Warsaw 1944: The Fateful Uprising

History

Alexandra Richie

Europe

China Press

Language:Chinese.Paperback. Pub Date :2004-1-1 Pages:. 375 A guilty man walks alone into the cold mountain forests of Washington State. aiming never to return What he finds there starts a chain of events that will quickly spiral out of control Meanwhile. in Los Angeles a womans body is discovered. sitting bolt upright in a motel bedroom. She is dead. and her killer has left his mark. It soon becomes clear he has something to say. and a lot more work to do. And Ward Hopkins . and ex-CIA agent recovering from the recent shocking death of his parents. is on the trail of his past. tracking down the men who destroyed everything he once held dear. and the murderer whose face he sees every time he looks in the mirror

Lonely Dead

MICHAEL MARSHALL SMITH

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Emperor Series (5) Emperor: The Blood of Gods (Emperor Series)

Paperback. Pub Date :2013-10-08 Pages: 512 Language: English The epic new novel in Conn Iggulden's bestselling EMPEROR series.Julius Caesar has been assassinated A nation is in mourning Revenge will be bloody.Rome 's great hero Julius Caesar has.. been brutally murdered by his most trusted allies While these self-appointed Liberatores seek refuge in the senate. they have underestimated one man:. Caesar's adopted son Octavian. a man whose name will echo through history as Augustus Caesar.Uniting with his great rival Mark Antony. Octavian will stop at nothing to seek retribution from the traitors and avenge his father's death. His greatest hatred is reserved for Brutus. Caesar's childhood friend and greatest ally. now leader of the conspirators.As the people take to the streets of Rome. the Liberatores must face their fate Some flee the city;. others will not escape mob justic...

Emperor: The Blood of Gods (Emperor Series)

Literature & Fiction

IGGULDEN, CONN

Genre Fiction

Paperback. Pub Date :2013-08-29 Pages: 336 Language: English Justine Picardie has spent the last decade puzzling over the truth about Coco Chanel. attempting to peel away the accretions of romance and lies In this critically acclaimed. bestselling biography she. shares the history of the incredible woman who created the way we look now.Coco Chanel was an extraordinary inventor - she conjured up the little black dress. bobbed hair. trousers for women. contemporary chic. best-selling perfumes. and the most successful fashion brand of all time - but she also invented herself. fashioning the myth of her own life with the same dexterity as her couture.While Chanel was supreme innovator and vendor of all things elegant and beautiful. what lies beneath her own glossy myth is far darker . Throwing new light on her passionate and turbulent relationships. this beautifully constructed ...

Coco Chanel: The Legend and the Life

Arts & Photography

Justine Picardie

Graphic Design

Sidney Sheldon's the Tides of Memory

Sidney Sheldon, Tilly Bagshawe

Thrillers & Suspense

Paperback. Pub Date :2013-09-12 Pages: 672 Language: English A magisterial chronicle of the calamity that crippled Europe in 1914.1914: a year of unparalleled change The year that diplomacy failed. Imperial Europe was thrown into its first modernised warfare and. white-gloved soldiers rode in their masses across pastoral landscapes into the blaze of machine-guns What followed were the costliest days of the entire War But how had it happenedIn Catastrophe:.. 1914 Max Hastings. best-selling author of the acclaimed All Hell Let Loose. answers at last how World War I could ever have begun Ranging across Europe. from Paris to St Petersberg. from Kings to corporals. Catastrophe 1914 traces how tensions across the continent kindled into a blaze of battles;.. not the stalemates of later trench-warfare but battles of movement and dash where Napoleonic tactics met with weapons from a ...

Catastrophe: Europe Goes to War 1914

MAX HASTINGS

The Skull and the Nightingale

Paperback. Pub Date :2013-08-29 Pages: 496 Language: English Set in England in the early 1760s. this is a chilling and deliciously dark tale of manipulation. sex. and seduction.When Richard Fenwick. a young man without family or means. returns to London from the Grand Tour. his wealthy godfather. James Gilbert. has an unexpected proposition. Gilbert has led a fastidious life in Worcestershire. but now in his advancing years. he feels the urge to experience. even vicariously. the extremes of human feeling-love and passion. adultery and deceit-along with something much more sinister. He has selected Fenwick to be his proxy. and his ward has no option but to accept.But Gilbert's elaborate and manipulative experiments into the workings of human behaviour drag Fenwick into a vortex of betrayal and danger where lives are ruined and tragedy is always one small step away And when Fe...

Michael Irwin

How technology boosts our cognitive abilities—making us smarter, more productive, and more creative than ever beforeIt’s undeniable: technology is changing the way we think. But is it for the better? Amid a chorus of doomsayers, Clive Thompson votes yes. The Internet age has produced a radical new style of human intelligence, worthy of both celebration and investigation. We learn more and retain information longer, write and think with global audiences in mind, and even gain an ESP-like awareness of the world around us. Modern technology is making us smarter and better connected, both as individuals and as a society.In Smarter Than You Think, Thompson documents how every technological innovation—from the printing press to the telegraph—has provoked the very same anxieties that plague us today. We panic that life will never be the same, that our attentions are eroding, that culture is being trivialized. But as in the past, we adapt, learning to use the new and retaining what’s good of the old.Thompson introduces us to a cast of extraordinary characters who augment their minds in inventive ways. There’s the seventy-six-year-old millionaire who digitally records his every waking moment, giving him instant recall of the events and ideas of his life going back decades. There are the courageous Chinese students who mounted an online movement that shut down a $1.6 billion toxic copper plant. There are experts and there are amateurs, including a global set of gamers who took a puzzle that had baffled HIV scientists for a decade and solved it collaboratively—in only one month.But Smarter Than You Think isn’t just about pioneers, nor is it simply concerned with the world we inhabit today. It’s about our future. How are computers improving our memory? How will our social “sixth sense” change the way we learn? Which tools are boosting our intelligence—and which ones are hindering our progress? Smarter Than You Think embraces and interrogates this transformation, offering a provocative vision of our shifting cognitive landscape.

Smarter than You Think: How Technology Is Changing Our Minds for the Better

Science & Math

Clive Thompson

Technology

Paperback. Pub Date :2013-05-09 Pages: 160 Language: English Ken Blanchard is famous for his ability to make the seemingly complex simple In Trust Works he brings his talent to bear on the complicated and timely issue of trust.The.! book begins with an allegory -. in this case. its the story of a dog and a cat with major trust issues Their fighting. backbiting. and sabotaging soon affects the whole household -. including the humans It quickly becomes clear that unless the ongoing conflicts can be resolved. all of the pets will be without a home. Through the counsel of a wise old parrot. the animals learn the ABCDs of trust. becoming aware of the unconscious behaviours that had been eroding their relationships and begin to change their actions. In the end. the results have a positive effect that reaches far beyond the dog and cats relationship. Applying lessons presented in t...

Trust Works

Ken Blanchard . Cynthia Olmstead . Martha Lawrence

The Kraus Project

Paperback. Pub Date :2011-08-01 Pages: 336 Language: English A great American writer's confrontation with a great European critic - a personal and intellectual awakening.A hundred years ago. the Viennese satirist Karl Kraus was among the most penetrating and prophetic writers in Europe: a relentless critic of the popular media's manipulation of reality. the dehumanizing machinery of technology and consumerism. and the jingoistic rhetoric of a fading empire But even though his followers included Franz Kafka and Walter Benjamin. he remained something of a lonely. prophet. and few people today are familiar with his work. Thankfully. Jonathan Franzen is one of them.In 'The Kraus Project'. Franzen not only presents and annotates his definitive new translations of Kraus. with supplementary notes from the Kraus scholar Paul Reitter and the Austrian writer Daniel Kehlmann In Franzen...

Jonathan Franzen

Essays & Correspondence

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