A bursting, heartfelt, debut following fifty-five days in the life of ten-year-old Rae, who must look after herself and her dog when her mother disappears. For as long as Rae can remember, it’s been her and Mum, and their dog, Splinter; a small, deliberately unremarkable, family. They have their walks, their cooking routines, their home. Sometimes Mum disappears for a while to ...(展开全部)

Nobel laureate V. S. Naipaul’s impassioned and prescient travelogue of his journeys through his ancestral homeland, with a new preface by the author. Arising out of Naipaul’s lifelong obsession and passion for a country that is at once his and totally alien, India: A Million Mutinies Now relates the stories of many of the people he met traveling there more than fifty years a...(展开全部)

More than two million copies of Things Fall Apart have been sold in the United States since it was first published here in 1959. Worldwide, there are eight million copies in print in fifty different languages. This is Chinua Achebe's masterpiece and it is often compared to the great Greek tragedies, and currently sells more than one hundred thousand copies a year in the United ...(展开全部)

Every word of this book is true. A nurse in 1913 fell in love with a man called John Smith, except he was a visitor from another world. She fell in love with a man from the stars. And she wrote it all down.

More than two million copies of Things Fall Apart have been sold in the United States since it was first published here in 1959. Worldwide, there are eight million copies in print in fifty different languages. This is Chinua Achebe's masterpiece and it is often compared to the great Greek tragedies, and currently sells more than one hundred thousand copies a year in the United ...(展开全部)

[美]吉姆·保罗，摩根士丹利首位负责国际能源部的副总裁，曾任芝加哥商品交易所董事与执委会委员，纵横期货交易业界25年，先后从事散户经纪、场内交易员、研究部主管等工作。 [美] 布伦丹 · 莫伊尼汉，资产管理公司Marketfield Asset Management总裁，范德堡大学欧文管理研究生院财务/金融学兼职教授。

Jim Paul's meteoric rise took him from a small town in Northern Kentucky to governor of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, yet he lost it all -- his fortune, his reputation, and his job -- in one fatal attack of excessive economic hubris. In this honest, frank analysis, Paul and Brendan Moynihan revisit the events that led to Paul's disastrous decision and examine the psychologic...(展开全部)

格雷格·詹纳（Greg Jenner） 格雷格•詹纳（Greg Jenner），英国著名喜剧编剧和作家，有志于通过通俗文化传播历史知识。是屡获大奖的英国广播公司儿童频道剧集《糟糕历史》（Horrible Histories）的史学顾问。过去十年在电视界制作了超千集历史纪录片和历史剧。

From one of the most influential writers of his generation, a gorgeously surprising poetry collection about memory, history, and the act of looking back. Following several of his internationally acclaimed novels, A Year of Last Things is Michael Ondaatje’s long-awaited return to poetry. In pieces that are sometimes witty, sometimes moving, and always wise, we journey back throu...(展开全部)