Dans l'Angleterre du XIIe siècle ravagée par la guerre et lafamine, des êtres luttent pour s'assurer le pouvoir, la gloire, lasainteté, l'amour, ou simplement de quoi survivre. Les bataillessont féroces, les hasards prodigieux, la nature cruelle. La hainerègne, mais l'amour aussi, malmené constamment, blessé parfois,mais vainqueur enfin quand un Dieu, à la vérité souvent tropdistrait, consent à se laisser toucher par la foi des hommes.Abandonnant le monde de l'espionnage, Ken Follett, le ma?tre dususpense, nous livre avec Les Piliers de la Terre une ?uvremonumentale dont l'intrigue, aux rebonds incessants, s'appuie surun extraordinaire travail d'historien. Promené de pendaisons enmeurtres, des forêts anglaises au c?ur de l'Andalousie, de Tours àSaint-Denis, le lecteur se trouve irrésistiblement happé dans letourbillon d'une superbe épopée romanesque.
Starred Review. Some failures lead to phenomenal successes, and this American nurse's unsuccessful attempt to climb K2, the world's second tallest mountain, is one of them. Dangerously ill when he finished his climb in 1993, Mortenson was sheltered for seven weeks by the small Pakistani village of Korphe; in return, he promised to build the impoverished town's first school, a project that grew into the Central Asia Institute, which has since constructed more than 50 schools across rural Pakistan and Afghanistan. Coauthor Relin recounts Mortenson's efforts in fascinating detail, presenting compelling portraits of the village elders, con artists, philanthropists, mujahideen, Taliban officials, ambitious school girls and upright Muslims Mortenson met along the way. As the book moves into the post-9/11 world, Mortenson and Relin argue that the United States must fight Islamic extremism in the region through collaborative efforts to alleviate poverty and improve access to education, especially for girls. Captivati
Jack Welch knows how to win. During his forty-year career at General Electric, he led the company to year-after-year success around the globe, in multiple 1markets, against brutal competition. His honest, be-the-best style of management became the gold standard in business, with his relentless focus on people, teamwork,and profits. Since Welch retired in 2001 as chairman and chief executive officer of GE, he has traveled the world,speaking to more than 250,000 people and answering their questions on dozens of wide-ranging topics. Inspired by his audiences and their hunger for straightforward guidance, Welch has written both a philosophical and pragmatic book, which is destined to become the bible of business for generations to come. It clearly lays out the answers to the most difficult questions people face both on and offthe job. Welch's objective is to speak to people at every level of an organization, in companies large and small. His audience is everyone from line workers to MBAs, from pro
Designed as a celebration of the film, this lavishly illustrated paperback edition is an exclusive behind-the-scenes guide featuring full-color photos of the cast, locations, and sets, as well as storyboards, interviews, details of the special effects, and much more.
Comment quitte-t-on quelqu'un ? Et pourquoi ? Voici dix-neufnouvelles froides et cinglantes, dix-neuf petites histoires quinous plongent au coeur des ruptures. Un homme amoureux de sa femmese rend compte qu'elle a un amant et part chasser avec lui.Ira-t-il jusqu'au bout ? Une femme qui a déjà vécu s'aper?oitqu'elle éprouve des sentiments pour son gigolo ; une autre rentrede week-end à l'improviste et découvre la trahison de son mari...Gr?ce à la vivacité d'esprit, à la légèreté de ton de l'auteur, onse surprend à sourire impitoyablement face aux déboires despersonnages.
Los Angeles, 1953: six innocent people gunned down at an all-night diner. Three policemen arrive to investigate: Ed Exley, goaded by his father's success on the force, burning to eclipse him; Bud White, witness to his mother's murder, a time bomb with a badge; and Jack Vincennes, former addict, a shake-down artist who works celebrities. Worse yet, these three see themselves as rivals. Their own rage mirrors that of the killers they seek, all players in a game without rules or survivors. 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, and White Jazz-are international bestsellers. His most recent novel, American Tabloid, was TIME magazine's novel of the year for 1995. His memoir, My Dark Places, was a New York Times notable book and a TIME magazine best book of the year for 1996. He lives in Kansas City.
Staring unflinchingly into the abyss of slavery, this spellbinding novel transforms history into a story as powerful as Exodus and as intimate as a lullaby. Sethe, its protagonist, was born a slave and escaped to Ohio, but eighteen years later she is still not free. She has too many memories of Sweet Home, the beautiful farm where so many hideous things happened. And Sethe’s new home is haunted by the ghost of her baby, who died nameless and whose tombstone is engraved with a single word: Beloved. Filled with bitter poetry and suspense as taut as a rope, Beloved is a towering achievement.
Starred Review. Connelly's compelling fourth legal thrillerfeaturing Mickey Haller (after Reversal) finds the maverick L.A.lawyer who uses his Lincoln town car as an office specializing in"foreclosure defense." Haller's first foreclosure client, LisaTrammel, is fighting hard to keep her home, maybe too hard. Thebank has gotten a restraining order to stop Trammel's protests, andshe becomes the prime suspect when Mitchell Bondurant, a mortgagebanker, is killed with a hammer in his office parking lot. A ton ofevidence points to Trammel, but Haller crafts an impressive defensethat includes "the fifth witness" of the title. Connelly has a surecommand of the legal and procedural details of criminal court, andeven manages to make the arcane, shady world of foreclosureinteresting. While the prose may lack some of the poetic nuance ofhis early novels, the plot is worthy of a master storyteller. Thefilm of The Lincoln Lawyer, the first Mickey Haller novel, releasesin March. (Apr.) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights
This Norton Critical Edition is based on the 1912 Wessex Edition,emended to correct errors that have crept into the text from the manu-* onwards and to incorporate revisions that Hardy made in his "study copy" of the novel and in his marked printer's copy and pageproofs for a Harper and Brothers "sixpenny edition" of 190 I, whenever these revisions can confidently be judged to represent Hardy's final de-liberate intention. The resulting text includes revisions by Hardy that have never before appeared in a modern edition. The novel is fully an-notated and is accompanied by Hardy's map of Wessex and a simplified map of the landscape of Far from the MaddbN Crou,d. Textual notes in-clude a list of emendations, examples of variant readings from the man-u* to the Wessex Edition, and a discussion of the choice of copytext. The textual history of the novel is traced in extracts from studies by Richard Little Purdy and Simon GatrelI. Background and source materials include extracts from correspon-dence and contemp
Known to the millions of viewers of the hit reality television show The Apprentice, Carolyn Kepcher attracted enormous media attention for her cool demeanor and her no-holds-barred assessments of the show's candidates in the boardroom each week. In Carolyn 101, the woman Donald Trump has described as a "killer" businesswoman reveals the secrets of her success. Geared toward those just entering the workforce or seasoned employees looking to distinguish themselves, Kepcher's book provides readers with guidance for their professional lives. Illustrating her advice with examples taken from her own career, she shows them how to: ace an interview deal with a difficult boss maintain a healthy balance between work and home life spot potential business opportunities be a strong team member or team leader Straightforward and inspirational, Carolyn 101 shows ambitious professionals what they need to do to get ahead and take their own careers even further than they had imagined.
Bernard Werber est né en 1961. Après des études de criminologie,il intègre une école de journalisme et devient un collaborateurrégulier du Nouvel Observateur. A trente ans, il rencontre unénorme succès avec son premier roman, Les Fourmis. Werber incarneen France un genre dans lequel excellent les Anglo-Saxons, celui duroman scientifique.
Google breaks the traditional rules of branding by changingits logo everyday. Doritos handed over the US premium advertisingslot in the Superbowl to a couple of amateur filmmakers. Thesoftware industry is well used to 'living a life in beta.' EvenPope Benedict XVI has embraced the inclusive 'Obama model' ofcommunication with YouTube broadcasts in 27 languages in an attemptto encourage debate. If the Pope can do loose, anyone can. Loosethinking is at odds with all but the most progressiveorganizations. As Clay Shirky suggests, companies that createproducts, services and messages that are too perfect will leave theconsumer thinking 'where is the space for me?' LOOSE shakes up thestatus quo and shows how prevailing business wisdom needs tochange.
“Casati’s short， lively book … will delight。” —San Francisco Chronicle “Striking… Shadows succeeds in throwing a little light on the Dark Side。” —Seed “A refined chronicle of art and science。” —Booklist “A blend of scientific inquiry and philosophy… Casati comes up with some enlightening answers。” —San Diego Union-Tribune Product De*ion In this original，wide-ranging，and endlessly thought-provoking work of popular nonfiction，a leading science writer uncovers the pervasive presence of shadows in our world。 For Plato，shadows were the symbol of our limitations。For Galileo，they knocked the Earth from the center of the cosmos。They are a source of fear and a symbol of ignorance，and they loom large in art and design，mythology and folklore，physics and metaphysics，and architecture and urban planning。From shadows puppets and the psychology of shadows to the role of shadows in astronomy and the influence of shadows on th
Long before he gave us "a one-of-a-kind classic" (The Wall Street Journal) with his bestselling memoir On Writing, Stephen King crafted a nonfiction masterpiece in Danse Macabre, "one of the best books on American popular culture" (Philadelphia Inquirer). The author whose boundless imagination and storytelling powers have redefined the horror genre, from 1974's Carrie to his new epic Under the Dome, reflects on the very nature of terror -- what scares us and why -- in films (both cheesy and choice), television and radio, and, of course, the horror novel, past and present. Informal, engaging, tremendous fun, and tremendously informative, Danse Macabre is an essential tour with the master of horror as your guide; much like his spellbinding works of fiction, you won't be able to put it down.
Readers of Doran's amusing memoir about relocating from Los Angeles to the tiny Tuscan town of Cambione must first suspend their disbelief that a person in his right mind would actively resist such an opportunity. But resist Doran does—and when his sculptor wife buys a ramshackle, 300-year-old house there on a whim, she must drag him kicking and screaming out of his high-stress, low-reward life as a Hollywood writer and producer (among his hits: Who's the Boss? and The Wonder Years). What follows is rather predictable: the house turns out to be in even worse shape than anyone imagined, and the construction crew has no "discernable pattern" when it comes to showing up for work. Lines like "Things happen in Italy that don't happen anywhere else on earth. A magical friendliness is spread all over the place like pixie dust" don't do much to distinguish Doran's story from other books of its ilk, but the author's grudging optimism and dead-on ear for dialogue certainly do. Doran's brutally funny accounts of tangl
