Skip to main content
Search Button
United States Kobo store Gift Cards Help

Rakuten Kobo

Wishlist

Shopping Cart

You're getting the VIP treatment!

Item(s) unavailable for purchase
Please review your cart. You can remove the unavailable item(s) now or we'll automatically remove it at Checkout.
itemsitem
itemsitem

Recommended For You

Loading...


Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “simon goodman”
Skip side bar filters

  • The Orpheus Clock

    The Search for My Family's Art Treasures Stolen by the Nazis

    by Simon Goodman ...
    “An extraordinary piece of history...a fresh and lively read” (The Christian Science Monitor)—the passionate, gripping, true story of one man’s single-minded quest to reclaim his family’s art collection, stolen by the Nazis in World War II.Simon Goodman’s grandparents came from German-Jewish banking dynasties and perished in concentration camps. And that’s almost all he knew about them—his father ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • The Discursive Construction of Migrant Identities

    Edited by Charlotte Taylor, Simon Goodman, Stuart Dunmore ...
    Series series Bloomsbury Advances in Critical Discourse Studies
    This edited volume explores how migrant identities are created and constructed in discourse both by migrants themselves and by others.The contributors reveal how migrant identities are discursively constructed by those with lived experiences of mobility and those who view themselves as part of the 'host' population. This dual focus responds to a lack of previous research examining migration ... Read more

    $105.29 USD

  • Mononegaviruses of Veterinary Importance, Volume 1

    Pathobiology and Molecular Diagnosis

    by Jonas Wensman, Siamak Zohari, Branka Horvat, Elankumaran Subbiah, Veronica von Messling, Anke Brüning-Richardson, Wenzhi Xue, Jorge Moreno-Lopez, John Ellis, Changging Qui, David Lyon, Zhen Fu, Washington Cárdenas, Christopher Basler, Simon Goodman, Sara Soto, Manika Suryadevera, Joseph Domachowske, Associate Professor Arun Dhar, Niels Jørgen Olesen, Carol Kim, Silke Rautenschlein, Gene Olinger ...
    * Discusses the pathology and laboratory diagnosis of viruses that carry a significant threat to animals in terms of their severity and epidemiological risk * Also looks at mononegavirales that are used as models in the study of infectious disease * Includes viruses with zoonotic potential ... Read more

    $174.99 USD

  • The Language of Asylum

    Refugees and Discourse

    by Simon Goodman, Chris McVittie, Andy McKinlay, Steven Kirkwood ...
    Series series Behavioral Science and Psychology (R0)
    The early part of the 21st century has been marked by widespread social upheaval and geographical displacement of people. This book examines how refugees, asylum-seekers, locals and professional refugee workers make sense of asylum and refuge in the context of current UK asylum policies. ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

  • Audiobook

    The Orpheus Clock

    by Simon Goodman ...
    Narrated by Derek Perkins ...

    Unabridged

    11 hours 4 min

    Simon Goodman's grandparents came from German-Jewish banking dynasties and perished in concentration camps. His father rarely spoke of their family history or heritage. But when he passed away, and Simon received his father's old papers, a story began to emerge. The Gutmanns, as they were known then, rose from a small Bohemian hamlet to become one of Germany's most powerful banking families. They ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

People who read these also enjoyed

  • Sisters in Law

    How Sandra Day O'Connor and Ruth Bader Ginsburg Went to the Supreme Court and Changed the World

    by Linda Hirshman ...
    The New York Times–bestselling "gossipy, funny, sometimes infuriating, and moving tale of two women so similar and yet so different" ( NPR).The relationship between Sandra Day O'Connor and Ruth Bader Ginsburg—Republican and Democrat, Christian and Jew, western rancher's daughter and Brooklyn girl—transcends party, religion, region, and culture. Strengthened by each other's presence, these ... Read more

    $15.19 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Storm of the Century

    Tragedy, Heroism, Survival, and the Epic True Story of America's Deadliest Natural Disaster

    by Al Roker ...
    In this gripping narrative history, Al Roker from NBC's Today and the Weather Channel vividly examines the deadliest natural disaster in American history—a haunting and inspiring tale of tragedy, heroism, and resilience that is full of lessons for today's new age of extreme weather.On the afternoon of September 8, 1900, two-hundred-mile-per-hour winds and fifteen-foot waves slammed into Galveston, ... Read more

    $17.29 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Man Who Wasn't There

    Investigations into the Strange New Science of the Self

    by Anil Ananthaswamy ...
    ***Nominated for the 2016 PEN/E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award**An NBC News Notable Science Book of 2015**Named one of Publishers Weekly's Best Books of 2015**A Book of the Month for Brain HQ/Posit Science**Selected by Forbes as a Must Read Brain Book of 2015**On Life Changes Network’s list of the Top 10 Books That Could Change Your Life of 2015*In the tradition of Oliver Sacks, a tour ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • All But My Life

    A Memoir

    by Gerda Weissmann Klein ...
    All But My Life is the unforgettable story of Gerda Weissmann Klein's six-year ordeal as a victim of Nazi cruelty.From her comfortable home in Bielitz (present-day Bielsko) in Poland to her miraculous survival and her liberation by American troops--including the man who was to become her husband--in Volary, Czechoslovakia, in 1945, Gerda takes the reader on a terrifying journey.Gerda's serene and ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Savage Continent

    Europe in the Aftermath of World War II

    by Keith Lowe ...
    **Winner of the PEN Hessell-Tiltman Prize"A superb and immensely important book."—Jonathan Yardley, The Washington PostThe Second World War might have officially ended in May 1945, but in reality it rumbled on for another ten years...**The end of World War II in Europe is remembered as a time when cheering crowds filled the streets, but the reality was quite different. Across Europe, landscapes ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Out of Orange

    A Memoir

    by Cleary Wolters ...
    The real-life Alex from Netflix's Orange Is the New Black tells her own story in this memoir of crime, punishment, and her relationship with Piper.When Cleary Wolters first saw a commercial for the TV show Orange is the New Black, she knew her life would never be the same. After a blur of words and images alluding to lesbian lovers, drug smuggling, and life behind bars, Cleary saw a character ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Lady in Gold

    The Extraordinary Tale of Gustav Klimt's Masterpiece, Bloch-Bauer

    by Anne-Marie O'Connor ...
    The spellbinding story, part fairy tale, part suspense, of Gustav Klimt’s Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer, one of the most emblematic portraits of its time; of the beautiful, seductive Viennese Jewish salon hostess who sat for it; the notorious artist who painted it; the now vanished turn-of-the-century Vienna that shaped it; and the strange twisted fate that befell it.The Lady in Gold, considered ... Read more

    $9.99 USD