Case one: A little girl goes missing in the night. Case two: A beautiful young office worker falls victim to amaniac's apparently random attack. Case three: A new mother finds herself trapped in a hell of herown making - with a very needy baby and a very demanding husband -until a fit of rage creates a grisly, bloody escape. Thirty years after the first incident, as private investigatorJackson Brodie begins investigating all three cases, startlingconnections and discoveries emerge . . .

The thirteenth-century Italian merchant and explorer recounts his adventures in China and tells how he served as an emissary for Kublai Khan,

Lod Airport, Israel: Two Concorde jets take off for a U.N.conference that will finally bring peace to the Middle East.Covered by F-14 fighters, accompanied by security men, the planescarry warriors, pacifists, lovers, enemies, dignitaries -- and abomb planted by a terrorist mastermind. Suddenly they're forced to crash-land at an ancient desert site.Here, with only a handful of weapons, the men and women of thepeace mission must make a desperate stand against an army of crackPalestinian commandos -- while the Israeli authorities desperatelyattempt a rescue mission. In a land of blood and tears, in awindswept place called Babylon, it will be a battle of bullets andcourage, and a war to the last death.

Celebrate the 1996Atlanta Olympics and the Olympic Games Centennial with this superb,lavishly illustrated volume from the first name in worldwide sports reporting!All the color,drama ,and excitement of the world's premies sporting event is hers ,captured in hundreds of thilling,caputred in hundreds of thrilling,action-paced text-by a phers .The fast-paced text-by a top .sports reporter-provides stirring portraits of the great Olymic of the past and present ,plus an indispensable guids to the 1996 Games with these exclusive special features:·A typical day at the Olympics ·Game-side activities and what they cost·Full-color map of all Atlanta Olympic sites with transport distances clearly marked·Complete schedule of all olympic events,from basketball to track to gymnastics. The Assciated press,America's foremost wire service and news agency,has bureaus in every county in the wold and a Sports Department famed for its unparalleled coverage of Wold athletics .Larry Siddons,AP Deputy Sports Editor in New Yo

FIRST PUBLISHED IN ENGLAND IN 1973 AND NEVER previously issued in America,The Villa Ariadon is a poignant and exciting true-lif story blending archaeological history,military adventure,romance,and travel. The Villa riadon-"perhaps the most beautiful villa in Crete"-was built in 1906 by him during his excavations at Konssos.Later the Villa hosted visiting scholars；among them was a dashing young Englishman named John Pendlebury,who died a hero's death in defense of Crete during World WarⅡ. Dilys Powell knew much of the Villa's remarkable history at first hand,and here she recounts that history,from Evans's days,to the Nazi takeover of Crete,and on into the post-war years. 作者简介： DILYS POWELL(1901-1995)was the main film critic of The(London)Sunday Times from 1939 to 1796.She was perhaps best known in America as a panelish on the BBC radio program My Word.

In 1944,eighteen-year-old university student Leo Litwak finds himself in the middle of the waning European war,a medic trained to save lives but often powerless to do much more than watch life slip away.instead of a rifle he carries bandages, sulfa powder, morphine_and only a red cross to protect him.This is the true story of real people in war _friende and thieves,dreamers and killers,jokers and heroes_as wellas theper-sonal account of a young American plucked from a sheltered,comfort-asble life and sent to a foreign land to save the men fighting to save the world.Few books have portrayed the grit and wonder of war with such eloquence,and still fewer have shown how war looks through the eyes of a soldier whose mission was saving lives,not taking them.

On War is perhaps the greatest book ever written about war.Carl von Clausewitz, a Prussian soldier, had witnessed at firsthand the immense destructive power of the French Revolutionaryarmies which swept across Europe between 1792 and 1815. Hisresponse was to write a comprehensive text covering every aspect ofwarfare. On War is both a philosophical and practical work in whichClausewitz defines the essential nature of war, debates thequalities of the great commander, assesses the relative strengthsof defensive and offensive warfare, and - in highly controversialpassages - considers the relationship between war and politics. Hisarguments are illustrated with vivid examples drawn from thecampaigns of Frederick the Great and Napoleon Bonaparte. For thestudent of society as well as the military historian, On Warremains a compelling and indispensable source.

According to tradition Cervantes first conceived his comic masterpiece in jail - his avowed intent being to debunk the romances of chivalry. From first publication Don Quixote was a best-seller, initially taken as a knockabout account of a mad Spanish gentleman and his cowardly peasant squire, but later reinterpreted as an enlightenment text, a representation of universal human nature, a myth of a tragic hero defending man's nobler aspirations, a study in alienation, a spiritual autobiography, a metaphor for Spain's imperial decline, an experimental novel that shaped later prose fiction, a tragedy and comedy in one, and a demonstration that ambiguity and uncertainty can lie at the centre of great art and that great art can be comic. Smollet's vigorous and lively translation brilliantly catches the feeling and tone of the Spanish original. It is a comic novelist's homage to a comic novelist.

The World Literature series reproduces the greatest books the world over with only the highest production standards. History, philosophy, psychology, political theory, fiction, and ancient texts are now accessible to everyone at an extremely affordable price. This work recounts Marco Polo's journey to the eastern court of Kublai Khan, the chieftan of the Mongol empire which traverses the Asian continent, but which was virtually unknown to Polo's contemporaries. It encompasses a 24-year period starting in 1271, detailing his travels.

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The best-selling novelist exposes the inner workings of thenuclear submarine, the core of America's nuclear arsenal, usingpreviously unrevealed diagrams and photographs along with formerlytop-secret information. 500,000 first printing. $200,000 ad/promo.--This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.

Shanghai, 1926. A city glistening with decadence and rife with corruption--a humid, bustling society at the cultural crossroads of British civil servants, American gun runners, Russian princesses, and Chinese gangsters. For Richard Field, a young Englishman new to the international police force, Shanghai represents a brave new world away from the past he is trying to escape. But his naiveté is quickly dashed when he is called to the scene of a brutal crime, in which a young Russian woman, Lena Orlov, has been found sadistically murdered in her bed. Field's idealistic instincts push him to investigate the case, but his attempts are met with apathy--then menace--from his colleagues. He begins to recognize that some cases in Shanghai are intended to remain unsolved, and, in a matter of days, he glimpses the murky depths that lurk beneath a luminous city. Field's drive to find the murderer leads him to Lena's neighbor, Natasha Medvedev. A stunning beauty who fled her charmed life in tsarist Russia, Nata

Major John L. Plaster, a three-tour veteran of Vietnam tells thestory of the most highly classified United States covert operativesto serve in the war: The Studies and Observations Group, code-namedSOG. Comprised ofvolunteers from such elite military units as theArmy's Green Berets, the USAF Air Commandos, and Navy SEALs, SOGagents answered directly to the Pentagon's Joint Chiefs, with somemissions requiring approval from the White House. Now for the firsttime, the dangerous assignments of this top-secret unit can at lastbe revealed!

A valuable contribution to the growing field of historical research on immigra-ion...oncentrating on the demographics and everyday lives of immigrants to America in three periods: colonial times, 1820-1924, and the modern era A solid volume for readers in search of their roots. Perhaps the most authoritative and readable single-volume history of immigra-tion yet written. Nationality by nationality, Daniels traces the migration of refugees to this country as far back as the year 1500.Substantial, impressive. This book provides the first comprehensive history of immigration to the United States in twenty years [Coming to America] utilizes nearly all the existing scholarship on the topic to create a readable synthesis. It provides a quick reference source for nonspecialists and general readers From almost every comer of the globe, in numbers great and small, America has drawn people whose contributions are as varied as their origins. Historians have spent much of the tgeneration investigating the

Herodotus (c480-c425) is 'The Father of History' and his Histories are the first piece of Western historical writing. They are also the most entertaining. Why did Pheidippides run the 26 miles and 385 yards (or 42.195 kilometres) from Marathon to Athens? And what did he do when he got there? Was the Battle of Salamis fought between sausage-sellers? Which is the oldest language in the world? Why did Leonidas and his 300 Spartans spend the morning before the battle of Thermopylae combing their hair? Why did every Babylonian woman have to sit in the Temple of Aphrodite until a man threw a coin into her lap, and how long was she likely to sit there? And what is the best way to kill a crocodile? This wide-ranging history provides the answers to all these fascinating questions as well as providing many fascinating insights into the Ancient World.