A stunning, intimate collection by the late, great Polish poet Adam Zagajewski. . . . I think I sought wisdom (without resignation) in poems and also a certain calm madness. I found, much later, a moment’s joy and melancholy’s dark contentment. In True Life, Adam Zagajewski, one of the most gifted poets of our time and a revolutionary Polish writer and thinker, turns his gaze t...(展开全部)

The slippery online ecosystem is the perfect breeding ground for identities: true, false, and in between. We no longer question the reality of online experiences but the reality of selfhood in the digital age. In The Secret Life: Three True Stories, Andrew O'Hagan issues three bulletins from the porous border between cyberspace and the 'real world'. 'Ghosting' introduces us to ...(展开全部)

阿诺德•施瓦辛格，1947年出生于奥地利塔尔。2003年至2011年间，任职美国加州州长。此前，他是好莱坞的传奇人物，没有受过专门的表演训练，但却跻身好莱坞主流影星之列。他曾主演《终结者》系列、《王者之剑》、《铁血战士》、《龙兄鼠弟》等电影。他的第一本书《阿诺德，一个健美运动员的成长》一经出版便跃居畅销排行榜，连同其后的《施瓦辛格健身全书》均已再版多次。

One of the most anticipated autobiographies of this generation, Arnold Schwarzenegger’s Total Recall is the candid story by one of the world’s most remarkable actors, businessmen, and world leaders. Born in the small city of Thal, Austria, in 1947, Arnold Schwarzenegger moved to Los Angeles at the age of twenty-one. Within ten years, he was a millionaire businessman. After t...(展开全部)

Jeannette Walls's "The Glass Castle" was "nothing short of spectacular" ("Entertainment Weekly"). Now she brings us the story of her grandmother -- told in a voice so authentic and compelling that the book is destined to become an instant classic. ""Those old cows knew trouble was coming before we did."" So begins the story of Lily Casey Smith, in Jeannette Walls's magnificent,...(展开全部)

在线阅读本书 For a critical element of American society, including many of its wealthiest and most powerful, there seems to be no limit today on what "enough" entails. The excesses are most starkly visible in the continuing crisis in banking and investment, and even in the two enormous government-sponsored (but publicly owned) mortgage lenders, to say nothing of the billion-dollar...(展开全部)

珍妮特•沃尔斯（Jeannette Walls），美国著名记者，撰有《闲聊：流言世界的内幕》、《闲聊：流言如何变成新闻，新闻怎样成为另一场秀》等书。二○○五年出版回忆录《玻璃城堡》，首次公开自己鲜为人知、与众不同的家庭背景和成长经历，从而蜚声文坛。派拉蒙公司买下了此书的电影版权，因《饥饿游戏》在好莱坞大火特火的女星詹妮弗-劳伦斯将担纲主演，和李安合作《少年Pi的奇幻漂流》的制片人吉尔-奈特担当电影制片人。 目前此书已经销售出三十二国版权。二○○九年珍妮特•沃尔斯再度推出新作《半驯之马》（Half Broke Horses），被《纽约时报》评为二○○九年十大好书。这两部作品至今依然高踞各大畅销书排行榜。就在今年7月份，《纽约时报》非虚构类畅销书周榜上，《玻璃城堡》仍名列第7位，距其出版时间已经8年了。

Jeannette Walls's "The Glass Castle" was "nothing short of spectacular" ("Entertainment Weekly"). Now she brings us the story of her grandmother -- told in a voice so authentic and compelling that the book is destined to become an instant classic. ""Those old cows knew trouble was coming before we did."" So begins the story of Lily Casey Smith, in Jeannette Walls's magnificent,...(展开全部)