Last year, awareness about global warming reached a tippingpoint. Now one of the most dynamic writers and one of the mostrespected scientists in the field of climate change offer the firstconcise guide to both the problems and the solutions. Guiding uspast a blizzard of information and misinformation, Gabrielle Walkerand Sir David King explain the science of warming, the mostcutting-edge technological solutions from small to large, and thenational and international politics that will affect our efforts.While there have been many other books about the problem of globalwarming, none has addressed what we can and should do about it soclearly and persuasively, with no spin, no agenda, and noexaggeration. Neither Walker nor King is an activist or politician,and theirs is not a generic green call to arms. Instead theypropose specific ideas to fix a very specific problem. Mostimportant, they offer hope: This is a serious issue, perhaps themost serious that humanity has ever faced. But we can still dosomething about

From England to Ireland to America, an explosive wave of violence sweeps CIA analyst Jack Ryan and his family into the deadliest game of our time: international terrorism. An ultra-left-wing faction of the IRA has targeted Ryan for his act of salvation in an assassination attempt. Now Ryan must pay--with his life. HC: G.P. Putnam.

Introduction and Notes by Keith Wren, University of Kent at Canterbury A historical romance, The Three Musketeers tells the story of the early adventures of the young Gascon gentleman, D'Artagnan and his three friends from the regiment of the King's Musketeers - Athos, Porthos and Aramis. Under the watchful eye of their patron M. de Treville, the four defend the honour of the regiment against the guards of Cardinal Richelieu, and the honour of the queen against the machinations of the Cardinal himself as the power struggles of seventeenth century France are vividly played out in the background. But their most dangerous encounter is with the Cardinal's spy, Milady, one of literature's most memorable female villains, and Dumas employs all his fast-paced narrative skills to bring this enthralling novel to a breathtakingly gripping and dramatic conclusion

A man named Mohammed sits in a café in Vienna, about to propose a deal to a Colombian. Mohammed has a strong network of agents and sympathizers throughout Europe and the Middle East, and the Colombian has an equally strong drug network throughout America. What if they were to form an alliance, to combine all their assets and connections? The potential for profits would be enormous--and the potential for destruction unimaginable. In a nonde* office building in suburban Maryland, the firm Hendley Associates does a profitable business in stocks, bonds, and international currencies, but its true mission is quite different: to identify and locate terrorist threats, and then deal with them, in whatever manner necessary. Established with the knowledge of President John Patrick Ryan, “the Campus” is always on the lookout for promising new talent, its recruiters scattered throughout the armed forces and government agencies--and three men are about to cross its radar. The first is Dominic Caruso, a rookie FBI ag

Anecdotal, funny, frank, POPism is Warhols personal view of thePop phenomenon in New York in the 1960s and a look back at therelationships that made up the scene at the Factory, including hisrelationship with Edie Sedgewick, focus of the upcoming filmFactory Girl. In the detached, back-fence gossip style he wasfamous for, Warhol tells allthe ultimate inside story of a decadeof cultural revolution.

Dickens had already achieved renown with The Pickwick Papers. With Oliver Twist his reputation was enhanced and strengthened. The novel contains many classic Dickensian themes - grinding poverty, desperation, fear, temptation and the eventual triumph of good in the face of great adversity. Oliver Twist features some of the author's most enduring characters, such as Oliver himself (who dares to ask for more), the tyrannical Bumble, the diabolical Fagin, the menacing Bill Sykes, Nancy and 'the Artful Dodger'. For any reader wishing to delve into the works of the great Victorian literary colossus, Oliver Twist is, without doubt, an essential title.

With an Introduction and Notes by Lionel Kelly, University of Reading The Call of the Wild (1903) and White Fang (1906) are world famous animal stories. Set in Alaska during the Klondike Gold Rush of the late 1890s, The Call of the Wild is about Buck, the magnificent cross-bred offspring of a St Bernard and a Scottish Collie. Stolen from his pampered life on a Californian estate and shipped to the Klondike to work as a sledge dog, he triumphs over his circumstances and becomes the leader of a wolf pack. The story records the decivilisation of Buck as he answers the call of the wild , an inherent memory of primeval origins to which he instinctively responds. In contrast, White Fang relates the tale of a wolf born and bred in the wild which is civilised by the master he comes to trust and love. The brutal world of the Klondike miners and their dogs is brilliantly evoked and Jack London s rendering of the sentient life of Buck and White Fang as they confront their destiny is enthralling and convincing. The deepe

It's been less than a year since beautiful heiress Rosemary Barton took her own life during a birthday dinner in her honor. Her husband George never believed that his fun-loving wife would commit suicide--especially now that he's received two anonymous letters that suggest cold-blooded murder. One implicates even George himself. It's true he long suffered Rosemary's infidelities. But what about her embittered sister who was left out of the family will? Or any of Rosemary's secret lovers, not to mention their betrayed wives? Now one of them has ever forgotten Rosemary. Nor has any one of them ever forgiven her. But only one of them killed her...

Joyeux drille, amateur d'eau-de-vie et de bonne chère, lecabaretier Toine est cloué au lit par une attaque de paralysie. Safemme, qui ne supporte pas son inactivité, l'oblige à couver des?ufs ! Pour avoir cédé une fois aux appétits de la chair, Rose, unefille de ferme besogneuse, para?t condamnée jusqu'à la fin de sesjours à porter sa maternité comme un fardeau. Le père Amable, lui,a épargné toute sa vie. Aussi, foi d'honnête homme, son fils nedilapidera pas ses économies en épousant une fille déjà mère !Maupassant nous livre six contes et nouvelles de Normandie, tour àtour dr?les, émouvants et cruels.

A classic work that has charmed generations of readers, thiscollection assembles Carson McCullers's best stories, including herbeloved novella "The Ballad of the Sad Cafe." A haunting tale of ahuman triangle that culminates in an astonishing brawl, the novellaintroduces readers to Miss Amelia, a formidable southern womanwhose cafe serves as the town's gathering place. Among other fineworks, the collection also includes "Wunderkind," McCullers's firstpublished story written when she was only seventeen about a musicalprodigy who suddenly realizes she will not go on to become a greatpianist. Newly reset and available for the first time in a handsometrade paperback edition, The Ballad of the Sad Cafe is a brilliantstudy of love and longing from one of the South's finestwriters.

Following her most successful book to date, Kathy Reichs -- international number one bestselling author, forensic anthropologist, and producer of the Fox television hit "Bones" -- returns to Charlotte, North Carolina, where Temperance Brennan encounters a deadly mix of voodoo, Santeria, and devil worship in her quest to identify two young victims.In a house under renovation, a plumber uncovers a cellar no one knew about, and makes a rather grisly discovery -- a decapitated chicken, animal bones, and cauldrons containing beads, feathers, and other relics of religious ceremonies. In the center of the shrine, there is the skull of a teenage girl. Meanwhile, on a nearby lakeshore, the headless body of a teenage boy is found by a man walking his dog.Nothing is clear -- neither when the deaths occurred, nor where. Was the skull brought to the cellar or was the girl murdered there? Why is the boy's body remarkably well preserved? Led by a preacher turned politician, citizen vigilantes blame devil worshippers and Wic

A magnificent volume of short novels and an essential WorldWar II report from one of America's great twentieth-centurywriters On the heels of the enormous success of his masterwork The Grapesof Wrath-and at the height of the American war effort-JohnSteinbeck, one of the most prolific and influential literaryfigures of his generation, wrote Bombs Away, a nonfiction accountof his experiences with U.S. Army Air Force bomber crews duringWorld War II. Now, for the first time since its originalpublication in 1942, Penguin Classics presents this exclusiveedition of Steinbeck's introduction to the then-nascent U.S. ArmyAir Force and its bomber crew-the essential core unit behindAmerican air power that Steinbeck described as "the greatest teamin the world."

Dickens wrote of David Copperfield: 'Of all my books I like this the best'。 Millions of readers in almost every language on earth have subsequently come to share the author's own enthusiasm for this greatly loved classic，possibly because of its autobiographical form。 Following the life of David through many sufferings and great adversity，the reader will also find many light-hearted moments in the company of a host of English fiction’s greatest stars including Mr Micawber，Traddles，Uriah Heep，Creakle，Betsy Trotwood，and the Peggoty family。 Few readers,arriving at the end of David Copprfidld,will not wish to echo Thackeray’s famous praise,having read the first monthly part-‘Bravo Dickens’。

Now a major motion picture starring Tom Hanks, Halle Berry,Susan Sarandon, and Hugh Grant, and directed by Lana and AndyWachowski and Tom Tykwer Includes a new Afterword by David Mitchell A postmodern visionary who is also a master of styles and genres,David Mitchell combines flat-out adventure, a Nabokovian love ofpuzzles, a keen eye for character, and a taste for mind-bendingphilosophical and scientific speculation in the tradition of HarukiMurakami, Umberto Eco, and Philip K. Dick. The result isbrilliantly original fiction that reveals how disparate peopleconnect, how their fates intertwine, and how their souls driftacross time like clouds across the sky. By the author of THE THOUSAND AUTUMNS OF JACOB DE ZOET, DavidMitchell's bestselling and Booker Prize-shortlisted novel, one ofRichard Judy's 100 Books of the Decade, CLOUD ATLAS has nowbeen adapted for film. The major motion picture, directed by theWachowskis and Tom Tykwer, stars Tom Hanks, Halle Berry, SusanSarandon, Jim Sturg

The text of this edition is based on the Wessex Edition of 1912, which was revised and corrected by the author. It has been collated with the Mellstock Edition of 1920, for which Hardy submitted final corrections. "Backgrounds and Contexts" provides new and invaluable source material on Victorian Dorset and, in particular, Dorchester, Hardy’s native home and the town upon which Casterbridge is based. Included are six of Hardy’s nonfiction writings, notably excerpts from his essay "The Dorsetshire Laboure" (1883), in which he frankly comments on the social changes he has witnessed in the county. Hardy’s Wessex is further examined in an essay by Michael Millgate, by maps of Casterbridge and Wessex, and by a key to local place names. Christine Winfield discusses the novel’s manu* and its complicated history. "Criticism" collects seventeen wide-ranging assessments of the novel-six new to the Second Edition-from both contemporary and modern critics, including Virginia Woolf, Albert J. Guerard,

Beautiful Chiara is smitten by the brilliant but pennilessdoctor Salvatore. Desiring the unwilling Salvatore as a futurehusband, she engages in a series of comic attempts to land herobject of affection, only to create a greater chasm between thestar-crossed would-be lovers.

ENDURING LITERATURE ILLUMINATED BY PRACTICAL SCHOLARSHIP. A timeless, terrifying tale of one man's obsession to create life -- and the monster that became his legacy. EACH ENRICHED CLASSIC EDITION INCLUDES: A concise introduction that gives readers important background information； A chronology of the author's life and work； A timeline of significant events that provides the book's historical context； An outline of key themes and plot points to help readers form their own interpretations； Detailed explanatory notes； Critical analysis, including contemporary and modern perspectives on the work； Discussion questions to promote lively classroom and book group interaction； A list of recommended related books and films to broaden the reader's experience. Enriched Classics offer readers affordable editions of great works of literature enhanced by helpful notes and insightful commentary. The scholarship provided in Enriched Classics

Oscar is a sweet but fat sci-fi obsessed introvert who -- from the New Jersey home he shares with his old world mother and rebellious sister -- dreams of becoming the Dominican J.R.R. Tolkien and, most of all, of finding love. But Oscar may never get what he wants. Blame the fuku -- a curse that has haunted Oscar's family for generations, following them on their epic journey from New Jersey to Washington Heights and back to Santo Domingo. Encapsulating Dominican American history, Oscar's story open our eyes to an astonishing vision of the contemporary American experience and explores the endless human capacity to persevere -- and risk it all -- in the name of love. Pulitzer Prize winning novel

二十一岁的巴特与十八岁的新兵莫菲，於美国出兵伊拉克前夕于军中相识，两人一见如故，巴特答应莫菲母亲，会平安带著她儿子归来，但二○○五年，只剩巴特独自一人退伍返国。莫菲在伊拉克战场上因饱受死亡威胁，精神崩溃逃出军营，巴特与士官长施大林发现他时，莫菲已遭不明人士虐杀，全身赤裸，不仅眼睛被挖出，耳朵、鼻子被割掉，生殖器也几乎被切断，两人在怕事的心态下将莫菲丢入河中佯装失踪，巴特事后假扮莫菲写了封信给莫菲之母。然而等到巴特退伍回国后，莫菲的尸体浮现在底格里斯河与幼发拉底河的汇流处…… A novel written by a veteran of the war in Iraq, The YellowBirds is the harrowing story of two young soldiers trying to stayalive. "The war tried to kill us in the spring." So begins thispowerful account of friendship and loss. In Al Tafar, Iraq,twenty-one-year old Private Bartle and eighte

Exiled by superstition and betrayal from Lantern Yard, and cut off from faith and human love, for fifteen years the solitary simple-hearted weaver Silas Marner has plied his loom in Raveloe and devoted himself to the amassing of a hoard of golden guineas. Silas's chance of redemption, when it appears one New Year's Eve, is intimately connected with the fate of Godfrey Cass, son of the village Squire. Clandestinely married, then blackmailed by his dissolute brother Dunstan, Godfrey like Silas has been trapped by his past, from which he is seeking to escape. Humorous, richly symbolic, subtly characterized and meticulously plotted, George Eliot's 'sudden inspiration' in this slim novel of rural England cut across her plans for Romola, her vast Italian Renaissance epic.

The gripping international bestseller about motherhood goneawry Eva never really wanted to be a mother—and certainly not themother of the unlovable boy who murdered seven of his fellow highschool students, a cafeteria worker, and a much-adored teacher whotried to befriend him, all two days before his sixteenth birthday.Now, two years later, it is time for her to come to terms withmarriage, career, family, parenthood, and Kevin's horrific rampagein a series of startlingly direct correspondences with herestranged husband, Franklyn. Uneasy with the sacrifices and socialdemotion of motherhood from the start, Eva fears that her alarmingdislike for her own son may be responsible for driving him sonihilistically off the rails.

He's copying famous serial killers and the game has just begun.Awoman is found murdered in the woods. It seems like a simple casebut it soon escalates into a terrible nightmare. Someone isreplicating the killing styles of the most infamous murderers ofall time. No one knows this criminal's motives...or who will dienext.Two ex-Secret Service agents, Sean King and Michelle Maxwell,have been hired to defend a man's innocence in a burglary involvingan aristocratic, dysfunctional family. Then a series of secretsleads the partners right into the frantic hunt that is confoundingeven the FBI. Now King and Maxwell are playing the Hour Game,uncovering one horrifying revelation after another and puttingtheir lives in danger. For the closer they get to the truth, thecloser they get to the most shocking surprise of all.

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