Kirjahaku

Entombed forever in a custom-built world he cannot escape, Steven Giamotti is finally retired from the business of conquering universes. But while he's happily spending his winter years as Napoleon in Tolstoy's War and Peace, elsewhere strange things are happening. Queen Victoria is brutally murdered. Abraham Lincoln drops dead at a world peace conference. A Russian time travel experiment goes disastrously awry. A map of wormholes in the space-time continuum suddenly materializes in the mind of an autistic teenager. As the havoc that Giamotti wrought in an eternity of mischief begins to threaten existence itself, a few random survivors begin to wonder if the disasters rippling across time and space are really the aftermath of Giamotti's reign of terror...or just the beginning!

This is not your English teacher's Beowulf. This is Beowulf with sex. Fire. Boobs. Battle scenes. Explosions. Human sacrifice. Ninjas. Hot chicks. Stuff blowing up. Cannibalism. Drinking. Did we mention boobs? Oh, there's still the requisite crap with Grendel, his mother, the dragon and ancient Anglo-Saxon legends. But this is Beowulf the way it should have been from the beginning. Which is to say, not boring. You have our word on that. Because if it is boring, the author and 32 totally innocent people will burn in Hell for the rest of eternity, and the Devil is waiting to take their souls. And maybe yours too. Don't say you weren't warned!

Climate change is the world's biggest problem. It affects every human being on Earth, and it's going to fundamentally alter every human institution and way of life, from business and economics to politics to spirituality, religion, culture and identity. But, as big as it is, climate change is not "the end of history." In fact, it's just the beginning of a new phase of the history of humanity, one that presents opportunities as well as challenges. Being ready to ride this wave of change is the true calling of our times.Historian Sean Munger, an expert on the history of climate change, has written this short, concise, readable book for the lay person who wants to know what we might expect in a climate-changed world, and how we might deal with it. It's informed by history: using lessons from the past to make reasonable projections about how things might go in the future. "The Warmest Tide" cuts through media noise, political froth, and does not contain a single scientific chart or graph. It's not a polemic, a jeremiad or a manifesto. Instead, it's a no-nonsense look at where history tells us we may be going. Although climate change and global warming are unprecedented challenges, you may be surprised by how much the past can tell us about our future.

Born in a shipyard in Germany before the First World War, BAVARIA is an innocent creature with no conception of what she is to become: a floating palace, one of the great liners that have since sailed into legend. Through war and peace, boom and bust, Depression and hope, in her own words she tells of her transformation into the ship aptly named ROMANTIC--and her fall from grace, together with mankind.

As an immortal being with the ability to shift universes at will, Steven Giamotti has had an eternity to make enemies. Emerging one by one from the pages of great (and not-so-great) works of literature, they haven't been much threat to him-until they begin to organize themselves to strike him down at the height of his greatest accomplishment. Four random people-a sailor aboard a 19th century whaling ship, a welder at an Antarctic research station, the bookish daughter of a California vintner, and an idealistic '60s flower child-are about to become pawns in a cosmic chess game that transcends the boundaries of time and space. But the most difficult move is figuring out whose side they're supposed to be on...[All Giamotti's Children is the sequel to Life Without Giamotti.]

Who is Steven Giamotti? A teenage psychopath stalking a swank Eastern prep school? A self-proclaimed messiah with the power to raise the dead, racing toward a desolate Pacific island aboard a hijacked submarine? A suave and charming Manhattan financier who may or may not be secretly building the world's ultimate weapon? A traveler from another universe on a mission to expand human consciousness--or destroy it? Or is he just a character in a book, a figment of someone else's imagination! ...or your own?