Impedimenta
Brand: Impedimenta
EAN: 9788417553555
The Body (Blinder 2)
"The body" is the central building of the dazzling "Blinder" trilogy. An overwhelming, hallucinatory, kaleidoscopic and intellectually subversive book that marks a before and after in the history of European literature... Bucharest in the mid-sixties. Romania is a gray country dominated by the Party..
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Brand: Impedimenta
EAN: 9788418668647
Young heroes of the Soviet Union
Alex Halberstadt’s quest takes him across the troubled, enigmatic land of his birth, where decades of Soviet totalitarianism shaped and fractured three generations of his family. In Ukraine, he tracks down his paternal grandfather—most likely the last living bodyguard of Joseph Stalin. He revisits L..
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Brand: Impedimenta
EAN: 9788418668234
Encyclopedia of Early Earth
Before our history began, another -- now forgotten -- civilization thrived. The people who roamed Early Earth were much like us: curious, emotional, funny, ambitious, and vulnerable. In this series of illustrated and linked tales, Isabel Greenberg chronicles the explorations of a young man as he pad..
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Brand: Impedimenta
EAN: 9788418668418
The Sacred and Profane Love Machine
Swinging between his wife and his mistress in the sacred and profane love machine and between the charms of morality and the excitements of sin, the psychotherapist, Blaise Gavender, sometimes wishes he could divide himself in two. Instead, he lets loose misery and confusion and—for the spectators a..
$26.96 $29.95
Brand: Impedimenta
EAN: 9788418668326
The Fox and Dr. Shimamura
The Fox and Dr. Shimamura toothsomely encompasses East and West, memory and reality, fox-possession myths, and psychiatric mythmaking. As an outstanding young Japanese medical student at the end of the nineteenth century, Dr. Shimamura is sent―to his dismay―to the provinces: he is asked to cure scor..
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Brand: Impedimenta
EAN: 9788419581334
The Steps of the Sun
Year 2063. Earth's resources are running out. All space expeditions in search of new fuels have failed, China is a global power, the United States is dying in the hands of the mafia, and people are freezing to death in downtown Manhattan. American tycoon Ben Belson is one of the richest men in the u..
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Brand: Impedimenta
EAN: 9788418668319
The Bridge of the Arts
Can't tell a masterpiece from a run-of-the-mill painting? Let Baudelaire show you the difference. Do you know what André Breton, Kiki de Montparnasse and Man Ray spent their time doing, between romps and romps? Evoking the convulsive beauty of "The Turkish Bath", by Ingres! Are you intrigued by the ..
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Brand: Impedimenta
EAN: 9788418668371
The Mockingbird
In the future, the human race has ceased to progress. Granted endless leisure by widespread automation, the masses devote themselves solely to the pleasures of the here and now, to drugs that dull their senses and electronic bliss that disconnects them from reality. Theirs is a world that is without..
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Brand: Impedimenta
EAN: 9788419581259
Sinister Solstice
Winter is coming, the nights are longer. There are those who gather under the mistletoe with their family and friends while others advocate the abolition of the Christmas spirit under the slogan "Ban Christmas or Die." Among the pages of this collection of stories lurk ghosts and haunted houses, but..
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Brand: Impedimenta
EAN: 9788417553586
Outside Looking In
In 1943, LSD is synthesized in Basel. Two decades later, a coterie of grad students at Harvard are gradually drawn into the inner circle of renowned psychologist and psychedelic drug enthusiast Timothy Leary. Fitzhugh Loney, a psychology Ph.D. student and his wife, Joanie, become entranced by the dr..
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Brand: Impedimenta
EAN: 9788418668302
A Fairly Good Time
Shirley Perrigny, the heroine of A Fairly Good Time, is an original. Derided by the Parisians she lives among and chided by her fellow Canadians, this young widow—recently remarried to a French journalist named Philippe—is fond of quoting Jane Austen and Kingsley Amis and of using her myopia as a de..
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Brand: Impedimenta
EAN: 9788418668562
Case Study
London, 1965. An unworldly young woman believes that a charismatic psychotherapist, Collins Braithwaite, has driven her sister to suicide. Intent on confirming her suspicions, she assumes a false identity and presents herself to him as a client, recording her experiences in a series of notebooks. Bu..
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