In 2010 the anti-secrecy organization known as WikiLeaks made headlines around the world when it released thousands of classified U.S. government diplomatic cables and battlefield reports. The New York Times played a crucial role in breaking the WikiLeaks story and Open Secrets is the definitive chronicle of the documents release and the controversy that ensued. It includes detailed analyses of the documents by Times correspondents; opinion essays by Frank Rich Maureen Dowd and others; and th...

He opened a forbidden chest. He looked into a mirror. And his reflection showed him a monster.Alexis, sixteen, has never known his parents. Raised by a loving grandmother in a peaceful village, he has carried a secret since childhood: he sees the shadows of the dead. On his birthday, he disobeys and opens a chest sealed for centuries. Inside, an oval mirror. His reflection doesn't show him his face. It shows him a hideous creature, with grey skin and unbear...

In the course of publishing this food guide, some restaurants changed ownership, while others simply closed down. And then there were others who have just ventured out and perhaps are not mentioned in this food guide. That's the nature of this sector where sudden entry and exit is also a reality and the market determines their fate. But it also promotes survival of the best and encourages thinking outside the box. Most importantly, it is the patrons and dining public who determine a restau...

He lived a thousand years. He built an empire. He imprisoned the Scourge. These are his memoirs.Mars, 2150. Xenon is only a child when he watches his best friend suffocate beneath a cracked dome. That day, he makes a promise: never again the silence inside a helmet.Crowned Emperor, he terraforms Mars, unlocks the secret of longevity, creates the Winged Knights, and faces a coalition of Terran empires. For a thousand years, he reigns...

Winner of the 2018 Popular Bookstores' Readers Choice Awards, Adult Book Category. Finalist for Best Non-Fiction Title at the 2018 Singapore Book Awards. This book recounts 25 infamous crime cases that have taken place in Singapore since 1965. Some of the victims' names are still remembered today. Jenny Cheok, 22, killed by her apparently devoted boyfriend Sunny Ang during a diving trip near the Sisters' Islands. Nine-year-old Agnes Ng and 10-year-old Ghazali Marzuki, killed by self-styled...

From the moment we are born, Indian girls are handed a silent manual on how to be "accommodating." We are taught that silence is a virtue, that sacrifice is our love language, and that the phrase thoda adjust karlo is the secret ingredient to a happy life. But what happens when that adjustment starts eating away at your soul? What happens when you realize you have carved away so many pieces of yourself to fit into someone else's puzzle that you no longer recognize the person in th...

Everything begins in a cellar. Everything ends in the Abyss. And between the two, a choice.Alexis has become the Border-Guardian. He has faced Valerius, transformed the six Locks, and offered the world what no one had dared to offer in a hundred thousand years: the freedom to choose. But beneath the foundations of reality, a threat older than the First Exorcist is awakening. The Abyss, a void that drains the light from souls, threatens to swallow the world....

With exclusive reporting, eyewitness accounts and analysis from the Pulitzer Prize-winning staff of The New York Times, this edition of The January 6 Report offers the definitive record of the attack on the U.S. Capitol.This edition from The New York Times and Twelve Books contains:The January 6 Report from the Select CommitteeReporting and analysis from The New York Times that puts the committee’s findings in context...

The Editors of TIME Magazine present The Power of Habits.

4000 questions in more than 200 challenging quizzes from the MindGames section of The Times to really test your general knowledge. Set the pace as quiz master for your friends, colleagues and family, or pit yourself against 4-times world-champion Olav in a battle of wits. Includes a picture question in each round.Olav won the inaugural Quiz Olympiad held in Athens, November 2016, by The International Quizzing Association (IQA).Subject areas include Geography, Music...

The acclaimed New York Times series on social class in America—and its implications for the way we live our lives.We Americans have long thought of ourselves as unburdened by class distinctions. We have no hereditary aristocracy or landed gentry, and even the poorest among us feel that they can become rich through education, hard work, or sheer gumption. And yet social class remains a powerful force in American life.In Class Matters, a tea...

This unique volume uncovers the most fascinating and compelling stories from The New York Times about the city the paper calls home.More than 200 articles and an abundance of photographs, illustrations, maps, and graphs from the preeminent newspaper in the world take a look at the history and personality of the world's most influential city. Read firsthand accounts of the subway opening in 1904 and the day the Metrocard was introduced; the fall of Tammany H...