Sergio Mancini Ordre des livres (chronologique)

*The controversial autobiography of one of the most celebrated historians of our time schovat popis

The tiny island of Run is an insignificant speck in the middle of the Indonesian archipelago--remote, tranquil, and now largely ignored. At the beginning of the seventeenth century, however, Run's harvest of nutmeg turned it into the most lucrative of the Spice Islands, precipitating a fierce and bloody battle between the all-powerful Dutch East India Company and a small band of ragtag British adventurers led by the intrepid Nathaniel Courthope . The outcome of the fighting was one of the most spectacular deals in history: Britain ceded Run to Holland, but in return was given another small island, Manhattan.A brilliant adventure story of unthinkable hardship and savagery, the navigation of uncharted waters, and the exploitation of new worlds, Nathaniel's Nutmeg is a remarkable chapter in the history of the colonial powers.

Lewis Crane was a child when the devasting Los Angeles earthquake of 1994 ripped his life apart, leaving him the sole survivor of his family. Now, thirty years later, Crane is the world's leading seismologist, with a burning hatred for quakes. Determined to protect people from his parents' fate, he has developed a unique theory of earthquake prediction - but in a world run by Chinese-controlled corporations and an America split more radically than ever along racist and religious lines, there are plenty of people who don't want him to succeed. Then it happens: a massive rolling and shaking that promises to register 8.5 on the Richter scale. And only Crane knows an even bigger 'big one' is coming: an incredible Richter 10 that will bring unimaginable destruction. He knows where. He knows when. He even knows how to stop it. But will anyone - can anyone - believe him?

Une expédition scientifique découvre près des pyramides un objet étrange couvert de symboles inconnus. L'armée commence à l'étudier en secret, mais des décennies passent avant qu'un homme, l'égyptologue Daniel Jackson, ne parvienne à déchiffrer les inscriptions. Il réalise que ces symboles représentent des coordonnées pour un voyage à travers l'espace vers une planète lointaine. Une mission est alors décidée, dirigée par le colonel O'Neil. Cependant, le symbole permettant le retour sur Terre manque sur la porte des étoiles et devra probablement être trouvé sur place. L'expédition a besoin des connaissances de Daniel, qui devient donc malgré lui membre de l'équipe. Ce jeune intellectuel maladroit se retrouve dans un monde étrange, à l'époque de la civilisation égyptienne ancienne, où les habitants vivent dans la peur, asservis par un souverain divin, et où le danger guette à chaque coin de rue.