Set in a Newark neighborhood during a terrifying polio outbreak, Nemesis is a wrenching examination of the forces of circumstance on our lives. Bucky Cantor is a vigorous, dutiful twenty-three-year-old playground director during the summer of 1944. A javelin thrower and weightlifter, he is disappointed with himself because his weak eyes have excluded him from serving in the war alongside his…
Overview: It's America in 1962. Slavery is legal once again. The few Jews who still survive hide under assumed names. In San Francisco, the I Ching is as common as the Yellow Pages. All because some twenty years earlier the United States lost a war-and is now occupied by Nazi Germany and Japan. This harrowing, Hugo Award-winning novel is the work that established Philip K. Dick as an innovator …
The year is 1984 and the city is Tokyo. A young woman named Aomame follows a taxi driver’s enigmatic suggestion and begins to notice puzzling discrepancies in the world around her. She has entered, she realizes, a parallel existence, which she calls 1Q84 —“Q is for ‘question mark.’ A world that bears a question.” Meanwhile, an aspiring writer named Tengo takes on a suspect ghostw…
Travel back in time with this visual guide to the history of human conflict, tracing the evolution of technology and tactics from the ancient world to the American Civil War! Combining beautiful nineteenth century engravings, artwork, and diagrams with an engaging and informative modern text, The History of Warfare narrates humankind's timeless capacity for devising new ways of waging war on…
Pada sebuah malam tahun 1879, di sebuah hotel di Paris, Mark Twain duduk-duduk bersama para putrinya, yang memohon agar sang ayah menceritakan sebuah kisah. Mark pun mulai memberi tahu mereka tentang Johnny, seorang bocah miskin yang memiliki biji-biji sihir. Kemudian, Mark membuat coretan kasar di buku, tetapi pada akhirnya kisah itu tak pernah terselesaikan … hingga sekarang. “Kisah li…
Warfare is a topic on which a seemingly endless number of books are published; this is one which is fully justified. The most obviously outstanding feature of the volume is its scope, with a world-wide range of ancient civilizations covered, from the familiar Greeks and Romans, to Egypt and the Near East, Celts, central Europeans, Olmecs, Aztecs and Incas, and the early armies of China, Japan a…
Ayo jelajahi dunia dongeng dan putri-putri yang memesona. Di negeri yang penuh keajaiban ini, kamu akan bertemu dengan putri nan cantik jelita, pangeran berkuda yang tampan, dan makhluk-makhluk ajaib. K amu juga dapat menjelajahi tempat-tempat indah dan menakjubkan. Cerita-cerita dalam buku ini ditulis oleh beberapa sastrawan kenamaan dunia. Selain itu juga berasal dari dongeng dan cerita rakya…