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Nacky and Teedie looked slowly out over the water and what they saw stopped their breath.Wherever they cast their eyes, the surface of the tiny Vole lake was covered with drifting timbers-the shattered remains of a great sailing ship. Such wreckage floating on the ocean would have been a fearsome enough sight. But the same remains,dropped into the little puddle of a mountain lake, were that much more terrifying-if only because whatever violence demol-ished the huge boat likely still lurked. What was dismantled,however, could also be rebuilt. "I think we been given an ocean ship," Nacky whispered hoarsely to Teedie. The question was:What would they do with it? 作者简介： JEFFREY KLUGER discovered a love of writing in the sixth grade and has been crafting stories ever since. Now a senior writer for Time magazine, Mr. Kluger is perhaps best known for coauthoring the book-turned-Oscar-winning-film Apollo 13.He is also the author of Journey Beyond Selene and Splendid Solution: Jonas Salk and the Conquest of
We treat disease as our enemy. Germs and infections are thingswe battle. But what if we’ve been giving them a bum rap? From the earliest days of life on earth, disease has evolvedalongside us. And its presence isn't just natural but is alsoessential to our health. Drawing on the latest research, Zukanswers a fascinating range of questions about disease: Why do mendie younger than women? Why are we attracted to our mates? Why doesthe average male bird not have a penis? Why do we--as well asinsects, birds, pigs, cows, goats, and even plants--get STDs? Whydo we have sex at all, rather than simply splitting off copies ofourselves like certain geckos? And how is our obsession withcleanliness making us sicker? In this witty, engaging book, evolutionary biologist Zuk makes usrethink our instincts as she argues that disease is our partner,not our foe. Reconsider the fearsome parasite!
**DEBUT FICTION** Mary Todd Lincoln is one of history's mostmisunderstood and enigmatic women. The first president's wife to becalled First Lady, she was a political strategist, a supporter ofemancipation, and a mother who survived the loss of three childrenand the assassination of her beloved husband. Yet she also ran herfamily into debt, held seances in the White House, and wascommitted to an insane asylum. In Janis Cooke Newman's debut novel,Mary Todd Lincoln shares the story of her life in her own words.Writing from Bellevue Place asylum, she takes readers from hertempestuous childhood in a slaveholding Southern family through theyears after her husband's death. A dramatic tale filled withpassion and depression, poverty and ridicule, infidelity andredemption, Mary allows us entry into the inner, intimate world ofthis brave and fascinating woman.
Jane Austen's debut in our award-winning graphic-coverseries. Written during Jane Austen's race against failing health,Persuasion tells the story of Anne Elliot, a woman who-attwenty-seven-is no longer young and has few romantic prospects.Eight years ago, she was persuaded by her friend Lady Russell tobreak off her engagement to Frederick Wentworth, a handsome navalcaptain with neither fortune nor rank. When Anne and Frederick meetagain, he has acquired both, but still feels the sting of herrejection. A brilliant satire of vanity and pretension, Austen'slast completed novel is also a movingly told love story tinged withthe heartache of missed opportunities.
"A book about the complexities of combat that's just asapplicable for dealing with the complexities of business and ourpersonal lives." (Kevin Sharer, Chairman CEO, Amgen) As a commander of Delta Force-the most elitecounter-terrorist organization in the world-Pete Blaber took partin some of the most dangerous, controversial, and significantmilitary and political events of our time. Now he takes hisintimate knowledge of warfare-and the heart, mind, and spirit ittakes to win-and moves his focus from the combat zone to civilianlife. As the smoke clears from exciting stories aboutneverbefore-revealed top-secret missions that were executed allover the globe, readers will emerge wiser, more capable, and moreready for life's personal victories than they ever thoughtpossible.
