在线阅读本书 Agnostic theologian Bernard Walsh has a professional interest in heaven. But when he travels to Hawaii with his father, Jack, it is not in quest of a vacation paradise; it is to visit Jack's dying, estranged sister. The hand of fate and family tensions frustrate the planned reunion, however. And surrounded by quarrelling honeymooners, girls looking for Mr Right, a freel...(展开全部)

From the witty author of Nice Work comes a story of a group of British tourists whose trip to Hawaii isn't quite what anyone bargained for. "Wonderfully entertaining . . . a welcome addition to a rich and diverting oeuvre".-- New York Times Book Review.

Teun A. van Dijk：1943年生，阿姆斯特丹大学话语研究教授，分别获得阿姆斯特丹自由大学法语语言文学学士学位、阿姆斯特丹大学文学理论硕士学位和阿姆斯特丹大学语言学博士学位，曾在斯特斯堡、巴黎和伯克利作研究。早期研究文学语言学，很快转向“文本语法”和话语语用学，后与沃尔特·金什研究话语加工中的认知心理学。 中文简历：http://www.discourses.org/cv/Academic%20biography%20Teun%20A%20van%20Dijk%20in%20Chinese.pdf

Teun A. van Dijk：1943年生，阿姆斯特丹大学话语研究教授，分别获得阿姆斯特丹自由大学法语语言文学学士学位、阿姆斯特丹大学文学理论硕士学位和阿姆斯特丹大学语言学博士学位，曾在斯特斯堡、巴黎和伯克利作研究。早期研究文学语言学，很快转向“文本语法”和话语语用学，后与沃尔特·金什研究话语加工中的认知心理学。 中文简历：http://www.discourses.org/cv/Academic%20biography%20Teun%20A%20van%20Dijk%20in%20Chinese.pdf

In this touching and atmospheric novel set among the fishermen of Newfoundland, Proulx tells the story of Quoyle. From all outward appearances, Quoyle has gone through his first 36 years on earth as a big schlump of a loser. He's not attractive, he's not brilliant or witty or talented, and he's not the kind of person who typically assumes the central position in a novel. But Pr...(展开全部)

All of the tradition-based canons that governed the world of haute couture since the fifties were subverted by the creative genius of stylists who forged the history of today’s fashion. Designers such as Franco Moschino, Christian Lacroix, Alexander McQueen, Vivienne Westwood, and Thierry Mugler went beyond the preciousness of fabrics, the studied geometry, and immobility of fi...(展开全部)

舍甫琴柯1930年出生于苏联乌克兰的一个医生的家庭。1954年于莫斯科国际关系学院毕业后作为研究生继续进修，1956年进入苏联外交部国际组织司工作。因颇受葛罗米柯的赏识，很快出任苏联驻外使团中的高级职务。他曾任葛罗米柯的顾问。最后于1973年出任联合国副秘书长。1975年，他在联合国副秘书长任内投靠美国中央情报局，沦为该局的特务，为美国窃取了大量有关苏联内政外交的机密情报。1978年，舍甫琴柯正式叛逃，在美国定居。

News is to the mind what sugar is to the body. In 2013 Rolf Dobelli stood in front of a roomful of journalists and proclaimed that he did not read the news. It caused a riot. Now he finally sets down his philosophy in detail. And he practises what he preaches: he hasn't read the news for a decade. Stop Reading the News is Dobelli's manifesto about the dangers of the most toxic ...(展开全部)