New Releases by Jason Goodwin

"Inspired by Jason Goodwin's bestselling mystery novels, Yashim Cooks Istanbul evokes the colors and flavours of the Ottoman world, with recipes from simple meze and vegetable dishes to meat, fish, and puddings."--Back cover.

“People of the nation do not understand our banking and monetary system, for if they did, I believe there would be a revolution before tomorrow morning.” Those words come from Henry Ford, and they are truer today than ever. Banks continue to purchase assets with other people’s money, which contributed to the global debt crisis that devastated so many individuals and families. Jason Goodwin, a lifelong student of the economy, outlines how the banking and monetary system work in this book that not only informs but will make you downright angry. He focuses on topics such as • countries like Greece that are hamstrung by massive debt, • causes of the global debt crisis, and • economic policies that make it difficult for households to pay their bills and get ahead in life. He also examines how banks become investors when companies offer shares to the public via initial public offerings. Banks use other people’s money to become the largest investors of these companies, which can cause massive socio-economic problems. Get truthful answers on why the world is suffering a debt crisis along with practical solutions to solve the problem with this insightful overview of the global economy.

1840. Un ritratto simbolo dell'antica grandezza ottomana, scomparso da Instanbul quattro secoli fa, riappare misteriosamente a Venezia. Il sultano lo vuole. E Yashim, in missione nell'agonizzante ex Serenissima, scopre che il dipinto leggendario semina morte, suscita amori, dissolve ricchezze favolose. E la ricerca dell'eunuco detective si trasforma in un oscuro gioco del gatto col topo, che minaccia di distruggere piú di un trono in Europa.

Build fault tolerant concurrent and distributed applications with AkkaAbout This Book- Build networked applications that self-heal- Scale out your applications to handle more traffic faster- An easy-to-follow guide with a number of examples to ensure you get the best start with AkkaWho This Book Is ForThis book is intended for beginner to intermediate Java or Scala developers who want to build applications to serve the high-scale user demands in computing today. If you need your applications to handle the ever-growing user bases and datasets with high performance demands, then this book is for you. Learning Akka will let you do more for your users with less code and less complexity, by building and scaling your networked applications with ease.What You Will Learn- Use Akka to overcome the challenges of concurrent programming- Resolve the issues faced in distributed computing with the help of Akka- Scale applications to serve a high number of concurrent users- Make your system fault-tolerant with self-healing applications- Provide a timely response to users with easy concurrency- Reduce hardware costs by building more efficient multi-user applications- Maximise network efficiency by scaling itIn DetailSoftware today has to work with more data, more users, more cores, and more servers than ever. Akka is a distributed computing toolkit that enables developers to build correct concurrent and distributed applications using Java and Scala with ease, applications that scale across servers and respond to failure by self-healing. As well as simplifying development, Akka enables multiple concurrency development patterns with particular support and architecture derived from Erlang's concept of actors (lightweight concurrent entities). Akka is written in Scala, which has become the programming language of choice for development on the Akka platform.Learning Akka aims to be a comprehensive walkthrough of Akka. This book will take you on a journey through all the concepts of Akka that you need in order to get started with concurrent and distributed applications and even build your own.Beginning with the concept of Actors, the book will take you through concurrency in Akka. Moving on to networked applications, this book will explain the common pitfalls in these difficult problem areas while teaching you how to use Akka to overcome these problems with ease.The book is an easy to follow example-based guide that will strengthen your basic knowledge of Akka and aid you in applying the same to real-world scenarios.Style and approachAn easy-to-follow, example-based guide that will take you through building several networked-applications that work together while you are learning concurrent and distributed computing concepts. Each topic is explained while showing you how to design with Akka and how it is used to overcome common problems in applications. By showing Akka in context to the problems, it will help you understand what the common problems are in distributed applications and how to overcome them.

"Inspector Yashim must search for an Polish prince who has been taken hostage by an Italian revolutionary cell"--Provided by publisher.

1839 : le jeune Abdülmecid succède au sultan Mahmut II à la tête de l'Empire ottoman. Très vite, l'inexpérience du nouveau sultan déclenche les convoitises et menace l'équilibre politique de la région. Cerné par les Russes et les Égyptiens, l'empire doit défendre son territoire. Au milieu des complots, Hachim, fidèle au grand vizir, est chargé d'enquêter sur un meurtre mystérieux dans un monastère chrétien. Sa piste le mène au coeur du pouvoir, dans l'atmosphère sensuelle et brûlante du harem du sultan, un univers à part, gouverné par la peur, l'ambition et la superstition et où certaines femmes sont frappées d'un mal inexplicable...

Detective Yashim is more than a sleuth—he's also a great cook. And as the Financial Times says, "What is there not to love in a detective who enjoys cooking as much as he enjoys eating?" Cooking with Yashim presents a selection of authentic Turkish recipes to celebrate the publication of An Evil Eye, the fourth novel in the series by Edgar Award winner Jason Goodwin. Like a turban glimpsed on the street, a draft of sweet coffee, or the slender shadow of a minaret, Yashim's dishes help to re-create the flavors of 19th-century Istanbul—its abundance of seasonal vegetables, fresh fish drawn from the waters of the Bosporus and the Sea of Marmara, the ubiquitous soups and grilled lamb, the yogurt, and the spices that scent the air of the Egyptian bazaar. Goodwin's collected recipes from his previous novels The Janissary Tree, The Bellini Card, The Snake Stone, and An Evil Eye for the first time in this exclusive ebook, complete with an excerpt from Yashim's latest mystery.

"The fourth chapter in the adventures of Investigator Yashim, the eunuch detective"--Provided by publisher.

Istanbul, 1840. Der neue Sultan Abdülmecid will unbedingt ein verschollenen Gemälde von Gentile Bellini erwerben. Yashim und sein Freund Palewski treffen auf der Suche danach in Venedig auf mehrere Morde und eine unglaubliche Intrige.

1840, une rumeur arrive aux oreilles du sultan Abdülmecid : l'un des chefs-d'oeuvre disparus de Bellini aurait refait surface à Venise. Envoyé par le sultan sur les traces de l'oeuvre perdue, Hachim l'eunuque délaisse les ruelles ventées d'Istanbul pour la grandeur décadente de Venise. Avec son ami, l'ambassadeur polonais Palewski, le détective ottoman s'aventure dans une cité inquiétante de canaux silencieux et de palais désertés, où rôdent et s'épient marchands vénitiens, aristocrates déchus, brigands et tueurs. Autour du Bellini se noue alors une intrigue des plus mystérieuses. Tandis que chacun cherche l'oeuvre perdue, des cadavres sont repêchés dans les canaux, et les morts semblent tous liés à l'énigmatique et sublime comtesse d'Aspi d'Istria...

Investigator Yashim travels to Venice in the latest installment of the Edgar® Award–winning author Jason Goodwin's captivating historical mystery series Jason Goodwin's first Yashim mystery, The Janissary Tree, brought home the Edgar® Award for Best Novel. His follow-up, The Snake Stone, more than lived up to expectations and was hailed by Marilyn Stasio in The New York Times Book Review as "a magic carpet ride to the most exotic place on earth." Now, in The Bellini Card, Jason Goodwin takes us back into his "intelligent, gorgeous and evocative" (The Independent on Sunday) world, as dazzling as a hall of mirrors and utterly compelling. Istanbul, 1840: the new sultan, Abdülmecid, has heard a rumor that Bellini's vanished masterpiece, a portrait of Mehmet the Conqueror, may have resurfaced in Venice. Yashim, our eunuch detective, is promptly asked to investigate, but -- aware that the sultan's advisers are against any extravagant repurchase of the painting -- decides to deploy his disempowered Polish ambassador friend, Palewski, to visit Venice in his stead. Palewski arrives in disguise in down-and-out Venice, where a killer is at large as dealers, faded aristocrats, and other unknown factions seek to uncover the whereabouts of the missing Bellini. But is it the Bellini itself that endangers all, or something associated with its original loss? And why is it that all the killer's victims are somehow tied to the alluring Contessa d'Aspi d'Istria? Will the Austrians unmask Palewski, or will the killer find him first? Only Yashim can uncover the truth behind the manifold mysteries.

El paradero de un retrato de Mehmet II, gran héroe del Imperio otomano, pintado por el artista renacentista Bellini ha sido un misterio durante siglos. En el Estambul de 1840 circula el rumor de que el cuadro ha aparecido en Venecia, y el sultán quiere poseerlo a toda costa. Yashim, el célebre detective eunuco, es el encargado de recuperarlo, y para ello cuenta con la inestimable ayuda de Stanislaw Palieski, el decadente embajador de Polonia. Yashim y Palieski viajan de incógnito a Venecia, una ciudad de palacios vacíos y silenciosos canales, por la que se mueven oscuros tratantes de arte, hombres que se han hecho a sí mismos y marchitos aristócratas. Cuando dos cuerpos aparecen en el canal, la búsqueda del retrato perdido se convierte en un peligroso juego del gato y el ratón que amenaza con destruir el trono otomano y desencadenar feroces luchas de poder en Europa. Jason Goodwin, ganador del Edgar Award por El Árbol de los Jenízaros y cuyas novelas han sido traducidas a treinta y siete idiomas, es uno de los mayores expertos en Estambul, una ciudad codiciada y codiciosa atrapada entre el exotismo de su pasado y la inestabilidad de los nuevos tiempos. La estrategia Bellini es «una novela magnífica, inteligente y evocadora» (Independent) de «un escritor de enorme talento» (Financial Times).

En 1838, à Istanbul, après trente de règne, le sultan Mahmud II se meurt dans son palais, et toute la ville retient son souffle... Mais pour l'eunuque Hachim, familier des couloirs du palais et fin limier préféré du sultan, ce n'est pas l'unique sujet d'inquiétude : deux de ses amis, vieux commerçants grecs du Grand Bazar, sont sauvagement attaqués. L'un d'eux y perd la vie. Lorsqu'un archéologue français un peu louche, Maximilien Lefèvre, est à son tour assassiné après avoir trouvé refuge chez Hachim, l'étau se resserre autour de l'eunuque, en passe de devenir le suspect idéal. Commence alors pour lui une course effrénée des rues labyrinthiques d'Istanbul aux rives du Bosphore, contre une insaisissable société secrète, l'Hétire, qui rêve de rétablir dans l'ancienne Byzance un nouvel empire grec...

In opdracht van de nieuwe Turkse sultan moet eunuch Yashim ervoor zorgen dat een portret van Mehmet de Veroveraar van Venetië naar Istanbul komt; de reis wordt onverwacht gevaarlijk als hij met een moordenaar te maken krijgt.

The captivating return of Yashim, the eunuch investigator from the intelligent, elliptical and beguilingly written" (The Times, London) bestseller The Janissary Tree When a French archaeologist arrives in 1830s Istanbul determined to track down a lost Byzantine treasure, the local Greek communities are uncertain how to react; the man seems dangerously well informed. Yashim Togalu, who so brilliantly solved the mysterious murders in The Janissary Tree, is once again enlisted to investigate. But when the archaeologist's mutilated body is discovered outside the French embassy, it turns out there is only one suspect: Yashim himself. The New York Times celebrated The Janissary Tree as "the perfect escapist mystery," and The Daily Telegraph called it "[A] tremendous first novel . . . Beautifully written, perfectly judged, humane, witty and captivating." With The Snake Stone, Jason Goodwin delights us with another transporting romp through the back streets of nineteenth-century Istanbul. Yashim finds himself racing against time once again, to uncover the startling truth behind a shadowy society dedicated to the revival of the Byzantine Empire, encountering along the way such vibrant characters as Lord Byron's doctor and the sultan's West Indies–born mother, the Valide. Armed only with a unique sixteenth-century book, the dashing eunuch leads us into a world where the stakes are high, betrayal is death—and the pleasure to the reader is immense.

1990 machen sich 3 junge Leute auf einen 3.000 km langen Fussmarsch durch ein Europa, dessen mentale und politische Karte zu diesem Zeitpunkt neu vermessen wurde.

The Turkish sultan assigns the task of finding a murderer to Yashim the eunuch.

With the wry and admiring eye of a modern Tocqueville, Jason Goodwin gives us a biography of the dollar and the story of its astonishing career through the wilds of American history. Looking at the dollar over the years as a form of art, a kind of advertising, and a reflection of American attitudes, Goodwin delves into folklore and the development of printing, investigates wildcats and counterfeiters, explains why a buck is a buck and how Dixie got its name. Bringing together an array of quirky detail and often hilarious anecdote, Goodwin tells the story of America through its most beloved product.

For six hundred years, the Ottoman Empire swelled and declined. Islamic, martial, civilized, and tolerant, it advanced in three centuries from the dusty foothills of Anatolia to rule on the Danube and the Nile; at its height, Indian rajahs and the kings of France beseeched the empire's aid. In its last three hundred years the empire seemed ready to collapse, a prodigy of survival and decay. In this striking evocation of the empire's power, Jason Goodwin explores how the Ottomans rose and how, against all odds, they lingered on. In doing so, he also offers a long look back to the origins of problems that plague present-day Kosovars and Serbs.

Winter 2003

Elisha Graves Otis s safe elevator made possible the construction of the skyscraper and laid the technical foundation for dynamic urban centers around the world. Jason Goodwin s account of the product and the business that Otis created is an American story of continuous growth and reinvention.

Jason Goodwin takes the reader on an adventurous journey through the serpentine paths of the tea trade-from China to India to London. Evoking both past and present in this lively and intriguing traveler's journal, he traces the development of the tea trade from its origins in Canton factories through the Opium Wars and the settlement of British India. His travels take him from the lost European cities of the China coast to inland China, to Calcutta, to India's high tea gardens in Bohea and Darjeeling. Full of historical and personal detail, A Time for Tea is highly informative, funny, and original. This is more than a travelogue, it is the soul of economic development.

Full Of Brilliantly Observed Details, This Book Evokes Past And Present With Lively Scope Of Ironies Of History, Following The Tea Trade From Its Origins In The Canton Factories Through The Opium Wars And The Settement Of British India, When Planters Were Also Empire Builders, To Its Influence On The Present Day.