Hot Topic

作者：  David King 著

出版社：Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2011-12-1

简介：Last year, awareness about global warming reached a tippingpoint. Now one of the most dynamic writers and one of the mostrespected scientists in the field of climate change offer the firstconcise guide to both the problems and the solutions. Guiding uspast a blizzard of information and misinformation, Gabrielle Walkerand Sir David King explain the science of warming, the mostcutting-edge technological solutions from small to large, and thenational and international politics that will affect our efforts.While there have been many other books about the problem of globalwarming, none has addressed what we can and should do about it soclearly and persuasively, with no spin, no agenda, and noexaggeration. Neither Walker nor King is an activist or politician,and theirs is not a generic green call to arms. Instead theypropose specific ideas to fix a very specific problem. Mostimportant, they offer hope: This is a serious issue, perhaps themost serious that humanity has ever faced. But we can still dosomething about it. And they'll show us how.

Difficult Loves

作者：  Italo Calvino　著,Archibald Colquhoun　译者

出版社：Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2011-12-1

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Around My French Table

作者：  Dorie Greenspan　著

出版社：Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2011-12-1

简介：　　When Julia Child told Dorie Greenspan, “You write recipes justthe way I do,” she paid her the ultimate compliment. Julia’s praisewas echoed by the New York Times and the Los Angeles Times, whichreferred to Dorie’s “wonderfully encouraging voice” and “the senseof a real person who is there to help should you stumble.”　　Now in a big, personal, and personable book, Dorie captures allthe excitement of French home cooking, sharing disarmingly simpledishes she has gathered over years of living in France.　　Around My French Table includes many superb renditions of thegreat classics: a glorious cheese-domed onion soup, a spoon-tenderbeef daube, and the “top-secret” chocolate mousse recipe that everygood Parisian cook knows—but won’t reveal.　　Hundreds of other recipes are remarkably easy: a cheese and olivequick bread, a three-star chef’s Basque potato tortilla made with asurprise ingredient (potato chips), and an utterly satisfying roastchicken for “lazy people.”　　Packed with lively stories, memories, and insider tips on Frenchculinary customs, Around My French Table will make cooks fall inlove with France all over again, or for the first time.

On Violence

作者：  Hannah Arendt　著

出版社：Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2011-12-1

简介：An analysis of the nature, causes, and significance of violencein the second half of the twentieth century. Arendt also reexaminesthe relationship between war, politics, violence, and power."Incisive, deeply probing, written with clarity and grace, itprovides an ideal framework for understanding the turbulence of ourtimes"(Nation). Index.

Children of Húrin

作者：  J. R. R. Tolkien　著

出版社：Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2011-12-1

简介：　　"There are tales of Middle-earth from times long before TheLord of the Rings, and the story told in this book is set in thegreat country that lay beyond the Grey Havens in the West: landswhere Treebeard once walked, but that were drowned in the greatcataclysm that ended the First Age of the World. "In that remotetime Morgoth, the first Dark Lord, dwelt in the vast fortress ofAngband, the Hells of Iron, in the North; and the tragedy of Turinand his sister Nienor unfolded within the shadow of the fear ofAngband and the war waged by Morgoth against the lands and secretcities of the Elves. "Their brief and passionate lives weredominated by the elemental hatred that Morgoth bore them as thechildren of Hurin, the man who had dared to defy and to scorn himto his face. Against them he sent his most formidable servant,Glaurung, a powerful spirit in the form of a huge wingless dragonof fire. Into this story of brutal conquest and flight, of foresthiding-places and pursuit, of resistance with lessening hope, theDark Lord and the Dragon enter in direly articulate form. Sardonicand mocking, Glaurung manipulated the fates of Turin and Nienor bylies of diabolic cunning and guile, and the curse of Morgoth wasfulfilled. "The earliest versions of this story by J.R.R. Tolkiengo back to the end of the First World War and the years thatfollowed; but long afterward, when The Lord of the Rings wasfinished, he wrote it anew and greatly enlarged it in complexitiesof motive and character: it became the dominant story in his laterwork on Middle-earth. But he could not bring it to a final andfinished form. In this book I have endeavored to construct, afterlong study of the manuscripts, a coherent narrative without anyeditorial invention." -- Christopher Tolkien

Surprised by Joy

作者：  本社　编

出版社：Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2011-12-1

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Seeing

作者：  Jose Saramago　著,Margaret Jull Costa　译者

出版社：Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2011-12-1

简介：　　On election day in the capital, it is raining so hard that noone has bothered to come out to vote. The politicians are growingjittery. Should they reschedule the elections for another day?Around three o'clock, the rain finally stops. Promptly at four,voters rush to the polling stations, as if they had been ordered toappear. But when the ballots are counted, more than 70 percent areblank. The citizens are rebellious. A state of emergency isdeclared. But are the authorities acting too precipitously? Or evenblindly? The word evokes terrible memories of the plague ofblindness that hit the city four years before, and of the one womanwho kept her sight. Could she be behind the blank ballots? A policesuperintendent is put on the case. What begins as a satire ongovernments and the sometimes dubious efficacy of the democraticsystem turns into something far more sinister. A singular novelfrom the author of Blindness.