A classic of modern travel writing, An Area of Darkness is Nobel laureate V. S. Naipaul’s profound reckoning with his ancestral homeland and an extraordinarily perceptive chronicle of his first encounter with India. Traveling from the bureaucratic morass of Bombay to the ethereal beauty of Kashmir, from a sacred ice cave in the Himalayas to an abandoned temple near Madras, ...(展开全部)

[英]理查德•普拉特（Richard Platt），著者，英国知名科普作家。自1992年开始专注创作儿童科普作品，擅长用生动的文字、精彩的事实吸引孩子阅读。已先后出版70余部儿童科普图书。长期与DK、Walker等知名出版机构合作。其作品曾获得蓝彼得童书奖、斯马蒂斯大奖、凯特•格林纳威奖。 [英]詹姆斯•布朗（James Brown），绘者，英国著名版画与插图设计师，拥有丰富创作经验，擅长将“信息可视化”设计理念应用到艺术创作中，长期与V＆A、《卫报》、LV等合作。从小在父母创作童书的环境中长大，有时还会出现在他们的书中。受Walker邀请，将“信息可视化”的设计理念带入童书科普领域。

阿南德·格里哈拉达斯 作者的父母曾是印度人，后移民到美国并定居。他毕业于密歇根大学，之后到达印度孟买，担任麦肯锡公司管理咨询师。2005年起担任《国际先驱论坛报》、《纽约时报》网站专栏作家，为其报道和撰写来自孟买的新闻，本书就是他多年观察和研究印度的深刻总结。

阿南德的父母在1970年代離開印度，前往美國追尋美國夢。可是作者阿南德2003年卻反其道而行飛回印度找工作機會。當飛機抵達孟買時，他在機上與一位當地的長者有了一段簡短的對談，長者得知阿南德有美國綠卡還回來印度工作時十分震驚。阿南德在《印度再造》一書中融合作者自己家族移民史與認同的追尋想要去找出印度重新於世界崛起背後的原因，以及國家發展背後所造成傳統文化的動盪與社會不同階層所面臨的挑戰與變化。印度是個非常謎樣的國家，一部份在IT產業、服務業與電影業上非常發達，卻又往往讓世人看到難以想像的貧民窟的生活。在阿南德的筆下，我們看到了創業家、企業家、激進份子、宗教追尋者等不同的故事，但最終最要的還是看到印度「家庭」所扮演的重要核心角色。這都是印度現代化中發人深省的故事。

After more than twenty-five years in print, A New History of India continues to be the most readable and popular one-volume history of India available. Now in its eighth edition, this acclaimed text features updated scholarship and bibliographic material throughout and integrates new research on such incisive topics as the Indian diaspora, the economy, and the nuclear issue. In...(展开全部)

Love and darkness are just two of the powerful forces that run through Amos Oz's extraordinary, moving story. He takes us on a seductive journey through his childhood and adolescence, along Jerusalem's war-torn streets in the 1940s and '50s, and into the infernal marriage of two kind, well-meaning people: his fussy, logical father, and his dreamy, romantic mother. Caught betwee...(展开全部)

A work of great personal courage and a literary tour de force, this bestseller is Styron's true account of his descent into a crippling and almost suicidal depression. Styron is perhaps the first writer to convey the full terror of depression's psychic landscape, as well as the illuminating path to recovery. From the Trade Paperback edition.

A work of great personal courage and a literary tour de force, this bestseller is Styron's true account of his descent into a crippling and almost suicidal depression. Styron is perhaps the first writer to convey the full terror of depression's psychic landscape, as well as the illuminating path to recovery.

Love and darkness are just two of the powerful forces that run through Amos Oz's extraordinary, moving story. He takes us on a seductive journey through his childhood and adolescence, along Jerusalem's war-torn streets in the 1940s and '50s, and into the infernal marriage of two kind, well-meaning people: his fussy, logical father, and his dreamy, romantic mother. Caught betwee...(展开全部)

A work of great personal courage and a literary tour de force, this bestseller is Styron's true account of his descent into a crippling and almost suicidal depression. Styron is perhaps the first writer to convey the full terror of depression's psychic landscape, as well as the illuminating path to recovery. From the Trade Paperback edition.