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

Rusty Sabich is a prosecuting lawyer in Chicago who enters a nightmare world when Carolyn, a beautiful attorney with whom he has been having an affair, is found raped and strangled. He stands accused of the crime. This 'insider' book by a Chicago lawyer was one of the great novels of the 1980s, selling more than nine million copies, and was made into a famous film starring Harrison Ford. It's a supremely suspenseful and compelling courtroom drama about ambition, weakness, hypocrisy and American justice.

The year: 1936. Europe dances while an invidious dictatorestablishes himself in Portugal. The city: Lisbon-gray, colorless,chimerical. Ricardo Reis, a doctor and poet, has just come homeafter sixteen years in Brazil. Translated by Giovanni Pontiero.

When a NASA satellite discovers an astonishingly rare object buried deep in the Arctic ice, the floundering space agency proclaims a much-needed victory -- a victory with profound implications for NASA policy and the impending presidential election. To verify the authenticity of the find, the White House calls upon the skills of intelligence analyst Rachel Sexton. Accompanied by a team of experts, including the charismatic scholar Michael Tolland, Rachel travels to the Arctic and uncovers the unthinkable: evidence of scientific trickery -- a bold deception that threatens to plunge the world into controversy. But before she can warn the president, Rachel and Michael are ambushed by a team of assassins. Fleeing for their lives across a desolate and lethal landscape, their only hope for survival is to discover who is behind this masterful plot. The truth, they will learn, is the most shocking deception of all.

The First Cavalry Division came under surprise attack in SadrCity on April 4, 2004, now known as "Black Sunday." On thehomefront, over 7,000 miles away, their families awaited the newsfor forty-eight hellish hours- expecting the worst. ABC News' chiefcorrespondent Martha Raddatz shares remarkable tales of heroism,hope, and heartbreak.

From one of Arnerica's iconic writers, a stunning book of electric honest"and passion. Joan Didion explores an intensely personal yet universal experience: a portrait of a inarviage and a life, in good times and bad that will speak to anyone who has ever loved a husband or wife or child. "An act of consummate literary bravery, a writer known for her clarity allow-ing us to watch her mind as it becomes clouded with grietf... It also skips backward in time [to] call up a shimmering portrait of her unique marriage. ...To make her grief real, Didion shows us what she has lost."

Ted Nordhaus and Michael Shellenberger triggered a firestormwith the publication of Break Through, contending that the politicsthat dealt with acid rain and smog can't deal with globalwarming.The nations that ratified the Kyoto protocol have seentheir greenhouse gas emissions go up, not down. And the destructionof tropical rain forests, a key driver of global warming, hasaccelerated.What today's ecological crises demand, say the authors,is not that we constrain human power but rather unleash it.We mustgo beyond interest group environmentalism and liberalism to createa politics focused as much on uncommon greatness as on the commongood. "To win, Nordhaus and Shellenberger persuasively argue,environmentalists must stop congratulating themselves for their ownwillingness to confront inconvenient truths and must focus onbuilding a politics of shared hope rather than relying on apolitics of fear" (New York Times Book Review).Break Through is thefirst step in a new progressive movement that will influence the

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!

Balzac's great theme was money, and he explored its uses andabuses with all the particularity of the masterful poet he was. OldGoriot, betrayed by rapacious daughters, and Rastignac, anambitious provincial youth alive to his opportunities, form thetwin foci around which the grasping Parisian society of the 1820srevolves, in this, his most economical and universally lovednovel.

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.

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.

尼克和艾米是一对具有完美吸引力的男女，是别人眼中的模范夫妻。艾米每天都用日记来记录婚后生活，每个结婚纪念日都会精心设置充满惊喜的“寻宝游戏”，但生活却不可阻挡地越来越平淡如水……然而，这仅仅是表象。 在他们结婚五周年纪念日当天，豪宅里美丽聪慧的女主人离奇失踪了！尼克焦虑无奈，通过媒体深情告白，然而，被发现的艾米的日记指向尼克有*的嫌疑……尼克的一连串谎言、欺瞒和失控也随之曝光，真相反转。顿时，人人都重新审视自己的枕边人，而这，才仅仅是开始。 'What are you thinking, Amy?' The question I'veasked most often during our marriage, if not out loud, if not tothe person who could answer. I suppose these questions stormcloudover every marriage: 'What are you thinking? How are you feeling?Who are you? What have we done to each other? What will we do?'Just how well can you ever know the person

In 1959 Florence Green, a kindhearted widow with a smallinheritance, risks everything to open a bookshop - the onlybookshop - in the seaside town of Hardborough. By making a successof a business so impractical, she invites the hostility of thetown's less prosperous shopkeepers. By daring to enlarge herneighbors' lives, she crosses Mrs. Gamart, the local arts doyenne.Florence's warehouse leaks, her cellar seeps, and the shop isapparently haunted. Only too late does she begin to suspect thetruth: a town that lacks a bookshop isn't always a town that wantsone.

Since making his first voyage as a sailor to earn his passagefrom his native Holland to South America, Cees Nooteboom has neverstopped traveling. Now a selection of his best travel pieces aregathered together in this collection of immense range and depth,informed throughout by author's wonderful sense of humor. Fromexotic places like Isfahan, the Gambia, and Mali, to seemlydomesticated places like Australia and Munich, Nooteboom shares hisview of the world, showing us the strangeness in places we thoughtwe knew and the familiarity of places most of us will probablynever see. His phenomenal gifts as an observer and the wealth ofhis reading and learning make him an authoritative and delightfulcompanion.

What would it take? That was the question that Geoffrey Canada foundhimself asking. What would it take to change the lives of poorchildren , not one by one, through heroic interventions andoccasional miracles, but in big numbers, and in a way that could bereplicated nationwide? The question led him to create the HarlemChildrens Zone, a ninety-seven-block laboratory in central Harlemwhere he is testing new and sometimes controversial ideas aboutpoverty in America. His conclusion: if you want poor kids to beable to compete with their middle-class peers, you need to changeeverything in their lives, their schools, their neighborhoods, eventhe child-rearing practices of their parents. Whatever It Takes isa tour de force of reporting, an inspired portrait not only ofGeoffrey Canada but also of the parents and children in Harlem whoare struggling to better their lives, often against great odds.Carefully researched and deeply affecting, this is a dispatch frominside the most daring and potentially transforma

On the Battersea Reach of the Thames, a mixed bag ofeccentrics live in houseboats. Belonging to neither land nor sea,they belong to one another. There is Maurice, a homosexualprostitute; Richard, a buttoned-up ex-navy man; but most of allthere's Nenna, the struggling mother of two wild little girls. Howeach of their lives complicates the others is the stuff of thisperfect little novel.

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.

This stunning and steamy debut chronicles the adventures ofNan King, a small town girl at the turn of the century whose lifetakes a wild turn of its own when she follows a local music hallstar to London...

Desperate to save his clan from deadly biological warfare,Dragonstar sentry Logan Kelly infiltrates the dangerous Wyvermoonclan- by posing as a rogue dragon. But his plan is compromised whenhe falls for Cecily, the Wyvermoon queen...

On June 8, 1972, nine-year-old Kim Phuc, severely burned bynapalm, ran from her blazing village in South Vietnam and into theeye of history. Her photograph-one of the most unforgettable imagesof the twentieth century-was seen around the world and helped turnpublic opinion against the Vietnam War. This book is the story of how that photograph came to be-and thestory of what happened to that girl after the camera shutterclosed. Award-winning biographer Denise Chong's portrait of KimPhuc-who eventually defected to Canada and is now a UNESCOspokesperson-is a rare look at the Vietnam War from the Vietnamesepoint-of-view and one of the only books to describe everyday lifein the wake of this war and to probe its lingering effects on allits participants.

A sexy new voice in erotica delivers a hot twist on theholidays. This season, the only gift attorney Isabella Andreuwants to unwrap is Navy SEAL Justin Rourke. She never set out tobed her sexy childhood rival over the holidays, but when a blizzardhits their sleepy hometown, she weathers the storm with Justin, andgives in to long- suppressed desires. Then Justin learns that hehas only twelve nights before he's deployed on another high-riskmission. Now, only one thing is certain-Isabella and Justin are infor twelve steamy, sexy, unforgettably wicked nights.

Nobel Prize-winner Jose Saramago's brilliant new novel posesthe question -- what happens when the grim reaper decides therewill be no more death? On the first day of the new year, no onedies. This of course causes consternation among politicians,religious leaders, morticians, and doctors. Among the generalpublic, on the other hand, there is initially celebration--flagsare hung out on balconies, people dance in the streets. They haveachieved the great goal of humanity: eternal life. Then realityhits home--families are left to care for the permanently dying,life-insurance policies become meaningless, and funeral parlors arereduced to arranging burials for pet dogs, cats, hamsters, andparrots.Death sits in her chilly apartment, where she lives alonewith scythe and filing cabinets, and contemplates her experiment:What if no one ever died again? What if she, death with a small "d," became human and were to fall in love?

Released from prison, Shadow finds his world turned upside down. His wife has been a mysterious stranger offers him a job. But Mr. Wednesday, who knows more about Shadow than is possible, warns that a storm is coming -- a battle for the very soul of America . . . and they are in its direct path. One of the most talked-about books of the new millennium, American Gods is a kaleidoscopic journey deep into myth and across an American landscape at once eerily familiar and utterly alien. It is, quite simply, a contemporary masterpiece.

Setting out to make his fortune in a far-off country, a youngtraveller discovers the remote and beautiful land of Erewhon, andis given a home among its extraordinarily handsome citizens. Buttheir visitor soon discovers that this seemingly ideal communityhas its faults - here crime is treated indulgently as a malady tobe cured, while illness, poverty and misfortune are cruellypunished, and all machines have been superstitiously destroyedafter a bizarre prophecy. Can he survive in a world where moralityis turned upside down? Inspired by Samuel Butler's years incolonial New Zealand, and by his reading of Darwin's "Origin ofSpecies", Erewhon (1872) is a highly original, irreverent andhumorous satire on conventional virtues, religious hypocrisy andthe unthinking acceptance of beliefs.