Jimmy Carter, thirty-ninth President, Nobel Peace Prize winner, international humanitarian, fisherman, reflects on his full and happy life with pride, humor, and a few second thoughts. At ninety, Jimmy Carter reflects on his public and private life with a frankness that is disarming. He adds detail and emotion about his youth in rural Georgia that he described in his magnificen...(展开全部)

吉米•卡特——美国第39任总统，原名詹姆斯•厄尔•卡特，但他一生中都使用昵称吉米•卡特。 卡特1924 年 10 月 1 日生于美国佐治亚州普兰斯一个农场主家庭，早年在海军服役，父亲过世之后返乡经营农场并进入政界。 1970年，卡特竞选成功，成为佐治亚州第76届州长。卡特在任内精简机构、整顿财政、保护自然和历史资源，被誉为“最有成就州长”。 1976年11月，卡特击败在职总统杰拉尔德•福特当选为美国总统。卡特任内实现中美正式建交，帮助埃及与以色列达成停战协议，取得了出色的外交成就。但由于1979年伊朗人质危机的影响，卡特未能获得连任。 卸任后，卡特建立卡特中心，协调战争冲突、促进人权与和平。2002年，由于“数十年来一直坚持不懈为国际冲突寻找和平解决方案，致力于增进民主、改善人权以及促进经济和社会发展的努力”，卡特获得诺贝尔和平奖。 卡特与夫人罗莎琳...(展开全部)

吉米•卡特——美国第39任总统，原名詹姆斯•厄尔•卡特，但他一生中都使用昵称吉米•卡特。 卡特1924 年 10 月 1 日生于美国佐治亚州普兰斯一个农场主家庭，早年在海军服役，父亲过世之后返乡经营农场并进入政界。 1970年，卡特竞选成功，成为佐治亚州第76届州长。卡特在任内精简机构、整顿财政、保护自然和历史资源，被誉为“最有成就州长”。 1976年11月，卡特击败在职总统杰拉尔德•福特当选为美国总统。卡特任内实现中美正式建交，帮助埃及与以色列达成停战协议，取得了出色的外交成就。但由于1979年伊朗人质危机的影响，卡特未能获得连任。 卸任后，卡特建立卡特中心，协调战争冲突、促进人权与和平。2002年，由于“数十年来一直坚持不懈为国际冲突寻找和平解决方案，致力于增进民主、改善人权以及促进经济和社会发展的努力”，卡特获得诺贝尔和平奖。 卡特与夫人罗莎琳...(展开全部)

I have come to think of all the metal in my body as artificial stars, glistening beneath the skin, a constellation of old and new metal. A map, a tracing of connections and a guide to looking at things from different angles. How do you tell the story of life that is no one thing? How do you tell the story of a life in a body, as it goes through sickness, health, motherhood? And...(展开全部)

I have come to think of all the metal in my body as artificial stars, glistening beneath the skin, a constellation of old and new metal. A map, a tracing of connections and a guide to looking at things from different angles. How do you tell the story of life that is no one thing? How do you tell the story of a life in a body, as it goes through sickness, health, motherhood? And...(展开全部)

I have come to think of all the metal in my body as artificial stars, glistening beneath the skin, a constellation of old and new metal. A map, a tracing of connections and a guide to looking at things from different angles. How do you tell the story of life that is no one thing? How do you tell the story of a life in a body, as it goes through sickness, health, motherhood? And...(展开全部)

凯文是一个少年跑步天才，在一次远征校外比赛后，父母开车来接他回家；但就在那个漆黑的夜里，满载同学、队友、女朋友和教练的校车，却在桥上打滑翻覆。 原来的同学几乎全部死于车祸，连课都上不成了。凯文只能转学，他同样加入了田径队，却仿佛脱胎换骨了一般，他赢得每一场比赛、打破一个又一个纪录，只是，对于昔日过往、对于喜爱的女生、对于那个夏天里的一切，凯文再也想不起来了。 在一个被创伤隔绝的真空世界里，他冷漠、空洞、茫然。当他用力自我紧绷、急速飞驰的时候，有没有人手持火炬，为他照亮脚下的路呢？有没有人默默支持，以免他脱缰失控呢？讲着一口古怪英文的印度教练在每一次比赛结束后，都直视他的双眼，问：“你何时才为自己而跑呢？”最后，凯文亲手断送了运动生涯的美好前程，但那一刻，在全场的哗然中，动人的世界才终于冲破密云遮蔽的天空。凯文的奔跑不再为了别人，生命终于呈现出真实的速...(展开全部)

Through a beautiful and compelling narrative, Schoppa traces the lives and history at Xiang Lake, a reservoir from its creation in 1112 to the present. Combining evocative historical description and cogent analysis, Song Full of Tears is a chronicle of nine hundred years of life in southeast China. It reveals the workings of Chinese society in times of environmental and m...(展开全部)

Emanuel Derman was one of the first physicists to move to Wall Street, and his career paralleled the growth of quantitative trading over the past twenty years. In My Life as a Quant, he traces his transformation from ambitious young scientist to managing director and head of the renowned Quantitative Strategies group at Goldman, Sachs & Co. Derman’s tale recounts his a...(展开全部)

在线阅读本书 In My Life as a Quant, Emanuel Derman relives his exciting journey as one of the first high–energy particle physicists to migrate to Wall Street. Page by page, Derman details his adventures in this field—analyzing the incompatible personas of traders and quants, and discussing the dissimilar nature of knowledge in physics and finance. Throughout this tale, he also refle...(展开全部)