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.

Lefèvre, a French archaeologist, has arrived in Istanbul determined to uncover a lost Byzantine treasure. Yashim is commissioned to find out more about him. But when Lefèvre''s mutilated body is discovered outside the French embassy, it turns out that there is only one suspect: Yashim himself. Once again, Yashim finds himself in a race against time to find the startling truth behind a shadowy secret society dedicated to the revival of the Byzantine Empire, caught in a deadly game deep beneath the city streets, a place where the stakes are high - and betrayal is death.

Yashim is no ordinary detective. It''s not that he''s particularly brave. Or that he cooks so well, or reads French novels. Not even that his best friend is the Ambassador from Poland, whose country has vanished from the map. Yashim is a eunuch. As the Sultan plans a series of radical reforms to his empire, a concubine is strangled in the palace harem. And a young cadet is found butchered in the streets of Istanbul. Delving deep into the city''s crooked alleyways, and deeper still into its tumultuous past, Yashim discovers that some people will go to any lengths to preserve the traditions of the Ottoman Empire. Brilliantly evoking Istanbul in the 1830s, The Ottoman Detective is a fast-paced literary thriller with a spectacular cast, from mystic orders and lissom archivists to soup-makers and a seductive ambassador''s wife. Darker than any of these is the mysterious figure who controls the Sultan''s harem.

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).

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.

Istanbul, 1838. Dans son palais surplombant le Bosphore, le sultan Mahmud II, artisan des réformes de l''Empire ottoman, est à l''agonie. Au-dehors, les rumeurs les plus folles vont bon train. L''arrivée imprévue d''un archéologue français à la recherche de trésors byzantins perdus plonge la communauté grecque dans le désarroi. Hachim Togalu qui a, dans Le Complot des Janissaires, résolu avec tant de brio toute une série de meurtres mystérieux, reprend du service. Mais quand le corps mutilé de l''archéologue est retrouvé près de l''ambassade de France, c''est lui qui devient le suspect numéro un ! Hachim se lance alors dans une course contre la montre pour découvrir ce que cache une étrange société œuvrant pour le rétablissement de l''Empire byzantin. Avec beaucoup d''esprit et un flair surprenant, Jason Goodwin nous entraîne dans un monde où le danger est partout, et la trahison synonyme de mort. Le plaisir du lecteur est 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.

Au cœur de l''Empire ottoman en 1836, une série de meurtres menace le fragile équilibre du pouvoir. Une concubine est étranglée dans le harem du palais et un jeune officier est retrouvé assassiné dans les rues d''Istanbul. Hachim, un détective peu ordinaire - c''est un eunuque -, connu pour sa rare intelligence et sa discrétion, va mener l''enquête pour trouver le coupable. Il nous guide à travers les luxueux sérails du palais et les rues grouillantes de la cité, et s''appuie tour à tour sur un ambassadeur polonais grincheux, un danseur transsexuel et une reine créole native des îles. Et surtout il nous introduit dans le cercle très fermé des Janissaires, auxquels le sultan a fini par enlever tout pouvoir. Mais les Janissaires ne seraient-ils pas en train d''échafauder le plan d''un retentissant retour ? Ce polar historique marque l''entrée remarquée du jeune historien Jason Goodwin dans le domaine romanesque. Ce livre est le premier d''une série d''enquêtes menées par Hachim. le détective ottoman.

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.

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.

Dramatic and passionate, comic and gruesome, "Lords of the Horizons" is a history of the Ottoman Empire, a travel book, and a vision of a lost world, all in one. 30 illustrations.