"Intel: взгляд изнутри" — увлекательная сага о компании, завоевавшей лидерство благодаря технологическим инновациям и сумевшей сохранить доминирующие позиции за счет агрессивного маркетинга, жесткой тактики в бизнесе и широкого использования судебно-правовых норм. Как рассказывает обозреватель "Financial Times" Тим Джексон, основу корпоративной культуры Intel составляют конфиденциальность и авторитарность. Компания содержит частных детективов, задача которых заключается в том, чтобы не дать ее сотрудникам сбиться с пути, а также предотвратить попытки раскрыть ревностно охраняемые секреты. Intel прибегает к практике судебного преследования в отношении как сотрудников, так и конкурентов. Эта тактика ярко проявилась во время ее семилетней юридической войны с AMD: агрессивные действия этого производителя микросхем в какой-то момент грозили привести к переделу сфер влияния во всей компьютерной индустрии. Но даже в атмосфере напряженной борьбы Intel процветает. Она все равно господствует на рынке микросхем, разрабатывая все новые поколения микропроцессоров. Ее акции — мечта банкиров с Уолл-Стрит, они приносят акционерам компании астрономические доходы. Даже обнаружение серьезного дефекта в широко разрекламированном процессе Pentium не смогло негативно повлиять на репутацию компании или ее долю на рынке. В центре этой увлекательной истории — Энди Гроув, неординарный президент и председатель совета директоров Intel. Бывший нищий эмигрант, он прислуживал в ресторане, чтобы иметь возможность учиться в колледже. Именно Гроув принимает непопулярные и противоречивые решения, благодаря которым Intel удается держаться на вершине рынка микросхем. Его труд, посвященный философии бизнеса, носит многозначительное название "Выживает только параноик". В книге на судебных записях, ранее не публиковавшихся документах и более ста интервью с важными фигурами в истории Intel, тщательно исследуются блестящие успехи, впечатляющие неудачи, потрясающие изобретения и революционные продукты этого компьютерного гиганта. В то же время это сага о сильных человеческих чувствах, которые стоят за битвами, сделавшим Intel одним из главных участников игры, где в качестве ставок используют деньги, власть, амбиции

Компьютерные стихи на мотив «Айболита», «Лукоморья» и «Евгения Онегина»

Past midnight, Chyna Shepherd, twenty-six, gazed out a moonlit window, unable to sleep on her first night in the Napa Valley home of her best friend’s family. Instinct proves reliable. A murderous sociopath, Edgler Forman Vess, has entered the house, intent on killing everyone inside. A self-proclaimed “homicidal adventurer,” Vess lives only to satisfy all appetites as they arise, to immerse himself in sensation, to live without fear, remorse or limits, to live with intensity. Chyna is trapped in his deadly orbit. Chyna is a survivor, toughened by a lifelong struggle for safety and self-respect. Now she will be tested as never before. At first her sole aim is to get out alive-until, by chance, she learns the identity of Vess’s next intended victim, a faraway innocent only she can save. Driven by a newly discovered thirst for meaning beyond mere self-preservation, Chyna musters every inner resource she has to save an endangered girl — as moment by moment, the terrifying threat of Edgler Foreman Vess intensifies

STĀSTI PAR DABU Anatolijs TOMIĻINS INTERESANTI PAR ASTRONOMIJU IZDEVNIECĪBA «LIESMA» RĪGA 1973 Т о ми л и н Анатолий Николаевич ЗАНИМАТЕЛЬНО ОБ АСТРОНОМИИ Издательство «Молодая 1вардия» Москва 1970 Издательство «Лиесма» Рига 1973 Серия «Рассказы о природе» На латышском языке С русского перевел Р. Гринберг Рисунки Кованова Г. и Ковыиева В. Обложка А. Липнна Mēģiniet šodien atrast kaut ko aizraujošāku par astronomijas atklājumiem. Tie seko cits citam un ir viens par otru sensacionālāki. Astronomija ir kļuvusi aktuāla. Bet tikai pirms 20 gadiem tā skolās bija fakultatīvs priekšmets. Toties pirms 300 gadiem, nezinādami astronomiju, jūs riskējāt nesaprast pat parastu labāko aprindu sarunu. Tik |oti šī saruna bija piesātināta ne vien ar senās zinātnes terminiem, bet arī ar tās inte­resēm. Vel divus gadsimtus agrāk aizraušanās ar zvaig­znēm jums varēja beigties ar … sārtu. Sī ir grāmata par astronomiju un nedaudz par astronautiku, par labiem astronomiem un dažiem astronomijas instrumentiem un metodēm. Vārdu sa­kot, par nelielu apgabalu gigantiskā zemē, kuras nosaukuma pamatā ir sengrieķu vārds «acrnip» — zvaigzne. No krievu valodas tulkojis R. Grinbergs Ilustrējuši G. Kovanovs un V. Koviņevs Vāku zīmējis A. Lipins

STĀSTI PAR DABU Anatolijs TOMIĻINS INTERESANTI PAR ASTRONOMIJU IZDEVNIECĪBA «LIESMA» RĪGA 1973 Томилин Анатолий Николаевич ЗАНИМАТЕЛЬНО ОБ АСТРОНОМИИ Издательство «Молодая 1вардия» Москва 1970 Издательство «Лиесма» Рига 1973 Серия «Рассказы о природе» На латышском языке С русского перевел Р. Гринберг Рисунки Кованова Г. и Ковинева В. Обложка А. Липина Mēģiniet šodien atrast kaut ko aizraujošāku par astronomijas atklājumiem. Tie seko cits citam un ir viens par otru sensacionālāki. Astronomija ir kļuvusi aktuāla. Bet tikai pirms 20 gadiem tā skolās bija fakultatīvs priekšmets. Toties pirms 300 gadiem, nezinādami astronomiju, jūs riskējāt nesaprast pat parastu labāko aprindu sarunu. Tik |oti šī saruna bija piesātināta ne vien ar senās zinātnes terminiem, bet arī ar tās inte­resēm. Vel divus gadsimtus agrāk aizraušanās ar zvaig­znēm jums varēja beigties ar … sārtu. Sī ir grāmata par astronomiju un nedaudz par astronautiku, par labiem astronomiem un dažiem astronomijas instrumentiem un metodēm. Vārdu sa­kot, par nelielu apgabalu gigantiskā zemē, kuras nosaukuma pamatā ir sengrieķu vārds «acrnip» — zvaigzne. No krievu valodas tulkojis R. Grinbergs Ilustrējuši G. Kovanovs un V. Koviņevs Vāku zīmējis A. Lipins

INTERESANTS FRAGMENTS Džeks Londons, VII sēj. Kad DIEVI smejas

Neil Fargo was a hard-nosed private investigator with a business on the side: heroin. The investigating he did on his own; the drug line he shared with a man called Walter Harriss. Fargo was strong enough, cool enough, to live in two worlds, and tough enough to keep control of both. Until he hired Docker. Docker, Fargo explained to Harriss, was an old army buddy. He would make a damn good bag man. He could be trusted. So when a drug shipment arrived, Fargo set up a meeting: the drug courier, a chemist to test the drugs for purity, and Docker. All Docker had to do was hand over a briefcase full of money and collect the shipment. But Docker did more than that: the courier was found dead, the chemist beaten — the drugs and the money were gone. And Fargo had to answer to Harriss for Docker’s disappearance. INTERFACE is the story of a chase: Harriss and Fargo both know that if they don’t stop Docker from getting out of San Francisco, they’ll never see the drugs or the money again. They’ll do anything to stop him — and Docker will do anything to keep from getting caught. But it’s also the story of Fargo, a man walking the tightrope between two lives, determined to survive in both

Рассказ вошёл в сборники: One More for the Road (На посошок) Bradbury Stories: 100 of His Most Celebrated Tales (Сборник ста лучших рассказов)

Продолжение истории Азраила, вынужденного более плотно вмешаться в дела чужого себе мира. Наступает горячая пора разрушительных процессов, начатых сектантами, и всё чаще вместо слов звучат тяжёлые орудия. Наступает эпоха разрушения! Грядёт опустошение войной!

Продолжение истории Азраила Интеритум

Предполагаемый объём книги планировался в 500к знаков, но боюсь я не уложусь. Скорей всего последняя часть превысит 600к, но это не точно. В любом случае эта часть последняя и писать её я буду до победного. Так что цену ставлю сразу чуть больше чем раньше — на вырост. Приятного чтения!

Louis, a vámpír kétszáz éve él a földön, kétszáz éve kutatja a vámpírlét titkát - nyughatatlan szelleme a bűntudatlan és az öröklét értelmével viaskodva hajszolja őt mind újabb utakra. Az általa teremtett, varázslatosan gyönyörű vámpírkislánnyal járja be Európát, hogy megtalálja a hozzá hasonlókat, azokat a vámpírokat, akik kapcsolatban állnak a Sátánnal vagy az Istennel; bármivel, ami létük alapja és magyarázata. Tudje-e valaki ezt a titkot? S létezik-e egyáltalán? Vagy pedig együtt kell élni a borzalommal, hogy az öröklét, amelynek ára a szakadatlan gyilkolás, az emberi életek elpusztítása, céltalan és haszontalan? Anne Rice regénye nem egyszerűen horror, bár a vér, rettegés, borzalom sem hiányzik belőle, hanem a lét örök titkát feszegető hátborzongató mese

In early spring of 2059, Lieutenant Eve Dallas is called off planet to face a grueling ordeal – giving a seminar at the largest police conference of the year, to be held in a swanky resort. A resort which just happens to be owned by her husband, Roarke, of course. Even though Eve can't quite see it that way, it's supposed to be at least partly a vacation. But work intrudes in the form of a bloody homicide, and Eve is off and running. The case is complicated by Eve's personal history with the victim – and by the killer's history with Roarke. As danger closes in and the body count rises, Eve must find a way to stop the cycle of violence and revenge, and shove the past back where it belongs

Tale of strange and exotic love. From out where the pale emotions of civilization are lashed into fury by primitive passions, come this tale of weird abandon and exotic love. This fascinating story of unconventional love by John MacDonald round out this collection of great stories by truly great writers

From preface: In naming this second part of The Forsyte Chronicles "A Modern Comedy" the word Comedy is stretched, perhaps as far as the word Saga was stretched to cover the first part. And yet, what but a comedic view can be taken, what but comedic significance gleaned, of so restive a period as that in which we have lived since the war? An Age which knows not what it wants, yet is intensely preoccupied with getting it, must evoke a smile, if rather a sad one

From preface: In naming this second part of The Forsyte Chronicles "A Modern Comedy" the word Comedy is stretched, perhaps as far as the word Saga was stretched to cover the first part. And yet, what but a comedic view can be taken, what but comedic significance gleaned, of so restive a period as that in which we have lived since the war? An Age which knows not what it wants, yet is intensely preoccupied with getting it, must evoke a smile, if rather a sad one

Out of the crucible of medical training, award-winning writer Terrence Holt shapes this stunning account of residency, the years-long ordeal in which doctors are made. "Amid all the mess and squalor of the hospital, with its blind random unraveling of lives," Internal Medicine finds the compassion from which doctors discover the strength to care. Holt's debut collection of short stories, In the Valley of the Kings, was praised by the New York Times Book Review as one of "those works of genius" that "will endure for as long as our hurt kind remains to require their truth." Now he returns with Internal Medicine a work based on his own experiences as a physician offering an insider's access to the long night of the hospital, where the intricacies of medical technology confront the mysteries of the human spirit. "A Sign of Weakness" takes us through a grueling nightlong vigil at the bedside of a dying woman. In her "small whimpering noises, rhythmic, paced almost to the beating of my heart," a doctor confronts his own helplessness, clinging "like a child to the thought of morning." In the unforgettable "Giving Bad News," we struggle with a man who maddeningly, terrifyingly refuses to remember his terminal diagnosis, forcing us to tell him, again and again, what we never should have wanted to tell him at all. At the bedside of a hospice patient dying in a house full of cursing parrots, in "The Surgical Mask," we reach the limits of what we are able to face in human suffering, in our own horror at what happens to our bodies as they die. In the psychiatric hospital of "Iron Maiden," a routine chest X-ray opens a window onto a nightmare vision of medieval torture and a recognition of how our mortality drives all of us to madness. In these four stories, and five others, Internal Medicine captures the doctor's struggle not only with sickness, suffering, and death but the fears and frailties each of us patient and doctor alike brings to the bedside. In a powerful alchemy of insight and compassion, Holt reveals how those vulnerabilities are the foundations of caring. Intensely realized, gently ironic, heartfelt and heartbreaking, Internal Medicine is an account of what it means to be a doctor, to be mortal, and to be human."

What would you do if you were driving on the highway with your two daughters, and those in the vehicle next to you started shooting at your car? And you noticed one of your daughters had been hit? Interstate is a multifaceted vision of American violence, and an ode to the truth that the greatest love one has is for his or her child

THE END OF EARTH WILL NOT BE THE END OF US From acclaimed filmmaker Christopher Nolan (The Dark Knight Triology, Inception), this is the chronicle of a group of explorers who make use of a newly discovered wormhole to surpass the limitations on human space travel and conquer the vast distances involved in an interstellar voyage. At stake are the fate of a planet… Earth… and the future of the human race

Most sixteen-year-olds have friends. Aden Stone has four human souls living inside him: One can time-travel. One can raise the dead. One can tell the future. And one can possess another human. With no other family and a life spent in and out of institutions, Aden and the souls have become friends. But now they're causing him all kinds of trouble. Like, he'll blink and suddenly he's a younger Aden, reliving the past. One wrong move, and he'll change the future. Or he'll walk past a total stranger and know how and when she's going to die. He's so over it. All he wants is peace. And then he meets a girl who quiets the voices. Well, as long as he's near her. Why? Mary Ann Gray is his total opposite. He's a loner; she has friends. He doesn't care what anyone thinks; she tries to make everyone happy. And while he attracts the paranormal, she repels it. For her sake, he should stay away. But it's too late.. Somehow, they share an inexplicable bond of friendship. A bond about to be tested by a werewolf shape-shifter who wants Mary Ann for his own, and a vampire princess Aden can't resist. Two romances, both forbidden. Still, the four will enter a dark underworld of intrigue and danger — but not everyone will come out alive…

It’s been more than thirty years since New York City medical examiner Jack Stapleton’s college graduation, and almost as long since he’s been in touch with former classmates Shawn Daughtry and James O’Rourke. Jack was once a highly regarded ophthalmologist, but his career took a dramatic turn after a tragic accident destroyed his family. And that, too, is very much in the past: Jack has remarried — to longtime colleague and fellow medical examiner Laurie Montgomery — and his the father of a young child, who unfortunately has been diagnosed with neuroblastoma, a childhood cancer. No matter what stresses he faces, Jack’s renegade, activist personality can’t rest. After performing a postmortem on a promising young college graduate who had recently been treated by a chiropractor, Jack begins researching alternative medicine as a way to avoid obsessing about his child’s illness. Quickly he is confronted by the question of what makes some people step outside the medical establishment to seek help from therapies based on dubious science, Eastern philosophies or even faith healers. Jack’s classmate Shawn Daughtry is now a renowned archaeologist and biblical scholar. Brash, impetuous, and completely career-driven, Shawn makes a spectacular find at a souk in Cairo: an ancient codex, whose contents may vault him to international fame. His discovery takes him on a secret journey to what is held to be Saint Peter’s tomb beneath the basilica in Rome, where he hopes to unearth a two-thousand-year-old ossuary, the contents of which may have earthshaking ecclesiastical and medical implications. Shawn can’t wait to flaunt his treasure before his old college buddy James O’Rourke — now James Cardinal O’Rourke, bishop of the Archdiocese of New York: the treasure may jeopardize the very nature of papal infallibility. Desperate to protect his church and his own political ambitions, James turns to his friend Jack to help safeguard an explosive secret, one with the power to change lives forever

A vampire with a conscience recounts how he departed from human existence and became a vampire but, reluctant to take human life, he sustains himself on the blood of animals

In una stanza d’albergo Louis racconta la sua vita ad un esterrefatto giornalista, la lunghissima, estenuante vita di un vampiro. Duecento anni assieme al suo maestro Lestat ed alla piccola Claudia, duecento anni in giro per il mondo, nascondendosi dalla luce e succhiando sangue…

„Interviu cu un vampir” este primul volum din celebra serie „Cronicile vampirilor”, povestea impregnata de melancolie a iniţierii unui nobil din New Orleans în tainele vieţii de vampir, odiseea vesnic nelinistitului vampir Lestat. Ecranizarea cu acelasi nume a romanului a fost un adevarat succes de casa

Joey Harker nie jest bohaterem. W istocie potrafi się zgubić nawet we własnym domu. Lecz pewnego dnia Joey naprawdę się gubi. Ze swego świata przechodzi do innego wymiaru. Wędrówka między światami ściąga na niego uwagę dwóch straszliwych potęg. Armie magii i nauki zrobią wszystko, byle zdobyć jego moc, umożliwiającą podróże między wymiarami. Odkrywszy, jak wielkie zło czynią obie potęgi, Joey dołącza do armii, złożonej z różnych wersji samego siebie, pochodzących z alternatywnych Ziemi i bez wyjątku dysponujących podobną mocą. Razem gotowi są walczyć w obronie wszystkich światów

Что делают в России международные террористы? Ответ на этот вопрос дается через рассмотрение организации «Аль-Каида» как международной сетевой структуры, спекулирующей исламскими идеями для реализации нового мирового проекта. В книге подвергаются анализу организационные и идейные корни ваххабизма – одного из экстремистских направлений ислама, источника исламистского террора. Автор показывает, как идеи религиозных экстремистов – ваххабитов находят почву на российской земле, называет исполнителей и организаторов террористических актов, прогремевших в последние годы во всем мире. Иллюстрации, используемые в книге, взяты из исламистских источников в Интернете, а также из видеоролика, который был показан на телеканале Си-би-эс

“The greatest Afrikaner poet of this generation. … No one elevated the Boer language to such pure beauty and wielded it so devastatingly against the apartheid regime.”—The New Yorker This eclectic and generous work full of wisdom and wit is addressed to a young writer. Breyten Breytenbach’s candid and provocative reflections on reading and writing guide without guiding, open mental channels, surprise, and inspire. A stirring glimpse into the mind of an artist. An outspoken human rights activist, Breyten Breytenbach is a poet, novelist, playwright, memoirist, and painter. He received the Alan Paton Prize in 1994 and the prestigious Hertzog Prize for his collection of poetry Windcatcher in 2008

From the celebrated author of You Too Can Have a Body Like Mine,a thought-provoking, often unsettling story collection that consists, broadly, of narrative diagrams of the three main stages in a human life: birth, life, and death. Alexandra Kleeman’s debut novel You Too Can Have a Body Like Mine earned her comparisons to Thomas Pynchon, Don DeLillo, Ben Marcus, and Tom Perrotta. It was praised by the New York Times as "a powerful allegory of our civilization’s many maladies, artfully and elegantly articulated, by one of the young wise women of our generation." In her second book, a collection of twelve stories irresistibly seductive in their strangeness, she explores human life from beginning to end: the distress of birth into a world already formed; the brief and confusing period of "living" where we understand what is expected of us and struggle to do it; and the death-y period toward the end where we sense it is ending and will end only partially understood, at best. The title is taken from one of the stories ("Intimation"), but is also a play on Wordsworth's "Intimations of Immortality" — only in this case it’s not clear exactly what is being intimated, but it’s nothing so gleaming and good as Immortality. The middle, "Living" section of the book, is fleshed out with a set of stories that borrow more from traditional realist fiction to illustrate the inner lives of the characters. At once familiar and mysterious, these stories have an eerie resonance as its characters find themselves in new and surprising situations. An unnamed woman enters a room with no exit and a ready-made life; the disappearance of people, objects, and memory creates an apocalypse; the art of dance is used to try to tame a feral child; the key to surviving a house-party lies in knowing the difference between fake and real blood. Elegant, surprising, wondrous, and haunting, Intimations is an utterly transporting collection from one of our most ingenious and brilliant young writers

Este archivo es una corrección, a partir de otro encontrado en la red, para compartirlo con un grupo reducido de amigos, por medios privados. Si llega a tus manos debes saber que no deberás colgarlo en webs o redes públicas, ni hacer uso comercial del mismo. Que una vez leído se considera caducado el préstamo del mismo y deberá ser destruido. En caso de incumplimiento de dicha advertencia, derivamos cualquier responsabilidad o acción legal a quienes la incumplieran. Queremos dejar bien claro que nuestra intención es favorecer a aquellas personas, de entre nuestros compañeros, que por diversos motivos: económicos, de situación geográfica o discapacidades físicas, no tienen acceso a la literatura, o a bibliotecas públicas. Pagamos religiosamente todos los cánones impuestos por derechos de autor de diferentes soportes. No obtenemos ningún beneficio económico ni directa ni indirectamente (a través de publicidad). Por ello, no consideramos que nuestro acto sea de piratería, ni la apoyamos en ningún caso. Además, realizamos la siguiente…

Даже тому, кто всегда стремился быть с народом и богами, однажды приходит время уйти. У него много путей, но все они ведут далеко от родины. Туда, где рядом с ним будут лишь боги и он сам. Ficlet. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Музыка к рассказу: http://dannelyan.do.am/Inti-kunan_jaykuy.mp3

In 1994 Wizard's First Rule introduced Richard Cypher, a young woodsman seeking answers and vengeance in the aftermath of his father's murder, and Kahlan Amnell, a mysterious young woman pursued by a bloodthirsty tyrant's assassins. The Sword of Truth is one of the most ambitious fantasy series ever written. It was a decades-long masterwork that has been translated into 20 languages and sold 26 million copies. After 16 volumes and one novella, it concluded in 2016 with Warheart. The Children of D'Hara picks up immediately after the conclusion of the Sword of Truth series. The story will be told in installments, as novella-length episodes published every three months. Into Darkness is the fifth novella

Originally published as “Inside the Comet”

**Long before the First Order, before the Empire, before even The Phantom Menace...Jedi lit the way for the galaxy in The High Republic.** Padawan Reath Silas is being sent from the cosmopolitan galactic capital of Coruscant to the undeveloped frontier—and he couldn't be less happy about it. He'd rather stay at the Jedi Temple, studying the archives. But when the ship he's traveling on is knocked out of hyperspace in a galactic-wide disaster, Reath finds himself at the center of the action. **The Jedi and their traveling companions find refuge on what appears to be an abandoned space station. But then strange things start happening, leading the Jedi to investigate the truth behind the mysterious station, a truth that could end in tragedy...Enjoy more adventures from the all-new era of storytelling of the glorious High Republic:** * Star Wars: Light of the Jedi * Star Wars The High Republic: A Test of Courage - perfect for

Darkness series is a fantasy series about a world war between nations using magic as weapons. Many of the plot elements are analogous to elements of World War II, with countries and technologies that are comparable to the events of the real world. A duke’s death leads to bloody war as King Algarve moves swiftly to reclaim the duchy lost during a previous conflict. But country after country is dragged into the war, as a hatred of difference escalates into rabid nationalism

In this new military sci-fi thriller from the Nebula Award–winning author of Cold Welcome, admiral Kylara Vatta is back—with a vengeance. Ky beats sabotage, betrayal, and the unforgiving elements to lead a ragtag group of crash survivors to safety on a remote arctic island. And she cheats death after uncovering secrets someone is hell-bent on protecting. But the worst is far from over when Ky discovers the headquarters of a vast conspiracy against her family and the heart of the planet’s government itself. With their base of operations breached, the plotters have no choice but to gamble everything on an audacious throw of the dice. Even still, the odds are stacked against Ky. When her official report on the crash and its aftermath goes missing—along with the men and women she rescued—Ky realizes that her mysterious enemies are more powerful and dangerous than she imagined. Now, targeted by faceless assassins, Ky and her family—along with her fiancé, Rafe—must battle to reclaim the upper hand and unmask the lethal cabal closing in on them with murderous intent

“The story of what Dakota did… will be told for generations.” In the fall of 2009, Taliban insurgents ambushed a patrol of Afghan soldiers and Marine advisors in a mountain village called Ganjigal. Firing from entrenched positions, the enemy was positioned to wipe out one hundred men who were pinned down and were repeatedly refused artillery support. Ordered to remain behind with the vehicles, twenty-one year-old Marine corporal Dakota Meyer disobeyed orders and attacked to rescue his comrades. With a brave driver at the wheel, Meyer stood in the gun turret exposed to withering fire, rallying Afghan troops to follow. Over the course of the five hours, he charged into the valley time and again. Employing a variety of machine guns, rifles, grenade launchers, and even a rock, Meyer repeatedly repulsed enemy attackers, carried wounded Afghan soldiers to safety, and provided cover for dozens of others to escape—supreme acts of valor and determination. In the end, Meyer and four stalwart comrades—an Army captain, an Afghan sergeant major, and two Marines—cleared the battlefield and came to grips with a tragedy they knew could have been avoided. For his actions on that day, Meyer became the first living Marine in three decades to be awarded the Medal of Honor. Into the Fire tells the full story of the chaotic battle of Ganjigal for the first time, in a compelling, human way that reveals it as a microcosm of our recent wars. Meyer takes us from his upbringing on a farm in Kentucky, through his Marine and sniper training, onto the battlefield, and into the vexed aftermath of his harrowing exploits in a battle that has become the stuff of legend. Investigations ensued, even as he was pitched back into battle alongside U.S. Army soldiers who embraced him as a fellow grunt. When it was over, he returned to the States to confront living with the loss of his closest friends. This is a tale of American values and upbringing, of stunning heroism, and of adjusting to loss and to civilian life. We see it all through Meyer’s eyes, bullet by bullet, with raw honesty in telling of both the errors that resulted in tragedy and the resolve of American soldiers, U.S.Marines, and Afghan soldiers who’d been abandoned and faced certain death. Meticulously researched and thrillingly told, with nonstop pace and vivid detail, Into the Fire is the true story of a modern American hero. “Sergeant Meyer embodies all that is good about our nation’s Corps of Marines…. [His] heroic actions… will forever be etched in our Corps’ rich legacy of courage and valor.”

Just weeks after multiple disasters struck Japan, National Book Award winner William T. Vollmann ventures into the nuclear hot zone, outfitted only with rubber kitchen gloves, a cloth facemask, and a capricious radiation detector. In this Byliner Original from the new digital publisher Byliner, Vollmann emerges with a haunting report on daily life in a now-ravaged Japan — a country he has known and loved for many years. And in the cities and towns hit hardest by the earthquake, tsunami, and radioactive contamination, Vollmann finds troubling omens of a future heading toward us all