Facts, figures, and essays on women and poverty by Barbara Ehrenreich, Kirsten Gillibrand, LeBron James, and other high-profile contributors.Fifty years after President Lyndon B. Johnson called for a War on Poverty and enlisted Sargent Shriver to oversee it, the most important social issue of our day is once again the dire economic straits of millions of Americans. One in three live in poverty or teeter on the brink—and seventy million are women and the children wh...

Die James Bond Serie geht weiter mit neuen Autoren, ganz in der Tradition von Ian Fleming. Mittagessen bei Scott's, ein kleines Golfspiel, ein Routineanruf bei seinem Chef M, sich erholen - das Leben des Geheimagenten James Bond hat gerade begonnen, ihn regelrecht einzuschläfern. Bis zu dem sonnigen Nachmittag, als M entführt wird und seine Hausangestellten brutal ermordet werden … Auf einer griechischen Vulkaninsel plant der eiskalte Colonel Sun Liang-tan von der Volksbefreiungsarmee Chin...

FOUR TALES OF INTRIGUE THAT PUSH 007 TO THE LIMITIn “Octopussy,” a former operative in the Second World War must face the consequences of past sins when James Bond knocks on the door of his Caribbean fortress, and in “The Property of a Lady” Bond deciphers the elaborate codes of a Sotheby’s bidding war in order to catch a KGB agent. “007 in New York” takes Bond to the titular city to warn an ex-agent of her boyfriend’s secret KGB affiliation. And “The Living Daylig...

Het vierde deel met 's werelds bekendste geheim agent in de hoofdrol: James Bond. Vanuit een Britse mijn in Zuid-Afrika wordt voor vele miljoenen aan diamanten naar de Verenigde Staten gesmokkeld, waarbij alle beveiligingsmaatregelen vakkundig omzeild worden. De Britse regering wil dit een halt toeroepen en schakelt de geheime dienst in. James Bond krijgt de opdracht om te infiltreren in de smokkelaarsbende. 'Flemings boeken verdienen absoluut een plek in de (misdaad)canon.' De Standaard

JAMES BOND GOES HEAD-TO-HEAD WITH SMERSH IN A BID TO SECURE A KEY PIECE OF SOVIET INTELLIGENCESMERSH, the Russian intelligence unit whose acronym stands for “Death to Spies,” is hell-bent on destroying Secret Agent 007, James Bond.His death would deal a catastrophic hammer blow to the heart of the British Secret Service.The lure? A beautiful woman at the center of a deadly honey trap conspiracy. Tatiana Romanova is a Russian spy who promises to hand...

BOND MUST PROVE HIS LOYALTY TO MI6 IN A DEADLY DUELBond may have a license to kill, but “Pistols” Scaramanga has a talent for it. He’s a KGB-trained assassin who’s left a trail of dead British Secret Service agents in his wake. His weapon of choice? A gold-plated Colt .45.In the aftermath of his brainwashing by the Soviets, Bond is given one last chance to win back M’s trust: terminate Scaramanga before he strikes MI6 again.Traveling to Jamaica unde...

JAMES BOND PLAYS A DEADLY GAME OF CHANCE IN IAN FLEMING’S LEGENDARY FIRST 007 NOVEL“Le Chiffre” is a ruthless operative and the accountant for a soviet SMERSH cell in France, but he’s on the verge of disaster after gambling away his client’s money. Taking the last of his stash, he lures a dozen wealthy players to a high-stakes baccarat game, hoping to hustle his way whole.The British Secret Service would like to see this red thorn plucked from the hide of E...

BOND VS BLOFELDIn the aftermath of Operation Thunderball, Ernst Stavro Blofeld’s trail has gone cold―and so has 007’s love for his job. The only thing that can rekindle his passion is Contessa Teresa “Tracy” di Vicenzo, a troubled young woman who shares his taste for fast cars and danger. She’s the daughter of a powerful Corsican crime boss who thinks Bond's hand in marriage may be just the thing to settle his volatile daughter. But Bond's chances at marital bliss ...

BOND TAKES ON A DEATH-DEFYING NEW MISSION TO SECURE KEY JAPANESE INTELLIGENCEJames Bond is shattered by the murder of his wife at the hands of Ernst Stavro Blofeld, and only the prospect of a particularly challenging mission can draw him out of his deep depression.Determined to restore 007 to his former effectiveness, M sends Bond to Japan, where a criminal mastermind is using a poisonous garden inside a rocky island fortress to lure people to their deaths....

Het vijfde deel met 's werelds bekendste geheim agent in de hoofdrol: James Bond. De Russische geheime dienst heeft het voorzien op de Britse topagent James Bond. Tatiana Romanowa, een zeer verleidelijke agente, moet hem naar Istanbul lokken en hem vervolgens vermoorden. Maar geheim agent 007 bedenkt uiteraard een plan… 'Flemings boeken verdienen absoluut een plek in de (misdaad)canon.' De Standaard

A murder. A world in crisis. Britain's greatest spy . . .'BRILLIANT' Richard OsmanIt is M's funeral. One man is missing from the graveside: the traitor who pulled the trigger and who is now in custody, accused of M's murder - James Bond.Behind the Iron Curtain, a group of former Smersh agents want to use Bond on a perilous mission that will change the balance of world power. He is smuggled into the lion's den - but whose orders is B...

JAMES BOND IS HOT ON THE TRAIL OF TWO STOLEN ATOM BOMBSUpon M’s insistence, James Bond takes a two-week respite in a secluded natural health spa. But amid the bland teas and tasteless yogurts, the iconic secret agent stumbles onto the trail of a lethal man with ties to a new secret organization called SPECTRE. When SPECTRE hijacks two A-bombs, a frantic global search for the weapons ensues in this high-stakes espionage novel, and M’s hunch that the plane containing...