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Als junger, abenteuerlustiger Business-School-Absolvent auf der Suche nach einer Herausforderung lieh Phil Knight sich von seinem Vater 50 Dollar und gründete eine Firma mit einer klaren Mission: qualitativ hochwertige, aber preiswerte Laufschuhe aus Japan importieren. In jenem ersten Jahr, 1963, verkaufte Knight Laufschuhe aus dem Kofferraum seines Plymouth Valiant heraus und erzielte einen Umsatz von 8000 Dollar. Heute liegen die Jahresumsät...

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From the award-winning writer of Eveningland and The Typist, Michael Knight, At Briarwood School for Girls is an incisive, witty, beautifully-written novel set at a boarding school in the Virginia countryside

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From the award-winning writer of Eveningland and The Typist, Michael Knight, At Briarwood School for Girls is an incisive, witty, beautifully-written novel set at a boarding school in the Virginia countryside

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New York, im Frühjahr 1889. Nach einem Jahr der Trauer um ihren verstorbenen Mann beschließt die Malerin Catherine Weldon (Jessica Chastain), dass nun endlich die Zeit für einen Neuanfang gekommen ist. Unbeeindruckt von gesellschaftlicher Konvention und ganz auf sich allein gestellt, begibt sie sich auf die ebenso beschwerliche wie gefährliche Reise nach North Dakota mit einem klaren Ziel vor Augen: Sie will den legendären Sioux-Häuptling Sitt...

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The spirit of Eudora Welty broods over these adroitly crafted stories set in and around coastal Alabama, evoking a world coiled tight as a conch shell." -O Magazine

Prophet, statesman, jurist, mystic, shaman, husband, father: there are infinite ways to remember and imagine Muhammad. This book provides forty different windows into his life, his teachings, and his legacy.

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Als junger, abenteuerlustiger Business-School-Absolvent auf der Suche nach einer Herausforderung lieh Phil Knight sich von seinem Vater 50 Dollar und gründete eine Firma mit einer klaren Mission: qualitativ hochwertige, aber preiswerte Laufschuhe aus Japan importieren. In jenem ersten Jahr, 1963, verkaufte Knight Laufschuhe aus dem Kofferraum seines Plymouth Valiant heraus und erzielte einen Umsatz von 8000 Dollar. Heute liegen die Jahresumsät...

This is a complete, illustrated catalogue of the paintings and sculptures of Pop Art pioneer Gerald Laing (1936-2011), who shot to fame in the 1960s with his large-scale, iconic paintings of film-stars such as Brigitte Bardot and Anna Karina, conveyed in styles and colours that aped the crude but powerful printing processes of mass advertising.

Written with the stunning economy of language for which Michael Knight's work has always been praised, The Typist is a rich and powerful work of historical fiction that expertly chronicles both the politics of the Pacific theater of World War II, and the personal relationships borne from the tragedies of warfare. When Francis Vancleave ("Van”) joins the army in 1944, he expects his term of service to pass uneventfully. His singular talent—typ...

Originally self-published, "The Taqwacores" has now become a manifesto for Muslim punk rockers and a "Catcher in the Rye" for young Muslims.

Originally self-published, "The Taqwacores" has now become a manifesto for Muslim punk rockers and a "Catcher in the Rye" for young Muslims.

A thoughtful, insider view of The Five Percenters-a deeply complex and misunderstood community whose ideas and symbols influenced the rise of hip-hop. Misrepresented in the media as a black parallel to the Hell's Angels, portrayed as everything from a vicious street gang to quasi- Islamic revolutionaries, The Five Percenters are a movement that began as a breakaway sect from the Nation of Islam (NOI) in 1960s Harlem and went on to impact the f...

Ten stories cut like gems from American family life . . . (with) a gracious patina and a drawl of violence." --"Los Angeles Times" "A writer of the first rank. . . . (Knight) writes gently and with great gobs of empathy."--"Esquire" "Wonderfully humane." --"Playboy" A"Los Angeles Times"Notable Book, Michael Knight's stunning debut delivers ten tales of ordinary people seized by extraordinary circumstances as their attempts at human connection ...