在线阅读本书 When nurse Amy Leatheran agrees to look after archaeologist Dr Leidners wife Louise at a dig, she finds herself taking on more than just nursing dutiesshe also has to help solve murders. Hercule Poirot is visiting the excavation site but will the great detective be in time to prevent a multiple murderer from striking again? --This text refers to an out of print or una...(展开全部)

《幽巷谋杀案》内容简介：阿加莎·克里斯蒂被誉为举世公认的侦探推理小说女王。她的著作英文版销售量逾10亿册，而且还被译成百余种文字，销售量亦逾10亿册。她一生创作了80部侦探小说和短篇故事集，19部剧本，以及6部以玛丽·维斯特麦考特的笔名出版的小说。著作数量之丰仅次于莎士比亚。 随着克里斯蒂笔下创造出的文学史上最杰出、最受欢迎的侦探形象波洛，和以女性直觉、人性关怀见长的马普尔小姐的面世，如今克里斯蒂这个名字的象征意义几近等同于“侦探推理小说”。 阿加莎·克里斯蒂的第一部小说《斯泰尔斯庄园奇案》写于第一次世界大战末，战时她担任志愿救护队员。在这部小说中她塑造了一个可爱的小个子比利时侦探赫尔克里·波洛，他成为继福尔摩斯之后侦探小说中最受读者欢迎的侦探形象。《斯泰尔斯庄园奇案》经过数次退稿后，最终于1920年由博得利·黑德出版公司出版。 Murder, s...(展开全部)

约翰•斯卡尔齐（John Scalzi） 美国当红科幻作家，美国科幻与奇幻作家协会前会长。三次获得雨果奖，十次入围。2005年，他以《老人的战争》成名，获得2006年约翰•W.坎贝尔优秀新人奖。2013年，他凭借《红衫》包揽雨果奖、轨迹奖两项大奖。 斯卡尔齐深受罗伯特·海因莱因、奥森·斯科特·卡德等人的影响，题材多以惊险刺激的军事科幻为主，擅长运用对话推动情节发展，人物风格各异，语言辛辣幽默。其作品已被翻译成二十多种语言，深受各国读者的欢迎。 “老人的战争”六部曲是斯卡尔齐的代表作，该系列一共五次入围雨果奖、轨迹奖，并多次获得日本星云赏、以色列格芬奖等国际大奖。《万物的终结》是“老人的战争”六部曲的终结篇。历经十年创作的“老人的战争”六部曲以及“老屁帮”成员们的太空冒险故事在本书中迎来大结局。

杰克甘托斯，一位多产的美国文学作家,他的创作领域涵盖成人小说、青少年小说以及低幼故事绘本等，受到不同年龄读者的喜爱。 他的作品将真实历史与天马行空的想象完美结合，故事情节充满张力，细节设置巧妙，引人入胜，耐人寻味。 此次《诺维尔特小镇的奇幻夏天》摘得纽伯瑞金奖桂冠，已是他第二次受到纽伯瑞奖评审会的青睐。他的另一作品《失去控制的乔伊》曾夺得2010年纽伯瑞儿童文学银奖。他还获得过波士顿全球号角书奖、美国普林兹青少年文学奖、美国罗伯特希尔伯特文学奖，并多次提名美国国家图书奖。

Wenham & Geraldine are a long-established and very well respected publishing firm, so when a printer's proof is sabotaged and libellous passages are mysteriously reinstated, they call in private detective Nigel Strangeways. But the situation takes a turn for the worse when one of the publishers' best-selling authors - glamorous novelist Millicent Miles - is found dead in the of...(展开全部)

Wenham & Geraldine are a long-established and very well respected publishing firm, so when a printer's proof is sabotaged and libellous passages are mysteriously reinstated, they call in private detective Nigel Strangeways. But the situation takes a turn for the worse when one of the publishers' best-selling authors - glamorous novelist Millicent Miles - is found dead in the of...(展开全部)

The fascinating history of women’s health as it’s never been told before. For as long as medicine has been a practice, women's bodies have been treated like objects to be practiced on: examined and ignored, idealized and sexualized, shamed, subjugated, mutilated, and dismissed. The history of women’s healthcare is a story in which women themselves have too often been voiceless—...(展开全部)

There should no longer be any doubt: global capitalism is fast approaching its terminal crisis. Slavoj Zizek has identified the four horsemen of this coming apocalypse: the worldwide ecological crisis; imbalances within the economic system; the biogenetic revolution; and, exploding social divisions and ruptures. But, he asks, if the end of capitalism seems to many like the end ...(展开全部)