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
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.
Are hurricanes increasing in ferocity and frequency because ofglobal warming? In the wake of Katrina, leading science journalistChris Mooney follows the careers of top meteorologists on eitherside of this red-hot question through the 2006 hurricane season,tracing how the media, special interests, politics, and the weatheritself have skewed and amplified what was already an intensescientific debate. In this fascinating and urgently important book,Mooney--a native of New Orleans--delves into a compellingconsequence of the great inconvenient truth of our day: Are weresponsible for making hurricanes even bigger monsters than theyalready are?
Open the gate to Fairacre, America's favorite English village.The end of a school year often brings unmitigated rapture forschoolteachers, and so it should for Miss Read, schoolmistress inthe charming English village of Fairacre. But on the very first dayof the long summer holiday, she falls and breaks her arm. Just whenher summer seems ruined, her old friend, Amy Garfield, comes to heraid with a diverting suggestion. They travel to Crete for twoweeks, and the change of scene provides a welcome break for both ofthem. When Miss Read returns, refreshed, to her beloved village,she is ready to tackle the problems that await her.
The day Fitzwilliam Darcy marries Elizabeth Bennet, he thinkshis life is complete at last. Four months later, even greater joyappears on the horizon when Elizabeth finds out she is pregnant.But it is not long before outside forces intrude on theirhappiness. When the unthinkable happens, Elizabeth and Darcy mustdiscover their love for each other all over again. Romantic and insightful, Darcy's Temptation captures theoriginal style and sardonic wit of Jane Austen's Pride andPrejudice while weaving its beloved characters into an excitingnew tale. In a story set against the backdrop of the Britishabolitionist movement, family difficulties and social affairs weighheavily on the newlyweds, and a dramatic turn of events forcesElizabeth to try to recapture Darcy's love before the manipulativeCecelia McFarland succeeds in luring him away.
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.
Smart, tough Los Angeles FBI agents Jack Harper and OscarHidalgo meet their match in a diamond smuggler, Steinbach, whoseems to have almost superhuman powers. Arrested during a cleversting operation, Steinbach tells the team of agents he will killthem, and sure enough, one by one, they start to die. Worse, Jackcan't begin to pin it on Steinbach, who is, after all, in prison.Soon, however, Steinbach makes a deal with Homeland Security and isfreed with total immunity. Jack is pretty sure that he and Oscarcould be next. But, as it turns out, Steinbach is not the onlymenace. Two of the agents who were killed turn out to be dirty.Jack and Oscar tour the seamy side of L.A. in hopes of findingclues, but they get way more than they bargained for.
Like Rip Van Winkle returning to his hometown to find that allhas changed, Nathan Zuckerman comes back to New York, the city heleft eleven years before. Alone on his New England mountain,Zuckerman has been nothing but a writer: no voices, no media, noterrorist threats, no women, no news, no tasks other than his workand the enduring of old age. Walking the streets like a revenant,he quickly makes three connections that explode his carefullyprotected solitude. One is with a young couple with whom, in a rashmoment, he offers to swap homes. They will flee post-9/11 Manhattanfor his country refuge, and he will return to city life. But fromthe time he meets them, Zuckerman also wants to swap his solitudefor the erotic challenge of the young woman, Jamie, whose alluredraws him back to all that he thought he had left behind: intimacy,the vibrant play of heart and body. The second connection is with afigure from Zuckerman's youth, Amy Bellette, companion and muse toZuckerman's first literary hero, E. I. Lonoff.
Now appearing in trade paperback original format: "Oneof the most appealing heroines to appear in the pages on a mystery"( Library Journal ). Returning from Europe, intrepid explorer Jade del Cameronarrives in Kenya with bittersweet memories-and the certainty thatAfrica is her home and Sam Featherstone the man she wants to shareher life with. When a letter arrives from America, Jade hopes it'sSam sending word of his return. Instead, it's a message written inthe hand of her long- dead fiancé, asking "Why did you let medie?" When two men die under mysterious circumstances and Jadediscovers that her old nemesis, Lilith Worthy, has escaped fromprison, the deaths and the letter form the most dangerous case Jadehas ever faced, pitting her against a ferocious crocodile-and aneven more deadly human killer.
The author of Leviathan returns with a dazzling, picaresque,new novel in which Walter Claireborne Rawley, now an octogenarian,recounts his extraordinary vaudevillian adventures as "Walt theWonder Boy" in 1924. "One hears every page of this novel, and seesit as well".--Washington Post.
The novel that defined the Beat generation, this exuberanttale of two men traversing America is as fresh and fantastic asever.
A huge international bestseller, this ambitious novel plumbsthe depths of our shared humanity to offer up a breathtakinginsight into life, love, and literature itself. A major hit inGermany that went on to become one of Europe’s biggest literaryblockbusters in the last five years, Night Train to Lisbon is anastonishing novel, a compelling exploration of consciousness, thepossibility of truly understanding another person, and the abilityof language to define our very selves. Raimund Gregorius is a Latinteacher at a Swiss college who one day -- after a chance encounterwith a mysterious Portuguese woman -- abandons his old life tostart a new one. He takes the night train to Lisbon and carrieswith him a book by Amadeu de Prado, a (fictional) Portuguese doctorand essayist whose writings explore the ideas of loneliness,mortality, death, friendship, love, and loyalty. Gregorius becomesobsessed by what he reads and restlessly struggles to comprehendthe life of the author. His investigations lead him all over
Red crosscurrents: the Commie Scare and a string of brutal mutilation killings. Gangland intrigue and Hollywood sleaze. Three cops caught in a hellish web of ambition, perversion, and deceit. Danny Upshaw is a Sheriff's deputy stuck with a bunch of snuffs nobody cares about; they're his chance to make his name as a cop...and to sate his darkest curiosities. Mal Considine is D.A.'s Bureau brass. He's climbing on the Red Scare bandwagon to advance his career and to gain custody of his adopted son, a child he saved from the horror of postwar Europe. Buzz Meeks-bagman, ex-narcogoon, and pimp for Howard Hughes-is fighting communism for the money. All three men have purchased tickets to a nightmare. 作者简介： JAMES ELLROY was born in 1948 in Los Angeles, the city that has served as the inspiration for his acclaimed crime novels. His L.A. Quartet novels, the Black Dahlia, The Big Nowhere, L.A. Confidential was made into and Academy Award-winning motion picture. American Tabloid was TIME maga
On the eve of the Russian Revolution, Frank Reid, a strugglingBritish-born printer in Moscow, is abandoned by his wife and isleft to care for his three children while keeping his businessafloat.
