Jeannette Walls's memoir The Glass Castle was "nothing short of spectacular" ( Entertainment Weekly ). Now, in Half Broke Horses , she brings us the story of her grandmother, told in a first-person voice that is authentic, irresistible, and triumphant. "Those old cows knew trouble was coming before we did." So begins the story of Lily Casey Smith, Jeannette Walls's no nons...(展开全部)

结城浩 日本资深技术作家和程序员。二十年来笔耕不辍，在编程语言、设计模式、数学、密码技术等领域，编写著作三十余本。代表作有《数学女孩》系列、《程序员的数学》等。 作者主页：http://www.hyuki.com/

Ever since the ancient greeks sculpted the first kouros, children have been a source of inspiration for some of the world's greatest artists. Whether portraits of their own children, friends, and fami

Caryl Churchill: 'A dramatist who must surely be rated among the half-dozen best now writing...a playwright of genuine audacity and assurance, able to use her considerable wit and intelligence in ways at once unusual, resonant and dramatically riveting' Benedict Nightingale, New Statesman 'Ms Churchill is one of our best writers...her play is brilliantly conceived with consider...(展开全部)

Ten years ago, college student Quincy Carpenter went on vacation with five friends and came back alone, the only survivor of a horror movie–scale massacre. In an instant, she became a member of a club no one wants to belong to—a group of similar survivors known in the press as the Final Girls. Lisa, who lost nine sorority sisters to a college dropout's knife; Sam, who went up ...(展开全部)

Marlene hosts a dinner party in a London restaurant to celebrate her promotion to managing director of 'Top Girls' employment agency. Her guests are five women from the past: Isabella Bird (1831- 1904) - the adventurous traveller; Lady Nijo (b1258) - the mediaeval courtesan who became a Buddhist nun and travelled on foot through Japan; Dull Gret, who as Dulle Griet in a Bruegel...(展开全部)

加雷•加勒特（Garet Garrett） 1878年生于伊利诺斯，1903年25岁时已经成为《纽约太阳报》的著名记者，1911年出版了一本异常成功的畅销书《金钱生长的地方》。在《纽约时报》、《星期六晚间邮报》和《华尔街日报》从事财经记者工作之后，在1916年，他38岁那年，成为《纽约论坛报》的执行主编。1920年至1933年其中主要精力都放在了写作上，1932年出版了畅销书《压垮世界的泡沫》。

The burden of Europe's private debt to this country is now greater than the burden of her war debt; and the war debt, with arrears of interest, is greater than it was the day the peace was signed. And it is not Europe alone. Debt was the economic terror of the world when the war ended. How to pay it was the colossal problem. -from "Cosmology of the Bubble" The names of the play...(展开全部)

モデルや女優、ミュージシャンなど16人の女の子たちの可愛い写真集。雑誌「Soup.」での連載を1冊にまとめました。

"Life is both fleeting and dangerous, and there is no point in denying yourself pleasure, or being anything other than what you are." Beloved author Elizabeth Gilbert returns to fiction with a unique love story set in the New York City theater world during the 1940s. Told from the perspective of an older woman as she looks back on her youth with both pleasure and regret (but mo...(展开全部)