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Union Atlantic - Adam (author) Haslett - Bog - Atlantic Books - Plusbog.dk

Union Atlantic - Adam (author) Haslett - Bog - Atlantic Books - Plusbog.dk

Doug Fanning lives an apparently gilded existence. A Gulf war veteran turned banker at the vast investment bank Union Atlantic, he is wealthy, handsome and powerful - the epitome of Wall Street success. Charlotte Graves lives in self-imposed exile deep in the forests of rural Massachusetts, stubbornly refusing to engage with a country she feels to be in morally bankrupt. When Fanning decides to build himself a sprawling mansion adjacent to her home, her isolation is threatened and she determines to evict him from his land and, if she can, his kind from her country. Union Atlantic is a deeply involving novel of the modern world - a world in crisis, where individual humanity is pitted against the global marketplace, and we must decide what, in the end, we value most highly.

DKK 110.00
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And Yet... - Christopher Hitchens - Bog - Atlantic Books - Plusbog.dk

And Yet... - Christopher Hitchens - Bog - Atlantic Books - Plusbog.dk

A Sunday Times bestseller Christopher Hitchens was an unparalleled, prolific writer, who raised the polemical essay to a new art form, over a lifetime of thinking and debating the defining issues of our times. As an essayist he contributed to the New Statesman , Atlantic Monthly , London Review of Books , TLS and Vanity Fair . Any publication of a volume of Hitchens'' essays was a major event on both sides of the Atlantic. Now comes a volume of Hitchens'' previously uncollected essays, covering the themes that define Hitchens the thinker: literature, religion and politics. These essays remind us, once more, of the fierce, brilliant and trenchant voice of Christopher Hitchens.

DKK 123.00
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Hemispheres - Stephen Baker - Bog - Atlantic Books - Plusbog.dk

Hemispheres - Stephen Baker - Bog - Atlantic Books - Plusbog.dk

Yan is a compulsive gambler whose wanderlust leads him on a chain of adventures across the South Atlantic and beyond, in the wake of the Falklands War. But this personal voyage takes a heavy toll on his relationships with wife Kate and teenage son Danny, left abandoned in a run-down pub on the North-East coast of England. Twenty-five years later Yan re-appears, terminally ill and determined to make amends before his death. Despite Danny''s reticence, the two men begin to reconnect through the unlikely medium of birdwatching, as Danny tries to piece together the truth about Yan''s desertion and protracted homecoming.Set against the stark industrial landscapes of the Tees estuary and the wilder shores of the South Atlantic, Hemispheres is an Odyssey for the twenty-first century, a story about fathers and sons, about isolation and human connection, and - ultimately - about the healing power of the natural world.

DKK 110.00
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In Ascension - Martin Macinnes - Bog - Atlantic Books - Plusbog.dk

In Ascension - Martin Macinnes - Bog - Atlantic Books - Plusbog.dk

LISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE BLACKWELL''S BOOK OF THE YEAR ''Mesmerising'' Sunday Times ''Magnificent'' Guardian ''Monumental'' The Telegraph Leigh grew up in Rotterdam, drawn to the waterfront as an escape from her unhappy home life and volatile father. Enchanted by the undersea world of her childhood, she excels in marine biology, travelling the globe to study ancient organisms. When a trench is discovered in the Atlantic ocean, Leigh joins the exploration team, hoping to find evidence of the earth''s first life forms - what she instead finds calls into question everything we know about our own beginnings.Her discovery leads Leigh to the Mojave desert and an ambitious new space agency. Drawn deeper into the agency''s work, she learns that the Atlantic trench is only one of several related phenomena from across the world, each piece linking up to suggest a pattern beyond human understanding. Leigh knows that to continue working with the agency will mean leaving behind her declining mother and her younger sister, and faces an impossible choice: to remain with her family, or to embark on a journey across the breadth of the cosmos. ''Utterly compelling'' The Times , Books of the Year''Profound and thrilling'' New Statesman , Books of the Year''A far-reaching epic'' Financial Times , Books of the Year

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In Ascension - Martin MacInnes

In Ascension - Martin MacInnes

Tipped as a 2023 Book to Watch in The Times, Guardian, New Scientist and The Scotsman'Astonishing... Nobody else writes like MacInnes, and this magnificent book is his best yet' GuardianLeigh grew up in Rotterdam, drawn to the waterfront as an escape from her unhappy home life and volatile father. Enchanted by the undersea world of her childhood, she excels in marine biology, travelling the globe to study ancient organisms. When a trench is discovered in the Atlantic ocean, Leigh joins the exploration..

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1941 - Marc Wortman - Bog - Atlantic Books - Plusbog.dk

1941 - Marc Wortman - Bog - Atlantic Books - Plusbog.dk

Prior to the attack on Pearl Harbor, America had long been involved in a shadow war. Throughout 1941 , President Roosevelt concocted ingenious ways to come to Winston Churchill''s aid, without breaking the Neutrality Acts. Conducting espionage at home and in South America to root out Nazi sympathizers, and waging undeclared war in the Atlantic, were just some of the tactics with which America battled Hitler in the shadows. President Roosevelt also had to contend with growing isolationism and anti-Semitism as he tried to influence public opinion. While Americans were sympathetic to those being crushed under Axis power, they were unwilling to enter a foreign war. Wortman tells the story through the eyes of the powerful as well as ordinary citizens. Their stories weave throughout the intricate tapestry of events that unfold during the crucial year of 1941.

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The Jamestown Brides - Jennifer Potter - Bog - Atlantic Books - Plusbog.dk

The Jamestown Brides - Jennifer Potter - Bog - Atlantic Books - Plusbog.dk

'' Compelling... A real pleasure to read.'' - BBC History Magazine In 1621, fifty-six English women crossed the Atlantic in response to the Virginia Company of London''s call for maids ''young and uncorrupt'' to make wives for the planters of its new colony in Virginia.While the women travelled of their own accord, the company was in effect selling them at a profit for a bride price of 150 lbs of tobacco for each woman sold. The rewards would flow to investors in the near-bankrupt company. But what did the women want from the enterprise? Why did they agree to make the perilous crossing to a wild and dangerous land, where six out of seven European settlers died within their first few years? And what happened to them in the end?

DKK 123.00
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The Capitalist Manifesto - Johan Norberg - Bog - Atlantic Books - Plusbog.dk

The Capitalist Manifesto - Johan Norberg - Bog - Atlantic Books - Plusbog.dk

'' This book is an excellent explanation of why capitalism is not just successful, but morally right '' Elon Musk ''A joyful counterblast... packed with vivid examples... decisive'' The Economist ''Compelling... Masterful'' Daily Mail ''A timely reminder of the benefits of free and open trade'' Financial Times A vital exploration of capitalism and the benefits it brings to global society. Marx and Engels were right when they observed in The Communist Manifesto that free markets had in a short time created greater prosperity and more technological innovation than all previous generations combined. A century and a half later, all the evidence shows that capitalism has lifted millions from hunger and poverty. Nonetheless, today''s story about global capitalism, shared by right-wing and left-wing populists - and by large sections of the political and economic establishment - accepts that prosperity has been created, but says it ended up in far too few hands. This in turn has made it popular to talk about the global economy as a geopolitical zero-sum game, where we must fight to control new innovations, introduce trade barriers and renationalize supply chains. More generally, capitalism is also accused of fuelling glaring inequality, populist revolts, climate change and China''s global conquest. In this incisive and passionate investigation, Johan Norberg instead restates the case for capitalism and the vital role played by the free market in today''s uncertain world. Ultimately, he argues that a move away from global capitalism would not only squeeze the growth out of the economy but also deepen an already large social exclusion for the vulnerable - for the world''s poor, it would be a killing blow.

DKK 122.00
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The Journey Matters - Jonathan Glancey - Bog - Atlantic Books - Plusbog.dk

The Journey Matters - Jonathan Glancey - Bog - Atlantic Books - Plusbog.dk

What was it really like to take the LNER''s Art Deco Coronation streamliner from King''s Cross to Edinburgh, to cross the Atlantic by the SS Normandie , to fly with Imperial Airways from Southampton to Singapore, to steam from Manhattan to Chicago on board the New York Central''s 20th Century Limited or to dine and sleep aboard the Graf Zeppelin ? In the course of The Journey Matters , Jonathan Glancey travels from the early 1930s to the turn of the century on some of what he considers to be the most truly glamorous and romantic trips he has ever dreamed of or made in real life.Each of the twenty journeys allows him to explore the history of routes taken, and the events - social and political - enveloping them. Each is the story of the machines that made these journeys possible, of those who shaped them and those, too, who travelled on them.

DKK 117.00
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The Cornish Rebel - Nicola Pryce

The Cornish Rebel - Nicola Pryce

Cornwall, 1801. In the wake of her mother's death, Pandora Woodville is desperate to escape her domineering father and finally return to Cornwall. Posing as a widow, she safely makes it across the Atlantic, bright with the dream of working at her Aunt Harriet's school for young women. But as Pandora is soon to learn, the school is facing imminent closure after a series of sinister events threatened its reputation. Acclaimed chemist Benedict Aubyn has also recently returned to Cornwall, to take up..

DKK 107.95
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The Art of Meditation - Matthieu Ricard - Bog - Atlantic Books - Plusbog.dk

The Art of Meditation - Matthieu Ricard - Bog - Atlantic Books - Plusbog.dk

A Sunday Times bestseller, this new paperback is an elegant and inspiring short guide to the art of meditation: another instant classic from the bestselling author of Happiness . Wherever he goes, Buddhist monk Matthieu Ricard is asked to explain what meditation is, how it is done and what it can achieve. In this authoritative and inspiring book, he sets out to answer these questions. Matthieu Ricard shows that practising meditation can change our understanding of ourselves and the world around us. He talks us through its theory, spirituality and practical aspects of deep contemplation and illustrates each stage of his teaching with examples. Through his experience as a monk, his close reading of sacred texts and his deep knowledge of the Buddhist masters, Matthieu Ricard reveals the significant benefits that meditation - based on selfless love and compassion - can bring to each of us.

DKK 123.00
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Zero-Sum World - Gideon (author) Rachman - Bog - Atlantic Books - Plusbog.dk

Zero-Sum World - Gideon (author) Rachman - Bog - Atlantic Books - Plusbog.dk

The economic crisis that struck the world in 2008 has drastically altered the logic of international relations. Globalisation no longer benefits all the world''s superpowers and they face an array of global problems that are causing division between nations. A win-win world is giving way to a zero-sum world.Zero-sum logic, in which one country''s gain looks like another''s loss, has prevented the world from reaching an agreement to fight climate change and threatens to create a global economic stalemate. These new tensions are intensified by the emergence of dangerous political and economic problems that risk provoking wars, environmental catastrophe and ever-deeper debilitating economic crises.This timely and important book argues that international politics is about become much more volatile - and sets out what can be done to break away from the crippling logic of a zero-sum world.

DKK 130.00
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Launch Code - Michael (author) Ridpath - Bog - Atlantic Books - Plusbog.dk

Launch Code - Michael (author) Ridpath - Bog - Atlantic Books - Plusbog.dk

''Hugely enjoyable and thought-provoking, Launch Code brings to mind the classic thrillers of Alister Maclean and Jack Higgins. A well-crafted ingenious mystery, tightly plotted, compelling and contemporary, this could well be Michael Ridpath''s best novel yet.'' - Stav Sherez, author of the Carrigan & Miller series 1983 : Three hundred feet beneath the Atlantic, submarine Lieutenant Bill Guth receives the order he''s been dreading: a full nuclear strike against the USSR. Crisis is soon averted, but in the chaos that follows, one crew member ends up dead... 2019 : Bill''s annual family gathering is interrupted when a historian turns up, eager to uncover the truth about the near-apocalyptic Cold War incident. Bill refuses to answer, but that night the man is brutally murdered.What happened all those years ago? How much is Bill to blame for events in the past? And who will stop at nothing to keep the secrets of 1983 where they belong?'' Deadly state secrets and deadlier family secrets - perfectly crafted, scrupulously researched Launch Code weaves an ingeniously dark and tangled web that will keep you gripped and guessing to the very end. Ridpath is one of the best thriller writers around.'' - Craig Russell, author of The Devil Aspect

DKK 110.00
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Wings Over Water - Jonathan Glancey - Bog - Atlantic Books - Plusbog.dk

Wings Over Water - Jonathan Glancey - Bog - Atlantic Books - Plusbog.dk

Announced in 1912, the Schneider Trophy was a series of glamorous air contests, popularly known as races, that captivated both sides of the Atlantic. While there were many other aviation competitions, the Schneider proved to be, after a rocky start, by far the most memorable attracting a hugely popular and glamorous following whether Trophy races were held in Monaco, the Venice Lido, the Solent or Chesapeake Bay.The Schneider Trophy was a focus not just of remarkable aircraft, derring-do pilots and swooning public attention, but also of fierce rivalries between the competitors: Britain, France, Italy and the United States. It gripped the imaginations of pioneering manufacturers and two of the world''s finest aircraft designers ­- Reginald Mitchell and Mario Castoldi - who worked feverishly hard to outdo one another. Perhaps inevitably, the dynamism of rival engineering and politics led to the most potent military fighters of World War Two with Reginald Mitchell''s record-breaking Supermarine seaplanes morphing, one way or another, into the Spitfire. Wings Over Water not only tells the story of the Schneider Trophy afresh but also examines the backdrop and legacy of these legendary air races, which became a driver and celebration of speed and engineering prowess for both sea and ground-based aircraft. It is an exhilarating tale of raw adventure, public excitement, engineering genius and the fortunes of flying boats and seaplanes.

DKK 117.00
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The New Class War - Michael (author) Lind - Bog - Atlantic Books - Plusbog.dk

The New Class War - Michael (author) Lind - Bog - Atlantic Books - Plusbog.dk

An Evening Standard'' s Book of the Year ''A tour de force.'' David Goodhart All over the West, party systems have shattered and governments have been thrown into turmoil. The embattled establishment claims that these populist insurgencies seek to overthrow liberal democracy. The truth is no less alarming but is more complex: Western democracies are being torn apart by a new class war.In this controversial and groundbreaking analysis, Michael Lind, one of America''s leading thinkers, debunks the idea that the insurgencies are primarily the result of bigotry and reveals the real battle lines. He traces how the breakdown of class compromises has left large populations in Western democracies politically adrift. We live in a globalized world that benefits elites in high income ''hubs'' while suppressing the economic and social interests of those in more traditional lower-wage ''heartlands''.A bold framework for understanding the world, The New Class War argues that only a fresh class settlement can avert a never-ending cycle of clashes between oligarchs and populists - and save democracy.

DKK 110.00
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The Curse of Bigness - Tim (atlantic Books) Wu - Bog - Atlantic Books - Plusbog.dk

The Curse of Bigness - Tim (atlantic Books) Wu - Bog - Atlantic Books - Plusbog.dk

''Timely and important .'' -- Joseph E. Stiglitz ''Tim Wu helps shape an urgent new global conversation.'' -- Shoshana ZuboffWe''re three decades into a global experiment: what happens when the major nations of the world weaken their control on the size and power of corporate giants and allow unrestricted expansion?In The Curse of Bigness, Tim Wu exposes the threats monopolies pose to economic stability and social freedom around the world. Aided by the globalization of commerce and finance, in recent years we have seen takeovers galore that make a mockery of the ideals of competition and economic freedom. Such is the ''curse of bigness'': stifled entrepreneurship, stalled productivity, dominant tech giants like Facebook and Google, and fewer choices for consumers. Urgent and persuasive, this bold manifesto argues that we need to rediscover the anti-monopoly traditions that brought great peace and prosperity in the past.

DKK 136.00
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The Curse of Bigness - Tim (atlantic Books) Wu - Bog - Atlantic Books - Plusbog.dk

The Curse of Bigness - Tim (atlantic Books) Wu - Bog - Atlantic Books - Plusbog.dk

''Timely and important .'' -- Joseph E. Stiglitz ''Tim Wu helps shape an urgent new global conversation.'' -- Shoshana ZuboffWe''re three decades into a global experiment: what happens when the major nations of the world weaken their control on the size and power of corporate giants and allow unrestricted expansion?In The Curse of Bigness, Tim Wu exposes the threats monopolies pose to economic stability and social freedom around the world. Aided by the globalization of commerce and finance, in recent years we have seen takeovers galore that make a mockery of the ideals of competition and economic freedom. Such is the ''curse of bigness'': stifled entrepreneurship, stalled productivity, dominant tech giants like Facebook and Google, and fewer choices for consumers. Urgent and persuasive, this bold manifesto argues that we need to rediscover the anti-monopoly traditions that brought great peace and prosperity in the past.

DKK 117.00
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Spooner - Pete Dexter - Bog - Atlantic Books - Plusbog.dk

Spooner - Pete Dexter - Bog - Atlantic Books - Plusbog.dk

Oddball, accident-prone Warren Spooner doesn''t so much get along with life as crash into it head-on. Through the awkward scrapes of his childhood, to a violent and troubled adulthood, the young man is nothing if not resilient, standing up to adversity in his own dark (often extremely dark) ways. Hilarious and heartbreaking, US National Book Award-winner Pete Dexter''s autobiographical magnum opus is nothing short of a tragicomic tour de force.

DKK 115.00
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Babylon - Robert Fabbri - Bog - Atlantic Books - Plusbog.dk

Babylon - Robert Fabbri - Bog - Atlantic Books - Plusbog.dk

''This may be the greatest tale of the ancient world. Hugely enjoyable'' CONN IGGULDEN ''Excellent . . . scintillating'' THE TIMES Who will conquer the greatest city in the ancient world?Alexander the Great''s sudden death has left his vast empire in chaos. War rages, cities fall and the lives of thousands are torn apart as his former generals struggle for a share. Alliances and betrayals are rife, and as one man threatens to gain an advantage, the others will not hesitate to plot his downfall.The one-eyed brute Antigonos is the most formidable power in the Western world and now has his eye on the jewel of the east: Babylon. As he schemes to seize it before returning to the West, his enemies join forces to stop him, mobilising fleets from Greece to Gaza.But only one warrior can claim the city. Babylon is the fourth book in a huge, brutal and bloodthirsty series about the fight to regain Alexander the Great''s empire after his untimely death. Let the battles begin... Praise for Robert Fabbri: ''A powerful retelling of one of the most dramatic events in ancient history'' BBC HISTORY ''Brutal and bloodthirsty'' Sunday Post ''Stuffed with political deviousness and vivid depictions of war . . . shockingly good'' Sunday Sport ''Powerfully chilling'' Express Readers are raving about Robert Fabbri: ''A delight, full of plot twists and bloodthirsty battle sequences '' Goodreads review '' Vivid descriptions and the battles are brutally and compellingly described '' Goodreads review ''Action-packed and sumptuous - not for the faint-hearted! '' Goodreads review '' Perfect for fans of Simon Scarrow ''s "Eagles" series!'' Goodreads review

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Norma - Sofi Oksanen - Bog - Atlantic Books - Plusbog.dk

Norma - Sofi Oksanen - Bog - Atlantic Books - Plusbog.dk

From the internationally acclaimed author of Purge and When the Doves Disappeared , comes a deliciously dark family drama that is a searing portrait of both the exploitation of women''s bodies and the extremes to which people will go for the sake of beauty. When Anita Naakka jumps in front of an oncoming train, her daughter, Norma, is left alone with the secret they have spent their lives hiding: Norma has supernatural hair, sensitive to the slightest changes in her mood--and the moods of those around her--moving of its own accord, corkscrewing when danger is near. And so it is her hair that alerts her, while she talks with a strange man at her mother''s funeral, that her mother may not have taken her own life. Setting out to reconstruct Anita''s final months--sifting through puzzling cell phone records, bank statements, video files--Norma begins to realise that her mother knew more about her hair''s powers than she let on: a sinister truth beyond Norma''s imagining. From the reviews of Purge: ''A phenomenon'' Times ''Powerful, passionately wrought, emotionally shattering, extraordinary'' Independent '' Purge stands out. Murder, sexual violence and political history combine to place Oksanen in the front rank of crime novelists.'' Sunday Times ''Books of the Year'' ''Finland''s hottest crime writer will soon be as well-known as Stieg Larsson'' The Times ''Essential reading: Purge is not a book to read last thing at night.'' Economist

DKK 96.00
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Motherthing - Ainslie Hogarth - Bog - Atlantic Books - Plusbog.dk

Motherthing - Ainslie Hogarth - Bog - Atlantic Books - Plusbog.dk

''A gruesome, blackly funny, utterly original feminist horror story '' New York Times , Notable Book of the Year ''A buzz-worthy and ferocious horror comedy from one of the genre''s most promising voices'' Buzzfeed Abby Lamb has done it. She''s found the Great Good in her husband, Ralph, and together they will start a family and put all the darkness in her childhood to rest. But then the Lambs move in with Ralph''s mother, Laura, whose depression has made it impossible for her to live on her own. She''s venomous and cruel, especially to Abby, who has a complicated understanding of motherhood given the way her own, now-estranged, mother raised her.When Laura takes her own life, her ghost starts to haunt Abby and Ralph in very different ways. Ralph is plunged into depression, and Abby is being terrorized by a force intent on taking everything she loves away from her. With everything on the line, Abby must make the ultimate sacrifice in order to prove her adoration to Ralph and break Laura''s hold on the family for good.

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