What if you could live again and again, until you got it right? On a cold and snowy night in 1910, Ursula Todd is born to an English banker and his wife. She dies before she can draw her first breath. On that same cold and snowy night, Ursula Todd is born, lets out a lusty wail, and embarks upon a life that will be, to say the least, unusual. For as she grows, she also dies,...(展开全部)

What if you could live again and again, until you got it right? On a cold and snowy night in 1910, Ursula Todd is born to an English banker and his wife. She dies before she can draw her first breath. On that same cold and snowy night, Ursula Todd is born, lets out a lusty wail, and embarks upon a life that will be, to say the least, unusual. For as she grows, she also dies,...(展开全部)

詹姆斯·戴森 戴森创始人兼首席工程师。戴森以革命性的气旋吸尘器和Supersonic吹风机闻名，旗下各品类产品以创新的技术、设计和效能享誉全球，销往世界各地。 詹姆斯·戴森1947年出生于英国诺福克，曾在伦敦皇家艺术学院学习设计，随后加入罗托克公司，与杰里米·弗莱一起设 计和制造海上卡车。 詹姆斯·戴森相信，工程师和创业家可以改变世界。他创设了戴森工程技术学院、詹姆斯·戴森基金会和戴森设计大奖，支持和鼓励更多人加入这个事业。

Dyson has become a byword for high-performing products, technology, design, and invention. Now, James Dyson, the inventor and entrepreneur who made it all happen, tells his remarkable and inspirational story in Invention: A Life. Famously, over a four-year period, James Dyson made 5,127 prototypes of the cyclonic vacuum cleaner that would transform the way houses are cleaned ar...(展开全部)

A Village Life, Louise Gluck's eleventh collection of poems, begins in the topography of a village, a Mediterranean world of no definite moment or place: " ""All the roads in the village unite at the fountain.""Avenue of Liberty, Avenue of the Acacia Trees--""The fountain rises at the center of the plaza;""on sunny days, rainbows in the piss of the cherub.""--from "tributaries"...(展开全部)

The epic autobiography of a manga master Acclaimed for his visionary short-story collections "The Push Man and Other Stories," "Abandon the Old in Tokyo," and "Good-Bye"--originally created nearly forty years ago, but just as resonant now as ever--the legendary Japanese cartoonist Yoshihiro Tatsumi has come to be recognized in North America as a precursor of today's graphic nov...(展开全部)

"The best, most comprehensive, and most balanced single-volume biography of Washington ever written." -Gordon S. Wood, The New York Review of Books Celebrated biographer Ron Chernow provides a richly nuanced portrait of the father of our nation. With a breadth and depth matched by no other onevolume life of George Washington, this crisply paced narrative carries the reade...(展开全部)

作者 | 柳原汉雅（Hanya Yanagihara），1974年生于洛杉矶，美籍日裔女作家。1995年于史密斯女子学院毕业后搬至纽约。2015年开始担任《纽约时报》旗下时尚杂志《T》主编。《渺小一生》是她的第二部长篇小说，荣获科克斯评论文学奖，入围布克奖、美国国家图书奖、国际IMPAC都柏林文学奖、橘子小说奖等四项文学大奖决选名单。

V.S.奈保尔（V.S.Naipaul） 英国著名作家。1932年生于特立尼达岛上一个印度移民家庭，1950年进入牛津大学攻读英国文学，毕业后迁居伦敦。50年代开始写作，作品以小说、游记、文论为主，主要有《毕司沃斯先生的房子》、《米格尔街》、《自由国度》、《河湾》与“印度三部曲”等。作品在全球享有盛誉，半个世纪里，将里斯奖、毛姆奖、史密斯奖、布克奖、大卫•柯恩文学奖等一一收入囊中。1990年，被英女王封为爵士。2001年，荣获诺贝尔文学奖。同年《半生》出版。