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

A magnificent volume of short novels and an essential WorldWar II report from one of America's great twentieth-centurywriters On the heels of the enormous success of his masterwork The Grapesof Wrath-and at the height of the American war effort-JohnSteinbeck, one of the most prolific and influential literaryfigures of his generation, wrote Bombs Away, a nonfiction accountof his experiences with U.S. Army Air Force bomber crews duringWorld War II. Now, for the first time since its originalpublication in 1942, Penguin Classics presents this exclusiveedition of Steinbeck's introduction to the then-nascent U.S. ArmyAir Force and its bomber crew-the essential core unit behindAmerican air power that Steinbeck described as "the greatest teamin the world."

Starting with a rush-hour subway ride to South Station inBoston to catch the Lake Shore Limited to Chicago, Theroux winds upon the poky, wandering Old Patagonian Express steam engine, whichcomes to a halt in a desolate land of cracked hills and thornbushes. But with Theroux the view along the way is what matters:the monologuing Mr. Thornberry in Costa Rica, the bogus priest ofCali, and the blind Jorge Luis Borges, who delights in havingTheroux read Robert Louis Stevenson to him.

In this superb work of fiction, Nobel Laureate Saul Bellowwrites comically and wisely about the tenacious claims of firstlove. Harry Trellman, an aging, astute businessman, has neverbelonged anywhere and is as awkward in his human attachments as heis gifted in observing the people around him. But Harry'sobservational talents have not gone unnoticed by "trillionaire"Sigmund Adletsky, who retains Harry as his advisor. Soon the oldman discovers Harry's intense forty-year passion for atwice-divorced interior designer, Amy Wustrin. At the exhumationand reburial of her husband, Harry is provided, thanks to Sigmund,perhaps the final means for disclosing feelings amassed over alifetime. Written late in Bellow's career, "The Actual" is amaestro's dissection of the affairs of the heart.

Written in the third century BC in Alexandria, this is theonly full surviving account of Jason's legendary quest for theGolden Fleece. It describes the thrilling adventures of theArgonauts on their voyage to Colchis to plead with king Aeetes forthe fleece, his greatest treasure and the Eros-inspired passionfelt by his daughter, the beautiful witch-princess Medea, for thescheming Jason. Chronicling a journey that sees Jason and his crewtraverse perilous seas, negotiate the treacherous Cyanean Rocks,and confront the lure of the Sirens' song, The Voyage of Argo is amasterful depiction of distinctly human heroism and betrayal causedby love. An eloquent marriage of romance and realism, it tells thedefinitive version of one of the greatest legends of the classicalage: an epic tale of bravery, prophecy and magic.

Today, an entomologist in a laboratory can gaze at a butterflypupa with a microscope so powerful that the swirling cells on thepupas skin look like a galaxy. She can activate a single gene orknock it out. What she cant do is discover how the insect behavesin its natural habitatwhich means she doesnt know what steps totake to preserve it from extinction, nor how any particular genemay interact with the environment. Four hundred years ago, afifty-year-old Dutch woman set sail on a solo scientific expeditionto study insect metamorphosis. She could not have imagined theroutine magic that scientists perform todaybut her absoluteinsistence on studying insects in their natural habitats was so farahead of its time that it is only now coming back into favor.Chrysalis restores Maria Sibylla Merian to her rightful place inthe history of science, taking us from golden-age Amsterdam to theSurinam tropics to modern laboratories where Merians insights fuelnew approaches to both ecology and genetics.

Rand al' Thor, the Dragon Reborn, strives to bind the nationsof the world to his will, to forge the alliances that will fightthe advance of the Shadow and to ready the forces of Light for theLast Battle. But there are other powers that seek to command thewar against the Dark One. In the White Tower the Amyrlin Elaidasets a snare to trap the Dragon, whilst the rebel Aes Sedai schemeto bring her down. And as the realms of men fall into chaos theimmortal Forsaken and the servants of the Dark plan their assaulton the Dragon Reborn ...Find out more about this title and othersat www.orbitbooks.co.uk

Drawing on her investigative and literary talents, JuliaKeller offers a riveting account of the invention of the world'sfirst working machine gun. Through her portrait of itsmisunderstood creator, Richard Jordan Gatling-who naively hopedthat the overwhelming effectiveness of a multiple-firing weaponwould save lives by decreasing the size of armies and reducing thenumber of soldiers needed to fight-Keller draws profound parallelsto the scientists who would unleash America's atomic arsenal half acentury later. The Gatling gun, in its combination of ingenuity,idealism, and destructive power, perfectly exemplifies the paradoxof America's rise in the nineteenth century to a worldsuperpower.

The Last Battle has started. The seals on the Dark One'sprison are crumbling. The Pattern itself is unravelling, and thearmies of the Shadow have begun to spill out of the Blight. PerrinAybara is haunted by spectres from his past. To prevail, he mustfind a way to master the wolf within him or lose himself to it forever. Meanwhile, Matrim Cauthon prepares for the most difficultchallenge of his life. The Tower of Ghenjei awaits, and its secretswill reveal the fate of a friend long lost. The end draws near.It's time to roll the dice.

Carson McCullers--novelist, dramatist, poet--was at the peakof her powers as a writer of short fiction. Here are nineteenstories that explore her signature themes: wounded adolescence,loneliness in marriage, and the tragicomedy of life in the South.Here too are "The Member of the Wedding" and "The Ballad of the SadCafe," novellas that Tennessee Williams judged to be "assuredlyamong the masterpieces of our language." (A Mariner Reissue)

The author who "weaves a story like no one else" ("RockyMountain News") presents her dazzling trilogy of three women whoshared a home and a c childhood-but grew to fulfill their ownunique destinies. Includes the complete trilogy: "Daring to Dream"Amidst the grandeur of Templeton House, Margo, Kate, and Laura werebrought up like sisters. But it is Margo, the housekeeper'sdaughter, whose dreams first take her far away on a magnificentjourney full of risk and reward. "Holding the Dream" Kate knew shehad something her friends Margo and Laura could never have--ashrewd head for business. But now, faced with professionalimpropriety, Kate is forced to look deep within herself. "Findingthe Dream" Laura seemed to have it all. Beautiful and intelligent,there was nothing that could keep her from her dreams. Until fatetook away the man she thought she loved.

As the very fabric of reality wears thin all portents indicatethat Tarmon Gai'don, the Last Battle, is imminent - and Randal'Thor must ready himself to confront the Dark One. But Rand mustfirst negotiate a truce with the Seanchan armies, as their forcesincreasingly sap his strength. Perrin has made his own desperatetruce with the Seanchan - he would deal with the Dark One himselfto save his wife Faile from the Shaido. Meanwhile, Mat is caught upin a reckless escape from Ebou Dar with the kidnapped Daughter ofthe Nine Moons. But Tuon is in fact in deadly danger from herSeanchan countrymen. Mat will have to risk much to prevail andstill win her as his bride. All is in flux as established powersfalter ...In Caemlyn, Elayne fights to gain the Lion Throne whiletrying to avert civil war and Egwene finds that even the WhiteTower is no longer a place of safety. The winds of time havewhirled into a storm, and Rand and his companions ride in thevortex. This small company must prevail against the trials of fatean

Amazon Best of the Month, August 2010: "The awful thing about life is this:" says Octave to the Marquis in Renoir's Rules of the Game. "Everyone has his reasons." That could be a motto for novelists as well, few more so than Jonathan Franzen, who seems less concerned with creating merely likeable characters than ones who are fully alive, in all their self-justifying complexity. Freedom is his fourth novel, and, yes, his first in nine years since The Corrections. Happy to say, it's very much a match for that great book, a wrenching, funny, and forgiving portrait of a Midwestern family (from St. Paul this time, rather than the fictional St. Jude). Patty and Walter Berglund find each other early: a pretty jock, focused on the court and a little lost off it, and a stolid budding lawyer, besotted with her and almost burdened by his integrity. They make a family and a life together, and, over time, slowly lose track of each other. Their stories align at times with Big Issues--among them mountaintop removal, war pro

Best-selling novelist Harlan Coben, a master of suspense andcreator of the critically-acclaimed Myron Bolitar series, editsthis latest collection of the must-reads in mysteries from the pastyear.

In Munich, a Jewish scholar is assassinated. In Venice, Mossadagent and art restorer Gabriel Allon receives the news, puts downhis brushes, and leaves immediately. And at the Vatican, the newpope vows to uncover the truth about the church's response to theHolocaust-while a powerful cardinal plots his next move. Now, asAllon follows a trail of secrets and unthinkable deeds, the livesof millions are changed forever-and the life of one man becomesexpendable...

Psychiatrist Andrew Marlowe has a perfectly ordered life ?solitary, perhaps, but full of devotion to his profession and thepainting hobby he loves. This order is destroyed when renownedpainter Robert Oliver attacks a canvas in the National Gallery ofArt and becomes his patient. Desperate to understand the secretthat torments this genius, Marlowe embarks on a journey that leadshim into the lives of the women closest to Oliver and a tragedy atthe heart of French Impressionism. Kostova's masterful new noveltravels from American cities to the coast of Normandy; from thelate nineteenth century to the late twentieth, from young love tolast love. The Swan Thieves is a story of obsession, history'slosses, and the power of art to preserve hope.

Passionate and perceptive, the three short novels that make upBalzac's "History of the Thirteen" are concerned in part with theactivities of a rich, powerful, sinister and unscrupulous secretsociety in nineteenth-century France. While the deeds of "TheThirteen" remain frequently in the background, however, theindividual novels are concerned with exploring various forms ofdesire. A tragic love story, Ferragus depicts a marriage destroyedby suspicion, revelation and misunderstanding. The Duchess deLangeais explores the anguish that results when a society coquettetries to seduce a heroic ex-soldier, while "The Girl with theGolden Eyes" offers a frank consideration of desire and sexuality.Together, these works provide a firm and fascinating foundation forBalzac's many later portrayals of Parisian life in his greatnovel-cycle "The Human Comedy".

Many people among them Henry James) have considered Balzac tobe the greatest of all novelists. Eugenie Grandet, his spare,classical story of a girl whose life is blighted by her father'shysterical greed, goes a long way to justifying that opinion. Oneof the most magnificent of his tales of early nineteenth-centuryFrench provincial life, this novel is the work of a writer on whomnothing was lost, and who represents most fully the ability of thehuman animal to understand and illuminate its own condition. Translated By Ellen Marriage With An Introduction By Fredric R.Jameson Fredric R. Jameson is William A. Lane, Jr. Professor ofComparative Literature at Duke University in North Carolina. Hispublications include Sartre: The Origins of a Style, Signatures ofthe Visible, and Post-modernism, or, The Cultural Logic of LateCapitalism, with Aesthetics of the Geopolitical forthcoming. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.

Art restorer and sometime spy Gabriel Allon is sent to Viennato investigate a bombing and uncovers a portrait of evil stretchingacross sixty years and thousands of lives-and into his own personalnightmares.

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On election day in the capital, it is raining so hard that noone has bothered to come out to vote. The politicians are growingjittery. Should they reschedule the elections for another day?Around three o'clock, the rain finally stops. Promptly at four,voters rush to the polling stations, as if they had been ordered toappear. But when the ballots are counted, more than 70 percent areblank. The citizens are rebellious. A state of emergency isdeclared. But are the authorities acting too precipitously? Or evenblindly? The word evokes terrible memories of the plague ofblindness that hit the city four years before, and of the one womanwho kept her sight. Could she be behind the blank ballots? A policesuperintendent is put on the case. What begins as a satire ongovernments and the sometimes dubious efficacy of the democraticsystem turns into something far more sinister. A singular novelfrom the author of Blindness.

This is James Clavell's tour-de-force; an epic saga of one Pilot-Major John Blackthorne, and his integration into the struggles and strife of feudal Japan. Both entertaining and incisive, SHOGUN is a stunningly dramatic re-creation of a very different world.Starting with his shipwreck on this most alien of shores, the novel charts Blackthorne's rise from the status of reviled foreigner up to the hights of trusted advisor and eventually, Samurai. All as civil war looms over the fragile country.