Humorous and undeniably original, this witty satire of religion and morality centers around a small town in Colombia that boasts two especially interesting residents: the idiot sons of the town priest's illegitimate daughter, Marcianita, who have been blessed with super sexual potency. Their ability to "cure" the ailing brings pilgrims to the town—as well as the media and sever...(展开全部)

Open source provides the competitive advantage in the Internet Age. According to the August Forrester Report, 56 percent of IT managers interviewed at Global 2,500 companies are already using some type of open source software in their infrastructure and another 6 percent will install it in the next two years. This revolutionary model for collaborative software development ...(展开全部)

Now a classic of the travel genre, The Great Railway Bazaar chronicles Paul Theroux's adventures by rail from Victoria Station in London to Tokyo Central, told with his signature wry observations.

A master storyteller at his best—the O. Henry Prize winner Stephen King delivers a generous collection of stories, several of them brand-new, featuring revelatory autobiographical comments on when, why, and how he came to write (or rewrite) each story. Since his first collection, Nightshift, published thirty-five years ago, Stephen King has dazzled readers with his genius as a ...(展开全部)

A master storyteller at his best—the O. Henry Prize winner Stephen King delivers a generous collection of stories, several of them brand-new, featuring revelatory autobiographical comments on when, why, and how he came to write (or rewrite) each story. Since his first collection, Nightshift, published thirty-five years ago, Stephen King has dazzled readers with his genius as a ...(展开全部)

在线阅读本书 Clear, insightful, and nondogmatic, this book gives us a new appreciation for one of our most ubiquitous institutions. From the wild swings of the stock market to the online auctions of eBay to the unexpected twists of the world's post-Communist economies, markets have suddenly become quite visible. We now have occasion to ask, "What makes these institutions work? ...(展开全部)

保罗•索鲁 Paul Theroux, 1941- 美国旅行作家。曾在马拉维的丛林学校担任和平团教师，在乌干达的大学担任讲师。在新加坡大学任教期间，将短篇故事及为报刊撰写的文章结集成册，并开始写小说。后与家人移居英国，居住十多年。目前在美国定居，仍前往各处旅行。 保罗•索鲁著作丰富，包括《赫拉克勒斯之柱》《老巴塔哥尼亚快车》《美国深南之旅》等。荣获英国惠特布雷德文学奖、托马斯•库克旅行文学奖。

First published in 1975, Paul Theroux's strange, unique, and hugely entertaining railway odyssey has become a modern classic of travel literature. Here Theroux recounts his early adventures on an unusual grand continental tour. Asia's fabled trains -- the Orient Express, the Khyber Pass Local, the Frontier Mail, the Golden Arrow to Kuala Lumpur, the Mandalay Express, the Trans-...(展开全部)

Eric S. Raymond 是软件开源运动和黑客文化的代言人、宣传家、大使。他的研究很好地解释了分布式开源开发模式，Linux和互联网的成功已经证明这种模式非常有效。他自己的开源软件项目包括互联网上使用最广泛的电子邮件传送程序之一。

Thirty years ago Paul Theroux left London and travelled across Asia and back again by train. His account of the journey - "The Great Railway Bazaar" - was a landmark book and made his name as the foremost travel writer of his generation. Now Theroux makes the trip all over again. Through Eastern Europe, India and Asia to discover the changes that have swept the continents, and ...(展开全部)