הוצאת Pegasus Books
הספרים של הוצאת Pegasus Books
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"As life becomes more hectic, it's important to stop and think about the way we are living. Christopher's book is the best possible starting point."-Vogue (United Kingdom) In this inspiring book, leading Tibetan Bon practitioner Christopher Hansard explains the twelve types of ... |
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"Her stories crackle like few others on the mystery landscape."-San Francisco Chronicle "One of the treasures of the genre."-Chicago Tribune A new collection of Marcia Muller's best short fiction from the past twenty years, including hardboiled private-eye, h... |
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"The best book ever written on the Russian civil war. A first-rate work of scholarly synthesis."-Robert McNeal Petrograd, October 25, 1917: The Bolshevik Party stormed the capital city and seized the power of Russia's provisional government, which had been operating ineffectually since the abdicati...
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"Creepy atmospherics and unpredictable plot twists."-Publishers Weekly "Sherlockians old and new should relish Thomas' wit and elegance."-Booklist "Dedicated Sherlockians will appreciate the novelty of the great detective's incursion into real-life crimes."-Kirkus Reviews ...
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"The intense psychological portrait of a hitman--the anti-Jason Bourne--as he stalks his prey from Boston to LA. He wants you to know him, maybe even admire him, but only for his excellence in his craft. Perhaps he was even born for it. ""A natural killer,"" his mentor--a middleman named Vespucci--...
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An intimate and human portrait of a society living in extraordinary times.Welcome to the new China, a nation in motion—whole streets are rebuilt in a week, car ownership is soaring, rural workers migrate to the cities in search of a better life, and education is privatized for the first tim...
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"An ambitious, tautly plotted thriller that offers a stark antidote to P.D. James' cozy world of middle-class murder. A huge talent."-Time Out "Martyn Waites' lean, exhilarating prose is from the heart and from the guts, and that's exactly where it hits you."-Mark Billingham <... |
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"The greatest find in American fiction since Raymond Chandler."-The Observer (London) The shocking and explosive hardboiled classic: From murderers to prostitutes, corrupt politicians and racist white detectives, Coffin Ed Johnson and Gravedigger Jones, Harlem's toughest detect... |
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"Stella is a kind of obscene Ring Lardner, finding a lean, rancid poetry in his characters' vernacular, and rendering it with flawless precision and humor."-The Washington Post Book World A hooker gone straight, the street-smart Agnes Lynn declares vengeance on the Mafiya when ... |
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"An intellectual high-wire act that the author pulls off with deceptive ease. . . . Battles and wars, scientists and inventors, artists and tycoons, all get their turn in a smoothly rolling narrative. Mr. Osborne, with great skill, ties his disparate topics together into a coherent narrative, as ... |
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Throughout the last nine months of the Third Reich, from July 23, 1944, to April 29, 1945, Captain Bernd Freytag von Loringhoven-aide-de-camp to Adolf Hitler's last two army chiefs of staff, the generals Heinz Guderian and Hans Krebs-daily attended Hitler's military briefings with his highest-ran... |
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The seemingly sleepy oil town of Bakersfield has a long and grim history of hostility towards outsiders, be it the “Okies” during the Depression, African-Americans, or labor organizes. When Jack Liffey and his daughter Maeve end up in Bakersfield as a respite from their life in Los Angeles, th...
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"It does all one could ask, and more, of a pocket guide."-The Times Literary Supplement "One of the newest and most recommendable Mozart books is the Pocket Guide to Mozart. Written in a beautifully lucid and enthusiastic style."-The Independent on Sunday To celebrate the ...
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"Thomas has excelled himself. An important and riveting study in social history, it also has a very pertinent relevance in the crime-riddled society that is Britain today."-The Sunday Times (London) "A magnificent book. Beautifully written, utterly compelling: almost without fault in every...
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In this new, highly readable history of the Glorious Revolution of 1688-when James II was supplanted on the English throne by William, Prince of Orange, and his English wife Mary-Edward Vallance challenges the view that it was a bloodless coup in the name of progress, arguing instead that the revolu...
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It's tough being a man in the twenty-first century. First there are the big dilemmas, like how to get a raise. And there are all those things you ought to know: how to buy lingerie, how to make the perfect martini, how to tie a Windsor knot, how to propose to your girlfriend. The list is endless.... |
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"In his splendid study The Siege of Vienna, the Oxford historian John Stoye provides a detailed account of the intricate machinations between the Habsburgs and the Ottomans. Mr. Stoye's description of the siege itself is masterly. He seems to know every inch of ground, every earthwork an... |
