New Releases by David Mitchell

By the New York Times bestselling author of The Bone Clocks and Cloud Atlas | Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize “A novel as accomplished as anything being written.”—Newsweek Number9Dream is the international literary sensation from a writer with astonishing range and imaginative energy—an intoxicating ride through Tokyo’s dark underworlds and the even more mysterious landscapes of our collective dreams. David Mitchell follows his eerily precocious, globe-striding first novel, Ghostwritten, with a work that is in its way even more ambitious. In outward form, Number9Dream is a Dickensian coming-of-age journey: Young dreamer Eiji Miyake, from remote rural Japan, thrust out on his own by his sister’s death and his mother’s breakdown, comes to Tokyo in pursuit of the father who abandoned him. Stumbling around this strange, awesome city, he trips over and crosses—through a hidden destiny or just monstrously bad luck—a number of its secret power centers. Suddenly, the riddle of his father’s identity becomes just one of the increasingly urgent questions Eiji must answer. Why is the line between the world of his experiences and the world of his dreams so blurry? Why do so many horrible things keep happening to him? What is it about the number 9? To answer these questions, and ultimately to come to terms with his inheritance, Eiji must somehow acquire an insight into the workings of history and fate that would be rare in anyone, much less in a boy from out of town with a price on his head and less than the cost of a Beatles disc to his name. Praise for Number9Dream “Delirious—a grand blur of overwhelming sensation.”—Entertainment Weekly “To call Mitchell’s book a simple quest novel . . is like calling Don DeLillo’s Underworld the story of a missing baseball.”—The New York Times Book Review “Number9Dream, with its propulsive energy, its Joycean eruption of language and playfulness, represents further confirmation that David Mitchell should be counted among the top young novelists working today.”—San Francisco Chronicle “Mitchell’s new novel has been described as a cross between Don DeLillo and William Gibson, and although that’s a perfectly serviceable cocktail-party formula, it doesn’t do justice to this odd, fitfully compelling work.”—The New Yorker “Leaping with ease from surrealist fables to a teenage coming-of-age story and then spinning back to Yakuza gangster battles and World War II–era kamikaze diaries, Mitchell is an aerial freestyle ski-jumper of fiction. Somehow, after performing feats of literary gymnastics, he manages to stick the landing.”—The Seattle Post-Intelligencer

By the New York Times bestselling author of The Bone Clocks and Cloud Atlas A gallery attendant at the Hermitage. A young jazz buff in Tokyo. A crooked British lawyer in Hong Kong. A disc jockey in Manhattan. A physicist in Ireland. An elderly woman running a tea shack in rural China. A cult-controlled terrorist in Okinawa. A musician in London. A transmigrating spirit in Mongolia. What is the common thread of coincidence or destiny that connects the lives of these nine souls in nine far-flung countries, stretching across the globe from east to west? What pattern do their linked fates form through time and space? A writer of pyrotechnic virtuosity and profound compassion, a mind to which nothing human is alien, David Mitchell spins genres, cultures, and ideas like gossamer threads around and through these nine linked stories. Many forces bind these lives, but at root all involve the same universal longing for connection and transcendence, an axis of commonality that leads in two directions—to creation and to destruction. In the end, as lives converge with a fearful symmetry, Ghostwritten comes full circle, to a point at which a familiar idea—that whether the planet is vast or small is merely a matter of perspective—strikes home with the force of a new revelation. It marks the debut of a writer of astonishing gifts.

Es un enero frío y lluvioso en el pueblo inglés de Black Swan Green, y Jason Taylor, un niño de trece años, tartamudo encubierto y poeta a regañadientes, se espera un año aburridísimo en el pueblo más muerto del planeta. No cuenta con que tendrá que vérselas con los matones del colegio, los conflictos latentes en su familia, la guerra de las Malvinas, una exótica refugiada belga, una invasión de gitanos oprimidos y los caprichos de esas misteriosas criaturas conocidas como "las niñas". La última novela de David Mitchell es una crónica minuciosa de trece meses en el agujero negro que separa la niñez de la adolescencia, con el telón de fondo de una Inglaterra rural a punto de desaparecer y todavía ensombrecida por la Guerra Fría.--Desde la descripción de la editorial.

In "Dog Ear''d Cosmos" an unlikely discussion with a childhood canine companion unfolds - as together, "man and beast" work to re-establish a brambled and long neglected trailhead leading toward an authentic western "yoga of the Mind." With a good measure of courage, the author asks profound mental house-cleaning questions, sweeping away cobwebs left over from our rapid and fragmenting explosion into scientific know-how. In process, Thompson, the barking "better-half" of this Socratic dialogue, reveals his-Self as sharing in a wisdom far beyond his caretaker''s reckoning. The canine companion of David''s youth offers good-natured correction, comfort, and clarifying perspectives on topics including: Blind-spots within Scientific Cosmology; Gratitude, Happiness, and confusion; a Physics of Contemplation; Entropic Power of the Spoken Word; and a compassionate "Self-Centeredness."

The dazzling novel from critically-acclaimed David Mitchell. Shortlisted for the 2006 Costa Novel Award Longlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2006 January, 1982. Thirteen-year-old Jason Taylor - covert stammerer and reluctant poet - anticipates a stultifying year in his backwater English village. But he hasn''t reckoned with bullies, simmering family discord, the Falklands War, a threatened gypsy invasion and those mysterious entities known as girls. Charting thirteen months in the black hole between childhood and adolescence, this is a captivating novel, wry, painful and vibrant with the stuff of life.

Photographs, drawings, and text guide the reader to make a cicada, a windmill, a pencil, a wreath and many other objects.

David Mitchell provides a better understanding of the role presidents play in the decision-making process in terms of their influence on two key steps in the process: deliberation and outcome of policy making. The events of the Bush administration''s decisions to fight the war on terrorism and invade Iraq highlight how important it is to understand the president''s role in formulating policy.

This collection of recipes from the authors of Taming the Dinosaur Gene presents 160 dishes designed to combat the ill effects of the genetic disorder the authors believe affects 50 percent of the world’s population. The disorder is caused when the body produces too much insulin, causing weight gain, high triglycerides, high blood pressure, high blood glucose, and low levels of the good cholesterol HDL. These easy-to-follow recipes restore nutritional well being, state of mind, spiritual balance, and overall health and energy levels.

Presents step-by-step instructions to make paper models of geometric shapes including a cube, tetrahedron, rombic star and dodecahedron. Suggested level: senior secondary.

A guide to success in competition karate, with advice on training, tactics and dealing with injuries. The book concludes with Japanese terms used in refereeing.

Spanske Borgerkrig; Franco; Spanien, Historie, 1936-1939; Monarkister; Falangister; Anarkister; Kommunister; Socialister; Carlister; Katolske Konservative; Republikanere; Spanske Hær; Spansk Politik; Serrano Suner; USSR; Internationale Brigade; Spaniensfrivillige; Volunteers; Kvinder i Borgerkrigen; Yagüe; Ruiz, T.; Zamora, A.; Quiroga, C.; Orwell, G.; POUM; Pamies, T.; Guerrillakrigsførelse; Partisankrigsførelse; Pons Prades, E.; Pazas, S.; Prieto, I.; Tarradellas, J.; Syndikalister; Vegas Lapatie, E.; Primo de Rivera; Moreno de la Cova, F.; Nationalisme; Nationalister; Molina, J.M.; Montsey, F.; Mola, E.; Martinez Barrio, D.; Madrid; Guzman, E.de; Inigo, L.; Italien; Mussolini; Largo Caballero, F.; Lister, E.; Tyskland; Frankrig; Spaniens Grænser; Falange Espanol; Escofet, F.; Delgado, A.; Deergan, F.; Companys, L.; Crespo, J.; Komitern; Spanske Kommunistiske Parti; Chamberlain, Neville; Catalonien; CNT; CEDA; Burger, W.; Blum, L.; Bilbao; Ebro; Barcelona; Andalusien; Kirkens Stilling i Spanien; Azana, M.; Bailey, B.; Baskerne; Baskerlandet; FAI; PSUC; Salazar

Explores the motives, exploits, and romantic, anarchic life-styles of notorious and lesser-known figures, including the Vikings, Arab and Malay raiders, and female pirates.