LIBROS DEL AUTOR: jim nelson

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  • Chandler & West
    Jim Nelson
    Los Angeles, 1939. Two writers struggle to finish books destined to become American masterpieces: Raymond Chandler and his debut novel, The Big Sleep, and Nathanael West with his tour de force, The Day of the Locust.What Chandler and West don’t know is that their work, and their lives, will draw together around the Hollywood murder of a gorgeous aspiring actress. The pair find ...
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    13,26 €

  • The Rise and Fall of Poetry
    Jim Nelson
    If you’re looking for an informed, scholarly discussion of poetry, don’t buy this book. Jim Nelson is literally an amateur. He loves poetry and he shares his opinions, oblivious of their validity. Jim is what you might call an eclectic writer, or more accurately, one unable to focus his attention. He has written two novels followed by a book on insects and now here comes a book...
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    53,60 €

  • Ten Insects That Changed the World
    Jim Nelson
    Did you know that the mosquito played an important role in the Louisiana Purchase? Or that dung beetles saved the cattle industry in Australia? That honeybees pollinate about one third of the food we eat? Or that the deadliest animal on earth is an insect? There’s an ant colony some 3,700 miles long! Morgan’s sphinx moth has a tongue more than 13 inches long. A locust plague st...
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    30,63 €

  • Trygve Lindstrom
    Jim Nelson
    Libby, the 'City of Eagles.' A town in extreme northwest Montana surrounded by more than two million acres of wilderness. It lies along the turquoise waters of the Kootenai River surrounded by pristine streams and lakes. When Doc Conrad Lindstrom brings his family to Libby, the lumber mill and the vermiculite mine are thriving industries. His wife Anna plays the small pump orga...
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    19,52 €

  • The Methuselah Project
    Jim Nelson
    Tribesmen murdered in Papua New Guinea. A shaman brutally killed in the Amazon. Mercenary commandos infiltrating biolabs across the globe. Billionaire Umberto Morton will stop at nothing to assure he is the first to patent the Fountain of Youth. He has transformed his worldwide pharmaceutical empire to a single effort; he calls it the Methuselah Project.Welcome to Madagascar: l...
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    23,55 €

  • The Book
    Jim Nelson
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    22,70 €

  • The Red Island
    Jim Nelson
    Harvard entomologist Dr. Trygve Lindstrom can’t refuse a mysterious invitation to attend a conference in London, for 'the greatest scientific expedition in history.' The powerful pharmaceutical company, The Chapter, is funding dozens of prominent scientists for a year’s sabattical to biological hotspots across the globe to collect specimens that may become tomorrow’s miracle d...
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    11,00 €