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Fifty years after her stunning debut at the Newport Folk Festival, Joan Baez remains a musical force of nature whose influence is incalculable. Her voice is part of the soundtrack of a generation, and her commitment to social justice helped form its conscience. She marched on the front line of the civil rights movement with Martin Luther King, Jr., inspired Václav Havel in his fight for a Czech Republic, sang on the first Amnesty International tour, and stood alongside Nelson Mandela on his ninetieth birthday in London's Hyde Park. She brought the '60s Free Speech Movement into the spotlight, organized resistance to the war in Southeast Asia, and forty years later saluted the Dixie Chicks for their courage to protest war. Her earliest recordings fed a host of traditional ballads into the rock vernacular, and she unself-consciously introduced Bob Dylan to the world in 1963 in an effort to bring attention to songwriters that continues to this day. Hers is a journey of the spirit, told with intimacy and passion as Baez shares her introduction to folk music and her baptism as its first female star in the coffee houses of Cambridge, Massachusetts. She recounts her musical and personal entwinement with Bob Dylan; her marriage to David Harris, and their painful breakup; and the joy she found upon the birth of her son, Gabriel. With a new introduction by acclaimed music critic Anthony DeCurtis, And a Voice to Sing With is the story of an American cultural icon. Marked by the openness and vulnerability that have touched us in her music, and the passion and integrity that have informed her politics, this is a disarmingly frank and stirring memoir of the life and work of one of the most extraordinary performers of our time.

In 1532, the fifty-four-year-old Spanish conquistador Francisco Pizarro led a force of 167 men, including his four brothers, to the shores of Peru. Unbeknownst to the Spaniards, the Inca rulers of Peru had just fought a bloody civil war in which the emperor Atahualpa had defeated his brother Huascar. Pizarro and his men soon clashed with Atahualpa and a huge force of Inca warriors at the Battle of Cajamarca. Despite being outnumbered by more than two hundred to one, the Spaniards prevailed -- due largely to their horses, their steel armor and swords, and their tactic of surprise. They captured and imprisoned Atahualpa. Although the Inca emperor paid an enormous ransom in gold, the Spaniards executed him anyway. The following year, the Spaniards seized the Inca capital of Cuzco, completing their conquest of the largest native empire the New World has ever known. Peru was now a Spanish colony, and the conquistadors were wealthy beyond their wildest dreams.
But the Incas did not submit willingly. A young Inca emperor, the brother of Atahualpa, soon led a massive rebellion against the Spaniards, inflicting heavy casualties and nearly wiping out the conquerors. Eventually, however, Pizarro and his men forced the emperor to abandon the Andes and flee to the Amazon. There, he established a hidden capital, called Vilcabamba. Although the Incas fought a deadly, thirty-six-year-long guerrilla war, the Spanish ultimately captured the last Inca emperor and vanquished the native resistance.
Kim MacQuarrie lived in Peru for five years and became fascinated by the Incas and the history of the Spanish conquest. Drawing on both native and Spanish chronicles, he vividly describes the dramatic story of the conquest, with all its savagery and suspense. MacQuarrie also relates the story of the modern search for Vilcabamba, of how Machu Picchu was discovered, and of how a trio of colorful American explorers only recently discovered the lost Inca capital of Vilcabamba, hidden for centuries in the Amazon.
This authoritative, exciting history is among the most powerful and important accounts of the culture of the South American Indians and the Spanish Conquest.

In the bestselling tradition of "Doctor Zhivago" and "Sophie's Choice, " a sweeping epic of Russia from the last days of the Tsars to today's age of oligarchs -- by the prizewinning author of "Young Stalin."Winter 1916: St. Petersburg, Russia, is on the brink of revolution. Outside the Smolny Institute for Noble Girls, an English governess is waiting for her young charge to be released from school. But so are the Tsar's secret police...Beautiful and headstrong, Sashenka Zeitlin is just sixteen. As her mother parties with Rasputin and their dissolute friends, Sashenka slips into the frozen night to play her part in a dangerous game of conspiracy and seduction.Twenty years on, Sashenka is married to a powerful, rising Red leader with whom she has two children. Around her people are disappearing, while in the secret world of the elite her own family is safe. But she's about to embark on a forbidden love affair that will have devastating consequences.Sashenka's story lies hidden for half a century, until a young historian goes deep into Stalin's private archives and uncovers a heartbreaking tale of betrayal and redemption, savage cruelty and unexpected heroism -- and one woman forced to make an unbearable choice.

One of the twentieth century’s most extraordinary Americans, Pearl Buck was the first person to make China accessible to the West.She recreated the lives of ordinary Chinese people in The Good Earth, an overnight worldwide bestseller in 1932, later a blockbuster movie. Buck went on to become the first American woman to win the Nobel Prize for Literature. Long before anyone else, she foresaw China’s future as a superpower, and she recognized the crucial importance for both countries of China’s building a relationship with the United States. As a teenager she had witnessed the first stirrings of Chinese revolution, and as a young woman she narrowly escaped being killed in the deadly struggle between Chinese Nationalists and the newly formed Communist Party. Pearl grew up in an imperial China unchanged for thousands of years. She was the child of American missionaries, but she spoke Chinese before she learned English, and her friends were the children of Chinese farmers. She took it for granted that she was Chinese herself until she was eight years old, when the terrorist uprising known as the Boxer Rebellion forced her family to flee for their lives. It was the first of many desperate flights. Flood, famine, drought, bandits, and war formed the background of Pearl’s life in China. "Asia was the real, the actual world," she said, "and my own country became the dreamworld." Pearl wrote about the realities of the only world she knew in The Good Earth. It was one of the last things she did before being finally forced out of China to settle for the first time in the United States. She was unknown and penniless with a failed marriage behind her, a disabled child to support, no prospects, and no way of telling that The Good Earth would sell tens of millions of copies. It transfixed a whole generation of readers just as Jung Chang’s Wild Swans would do more than half a century later. No Westerner had ever written anything like this before, and no Chinese had either. Buck was the forerunner of a wave of Chinese Americans from Maxine Hong Kingston to Amy Tan. Until their books began coming out in the last few decades, her novels were unique in that they spoke for ordinary Asian people— "translating my parents to me," said Hong Kingston, "and giving me our ancestry and our habitation." As a phenomenally successful writer and civil-rights campaigner, Buck did more than anyone else in her lifetime to change Western perceptions of China. In a world with its eyes trained on China today, she has much to tell us about what lies behind its astonishing reawakening.

英格丽·褒曼是受欢迎的明星，是好莱坞“第一夫人”，是典雅美的化身。就在她演艺事业如日中天时，一场婚外情(婚外情博客,婚外情说吧)让褒曼从“完美女人”的宝座上跌落。此后，褒曼凭借精湛演技重新获得认可。她历经三次婚姻、最后孤独终老的感情生活成为世人话题。
美国作家夏洛特·钱德勒的新作《英格丽：一部私人传记》，根据作者与褒曼及其周围人的对话，向世人展示了这位风华绝代的影星对爱情和婚姻最真实的想法。
“无可救药浪漫狂”
在这部新出版的传记中，作者钱德勒根据褒曼本人生前的讲述以及亲人、朋友和同行对褒曼的回忆，为褒曼一生的感情悲剧给出了一个意料之外、情理之中的解释：这名奥斯卡影后两次抛夫弃子、改嫁他人的原因不是喜新厌旧，而是出于她太过理想化的情感追求。“她最大的弱点就是：她是一个无可救药的浪漫狂”。
“我的生活常常出错。我不够理智，”这是褒曼本人对钱德勒说的话。和褒曼合作过的导演乔治·丘克也告诉钱德勒，褒曼拥有“惊人的幻想力”。
“有时候，在电影里或舞台上，这样的幻想对她有利，但在现实生活中，会成为她的痛苦，”丘克说。
褒曼坚信，在这个世界的某个地方，住着她生命中完美的“另一半”，一旦相遇，两人会像童话故事里的主人公一样，幸福地白头到老。因此，她穷其一生追寻完美的“另一半”。尽管经历了三次失败婚姻，她那浪漫情怀仍然不改，即便是在生命的最后时刻。
在褒曼因患癌症去世前，她仔细整理好一些具有纪念意义的物品，留给子孙后代。这其中有她的三件嫁衣，“代表她的三次婚姻”。她把每一件衣服洗得干干净净，用手叠好，然后包在塑料袋里。“每一件都属于我，尽管很短暂，”她说。她敏感地意识到，她的三个丈夫将和她的电影作品一样，成为她传奇人生的一部分。
父母缔造爱情神话
在褒曼眼中，没有哪个男人比得上她的父亲，也没有任何感情能超越她父母所缔造的爱情神话。
1900年，16岁的德国少女费里达·阿德勒在瑞典首都斯德哥尔摩度假时，邂逅了28岁的落魄画家尤斯图斯·褒曼。两人坠入爱河。但阿德勒的父母看不上身无分文的画家，禁止女儿与这个穷小子来往。阿德勒只好偷偷把心上人的一枚戒指挂在胸前，固守着自己的爱情。7年后，尤斯图斯成功经营起一家摄影店，打动了阿德勒的父母，两人终成眷属。
婚后，阿德勒和尤斯图斯度过了一段快乐时光。他们的第一个孩子因难产而亡；4年后，第二个孩子出生后没几天夭折。1915年，第三个孩子平安降生，身体健康。欣喜的父母用当时瑞典小公主的名字为这个来之不易的女孩取名为英格丽·褒曼。但孩子不满三岁，阿德勒就突患肝病，痛苦地离开人世。
尤斯图斯拍摄的两张照片鲜明地记录了这个家庭曾经历的快乐和痛苦。第一张照片上，两岁的褒曼紧紧依偎在母亲身边；第二张照片上，三岁的褒曼将鲜花放在母亲坟前。
由于两岁丧母，褒曼对母亲几乎没什么印象，但在父亲对母亲那充满自豪、伤感和爱意的回忆中，褒曼领悟到：爱是世间最重要的，越是被禁止的爱情，越浪漫，越真诚。
褒曼12岁时，父亲因病去世。褒曼被接到姑姑埃伦家。但６个月后，姑姑不幸身亡。
孤独的童年迫使褒曼经常寄情于假想中的世界，丰富的想象力助她在高中毕业后顺利考入戏剧学院。
在褒曼和第一任丈夫结婚前夕，她从姑姑的遗物中发现了自己母亲在结婚前写给父亲的信。这些信饱含炽热的情感，深深打动了褒曼。“我读懂了少女时代的母亲，她和我父亲如此热烈地相爱。”褒曼渴望这样的浪漫爱情。
首任丈夫不够标准
然而，褒曼的第一个丈夫彼得·林德斯特伦没能带来她期盼的“伟大爱情”。
林德斯特伦比褒曼年长9岁，是一名牙医。两人经人介绍认识后，林德斯特伦邀请褒曼到斯德哥尔摩最豪华的大酒店吃了一顿午餐。褒曼回忆说：“他发出了邀请、他付了钱、他还有一辆车。”褒曼就这样爱上了他。
那时，林德斯特伦英俊、勤勉，讨人喜欢。1937年夏，两人在斯德哥尔摩以北的斯特德小镇举行了婚礼。次年，女儿皮娅出生。
此时的褒曼已是一个成功的演员，在瑞典出演了11部电影。事业上，她演技超群，目标明确，但在家庭生活中，却缺乏自信和安全感。所有事情，包括她的穿着打扮，都由丈夫做主。
这时，美国著名制片人戴维·塞尔兹尼克向她发出了邀请。褒曼告别丈夫和女儿，只身来到好莱坞。由于长期分离，两人的婚姻生活开始产生小裂缝。褒曼喜欢美国，林德斯特伦却正好相反。褒曼回忆说，当林德斯特伦到纽约看望她时，“他只看到这里建筑很脏，他抱怨袜子被宾馆地毯弄脏了，他抱怨所有的事情。我失望极了。”
褒曼在好莱坞越来越受欢迎，林德斯特伦不得不接受“英格丽·褒曼的先生”这样的称呼。1942年，《卡萨布兰卡》公映，褒曼成了家喻户晓的名人。林德斯特伦开始觉得褒曼不再需要他，而越是这样，他越想控制她。
“他严格控制我的饮食，我总是饿着肚子离开餐桌，”褒曼说。他独掌家中“财政大权”，不赞成褒曼添置新衣服，要求褒曼每天准时锻炼半小时，如褒曼不愿意，他就会唠叨不停。他越来越挑剔，常责备褒曼。丈夫的唠叨和神经质粉碎了褒曼对浪漫的幻想，当她小心翼翼提出离婚时，他却以为她在开玩笑：“你怎么会在我们正幸福的时候提出这种要求？”
林德斯特伦和女儿最终搬到美国。一家团圆，但褒曼的第一次婚姻已名存实亡。年幼的皮娅“总结”父母的婚姻说：“他们曾经相爱，现在不爱了。”
理想爱情总在别处
婚姻已不再美好，但对浪漫的渴求却一直深藏在褒曼的心里。1945年6月，褒曼在法国巴黎演出时结识了战地摄影师罗伯特·卡帕，“他勇敢、智慧、风趣，是一个浪漫的人”。褒曼爱上了他，但卡帕拒绝婚姻和约束。这不仅没有让褒曼退却，反而符合她对浪漫的理解，她仿佛从中看到自己父母当年那段“被禁止的爱”的影子。
几年后，卡帕在越南战场上因踩中地雷殉职。但他对褒曼的影响却没有因生命的逝去而消失，因为他再次唤醒了她对浪漫的追求。
1948年，英格丽·褒曼观看了意大利导演罗伯托·罗塞利尼执导的影片《罗马——不设防的城市》和《同胞》，被它们写实主义的风格所折服，她主动写信给罗塞利尼要求与之一起拍片，罗塞利尼欣然接受。起初，他们只是合作伙伴，但渐渐蒙生爱意。
褒曼回忆说，一天，她和罗塞利尼走进玩具店，打算给他的儿子买玩具。罗塞利尼看到一个价值７５美元的奶牛玩偶，说：“我想买这个送给皮娅，她会喜欢的。”褒曼震惊了，因为这个玩具正是她想买给女儿却被丈夫拒绝的东西。褒曼把这个巧合看成天意。
一年后，已有身孕的褒曼和林德斯特伦离婚，与孩子的父亲罗塞利尼在意大利结婚。失意的林德斯特伦怎么也想不明白，那个“身高不及褒曼的秃头男人”吸引力在哪。
褒曼和罗塞利尼生了三个孩子，但他们的婚姻也逐渐走到尽头。罗塞利尼自大、嗜赌、风流成性，这与褒曼心目中的浪漫爱情相去甚远。两人最终因罗塞利尼的情妇怀孕而离婚。
褒曼的第三个丈夫是瑞典人拉尔斯·施密特，这次婚姻几乎是上一次的“翻版”，失望万分的褒曼再次因丈夫的背叛而选择离婚。
“我不是堕落女人”
理想的爱情总是遥不可及，历经三次失败婚姻的褒曼伤痕累累。和林德斯特伦离婚后，她被迫与心爱的女儿皮娅分离6年之久，因为前夫觉得离婚使他受到了羞辱，始终不原谅褒曼，也不允许她去看望女儿。
在褒曼1980年完成的自传中，皮娅回忆了父母离婚后自己的心情：“全新的生活向她（褒曼）敞开大门，充满辉煌和荣耀；热烈的爱情如此浪漫。对妈妈而言，这些是光鲜、美好的一面。但那些被她抛在身后的却不美好，我就是被抛弃的一部分。”
此外，褒曼的演艺事业也因她和罗塞利尼的婚外情而跌入低谷。两人合作的所有影片都遭遇票房惨败，观众出言侮辱褒曼，好莱坞也失去了往日的热情。
见不到心爱的女儿，得不到世人的理解，遭遇婚姻和事业的双重打击，褒曼对自己的追求产生过怀疑。“我一生都在追寻浪漫。或许，我的期望过高，超越了我能发现和坚持的限度。”
1957年，凭借在《真假公主》中的杰出表演，褒曼终于守得云开见月明，成为纽约影评人协会和奥斯卡双料影后。好莱坞和众多影迷最终还是伸出双臂，接纳了这位真正的艺术家。尽管一生享有诸多荣誉：参演电影50多部，获得７次奥斯卡奖提名，赢得三次奥斯卡奖，但在回顾自己的感情生活时，褒曼不无遗憾：“我不希望自己因卷入20世纪好莱坞最大的丑闻之一而被后人记住。我不想成为堕落女人的化身。”

Gene Kranz was present at the creation of America's manned space program and was a key player in it for three decades. As a flight director in NASA's Mission Control, Kranz witnessed firsthand the making of history. He participated in the space program from the early days of the Mercury program to the last Apollo mission, and beyond. He endured the disastrous first years when rockets blew up and the United States seemed to fall further behind the Soviet Union in the space race. He helped to launch Alan Shepard and John Glenn, then assumed the flight director's role in the Gemini program, which he guided to fruition. With his teammates, he accepted the challenge to carry out President John F. Kennedy's commitment to land a man on the Moon before the end of the 1960s. Kranz was flight director for both Apollo 11, the mission in which Neil Armstrong fulfilled President Kennedy's pledge, and Apollo 13. He headed the Tiger Team that had to figure out how to bring the three Apollo 13 astronauts safely back to Earth. (In the film Apollo 13, Kranz was played by the actor Ed Harris, who earned an Academy Award nomination for his performance.) In Failure Is Not an Option, Gene Kranz recounts these thrilling historic events and offers new information about the famous flights. What appeared as nearly flawless missions to the Moon were, in fact, a series of hair-raising near misses. When the space technology failed, as it sometimes did, the controllers' only recourse was to rely on their skills and those of their teammates. Kranz takes us inside Mission Control and introduces us to some of the whiz kids -- still in their twenties, only a few years out of college -- who had to figure it all out as they went along, creating a great and daring enterprise. He reveals behind-the-scenes details to demonstrate the leadership, discipline, trust, and teamwork that made the space program a success. Finally, Kranz reflects on what has happened to the space program and offers his own bold suggestions about what we ought to be doing in space now. This is a fascinating firsthand account written by a veteran mission controller of one of America's greatest achievements.

About The Awful I was bored on the 9th of Octover 1940 when, I believe, the Nasties were still booming us led by Madolf Heatlump (who only had one). Anyway they didn't get me. I attended to varicous schools in Liddypol. And still didn't pass -- much to my Aunties supplies. As a member of the most publified Beatles my (P, G, and R's) records might seem funnier to some of you than this book, but as far as I'm conceived this correction of short writty is the most wonderfoul larf I've every ready. God help and breed you all.

"The Constant Gardener" is a magnificent exploration of the new world order by one of the most compelling and elegant storytellers of our time. The novel opens in northern Kenya with the gruesome murder of Tessa Quayle -- young, beautiful, and dearly beloved to husband Justin. When Justin sets out on a personal odyssey to uncover the mystery of her death, what he finds could make him not only a suspect among his own colleagues, but a target for Tessa's killers as well.A master chronicler of the betrayals of ordinary people caught in political conflict, John le Carre portrays the dark side of unbridled capitalism as only he can. In "The Constant Gardener" he tells a compelling, complex story of a man elevated through tragedy, as Justin Quayle -- amateur gardener, aging widower, and ineffectual bureaucrat -- discovers his own natural resources and the extraordinary courage of the woman he barely had time to love.

A sweeping epic of ancient Rome from the #1 bestselling author of "The Thorn Birds" In this breathtaking follow-up to "The October Horse," Colleen McCullough turns her attention to the legendary romance of Antony and Cleopatra, and in this timeless tale of love, politics, and power, proves once again that she is the best historical novelist of our time. Caesar is dead, and Rome is, again, divided. Lepidus has retreated to Africa, while Antony rules the opulent East, and Octavian claims the West, the heart of Rome, as his domain. Though this tense truce holds civil war at bay, Rome seems ripe for an emperor -- a true Julian heir to lay claim to Caesar's legacy. With the bearing of a hero, and the riches of the East at his disposal, Antony seems poised to take the prize. Like a true warrior-king, he is a seasoned general whose lust for power burns alongside a passion for women, feasts, and Chian wine. His rival, Octavian, seems a less convincing candidate: the slight, golden-haired boy is as controlled as Antony is indulgent and as cool-headed and clear-eyed as Antony is impulsive. Indeed, the two are well matched only in ambition. And though politics and war are decidedly the provinces of men in ancient Rome, women are adept at using their wits and charms to gain influence outside their traditional sphere. Cleopatra, the ruthless, golden-eyed queen, welcomes Antony to her court and her bed but keeps her heart well guarded. A ruler first and a woman second, Cleopatra has but one desire: to place her child on his father, Julius Caesar's, vacant throne. Octavian, too, has a strong woman by his side: his exquisite wife, raven-haired Livia Drusilla, who learns to wield quiet power to help her husband in his quest for ascendancy. As the plot races toward its inevitable conclusion -- with battles on land and sea -- conspiracy and murder, love and politics become irrevocably entwined. McCullough's knowledge of Roman history is detailed and extensive. Her masterful and meticulously researched narrative is filled with a cast of historical characters whose motives, passions, flaws, and insecurities are vividly imagined and expertly drawn. The grandeur of ancient Rome comes to life as a timeless human drama plays out against the dramatic backdrop of the Republic's final days.

It ranks among the unquestioned laws of American big business over the last half century: If you want to be taken seriously, you hire McKinsey & Company.
FOUNDED IN 1926, McKINSEY CAN LAY CLAIM to the following partial list of accomplishments: its consultants have ushered in waves of structural, financial, and technological change to the nation’s best organizations; they remapped the power structure within the White House; they even revolutionized business schools. In this book, star financial journalist Duff McDonald shows just how, in becoming an indispensable part of decision making at the highest levels, McKinsey has done nothing less than set the course of American capitalism.
But he also answers the question that’s on the mind of anyone who has ever heard the word McKinsey: Are they worth it? After all, just as McKinsey can be shown to have helped invent most of the tools of modern management, the company was also involved with a number of striking failures. Its consultants were on the scene when General Motors drove itself into the ground, and they were Kmart’s advisers when the retailer tumbled into disarray. They played a critical role in building the bomb known as Enron.
McDonald is one of the few journalists to have not only parsed the record but also penetrated the culture of McKinsey itself—a corporate mandarin elite whose methods have been compared (by others and by themselves) to those of the Jesuits or the U.S. Marines. They feel so strongly about themselves that they have insisted on a proper noun where one need not exist. To an outsider, they are a consulting firm. To themselves, simply, The Firm. This revealing book uncovers the inner workings of what just might be the most influential private organization in America.

Before Owen Michaels disappears, he smuggles a note to his beloved wife of one year: Protect her. Despite her confusion and fear, Hannah Hall knows exactly to whom the note refers—Owen’s sixteen-year-old daughter, Bailey. Bailey, who lost her mother tragically as a child. Bailey, who wants absolutely nothing to do with her new stepmother.
As Hannah’s increasingly desperate calls to Owen go unanswered, as the FBI arrests Owen’s boss, as a US marshal and federal agents arrive at her Sausalito home unannounced, Hannah quickly realizes her husband isn’t who he said he was. And that Bailey just may hold the key to figuring out Owen’s true identity—and why he really disappeared.
Hannah and Bailey set out to discover the truth. But as they start putting together the pieces of Owen’s past, they soon realize they’re also building a new future—one neither of them could have anticipated.
With its breakneck pacing, dizzying plot twists, and evocative family drama, The Last Thing He Told Me is a riveting mystery, certain to shock you with its final, heartbreaking turn.

《Facebook 效应》的作者近距离地采访了与Facebook相关的人士，其中包括Facebook的创始人、员工、投资人、意向投资人以及合作伙伴，加起来超过了130人。这是真切详实的访谈，更是超级精彩的故事。作者以其细腻的笔触，精巧的叙事结构，解密了Facebook如何从哈佛的宿舍里萌发，创始人的内讧，权力之争，如何放弃华盛顿邮报的投资，怎样争取到第一个广告客户，而第一轮融资又如何获得一亿美元的估值，让人痴迷的图片产品如何上线，面对Twitter的竞争，与Google的世纪之争……一个创办仅7年，就拥有5亿活跃用户，年收入超过5亿美元，估值超过200亿美元的传奇企业再加上一个年仅26岁的的“娃娃CEO”，在你面前“裸奔”。激情澎湃的创业精神，智慧传奇的融资经历，一个聚合世界的社交帝国向你彻底开放，你还等什么？
IN LITTLE MORE THAN HALF A DECADE, Facebook has gone from a dorm-room novelty to a company with 500 million users. It is one of the fastest growing companies in history, an essential part of the social life not only of teenagers but hundreds of millions of adults worldwide. As Facebook spreads around the globe, it creates surprising effects—even becoming instrumental in political protests from Colombia to Iran. Veteran technology reporter David Kirkpatrick had the full cooperation of Facebook’s key executives in researching this fascinating history of the company and its impact on our lives. Kirkpatrick tells us how Facebook was created, why it has flourished, and where it is going next. He chronicles its successes and missteps, and gives readers the most complete assessment anywhere of founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg, the central figure in the company’s remarkable ascent. This is the Facebook story that can be found nowhere else. How did a nineteen-year-old Harvard student create a company that has transformed the Internet and how did he grow it to its current enormous size? Kirkpatrick shows how Zuckerberg steadfastly refused to compromise his vision, insistently focusing on growth over profits and preaching that Facebook must dominate (his word) communication on the Internet. In the process, he and a small group of key executives have created a company that has changed social life in the United States and elsewhere, a company that has become a ubiquitous presence in marketing, altering politics, business, and even our sense of our own identity. This is the Facebook Effect.
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What could be more natural, when invited by the King and Queen to tea, than to ask to bring a friend? And that, of course, is what the hero of "May I Bring a Friend?" does. Not only to tea, but to breakfast, lunch, dinner, apple pie and Halloween - one invitation for each of six days of the week. The King is most gracious. "Any friend of our friend is most welcome, " says he. And his graciousness extends to giraffes, lions, hippos, monkeys, all kinds of friends. Not all of whom are on their very best behavior. It must be assumed however, that everyone (including the reader) enjoyed the friends, for why else would the king and queen step off to the zoo for tea on the seventh day.

"The Collected Works of W. B. Yeats, Volume II: The Plays" is part of a fourteen-volume series under the general editorship of eminent Yeats scholars Richard J. Finneran and George Mills Harper. This complete edition includes virtually all of the Nobel laureate's published work, in authoritative texts and with extensive explanatory notes. "The Plays, " edited by David R. Clark and Rosalind E. Clark, is the first-ever complete collection of Yeats's plays that honors the order in which the plays first appeared. It provides the latest and most accurate texts in Yeats's lifetime, as well as extensive editorial notes and emendations. Though best known as one of the most important poets of the twentieth century, from the beginning of his career William Butler Yeats understood the value of his plays and his poetry to be the same. In 1923, when he accepted the Nobel Prize for Literature, Yeats suggested that "perhaps the English committees would never have sent you my name if I had written no plays...if my lyric poetry had not a quality of speech practiced on the stage." Indeed, Yeats's great achievement in poetry should not be allowed to obscure his impressive and innovative accomplishments as a dramatist. In "The Plays, " David and Rosalind Clark have restored the plays to the final order in which Yeats planned for them to be published. This volume opens with Yeats's introduction for an unpublished Scribner collection and encompasses all of his dramatic work, from "The Countess Cathleen" to "The Death of Cuchulain. The Plays" enables readers to see clearly, for the first time, the ways in which Yeats's very different dramatic forms evolved over the course of his life, and to appreciate fully the importance of drama in the oeuvre of this greatest of modern poets.

From the New York Times bestselling authors of Abundance and Bold comes a practical playbook for technological convergence in our modern era.
In their book Abundance, bestselling authors and futurists Peter Diamandis and Steven Kotler tackled grand global challenges, such as poverty, hunger, and energy. Then, in Bold, they chronicled the use of exponential technologies that allowed the emergence of powerful new entrepreneurs. Now the bestselling authors are back with The Future Is Faster Than You Think, a blueprint for how our world will change in response to the next ten years of rapid technological disruption.
Technology is accelerating far more quickly than anyone could have imagined. During the next decade, we will experience more upheaval and create more wealth than we have in the past hundred years. In this gripping and insightful roadmap to our near future, Diamandis and Kotler investigate how wave after wave of exponentially accelerating technologies will impact both our daily lives and society as a whole. What happens as AI, robotics, virtual reality, digital biology, and sensors crash into 3D printing, blockchain, and global gigabit networks? How will these convergences transform today’s legacy industries? What will happen to the way we raise our kids, govern our nations, and care for our planet?
Diamandis, a space-entrepreneur-turned-innovation-pioneer, and Kotler, bestselling author and peak performance expert, probe the science of technological convergence and how it will reinvent every part of our lives—transportation, retail, advertising, education, health, entertainment, food, and finance—taking humanity into uncharted territories and reimagining the world as we know it.
As indispensable as it is gripping, The Future Is Faster Than You Think provides a prescient look at our impending future.

The idea of the French way of life has been an endless source of fascination. When we think of France we think of food and fashion, of intellect and taste, sociability and fierce national pride. What is behind these conceptions of the French? How did France become the country it is today, and what makes it exceptional?
Journalist and historian Peter Watson sets out to answer these questions in The French Mind, a dazzling cultural history of France that takes us from the 17th century to the present day through the nation’s most innovative and influential thinkers. He opens the doors to the Renaissance salons that acted as a breeding ground for poets, philosophers and scientists, and tells the extraordinary forgotten stories of the women who ran these vibrant and definitively French institutions, fostering a culture of intellectualism unmatched anywhere else in the word. On the way we witness the rise of café and restaurants, the changing relationship between the bourgeoisie and the French monarchy, and the bloody birth of a republic. From the French revolution to the country’s occupation by Nazi Germany, Watson argues that a series of devastating military defeats played a key role in shaping the resilient character of a nation, as well as its exceptionalism.
The French Mind is a history of breathtaking scope, propelled forward by the characters Watson brings to vivid life: the artists, revolutionaries and writers who loved, inspired and competed with one another over four hundred years. It documents the shaping of a nation whose global influence, in art and culture, politics and philosophy, cannot be overestimated.