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Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----=_NextPart_001_7123_71215753.37295198" X-Mailer: SendBlaster.1.6.0 Date: Fri, 18 Dec 2009 23:03:54 +0100 Message-ID: <38362271535521661712746@ALASKA> X-Spam: no; 0.00; redesigned:01 warmly:01 pavel:01 lacks:01 corpses:01 redesigned:01 warmly:01 pavel:01 lacks:01 corpses:01 merry:98 2009:98 2009:98 katherine:98 survives:98 X-Attachments: cset="utf-8http-equivContent-Type" cset="utf-8http-equivContent-Type" ------=_NextPart_001_7123_71215753.37295198 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8http-equivContent-Type" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Dear readers, First and foremost we write to thank you for your continuing support and to= wish you a healthy, happy and prosperous new year. 2009 year has seen considerable change at Anagram, with the arrival of a fe= w new faces and a whole new look. Christmas elves have been hard at work on= our redesigned children's corner, we have added a new releases section and= our staff recommendations shelf returns by popular demand. As per Anagram tradition we will be open every day over the holidays, inclu= ding Christmas day! So we warmly invite you to stop by, say hello and have = a look around. =20 We include with this message some information on just a few of the many gre= at titles we have in stock, but if nothing catches your eye rest assured we= are confident we have something for everyone. As always, we take great ple= asure in helping you find that perfect book. All our best, Pavel, David, Denis, Bara and Alastair =20 Wolf Hall (2009 Booker Prize winner) Hilary Mantel takes a slice of Tudor history and allows the reader to view = it through the eyes of Thomas Cromwell, who rose from his origins as the so= n of a blacksmith to become the chief minister of King Henry VIII. From his= humble origins, he manages to become an important advisor to the ill-fated= Cardinal Wolsey, who, as everyone knows, started his downhill slide becaus= e of his inability to provide Henry VIII with a Church-sanctioned divorce f= rom Katherine of Aragon. It is, ironically, Wolsey's fall that begins Cromw= ell's rise. Cromwell survives by his own motto, "inch by inch forward. Neve= r mind if he calls you an eel or a worm or a snake. Head down, don't provok= e him." His fortune is on the ascendant, throughout the story, but as every= one also knows, fortune is fleeting, and especially in this time, largely a= t the whim of the king. 2666 Written under the specter of his own death, Roberto Bolano's "2666" is a st= atement of the capacity of cruelty that resides in the darkest heart of hum= anity. The novel is really five novellas, thematically tied together, and c= entered around the fictional town of Santa Teresa (Cuidad Juarez in our wor= ld) where hundreds of young women are being raped and murdered. The plot of= the novel takes a back seat to the real driving force which is the nightma= re landscape of Santa Teresa. There is some great yarn spinning as Bolano i= s a gifted storyteller, but "2666" lacks any overall narrative with a tradi= tional beginning, middle, and end. In this way the novel resembles "Infinit= e Jest", as there are multiple characters who interact peripherally and who= se meaningful, and potentially fatal, interaction takes place outside of th= e text as the reader must project more narrative into the end of the novel. Each character is moving closer and closer to what David Foster Wallace cal= ls "the default setting" of which there is a "constant gnawing sense of hav= ing had, and lost, some infinite thing." This is the ultimate reason for "2= 666" as Bolano was racing against his own death to make a final statement a= bout the world in which we live. When we look back in the year 2666 we will= see these horrific acts - the Holocaust, the murders in Cuidad Juarez - no= t as singular acts of unfamiliar human conduct, but as two examples of the = all to familiar trait of human cruelty. And just as today no one remembers = 13th century atrocities, in 2666 all the pain, suffering, and questioning o= f our characters will be dim reflections of the invincible living. Inherent Vice Pynchon's first stab at "genre" fiction is a rowdy, rollicking romp through= the classic detective noir genre. While it's certainly missing a lot of Py= nchon's trademark existentialist mischief, Pynchon proves he's adept at wri= ting a pretty good detective novel; Pynchon does a terrific job of mimickin= g novelists like Raymond Chandler and Dashiell Hammett, and "Inherent Vice"= captures the pace, twists and turns of a work like "The Big Sleep." Superfreakonomics Whether you read the first installment of "Freakonomics" or not, grab this = book and read with an open mind. Levitt and Dubner attempt to use principle= s of economics (i.e. statistical analysis) to uncover the hidden side of cu= rrent and historical events. Although they are practicing economists, they = see the fallacy of the premise behind modern economic theory In this book, the authors cover economic benefits of prostitution, the irre= levancy of global warming, the near impossible hunt for global terrorists a= nd the next to impossible means to measure who is a good doctor and who is = not. The Brain That Changes Itself Doidge takes the reader on a tour of the latest happenings in the world of = brain research and therapies resulting from it. "The Brain That Changes Its= elf" is a great overview of current neuroscience and an impassioned plea fo= r humans to use the brain's plasticity so that all of us can be successful = learners - and unlearners. New advances in technology over the past few decades have given us a way of= mapping living brains, and have shown us the brain has ways of reshaping i= tself to overcome damage and dysfunction. The brain is, indeed, plastic, an= d far more adaptable than the current belief in localization allows. The Pleasures And Sorrows Of Work Swiss-born, UK-based writer Alain de Botton is the son of the late financia= l pioneer Gilbert de Botton, who left his family a trust fund of more than = =A3200 million. However, it has been reported that de Botton leaves this va= st fortune untapped and lives off only what he earns from writing. It is thus both ironic and suitable that the title of his latest book is "T= he Pleasures And Sorrows Of Work": Only one who does not have to work for a= living would have the luxury to ponder how and why people spend their live= s doing so. Through his keen observation and lyricism de Botton can make a quotidian oc= currence appear noble and even awe-inspiring. He examines the staggering ac= cumulation of effort put in to cater to our various needs - a web of activi= ty which, in today's globalised world, can seem remote, literally unimagina= ble. In a bid to expose some of these processes he has traversed the globe, toge= ther with photographer Richard Baker. A particularly eye-opening photo essa= y sees them follow a tuna fish (or at least, a haul of tuna), from its bloo= dy killing in the hands of a Maldivian fisherman all the way to a Bristol, = England dining table, where a precocious eight-year-old muses how the fishe= s' ghosts will "one day gather together to exact terrible revenge on humani= ty for shortening their lives and transporting their corpses around the ear= th for supper." ------=_NextPart_001_7123_71215753.37295198 Content-Type: text/html; charset="utf-8http-equivContent-Type" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable

Dear readers,

 

First and foremost we write to thank you for your continuing support and = to wish you a healthy, happy and prosperous new year.

 

2009 has seen considerable change at Anagram, with the arrival of a few n= ew faces and a whole new look. Christmas elves have been hard at work on ou= r redesigned children's corner, we have added a new releases section and ou= r staff recommendations shelf returns by popular demand.

 

As per Anagram tradition we will be open every day over the holidays, inc= luding Christmas day! So we warmly invite you to brave the cold and stop by= , say hello and have a look around.

 

We include below some information on just a few of the many great titles = we have in stock, but if nothing catches your eye we are confident we have = something for everyone. As always, we take great pleasure in helping you fi= nd that perfect book.

 

All our best,

 

Pavel, David, Denis, Bara and Alastair

 

 

 

 

 

 

Wolf Hall (2009 Booker Prize winner)

 


 

 

2666

 

Written under the specter of his own death, Roberto Bolano's "2666" is a = statement of the capacity of cruelty that resides in the darkest heart of h= umanity. The novel is really five novellas, thematically tied together, and= centered around the fictional town of Santa Teresa (Cuidad Juarez in our w= orld) where hundreds of young women are being raped and murdered. The plot = of the novel takes a back seat to the real driving force which is the night= mare landscape of Santa Teresa. There is some great yarn spinning as Bolano= is a gifted storyteller, but "2666" lacks any overall narrative with a tra= ditional beginning, middle, and end. In this way the novel resembles "Infin= ite Jest", as there are multiple characters who interact peripherally and w= hose meaningful, and potentially fatal, interaction takes place outside of = the text as the reader must project more narrative into the end of the nove= l.

 


 


 

Pynchon's first stab at "genre" fiction is a rowdy, rollicking romp throu= gh the classic detective noir genre. While it's certainly missing a lot of = Pynchon's trademark existentialist mischief, Pynchon proves he's adept at w= riting a pretty good detective novel; Pynchon does a terrific job of mimick= ing novelists like Raymond Chandler and Dashiell Hammett, and "Inherent Vic= e" captures the pace, twists and turns of a work like "The Big Sleep."=

 


 

Whether you read the first installment of "Freakonomics" or not, grab thi= s book and read with an open mind. Levitt and Dubner attempt to use princip= les of economics (i.e. statistical analysis) to uncover the hidden side of = current and historical events. Although they are practicing economists, the= y see the fallacy of the premise behind modern economic theory<= /P>

 

In this book, the authors cover economic benefits of prostitution, the ir= relevancy of global warming, the near impossible hunt for global terrorists= and the next to impossible means to measure who is a good doctor and who i= s not.

 


 


 

New advances in technology over the past few decades have given us a way = of mapping living brains, and have shown us the brain has ways of reshaping= itself to overcome damage and dysfunction. The brain is, indeed, plastic, = and far more adaptable than the current belief in localization allows.=

 

 

The Pleasures And Sorrows Of Work

 

Swiss-born, UK-based writer Alain de Botton is the son of the late financ= ial pioneer Gilbert de Botton, who left his family a trust fund of more tha= n =C2=A3200 million. However, it has been reported that de Botton leaves th= is vast fortune untapped and lives off only what he earns from writing.

 

It is thus both ironic and suitable that the title of his latest book is = "The Pleasures And Sorrows Of Work": Only one who does not have to work for= a living would have the luxury to ponder how and why people spend their li= ves doing so.


 

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