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Resultaten voor 'tim o brien'
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The Things They Carried
The million-copy bestseller, which is a ground-breaking meditation on war, memory, imagination, and the redemptive power of storytelling.
€ 10,95 -
Clarity
“Tim O’Brien is the one American author whose works I look forward to the most.” —Haruki Murakami The author of the American classic The Things They Carried returns with what may be his finest novel yet, an unconventional love story that unspools over decades and across continents between a Lutheran minister who has lost his faith and a young woman, brilliant and blazingly delinquent, fleeing a traumatic past. Bought a horse. I’m riding her to South Dakota or Montana or Wyoming or Mars. You were good to me. But watch out for clarity. People who know all the answers are fucking fools. The minister of Damascus Lutheran Church in St. Paul, MN, Tom Barrie—a former U.S. Army Chaplain Assistant who had deployed to Afghanistan in 2003—is wrestling with a crisis of faith. Ruby Stjern—a pregnant nineteen-year-old, alone in the world, who lives by her considerable wits—seeks Tom’s help in arranging for the unwanted child to be adopted. When the baby is stillborn, Tom lies to Ruby, telling her the child survived. Tom is haunted by his lie, and becomes obsessed with finding Ruby, who has vanished into the underworld of street life, triggering an odyssey that marks their lives over decades to come. Forever bonded, the two find freedom in their own ways—Tom through minor keys of commitment and duty; Ruby through her expansive expression of life. As epic as Going After Cacciato and as deeply philosophical as The Things They Carried, Clarity is a return to the grand themes and scope that make Tim O’Brien one of the great writers of our time.
€ 30,50 -
Building Complex Multi-Agent Systems Using Pattern Prompting
A guide to building robust and secure GenAI applications using software engineering best practicesTim O'Brien is CTO and Founder at two companies at the forefront of AI, blockchain, and decentralized technologies. His leadership has driven innovations across industries such as AI-powered document management, paperless cross-border trade, and digital identity. Tim has over 20 years of experience as a CTO, Architect, and Developer. His work with MiraScribe delivered advanced document automation solutions, while under his leadership, FuixLabs has excelled in no-code development, supply chain management, and fintech applications. Prior to his entrepreneurial ventures, Tim served as a Senior Engineer at Google, where he worked on language transpilation and distributed network systems. He also spent time at Hewlett-Packard, designing networking frameworks, and Cerner Corporation, where he created mission-critical, FDA-approved patient monitoring systems. Beyond his entrepreneurial success, Tim has consulted with firms like Augur, improving automated market-making and smart contract systems. He also founded Ferdon, a no-code platform for blockchain smart contracts, where he led the company from MVP development to securing venture funding.
€ 46,95 -
Tomcat in Love
From the winner of the National Book Award and author of In the Lake of the Woods – a wildly funny, brilliantly inventive novel about a man torn between two obsessions: the desperate need to win back his former wife and a craving to test his erotic charms on every woman he meets.
€ 13,95 -
Ripley's Believe It or Not! Amusement Park Oddities & Trivia
€ 14,50 -
If I Die in a Combat Zone
Box Me Up and Ship Me Home€ 19,95 -
July July
€ 17,50 -
The Putt At The End Of The World
The world's richest man invites a trio of mediocre golfers - Billy Sprague, who can't swing when money is at stake, hard-drinking Rita Shaugnessy and Alfonso Zamora, who is going blind - to play at an unknown Scottish course. Their efforts will somehow affect the fate of the world.
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Legends
Pioneers of the Amusement Park Industry€ 21,50 -
To Stand and Stare
Andrew Timothy O'Brien is an online gardening coach, blogger, and host of the critically acclaimed Gardens, Weeds & Words podcast. His mission is to help us understand our place in the world through the plants that surround us, whether the garden we know best is outside our house, on the window ledge, or within that patch of weeds we gaze at while waiting for the bus.
€ 14,95 -
America fantastica
Agosto 2019. Alle 11.34 di un sabato mattina Boyd Halverson entra nella filiale della Community National Bank della sua città, in California. Estrae una pistola, si fa consegnare tutti i contanti e fugge, prendendo in ostaggio la cassiera, Angie Bing (che a dire la verità non oppone molta resistenza). Inizia così una storia "on the road" - a metà tra Quentin Tarantino e David Lynch - che spazia per il continente americano procedendo spedita per accumulazione. I protagonisti dell'avventura surreale, a tratti onirica, sono questi atipici Bonny&Clyde: un uomo di mezza età reticente e tormentato, bugiardo compulsivo, e una ragazza logorroica e pragmatica, religiosissima e spregiudicata. Personaggi principali e comparse perseguono tutti una quest assurda ma generata dall'impulso del momento, percorsi apparentemente casuali che cambiano direzione in base a eventi altrettanto casuali e che comportano una sempre più radicale distorsione nella percezione della realtà. Teatro e cassa di risonanza delle vicende, tra squallidi fast food e sontuose ville con piscina, è l'America contemporanea, popolata di tycoon miliardari e delinquenti da quattro soldi, politici compiacenti, poliziotti corrotti, giornalisti che si contendono il Pulitzer a suon di fake news: un Paese in cui alla Casa Bianca siede il bugiardo-in-capo. Sulla scia di grandi scrittori satirici come Swift e Twain, Tim O'Brien ci offre un ritratto dissacrante e ironico, ma al contempo disperante, della sua "America fantastica" - un Paese affetto dalla diffusione autodistruttiva di menzogne, fake news, disinformazione, negazionismo e mera stupidità, fatalmente ancorato ai suoi più duraturi, ingannevoli miti, dal viaggio on the road al self-made man.
€ 27,50 -
Inseguendo Cacciato
Cacciato è un soldato americano di stanza in Vietnam. C'è la guerra, ma Cacciato sogna Parigi. Gli hanno detto che dalla giungla dell'Indocina ai bistrot della Ville Lumière sono solo ottomilaseicento miglia, si possono fare a piedi. E così un giorno Cacciato, stanco di quella marcia guerra, posa il fucile e parte alla volta della Francia. E il suo plotone dietro di lui, in un viaggio donchisciottesco, alla ricerca del disertore... Tra il sogno e la durissima realtà, Inseguendo Cacciato è un romanzo originalissimo, premiato con il National Book Award; un classico della letteratura pacifista che, nella sua atmosfera a tratti psichedelica, cattura come poche altre opere quell'assurda miscela di orrore e allucinazione che è stata la guerra del Vietnam. Ma non è solo uno dei più lucidi e intelligenti atti d'accusa contro la stupidità e la solitudine dei conflitti; è anche un grande racconto sulle forze che muovono l'uomo: la paura e il coraggio, la disperazione e la folle determinazione nell'inseguire i propri sogni. Come ha scritto il 'New York Times', 'definire Inseguendo Cacciato un romanzo sul Vietnam è come definire Moby Dick un romanzo sulle balene'.
€ 24,50