From one of America's most renowned storytellers comes a novel about love and deceit, and lust and redemption, against a background of child abductions in the affluent suburbs of Detroit. In the waning days of the turbulent 1970s, in the wake of unsolved killings that have shocked Detroit, the lives of several residents are drawn together, with tragic consequences. There is Han...(展开全部)

The appearance of Philip Larkin's second prose collection - reviews and critical assessments of writers and writing; pieces on jazz, mostly uncollected; some long, revealing and often highly entertaining interviews given on various occasions - was a considerable literary event. Stamped by wit, originality and intelligence, it was vintage Larkin throughout: 'Deprivation is for m...(展开全部)

The “work from home” phenomenon is thoroughly explored in this illuminating new book from bestselling 37signals founders Fried and Hansson, who point to the surging trend of employees working from home (and anywhere else) and explain the challenges and unexpected benefits. Most important, they show why – with a few controversial exceptions such as Yahoo -- more businesses will ...(展开全部)

The “work from home” phenomenon is thoroughly explored in this illuminating new book from bestselling 37signals founders Fried and Hansson, who point to the surging trend of employees working from home (and anywhere else) and explain the challenges and unexpected benefits. Most important, they show why – with a few controversial exceptions such as Yahoo -- more businesses will ...(展开全部)

The reappearance of Philip Larkin's "Required Writing" will be welcomed by the late poet's many readers and admirers. The book's first two parts, "Recollections" and "Interviews," provide autobiographical glimpses of the very private Larkin's childhood, his youth at Oxford, the genesis of his forty-year career as a librarian, and the influences that initially steered his poetry...(展开全部)

菲利普•拉金（Philip Larkin，1922-1985），英国诗人。1922年生于考文垂。1943年毕业于牛津大学圣约翰学院。曾先后工作于威灵顿公共图书馆，以及莱斯特、贝尔法斯特、赫尔等大学图书馆。拉金为诗集学会主席、大英文艺促进会文学委员会委员、美国文理科学院名誉院士。1985年逝世于赫尔。著有诗集《向北之船》、《受骗较轻者》、《降灵节婚礼》和《高窗》，随笔集《爵士乐笔记》、《应邀之作》和《续应邀之作》。曾获女王诗歌金质奖章、美国艺术和文学学术院洛安尼斯奖、德国FVS基金会莎士比亚奖等。拉金被公认为是继T.S.艾略特之后二十世纪最有影响力的英国诗人。 李晖，安徽宣城人。北京大学英语系博士。治学方向为小说理论与翻译研究、现代主义以来中国古典文学的外译传播、中西寓意叙事比较。主要译作有《应邀之作：拉金随笔》《绝对恐惧：致杜卞卡》、《美学》、《浪漫...(展开全部)

From two leaders of the FIRE (Financial Independence, Retire Early) movement, a bold, contrarian guide to retiring at any age, with a reproducible formula to financial independence A bull***t-free guide to growing your wealth, retiring early, and living life on your own terms Kristy Shen retired with a million dollars at the age of thirty-one, and she did it without hitting a h...(展开全部)

The author of the best-selling Your Inner Fish gives us a lively and accessible account of the great transformations in the history of life on Earth--a new view of the evolution of human and animal life that explains how the incredible diversity of life on our planet came to be. Over billions of years, ancient fish evolved to walk on land, reptiles transformed into birds that f...(展开全部)