Books with author Charlotte Mandell

Michelangelo’s adventure in Constantinople, from the “mesmerizing” (New Yorker) and “masterful” (Washington Post) author of CompassIn 1506, Michelangelo―a young but already renowned sculptor―is invited by the sultan of Constantinople to design a bridge over the Golden Horn. The sultan has offered, along with an enormous payment, the promise of immortality, since Leonardo da Vinci’s design was rejected: “You will surpass him in glory if you accept, for you will succeed where he has failed, and you will give the world a monument without equal.” Michelangelo, after some hesitation, flees Rome and an irritated Pope Julius II―whose commission he leaves unfinished―and arrives in Constantinople for this truly epic project. Once there, he explores the beauty and wonder of the Ottoman Empire, sketching and describing his impressions along the way, as he struggles to create what could be his greatest architectural masterwork.Tell Them of Battles, Kings, and Elephants―constructed from real historical fragments―is a thrilling page-turner about why stories are told, why bridges are built, and how seemingly unmatched fragments, seen from the opposite sides of civilization, can mirror one another.

✔ Are you tired of failure and feeling blocked?✔ Are you struggling to find inspiration and new ideas?✔ Are you looking for ways to better strategize, plan and negotiate for your business?✔ Suffering from writer's block?Discover the resource that’s better than therapy....“F@%k I wouldn’t have lost the sale to Rich if I planned better for the strategy meeting”“Ah. I want to write a book, but I don’t know where to start… I’ll start thinking about it next month..”“The cake arrived on THE WRONG DAY. I SUCK at planning events!”“I can barely pay attention in Physics class, how am I supposed to pass the exam?”The conversations we say to ourselves all start the same:“I wish I did this..” or “I should have done that…” or the “If only I knew…”We talk about self-improvement and making changes as if they were unattainable. The reality is, those are just excuses. It IS possible, you just haven’t been exposed to the right tools and knowledge.When you were younger and you wanted to walk or write, you didn’t give up every time you failed. You tried and tried until you achieved success. A child is always determined to succeed. What would have happened if you had given up? So, why do we give up so easily now? As human beings, we don’t like failure or change, but only those that do can transform from a caterpillar into a butterfly. We’ve heard the likes of Jim Carey, Arnold Schwarzenegger, and Oprah Winfrey who all use visualization as a technique to achieve their goals. But today, we are going to take it a step further. With mind mapping, this radical form of visual planning will help you go beyond what you’ve ever imagined. It’s time to hack your way to success with mind maps.This technique has been around for centuries, but it’s only being revealed to the mass markets now. Be one of the first to leverage its power for yourself! Designed to be original, innovative, and free-thinking, this technique can be used to improve any situation. Using step-by-step instructions and templates for you to follow along, Mind Mapping to Success provides the following solutions: Unlock the secrets of the brain, and the #1 thing you can leverage to break through those barriers. The science behind mind maps and why it outperforms traditional methods. The 3 tools you need to create a mind map (And they are free!) How to come up with ideas, even when you have none. What to do when you have writer’s block, and how to prevent it. How to pass exams, listen better, and optimize your performance. How to diagnose problems, before it ruins your business. How to mitigate risk, even when you can’t see it. 11 steps to improve your memory - Finally, remember your client’s names, and where those damn keys are! and over 30 more use-cases for daily life, study, and business!You need to ask yourself, are you ready for the next level? Not only does THIS book tell you how you can change the world, but it encourages you to conquer your mind and take actionable steps by applying these techniques to your life. From your personal life to education and work, you will see improvements in your memory, concentration, creativity, problem-solving, and more- using ONLY the power of the mind. Anyone can do it, it’s that simple! Even if you’ve never used mind maps before, you aren’t creative or artistic, or they’ve failed in the past, that doesn’t mean that they won’t work for you now. Good news. We’re not going to leave you high and dry as we will talk you through the whole of the process. If you’re ready to unlock the secrets to your success, click “Add to Cart” right now.

Winner of the 2015 Prix Goncourt, an astounding novel that bridges Europe and the Islamic worldWinner of the Prix Goncourt (France), the Leipzig Prize (Germany), Premio Von Rezzori (Italy), shortlisted for the 2017 International Man Booker Prize, shortlisted for the Dublin Literary AwardAs night falls over Vienna, Franz Ritter, an insomniac musicologist, takes to his sickbed with an unspecified illness and spends a restless night drifting between dreams and memories, revisiting the important chapters of his life: his ongoing fascination with the Middle East and his numerous travels to Istanbul, Aleppo, Damascus, and Tehran, as well as the various writers, artists, musicians, academics, orientalists, and explorers who populate this vast dreamscape. At the center of these memories is his elusive, unrequited love, Sarah, a fiercely intelligent French scholar caught in the intricate tension between Europe and the Middle East.With exhilarating prose and sweeping erudition, Mathias Énard pulls astonishing elements from disparate sources―nineteenth-century composers and esoteric orientalists, Balzac and Agatha Christie―and binds them together in a most magical way.

✔ Are you tired of failure and feeling blocked?✔ Are you struggling to find inspiration and new ideas?✔ Are you looking for ways to better strategize, plan and negotiate for your business?✔ Suffering from writer's block?Discover the resource that’s better than therapy....“F@%k I wouldn’t have lost the sale to Rich if I planned better for the strategy meeting”“Ah. I want to write a book, but I don’t know where to start… I’ll start thinking about it next month..”“The cake arrived on THE WRONG DAY. I SUCK at planning events!”“I can barely pay attention in Physics class, how am I supposed to pass the exam?”The conversations we say to ourselves all start the same:“I wish I did this..” or “I should have done that…” or the “If only I knew…”We talk about self-improvement and making changes as if they were unattainable. The reality is, those are just excuses. It IS possible, you just haven’t been exposed to the right tools and knowledge.When you were younger and you wanted to walk or write, you didn’t give up every time you failed. You tried and tried until you achieved success. A child is always determined to succeed. What would have happened if you had given up? So, why do we give up so easily now? As human beings, we don’t like failure or change, but only those that do can transform from a caterpillar into a butterfly. We’ve heard the likes of Jim Carey, Arnold Schwarzenegger, and Oprah Winfrey who all use visualization as a technique to achieve their goals. But today, we are going to take it a step further. With mind mapping, this radical form of visual planning will help you go beyond what you’ve ever imagined. It’s time to hack your way to success with mind maps.This technique has been around for centuries, but it’s only being revealed to the mass markets now. Be one of the first to leverage its power for yourself! Designed to be original, innovative, and free-thinking, this technique can be used to improve any situation. Using step-by-step instructions and templates for you to follow along, Mind Mapping to Success provides the following solutions: Unlock the secrets of the brain, and the #1 thing you can leverage to break through those barriers. The science behind mind maps and why it outperforms traditional methods. The 3 tools you need to create a mind map (And they are free!) How to come up with ideas, even when you have none. What to do when you have writer’s block, and how to prevent it. How to pass exams, listen better, and optimize your performance. How to diagnose problems, before it ruins your business. How to mitigate risk, even when you can’t see it. 11 steps to improve your memory - Finally, remember your client’s names, and where those damn keys are! and over 30 more use-cases for daily life, study, and business!You need to ask yourself, are you ready for the next level? Not only does THIS book tell you how you can change the world, but it encourages you to conquer your mind and take actionable steps by applying these techniques to your life. From your personal life to education and work, you will see improvements in your memory, concentration, creativity, problem-solving, and more- using ONLY the power of the mind. Anyone can do it, it’s that simple! Even if you’ve never used mind maps before, you aren’t creative or artistic, or they’ve failed in the past, that doesn’t mean that they won’t work for you now. Good news. We’re not going to leave you high and dry as we will talk you through the whole of the process. If you’re ready to unlock the secrets to your success, click “Add to Cart” right now.

Winner of the 2015 Prix Goncourt, an astounding novel that bridges Europe and the Islamic worldWinner of the Prix Goncourt (France), the Leipzig Prize (Germany), Premio Von Rezzori (Italy), shortlisted for the 2017 International Man Booker Prize, shortlisted for the Dublin Literary AwardAs night falls over Vienna, Franz Ritter, an insomniac musicologist, takes to his sickbed with an unspecified illness and spends a restless night drifting between dreams and memories, revisiting the important chapters of his life: his ongoing fascination with the Middle East and his numerous travels to Istanbul, Aleppo, Damascus, and Tehran, as well as the various writers, artists, musicians, academics, orientalists, and explorers who populate this vast dreamscape. At the center of these memories is his elusive, unrequited love, Sarah, a fiercely intelligent French scholar caught in the intricate tension between Europe and the Middle East.With exhilarating prose and sweeping erudition, Mathias Énard pulls astonishing elements from disparate sources—nineteenth-century composers and esoteric orientalists, Balzac and Agatha Christie—and binds them together in a most magical way.

Financial Times Book of the YearAn adventure of Michelangelo in Constantinople from the “mesmerizing” (New Yorker) and “masterful” (Washington Post) author of CompassIn 1506, Michelangelo―a young but already renowned sculptor―is invited by the Sultan of Constantinople to design a bridge over the Golden Horn. The sultan has offered, alongside an enormous payment, the promise of immortality, since Leonardo da Vinci’s design had been rejected: “You will surpass him in glory if you accept, for you will succeed where he has failed, and you will give the world a monument without equal.”Michelangelo, after some hesitation, flees Rome and an irritated Pope Julius II―whose commission he leaves unfinished―and arrives in Constantinople for this truly epic project. Once there, he explores the beauty and wonder of the Ottoman Empire, sketching and describing his impressions along the way, and becomes immersed in cloak-and-dagger palace intrigues as he struggles to create what could be his greatest architectural masterwork.Tell Them of Battles, Kings, and Elephants―constructed from real historical fragments―is a story about why stories are told, why bridges are built, and how seemingly unmatched pieces, seen from the opposite sides of civilization, can mirror one another.

Winner of the 2015 Prix Goncourt, an astounding novel that bridges Europe and the Islamic worldWinner of the Prix Goncourt (France), the Leipzig Prize (Germany), Premio Von Rezzori (Italy), shortlisted for the 2017 International Man Booker Prize, shortlisted for the Dublin Literary AwardAs night falls over Vienna, Franz Ritter, an insomniac musicologist, takes to his sickbed with an unspecified illness and spends a restless night drifting between dreams and memories, revisiting the important chapters of his life: his ongoing fascination with the Middle East and his numerous travels to Istanbul, Aleppo, Damascus, and Tehran, as well as the various writers, artists, musicians, academics, orientalists, and explorers who populate this vast dreamscape. At the center of these memories is his elusive, unrequited love, Sarah, a fiercely intelligent French scholar caught in the intricate tension between Europe and the Middle East.With exhilarating prose and sweeping erudition, Mathias Énard pulls astonishing elements from disparate sources―nineteenth-century composers and esoteric orientalists, Balzac and Agatha Christie―and binds them together in a most magical way.

"A tremendous accomplishment. . . . Énard's Zone is, in short, one of the best books of the year"—Daily BeastExiled from his family for religious transgressions related to his feelings for his cousin, Lakhdar finds himself on the streets of Barcelona hiding from both the police and the Muslim Group for the Propagation of Koranic Thoughts, a group he worked for in Tangier not long after being thrown out on the streets by his father.Lakhdar's transformations—from a boy into a man, from a devout Muslim into a sinner—take place against some of the most important events of the past few years: the violence and exciting eruption of the Arab Spring and the devastating collapse of Europe's economy.If all of that isn't enough, Lakhdar reunites with a childhood friend—one who is planning an assassination, a murder Lakhdar opposes. A finalist for the prestigious Prix Goncourt, Street of Thieves solidifies Énard's place as one of France's most ambitious and keyed-in contemporary novelists. This book may even suprpass Énard's earlier work, Zone, which Christophe Claro boldly declared to be "the novel of the decade, if not of the century."Mathias Énard studied Persian and Arabic and spent long periods in the Middle East. A professor of Arabic at the University of Barcelona, he won the Prix des Cinq Continents de la Francophonie and the Prix Edmée de la Rochefoucauld for his first novel, La perfection du tir. He has been awarded many prizes for Zone, including the Prix du Livre Inter and the Prix Décembre.Charlotte Mandell has translated works from a number of important French authors, including Proust, Flaubert, Genet, Maupassant, and Blanchot, among others. She received a Literary Translation Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts for her translation of Énard's Zone along with a French Voices grant.

"A tremendous accomplishment. . . . Énard's Zone is, in short, one of the best books of the year"—Daily BeastExiled from his family for religious transgressions related to his feelings for his cousin, Lakhdar finds himself on the streets of Barcelona hiding from both the police and the Muslim Group for the Propagation of Koranic Thoughts, a group he worked for in Tangier not long after being thrown out on the streets by his father.Lakhdar's transformations—from a boy into a man, from a devout Muslim into a sinner—take place against some of the most important events of the past few years: the violence and exciting eruption of the Arab Spring and the devastating collapse of Europe's economy.If all of that isn't enough, Lakhdar reunites with a childhood friend—one who is planning an assassination, a murder Lakhdar opposes. A finalist for the prestigious Prix Goncourt, Street of Thieves solidifies Énard's place as one of France's most ambitious and keyed-in contemporary novelists. This book may even suprpass Énard's earlier work, Zone, which Christophe Claro boldly declared to be "the novel of the decade, if not of the century."Mathias Énard studied Persian and Arabic and spent long periods in the Middle East. A professor of Arabic at the University of Barcelona, he won the Prix des Cinq Continents de la Francophonie and the Prix Edmée de la Rochefoucauld for his first novel, La perfection du tir. He has been awarded many prizes for Zone, including the Prix du Livre Inter and the Prix Décembre.Charlotte Mandell has translated works from a number of important French authors, including Proust, Flaubert, Genet, Maupassant, and Blanchot, among others. She received a Literary Translation Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts for her translation of Énard's Zone along with a French Voices grant.

In 1506, Michelangelo – a young but already renowned sculptor – is invited by the sultan of Constantinople to design a bridge over the Golden Horn. The sultan has offered, alongside an enormous payment, the promise of immortality, since Leonardo da Vinci’s design was rejected: ‘You will surpass him in glory if you accept, for you will succeed where he has failed, and you will give the world a monument without equal.’ Michelangelo, after some hesitation, flees Rome and an irritated Pope Julius II – whose commission he leaves unfinished – and arrives in Constantinople for this truly epic project. Once there, he explores the beauty and wonder of the Ottoman Empire, sketching and describing his impressions along the way, and becomes immersed in cloak-and-dagger palace intrigues as he struggles to create what could be his greatest architectural master-work. Constructed from real historical fragments, Tell Them of Battles, Kings, and Elephants is a thrilling novella about why stories are told, why bridges are built, and how seemingly unmatched pieces, seen from the opposite sides of civilization, can mirror one another. ‘In his fiction, Enard is constructing an intricate, history-rich vision of a persistently misunderstood part of the world.’ Jacob Silverman, New Yorker

As an infant, Daphne was abandoned on the doorstep of an all-girls school. Now, at thirteen, she longs to discover the truth about her past and to fulfill her lifelong dream of becoming a prima ballerina. When a book containing a tantalizing riddle and a magical pair of stockings arrive, her dreams of glory and fame are suddenly within her grasp. Daphne is poised to win an audition for the Ballet Splendide in Paris. But will the magic be enough to help her overcome her childhood demons of loneliness and insecurity? This irresistible story is brought to life with black-and-white interior illustrations and a beautiful jacket enhanced with foil.