An intimate, powerful, and inspiring memoir by the former First Lady of the United States In a life filled with meaning and accomplishment, Michelle Obama has emerged as one of the most iconic and compelling women of our era. As First Lady of the United States of America—the first African American to serve in that role—she helped create the most welcoming and inclusive White H...(展开全部)

米歇尔·奥巴马（Michelle LaVaughn Obama） 2009年至2017年间的美国第一夫人。她曾就读于普林斯顿大学以及哈佛大学法学院，早期供职于芝加哥盛德国际律师事务所，其间结识了她未来的丈夫贝拉克·奥巴马。她后来先后于芝加哥市长办公室、芝加哥大学、芝加哥大学医学中心任职，并创建了“公众联盟”芝加哥分会，旨在培养年轻人的公共服务精神。奥巴马夫妇育有两个女儿——玛利亚与萨沙。目前，他们一家居住在华盛顿特区。

An intimate, powerful, and inspiring memoir by the former First Lady of the United States In a life filled with meaning and accomplishment, Michelle Obama has emerged as one of the most iconic and compelling women of our era. As First Lady of the United States of America—the first African American to serve in that role—she helped create the most welcoming and inclusive White H...(展开全部)

Book Description The Wordsworth Classics covers a huge list of beloved works of literature in English and translations. This growing series is rigorously updated, with scholarly introductions and notes added to new titles. This work tells the story of an extremely cunning and fearsome whale which becomes the focus of fear and superstition among its pursuers. The one-legged Ca...(展开全部)

A masterful adaptation of the timeless literary classic, faithfully and beautifully rendered by an award-winning artist. In striking black-and-white illustrations, Chabouté retells the story of the Great American Novel. Captain Ahab strikes out on a voyage, obsessively seeking revenge on the great white whale that took his leg. This hardcover edition collects both of the Vents ...(展开全部)

Deadeye Dick is Vonnegut's funny, chillingly satirical look at the death of innocence. Amid a true Vonnegutian host of horrors–a double murder, a fatal dose of radioactivity, a decapitation, an annihilation of a city by a neutron bomb–Rudy Waltz, a.k.a. Deadeye Dick, takes us along on a zany search for absolution and happiness. Here is a tale of crime and punishme...(展开全部)

David Abram’s first book, The Spell of the Sensuous —hailed as “revolutionary” by the Los Angeles Times, as “daring and truly original” by Science —has become a classic of environmental literature. Now Abram returns with a startling exploration of our human entanglement with the rest of nature. As the climate veers toward catastrophe, the innumerable losses cascading throu...(展开全部)

路易斯·迪恩（Louise Dean）生于1970年，自剑桥大学历史系毕业之后，先后从事过销售及广告工作，1999年开始了全职写作生涯。《形同陌路》是她的处女作，获2004年贝蒂·特拉斯克（Betty Trask）处女作特别奖。

After more than half a century of marriage, Dorothy and George are embarking on their first journey abroad together. Three decades younger, Jan and Annemieke are taking the last in their tumultuous union. At first the luxury of a Caribbean resort is no match for the habits of domestic life. Then the couples paths cross, and a series of surprises ensuesa disappearance and an ass...(展开全部)

In I Love Dick, published in 1997, Chris Kraus, author of Aliens & Anorexia, Torpor, and Video Green, boldly tore away the veil that separates fiction from reality and privacy from self-expression. It's no wonder that I Love Dick instantly elicited violent controversies and attracted a host of passionate admirers. The story is gripping enough: in 1994 a married, failed independ...(展开全部)