A grand mystery reaching back centuries. A sensational disappearance that made headlines around the world. A quest for truth that leads to death, madness or disappearance for those who seek to solve it. The Lost City of Z is a blockbuster adventure narrative about what lies beneath the impenetrable jungle canopy of the Amazon. After stumbling upon a hidden trove of diaries, acclaimed New Yorker writer David Grann set out to solve "the greatest exploration mystery of the twentieth century:" What happened to the British explorer Percy Fawcett and his quest for the Lost City of Z? In 1925 Fawcett ventured into the Amazon to find an ancient civilization, hoping to make one of the most important discoveries in history. For centuries Europeans believed the world’s largest jungle concealed the glittering kingdom of El Dorado. Thousands had died looking for it, leaving many scientists convinced that the Amazon was truly inimical to humankind. But Fawcett, whose daring expeditions helped inspire Conan Doyle’s The Lost World , had spent years building his scientific case. Captivating the imagination of millions around the globe, Fawcett embarked with his twenty-one-year-old son, determined to prove that this ancient civilization--which he dubbed “Z”--existed. Then he and his expedition vanished. Fawcett’s fate--and the tantalizing clues he left behind about “Z”--became an obsession for hundreds who followed him into the uncharted wilderness. For decades scientists and adventurers have searched for evidence of Fawcett’s party and the lost City of Z. Countless have perished, been captured by tribes, or gone mad. As David Grann delved ever deeper into the mystery surrounding Fawcett’s quest, and the greater mystery of what lies within the Amazon, he found himself, like the generations who preceded him, being irresistibly drawn into the jungle’s “green hell.” His quest for the truth and his stunning discoveries about Fawcett’s fate and “Z” form the heart of this complex, enthralling narrative.

Henry Worsley was a devoted husband and father and a decorated British special forces officer who believed in honor and sacrifice. He was also a man obsessed. He spent his life idolizing Ernest Shackleton, the nineteenth-century polar explorer, who tried to become the first person to reach the South Pole, and later sought to cross Antarctica on foot. Shackleton never completed his journeys, but he repeatedly rescued his men from certain death, and emerged as one of the greatest leaders in history.
Worsley felt an overpowering connection to those expeditions. He was related to one of Shackleton’s men, Frank Worsley, and spent a fortune collecting artifacts from their epic treks across the continent. He modeled his military command on Shackleton’s legendary skills and was determined to measure his own powers of endurance against them. He would succeed where Shackleton had failed, in the most brutal landscape in the world. In 2008, Worsley set out across Antarctica with two other descendants of Shackleton’s crew, battling the freezing, desolate landscape, life-threatening physical exhaustion, and hidden crevasses. Yet when he returned home he felt compelled to go back. On November 2015, at age 55, Worsley bid farewell to his family and embarked on his most perilous quest: to walk across Antarctica alone.
David Grann tells Worsley’s remarkable story with the intensity and power that have led him to be called “simply the best narrative nonfiction writer working today.” Illustrated with more than fifty stunning photographs from Worsley’s and Shackleton’s journeys, The White Darkness is both a gorgeous keepsake volume and a spellbinding story of courage, love, and a man pushing himself to the extremes of human capacity.

From the chef behind Momofuku and star of Netflix’s Ugly Delicious—an intimate account of the making of a chef, the story of the modern restaurant world that he helped shape, and how he discovered that success can be much harder to understand than failure.

《一粒珍珠的故事:一位世纪女性的一生》主要内容简介：小时候家人称她“三少爷”，她自认“是个坏姑娘，狡猾又暴躁”。长大后，她是骑着自行车穿行燕园的摩登女性，吸引了众多的追求者——著名作家萧乾也是其中之一，两人的友情保持终身。1938年作为仅有的两名女性代表之一，参加在美国召开的世界青年大会，在北美数十座城市宣传中国抗战。之后留在美国读书。学成归国途经香港，在日寇封锁下冒着生命危险进入内地。
她是中国第一代真正意义上的“社会工作者”，40年代在上海主持儿童福利促进会的工作，救助过无数穷困的人。
历经一个世纪的风雨之后，她心怀感激，将往事娓娓道来，没有怨怼，唯有自省，以及淡淡的喜悦和宁静。这位世纪女性的自传，也从个人视角写出了百年中国的沧桑变化。

David Hallberg, the first American to join the famed Bolshoi Ballet as a principal dancer and the dazzling artist The New Yorker described as “the most exciting male dancer in the western world,” presents an intimate journey through his artistic life up to the moment he returns to the stage after a devastating injury almost cost him his career.
Beginning with his real-life Billy Elliot childhood—an all-American story marred by intense bullying—and culminating in his hard-won come-back, Hallberg’s brave memoir dives deep into life as an artist as he wrestles with ego, pushes the limits of his body, and searches for ecstatic perfection and fulfillment as one of the world’s most acclaimed ballet dancers.
While rich in detail ballet fans will adore, this is a book that anyone interested in a life of creativity will love. Hallberg reflects on themes like inspiration, self-doubt, and perfectionism as he takes readers into daily class, rigorous rehearsals, and triumphant performances, searching for new interpretations of ballet’s greatest roles. He reveals the loneliness he felt as a teenager leaving America to join the Paris Opera Ballet, the ambition he had to tame as a new member of American Ballet Theatre, and the reasons behind his headline-grabbing decision to be the first American to join the top rank of Bolshoi Ballet, tendered by the artistic director who would later be the victim of a vicious acid attack. Then, as Hallberg performed throughout the world at the peak of his abilities, he suffered a crippling ankle injury and unsuccessful surgery leading to an agonizing retreat from ballet and an honest reexamination of his entire life.
Combining his powers of observation and memory with emotional honesty and artistic insight, Hallberg has written a great ballet memoir and an intimate portrait of an artist in all his vulnerability, passion, and wisdom.

19世纪末到20世纪前期是一个巨人的时代。这一时期涌现的巨人不是一两个，而是一大批；这些巨人不是温文尔雅、驯服恭顺，而是狂躁激烈、立异标新。在世界艺术领域，尤其如此。本书的最大特色就在于，这是一个画商以他非艺术但更社会化的眼光和口吻来观察、讲述这一个时代中艺术家们的故事。
在书中，您在这里可以看到巨人们对自己的要求是何等严格：把绘画视作自己“命中注定劫难”的塞尚如何毫不心痛地毁掉自己不满意的作品，罗丹如何不顾崇拜者们的哀求把其雕塑砍得粉碎，而德加毁掉自己长期心血结晶仅仅是为了获得一切从头开始的欢乐；您在这里会惊奇地发现，不仅世俗之辈对天才们有眼无珠，连大师们之间也未必真正相互理解：马奈始终认为雷诺阿画画是选错了职业，而其成名纯属偶然；左拉一直遗憾塞尚没有听从他的劝告，否则定会取得更大的成就……至于他们性格上的巨大差异，作者也似乎无心地作了巧妙烘托：同眷恋家庭、喜爱鲜花的雷诺阿形成鲜明对比，德加憎恨家庭，更憎恨鲜花――在这位大师的眼里，鲜花与美人的界限绝不容混淆；塞尚崇拜波德莱尔，不容许别人对他这个偶像说半个不字，雷诺阿则公然宣称这位诗人和福楼拜都是他最憎恨的对象……

The prescient, page-turning account of a journey in Silicon Valley: a defining memoir of our digital age
In her mid-twenties, at the height of tech industry idealism, Anna Wiener―stuck, broke, and looking for meaning in her work, like any good millennial―left a job in book publishing for the promise of the new digital economy. She moved from New York to San Francisco, where she landed at a big-data startup in the heart of the Silicon Valley bubble: a world of surreal extravagance, dubious success, and fresh-faced entrepreneurs hell-bent on domination, glory, and, of course, progress.
Anna arrived during a massive cultural shift, as the tech industry rapidly transformed into a locus of wealth and power rivaling Wall Street. But amid the company ski vacations and in-office speakeasies, boyish camaraderie and ride-or-die corporate fealty, a new Silicon Valley began to emerge: one in far over its head, one that enriched itself at the expense of the idyllic future it claimed to be building.
Part coming-of-age-story, part portrait of an already bygone era, Anna Wiener’s memoir, Uncanny Valley, is a rare first-person glimpse into high-flying, reckless startup culture at a time of unchecked ambition, unregulated surveillance, wild fortune, and accelerating political power. With wit, candor, and heart, Anna deftly charts the tech industry’s shift from self-appointed world savior to democracy-endangering liability, alongside a personal narrative of aspiration, ambivalence, and disillusionment.

在这本非常成功的新版中，哈罗尔德·C.勋伯格通过一连串引人入胜的传记性篇章，将作曲家——从蒙特威尔第到20世纪90年代的调性作曲家——逐一做了介绍。作者认为， 音乐是一门不断演变的艺术，没有哪个天才（无论他有多么伟大）不曾受到其前辈的影响。在这里，伟大的作曲家是作为一个人来呈现的，他们生活着，并与周围的现实世界发生着联系。
勋伯格把读者带到一个更近的距离去了解这些作曲家们，进而更加理解他们的音乐。为此，本书把叙述重点更多地放大作曲家的生平细节上，而缺少对音乐作品做技术分析。
本书把“严肃音乐”所有重要人物都囊括其中——巴赫、亨德尔、莫扎特、贝多芬、肖帮、威尔第、瓦格纳、马勒等等。作者将他们的生平编织成一幅其细节和逸事都很丰富的织锦。此外，还有些章节讲述了民族乐派，对维也纳的施特劳斯家族、阿瑟·萨利文爵士、奥芬巴赫等人的所谓轻音乐也有涉及。在此新版中，勋伯格对后来的序列音乐作曲家、极简抽象主义作曲家以及20世纪90年代的新闻性主义作曲家都有清楚的描述。
本书没有改变的其基本特征——始终给所有的音乐爱好者带来阅读的乐趣，自始至终引人入胜，可以在任何地方开始阅读。

【编辑推荐】
★ 与疾病共生，与爱人共舞，与死亡共欢宴
天才导演贾曼的最后岁月，伟大的艺术灵魂于陨落前的竭力燃烧。
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★ 爱过，战斗过，绝望过，创造过——
身兼导演、诗人、艺术家和园艺家等多重身份的德里克·贾曼，在绝症之中写下遗书般优美的日记，惊世骇俗又饱含深情，这本书是贾曼最温柔的袒露与最缓慢的告别。
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★ 在病痛中与偏见斗争，在世界尽头建造末日花园，在人生落幕前，用鲜花与爱人抵抗死亡。
作为当时极少数公开艾滋病情的名人之一，贾曼一边怀着对生命的热忱与疾病抗争，一边奋力发声以消除大众对性少数群体的偏见。伴侣和朋友成为他生命终章里最坚实、温暖的后盾，在核电站旁建造的美丽花园则成了他的灵魂归宿。
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★ 永恒不灭的爱与痛，艺术家灵魂的翕动与挣扎，并记录下《维特根斯坦》《蓝》等经典影片构思、诞生全过程
电影和图像是贾曼永远的热爱，即使在病痛缠身甚至几近失明的情况下，他仍满怀热情地参与到艺术创作之中。在这本最后的日记中，可一窥这位世界级先锋导演的创作过程，追溯其灵感与爱的源泉。
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★ 英国国宝级女演员演员蒂尔达•斯文顿 、知名电影学者毛尖 感动推荐
德里克•贾曼以一种天才般的明晰投身于他的人生和生活细节之中，尤其是在经历了疾病带来的顿悟之后。这种顿悟不仅是挑衅，也是救赎。
——蒂尔达·斯文顿（Tilda Swinton）
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贾曼英俊、幽默，拥有水银般光亮的个性，天生的智慧令他甜蜜、愤怒又充满激情……他对同性和异性产生的强大引力一直是英国艺术界的一大传奇。
——毛尖
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贾曼就是那种善于“制造麻烦”的预言者，或许某一天能与威廉•布莱克相媲美。
————约翰•吉尔（John Gill）
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★ 新锐青年设计师山川担纲设计，独特红色PVC外封双面丝网印白，使书籍整体装帧设计极具先锋艺术感，同时也是对贾曼的病痛岁月和艺术激情的一种隐喻。
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【内容简介】
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“我不想以悲伤结尾，
如果可以的话，
我想歌唱。”
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《慢慢微笑》是英国导演德里克·贾曼生前最后一部日记，记录了他在身患重病后，在身体状况逐渐恶化、创作能力日趋衰减之时对生活、艺术、疾病、爱情的深刻思考。他以优美又饱含深情的笔触写下了日常中的种种艺术思考和实践，回忆了与朋友交游的青春时光，记录了病榻之上的肉体与灵魂经受的煎熬，同时抒发对英国社会动态和艺术创作环境的深深忧虑和愤慨，文字中同时充盈着欢欣与痛苦、愤怒和宁静。
这本书是贾曼的墓碑，艺术家的灵魂栖息其上，至今仍在轻盈地翕动双翅。其所有呼喊与耳语，自省与告白，都凝聚为一行字：
“我活在爱中。”

世界变得更好，从第一个说“不”的人开始。
《福布斯》权力榜女性领袖、比尔及梅琳达·盖茨基金会联席主席、微软女性领导者之一、比尔·盖茨夫人——梅琳达·盖茨
书写世界女性不为人知的悲怆与反抗，看见性别偏见，重塑女性自我
比尔·盖茨亲自晒书推荐，入选奥巴马年度书单
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在比尔及梅琳达盖茨基金会成立20年，帮助了全球数以亿计的女性、儿童之后，联席主席梅琳达·盖茨首次来到台前，讲述她所目睹的无数底层女性的困境及抗争；分享她对男女不平等根源的深度思考，发展和投资女性的实践经验，以及那些致力于改善女性生存环境的理想主义者，正如何以一己之力改变世界。
从女性生育自主、受教育权、家务劳动、童婚问题到职场性别歧视，她发现，有时只要不去拖累女性，就是给她们翅膀。而提升女性，也带来整个社会的繁荣。
在本书中，你会读到一位印度修女的故事，她开办了一所学校，专门面向那些被当地人视作“贱民”的女孩。
你会读到一位新西兰经济学家的故事，她勇敢地挑战统计数据中存在的偏见，让世界从此开始重视女性在家庭中付出的无偿劳动。
你还会读到梅琳达自己的成长经历，她如何加入初创时期的微软，成为当时屈指可数的女性领导者；她的婚姻平等之路，她与比尔·盖茨如何通过分工合作，协调家庭与工作。
女人如果在另一个女人的故事中听到自己的声音，她就会变得勇敢，单薄的声音就会变成合唱。当打压她的文化环境被改变，当她可以摆脱贫穷、自我怀疑、恐惧和耻感，她会迸发出无比强大的力量。
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“这是本智慧、诚恳、优美的书，有关赋权女性如何提升我们每一个人。（认识梅琳达的人对此不会感到意外。）写作本书花费了她一年时间，凝聚了她毕生工作所得。《女性的时刻》记录了那些激励了梅琳达的女性，从她的母亲，再到她微软的同事，直到今天，那些杰出的科学家、农业从业者、教育者，以及她在基金会工作时认识的引领者们。”——比尔·盖茨
“我想这是我读过zui棒的书之一……书中的故事既来自全球各地的女性，也来自梅琳达本人。而且这本书写得十分坦率，故事也精彩纷呈。”——沃伦·巴菲特
“梅琳达从事的工作让她走遍了全球各地，邂逅了无数鼓舞人心的人，在这本书中，她讲述了他们的故事，深入研究了各项数据，有力地揭示了那些值得我们关注的问题——从童婚到职场上的性别失衡。”——前总统巴拉克·奥巴马
“读这本书时，我无数次感觉自己被戳中。”——奥普拉
“这是一部关于勇气的书。梅琳达•盖茨不仅讲述了她遇到过的非凡女性的故事，也告诉我们她为什么有勇气站到女性赋权第一线。”——杨澜
“梅琳达·盖茨多年来一直在与全球各地的女性通力合作。这本书是一份迫切的宣言，敦促社会实现男女平等，正视并承认女性在各个领域的价值。zui重要的是，它还号召所有人团结起来，学会接纳与包容，强化彼此间的连结。在今天这个时代，我们比任何时候都更需要这样的呼吁。”——马拉拉·优素福扎伊

She was known to the world as Emily Doe when she stunned millions with a letter. Brock Turner had been sentenced to just six months in county jail after he was found sexually assaulting her on Stanford's campus. Her victim impact statement was posted on BuzzFeed, where it instantly went viral--viewed by eleven million people within four days, it was translated globally and read on the floor of Congress; it inspired changes in California law and the recall of the judge in the case. Thousands wrote to say that she had given them the courage to share their own experiences of assault for the first time.
Now she reclaims her identity to tell her story of trauma, transcendence, and the power of words. It was the perfect case, in many ways--there were eyewitnesses, Turner ran away, physical evidence was immediately secured. But her struggles with isolation and shame during the aftermath and the trial reveal the oppression victims face in even the best-case scenarios. Her story illuminates a culture biased to protect perpetrators, indicts a criminal justice system designed to fail the most vulnerable, and, ultimately, shines with the courage required to move through suffering and live a full and beautiful life.
Know My Name will forever transform the way we think about sexual assault, challenging our beliefs about what is acceptable and speaking truth to the tumultuous reality of healing. It also introduces readers to an extraordinary writer, one whose words have already changed our world. Entwining pain, resilience, and humor, this memoir will stand as a modern classic.

In her first memoir, award-winning novelist Yiyun Li offers a journey of recovery through literature: a letter from a writer to like-minded readers.
(From Amazon)

在成为著名电影导演之前，他曾有过怎样的人生？陈凯歌亲自执笔，直面他的少年时代。他敢于面对，勇于审视自己，并承认曾经犯过的错误。他的回忆与思考，既富于自省和批判精神，又具有相当的思想深度和历史的鲜活性。深刻的思想、优美的文笔、个人的视角，对成名之前生活、思想、艺术积累的小结，能够启迪我们许许多多的人。

　　有着“小麻雀”之称的法国国宝级歌手艾迪特•皮雅芙（玛丽昂•歌迪亚饰），她有着传奇的一生。皮雅芙的童年颠沛流离，先是被母亲抛弃，然后被父亲送到妓院由祖母抚养，随后在父亲从军队退役后，又被强行带走随马戏团演出生活。再之后皮雅芙跟随父亲卖艺为生，街头初啼并到成为一名酒吧卖唱的少女。 　　正式登台的皮雅芙顺利成为一名歌喉迷人的明星，演唱了许多脍炙人口的歌曲。然而她的情感却一再受挫，尤其是和拳击手马塞尔（让-皮埃尔·马丁斯饰）的情感经历。她的晚年每况愈下，最后死于肝癌。

本书是沈从文前半生（1902-1948）传记，是《沈从文的后半生》的兄弟篇，讲述在中国历史变动的1902-1948年间，沈从文生命发展的不同阶段。书中叙述他的辗转流荡，”传奇”与平常，”人格放光”与精神痛苦。他与时代密切相连却持续强韧地保持紧张的”对话”--这是一个人自己的故事，也是牵涉各种社会关系，承载文学、思想与感情的重量，交织进现代中国的故事。从沈从文的成长、哀乐与创作脉络中，也可窥见中国的文化环境与氛围，当时的文人生存状态。

The #1 New York Times bestseller
“A powerful story of an exhilarating mind and life...a study in creativity: how to define it, how to achieve it.” —The New Yorker
“Vigorous, insightful.” —The Washington Post
“A masterpiece.” —San Francisco Chronicle
“Luminous.” —The Daily Beast
He was history’s most creative genius. What secrets can he teach us?
The author of the acclaimed bestsellers Steve Jobs, Einstein, and Benjamin Franklin brings Leonardo da Vinci to life in this exciting new biography.
Based on thousands of pages from Leonardo’s astonishing notebooks and new discoveries about his life and work, Walter Isaacson weaves a narrative that connects his art to his science. He shows how Leonardo’s genius was based on skills we can improve in ourselves, such as passionate curiosity, careful observation, and an imagination so playful that it flirted with fantasy.
He produced the two most famous paintings in history, The Last Supper and the Mona Lisa. But in his own mind, he was just as much a man of science and technology. With a passion that sometimes became obsessive, he pursued innovative studies of anatomy, fossils, birds, the heart, flying machines, botany, geology, and weaponry. His ability to stand at the crossroads of the humanities and the sciences, made iconic by his drawing of Vitruvian Man, made him history’s most creative genius.
His creativity, like that of other great innovators, came from having wide-ranging passions. He peeled flesh off the faces of cadavers, drew the muscles that move the lips, and then painted history’s most memorable smile. He explored the math of optics, showed how light rays strike the cornea, and produced illusions of changing perspectives in The Last Supper. Isaacson also describes how Leonardo’s lifelong enthusiasm for staging theatrical productions informed his paintings and inventions.
Leonardo’s delight at combining diverse passions remains the ultimate recipe for creativity. So, too, does his ease at being a bit of a misfit: illegitimate, gay, vegetarian, left-handed, easily distracted, and at times heretical. His life should remind us of the importance of instilling, both in ourselves and our children, not just received knowledge but a willingness to question it—to be imaginative and, like talented misfits and rebels in any era, to think different.

一八九五年，已被后辈作家称为“大师”的美国作家亨利·詹姆斯梦想着以一部戏剧征服伦敦。然而，他的第一出戏《盖·多姆维尔》首演既告失败。在失败的阴影下，亨利接受了爱尔兰贵族的邀请，在酒宴歌席中品味他人到中年的困顿，舔舐内心深处的创伤。
《大师》就从这里开始，一直写到一八九九年他的兄长威廉·詹姆斯去拉伊小镇探望他。在这四年里，他的生活相对平静，心底却波澜起伏。他时常怀恋他生命中重要的过客，她们以不同的方式在他作品和灵魂中留下印痕；他为自己的性取向而困顿不安；他回想自己的家庭、亲人对他人生的影响；他渴求温暖和慰藉，却刻意与人保持距离；他希望创造传世杰作，却时时遭逢绝望……这是亨利一生至关重要的心理转折点。
在托宾的同情而温婉的笔下，亨利·詹姆斯这位心理写作大师展示了他纤敏易感之心的横剖面，这真是他零落他乡、孤独一生的缩影。

本书作者以自传体形式通过“武汉的脚步”、“红环0.18”、“珞珈山初雪”、“飞越东京湾”、“生物岛之光”五个章节叙述了自己从一个普通农民的孩子成长为国际知名建筑师的奋斗历程与重要事件。其中以留学与国际交流的经历从侧面论述了现代建筑与城市的设计规划方法，深入浅出，将科普与学术研究融会贯通。另附有部分著名建筑规划方案设计图，具有参考价值。全书情节丰富，图文并茂，可读性强。<BR>

本书是昭和年代日本国民级女电影明星高峰秀子的自传，她几乎与日本所有的著名导演合作，主演了众多影史经典，在本书中她无保留地倾述了自己的从影经历。
《浮云》、《二十四只眼睛》、《女人步上楼梯时》、《宗方姐妹》、《无法松的一生》、《卡门归乡》……她出演过如此之多的电影杰作。
五岁就开始拍电影，拥有“三个父亲三个母亲”，与黑泽明的短暂恋情，松竹与东宝两大电影公司的争夺目标……她的人生充满话题。
三十岁后才学会使用字典， 却 写出了畅销几十年的作品，朋友圈里是日本杰出的作家、辞典编撰家、画家……她的人生充满传奇。

9/11 almost instantaneously remade American politics and foreign policy. The wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, the Patriot Act, water boarding and Guantanamo are examples of its profound and far-reaching effects. But despite its numental impact--and a deluge of books about al-Qaeda and Islamist terrorism--no one has written a serious assessment of the man who planned it, Osama bin Laden. Available biographies depict bin Laden as an historical figure, the mastermind behind 9/11, but no longer relevant to the world it created. These accounts, Michael Scheuer strongly believes, have contributed to a widespread and dangerous denial of his continuing significance and power. In this book, Scheuer provides a much-needed corrective--a hard-headed, closely reasoned portrait of bin Laden, showing him to be a figure of remarkable leadership skills, strategic genius, and considerable rhetorical abilities. The first head of the CIA's bin Laden Unit, where he led the effort to track down bin Laden, Scheuer draws from a wealth of information about bin Laden and his evolution from peaceful Saudi dissident to America's Most Wanted. Shedding light on his development as a theologian, media manipulator, and paramilitary commander, Scheuer makes use of all the speeches and interviews bin Laden has given as well as lengthy interviews, testimony, and previously untranslated documents written by those who grew up with bin Laden in Saudi Arabia, served as his bodyguards and drivers, and fought alongside him against the Soviets. The bin Laden who emerges from these accounts is devout, talented, patient, and ruthless; in other words, a truly formidable and implacable enemy of the West.