of bad luck which will, sooner or later, come to an end? No. Hindmoor argues that the way the British state is organised has, time and again, made a crisis out of a drama – and that it is time to find an alternative before we all go haywire.

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Haywire - Andrew Hindmoor - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

‘In this fascinating book, Andrew Hindmoor makes sense of the tangled past we have just lived through ... sprinkling wit, insight and analytical verve over his energetic narrative. In contemporary British political history, his will be the distinctive voice of his generation'' Peter Hennessy Vladimir Lenin, an occasional resident of North London who went on to other things, has been credited with once saying that there are decades where nothing happens but weeks when decades happen. The first two and a half decades of this century in Britain have had plenty of those weeks. Indeed, our recent history has at times resembled an episode of Casualty , the long-running BBC hospital drama in which every hedge trimmer slips, every gas pipe leaks, every piece of scaffolding collapses and everyone ends up in intensive care.In Haywire Andrew Hindmoor makes sense of the deluge of events which have rained down on Britain since 2000, from the Iraq War to financial collapse, austerity to Brexit, as well as more easily forgotten moments such as the MP’s expenses scandal. He shows not simply how one crisis has quickly followed another, but how each crisis has compounded the next, so that disaster feels like the new normal. Has Britain simply been the victim of a particularly prolonged run of bad luck which will, sooner or later, come to an end? No. Hindmoor argues that the way the British state is organised has, time and again, made a crisis out of a drama – and that it is time to find an alternative before we all go haywire.

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Retrograde - Emilee Carter - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

READ THE PERFECT SIZZLING MOTORSPORTS ROMANCE FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF BLOODSTREAM! Perfect for fans of Lauren Asher, Hannah Grace, Elsie Silver and Becka Mack Revolution Racing are enjoying their best season yet. But Lucie Carolan can’t help but feel there’s still something missing. Brett Anderson is Revolution Racing’s all-star driver.The only thing that matters more to Brett than winning championships? His best friend, and Revolution Racing’s Social Media Manager, Lucie Carolan. Together, Lucie and Brett have spent 10 years travelling the world with their team, partying like VIPs and, for the sake of their friendship, denying the chemistry that sizzles between them. So when Brett is forced to take a step back from racing, Lucie knows there’s nowhere else in the world she should be than by his side.As Brett’s recovery takes them from racetracks to Lucie’s family home in Tuscany, will slowing the pace of their lives finally allow them to give in to their feelings or each other, or will taking a foot off the gas of their glamorous lives cause them to crash and burn? Tropes/themes: 1. Friends-to-lovers2. Slow burn 3. Forced proximity ---- WHAT ARE READERS SAYING ABOUT BLOODSTREAM? ‘Gives you plenty of feel good’ ***** Reader Review ‘Now I’m a F1 girlie through and through but this makes me want to watch WEC more! ***** Reader Review‘This damn book omggg’ ***** Reader Review‘I love a good racing romance book. I’m a huge fan of f1 so I instantly got into this book and couldn''t put it down’ ***** Reader Review

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Waste - Tristram Stuart - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Combining frontline investigation with startling new data, Tristram Stuart''s Waste shows how the way we live now has created a global food crisis - and what we can do to fix it. With shortages, volatile prices and nearly one billion people hungry, the world has a food problem - or thinks it does. Yet farmers, manufacturers, supermarkets and consumers in North America and Europe discard up to half of their food - enough to feed all the world''s hungry at least three times over. Forests are destroyed and nearly one tenth of the West''s greenhouse gas emissions are released growing food that will never be eaten. While affluent nations throw away food through neglect, in the developing world crops rot because farmers lack the means to process, store and transport them to market. But there could be surprisingly painless remedies for what has become one of the world''s most pressing environmental and social problems. Travelling from Yorkshire to China, from Pakistan to Japan, and introducing us to foraging pigs, potato farmers, freegans and food industry directors, Stuart encounters grotesque examples of profligacy, but also inspiring innovations and ways of making the most of what we have. ''Tristram Stuart lifts the lid on the obscene levels of produce ending up in landfill ... read it and weep'' The Sun ''Passionate, closely argued and guaranteed to make the most manic consumer peer guiltily into the recesses of their fridge'' Sunday Telegraph ''An extremely thought-provoking, passionate study'' Scotland on Sunday Tristram Stuart has been a freelance writer for Indian newspapers, a project manager in Kosovo and a prominent critic of the food industry. He has made regular contributions to television documentaries, radio and newspaper debates on the social and environmental aspects of food. His first book, The Bloodless Revolution , was published in 2006.

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Journey to the Centre of the Earth - Jules Verne - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Jules Verne''s wild and riotous fantasy Journey to the Centre of the Earth delves into the hidden mysteries of a vast, uncharted subterranean world. This Penguin Classics edition is translated from the French by Frank Wynne with an introduction by Jane Smiley and notes by Peter Cogman.Jules Verne''s pioneering science fiction classic tells the story of the distinguished but eccentric Professor Lidenbrock, who finds a scrap of parchment in an old manuscript. A cipher written in runes, it tells of an entrance to another world - a world hidden beneath our own, illuminated by an electrified gas and populated by strange, prehistoric beings. So with his nephew reluctantly in tow, the Professor follows this cryptic clue down into a dormant volcano in Iceland, and the further they descend, the more extraordinary the discoveries and creatures that they encounter, the greater the dangers, and the more ancient the living past that surrounds them.This new translation by Frank Wynne is accompanied by an introduction on the science of Verne''s work and its influences. This edition also includes notes, a chronology and suggested further reading.Jules Verne (1828-1905), the ''father of Science Fiction'' was born in Nantes, developing from early childhood a romantic fascination for the ships and the sea. In 1848 he moved to Paris, ostensibly to become a lawyer, though his true ambition was to become a writer. His first book, Five Weeks in a Balloon (1863) was an immediate popular success, followed a year later by Journey to the Centre of the Earth ; among the most popular of the fifty-four books published during his life are From the Earth to the Moon (1865), Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (1870) and Around the World in Eighty Days (1873).If you enjoyed Journey to the Centre of the Earth you might like H.G. Wells'' The Time Machine , also available in Penguin Classics.

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The Periodic Table - Primo Levi - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Primo Levi''s The Periodic Table is a collection of short stories that elegantly interlace the author''s experiences in Fascist Italy, and later in Auschwitz, with his passion for scientific knowledge and discovery. This Penguin Modern Classics edition of is translated by Raymond Rosenthal with an essay on Primo Levi by Philip Roth.A chemist by training, Primo Levi became one of the supreme witnesses to twentieth-century atrocity. In these haunting reflections inspired by the elements of the periodic table, he ranges from young love to political savagery; from the inert gas argon - and ''inert'' relatives like the uncle who stayed in bed for twenty-two years - to life-giving carbon. ''Iron'' honours the mountain-climbing resistance hero who put iron in Levi''s student soul, ''Cerium'' recalls the improvised cigarette lighters which saved his life in Auschwitz, while ''Vanadium'' describes an eerie post-war correspondence with the man who had been his ''boss'' there. In his essay, Philip Roth reproduces a conversation with Primo Levi, delving into the process of Levi''s authorial technique, his sense of identity and distinctiveness and the relationship between science, writing and survival.Primo Levi (1919-87), an Italian Jew, did not come to the wide attention of the English-reading audience until the last years of his life. A survivor of the Holocaust and imprisonment in Auschwitz, Levi is considered to be one of the century''s most compelling voices, and The Periodic Table is his most famous book. Levi is the author of Moments of Reprieve and If Not Now, When? , also available in Penguin Modern Classics.Philip Roth is the author of Nemesis and The Plot Against America , and winner of the both the Pulitzer prize, and the Man Booker International prize. If you enjoyed The Periodic Table , you might like Levi''s If Not Now, When? , also available in Penguin Modern Classics.''A book it is necessary to read''Saul Bellow, author of Herzog ''One of the finest writers in post-war Italy'' The Times

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The New Penguin Book of American Short Stories, from Washington Irving to Lydia Davis - Kasia Boddy - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

The short story is one of the most varied and exciting genres in American literature. This collection brings together many of its finest examples from the early nineteenth century to the present. It contains a richly diverse cast of characters, including convicts, artists, farm labourers, slaves, soldiers and salesmen, witches and ghosts, families and lovers. Their stories are told by some of America''s most celebrated writers (Nathaniel Hawthorne, Edith Wharton, Raymond Carver) and a few, like Fanny Fern or Charles W. Chestnutt, who may be less familiar. The collection offers a stimulating combination of acknowledged classics, including Mark Twain''s hilarious ''Jim Smiley''s Jumping Frog'' and Edgar Allan Poe''s chilling ''The Tell-Tale Heart'', and some remarkable pieces that deserve a wider audience, such as Ernest Hemingway''s story of miscommunication, ''Out of Season'', or Lorrie Moore''s tale of modern love and wit, ''Starving Again''.Kasia Boddy''s introduction traces the history of the American short story and explores the changes and continuities in its forms and preoccupations. This edition also contains a chronology, explanatory and biographical notes and suggestions for further reading. Table of contents Washington Irving - The Little Man in Black (1807)Nathaniel Hawthorne - Young Goodman Brown (1835)Edgar Allan Poe - The Tell-Tale Heart (1843)Fanny Fern - Aunt Hetty on Matrimony (1851)Mark Twain - Jim Smiley and His Jumping Frog (1865)Joel Chandler Harris - The Tar Baby Story (1880)Mary Wilkins Freeman - Two Friends (1887)Charles W. Chesnutt - The Wife of his Youth (1898)Henry James - The Real Right Thing (1899)Stephen Crane - An Episode of War (1899)O. Henry - Hearts and Hands (1903)Sherwood Anderson - The Untold Lie (1917)Ernest HemingwayOut of Season (1923)Edith Wharton - Atrophy (1927)Dorothy Parker - New York to Detroit (1928)Eudora Welty - The Whistle (1938)William Faulkner - Barn Burning (1939)F. Scott Fitzgerald - The Lost Decade (1939)Zora Neale Hurston - Now You Cookin'' with Gas (1942)Bernard Malamud - The First Seven Years (1950)Flannery O''Connor - A Late Encounter with the Enemy (1953)John Updike - Sunday Teasing (1956)John Cheever - Reunion (1962)Grace Paley - Wants (1971)Alice Walker - The Flowers (1973)Donald Barthelme - I Bought a Little City (1974)Raymond Carver - Collectors (1975)Richard Ford - Communist (1985)Lorrie Moore - Starving Again (1990)Jhumpa Lahiri - The Third and Final Continent (1999)Lydia Davis - The Caterpillar (2006)

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Speed & Scale - John Doerr - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

#1 bestselling author and acclaimed venture capitalist John Doerr reveals a sweeping action plan to conquer humanity''s greatest challenge: climate change. In 2006, John Doerr was moved by Al Gore''s An Inconvenient Truth and a challenge from his teenage daughter: "Dad, your generation created this problem. You better fix it." Since then, Doerr has searched for solutions to this existential problem-as an investor, an advocate and a philanthropist. Fifteen years later, despite breakthroughs in batteries, electric vehicles, plant-based proteins and solar and wind power, global warming continues to get worse. Its impact is all around us: droughts, floods, wildfires, the melting of the polar ice caps. Our world is squarely in a climate crisis and on the brink of a climate disaster. Yet despite our state of emergency, climate change has yet to be tackled with the urgency and ambition it demands. More than ever, we need a clear course of action. Fueled by a powerful tool called Objectives and Key Results (OKRs), SPEED & SCALE offers an unprecedented global plan to cut greenhouse gas emissions before it''s too late. Used by Google, Bono''s ONE foundation and thousands of startups the world over, OKRs have scaled ideas into achievements that changed the world. With clear-eyed realism and an engineer''s precision, Doerr identifies the measurable OKRs we need to reduce emissions across the board and to arrive by 2050 at net zero-the point where we are no longer adding to the heat-trapping carbon in the atmosphere.By turns pragmatic and inspiring, SPEED & SCALE intersperses Doerr''s wide-ranging analysis with firsthand accounts from Jeff Bezos, Christiana Figueres, Al Gore, Mary Barra, Bill Gates, and other intrepid policy leaders, entrepreneurs, scientists and activists. This book is a launchpad for leaders of all kind, for anyone anywhere who can move others to act with them. With a definitive action plan, the latest science and a rising climate movement on our side, we can still reach net zero before it is too late. But as Doerr reminds us, there is no more time to waste. ________________ ''A critical blueprint for anyone looking to take concrete steps to reach net-zero emissions. '' Al Gore, former U.S. Vice President ''A practical guide for both public and private sector participation in decarbonizing the global economy, a task as challenging as it is urgent. '' Christiana Figueres, former executive secretary of the UN Climate Change Convention ''A comprehensive plan to tackle one of the most vexing challenges in human history. '' Jim Collins, author of Good to Great and Built to Last

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It's a Gas - Mark Miodownik - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

It's a Gas - Mark Miodownik - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

This Way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen - Tadeusz Borowski - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

The Futurological Congress - Stanislaw Lem - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Exterminator! - William S. Burroughs - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Bubbles: A Ladybird Expert Book - Helen Czerski - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

The War of the Worlds - H. G. Wells - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

The Three Electroknights - Stanislaw Lem - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

The New Map - Daniel Yergin - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Ways of Sunlight - Sam Selvon - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

The Purple Cloud - M. P. Shiel - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

The Future of Humanity - Michio Kaku - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Final Option - Clive Cussler - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Black Wind - Dirk Cussler - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Architecture - Barnabas Calder - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Game of Throw-ins - Ross O'carroll Kelly - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

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Haywire - Andrew Hindmoor - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Haywire - Andrew Hindmoor - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Retrograde - Emilee Carter - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

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Journey to the Centre of the Earth - Jules Verne - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

The Periodic Table - Primo Levi - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

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