Manchester, 1976, Tony Wilson is an ambitious but frustrated local TV news reporter looking for a way to make his mark. After witnessing a life-changing concert by an unknown band called the Sex Pistols, he persuades his station to televise one of their performances. Soon Manchester's punk groups are clamouring for him to manage them. Riding the wave of a musical revolution, Wi...(展开全部)

Through every family run memories which bind it together - despite everything. The Tulls of Baltimore were no exception. Abandoned by her salesman husband, Pearl is left to bring up her three children alone - Cody, a flawed devil, Ezra, a flawed saint, and Jenny, errant and passionate. Now as Pearl lies dying, stiffly encased in her pride and solitude, the past is unlocked and ...(展开全部)

Returning home from work, Rinko is shocked to find that her flat is empty. Gone are her TV set, fridge, and furniture, gone are all her kitchen tools, including the old Meiji mortar she has inherited from her grandmother and the Le Creuset casserole she has bought with her first salary. Gone, above all, is her Indian boyfriend, the maitre d' of the restaurant next door to the o...(展开全部)

马克·L. 唐纳德（Mark L. Donald） 曾经的美军海豹突击队员兼医护兵。 他最初由美国海军陆战队侦察兵的身份参加并通过了海豹突击队的基本选拔训练BUD/S，从此成为这支世界上最精锐的特种作战部队的一员。 其后，马克通过海军内部的医师助理培训项目，且拿到了内布拉斯加大学的学士学位，并在“9.11事件”之后担任海豹突击队反恐特遣分队的队员兼医护人员，随队几度部署至海外一线战场。回国后，唐纳德因其在战场上的卓越表现获得海军十字勋章及银星勋章、铜心勋章、紫心勋章。 斯科特·麦克塔维什（Scott Mactavish） 作家、企业家、电影制片人，也是一名美国海军老兵。他拍摄过电影《上帝与国家：美军不为人知的故事》（God And Country: Untold Stories Of The American Military）。

As a SEAL and combat medic, Mark Donald served his country with valorous distinction for almost twenty-five years and survived some of the most dangerous combat actions imaginable. From the rigors of BUD/S training to the horrors of the battlefield, "Battle Ready" dramatically immerses the reader in the unique life of the elite warrior-medic who advances into combat with life-s...(展开全部)

[应版权方要求,该小说已经下架,请大家支持正版阅读~]故事的主角是42位就读於香川县城岩中学3年B班的学生。他们靠著政府配给的指南针、基本食粮与饮水，还有随机配给的武器，与自己的同学互相残杀。在毫无人性的游戏规则之下，前一刻还是同班同学，下一刻便变成了敌人。面对「不是你死，就是我亡」的恐惧，几...

The Battle is the book Balzac always wanted to write and, beginning his story with Balzac's own words ('On Tuesday 16th May 1809 ...'), Rambaud has finally achieved his predecessor's dream. The eponymous battle now commonly described as Napoleon's first major defeat on land in Europe took place at Essling, near Vienna; forty thousand men died in forty-eight hours. With vivid de...(展开全部)

The winner of the Prix Goncourt and Grand Prix du Roman de l'Academie Francaise, The Battle is a brilliant, compelling novelization of the battle of Essling, Napoleon's first major defeat. The battle of Essling has long been overlooked by historians and novelists, but Rambaud, relying on research notes compiled by Honore de Balzac, has re-created the confrontation with exceptio...(展开全部)

24/7: Late Capitalism and the Ends of Sleepexplores some of the ruinous consequences of the expanding non-stop processes of twenty-first-century capitalism. The marketplace now operates through every hour of the clock, pushing us into constant activity and eroding forms of community and political expression, damaging the fabric of everyday life. Jonathan Crary examines how this...(展开全部)