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.

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!

In 1986, Charles Henderson first published Marine Sniper-theincredible story of Gunnery Sergeant Carlos Hathcock, whose 93confirmed kills in Vietnam have never been matched by any sniperbefore or since. Now, the incredible story of a remarkable Marine continues-withharrowing, never-before-published accounts of courage andperseverance. These are the powerful stories of a man who rose togreatness not for personal gain or glory, but for duty and honor. Arare inside look at the U.S. Marine's most challenging missions-andthe one man who made military history.

In this epic showdown from one of the best crime novelists alive(Dennis Lehane), police rookie Derek Strange tries to help hisbrother, a Vietnam vet with a disability pension and a drugproblem. But Washington, D.C., like the rest of the country, soonreels from the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr.

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 . . .

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.

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.

Here in a single volume are the documents, speeches and lettersthat have forged American history, accompanied by interpretationsof their significance by noted historian and broadcaster Richard D.Heffner. The book includes the complete text of the Declaration ofIndependence, the complete Constitution of the United States, theEmancipation Proclamation, FDR's ""Four Freedoms"" speech, JFK'sinaugural address, Martin Luther King's ""I Have a Dream"" speech,documents relating to 9/11 and Barack Obama's inauguraladdress.

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.

在线阅读本书 When Adela and her elderly companion Mrs Moore arrive in the Indiantown of Chandrapore, they quickly feel trapped by its insular andprejudiced British community. Determined to explore the realIndia', they seek the guidance of the charming and mercurial DrAziz, a cultivated Indian Muslim. But a mysterious incident occurswhile they are exploring the Marabar caves with Aziz, and thewell-respected doctor soon finds himself at the centre of a scandalthat rouses violent passions among both the British and theirIndian subjects. A masterly portrait of a society in the grip ofimperialism, A Passage to India compellingly depicts the fate ofindividuals caught between the great political and culturalconflicts of the modern world.

A madman brutally murders two men-both with ties to an uglysecret shared by Lieutenant Eve Dallas' new husband, Roarke.

'War is merely the continuation of policy by other means' On War is one of the most important books ever written on the subject of war. Clausewitz, a Prussian officer who fought against the French during the Napoleonic Wars, sought to understand and analyse the phenomenon of war so that future leaders could conduct and win conflicts more effectively. He studied the human and social factors that affect outcomes, as well as the tactical and technological ones. He understood that war was a weapon of government, and that political purpose, chance, and enmity combine to shape its dynamics. On War continues to be read by military strategists, politicians, and others for its timeless insights. This abridged edition by Beatrice Heuser, using the acclaimed translation by Michael Howard and Peter Paret, selects the central books in which Clausewitz's views on the nature and theory of war are developed. ——This text refers to the Paperback edition.