Its nearly Cedric the dragons bedtime -- theres just time for his mum to read him his favourite book. Unfortunately for her Cedric likes the story so much that he wants to hear it again.. .and again.. .and again.. .with incendiary consequences! A typically clever & irresistible book from a star talent. ...

Sharrow was once the leader of a personality-attuned combat team in one of the sporadic little commercial wars in the civilisation based around the planet Golter. Now she is hunted by the Huhsz a religious cult which believes that she is the last obstacle before the faith's apotheosis & her only hope of escape is to find the last of the apocalyptically powerful Lazy Guns before the Huhsz find her. Her journey through the exotic Golterian system is a destructive & savage odyssey into her past & that of her family & of the system itself. ...

In this no-holds-barred account the former head of the United Nations in Sudan reveals for the first time the shocking depths of evil plumbed by those who designed & orchestrated 'the final solution' in Darfur. A veteran of humanitarian crisis & ethnic cleansing in Iraq Rwanda Srebrenica Afghanistan & Sierra Leone Dr Mukesh Kapila arrived in Sudan in March 2003 having made a promise to himself that if he were ever in a position to stop the mass-killers they would never triumph on his watch. Against a Tide of Evil is a strident & passionate cri de coeur. It is the deeply personal account of one man driven to extreme action by the unwillingness of those in power to stop mass murder. It explores what empowers a man like Mukesh Kapila to stand up & be counted & to act alone in the face of global indifference & venality. Kapila's story reads like a knife-edge international thriller as he risks all to use the powers at his disposal to bring to justice those responsible for the first mass murder of the twenty-first century: the Darfur genocide. ...

Against All Enemies" is the first Max Moore novel by bestselling author Tom Clancy. When Ex-Navy SEAL & CIA operative Maxwell Moore barely survives a prisoner exchange that goes explosively wrong off the coast of Pakistan he realises that powerful cunning forces have been marshalled against him. Determined to dig out the truth he uncovers a shocking conspiracy. The two greatest threats to U.S. security have forged an unholy alliance. For the Mexican drug cartel it means money power & control of the drug trade. But for the Taliban it is an opportunity to bring the fire of jihad to the heartland of the infidel. Now Moore & his depleted team must infiltrate the drug cartel in the hunt for terrorists preparing to bring destruction to Americas streets. From the remote war-scarred landscapes of the Middle East to the blood-soaked chaos of the U.S.-Mexico border Tom Clancy delivers a heart-stopping thriller you wont forget. In " Against All Enemies" Tom Clancy introduces Max Moore a character set to join Jack Ryan as one of the great heroes of modern thriller writing. Previous Jack Ryan titles include " Locked On" & " Dead or Alive". Praise for Tom Clancy: "A brilliantly constructed thriller". (" Daily Mail"). " Truly riveting a dazzling read". (" Sunday Express"). Thirty years ago Tom Clancy was a Maryland insurance broker with a passion for naval history. His first novel " The Hunt for Red October" catapulted on to the " New York Times" bestseller list after President Reagan pronounced it the perfect yarn. Since then Clancy has established himself as an undisputed master at blending exceptional realism & authenticity intricate plotting & razor-sharp suspense. Peter Telep is a " New York Times" bestselling author who has written almost forty novels spanning many genres. A produced screenwriter he teaches creative writing fiction writing & script-writing courses at the University of Central Florida." ...

Against All Enemies" is the first Max Moore novel by bestselling author Tom Clancy. When Ex-Navy SEAL & CIA operative Maxwell Moore barely survives a prisoner exchange that goes explosively wrong off the coast of Pakistan he realises that powerful cunning forces have been marshalled against him. Determined to dig out the truth he uncovers a shocking conspiracy. The two greatest threats to U.S. security have forged an unholy alliance. For the Mexican drug cartel it means money power & control of the drug trade. But for the Taliban it is an opportunity to bring the fire of jihad to the heartland of the infidel. Now Moore & his depleted team must infiltrate the drug cartel in the hunt for terrorists preparing to bring destruction to Americas streets. From the remote war-scarred landscapes of the Middle East to the blood-soaked chaos of the U.S.-Mexico border Tom Clancy delivers a heart-stopping thriller you wont forget. In " Against All Enemies" Tom Clancy introduces Max Moore a character set to join Jack Ryan as one of the great heroes of modern thriller writing. Previous Jack Ryan titles include " Locked On" & " Dead or Alive". Praise for Tom Clancy: "A brilliantly constructed thriller". (" Daily Mail"). " Truly riveting a dazzling read". (" Sunday Express"). Thirty years ago Tom Clancy was a Maryland insurance broker with a passion for naval history. His first novel " The Hunt for Red October" catapulted on to the " New York Times" bestseller list after President Reagan pronounced it the perfect yarn. Since then Clancy has established himself as an undisputed master at blending exceptional realism & authenticity intricate plotting & razor-sharp suspense. Peter Telep is a " New York Times" bestselling author who has written almost forty novels spanning many genres. A produced screenwriter he teaches creative writing fiction writing & script-writing courses at the University of Central Florida." ...

Desperate for help to find her adopted son Jeremiah Linden Avery has resurrected Thomas Covenant in a cataclysmic exertion of Earthpower & wild magic. But the consequences of her efforts are more terrible than she could have imagined. Sorcery on that scale has awakened the Worm of the Worlds End: the ultimate end of all Time & therefore of all life has been set in motion. & on a more personal level the results are no less extreme. The stress of reincarnation so many centuries after his death has fractured Covenants mind. He cannot tell Linden where to find her son. & his leprosy has renewed its grip on him inexorably killing his nerves. The Ranyhyn had tried to warn her. Now plunged to depths of desperation & despair for which she is entirely unprepared Linden seeks radical responses to the dilemmas she has created. Searching for Jeremiah & accompanied only by a few friends & allies
- some of them unwilling
- she takes chances that threaten her sanity forcing her to confront the Lands most fearsome secrets. Dreadful futures hinge on all of her choices & she & her companions are driven beyond the limits of their endurance. Yet she still walks paths laid out for her by the Despiser & his forces are ready.. .

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A Business Week New York Times Business & USA Today Bestseller Ambitious & readable.. .an engaging introduction to the oddsmakers whom Bernstein regards as true humanists helping to release mankind from the choke holds of superstition & fatalism." -The New York Times " An extraordinarily entertaining & informative book." -The Wall Street Journal "A lively panoramic book.. . Against the Gods sets up an ambitious premise & then delivers on it." -Business Week " Deserves to be & surely will be widely read." -The Economist "[A] challenging book one that may change forever the way people think about the world." -Worth " No one else could have written a book of such central importance with so much charm & excitement." -Robert Heilbroner author The Worldly Philosophers " With his wonderful knowledge of the history & current manifestations of risk Peter Bernstein brings us Against the Gods. Nothing like it will come out of the financial world this year or ever. I speak carefully: no one should miss it." -John Kenneth Galbraith Professor of Economics Emeritus Harvard University In this unique exploration of the role of risk in our society Peter Bernstein argues that the notion of bringing risk under control is one of the central ideas that distinguishes modern times from the distant past. Against the Gods chronicles the remarkable intellectual adventure that liberated humanity from oracles & soothsayers by means of the powerful tools of risk management that are available to us today. " An extremely readable history of risk." -Barrons " Fascinating.. .this challenging volume will help you understand the uncertainties that every investor must face." -Money "A singular achievement." -Times Literary Supplement " Theres a growing market for savants who can render the recondite intelligibly-witness Stephen Jay Gould (natural history) Oliver Sacks (disease) Richard Dawkins (heredity) James Gleick (physics) Paul Krugman (economics)-and Bernstein would mingle well in their company." -The Australian" ...

This book is not just an invaluable piece of social history & railway folklore it is a treasure trove of tales & a joy to read. The Settle to Carlisle line has become famous far beyond the realms of railway enthusiasts for many reasons. An improbable main line climbing through spectacular mountain scenery it has long been legendary as a magnificent setting for steam locomotives working against the grade. What has until now received less emphasis are the true tales of men
- & women
- who have metaphorically worked against the grade to keep the line running in conditions often challenging in the extreme. Mike Harding says it all in his foreword to this long-awaited book: It is the human stories that have always set the Settle-Carlisle apart from other lesser lines & those you will find here in plenty; true gems told simply by men & women who have worked on the line or lived alongside it. This book is not just an invaluable piece of social history & railway folklore it is a treasure trove of tales & a joy to read". Here is brought to life the drama of keeping the tracks clear of snow in past winters that make the recent conditions of 2010/11 seem comparatively easy. Here too is the saga of the railway family who lived at Blea Moor a location so remote that the only way a daughter could leave for her wedding was in the grimy cab of a steam locomotive! There are many similar tales all firmly set on one of the great railway wonders of the world. Hitherto unpublished photographs & cartoon-style line drawings complete this compelling book."

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Simon Yates is the one who cut the rope in Joe Simpsons award-winning account of their epic struggle for survival in Touching the Void. Afterwards Yates continued mountaineering on the hardest routes. Perhaps the most testing of all was one of the worlds largest vertical rockfaces the 4 000-ft East Face of the Central Tower of Paine in Chile. Battered by ferocious storms & almost crippled with fear just below the summit Yates & his three companions are forced into a nightmare retreat. After resting in a nearby town they return to complete the climb but Yates knows he still has to face one of lifes greatest challenges... ...

The book engages in a polemical critique of recent efforts to revive World Literature models of literary studies (Moretti Casanova etc) on the grounds that they construct their curricula on an assumption of translatability. As a result incommensurability & what Apter calls the untranslatable" are insufficiently built into the literary heuristic. Drawing on philosophies of translation developed by de Man Derrida Sam Weber Barbara Johnson Abdelfattah Kilito & Edouard Glissant as well as on the way in which "the untranslatable" is given substancein the context of Barbara Cassin's Vocabulaire europeen des philosophies: Dictionnaire des intraduisibles the aim is to activate Untranslatability as a theoretical fulcrum of Comparative Literature with bearing on approaches to world literature literary world systems & literary history the politics of periodization the translation of philosophy & theory the bounds of non-secular proscription & cultural sanction free versus privatized authorial property & the poetics of translational difference." ...