'When the first bullet hit my chest, I thought of my daughter.' Dr Marc Seidman is living in a classic American suburb in New Jersey with his new wife, Monica, and their baby daughter, Tara, when the shocking attack occurs. Marc is left barely clinging to life. When he wakes up at the hospital, he learns that Monica is dead - and that their daughter Tara is missing from her ...(展开全部)

"When the first bullet hit my chest, I thought of my daughter..." Dr. Marc Seidman has been shot twice, his wife has been murdered, and his six-month-old daughter has been kidnapped. When he gets the ransom note-he knows he has only one chance to get this right. But there is nowhere he can turn and no one he can trust.

第一顆子彈打入整型外科醫師馬克的腦子裡時，他僅剩的記憶只有他的小女兒；當他再度醒轉，卻發現自己捲入一樁莫名的謀殺綁架案中，而小女兒下落未明。 他錯過了救出女兒的唯一機會。沒想到，一年半後，勒索贖金的電話又打來…… 繼《死亡印記》後，炙手可熱的懸疑小說家哈蘭•科本又一力作！機巧的安排、人性的拉鋸，讓人無法喘息。錯過這一次，你將再難體驗同樣的刺激！

What can happen in just a second, a minute, or an hour? How can we measure time? The flap of a vulture's wing. A crocodile's heartbeat. The weight of a baby blue whale. The life of a mayfly. These increments of time may sound a bit strange, but they are all fascinating ways in which we can think about time. But what exactly is time? In "Just a Second", the award-winning author-...(展开全部)

Belbin's renowned Team Role theory is a familiar concept for managers and management trainers across the world. Following on from the best-selling Management Teams: Why they succeed or fail , this second edition of Team Roles at Work provides useful insights into how to apply the theory in everyday work situations. This book explores the impact of Team Roles from interpe...(展开全部)

Probability has fascinated philosophers, scientists, and mathematicians for hundreds of years. Although the mathematics of probability is, for most applications, clear and uncontroversial, the interpretation of probability statements continues to be fraught with controversy and confusion. What does it mean to say that the probability of some event X occurring is 31%? In the 20t...(展开全部)

ある夏の日、水泳部ホープの九条(くじょう)は上級生の水村(みずむら)に一目惚れをする。近づいたつもりでも水村は水のようにとらえどころがなくもどかしさは募るばかり。一方、水村は、実家の映画館が立ち退きを迫られる中、誰よりも早く泳ぐ九条の姿に希望を見出していた――。胸の痛みが心地いい。極上のセンシティブ・ラブ、ついに単行本化。

James Baldwin was one of the most incisive and influential American writers of the twentieth century. Active in the civil rights movement of the sixties, open at all times about his homosexuality, Baldwin was celebrated for eloquent analyses of social unrest in his collections of essays and for daring portrayals of sexuality and interracial relationships in his fiction. James C...(展开全部)

If food dropped like rain from the sky, wouldn't it be marvelous! Or would it? It could, after all, be messy. And you'd have no choice. What if you didn't like what fell? Or what if too much came? Have you ever thought of what it might be like to be squashed flat by a pancake?

If food dropped like rain from the sky, wouldn't it be marvelous! Or would it? It could, after all, be messy. And you'd have no choice. What if you didn't like what fell? Or what if too much came? Have you ever thought of what it might be like to be squashed flat by a pancake?