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Publicado por A Borzoi Book/Alfred A. Knopf, New York
Librería: ThriftBooks-Atlanta, AUSTELL, GA, Estados Unidos de America
Hardcover. Condición: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 1.85.
Publicado por A Borzoi Book/Alfred A. Knopf, New York
Librería: ThriftBooks-Dallas, Dallas, TX, Estados Unidos de America
Hardcover. Condición: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 1.85.
Publicado por A Borzoi Book/Alfred A. Knopf, New York
Librería: ThriftBooks-Reno, Reno, NV, Estados Unidos de America
Hardcover. Condición: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 1.85.
Publicado por A Borzoi Book/Alfred A. Knopf, New York
Librería: ThriftBooks-Phoenix, Phoenix, AZ, Estados Unidos de America
Hardcover. Condición: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 1.85.
Publicado por A Borzoi Book/Alfred A. Knopf, New York
Librería: ThriftBooks-Atlanta, AUSTELL, GA, Estados Unidos de America
Hardcover. Condición: Fair. No Jacket. Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 1.85.
Publicado por A Borzoi Book/Alfred A. Knopf, New York
Librería: ThriftBooks-Dallas, Dallas, TX, Estados Unidos de America
Hardcover. Condición: Fair. No Jacket. Missing dust jacket; Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 1.85.
Publicado por Borzoi Book from Alfred A. Knopf/New York,, 2006
ISBN 10: 0375843388ISBN 13: 9780375843389
Librería: Alf Books, Menomonie, WI, Estados Unidos de America
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hard cover, unpaged, 9 1/8 x 12 1/8 inches, extra postage for priority or international shipping due to size, first American edition, fine book condition, fine dust jacket condition, juvenile picture book,
Publicado por Alfred A. Knopf: Borzoi Books, New York, NY, 1990
ISBN 10: 0394583256ISBN 13: 9780394583259
Librería: Black Cat Hill Books, Oregon City, OR, Estados Unidos de America
Libro Original o primera edición
Hardcover. First Edition (1990), so stated. First Edition (1990), so stated. Fine in Near Fine DJ: The Book is flawless. The binding is square and secure; the text is clean. Free of creased or dog-eared pages in the text. Free of underlining, hi-lighting, notations, or marginalia. Free of ownership names, dates, addresses, notations, inscriptions, stamps, or labels. A handsome, like-new copy, structurally sound and tightly bound, showing no discernible imperfections. Bright and clean. Corners sharp. Virtually "As New". The DJ shows only the mildest rubbing and a short, superficial scar at the head of the back strip; else flawless; the price is intact. Very close to 'As New'. NOT a Remainder, Book-Club, or Ex-Library. 8vo. (9.5 x 6.65 x 1 inches. viii, 245 pages. Language: English. Weight: 22.2 ounces. Deckle fore-edge. Hardback with DJ.
Publicado por Alfred A. Knopf / Borzoi Books / Random House, New York, 2007
ISBN 10: 0307266745ISBN 13: 9780307266743
Librería: Idler Fine Books, Las Vegas, NV, Estados Unidos de America
Libro Original o primera edición
Hardcover. Condición: Fine. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Fine. David Scull (Jacket Photo); Carol Devine Carson Ilustrador. 1st Edition. First printing of the stated first edition. Faint crease to top edge of jacket's spine, else book and dust jacket in fine condition. Sale includes an extra dust jacket.
Publicado por Borzoi Book published by Alfred A. Knopf, Inc./New York,, 1983
ISBN 10: 0679814531ISBN 13: 9780679814535
Librería: Alf Books, Menomonie, WI, Estados Unidos de America
Libro
hard cover, light corner wear, mended tear on first end paper, unpaged, miniature book 5 1/8 x 4 1/4 inches, very good book condition, no dust jacket, juvenile picture book,
Publicado por Alfred A. Knopf, Inc./Borzoi Book, New York, New York, U.S.A., 2003
ISBN 10: 0375412115ISBN 13: 9780375412110
Librería: Prairie Creek Books LLC., Torrington, WY, Estados Unidos de America
Libro Original o primera edición
Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Very Good. 1st Edition. VG/VG, used hc, 323pp. Three-quarter beige colored paper over boards with turquoise paper and gilt text on spine; slight edge wear. Color illustrated dust jacket with white colored text on upper and black text on spine; slight edge wear; no chips or tears; not price clipped. Interior pages clean, unmarked. Binding is tight.
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Publicado por Alfred A. Knopf: Borzoi Books, New York, NY, 2007
ISBN 10: 0307263649ISBN 13: 9780307263643
Librería: Black Cat Hill Books, Oregon City, OR, Estados Unidos de America
Libro Original o primera edición
Hardcover. First Ed, so stated. First Ed, so stated. Fine in Fine DJ: Book shows binding square and secure; text clean. DJ unclipped. As New. NOT a Remainder, Book-Club, or Ex-Library. 8vo. 247pp. Appears Unopened. Hardback with DJ. "Send" is smart, timely, entertaining, a good investment -- and, as a reference book, a keeper. It combines the pithy good sense of Strunk & White's "Elements of Style" with the tongue-in-cheek humor of H. W. Fowler's "Modern English Usage" to produce the equivalent of Amy Vanderbilt's "Etiquette" for the e-set. While most of us take emailing for granted (and, unfortunately, never -- or only rarely -- think about how our message might be received at the other end), David Shipley and Will Schwalbe take us behind the electronic curtain to show us that digital yellow-brick roads might well conceal oodles of anti-personnel devices, most of them of our own unconscious design. "All ye who enter here." might do well to stand at the portal to the World Wide Web. Unfortunately, there's no such warning. And so, all of us -- too glibly, too happily, too unreflectively -- bound through without first taking the time to learn some basic do's and don't's. Shipley and Schwalbe have compiled such a list -- and have provided anecdotes and illustrations aplenty to make digesting that list an eminently enjoyable undertaking. If, for example, you should ever experience "a sudden chill in the ether," you need only turn to page 131 to discover a possible source of the temperature drop between you and your pretended e-pal(s). While "Five Words That Almost Everyone Misuses" (p. 121) certainly wasn't necessary to any reader who's spent a pleasantly sardonic afternoon with Mr. or Mrs. Malaprop, "This Is Annoying How" is the kind of literary circus act that leaves us gasping with delight. If you're one of those readers who enjoyed Lynn Truss's "Eats(,) Shoots & Leaves" -- not only for its usefulness, but also for its moxy -- "Send" is your kind of book. If you're NOT that kind of reader, buy it anyway -- it may save (you) a friend.
Publicado por Alfred A. Knopf: Borzoi Books, New York, NY, 1979
ISBN 10: 0394319540ISBN 13: 9780394319544
Librería: Black Cat Hill Books, Oregon City, OR, Estados Unidos de America
Libro Original o primera edición
Paperback. Neat, light, PENCIL UNDERLINING to about page 100. Else, Very Good in Wraps: shows indications of careful use: a crease near the lower corner of the front panel; just a touch of wear to the extremities; moderate rubbing to the wrapper covers; the pages have tanned slightly, due to aging; the binding remains square and secure. Free of any ownership names, dates, addresses, notations, inscriptions, stamps, plates, or labels. A handsome copy, structurally sound and tightly bound, showing light wear - and of course the underlining. No longer 'As New', but remains a clean, sturdy, presentable reading copy. NOT a Remainder, Book-Club, or Ex-Library. 8vo. (8.25 x 5.5 x 0.85 inches). xiv, 368 pages. Language: English. Weight: 13.9 ounces. First Edition Thus (1979); First Printing indicated by a complete numerical sequence. Paperback. First Edition Thus (1979); First Printing indicated by a complete numerical sequence.
Publicado por Alfred A. Knopf - A Borzoi Book, New York, 1997
ISBN 10: 0679433023ISBN 13: 9780679433026
Librería: Don's Book Store, Albuquerque, NM, Estados Unidos de America
Libro Original o primera edición
Hard Back. Condición: Very Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Very Good. First Trade Edition Stated. 289 Pages. At the novel's center: a uniquely fascinating woman, Triana, and the demonic fiddler Stefan, a tormented ghost who begins to prey upon her, using his magic violin to draw her into a state of madness. But Triana sets out to resist Stefan, and the struggle thrusts them both into a terrifying supernatural realm.
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Publicado por Alfred A. Knopf; A Borzoi Book, New York, 1994
ISBN 10: 0679412263ISBN 13: 9780679412267
Librería: LEFT COAST BOOKS, Santa Barbara, CA, Estados Unidos de America
Libro Original o primera edición
Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Fine. 1st. xi, 288 pages, illustrations; 21 cm. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Dust spotting/top and fore- edges. Stated First Edition. Fine DJ. "Petroski tells fascinating stories about the arduous processes that resulted in paper clips, Post-its, Phillips-head screwdrivers, Scotch tape, and fast-food "clamshell" containers. / Henry Petroski is the Aleksandar S. Vesic Professor of Civil Engineering and a professor of history at Duke University. The author of eleven previous books, he lives in Durham, North Carolina. Henry Petroski's The Book on the Bookshelf, Engineers of Dreams, The Evolution of Useful Things, Paperboy, Remaking the World, Small Things Considered, and To Engineer Is Human are available in Vintage paperback." - Publisher. Size: 8vo.
Publicado por knopf-Borzoi Books, New York, New York, 1961
Librería: Oshtemo Book Sellers, Chester, NY, Estados Unidos de America
Libro
Hardcover. Condición: Near Fine. No Jacket. Fine book with one spot on spine and half inch scratch on back. No jacket Book is quarter bound in red cloth over paper boards with nice blind stamp to front. Internally spotless. A nice reader and collectible. Size: 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall.
Publicado por Borzoi Books / Alfred A. Knopf, New York, New York, 1958
Librería: Adventures Underground, Richland, WA, Estados Unidos de America
Hard Cover. Condición: Very Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Good. Moderate shelf-wear to the jacket of the book with a large spot rubbed off on the spine. Used Book.
Publicado por Borzoi Books / Alfred A. Knopf, New York, New York, 1988
ISBN 10: 0394748425ISBN 13: 9780394748429
Librería: Adventures Underground, Richland, WA, Estados Unidos de America
Libro
Trade Paperback. Condición: Good+. No Jacket. Standard used condition. Reading copy or better. Used Book.
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Publicado por Alfred A. Knopf: Borzoi Books, New York, NY, 1988
ISBN 10: 0394570405ISBN 13: 9780394570402
Librería: Black Cat Hill Books, Oregon City, OR, Estados Unidos de America
Libro Original o primera edición
Hardcover. First Ed, so stated. First Edition, so stated. Fine in Near Fine DJ: Book shows binding square and secure; text clean. DJ shows only the mildest rubbing; price intact; mylar-protected. Virtually 'As New'. NOT a Remainder, Book-Club, or Ex-Library. 8vo. 215pp. Deckle Fore-edge. Hardback with DJ. Intelligent, thoughtful and lucidly expressed, Engle's new novel portrays a man trying to come to terms with a void in his life. After selling his small chain of bookstores around Boston, Ben Morrison looks forward to a promised administrative position at a fledgling community college, with the possibility of a teaching job, too. But he has a strong feeling that his good fortune hasn't been earned, that catastrophe is waiting to strike, and he experiences a disquieting lack of direction as each day dawns. Ben feels distanced from his familyhis wife Lucky seems self-absorbed; his sons live far from home; his daughter Sarah, a lawyer, is having difficulty in her relationship with her lover Carl, a former activist with an uncertain future. In addition, Lucky's mother Faith, whose spirit Ben has long admired and whose insights he has relied upon, is dying. When Carl's past appears to imperil his application for a government-funded grant, Ben attempts to intervene and, in the process of untangling some consequences of Carl's actions, uncovers the roots of his own hopes and convictions. As Lucky plans her mother's 85th birthday celebration, Sarah announces she is pregnant, and Faith's condition worsens. Engel, head of Harvard's writing program and author of Fish and Voyager Belsky, conveys the subtle shifts of his characters' emotional equilibrium with respect and attention. Their conversation, in particular, is luminous, as carefully wrought and revealing as discourse in the novels of Henry James.
Publicado por /Borzoi Book Published By Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1949
Librería: Samuel H. Rokusek, Bookseller, Pleasant Prairie, WI, Estados Unidos de America
Libro Original o primera edición
Cloth. Condición: Good. No Jacket. Stated First Printing. Book has no writing or marking, 198 pages. Rading copy only with moisture indications first 50 pages. Profusely illustrated with line drawings by the author and photographs by Arthur F. Fawcett and James Waldo Fawcett.
Publicado por Alfred A. Knopf: Borzoi Books, New York, NY, 1992
ISBN 10: 0394589165ISBN 13: 9780394589169
Librería: Black Cat Hill Books, Oregon City, OR, Estados Unidos de America
Libro Original o primera edición
Hardcover. First Edition [1992], so stated. First Edition [1992], so stated. Very Good+ in Near Fine DJ: Book shows indications of very careful use: very slight spine lean; just a hint of shelving wear along the bottom edge; the binding remains perfectly secure; the text is clean. The DJ shows only the mildest rubbing; the price is intact. Overall, remains a handsome copy: clean, sturdy, and quite presentable. NOT a Remainder, Book-Club, or Ex-Library. 4to. 506 pages. Deckle Fore-Edge. Hardback with DJ.
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Publicado por Alfred A. Knopf - A Borzoi Book, New York, 1956
Librería: Don's Book Store, Albuquerque, NM, Estados Unidos de America
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Hard Back. Condición: Very Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Fair. 148 pages. One corner lightly bumped. Dust Jacket frayed with some small pieces missing and shelf scuffs. Price on dust jacket and endpaper. No other marks or underlines. Photos.
Publicado por Alfred A. Knopf; A Borzoi Book, New York, 1994
ISBN 10: 0394557824ISBN 13: 9780394557823
Librería: LEFT COAST BOOKS, Santa Barbara, CA, Estados Unidos de America
Libro
Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Fine. xiii, 315 pages, illustrations, maps; 24 cm. Topstained orange. Tight, clean copy. Light edgewear. Browning. Fine DJ. "Nominated for the National Book Award, this book is set in colonial Massachusetts where, in 1704, a French and Indian war party descended on the village of Deerfield, abducting a Puritan minister and his children. Although John Williams was eventually released, his daughter horrified the family by staying with her captors and marrying a Mohawk husband." - Publisher. Size: 8vo.
Publicado por Alfred A. Knopf; A Borzoi Book, New York, 1999
ISBN 10: 0375400524ISBN 13: 9780375400520
Librería: LEFT COAST BOOKS, Santa Barbara, CA, Estados Unidos de America
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Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Very Good. 1st. xvi, 475 pages, [24] pages of plates, illustrations, maps, plans; 25 cm. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Spine slightly rolled at the crown. Stated First American Edition. Dust jacket glued to the boards. Another copy available. "The First World War created the modern world. A conflict of unprecedented ferocity, it abruptly ended the relative peace and prosperity of the Victorian era, unleashing such demons of the twentieth century as mechanized warfare and mass death. It also helped to usher in the ideas that have shaped our times--modernism in the arts, new approaches to psychology and medicine, radical thoughts about economics and society--and in so doing shattered the faith in rationalism and liberalism that had prevailed in Europe since the Enlightenment. With The First World War, John Keegan, one of our most eminent military historians, fulfills a lifelong ambition to write the definitive account of the Great War for our generation. Probing the mystery of how a civilization at the height of its achievement could have propelled itself into such a ruinous conflict, Keegan takes us behind the scenes of the negotiations among Europe's crowned heads (all of them related to one another by blood) and ministers, and their doomed efforts to defuse the crisis. He reveals how, by an astonishing failure of diplomacy and communication, a bilateral dispute grew to engulf an entire continent. But the heart of Keegan's superb narrative is, of course, his analysis of the military conflict. With unequalled authority and insight, he recreates the nightmarish engagements whose names have become legend--Verdun, the Somme and Gallipoli among them--and sheds new light on the strategies and tactics employed, particularly the contributions of geography and technology. No less central to Keegan's account is the human aspect. He acquaints us with the thoughts of the intriguing personalities who oversaw the tragically unnecessary catastrophe--from heads of state like Russia's hapless tsar, Nicholas II, to renowned warmakers such as Haig, Hindenburg and Joffre. But Keegan reserves his most affecting personal sympathy for those whose individual efforts history has not recorded--'the anonymous millions, indistinguishably drab, undifferentially deprived of any scrap of the glories that by tradition made the life of the man-at-arms tolerable.' By the end of the war, three great empires--the Austro-Hungarian, the Russian and the Ottoman--had collapsed. But as Keegan shows, the devastation ex-tended over the entirety of Europe, and still profoundly informs the politics and culture of the continent today. His brilliant, panoramic account of this vast and terrible conflict is destined to take its place among the classics of world history. / John Keegan was for many years senior lecturer in military history at the Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst, and has been a fellow at Princeton University and a professor of history at Vassar College. He is the author of thirteen previous books, including the acclaimed The Face of Battle and The Second World War. He lives in Wiltshire, England." - Publisher. Size: 8vo.
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Publicado por Alfred A. Knopf; A Borzoi Book, New York, 1996
ISBN 10: 067942413XISBN 13: 9780679424130
Librería: LEFT COAST BOOKS, Santa Barbara, CA, Estados Unidos de America
Libro Original o primera edición
Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Very Good. 1st. 348 pages, [16] pages of plates, illustrations, map; 25 cm. Near fine. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Edges lightly soiled. Stated First American Edition. Dust jacket with light shelfwear. "In North America geography has shaped the course of military history as it has nowhere else in the world. Our vast interior spaces, huge mountain ranges, extensive river systems, and boundless prairies have determined each critical conflict for control of the continent. Guided by this central insight, the acclaimed military historian John Keegan takes us on a tour of every major fortification and scene of battle in North America, from the arrival of the Europeans in the sixteenth century to the final defeat of the native American population in the nineteenth. He shows how the unique character of the American terrain and climate, and the inevitable competition for the land's wealth of natural resources, dictated why men fortified where they did, campaigned as they did, and were drawn to those battlefields - Yorktown, Gettysburg, Bull Run, to mention only a few - whose names are now part of our mythology." "Drawing upon more than thirty years of experience researching and writing about warfare throughout recorded time, Keegan brings his unique understanding to bear on all the famed engagements of our military history, including Wolfe's victory over Montcalm at Quebec, the legendary battles of the Revolutionary War (as Keegan explains, Washington knew particularly well how to use space and distance), and, of course, the colossal campaigns of the Civil War. An important theme of this book concerns how the war-making assumptions of the Old World met conditions in the New, and so Keegan concludes his narrative with an apt twist: he recalls the arrival of troops from the United States and Canada to save his native Britain and liberate France from German domination during World War II." - Publisher. Size: 8vo.
Publicado por Alfred A. Knopf; A Borzoi Book, New York, 1995
ISBN 10: 0679437533ISBN 13: 9780679437536
Librería: LEFT COAST BOOKS, Santa Barbara, CA, Estados Unidos de America
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Hardcover. Condición: Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Fine. 1st. viii, 364 pages; 25 cm. Good+. Scattered pencil marks. Stated First Edition. Fine DJ. "A twentieth-century intellectual of the first rank presents the case for the nineteenth-century aesthetician whose elegant subversions delivered us to modernism. Walter Pater (1839-1894) was an obscure Oxford don until 1873, when his first book, The Renaissance, exposed his argument favoring sensation over thought and, in doing so, ignited a hard, gem-like flame. 'Say not what it is but what it makes you see - or feel' is not something Pater ever said, but it will suffice as an encapsulation of an attitude that moved the authority of a work of art from the object to the subject, subsequently outraging the defenders of perceived truth of his time and making Pater himself a figure of controversy and even ridicule. Substituting sensationalism for sensation and reading Pater's claim for hedonism, or pleasures the soul might savor, as outright decadence, Pater's detractors far outnumbered and outranked his followers (including his fellow Oxonian and most notorious devotee, Oscar Wilde). But ever since Pater has proved, at least in the high arts, the decisive victor of the revolution he set into motion." - Publisher. Size: 8vo.
Publicado por Alfred A. Knopf; A Borzoi Book, New York, 1982
ISBN 10: 0394513347ISBN 13: 9780394513348
Librería: LEFT COAST BOOKS, Santa Barbara, CA, Estados Unidos de America
Libro Original o primera edición
Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Very Good. 1st. Cloth, 99 pages; 22 cm. Near fine. Tight, clean copy. Age toning. Stated First Edition. Dust jacket with age-toned flaps. Size: 8vo.
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Publicado por Alfred A. Knopf; A Borzoi Book, New York, 1993
ISBN 10: 0679413154ISBN 13: 9780679413158
Librería: LEFT COAST BOOKS, Santa Barbara, CA, Estados Unidos de America
Libro Original o primera edición
Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Very Good. 1st. xxi, 449 pages; 25 cm. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Remainder mark. Stated First Edition. Dust jacket with light edgewear. "After thirty-five years in a sealed vault, the autobiography of America's great social and literary critic now comes to light, edited and with an introduction by Jonathan Yardley. H. L. Mencken stipulated in his will that the manuscript not be read for thirty-five years so that no one mentioned in its pages would still be alive on publication, thus giving the author the freedom to write what he pleased. The narrative contains many profiles and reminiscences covering Mencken's years in the magazine world, particularly with the Smart Set, which he co-edited with George Jean Nathan. The heart of the book, however, lies in the descriptions of the relationships - rivalries, feuds, friendships and mentorships - that Mencken carried on with many of the significant writers of the twentieth century, including Theodore Dreiser, James Joyce, Willa Cather, Ezra Pound, Eugene O'Neill, Frank Harris, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Aldous Huxley and Sinclair Lewis. Full of wonderfully revealing anecdotes and biting observations, these pages are spiked with his trademark outrageous and pugnacious wit, as well as his alarming frankness. Although the memoir breaks off in the early 1920's because of a stroke he suffered in 1948, it contributes significantly to our understanding of the legendary literary era of which he was at the center. It also makes abundantly clear - if proof were ever needed - why he was our greatest social commentator, and why he has had an enduring impact on American society and letters." - Publisher. Size: 8vo.
Publicado por Alfred A. Knopf; A Borzoi Book, New York, 2018
ISBN 10: 152473165XISBN 13: 9781524731656
Librería: LEFT COAST BOOKS, Santa Barbara, CA, Estados Unidos de America
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Hardcover. Condición: Fine. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Fine. x, 339 pages; 25 cm. Tight, clean copy. Fine DJ. "The full inside story of the breathtaking rise and shocking collapse of Theranos--the Enron of Silicon Valley--by the prize-winning journalist who first broke the story and pursued it to the end in the face of pressure and threats from the CEO and her lawyers. In 2014, Theranos founder and CEO Elizabeth Holmes was widely seen as the female Steve Jobs: a brilliant Stanford dropout whose startup "unicorn" promised to revolutionize the medical industry with a machine that would make blood tests significantly faster and easier. Backed by investors such as Larry Ellison and Tim Draper, Theranos sold shares in an early fundraising round that valued the company at $9 billion, putting Holmes's worth at an estimated $4.7 billion. There was just one problem: the technology didn't work. For years, Holmes had been misleading investors, FDA officials, and her own employees. When Carreyrou, working at the Wall Street Journal, got a tip from a former Theranos employee and started asking questions, both Carreyrou and the Journal were threatened with lawsuits. Undaunted, the newspaper ran the first of dozens of Theranos articles in late 2015. By early 2017, the company's value was zero and Holmes faced potential legal action from the government and her investors. Here is the riveting story of the biggest corporate fraud since Enron, a disturbing cautionary tale set amid the bold promises and gold-rush frenzy of Silicon Valley." - Publisher. Size: 8vo.
Publicado por Alfred A. Knopf/Borzoi Book, New York, NY, 2010
ISBN 10: 1400042445ISBN 13: 9781400042449
Librería: Book Catch & Release, HULL, IA, Estados Unidos de America
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Hardcover. Condición: Fine. Estado de la sobrecubierta: As New. 1st Edition. "A spirited, urgent book that reveals the costs and benefits of being connected --how, from ancient Rome to the present, roads have played a crucial role in human life, advancing civilization even as they set it back." Ted Conover's travels to Peru, East Africa, the West Bank, Ladakh (India), China, and Lagos, Nigeria.