詹姆斯·索特 (James Salter，1925—2015)，美国小说家、短篇小说作家。成长于纽约曼哈顿，毕业于西点军校，做过战斗机飞行员。1957年出版长篇小说《猎手》，后全职从事写作。 主要作品有长篇小说《一场游戏一次消遣》（1967）、《光年》（1975 ）、《 独面》（1979）、《这一切》（2013），短篇小说集《暮色》（1988）、《昨夜》（2005），回忆录《燃烧的日子》（1997）等。曾获得福克纳奖（1989）、迈克尔•雷短篇小说奖（2010）、《巴黎评论》哈达达奖（2011）、马拉默德小说奖（2012）等。 . 译者简介： 刘伟，毕业于北京大学中文系，自由译者、撰稿人。

A literary event--a major new novel, his first work of fiction in seven years, from the universally acclaimed master and PEN/Faulkner winner: a sweeping, seductive love story set in post-World War II America that tells of one man's great passions and regrets over the course of his lifetime. From his experiences as a naval officer in battles off Okinawa during World War II, Ph...(展开全部)

An extraordinary literary event, a major new novel by the PEN/Faulkner winner and acclaimed master: a sweeping, seductive, deeply moving story set in the years after World War II. From his experiences as a young naval officer in battles off Okinawa, Philip Bowman returns to America and finds a position as a book editor. It is a time when publishing is still largely a private af...(展开全部)

大卫·邵洛伊出生于加拿大，在英国长大，毕业于英国牛津大学。处女作《伦敦和东南部》获得杰弗里·费伯纪念奖和贝蒂·特拉斯克文学奖。2013年，他被英国大牌文学杂志《格兰塔》评为“英国*佳青年小说家之一”。《人不过如此》是他的*新作品，入围2016年英国布克奖*佳长篇小说决选，荣获《巴黎评论》设立的普林姆顿*佳小说奖。

弗雷德里克·巴斯夏（Frederic Bastiat）是法国的经济学家、政治家与作家，古典自由派经济学的代表人物。他被视为自由经济的伟大先驱，包括哈耶克（F.A. Hayek）、黑兹利特（Henry Hazlitt）、罗斯巴德（Murray N. Rothbard）在内的很多著名经济学家都深受其影响。

How much should we trust the polls on the latest electoral campaign? When a physician tells us that a diagnosis of cancer is 90% certain or a nutritionist tells us what is healthy to eat, what should we believe? Questions such as these are greatly important, yet many of us have only a vague sense of how to answer them. In Is That a Fact?, Mark Battersby aims not only to explain...(展开全部)

The halls are decked, the tree is trimmed, and one young boy is wide awake and watching for a special late-night visitor. But waiting isn't easy--especially when every little noise sounds like Santa! Includes 24 flash cards. Full color.

The halls are decked, the tree is trimmed, and one young boy is wide awake and watching for a special late-night visitor. But waiting isn't easy--especially when every little noise sounds like Santa! Includes 24 flash cards. Full color.

Nine men. Each of them at a different stage of life, each of them away from home, and each of them striving – in the suburbs of Prague, beside a Belgian motorway, in a cheap Cypriot hotel – to understand just what it means to be alive, here and now. Tracing an arc from the spring of youth to the winter of old age, All That Man Is brings these separate lives together to show us ...(展开全部)

Nine men. Each of them at a different stage in life, each of them away from home, and each of them striving--in the suburbs of Prague, in an overdeveloped Alpine village, beside a Belgian motorway, in a dingy Cyprus hotel--to understand what it means to be alive, here and now. Tracing a dramatic arc from the spring of youth to the winter of old age, the ostensibly separate narr...(展开全部)