This biography is a rare eyewitness account of the horrors of a little-known, often denied genocide, in which hundereds of thousands of Armenian and Pontic Greek minorities in Turkey were killed during and after World War 1. schovat popis
Adventures in Love and War
The memoirs of a photojournalist finding and fighting her way through the war zones of the world experiencing the danger, pain, truths and even love on the way.
Ship of Gold tells the story of the sinking of the SS Central America, a side-wheel steamer carrying nearly six hundred passengers returning from the California Gold Rush, two hundred miles off the Carolina coast in September 1857. Over four hundred lives and twenty-one tons of California gold were lost. It was the worst peacetime disaster at sea in American history, a tragedy that remained lost in legend for over a century. In the 1980s, a young engineer from Ohio set out to do what no one, not even the United States Navy, had been able to do: establish a working presence on the deep-ocean floor and open it to science, archaeology, history, medicine, and recovery. The SS Central America became the target of his project. After years of intensive efforts, Tommy Thompson and the Columbus-America Discovery Group found the SS Central America in eight thousand feet of water, and in October 1989 they sailed into Norfolk with her recovered treasure: gold coins, bars, nuggets, and dust, plus steamer trunks filled with period clothes, newspapers, books, and journals. Gary Kinder tells this extraordinary tale of history, human drama, heroic rescue, scientific ingenuity, and individual courage.
Sometime this century the day will arrive when the human influence on the climate will overwhelm all other natural factors. If nothing is done, the twenty-first century will see global warming that could lead to conditions the planet has not seen in forty million years. With one out of every five living things on this planet committed to extinction by the levels of greenhouse gases that will accumulate in the next few decades, we are now reaching a global climatic tipping point. The Weather Makers is both an urgent warning and a call to arms, outlining the history of climate change, how it will unfold over the next century, and what we can do to prevent a cataclysmic future. Along with a riveting history of how climate change has shaped our planet's evolution, Flannery offers specific suggestions for action for both lawmakers and individuals, from investing in renewable power sources like wind, solar, and geothermal energy, to offering an action plan with steps each and every one of us can take right now to reduce deadly CO[subscript 2] emissions by as much as 70 percent. The Weather Makers is the most ambitious book yet written by a world-renowned scientist on the greatest crisis facing the twenty-first century. Book jacket.
An engrossing novel of murder, organized crime, and politics in contemporary Italy-the first in a series of Italian crime novels by a promising new writer.
Na mapě většinou hledáme místo, kde jsme, nebo cestu k cíli. Můžeme však do mapy vstoupit a prožít nekonečná dobrodružství. Putování prstem po mapě představuje naše první samostatné cesty, výpravy imaginace, kde fantazii nemusíme konfrontovat s realitou. Tímto způsobem se dostáváme daleko, až do hlubin naší duše. Autor zve čtenáře na výpravy, sleduje stopy pravěkých lovců a moderních cestovatelů se satelitní navigací. Zkoumá úsilí viktoriánských lékařů, kteří se snažili zastavit šíření cholery pomocí map, a metody současných neurovědců mapujících lidský mozek. Hovoří o technických aspektech výroby glóbů a politických souvislostech kartografických projekcí. Mapy, které provázejí lidstvo od počátku, jsou nejen praktickou pomůckou, ale také odrazem našeho vnímání světa a našeho postavení v něm. Autor navštěvuje významné zeměpisce a kartografy, ale zdůrazňuje, že každý z nás je kartografem: každý si někdy nakreslil plánek cesty nebo prohlásil: „Zde jsem“. Jak při tom postupujeme, odhaluje něco podstatného o nás samotných. Fascinující kniha se snaží na toto téma přijít na kloub neotřelým, čtivým a zábavným způsobem.
"A trusted colleague and friend. A mother. A wife. Neve Connolly is all these things. She has also made mistakes; some small, some unconsciously done, some large, some deliberate. She is only human, after all. But now one mistake is spiralling out of control and Neve is bringing those around her into immense danger. She can't tell the truth. So how far is she prepared to go to protect those she loves? And who does she really know? And who can she trust? A liar. A cheat. A threat. Neve Connolly is all these things. Could she be a murderer?"--Provided by publisher
Od prvního dne je osobní asistentce Miny Appletonové jasné, co se od ní čeká. Absolutní diskrétnost. Dvacet let je Christine oddaná služebnice a tichý svědek všeho, co se v Minině životě děje. Den za dnem, rok za rokem tu Christine byla, neviditelná – sledovala, poslouchala a veškerá tajemství udržovala v bezpečí. Místo odměny se ale dočká kruté nespravedlnosti. Ovšem tak vytrvalou ženu, jako je Christine, není radno podceňovat.
Helen has turned eleven and her sunshine, young girl's world is beginning to darken around the edges. It is summer and she is in Bella Terra, a beautiful island off the Italian coast where her family spend an idyllic few months in their villa each year. This time, though, everything is different. Her parents' marriage is simmering with deep rooted, unfathomable, tension. Lea, her precocious thirteen year old sister, is heading off for unknown - adult - shores leaving Helen forlornly behind. The Ashtons arrive in the midst of this. Prue, a school friend of Helen's mother, is glamorous and alluringly worldly; her husband, a mysterious, eerie figure. As the sultry Mediterranean shimmers and steams, each one play out their own secret drama. It will be a hot, blue summer, a summer of love affairs, heart break and loss of innocence. And it will ultimately lead to Lea's disappearance...Uncoiling with foreboding and inevitability, The Forgotten Island builds up to the haunting moment when a young girl's life is changed forever. Evocative, nuanced, sensual, this is mesmerizing storytelling.
Verslag over het leven van moslim prostituees in Pakistan.
