This hilarious, brilliantly inventive novel by the author of The Master and Margarita tells the story of a scroungy Moscow mongrel named Sharik. Thanks to the skills of a renowned Soviet scientist and the transplanted pituitary gland and testes of a petty criminal, Sharik is transformed into a lecherous , vulgar man who spouts Engels and inevitably...more
With the born storyteller's command of narrative and imaginative approach, Leonard Mlodinow vividly demonstrates how our lives are profoundly informed by chance and randomness and how everything from wine ratings and corporate success to school grades and political polls are less reliable than we believe. By showing us the true nature of chance an...more
In the current heated discussions of hereditary vs. environmental impacts on IQ, Gould's National Book Critics' Circle Award-winning book deserves a hearing.
A renowned scientist and author of The Selfish Gene provides a sweeping chronicle of more than four billion years of life on Earth, shedding new light on evolutionary theory and history, sexual selection, speciation, convergent evolution, extinction, genetics, plate tectonics, geographical dispersal, and other topics. Reprint.
Irgendwann im Leben eines Mannes -- zumeist so kurz nach 40 -- denkt man an die Zeit zurück, in der man jung war. Dann kauft man sich Bücher, die einem ins Gedächtnis bringen, wie es damals war zu leben, welch klebrige Brause man trank oder welch schaurige Musik man gehört haben soll. Wenn man ein kreativer Mann ist, dann schreibt man gleich ei...more
Kreuzberger sind schon komische Vögel. Sie sitzen Abend für Abend am Tresen, trinken Kristallweizen ohne Zitrone und gehen erst ins Bett, wenn Mutti in Bremen schon wieder aufsteht. Und wenn draußen die Mauer fällt, bestellen sie erst mal in Ruhe noch ein Bier. Denn was ist schon das Ende der Geschichte (denkt sich der Leser am Ende dieser Gesc...more
For some, Evita was a goddess, a queen, and a patron mother; for others she was a social climber, and a crazy and ordinary analphabet; her body is the protagonist of this novel. This book tells the impressive and absurd story of the peregrinations of Evita's perfectly embalmed corpse across oceans and in and out of Peronists' hands. A superb cra...more
This collection of short and humoristic stories is a privileged introduction to the inexhaustible world of one of the greatest writers of the last century. Cronopios and Famas is one of the most-loved books by Julio Cortázar, perhaps the greatest of Latin American novelists; it is delightfully characterized. As the Saturday Review remarked: "Each...more
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