You do not mess with the Special Investigators! The events of 9/11 changed Jack Reacher's drifter life in a practical way. In addition to his folding toothbrush, he now needs to carry photo ID to get around. Yet he is still as close to untraceable as a human being in America can get. So when a member of his old Army unit manages to get a message to him, he knows it has to be de...(展开全部)

Marilynne Robinson, winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Humanities Medal, returns to the world of Gilead with Jack, the latest novel in one of the great works of contemporary American fiction Jack tells the story of John Ames Boughton, the beloved, erratic, and grieved-over prodigal son of a Presbyterian minister in Gilead, Iowa. In segregated St. Louis sometime after...(展开全部)

Cash is needed and Alex Rogo's companies are to be put on the block. Alex needs to complete the turnaround of his companies if they can be sold for the maximum return: if he fails they will be closed down. This text highlights the techniques needed to survive at home and at work.

Cash is needed and Alex Rogo's companies are to be put on the block. Alex needs to complete the turnaround of his companies if they can be sold for the maximum return: if he fails they will be closed down. This text highlights the techniques needed to survive at home and at work.

A new volume of philosophical essays by Bernard Williams. The book is a successor to Problems of the Self, but whereas that volume dealt mainly with questions of personal identity, Moral Luck centres on questions of moral philosophy and the theory of rational action. That whole area has of course been strikingly reinvigorated over the last deacde, and philosophers have both bro...(展开全部)

A new volume of philosophical essays by Bernard Williams. The book is a successor to Problems of the Self, but whereas that volume dealt mainly with questions of personal identity, Moral Luck centres on questions of moral philosophy and the theory of rational action. That whole area has of course been strikingly reinvigorated over the last deacde, and philosophers have both bro...(展开全部)

杰克因为一件事重生为一只鸭子，他将如何生活？（不过里面好像压根没写）

杰克因为一件事重生为一只鸭子，他将如何生活？（不过里面好像压根没写）

彼得·凯里（Peter Carey），1943年生于墨尔本市郊小镇，曾在大学学习化学，未及毕业改做广告设计，后游历欧洲并转向文学创作，现居住在纽约。 凯里是当代澳大利亚文学领军人物，作品已被翻译成二十多种文字。是世界惟一的两位二度荣获布克奖的作家之一，另一位则是南非的诺贝尔文学奖得主库切。因此有评论家预言，凯里将是诺贝尔文学奖最有力的竞争者。 凯里的作品怪诞、幽默，具有寓言式小说和科幻小说的特征。 因书写《凯利帮真史》等历史题材的小说而被誉为澳大利亚“民族神话创造者”的凯里，是一位关注现代人生存困境、具有国际色彩的作家。

Jack Maggs, raised and deported as a criminal, has returned from Australia, in secret and at great risk. What does he want after all these years, and why is he so interested in the comings and goings at a plush town house in Great Queen Street? And why is Jack himself an object of such interest to Tobias Oates, celebrated author, amateur hypnotist and fellow-burglar - in this c...(展开全部)