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Ta książka to niesamowite dzieło. Dopóki jej nie przeczytałem, nie zdawałem sobie sprawy, że czekałem na nią od trzydziestu lat. Znajdziesz tu wszystko na temat tego, co chciałbyś wiedzieć, nad czym się zastanawiałeś lub co nawet nigdy nie przeszło ci przez myśl odnośnie do sposobu, w jaki mówimy, słuchamy, wymieniamy informacje, a także do związanej z tymi procesami muzykalności (...) Nie mogłem się oderwać. DANIEL LEVITIN, autor książki This Is Your Brain on Music Zdumiewająca i przekonująca podróż przybliżająca wiedzę na temat strun głosowych,...

In 1967, after a twin baby boy suffered a botched circumcision, his family agreed to a radical treatment that would alter his gender. The case would become one of the most famous in modern medicine--and a total failure. As Nature Made Him tells the extraordinary story of David Reimer, who, when finally informed of his medical history, made the decision to live as a male. A macabre tale of medical arrogance, it is first and foremost a human drama of one man's--and one family's--amazing survival in the face of terrible odds.

Already hailed and persecuted for its perverse humor and wildly wicked sensibility, Undone is the tour-de-force black comedy by International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award Nominee John Colapinto.

In modern day America, Dez is a former lawyer and teacher -- an ephebophile with a proclivity for teenage girls, hiding out in a trailer park with his latest conquest, Chloe.

Having been in and out of courtrooms (and therapists' offices) for a number of years, Dez is adrift, at odds with a society that persecutes him over his desires. From his couch one afternoon, Dez watches an...

Just how did Cal Cunningham -- a twenty-five-year-old bookstore stockboy who is new to Manhattan and who has never written anything -- publish a bestselling novel that sells to the movies for a million dollars?

A mysterious roommate, a timely bike accident, and the rapacious literary agent Blackie Yaeger all play a role in Cal's success.

Deception, blackmail, and murder all play a role in his desperate bid to hold on to it.

And About the Author is his first-person account of how he performed this remarkable feat.