吉姆·兰德尔(Jim Randel)，现年60岁，毕业于哥伦比亚大学法学院。他是一位企业家——购买和销售商业地产，同时拓展新业务。作为一名致力于投资和企业家精神领域的讲演者，兰德尔已经在全美许多场馆作过演讲.其中包括哈佛大学和纽约大学商学院。兰德尔学习和研究成功这一主题长达30年之久。除了阅读所有他能找到的有关这一主题的资料以外，他还不厌其烦地向成功人士请教.了解他们的成功之道(直到他们找理由回绝)。因此，这本书的结论是多年研究、个人试验和向他人学习的结果。兰德尔得出的结论是：成功的秘密就是欲望、努力、钻研、决心和坚持…而这些都需要毅力和自律能力。兰德尔相信，如果你愿意付出代价，一切都是可能的。

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)