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The Forsyte Saga The Forsyte Saga is John Galsworthy's monumental chronicle of the lives of the moneyed Forsytes, a family whose values are constantly at war with its passions. The story of Soames Forsyte's marriage to the beautiful and rebellious Irene, and its effects upon the whole Forsyte clan, The Forsyte Saga is a brilliant social satire of the acquisitive sensibilities of a comfort-bound class in its final glory. Galsworthy spares none of his characters, revealing their weaknesses and shortcomings as clearly as he does the tenacity and perseverance that define the strongest members of the Forsyte family. This edition contains the three original novels, The Man of Property, In Chancery, and To Let, and their connecting interludes, Indian Summer of a Forsyte and Awakening.
Sula As girls, Nel and Sula are the best of friends, only children who find in each other a kindred spirit to share in each girl's loneliness and imagination. When they meet again as adults, it's clear that Nel has chosen a life of acceptance and accommodation, while Sula must fight to defend her seemingly unconventional choices and beliefs. But regardless of the physical and emotional distance that threatens this extraordinary friendship, the bond between the women remains unbreakable: "Her old friend had come home.... Sula, whose past she had lived through and with whom the present was a constant sharing of perceptions. Talking to Sula had always been a conversation with herself."
The Worlds of Galileo: The Inside Story of NASA's Mission to Jupiter Half a billion miles away, Jupiter rules over an empire that is strange, beautiful and enigmatic. A swirling mass of hurricanes and clouds, the king of the planets presides over a group of worlds that have long dazzled astronomers. The Worlds of Galileo tells the extraordinary story of the American space probe that, five years ago, began studying Jupiter and its moons. The history of the NASA probe, Galileo, and its long space odyssey to the most dramatic corner of the Solar System is a gripping account of a unique journey. Packed with first-hand testimonies form the men and women who made it happen, Michael Hanlon goes behind the scenes to learn just how many times the project was saved from disaster before its ultimate triumph. Illustrated with over one hundred color images straight form the NASA archives, the book reveals the harsh beauty and remarkable landscapes of the Jovian system.
Odes to Common Things "The Odes to Common Things was written toward the end of Neruda's life, in a voice steeped in the wisdom of a life experienced in the greatest joys and horrors of the 20th century. When Neruda writes about a table, a chair, flowers, socks, or soap, these common things become more than everyday banal objects: they are transformed and elevated into metaphors, vehicles for the greater questions that haunt our lives, capturing the often overlooked beauty of everyday life, of the little things that we seem to remember only in our twilight." Ross Saciuk A bilingual collection of 25 newly translated odes by the century's greatest Spanish-language poet, each accompanied by a pair of exquisite pencil drawings. From bread and soap to a bed and a box of tea, the "odes to common things" collected here conjure up the essence of their subjects clearly and wondrously. 50 b&w illustrations.
Deconstructions: A User's Guide Deconstructions: A User's Guide is a new and unusual kind of book. At once a reference work and a series of inventive essays opening up new directions for deconstruction, it is intended as an authoritative and indispensable guide. With specially commissioned essays by leading figures in the field, Deconstructions offers lucid and compelling accounts of deconstruction in relation to a wide range of topics and discourses. Subjects range from the obvious (feminism, technology, postcolonialism) to the less so (drugs, film, weaving), but each of the essays has more than one focus, exploring or opening on to further and other deconstructions. This book has been put together to demonstrate the ceaselessly multiple and altering contexts in which deconstructive thinking and practice are at work, both within and beyond the academy, both within and beyond what is called 'the West'.
Speech! Speech! Caustic and excruciatingly comic, Speech! Speech! is also that rarest of things: a tour de force that is tragic. As imperious as the King, forever issuing commands, and as perilously ingenious in rejoinder as the Fool, the voices of Geoffrey Hill vie to outjest each other, outrage each other, yet also to soothe implacable injuries; injuries suffered, injuries inflicted. Whose, exactly? To some degree (third degree) the poet's own, but not his alone; yours too, gentle reader. In its ferocity and love, in its glimpses of timeless beauty, even in the praises it bestows, this is a supreme "how to" book; how to be (or at least hot to begin the process of being) honest. In speech, for a start. With a poem for each of the 120 days of Sodom, it may go too far; but then, as T. S. Eliot said, it is only by going too far that you find out how far you can go. |
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The Girl in the Picture: The Story of Kim Phuc, the Photograph, and the Vietnam War From the most photographed war in the twentieth century, among the enduring images is one of a little girl screaming in pain and terror after being burned by napalm in an air attack. On June 8, 1972, nine-year-old Kim Phuc ran from her burning village in South Vietnam and into the eye of history. Her photograph, taken by an Associate Press photographer, was seen around the world and helped turn public opinion against the Vietnam War. It is an image that remains branded in the memory of all who lived through the Vietnam years. This book is the story of how that photograph came to be taken and what happened to Kim Phuc after it was taken. It opens up to American readers an unknown world, the world of Vietnam after the American army left and Saigon fell to the Communists from the north.
Cracking the Genome: Inside the Race to Unlock Human DNA In the mid 1980s, a group of scientists began to formulate a plan to assemble the complete sequence of all 3 billion letters of human DNA. Harvard University's Walter Gilbert, who shared the Nobel Prize for DNA sequencing , hailed the challenge as nothing less than biology's quest for the holy grail. After years of argument about the cost and wisdom of systematically procuring the sequence, the Human Genome Project finally got underway in 1990, with a scheduled completion date of 2005. Early progress was rapid, highlighted by the identification of many genes that cause devastating diseases, including muscular dystrophy, Alzheimer's disease, and cancer. But the technology for painstakingly sequencing all 3 billion units of DBA moved more slowly. By the halfway mark of the project's 15-year mandate, only 3 percent of the human genome had been sequenced, raising doubts as to whether it would be finished on time…
John Marshall: Definer of a Nation It was in tolling the death of Chief Justice John Marshall in 1835 that the Liberty Bell cracked, never to ring again. An apt symbol of the man who shaped both Court and country and whose life, as The Wall Street Journal said, "reads like an early history of the United States." Working from primary sources, Jean Edward Smith has drawn an elegant portrait of this remarkable man. Lawyer, jurist, scholar, soldier, comrade, friend; and, most especially, lover of fine Madeira, good food, and animated table talk: the Marshall who emerges from these pages is as noteworthy for his very human qualities as for his piercing intellect, and, perhaps most extraordinary, for his talents as a leader of men and a molder of consensus. A man of many parts, a true son of the Enlightenment, John Marshall did much for his country and John Marshall: Definer of a Nation demonstrates this on every page.
Paradigms Regained: A Further Exploration of the Mysteries of Modern Science John L. Casti's Paradigms Lost framed each Big Question as a mock jury trial with prosecution, defense, and verdict rendered. Now Paradigms Regained reexamines each of these questions as an appellate brief and decides whether or not the previous verdict still holds based on a decade's worth of new evidence from the scientific world's top minds. In Paradigms Regained, noted mathematician and researcher John Casti boldly tackles the Big Questions of science and sets our sights on a thrilling new millennium of discovery. Exploring the extraordinary "what ifs" of the natural world he debates, with penetrating insight, the diverse and competing theories that exist today.
Evolutionary Wars: A Three-Billion-Year Arms Race It is an airborne death machine, capable of taking off backward, accelerating in a fraction of a second, making unbanked turns or even a somersault at full speed, and stopping on a dime in mid-air. It's able to lift double its own weight, and is capable of making up to 400 kills a day. No, it's not the Pentagon's newest high-tech helicopter, but a dragonfly. This winged warrior is just one of the many battle-scarred creatures that fly, swim, and walk through the pages of Evolutionary Wars, an extensively illustrated guide to nature's most ingenious means of attack and defense. From the earliest bacteria and viruses through parasites, plants, and fungi to all creatures great and small, Evolutinary Wars is the story of an arms race that's been raging in the air, on land, and at sea for the last three billion years.
The Later Roman Empire (A. D. 354-378) He was not a professional man of letters but an army officer of Greek origin born at Antioch and contemporary with the events described in what remains of his work. He set himself the task of continuing the histories of Tacitus from A. D. 96 down to his own day. The first thirteen of his thirty-one books are lost; the remainder describe a period of only twenty-five years (A. D. 354-378) and the reigns of the emperors Constantius, Julian, Jovian, Valentinian and Valens, for which he is a prime authority. He was a pagan and an admirer of the apostate Julian, to whose career about half the surviving books are devoted. Nevertheless, his treatment of Christianity is free from prejudice and his impartiality and good judgement have been generally acknowledged. |
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