'Page One. Dentro il New York Times' è la cronaca di un anno intero, vissuto nel cuore del più importante quotidiano del globo, al fianco di coloro che cercano di salvare la tradizione della stampa e indagano sul futuro e sul ruolo del digitale. Al fianco soprattutto dei giornalisti del media desk per raccontare dall'interno la trasformazione del sistema dell'informazione nel suo momento di maggiore incertezza, con internet che è diventato la principale fonte di notizie e molti quotidiani in tutto il mondo che chiudono per bancarotta. Il libro contiene 'Prima pagina' a cura di Emilia Bandel. Alcune stimolanti riflessioni sulla trasformazione del giornalismo. Tra versioni cartacee sempre più obsolete e sfida dell'informazione online, che ne sarà della figura del giornalista tradizionale e della sua professione nel prossimo futuro? Tra i contributi: la profezia del decano del giornalismo italiano Giorgio Bocca, un caso storico analizzato da Mimmo Franzinelli, l'anatomia della rivoluzione di natura culturale, economica e tecnologica prodotta dal digitale per le news (Vittorio Zambardino e Massimo Russo, Vittorio Sabadin). E inoltre: approfondimenti e curiosità sul film e sui suoi protagonisti.

The Routledge Companion to Metaphysics is an outstanding, comprehensive and accessible guide to the major themes, thinkers, and issues in metaphysics. The Companion features over fifty specially commissioned chapters from international scholars which are organized into three clear parts:

• History of Metaphysics
• Ontology
• Metaphysics and Science.

Each section features an introduction which places the range of essays in context, while an extensive glossary allows easy reference to key terms and definitions. The Routledge Companion to Metaphysics is essential reading for students of philosophy and anyone interested in surveying the central topics and problems in metaphysics from causation to vagueness and from Plato and Aristotle to the present-day.

A horrible family tragedy that may not be what it seems . . .

A past encounter with an infamous killer turns deadly today . . .

An ordinary man must risk his own family to find the truth.

Jay Erlich's nephew has been found at the bottom of a cliff at Morrow Bay. It's all just a tragic suicide, until secrets from the past begin to rear up again. Did a notorious killer, jailed for many decades, have his hand in this?

Years ago, Jay Erlich's older brother, Charlie, a wayward child of the sixties, set out for California, where he fell under the sway of a charismatic but deeply disturbed cultlike figure. Tragedy ensued and lives were destroyed, but as the decades passed, Charlie married and raised a family and lived a quiet, secluded life under the radar. Yet the demons that nearly destroyed him never completely disappeared.

When Jay heads out west to help his grieving brother, he is pulled back into Charlie's past?and begins to suspect that his nephew's suicide may not have been that at all. With eyes wide open, Jay puts his own life at risk to uncover the truth, a quest that goes beyond the edge of madness and a family haunted by a secret past . . . and into the depths of evil.

Drawing on two real-life experiences from his own past, Gross has crafted a richly personal, yet utterly terrifying tale of two brothers, one successful, one wayward, trying to bridge the gap of what tore them apart.

A horrible family tragedy that may not be what it seems . . .

A past encounter with an infamous killer turns deadly today . . .

An ordinary man must risk his own family to find the truth.

Jay Erlich?s nephew has been found at the bottom of a cliff at Morrow Bay. It?s all just a tragic suicide, until secrets from the past begin to rear up again. Did a notorious killer, jailed for many decades, have his hand in this?

When Jay heads out west to help his grieving brother, he is pulled back into his past?and begins to suspect that his nephew?s suicide may not have been a suicide at all. With eyes wide open, Jay puts his own life at risk to uncover the truth, a quest that goes beyond the edge of madness and a family haunted by a secret past . . . and into the depths of evil.

A close friend from investigator Ty Hauck's past is murdered along with her family in a terrifying home invasion. Now Ty will risk everything he loves to avenge her death . . .

An international financier sees his world about to crumble?and realizes his family is in unfathomable danger . . .

A tenacious government agent's blood freezes when she watches bank transfers of millions in cash, suspecting that this is the first step in a plot to unleash a new global terror . . .

Following the trail of murders, Ty Hauck?along with agent Naomi Blum of the U.S. Department of Treasury?steps into the crosshairs of an unthinkable conspiracy.

Our brains are hardwired for worry. While our ancient ancestors had a legitimate use for the fight-or-flight instinct, today what was once a matter of survival has become the stuff of sleepless nights and anxiety-filled days. At its best, worry is a way for us to turn over and solve a problem in our minds. But for many, worry becomes a negative cycle of unnecessary suffering. Now, based on cutting-edge brain science, Dr. Martin Rossman has developed a program to help you break the worry cycle—and transform worry into a positive force.

In The Worry Solution, Dr. Rossman gives you an easy-to-follow plan for taking control of your reactions to stress and anxiety. Using proven clinical techniques that harness the very power of imagination that creates worry and stress, you will learn the five basic skills that will help you to clarify your worries, sort them into those you can and cannot do something about, and tap the wisdom buried deep within you to help solve problems creatively. At the heart of the program is the use of guided imagery and creative visualization, techniques that invigorate the emotional and intuitive parts of the brain to add to and enhance logical intelligence.

Not only can you start to see a change in your stress levels immediately, but with regular practice, you may literally alter the worry pathways in your brain—and 'hardwire' yourself for calmness and clarity. Grounded in cutting-edge science and wonderfully accessible, The Worry Solution is a powerful and practical guide to living your best life—healthier, happier, and free from unnecessary stress.


From the Hardcover edition.

Featuring the stories and artwork by Spawn creator, Todd McFarlane, that laid the groundwork for the most successful independent comic book ever published. Spawn Origins Volume 2 includes classic Spawn stories written by Alan Moore and Frank Miller, as well as the introduction of memorable characters into the Spawn universe. Collects Spawn #7, 8, 11-14.

2009 Choice Outstanding Academic Title

Is job insecurity the new norm? With fewer and fewer people working in steady, long-term positions for one employer, has the dream of a secure job with full benefits and a decent salary become just that—a dream?

In Nice Work If You Can Get It, Andrew Ross surveys the new topography of the global workplace and finds an emerging pattern of labor instability and uneven development on a massive scale. Combining detailed case studies with lucid analysis and graphic prose, he looks at what the new landscape of contingent employment means for workers across national, class, and racial lines—from the emerging “creative class” of high-wage professionals to the multitudes of temporary, migrant, or low-wage workers. Developing the idea of “precarious livelihoods” to describe this new world of work and life, Ross explores what it means in developed nations—comparing the creative industry policies of the United States, United Kingdom, and European Union, as well as developing countries—by examining the quickfire transformation of China's labor market. He also responds to the challenge of sustainability, assessing the promise of “green jobs” through restorative alliances between labor advocates and environmentalists.

Ross argues that regardless of one's views on labor rights, globalization, and quality of life, this new precarious and “indefinite life,&” and the pitfalls and opportunities that accompany it is likely here to stay and must be addressed in a systematic way. A more equitable kind of knowledge society emerges in these pages—less skewed toward flexploitation and the speculative beneficiaries of intellectual property, and more in tune with ideals and practices that are fair, just, and renewable.

A brilliantly reported true-life thriller that goes behind the scenes of the financial crisis on Wall Street and in Washington.

In one of the most gripping financial narratives in decades, Andrew Ross Sorkin-a New York Times columnist and one of the country's most respected financial reporters-delivers the first definitive blow- by-blow account of the epochal economic crisis that brought the world to the brink. Through unprecedented access to the players involved, he re-creates all the drama and turmoil of these turbulent days, revealing never-before-disclosed details and recounting how, motivated as often by ego and greed as by fear and self-preservation, the most powerful men and women in finance and politics decided the fate of the world's economy.

Ty Hauck is shattered by the news. A close friend from his past, along with her husband and daughter, has been brutally murdered in her home by vicious intruders. Now he will risk everything he loves to avenge her death. . . .

A wealthy banker, seeing his world about to crumble around him, knows his family is in unfathomable danger. . . .

A U.S. government agent watches the sudden bank transfers of millions in cash and suspects that this is the first step in a plot to unleash a wave of global panic. . . .

Ty Hauck hunts the murderer of a friend?and steps into the crosshairs of a sinister conspiracy?in this most electrifying novel yet from New York Times bestselling thriller master Andrew Gross

Private security investigator Ty Hauck, with Naomi Blum, a tenacious agent from the U.S. Department of Treasury, unravels the evidence that joins these seemingly unrelated events?revealing a reckless scheme that stretches from New York to London to central Europe and gives new meaning to the phrase 'too big to fail.' What began with a tragedy that opened a door to Hauck's past?a door that he thought was long closed?ends with a frantic race to avert a disaster that could shake the very security of our country?and even the world.

Presents a moment-by-moment account of the recent financial collapse that documents state efforts to prevent an economic disaster, offering insight into the pivotal consequences of decisions made throughout the past decade.

Presents a moment-by-moment account of the recent financial collapse that documents state efforts to prevent an economic disaster, offering insight into the pivotal consequences of decisions made throughout the past decade.

The editors (of the U. of Leeds, UK, and Trinity College, Ireland) present 53 chapters that are collectively intended to provide a comprehensive overview of the key themes, thinkers, and issues of philosophical metaphysics. The historical development of metaphysics is covered in chapters describing the thinking of Plato, Aristotle, medieval philosophers, Descartes, Hobbes, Spinoza, Locke, Leibniz, Berkeley, Hume, Kant, Hegel, Schopenhauer, Bradley, Whitehead, Heidegger, and others. Issues of ontology are then covered in chapter covering being, razor arguments, substance, intrinsic and extrinsic properties, universals, particulars, composition and identity, relations, possibilities, mathematical entities, fictional objects, vagueness, truthmakers and truthbearers, and values. The final section deals with metaphysics and science and includes chapters on absolute and relational space; infinity and metaphysics; the passage of time; the direction of time; causation; laws and dispositions; determinism and probability; essences and natural kinds; metaphysics and relativity; metaphysics and quantum physics; supervenience, reduction, and emergence; biometaphysics; social entities; the mental and the physical; and the self. A glossary is included. Annotation ©2009 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

A horror series that takes the familiar literary tradition of the Lovecraft-influenced short story and introduces it to comics.

In this dramatic new novel following the bestselling The Dark Tide, a drive-by shooting rocks the posh suburb of Greenwich, Connecticut, and an innocent bystander is left dead.

Detective Ty Hauck plunges into what seems like a vicious case of retribution and follows the trail to a sinister gambling scheme at an upstate casino. Until Annie Fletcher, a young restaurateur in the midst of rebuilding her life, witnesses something she shouldn't have—and immediately runs to him with what she knows. Suddenly, Hauck is pulled into a rising storm far greater than it first appeared—a storm wide enough to encompass corruption inside Greenwich's circle of wealthy and powerful citizens. And punishing enough to consume Hauck's own family, and tear brothers apart forever . . . if it doesn't kill them first.

Don't Look Twice is a gripping story of profiteering on an international scale and an emotionally resonant domestic thriller from one of the hottest new talents in suspense fiction.

Kate Raab è una ragazza che dalla vita ha avuto tutto: una splendida famiglia, una vita agiata, un ottimo lavoro e un uomo che la ama. Ma un giorno l'incanto si spezza: suo padre Ben viene arrestato dall'FBI con l'accusa di riciclaggio di denaro. La sua sola possibilità di evitare la condanna è testimoniare contro il feroce cartello della droga colombiano dei Mercado ed entrare nel programma di protezione dei testimoni. Ben viene trasferito in un luogo sicuro con la moglie e i due figli più piccoli, mentre Kate decide di rimanere a New York e non potrà più avere nessun contatto con loro. Quando però, all'improvviso, Ben sparisce, senza lasciare traccia, l'FBI non sa più cosa pensare. Fuga volontaria? O i colombiani lo hanno trovato? E una 'zona blu': un codice che indica una condizione oscura e pericolosa che neppure l'FBI sa bene come affrontare. Kate dovrà scendere in campo e diventare lei stessa un'investigatrice, ma il tempo incalza e il cerchio di morti intorno a lei si stringe pericolosamente.

Offers tips for young anglers on improving their cast, baiting a hook, and selecting the best lure for the job.

A woman uncovers the secrets of her dead husband's past in this second electrifying thriller from the author of the New York Times bestseller The Blue Zone.

Karen Friedman thinks it's a mistake when two men show up asking about her dead husband's business, but millions of dollars don't disappear by accident—and all trails lead to Charles. Then detective Ty Hauck makes a discovery while investigating a suspicious hit-and-run—a clue that shockingly points to Charles. As Karen's and Hauck's lives converge, they unwittingly step into a widening storm of hedge fund losses, international scams, and deadly conspiracies.

The danger isn't in the water.

Working as a lifeguard at a Florida resort, Ned Kelly meets a woman he is wild about, the woman of his dreams. It feels perfect in every way - except that she is used to caviar and Manolo Blahniks, and he is used to burgers and flip-flops. She is a guest at the luxurious hotel - he lives above a garage.

So when Ned's cousin offers to cut him in on a rich deal he's been commissioned to execute, Ned can't turn him down. The plan is simple, just a fast break-and-enter. The risk is high, and the reward is even greater--$5 million. But on the night of the heist, something goes devastatingly wrong. Who will save the lifeguard?

Ned walks away from his job, his town, and the woman he's fallen in love with. Runs away, actually, knowing that only velocity and secrecy can save his life. But who is pursuing him? The FBI? Whoever sabotaged the heist? Or is it all somehow tied into his new love - and his oldest enemies?

The #1 bestselling new mystery series of the past decade comes roaring back with 3rd Degree, a shockingly suspenseful thriller featuring the Women's Murder Club.

One of James Patterson's best loved heroines is about to die. Detective Lindsay Boxer is jogging along a beautiful San Francisco street when a fiery explosion rips through the neighborhood. A town house owned by an Internet millionaire is immediately engulfed in flames, and when Lindsay plunges inside to search for survivors, she finds three people dead. An infant who lived in the house cannot be found - and a mysterious message at the scene leaves Lindsay and the San Francisco Police Department completely baffled.

Then a prominent businessman is found murdered under bizarre circumstances, with another mysterious message left behind by the killer. Lindsay asks her friends Claire Washburn of the medical examiner's office, Assistant D.A. Jill Bernhardt, and Chronicle reporter Cindy Thomas to help her figure out who is committing these murders-and why they are intent on killing someone every three days.

Even more terrifying, the killer has targeted one of the four friends who call themselves the Women's Murder Club.

Which one will it be?

While the investigation rages furiously, Lindsay works very closely with a federal officer assigned to the case. At the same time, she learns that one member of the Women's Murder Club is hiding a secret so dangerous and unbelievable that it could destroy them all.

From the number one New York Times bestselling coauthor of Judge & Jury and Lifeguard comes this electrifying solo debut, The Blue Zone.

Kate Raab's life seems almost perfect: her boyfriend, her job, her family . . . until her father runs into trouble with the law. His only recourse is to testify against his former accomplices in exchange for his family's placement in the Witness Protection Program. But one of them gets cold feet. In a flash, everything Kate can count on is gone.

Now, a year later, her worst fears have happened: Her father has disappeared—into what the WITSEC agency calls 'the blue zone'—and someone close to him is found brutally murdered. With her family under surveillance, the FBI untrustworthy, and her father's menacing 'friends' circling with increasing intensity, Kate sets off to find her father—and uncover the secrets someone will kill to keep buried.