肯·鲍曼现居美国新墨西哥州的圣达菲，曾从事演艺工作长达十年，在影视剧中出镜。他已创作过四部小说，还身兼出版商、图书设计师等职。 读库御宅学团队引进的“头目战”（Boss Fight Books）书系诞生于美国，每本书均专注于对一部经典游戏作品的台前幕后进行详尽分析解读，执笔者多为业内资深人士。

本书为公版书，为不受著作权法限制的作家、艺术家及其它人士发布的作品，供广大读者阅读交流。汇聚授权电子版权。

George Bowling, the hero of this comic novel, is a middle-aged insurance salesman who lives in an average English suburban row house with a wife and two children. One day, after winning some money from a bet, he goes back to the village where he grew up, to fish for carp in a pool he remembers from thirty years before. The pool, alas, is gone, the village has changed beyond rec...(展开全部)

George Bowling, the hero of this comic novel, is a middle-aged insurance salesman who lives in an average English suburban row house with a wife and two children. One day, after winning some money from a bet, he goes back to the village where he grew up, to fish for carp in a pool he remembers from thirty years before. The pool, alas, is gone, the village has changed beyond rec...(展开全部)

Bilingual Edition -- German/English Hans Magnus Enzensberger is Germany's most important and influential living poet, a lightning rod in a stormy political and cultural landscape. (Translations of his Kiosk and Selected Poems have also been published by Sheep Meadow.) Having come of age after the Third Reich, Enzensberger builds his poetry upon tradition and titanic German wrec...(展开全部)

Coming Up for Air is a novel by George Orwell, first published in June 1939, shortly before the outbreak of World War II. It combines premonitions of the impending war with images of an idyllic Thames

Masters of the Air is the deeply personal story of the American bomber boys in World War II who brought the war to Hitler's doorstep. With the narrative power of fiction, Donald Miller takes readers on a harrowing ride through the fire-filled skies over Berlin, Hanover, and Dresden and describes the terrible cost of bombing for the German people. Fighting at 25,000 feet in t...(展开全部)

保罗·卡拉尼什 Paul Kalanithi，美国著名神经外科医生，作家。1977年生于亚利桑那州，获得斯坦福大学英语文学及人体生物学双料学位，后于剑桥大学获得科学史与哲学研究硕士学位,并以优异成绩从耶鲁大学医学院毕业，即将获得斯坦福医学院外科教授职位并主持自己的 研究室。在就任医生期间，保罗曾因其出色的研究成果，获得美国神经外科医生协会最高奖。 2013年，即将抵达人生巅峰的保罗，忽然被诊断出患有第四期肺癌。2015年3月，37岁的保罗告别妻子和女儿，离开人世。 何雨珈，85后生人，自由译者，文字与影像的狂热追随者，一颗平常心，一双笨拙手，烹美食，做手工，只愿不辜负文字与生活。译有《再会，老北京》、《纸牌屋》等书。

For readers of Atul Gawande, Andrew Solomon, and Anne Lamott, a profoundly moving, exquisitely observed memoir by a young neurosurgeon faced with a terminal cancer diagnosis who attempts to answer the question What makes a life worth living? At the age of thirty-six, on the verge of completing a decade’s worth of training as a neurosurgeon, Paul Kalanithi was diagnosed with sta...(展开全部)