הספרים של הוצאת JONATHAN CAPE
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After Sapiens looked deep into humankind’s past and Homo Deus considered our existence in a future powered by intelligent design – 21 Lessons for the 21st Century stops to focus on the biggest questions of the present moment. What is really happening right now? What are today’s greatest challenges and choices? What should we pay attention to?
21 Lessons builds on the ideas explored in the previous two books to take the pulse of our current global climate. It untangles political, technological, social and existential questions, and highlights how they impact the everyday lives of human...
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In 1931 the body of a young woman was found on a lonely beach on Long Island. There were signs that she was raped and murdered. She was identified as Starr Faithful the daughter of a prominent New England family. It was then discovered that Starr was also promiscuous and disturbed. She was also sexually molested as a child by a politician friend of the family. Palmer created from the fact a haughnting narrative told in the voices of starr hersel and her insecure mother. This is a tale of blackmail, sexual manipulation, and family dysfunction....
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On Valentine's Day in 1989, Iran's Supreme leader the Ayatollah Khomeini declared a fatwa - any believer who assassinated the novelist Salman Rushdie was promised eternal life. The Ayatollah announced that the Indian born British novelist had committed an unpardonable blasphemy against Islam in a novel called The Satanic Verses. To supporters of the fatwa, even the title must have seemed like a confession. This was a man who by his own declaration was the author of The Satanic Verses. And so Salman Rushdie winner of the Booker prize became Rushdie the Infidel. Rushdie the man in hiding. For...
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