The Shadow of the Wind

The Shadow of the Wind
Author: Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 512
Release: 2005-01-25
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1101147067

The New York Times bestseller “The Shadow of the Wind is ultimately a love letter to literature, intended for readers as passionate about storytelling as its young hero.” —Entertainment Weekly (Editor's Choice) “One gorgeous read.” —Stephen King Barcelona, 1945: A city slowly heals in the aftermath of the Spanish Civil War, and Daniel, an antiquarian book dealer’s son who mourns the loss of his mother, finds solace in a mysterious book entitled The Shadow of the Wind, by one Julián Carax. But when he sets out to find the author’s other works, he makes a shocking discovery: someone has been systematically destroying every copy of every book Carax has written. In fact, Daniel may have the last of Carax’s books in existence. Soon Daniel’s seemingly innocent quest opens a door into one of Barcelona’s darkest secrets--an epic story of murder, madness, and doomed love.

Your Face Tomorrow

Your Face Tomorrow
Author: Javier Marías
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
Total Pages: 400
Release: 2005
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9780811217279

A daring masterwork by Javier Marias: "Spain's most subtle and gifted writer." (The Boston Globe)

In the Shadow of Man

In the Shadow of Man
Author: Jane Goodall
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Total Pages: 390
Release: 2000
Genre: Nature
ISBN: 9780618056767

The classic study of primates.

The Shadow of Ararat

The Shadow of Ararat
Author: Thomas Harlan
Publisher: Tor Books
Total Pages: 820
Release: 2007-04-01
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1429974958

In what would be A.D. 600 in our history, the Roman Empire still stands, supported by the Legions and Thaumaturges of Rome. Now the Emperor of the West, the Augustus Galen Atreus, will come to the aid of the Emperor of the East, the Augustus Heraclius, to lift the siege of Constantinople and carry a great war to the very doorstep of the Shahanshah of Persia. It is a war that will be fought with armies both conventional and magical, with bright swords and the darkest necromancy. Against this richly detailed canvas of alternate history and military strategy, Thomas Harlan sets the intricate and moving stories of four people: Woven with rich detail youd expect from a first-rate historical novel, while through it runs yarns of magic and shimmering glamours that carry you deeply into your most fantastic dreams At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Reputation in Artificial Societies

Reputation in Artificial Societies
Author: Rosaria Conte
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 210
Release: 2012-12-06
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 1461511593

Reputation In Artificial Societies discusses the role of reputation in the achievement of social order. The book proposes that reputation is an agent property that results from transmission of beliefs about how the agents are evaluated with regard to a socially desirable conduct. This desirable conduct represents one or another of the solutions to the problem of social order and may consist of cooperation or altruism, reciprocity, or norm obedience. Reputation In Artificial Societies distinguishes between image (direct evaluation of others) and reputation (propagating meta­belief, indirectly acquired) and investigates their effects with regard to both natural and electronic societies. The interplay between image and reputation, the processes leading to them and the set of decisions that agents make on their basis are demonstrated with supporting data from agent­based simulations.

Radiance of Tomorrow

Radiance of Tomorrow
Author: Ishmael Beah
Publisher: Sarah Crichton Books
Total Pages: 257
Release: 2014-01-07
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0374709432

A haunting, beautiful first novel by the bestselling author of A Long Way Gone. Named one of the Christian Science Monitor's best fiction books of the year. When Ishmael Beah's A Long Way Gone was published in 2007, it soared to the top of bestseller lists, becoming an instant classic: a harrowing account of Sierra Leone's civil war and the fate of child soldiers that "everyone in the world should read" (The Washington Post). Now Beah, whom Dave Eggers has called "arguably the most read African writer in contemporary literature," has returned with his first novel, an affecting, tender parable about postwar life in Sierra Leone. At the center of Radiance of Tomorrow are Benjamin and Bockarie, two longtime friends who return to their hometown, Imperi, after the civil war. The village is in ruins, the ground covered in bones. As more villagers begin to come back, Benjamin and Bockarie try to forge a new community by taking up their former posts as teachers, but they're beset by obstacles: a scarcity of food; a rash of murders, thievery, rape, and retaliation; and the depredations of a foreign mining company intent on sullying the town's water supply and blocking its paths with electric wires. As Benjamin and Bockarie search for a way to restore order, they're forced to reckon with the uncertainty of their past and future alike. With the gentle lyricism of a dream and the moral clarity of a fable, Radiance of Tomorrow is a powerful novel about preserving what means the most to us, even in uncertain times.

Gregory's Shadow

Gregory's Shadow
Author: Don Freeman
Publisher: Turtleback Books
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2002-12
Genre: Shades and shadows
ISBN: 9780613608060

For use in schools and libraries only. Gregory is a shy groundhog, so having his friend Shadow close by makes him feel safe. But when he and his shadow get separated the day before Groundhog Day, Gregory must overcome his fear and loneliness to find his friend in time for their big day.

In the Shadow of the Sun

In the Shadow of the Sun
Author: Anne Sibley O'Brien
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
Total Pages: 317
Release: 2017-06-27
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 0545905761

Hatchet in North Korea: A sister and brother go on the run with explosive forbidden photographs in this gripping and timely survival adventure. North Korea is known as the most repressive country on Earth, with a dictatorial leader, a starving population, and harsh punishment for rebellion.Not the best place for a family vacation.Yet that's exactly where Mia Andrews finds herself, on a tour with her aid-worker father and fractious older brother, Simon. Mia was adopted from South Korea as a baby, and the trip raises tough questions about where she really belongs. Then her dad is arrested for spying, just as forbidden photographs of North Korean slave-labor camps fall into Mia's hands. The only way to save Dad: get the pictures out of the country. Thus Mia and Simon set off on a harrowing journey to the border, without food, money, or shelter, in a land where anyone who sees them might turn them in, and getting caught could mean prison -- or worse.An exciting adventure that offers a rare glimpse into a compelling, complicated nation, In the Shadow of the Sun is an unforgettable novel of courage and survival.

In the Shadows of the American Century

In the Shadows of the American Century
Author: Alfred W. McCoy
Publisher: Haymarket Books
Total Pages: 359
Release: 2017-09-12
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1608467740

The award-winning historian delivers a “brilliant and deeply informed” analysis of American power from the Spanish-American War to the Trump Administration (New York Journal of Books). In this sweeping and incisive history of US foreign relations, historian Alfred McCoy explores America’s rise as a world power from the 1890s through the Cold War, and its bid to extend its hegemony deep into the twenty-first century. Since American dominance reached its apex at the close of the Cold War, the nation has met new challenges that it is increasingly unequipped to handle. From the disastrous invasion of Iraq to the failure of the Trans-Pacific Partnership, fracturing military alliances, and the blundering nationalism of Donald Trump, McCoy traces US decline in the face of rising powers such as China. He also offers a critique of America’s attempt to maintain its position through cyberwar, covert intervention, client elites, psychological torture, and worldwide surveillance.