now available in paperback from arcade the riveting untold story of how allied code breakers cracked japan s secret codes and turned the tide of world war ii from the attack on pearl harbor on december 7 1941 whose devastating effectiveness was due in large measure to our inability to decode messages about the coming raid to the battle of midway code-breaking played a key role in the pacific war moving across the world from bletchley park outside london to pearl harbor from singapore to colombo from mombassa to melbourne the emperor s codes reveals how the japanese codes of which there were several were broken in a race between u.s and british code breakers drawing on recently declassified files privileged access to secret official histories and interviews with many of the men involved smith portrays the often quirky geniuses behind the desperate effort and takes you step-by-step through the code-breaking process explaining exactly how this is an important new story detailing the hard
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what makes some men drive themselves to succeed in their chosen sport no matter how daunting the odds and what are the struggles that victory almost inevitably brings meet the swiftest and saddest cyclist of his time a man whose craving for speed was outstripped by a terrible urge toward self-annihilation see the greatest bowler who ever lived a high-school dropout who could never measure up to his father try to understand the most accomplished high-school runner in american history whose longdistance records still astound and who a few years later abruptly abandoned his wife and children read about the leading scorer in division i college basketball one of the inner city s great success stories while it lasted this superbly written insightful book follows the paths of 14 ravaged champions in solitary crafts such as cycling and running bowling and boxing hiking and golf who were driven only by a burning need to prove themselves movingly detailed here are their painful journeys to grace
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he original guide on how to spot and identify demons and other subversive spirits and what to do next demons fairies and fallen angels are everywhere they lurk at crossroads crouch behind doors hide in trees slip into beds wait in caves hover at weddings and childbirths disguise themselves as friends and relatives and even pretend to be you they are powerful they are protean they are enchanting and to the uninformed they are often invisible this illustrated guide the first of its kind reveals the remarkable permutations of the demon and fairy species worldwide packed with lore about each demon detailing its origins the culture surrounding it and its reputed antics and exploits this is a fascinating exploration of global mythologies perfect for the armchair traveler and the intrepid seasoned demon-spotter alike this complete guide of subversive spirits offers a behind-the-scenes look at the devilish mishaps impish irritations and demonic devastations that can punctuate our lives be war
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ow in paperback the chief interpreter for the american prosecution at the nuremberg trials tells his revealing story of interrogating göring speer and others richard w sonnenfeldt is the only man still alive who spoke at length with all the top-ranking nazi criminals after the war born a german jew at age 18 sonnenfeldt arrived in the u.s by way of england australia and india two years later he joined the u.s army fought in the battle of the bulge and participated in the liberation of dachau concentration camp totally bilingual by age 22 he was plucked from his unit and appointed chief interpreter then key interrogator for the american prosecution at the nuremberg war crimes trials in 1945 sonnenfeldt interviewed hitler s henchmen and concentration camp commandants for days on end his time with hermann göring reveals much about not only göring himself but about hitler goebbels and himmler here he offers fresh insights into the minds of these most infamous men and into the origins and d
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now available again a beautiful and eminently useful guidebook to the regions of france with more than 130 color photographs to accompany the text france s villages contain some of the country s greatest and least-explored glories each year millions of tourists flock to paris and nice the sites canonized by guidebooks since the age of tourism began but few know the smaller splendors of the ancient villages and towns there life goes on as it has for centuries with its seasonal rites and everyday cadences memorialized tradition and remembrance covering more than 30,000 miles and visiting more than 1,000 villages michael busselle has created an opulent but practical guide for travelers armchair and actual looking to discover the paths less taken exhaustive but selective discovering the villages of france explores the country region by region noting local festivals celebrations harvests and fairs from provence to brittany the haute-savoie to bordeaux marke ti ng promotion web marketing ·
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ffering a rich tapestry of betrayal the quest for power and love this enthralling historical fiction publishers weekly starred review is again available from arcade is it possible that england s virgin queen might have borne her lover robin dudley earl of leicester a son some historians dismiss such tales as idle gossip while others speak of a dashing young man named arthur dudley set against the backdrop of the spanish armada s invasion of england in 1588 the queen s bastard artfully weaves together two parallel tales the first told by arthur himself who exchanged at birth by elizabeth s intimates for a stillborn baby grows up never knowing his real identity a dreamer a romantic and a magnificent horseman arthur sets off to fight philip ii of spain the second story is that of elizabeth and leicester whose love only grows stronger after the presumed loss of their child the two narratives finally collide when arthur learns from his adoptive father on his deathbed who his true parent
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hailed as quite simply in a class of its own the work of a stunningly talented writer observer this frank and harrowing memoir of addiction and prostitution is now available in paperback a shy bookish college graduate a nice girl from a solid middle-class home but uncertain of her way in life kate holden tried her first hit of heroin as a one-time experiment an adventure with friends but the drug took over hooked she lost her job her apartment stole from her family desperation drove her onto the streets where she became lucy offering her body for cash to the first car to stop risking arrest and worse the human predators anything for her next fix with her name on the police blotter she left the streets and offered her services to first one then another high-class brothel where she discovered hidden strengths as well as parts of herself that frightened her throughout however hurt and dismayed her family never abandoned her and their acceptance and unyielding love helped her defeat t
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if nietzsche proclaimed the death of god onfray starts from the premise that god is not only very much alive today but increasingly controlled by fundamentalists in this groundbreaking work michel onfray france s leading philosopher documents the ravages of organized religions over the centuries in doing so he makes a strong and compelling case against all three monotheistic religions for their obsession with purity their intolerance their contempt for and antipathy to reason and intelligence and their stance against individual freedom desire and the human body sexuality and pleasure and women in general he rails against the concept of the afterlife emphasizing the importance of the here and now the only world that really exists citing chapter and verse of the three monotheims holy works onfray demonstrates clearly and convincingly how they have been dissected and altered censored and rewritten to suit each doctrine and convince the faithful that they are the word of god not man mar
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novel about the playwright since anthony burgess s classic nothing like the sun is available again from arcade the most original exciting and provocative our guide to the life of the bard is an actor by the name of robert reynolds known also as pickleherring pickleherring asserts that as a boy he was not only an original member of shakespeare s acting troupe but played the greatest female roles from cleopatra through portia in an attic above a brothel in restoration london a half century after shakespeare has departed the stage pickleherring now an old man sits down to write the full story of his former friend mentor and master despite his age pickleherring has not forgotten one jot and using sources both firsthand and far-fetched he means to set the record straight did shakespeare really write his own plays who was the dark lady of the sonnets was he ever in love gentle readers will learn much that will open their eyes in this outrageously bawdy language-loving and edifying romp throu
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ow in paperback a fascinating look at science s great secret the pivotal role of serendipity in the history of medicine what do penicillin chemotherapy drugs x-rays antidepressants and viagra have in common they were each discovered accidentally found in the search for something else winston churchill once said men occasionally stumble across the truth but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing has happened within the scientific community there is a stigma attached to the chance discovery because it is seen wrongly as a simple matter of luck happy accidents take place every day but it requires intelligence insight and creativity to recognize a eureka moment when it occurs and to know what to do next drawing on his personal experience research and interviews with winners of the nobel prize and other prestigious awards morton a meyers uncovers the surprising role of serendipity in four major fields of medical advances infectious disease cancer heart disease and
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winner of the inaugural man booker international prize ismail kadare is according to the wall street journal one of the most compelling novelists writing in any language on the night of december 13 1981 the man who was purported to take power in albania at the death of the dictator enver hoxha is shot dead sometime between midnight and early morning the burning question was he murdered or did he commit suicide and in either case why the state maintains he died by his own hand but the rest of the world wonders rumors fly guilt festers and as the tension mounts the successor s daughter his architect and the minister of the interior all tell their versions of the event and its aftermath until finally from the other side the successor himself speaks all too familiar with the shadow of tyranny kadare here draws us into a nightmarish world controlled by rules no one understands blending dream and reality to produce a mystery that seduces and surprises right up until the last page marke t
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