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Freya Stark - Passionate Nomad - Bog af Jane Fletcher Geniesse - Paperback

Fluent in at least seven languages and a writer of ravishing prose accounts of her journeys, Freya Stark was one of the great travel writers of the twentieth century.

DKK 165.95

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A Fork in the Road - Bog af Andre Brink - Paperback

This is Andre Brink's story of a life lived in tumultuous times. He describes with searing honesty his conflicting experiences of growing up in a world where innocence was always surrounded by violence and storytelling was a means of reconciling the stark contrasts of his world.

DKK 135.95

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The Coming Wave - Mustafa Suleyman

A stark and urgent warning on the unprecedented risks that a wave of fast-developing technologies poses to global order, and how we might contain them while we have the chance-from a cofounder of the pioneering AI company DeepMindWe are about to cross a critical threshold in the history of our species. Everything is about to change.Soon we will live surrounded by AIs. They will carry out complex tasks-operating businesses, producing unlimited digital content, running core government services and..

DKK 187.95

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All Quiet on the Western Front - Bog af Erich Maria Remarque - Paperback

All Quiet on the Western Front is a captivating novel by the renowned author, Erich Maria Remarque. Published by Vintage Publishing in 1996, this book offers a profound exploration of the human spirit during times of war. The story is set against the backdrop of World War I, offering a stark and poignant portrayal of the horrors faced by soldiers on the front lines. Despite its historical setting, the book's themes of camaraderie, survival, and the futility of war remain timeless and relevant. This..

DKK 127.95

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The Coming Wave - Bog af Mustafa Suleyman - Hardback

A cofounder of the pioneering AI company DeepMind issues a stark and urgent warning on the unprecedented risks that a wave of fast-developing technologies poses to global order-and how our window to contain them is rapidly closing.Imagine a world in which anyone with a $20,000 desktop DNA synthesizer could develop and unleash a deadly virus. Imagine an undetectable deepfake video of a U.S. president making a racial slur racing across the internet on the eve of an election. Imagine terrorists or paramilitaries..

DKK 297.95

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Black Boy - Bog af Richard Wright - Paperback

Richard Wright's memoir of his childhood as a young black boy in the American south of the 1920s and 30s is a stark depiction of African-American life and a powerful exploration of racial tension.`A compelling indictment of life in the Deep South between the wars¿ Daily Telegraph At four years old, Richard Wright set fire to his home in a moment of boredom; at five his father deserted the family; by six Richard was - temporarily - an alcoholic. It was in saloons, railroad yards and streets that..

DKK 105.95

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Doctor Glas - Hjalmar Soderberg - Bog - Vintage Publishing - Booktok.dk

WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY MARGARET ATWOOD ''[A] searing masterwork of Northern European literature. The retrieval of Doctor Glas in English is a bracing gift to hungry readers'' Susan Sontag Lonely and introspective, Doctor Glas has long felt an instinctive hostility toward the odious local minister. So when the minister’s beautiful wife complains of her husband’s oppressive sexual attentions, Doctor Glas finds himself contemplating murder. Stark, brooding, and enormously controversial when first published in 1905, this astonishing novel juxtaposes impressions of fin-de-siècle Stockholm against the psychological landscape of a man besieged by obsession.

DKK 139.00

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Blood Brothers - Ernst Haffner - Bog - Vintage Publishing - Booktok.dk

Blood Brothers is the only known novel by German social worker and journalist Ernst Haffner, of whom nearly all traces were lost during the course of the Second World War. Told in stark, unsparing detail, Haffner''s story delves into the illicit underworld of Berlin on the eve of Hitler''s rise to power, describing how these blood brothers move from one petty crime to the next, spending their nights in underground bars and makeshift hostels, struggling together to survive the harsh realities of gang life, and finding in one another the legitimacy denied them by society.

DKK 112.00

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The Atom Station - Halldor Laxness - Bog - Vintage Publishing - Booktok.dk

When the Americans make an offer to buy land in Iceland to build a NATO airbase after the Second World War, a storm of protest is provoked throughout the country. Narrated by a country girl from the north, the novel follows her experiences after she takes up employment as a maid in the house of her Member of Parliament. Her observations and experiences expose the bourgeois society of the south as rootless and shallow and in stark contrast to the age-old culture of the solid and less fanciful north. ''The Atom Station is the work of someone who has seen every cherished dream sold down the river, but who loves humanity too much to despair. His heroine refuses to be bullied or bought, a feminist before her time, full of curiosity and spirit'' Guardian

DKK 119.00

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Don McCullin - Don Mccullin - Bog - Vintage Publishing - Plusbog.dk

The updated retrospective published for McCullin''s 80th birthday. Contains 40 new unpublished photographs and a new introduction — the definitive edition. McCullin’s reputation has long been established as one of the greatest photographers of conflict in the last century. In the fourteen years since the first publication of the book, McCullin has shed the role of war photographer and become a great landscape artist. He has also travelled widely through Africa, India, the Middle East and among the tribes living in Stone Age conditions in Indonesia. His journey from the back streets of north London to his rural retreat in the depths of Somerset is unparalleled. It includes a passage through the most terrible scenes of recent history, for which his stark views of the West Country offer him some redemption.

DKK 308.00

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To Crush The Serpent - Yasar Kemal - Bog - Vintage Publishing - Plusbog.dk

A staggering, shattering novel from Turkey''s greatest novelist Since Halil was shot dead in his own home by his wife Esmé''s former suitor, the village has pointed the finger of guilt at the dead man''s beautiful widow: she must have arranged the murder. The task of vengeance falls on Esmé''s little son, Hassan: year after year he is groomed for it, his devotion to his mother sapped with talk of the unavenged ghost of Halil and his father, doomed to roam the countryisde as a translucent red snake, an insect, a bird. Hassan hears tales against his mother. How long will her innocence protect her?The stark tale of cruelty and vendetta is told in a narrative of relentless tension, reminiscent of Greek tragedy. it is one of Yashar Kemal''s most beautiful and haunting novels.

DKK 141.00

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The Fallout - Andrew Anthony - Bog - Vintage Publishing - Plusbog.dk

In 2001 Andrew Anthony occupied a comfortable position within the liberal left media. A successful Observer and Guardian journalist, he believed he was on the right side of the argument - the left side. But after the events of 11 September, he noticed that many colleagues and friends seemed determined to understand the perpetrator rather than support the victim. America, in their view, had it coming. In rejecting that analysis, Anthony set out on the painful process of unpicking the prejudices that had come to shape progressive, liberal and wider public opinion. The Fallout is a polemical memoir, an account of Anthony''s political education in Thatcher''s Britain and his stark mid-life reassessment. It''s a book about crime and violence, liberty and society, principles and practice, and about vital questions that no longer match their received answers.

DKK 159.00

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The Midnight Choir - Gene Kerrigan - Bog - Vintage Publishing - Plusbog.dk

Sometimes, getting away with it is all that matters.Dixie Peyton, widow of a petty criminal, is struggling to regain custody of her son. In desperation she seeks the help of controversial detective Harry Synnott, a man obsessed by his own interpretation of justice. But Synnott has other priorities. As he finds himself getting deeper into trouble, Dixie risks becoming a sacrifice on the altar of Synnott''s career.Meanwhile the police have arrested a blood-stained man. They seem to have chanced upon a murderer - now they need to find out who he killed. Ruthless gangland leader Lar Mackendrick is hunting an informer. And armed thief Joshua Boyce is about to rob a jeweller''s shop. For all of them, as the pressure mounts and the choices become stark, getting away with it is all that matters.