The epic of the Apollo missions told in the astronauts'own words and gorgeously illustrated with their photographs Andrew Chaikin's A Man on the Moon isconsidered the definitive history of the Apollo moonmissions-arguably the pinnacle of human experience. Now, usingnever-before-published quotes taken from his in-depth interviewswith twenty-three of the twenty-four Apollo lunar astronauts,Chaikin and his collaborator, Victoria Kohl, have created anextraordinary account of the lunar missions. In Voices from theMoon the astronauts vividly recount their experiences inintimate detail; their distinct personalities and remarkably variedperspectives emerge from their candid and deeply personalreflections. Carefully assembled into a narrative that reflects theentire arc of the lunar journey, Voices from the Moon captures the magnificence of the Apollo program like no other book.Paired with their own words are 160 images taken from NASA's newhigh-resolution scans of the photos the astronauts took during themis

"Louis Auchincloss has an enveloping story to tell and aperfect, understated knowledge of those who inhabit it," said theNew York Times of The Scarlet Letters. The same can be said ofAuchincloss's new novel, a tour de force that charts the rise ofone uncommon family in America's grand city. How did the familieswho live on Manhattan's Upper East Side get to where they aretoday? As much a penetrating social history as it is engagingfiction, East Side Story tells of the Carnochans, a family whoseScottish forebears establish themselves in New York's textilebusiness during the Civil War. From there they quickly move on toseize prominent positions in the country's top schools andManhattan's elite firms. As the novel unfolds, family membersacross the generations recount their stories, illuminating livessteeped in both good fortune and moral jeopardy. From women whooutsmart their foolish husbands, to ambitious lawyers who protectthe Carnochan name, to the family's artists and writers, all weighthe question tha

GAME OF THRONES: A NEW ORIGINAL SERIES, NOWON HBO. Dubbed "the American Tolkien" by "Time" magazine, George R.R. Martin has earned international acclaim for his monumental cycleof epic fantasy. Now the #1 "New York Times" bestselling authordelivers the fifth book in his landmark series--as both familiarfaces and surprising new forces vie for a foothold in a fragmentedempire. A DANCE WITH DRAGONSA SONG OF ICE AND FIRE: BOOK FIVE Inthe aftermath of a colossal battle, the future of the SevenKingdoms hangs in the balance--beset by newly emerging threats fromevery direction. In the east, Daenerys Targaryen, the last scion ofHouse Targaryen, rules with her three dragons as queen of a citybuilt on dust and death. But Daenerys has thousands of enemies, andmany have set out to find her. As they gather, one young manembarks upon his own quest for the queen, with an entirelydifferent goal in mind. Fleeing from Westeros with a price on hishead, Tyrion Lannister, too, is making his way to Daenerys. But hisnewest alli

"James Cameron's Titanic" chronicles a master storyteller'scinematic re-creation of one of the most vividly remembereddisasters of the modern era. Cameron's epic motion picture, winnerof eleven Academy Awards, was an unforgettable triumph offilmmaking, weaving a rich human tapestry of romance and heroism,tragedy and greed, and, ultimately, the power of true love - astory that will continue to capture the hearts of audiences forgenerations to come. This collector's edition will include all theoriginal content from the first book as well as a new and extendedintroduction by James Cameron. Additional new content will include:twenty-six newly designed pages with never-before-seen images fromthe film studio and from James Cameron's personal archive;behind-the-scenes stories from Cameron himself detailing theconcept art and making of the original film; a revelatory look atthe technical process of transforming original film into dynamic 3Dprints; quotes from Kate Winslet and Leonardo DiCaprio discussingthe fi

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.

On an entirely normal, beautiful fall day in Chester's Mill,Maine, the town is inexplicably and suddenly sealed off from therest of the world by an invisible force field. Planes crash into itand fall from the sky in flaming wreckage, a gardener's hand issevered as "the dome" comes down on it, people running errands inthe neighboring town are divided from their families, and carsexplode on impact. No one can fathom what this barrier is, where itcame from, and when -- or if -- it will go away. Dale Barbara, Iraq vet and now a short-order cook, findshimself teamed with a few intrepid citizens -- town newspaper ownerJulia Shumway, a physician's assistant at the hospital, aselect-woman, and three brave kids. Against them stands Big JimRennie, a politician who will stop at nothing -- even murder -- tohold the reins of power, and his son, who is keeping a horriblesecret in a dark pantry. But their main adversary is the Domeitself. Because time isn't just short. It's running out.

Scott Schuman just wanted to take photographs of people that he met on the streets of New York who he felt looked great. His now-famous and much-loved blog, thesartorialist.com, is his showcase for the wonderful and varied sartorial tastes of real people across the globe. This book is a beautiful anthology of Scott ’s favorite images, accompanied by his insightful commentary. It includes photographs of well-known fashion figures alongside people encountered on the street whose personal style and taste demand a closer look. From the streets of New York to the parks of Florence, from Stockholm to Paris, from London to Moscow and Milan, these are the men and women who have inspired Scott and the many diverse and fashionable readers of his blog. After fifteen years in the fashion business, Scott Schuman felt a growing disconnect between what he saw on the runways and in magazines, and what real people were wearing. The Sartorialist was his attempt to redress the balance. Since its beginning, the b

Philip Schultz, winner of the 2008 Pulitzer Prize for poetry,has been celebrated for his singular vision of the Americanimmigrant experience and Jewish identity, his alternately fierceand tender portrayal of family life, and his rich and riotousevocation of city streets. His poems have found enthusiasticaudiences among readers of Garrison Keillor's "Writer's Almanac,""Slate," "The New Yorker," and other publications. His willingnessto face down the demons of failure and loss, in his previous bookparticularly, make him a poet for our times, a poet who can write"If I have to believe in something, I believe in despair." Yet heremains oddly undaunted: "sometimes, late at night, we, myhappiness and I, reminisce, lifelong antagonists enjoying eachother's company.""The God of Loneliness," a major collection ofSchultz's work, includes poems from his five books ("Like Wings,""Deep Within the Ravine," "The Holy Worm of Praise," "Living in thePast," "Failure") and fourteen new poems. It is a volume tocherish, fro

The Last Battle has started. The seals on the Dark One’s prison are crumbling. The Pattern itself is unraveling, and the armies of the Shadow have begun to boil out of the Blight. The sun has begun to set upon the Third Age. Perrin Aybara is now hunted by specters from his past: Whitecloaks, a slayer of wolves, and the responsibilities of leadership. All the while, an unseen foe is slowly pulling a noose tight around his neck. To prevail, he must seek answers in Tel’aran’rhiod and find a way--at long last--to master the wolf within him or lose himself to it forever. Meanwhile, Matrim Cauthon prepares for the most difficult challenge of his life. The creatures beyond the stone gateways--the Aelfinn and the Eelfinn--have confused him, taunted him, and left him hanged, his memory stuffed with bits and pieces of other men’s lives. He had hoped that his last confrontation with them would be the end of it, but the Wheel weaves as the Wheel wills. The time is coming when he will again

In 1926, before skirt lengths inched above the knee and beforeanyone was ready to accept that a woman could test herselfphysically, a plucky American teenager named Trudy Ederle capturedthe imagination of the world when she became the first woman toswim the English Channel. It was, and still is, a feat moreincredible and uncommon than scaling Mount Everest. Upon her returnto the United States, "Trudy of America" became the most famouswoman in the world. And just as quickly, she disappeared from thepublic eye. Set against the backdrop of the roaring 1920s, YoungWoman and the Sea is the dramatic and inspiring story of Ederlespursuit of a goal no one believed possible, and the price she paid.The moment Trudy set foot on land, triumphant, she had shatteredcenturies of stereotypes and opened doors for generations of womento come. A truly magnetic and often misunderstood character whosestory is largely forgotten, Trudy Ederle comes alive in these pagesthrough Glenn Stouts exhaustive new research.

In Jurassic Park, he created a terrifying new world. Now, inMicro, Michael Crichton reveals a universe too small to see and toodangerous to ignore. In a locked Honolulu office building, three men are found deadwith no sign of struggle except for the ultrafine, razor-sharp cutscovering their bodies. The only clue left behind is a tiny bladedrobot, nearly invisible to the human eye. In the lush forests of Oahu, groundbreaking technology hasushered in a revolutionary era of biological prospecting. Trillionsof microorganisms, tens of thousands of bacteria species, are beingdiscovered; they are feeding a search for priceless drugs andapplications on a scale beyond anything previously imagined. In Cambridge, Massachusetts, seven graduate students at theforefront of their fields are recruited by a pioneeringmicrobiology start-up. Nanigen MicroTechnologies dispatches thegroup to a mysterious lab in Hawaii, where they are promised accessto tools that will open a whole new scientific frontier.

Somewhere in the not-so-distant future the residents of EnnetHouse, a Boston halfway house for recovering addicts, and studentsat the nearby Enfield Tennis Academy are ensnared in the search forthe master copy of INFINITE JEST, a movie said to be so dangerouslyentertaining its viewers become entranced and expire in a state ofcatatonic bliss

The definitive story of the Red Sox, a best-selling classic, nowexpanded and updated to include the incredible 2004 season andWorld Series win. In that magic fall of 2004, the Boston Red Soxtransformed themselves from an unruly band of self-proclaimedidiots into world champions for the first time in eighty-six years.Their unlikely triumph became known instantly as one of the mostthrilling, nerve-racking, and ultimately inspiring sports storiesever. And it also changed the course of history for a franchisethat had long been known more for its failures than for itssuccesses. In Red Sox Century, "the best of the Sox sages" (USAToday Baseball Weekly) chronicle the complete history of thisenduring team with authority, insight, and high style. From theteam's inception in 1901 and its early peak in 1918, when it wonits fifth World Series, to the glory years, which saw the rise ofsuch greats as Cy Young, Babe Ruth, Teddy Ballgame, and Yaz and the"impossible dream," to the near misses in 1975, 1986, and 2003, andfina

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This remarkable and beautiful book documents the period ofexploration and enlightenment when the Old World began to open itsmind to the wonders and mysteries of the New World. Five centuriesof eyewitness accounts, drawings, and notes, taken straight fromthe log books of such famous explorers as Christopher Columbus,Ferdinand Magellan, Vasco de Gama, James Cook, and many others whonames have been lost, appear in these glowing pages. For the sakeof gold and God, these explorers ventured into the Sea of Darknessfeared for centuries; the detailed documents they compiled are aremarkable testament to their journeys and discoveries. Fran?ois Bellec, a world famous expert in the field of maritimeexploration and history, has assembled a unique document filledwith extraordinary maps drawn by the explorers and theircartographers; fabulous depictions of newly encountered plants,animals, and native people; and detailed illustrations of theadventurers' own vessels and instruments, as well as the boats andinstr

In commemoration of the one-hundredth anniversary of hisbirth, Ansel Adams at 100 presents an intriguing new look at thisdistinguished photographer's work. The legendary curator JohnSzarkowski, director emeritus of the Department of Photography atNew York's Museum of Modern Art, has painstakingly selected what heconsiders Adams' finest work and has attempted to find the singlebest photographic print of each. Szarkowski writes that "AnselAdams at 100 is the product of a thorough review of work thatAdams, at various times in his career, considered important. Itincludes many photographs that will be unfamiliar to lovers ofAdams' work, and a substantial number that will be new to Adamsscholars. The book is an attempt to identify that work on whichAdams' claim as an important modern artist must rest." Ansel Adamsat 100-the highly acclaimed international exhibition and the book,with Szarkowski's incisive critical essay-is the first seriouseffort since Adams' death in 1984 to reevaluate his achievement asan a

Claire DeWitt is not your average private investigator. Shehas brilliant deductive skills and is an ace at discoveringevidence. But Claire also uses her dreams, omens, andmind-expanding herbs to help her solve mysteries, and relies onDétection — the only book published by the late, great, andmysterious French detective Jacques Silette. The tattooed, pot-smoking Claire has just arrived in post-KatrinaNew Orleans, the city she’s avoided since her mentor, Silette’sstudent Constance Darling, was murdered there. Claire isinvestigating the disappearance of Vic Willing, a prosecutor knownfor winning convictions in a homicide- plagued city. Has an angrycriminal enacted revenge on Vic? Or did he use the storm as a meansto disappear? Claire follows the clues, finding old friends andmaking new enemies — foremost among them Andray Fairview, a younggang member who just might hold the key to the mystery. Littered with memories of Claire’s years as a girl detective in1980s Brooklyn, Claire DeWi

作者简介： J. K. (Jo) Rowling was born in Chipping Sodbury in the UK in 1965. Such a funny-sounding name for a birthplace may have contributed to her talent for collecting odd names. She was quiet, freckly, short-sighted and not very good at sports. She even broke her arm playing netball. Her favourite subject by far was English, but she also liked languages. Jo always loved writing more than anything. 'The first story that I ever wrote down, when I was five or six, was about a rabbit called Rabbit. He got the measles and was visited by his friends, including a giant bee called Miss Bee. And ever since Rabbit and Miss Bee, I have wanted to be a writer, though I rarely told anyone so. I was afraid they'd tell me I didn't have a hope.' As she got older, Jo kept writing but she never showed what she had written to anyone, except for some of her funny stories that featured her friends as heroines. Jo attended the University of Exeter in Devon where she studied French. When she was 25,

Critics worldwide have praised Reinaldo Arenas's writing. Hisextraordinary memoir, Before Night Falls, was named one of thefourteen "Best Books of 1993" by the editors of The New York TimesBook Review and has now been made into a major motionpicture. The Color of Summer, Arenas's finest comic achievement, isalso the fulfillment of his life's work, the Pentagonía, afive-volume cycle of novels he began writing in his early twenties.Although it is the penultimate installment in his "secret historyof Cuba," it was, in fact, the last book Arenas wrote before hisdeath in 1990. A Rabelaisian tale of survival by wits and wit, TheColor of Summer is ultimately a powerful and passionate story aboutthe triumph of the human spirit over the forces of political andsexual repression.

MEET: Joyce, the foul-mouthed and wildly successful curator ofa controversial art exhibit on surveillance, who unexpectedly findsherself under surveillance--in her own bedroom. Her best friend,Bobbie, a gynecologist--driven, poised, and in control--a woman whofinally finds love at fiftysomething and watches, horrified, as herperfectly ordered world crumbles around her. Bobbie's patient,Lisa, a former juvenile offender and habitual runaway, who oncedreamed of fame working as Joyce's gallery assistant and is nowstruggling with her new identity as a banker's wife and dotingmother. Lisa's sister, Lynne, a middle-aged suburban mother whosepenchant for home decorating conceals her troubled marriage andblinding desire to exact revenge for a childhood injustice. Jordan,Lynne's sixteen-year-old daughter, a former straight-A student andaspiring model who, no longer fitting in at school or at home,takes a part-time job at a supermarket to spite her mother--andfinds a close confidant in her thirtyyear-old male bos

In the early twentieth century, as China came up against the realities of the modern world, Lu Xun effected a shift in Chinese letters away from the ornate, obsequious literature of the aristocrats to the plain, expressive literature of the masses. His celebrated short stories assemble a powerfully unsettling portrait of the superstition, poverty, and complacency that he perceived in late imperial China and in the revolutionary republic that toppled the last dynasty in 1911. This volume presents Lu Xun's complete fiction in bracing new translations and includes such famous works as "The Real Story of Ah-q," "Diary of a Madman," and "The Divorce." Together they expose a contradictory legacy of cosmopolitan independence, polemical fractiousness, and anxious patriotism that continues to resonate in Chinese intellectual life today. 作者简介： Lu Xun (1881-1936) studied to be a doctor before turning to writing as the self-appointed literary physician of China's spiritual ills. After his death, he

Eugenia Bone was perfectly happy with her life as a New YorkCity food writer, but she knew that her husband, a transplantedwesterner, was filled with a discontent he couldn't explain. Sowhen he returned from a fishing trip in the Rockies one day andannounced that he wanted to buy a forty-five-acre ranch inCrawford, Colorado (population 255), she reluctantly said yes. Thenshe loaded imported pasta, artichokes in oil, and cured Italiansalami into her duffle bag and headed west with her two youngchildren. At Mesa's Edge is the witty, often moving story of ranchrestoration and of struggles with defiant skunks, barbed wire,marauding cows, and loneliness. Eugenia learns to garden in thedrought, to fly-fish, and to forage. In the process, she discoversthe bounty of the region. She fries zucchini flowers in batter anddips them in cilantro-flavored mayonnaise, grills flavorful T-bonesfrom the local ranchers' grass-fed beef, pan-fries trout, fillscrepes with wild mushrooms, and makes cherry pies with thick,sugar

The author of The Encyclopedia of Surfing returns with thisdefinitive anthology of the best-ever writing about surfing,illustrated with classic and cutting-edge photographs and artwork.Hip and eclectic, the collection speaks to surfing's widespread andlongstanding appeal: from Mark Twain's nineteenth-centuryde*ion in Roughing It to Susan Orlean's essay on girl surfersin Maui and Tom Wolfe's "The Pump House Gang." This anthologycovers it all-from early surfing literature to de*ions of thesport's most colorful characters, from hair-raising tales ofbig-wave surfing to an exploration of surf culture. Includescontributions by: R. Crumb, Daniel Duane, William Finnegan, RickGriffin, Frederick Kohner, Jack London, Herman Melville, SusanOrlean, Charles Schulz, Mark Twain, and Tom Wolfe