Howard Jacobson explora las complejidades de la identidad y la experiencia humana, utilizando a menudo el contexto judío para investigar temas universales. Su estilo se caracteriza por una aguda perspicacia psicológica en sus personajes y una aguda observación de la sociedad. A través del humor y la ironía, aborda cuestiones existenciales fundamentales que resuenan en diversos entornos culturales. La obra de Jacobson ofrece una meditación original y provocadora sobre el significado de ser humano.
En esta erudita y atrevida novela, la 10ma. del autor británico Jacobson (Noches de Kalooki), éste explora la naturaleza de lo erótico con un toque perverso. el narrador, Félix Quinn, un librero de anticuarios pasados de moda en el Londres actual, decide
An acclaimed surgeon specializing in weight loss presents a paradigm-shifting examination of the diet and health industry’s emphasis on protein, arguing that it is detrimental to our health and can hinder weight loss. Many professionals recommend increased protein intake, and numerous foods, drinks, and supplements are packed with it. While some individuals turn to protein for weight control or energy, Dr. Garth Davis questions its health benefits, asserting that excessive protein consumption is actually making us sick, fat, and tired. He emphasizes that if you are consuming adequate calories, protein deficiency is not an issue. In fact, the healthiest countries consume significantly less protein than we do, yet our nation continues to indulge in a protein-heavy diet, resulting in worsening health outcomes. Frustrated by the rising number of sick and overweight patients, Dr. Davis's own health scare prompted him to take action. By combining cutting-edge research with his clinical experience and analysis of the world’s longest-lived populations, this groundbreaking work reveals the risks associated with high protein intake and offers a proven approach to achieving weight loss, improved health, and longevity.
Twenty years after his first collection of tales about that Don Quixote of adult education, Leo Rosten brought Hyman Kaplan back for a second term on the bottom rung in the beginner's grade at the American Night Preparatory School for Adults.
"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"--Publisher's description
Jacobson is one of the great sentence-builders of our time. I feel I have to raise my game, even just to praise ... In short, he is one of the great guardians of language and culture - all of it. Long may he flourish Nicholas Lezard Guardian
Sent to Sydney on a CIA bursary on a mission to teach the Australians how to live, Leon quickly discovers that there are some natives who believe that they have an education to pass on in return.
By now, the low-carb diet's refrain is a familiar one: Bread is bad for you. Fat doesn't matter. Carbs are the real reason you can't lose weight. The low-carb universe Dr. Atkins brought into being continues to expand. Low-carb diets, from South Beach to the Zone and beyond, are still the go-to method for weight-loss for millions. These diets' marketing may differ, but they all share two crucial components: the condemnation of “carbs" and an emphasis on meat and fat for calories. Even the latest diet trend, the Paleo diet, is—despite its increased focus on (some) whole foods—just another variation on the same carbohydrate fears. In The Low-Carb Fraud, longtime leader in the nutritional science field T. Colin Campbell (author of The China Study and Whole) outlines where (and how) the low-carb proponents get it wrong: where the belief that carbohydrates are bad came from, and why it persists despite all the evidence to the contrary. The foods we misleadingly refer to as “carbs" aren't all created equal—and treating them that way has major consequences for our nutritional well-being. If you're considering a low-carb diet, read this e-book first. It will change the way you think about what you eat—and how you should be eating, to lose weight and optimize your health, now and for the long term.
The fall of man from Cain's point of view. He calls God a spiteful tyrant and has nasty things to say about such biblical personages as Abel, Adam and Eve, and his girlfriend, Zilpah. By the author of Coming from Behind
Sefton Goldberg: mid-thirties, English teacher at Wrottesley Poly in the West Midlands; 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. schovat popis
