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The Finkler Question

Author : Howard Jacobson
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1608196127
Total Pages : 319 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (81 download)

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Download or read book The Finkler Question written by Howard Jacobson and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2010-09-10 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "He should have seen it coming. His life had been one mishap after another. So he should have been prepared for this one..." Julian Treslove, a professionally unspectacular and disappointed BBC worker, and Sam Finkler, a popular Jewish philosopher, writer and television personality, are old school friends. Despite a prickly relationship and very different lives, they've never quite lost touch with each other - or with their former teacher, Libor Sevick, a Czechoslovakian always more concerned with the wider world than with exam results. Now, both Libor and Finkler are recently widowed, and with Treslove, his chequered and unsuccessful record with women rendering him an honorary third widower, they dine at Libor's grand, central London apartment. It's a sweetly painful evening of reminiscence in which all three remove themselves to a time before they had loved and lost; a time before they had fathered children, before the devastation of separations, before they had prized anything greatly enough to fear the loss of it. Better, perhaps, to go through life without knowing happiness at all because that way you had less to mourn? Treslove finds he has tears enough for the unbearable sadness of both his friends' losses. And it's that very evening, at exactly 11:30pm, as Treslove hesitates a moment outside the window of the oldest violin dealer in the country as he walks home, that he is attacked. After this, his whole sense of who and what he is will slowly and ineluctably change. The Finkler Question is a scorching story of exclusion and belonging, justice and love, ageing, wisdom and humanity. Funny, furious, unflinching, this extraordinary novel shows one of our finest writers at his brilliant best.

Whatever It Is, I Don't Like It

Author : Howard Jacobson
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1408810301
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (88 download)

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Download or read book Whatever It Is, I Don't Like It written by Howard Jacobson and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2011-09-05 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Columns eerder verschenen in The Independent.

The Mighty Walzer

Author : Howard Jacobson
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1783198354
Total Pages : 125 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (831 download)

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Download or read book The Mighty Walzer written by Howard Jacobson and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2016-07-05 with total page 125 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Oliver Walzer is shy, bookish, Jewish. He doesn’t know how to talk to girls. But he can slice, flick and spin a ping pong ball better than any teenager in Manchester. Oliver channels his frustrated adolescent lust into the game he loves. That is until the heartbreaking Lorna Peachley and the prospect of a place at Cambridge take his eye off the ball.

Kalooki Nights

Author : Howard Jacobson
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1416543430
Total Pages : 467 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (165 download)

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Download or read book Kalooki Nights written by Howard Jacobson and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2008-04-22 with total page 467 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Longlisted for the 2006 Man Booker Prize and hailed by "The Times" (London) as Ra work of genius, S Jacobson's exquisitely written, audaciously funny novel explores the countless questions of postwar Jewish identity.

You Can Change Other People

Author : Peter Bregman
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 111981653X
Total Pages : 247 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (198 download)

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Download or read book You Can Change Other People written by Peter Bregman and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2021-09-22 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discover how to change the lives of the people around you In You Can Change Other People, the world’s #1 executive coach, Peter Bregman, and Howie Jacobson, Ph.D., share the Four Steps to help the people around you make positive change — even if they’ve been stuck for years. The authors rely on over 50 years of collective professional experience to show you exactly what to say to influence those around you for the better. Changing the way you talk will stop you from being perceived as a critic, and turn you into a welcomed and effective ally. You’ll learn how to: Disarm their defensiveness and increase their confidence to act Turn people’s biggest problems into even bigger opportunities Ensure accountability and follow through without making them dependent on you No one wants to be changed; but change and personal growth are critical to success, and more importantly, to a fulfilled life. You Can Change Other People is a must-read for those who want to improve their impact with co-workers, family members, and everyone in between.

Roots Schmoots

Author : Howard Jacobson
Publisher : Abrams
ISBN 13 : 1468305794
Total Pages : 378 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (683 download)

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Download or read book Roots Schmoots written by Howard Jacobson and published by Abrams. This book was released on 1995-08-01 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When fast-breaking political events forced British novelist Jacobson (Peeping Tom) to put off a trip to Lithuania planned as a search for his Jewish roots, he accepted an offer from the BBC to visit Jewish communities around the globe instead. This informed and witty account of his experiences deals with the wide variety of contemporary Jewish life, as well as with how Jacobson's observations affected his own concept of what it means to be a Jew. Riding an emotional roller coaster, he witnessed the hostility between Jews and African Americans in New York City, attended services in a gay synagogue in California and found his basic cynicism about religion reinforced after he spent time with Orthodox Jews in Israel, although his spirits were lifted by a visit to an idealistic, tolerant Israeli kibbutz. His journey concluded with the postponed trip to Lithuania, where the author found virulent anti-Semitism.

Live a Little

Author : Howard Jacobson
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 1473563801
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (735 download)

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Download or read book Live a Little written by Howard Jacobson and published by Random House. This book was released on 2019-07-04 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'A . . . tender love story . . . This book is alive. It pulses with warmth and intelligence' The Times A wickedly observed novel about falling in love at the end of your life, by the Man Booker Prize-winning author of The Finkler Question. At the age of ninety-something, Beryl Dusinbery is forgetting everything – including her own children. She spends her days stitching morbid samplers and tormenting her two carers with tangled tales of her husbands and affairs. Shimi Carmelli can do up his own buttons, walks without a frame and speaks without spitting. Among the widows of North London, he’s whispered about as the last of the eligible bachelors. He forgets nothing –especially not the shame of a childhood incident that has long hung over him. There's very little left remaining for either of them. . . But perhaps just enough to heal some of the hurt inflicted along the way, and find new meaning in what's left. *SHORTLISTED FOR THE WINGATE LITERARY PRIZE 2020*

The Making of Henry

Author : Howard Jacobson
Publisher : Anchor
ISBN 13 : 0307428966
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (74 download)

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Download or read book The Making of Henry written by Howard Jacobson and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2007-12-18 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Man Booker Prize–Winning Author of THE FINKLER QUESTION Swathed in his kimono, drinking tea from his samovar, Henry Nagle is temperamentally opposed to life in the 21st century. Preferring not to contemplate the great intellectual and worldly success of his best boyhood friend, he argues constantly with his father, an upholsterer turned fire-eater–and now dead for many years. When he goes out at all, Henry goes after other men’s wives. But when he mysteriously inherits a sumptuous apartment, Henry’s life changes, bringing on a slick descendant of Robert Louis Stevenson, an excitable red setter, and a wise-cracking waitress with a taste for danger. All of them demand his attention, even his love, a word which barely exists in Henry’s magisterial vocabulary, never mind his heart. From one of England’s most highly regarded writers, The Making of Henry is a ravishing novel, at once wise, tender and mordantly funny.

Pussy

Author : Howard Jacobson
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 1473549345
Total Pages : 215 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (735 download)

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Download or read book Pussy written by Howard Jacobson and published by Random House. This book was released on 2017-04-13 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A provocatively entertaining, savagely funny satire on Donald Trump by Britain’s greatest comic novelist. Pussy is the story of Prince Fracassus, heir presumptive to the Duchy of Origen, famed for its golden-gated skyscrapers and casinos, who passes his boyhood watching reality shows on TV, imagining himself to be the Roman Emperor Nero, and fantasizing about hookers. He is idle, boastful, thin-skinned and egotistic; has no manners, no curiosity, no knowledge, no idea and no words in which to express them. Could he, in that case, be the very leader to make the country great again?

Whole

Author : T. Colin Campbell
Publisher : BenBella Books, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1937856259
Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (378 download)

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Download or read book Whole written by T. Colin Campbell and published by BenBella Books, Inc.. This book was released on 2013-05-07 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New York Times Bestseller What happens when you eat an apple? The answer is vastly more complex than you imagine. Every apple contains thousands of antioxidants whose names, beyond a few like vitamin C, are unfamiliar to us, and each of these powerful chemicals has the potential to play an important role in supporting our health. They impact thousands upon thousands of metabolic reactions inside the human body. But calculating the specific influence of each of these chemicals isn't nearly sufficient to explain the effect of the apple as a whole. Because almost every chemical can affect every other chemical, there is an almost infinite number of possible biological consequences. And that's just from an apple. Nutritional science, long stuck in a reductionist mindset, is at the cusp of a revolution. The traditional “gold standard" of nutrition research has been to study one chemical at a time in an attempt to determine its particular impact on the human body. These sorts of studies are helpful to food companies trying to prove there is a chemical in milk or pre-packaged dinners that is “good" for us, but they provide little insight into the complexity of what actually happens in our bodies or how those chemicals contribute to our health. In The China Study, T. Colin Campbell (alongside his son, Thomas M. Campbell) revolutionized the way we think about our food with the evidence that a whole food, plant-based diet is the healthiest way to eat. Now, in Whole, he explains the science behind that evidence, the ways our current scientific paradigm ignores the fascinating complexity of the human body, and why, if we have such overwhelming evidence that everything we think we know about nutrition is wrong, our eating habits haven't changed. Whole is an eye-opening, paradigm-changing journey through cutting-edge thinking on nutrition, a scientific tour de force with powerful implications for our health and for our world.

AdWords For Dummies

Author : Howie Jacobson
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1118051726
Total Pages : 408 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (18 download)

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Download or read book AdWords For Dummies written by Howie Jacobson and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2011-05-04 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: AdWords lets every business-from eBay PowerSellers to Fortune 500 companies-create targeted, cost-efficient advertising campaigns on the Web, and accounts for the bulk of Google's $6 billion in annual revenues This all-new guide helps advertisers get a handle on AdWords complexities and nuances, adopt AdWords best practices, and turn clicks into ka-ching! Topics covered include conducting quick and cheap market research, crafting a message that cuts through the clutter, choosing AdWords settings, bidding on keywords, setting a maximum daily spend, improving the Web page that an ad points to, testing strategies, tracking results, and using Web analytics tools Includes an exclusive offer from Google-AdWords credits equivalent to the price of the book-plus a companion Web site with up-to-the-minute AdWords tips and tricks, narrated video walkthroughs, and free trials of the author's software

Zoo Time

Author : Howard Jacobson
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1408837447
Total Pages : 482 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (88 download)

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Download or read book Zoo Time written by Howard Jacobson and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2013-01-01 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The new novel from the author of "The Finkler Question," winner of the Man Booker Prize 2010

The Act of Love

Author : Howard Jacobson
Publisher : Penguin Canada
ISBN 13 : 0143176641
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (431 download)

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Download or read book The Act of Love written by Howard Jacobson and published by Penguin Canada. This book was released on 2009-12-22 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: All husbands, Felix maintains, secretly want their wives to be unfaithful to them. Felix hasn't always thought this way. From the moment of his first boyhood rejection, surviving the shattering effects of love and jealousy had been the study of his life. But while he is honeymooning with Marisa in Florida, an event occurs that changes everything. In a moment, he goes from dreading the thought of someone else's hands on the woman he loves to thinking about nothing else. Enter Marius into Marisa's affections. Now Felix must wonder if he really is a happy man.

Seriously Funny

Author : Howard Jacobson
Publisher : Viking Adult
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Seriously Funny written by Howard Jacobson and published by Viking Adult. This book was released on 1997 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An investigation of the origins of comedy and the meaning of laughter, drawing on biology, anthropology, classical studies, behavioural science, philosophy and psychology - with a few authorial jokes along the way.

Coming From Behind

Author : Howard Jacobson
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 1446412997
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (464 download)

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Download or read book Coming From Behind written by Howard Jacobson and published by Random House. This book was released on 2011-03-31 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In an ever divided Britain, this wryly observed novel is a timely and thought-provoking read from the Booker-winning author of The Finkler Question. 'A very funny, bitterly intelligent novel...do read it' Malcolm Bradbury Sefton Goldberg: mid-thirties, English teacher at Wrottesley Poly in the West Midlands; small, sweaty, lustful, defiantly unappreciative of beer, nature and organised games; gnawingly aware of being an urban Jew islanded in a sea of country-loving Anglo-Saxons. Obsessed by failure - morbidly, in his own case, gloatingly, in that of his contemporaries - so much so that he plans to write a bestseller on the subject. In the meantime he is uncomfortably aware of advancing years and atrophying achievement, and no amount of lofty rationalisation can disguise the triumph of friends and colleagues, not only from Cambridge days but even within the despised walls of the Poly itself, or sweeten the bitter pill of another's success...

Mother's Boy

Author : Howard Jacobson
Publisher : Jonathan Cape
ISBN 13 : 9781787333802
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (338 download)

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Download or read book Mother's Boy written by Howard Jacobson and published by Jonathan Cape. This book was released on 2022-03 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Howard Jacobson's funny, revealing and tender memoir of his path to becoming a writer It's my theory that only the unhappy, the uncomfortable, the gauche, the badly put together, aspire to make art. Why would you seek to reshape the world unless you were ill-at-ease in it? And I came out of the womb in every sense the wrong way round. In Mother's Boy, Booker-Prize winner Howard Jacobson reveals how he became a writer. It is an exploration of belonging and not-belonging, of being an insider and outsider, both English and Jewish. Jacobson was forty when his first novel was published. In Mother's Boy he traces the life that brought him there. Born to a working-class family in 1940s Manchester, the great-grandson of Lithuanian and Russian immigrants, Jacobson was raised by his mother, grandmother and aunt Joyce. His father was a regimental tailor, as well as an upholsterer, a market-stall holder, a taxi driver, a balloonist, and a magician. Grappling always with his family's history and his Jewish identity, Jacobson takes us from the growing pains of childhood to studying at Cambridge under F.R. Leavis, and landing in Sydney as a maverick young professor on campus. After his first marriage and the birth of his son, he lived in places as disparate as London, Wolverhampton, Boscastle and Melbourne, and worked many different jobs to make ends meet, from selling handbags on a market stall, to teaching English in schools, universities and sometimes football stadiums, and even helping to run an Australian-inspired restaurant in the middle of Cornwall. Full of Jacobson's trademark humour and infused with bittersweet memories of his parents, this is the story of a writer's beginnings - as well as the twists and turns that life takes - and of learning to understand who you are before you can become the writer you were meant to be.

Who's Sorry Now

Author : Howard Jacobson
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 1446413144
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (464 download)

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Download or read book Who's Sorry Now written by Howard Jacobson and published by Random House. This book was released on 2011-08-31 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Marvin Kreitman, the luggage baron of South London, lives for sex. Or at least he lives for women. At present he loves four women - his mother, his wife Hazel, and his two daughters - and is in love with five more. Charlie Merriweather, on the other hand, nice Charlie, loves just the one woman, also called Charlie, the wife with whom he has been writing children's books and having nice sex for twenty years. Once a week the two friends meet for a Chinese lunch, contriving never quite to have the conversation they would like to have - about fidelity and womanising, and which makes you happier. Until today. It is Charlie who takes the dangerous step of asking for a piece of Marvin's disordered life, but what follows embroils them all, the wives no less than the husbands. And none of them will ever be the same again.