An epochal saga from the acclaimed author of Remainder, C takes place in the early years of the twentieth century and ranges from western England to Europe to North Africa.Serge Carrefax spends his childhood at Versoie House, where his father teaches deaf children to speak when he's not experimenting with wireless telegraphy. Sophie, Serge's sister and only connection to the world at large, takes outrageous liberties with Serge's young body — which may explain the unusual sexual predilections that haunt him for the rest of his life. After recuperating from a mysterious illness at a Bohemian spa, Serge serves in World War I as a radio operator. C culminates in a bizarre scene in an Egyptian catacomb where all Serge's paths and relationships at last converge.Tom McCarthy's mesmerizing, often hilarious accomplishment effortlessly blends the generational breadth of Ian McEwan with the postmodern wit of Thomas Pynchon and marks a writer rapidly becoming one of the most significant and original voices of his generation.

Tom McCarthy

JONATHAN CAPE.

Literature & Fiction

Literary

The first novel written by Booker finalist Tom McCarthy—acclaimed author of Remainder and C—Men in Space is set in a Central Europe rapidly fragmenting after the fall of communism. It follows an oddball cast—dissolute bohemians, political refugees, a football referee, a disorientated police agent, and a stranded astronaut—as they chase a stolen painting from Sofia to Prague and onward. Planting the themes that McCarthy’s later works develop, here McCarthy questions the meaning of all kinds of space—physical, political, emotional, and metaphysical—as reflected in the characters’ various disconnections. What emerges is a vision of humanity adrift in history, and a world in a state of disintegration. With an afterword by Simon Critchley, author of The Book of Dead Philosophers

Men in Space

Dramas & Plays

Vintage

Professional baseball in Trenton, New Jersey, stumbled through the twentieth century with sporadic success. The state capital seemed lost amid the professional sports world in New York and Philadelphia. Years later, minor-league baseball returned to the city and to a fan base exceeding most in Double-A baseball.Baseball in Trenton follows the spurts of success that saw the Senators, Dodgers, Phillies, and Giants place farm teams in the city, producing Hall of Famer Willie Mays and base stealer George Case. In 1993, a group of New Jersey entrepreneurs decided to bring minor-league baseball back to Trenton. The ambitious result was the Trenton Thunder, who became the most successful and consistent minor-league baseball team in the country. Baseball in Trenton is the first history of this incredible rise to glory.

Baseball in Trenton (NJ) (Images of Baseball)

Arts & Photography

Photography & Video

Arcadia Publishing

This book will show you how to master the two most important elements of a persuasive presentation. First, you’ll learn to structure your message effectively to take your audience from where they are to where you want them to end up. Remember, a presentation is only effective if it produces a pre-determined result that you intended it to achieve. Second, you’ll discover how to deliver your message in such a way that your audience is moved emotionally so they will want to go with you to your ultimate goal. A presentation is the transfer of emotion. You must get your audience to feel empowering feelings about the information and ideas that you are delivering. This system for persuasive presentations can be applied in every area of your life where you want to persuade individuals or groups. Whether you’re talking to your spouse about a ski trip, your kids about staying away from drugs, the parents of your Little League Team or the P.T.A. about a new ballfield, your city council about improvements to your community, your boss about a raise, your latest prospect about a million-dollar contract, your co-workers about an important project, your management team about a company reorganization, or an audience of thousands about a revolutionary idea or project, you must be able to communicate your ideas clearly in a way that will engage the emotions as well as logic. You will learn how to enjoy the process of communicating and how to develop a relaxed approach. These skills will aid you in persuading others of your message, and will make presentations something you look forward to with excitement and anticipation instead of dread. No matter whether you consider yourself a great presenter or the worst speaker on God’s earth, the ideas in this book will help you get better. You already have what it takes to be an outstanding presenter inside of you now. This book will help you tap into the power to communicate persuasively that is already within you.

Fire Up Your Presentations & Fire Up Your Results

Reference

Words, Language & Grammar

Prime Concepts Group, Inc.

Log 22: The Absurd gets serious about the seemingly irrational side of architecture. Guest edited by Michael Meredith of MOS, this special thematic issue identifies the funny, ugly, contradictory, and more fuzzy realms of architecture, disavowing the purported orderliness of disciplinary presumptions to uncloak the implausibility at its core (maybe even its origin) and present new possibilities for experimentation. Sketches, tweets, a book of exorcisms, a comic, and a special DVD are presented alongside critical and provocative essays on hoarding, disaster, failure, and bowlers (as in hats). Log 22 features: Sylvia Lavin on architecture's accommodation of hoarding; Jacques Ranciere on the conundrums of art and life; and Lucia Allais on Superstudio's 'Salvages of Italian Historic Centers,' a 1974 project presented here for the first time in English. Also in the issue: Mark Jarzombek on Bruno Taut's attack of seriousness; David Foster Wallace on Kafka's funniness; Amanda Reeser Lawrence on the self-influence of James Stirling; Caroline O'Donnell on Karl Rosenkranz's aesthetic of ugliness; and K. Michael Hays and Marrikka Trotter on fictions in recent architecture. Plus: a comic by Jimenez Lai; a spectrum of social orderliness by Jeffrey Kipnis; an overlooked Donald Judd project; machines by Francois Roche; tweets from the Bauhaus; a DVD by MOS; and much more.

Log 22

Simon Critchley

Michael Meredith

Jimenez Lai

François Roche

Sylvia Lavin

Mark Jarzombek

K. Michael Hays

Jeffrey Kipnis

Sam Jacob

Amanda Reeser Lawrence

John McMorrough

Lucia Allais

Timothy Hyde

Caroline O'Donnell

Michael Osman

Superstudio

Anyone Corporation

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Business & Money

Ingram Spark

The Complete Hogan

Jim McLean

Turner Publishing

The Complete Hogan: A Shot-by-Shot Analysis of Golf's Greatest Swing

wiley

The Making of Incarnation

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