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 Odds is a rags to riches story of how one family succeeded in the face of adversity & how they lifted thousands of children from poverty around the world through their personal philanthropy. It is a story of love hope & courage that will inspire others to succeed despite personal hardship. At the end of WWII in the Eastern Mediterranean a conflict was still raging in the small island of Cyprus
- a fight for independence from British colonial rule. A young man Louis was caught up in this bloody warfare having escaped death several times. However everything changed when he fell in love with Eleni
- a beautiful 15 year old girl who had been forced into marrying another man by her oppressive mother. Louis rescued Eleni from a life of misery & they married in 1960 choosing to start over in Engl&. But when Louis & Eleni arrived in London they began their new life with no education no money no work & speaking no English. Held together by their love for each other they trod an unbeaten path that involved poverty hardship & uncertainty. Driven by hope & a desire for their children to have a better life Louis & Eleni eventually found success in the healthcare business caring for people with learning disabilities. Against All Odds is Louis Sideras' biography which will inspire others to succeed.

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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
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- 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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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." ...

Seven Deadly Sins
- Seven Motives For Murder. An attractive hardback of seven of the best Agatha Christie crime thrillers themed
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A passionate & accomplished writer Laura Thompson now turns her highly acclaimed biographical skills to Agatha Christie. Arguably the greatest crime writer in the world thirty years after her death Christies books still sell over four million copies worldwide a year. Thompson describes the Edwardian world in which she grew up explores the relationships she had including those with her two husbands & daughter & investigates the mysteries still surrounding Christies life
- including her disappearance in 1926. Agatha Christie is a mystery & writing about her is a detection job in itself. But with access to all of Christies letters papers & writing notebooks as well as interviews with her grandson daughter son-in-law & their living relations Thompson is able to unravel not only the detailed workings of Christies detective fiction but the truth behind her private life as well.
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Agatha Christie was the author of over eighty novels & over a dozen plays including The Mousetrap the longest continuously running play in theatrical history. Her books have been translated into more languages than the works of Shakespeare. Agatha Christie's first home was at Ashfield in Torquay a house that she retained for nearly half a century until she sold it in 1938 in order to buy Greenway her 'dream house' on the River Dart. She spent all her summers there till she died in 1976. It was she wrote: 'the loveliest house in the world.' Now owned by the National Trust Greenway was opened to the public in 2009. Both Devon homes which featured in several of her novels & stories were central to Agatha's life but she also loved the process of acquiring & planning houses in other places
- from Sunningdale to Baghdad: at one time before the Second World War she owned eight properties in London. Her enthusiasm for buying restoring & decorating houses is one of the lesser-known aspects of her life but one that was very important to her. Agatha Christie at Home
- illustrated with photos of her life her homes & of the Devon she loved
- recounts this side of her life & its author Hilary Macaskill writes about some of the houses Agatha Christie lived in her relationship with the staff who ran them & her love of domesticity. Illustrated with rarely-seen archive images & evocative photographs of Greenway & the surrounding countryside Agatha Christie at Home provides an insight into the life & work of a much-loved author.


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This miscellany explores the fascinating & enigmatic world created by the undisputed ' Queen of Crime' Agatha Christie. Examining her place in literary history her books & her iconic characters including Hercule Poirot & Miss Marple this unique collection

Includes:: facts trivia "es that feature in Christie's legendary stories & the subsequent film & television adaptations. The Agatha Christie Miscellany will also delve into the secrets mysteries & tricks that made Christie the most sensational & successful mystery writer of her time. For example how is it that she managed to keep us guessing the murderer until the very end? Looking at her life & the influences on her writing this entertaining & informative miscellany will above all unravel the secrets of Agatha Christie's phenomenal success.

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