【作者简介】 〔美〕威尔·英格伦（Will Englund） 美国记者、作家。毕业于美国哈佛大学，是《华盛顿邮报》资深记者，多次以通讯记者的身份前往莫斯科调查，对俄罗斯追踪报道20年，并对各种话题、历史都有深入研究和报道。作品曾获普利策奖。 他通过对在美国国会图书馆、互联网档案馆、耶鲁大学图书馆、美国国家第二档案馆等机构和网站广泛查阅、搜集到的大量与本书主题相关的报刊、档案资料、私人书信、日记进行分析研究，在此基础上，撰写了这本书。 【译者简介】 孟驰 福建人，自幼年起即对外国文学酷爱至极，最大的喜好是闲暇时分坐在书房捧读莫泊桑、巴尔扎克、托尔斯泰、雨果等大师的著作，中学时又对英语专业深为痴迷。译著有《茶叶大盗》《迦太基必须毁灭》《古典世界的战争》《世界简史》等。

【作者简介】 〔美〕威尔·英格伦（Will Englund） 美国记者、作家。毕业于美国哈佛大学，是《华盛顿邮报》资深记者，多次以通讯记者的身份前往莫斯科调查，对俄罗斯追踪报道20年，并对各种话题、历史都有深入研究和报道。作品曾获普利策奖。 他通过对在美国国会图书馆、互联网档案馆、耶鲁大学图书馆、美国国家第二档案馆等机构和网站广泛查阅、搜集到的大量与本书主题相关的报刊、档案资料、私人书信、日记进行分析研究，在此基础上，撰写了这本书。 【译者简介】 孟驰 福建人，自幼年起即对外国文学酷爱至极，最大的喜好是闲暇时分坐在书房捧读莫泊桑、巴尔扎克、托尔斯泰、雨果等大师的著作，中学时又对英语专业深为痴迷。译著有《茶叶大盗》《迦太基必须毁灭》《古典世界的战争》《世界简史》等。

Following in the wake of hugely successful medical memoirs such as Do No Harm and Fragile Lives, Critical is an intelligent, compelling and profoundly insightful journey into the world of intensive care medicine and the lives of people who have forever been changed by it. Being critically ill means one or more of your vital organs have failed – this could be your lungs, your he...(展开全部)

'Critical' is an intelligent, compelling and profoundly insightful journey into the world of intensive care medicine and the lives of people who have forever been changed by it. Being critically ill means one or more of your vital organs have failed - this could be your lungs, your heart, your kidneys, gut or even your brain. Starting with the first recognised case in which a l...(展开全部)

'Critical' is an intelligent, compelling and profoundly insightful journey into the world of intensive care medicine and the lives of people who have forever been changed by it. Being critically ill means one or more of your vital organs have failed - this could be your lungs, your heart, your kidneys, gut or even your brain. Starting with the first recognised case in which a l...(展开全部)

Following in the wake of hugely successful medical memoirs such as Do No Harm and Fragile Lives, Critical is an intelligent, compelling and profoundly insightful journey into the world of intensive care medicine and the lives of people who have forever been changed by it. Being critically ill means one or more of your vital organs have failed – this could be your lungs, your he...(展开全部)

To the Brink of Destruction exposes how America's rating agencies helped generate the global financial crisis of 2007 and beyond, surviving and thriving in the aftermath. Despite widespread scrutiny, rating agencies continued to operate on the same business model and wield extraordinary power, exerting extensive influence over public policy. Timothy J. Sinclair brings the shado...(展开全部)

To the Brink of Destruction exposes how America's rating agencies helped generate the global financial crisis of 2007 and beyond, surviving and thriving in the aftermath. Despite widespread scrutiny, rating agencies continued to operate on the same business model and wield extraordinary power, exerting extensive influence over public policy. Timothy J. Sinclair brings the shado...(展开全部)

Starred Review. Washington Post reporter Dobbs (Saboteurs) is a master at telling stories as they unfold and from a variety of perspectives. In this re-examination of the 1963 Bay of Pigs face-off between the U.S. and the U.S.S.R., Dobbs combines visits to Cuba, discussions with Russian participants and fingertip command of archival and printed U.S. sources to describe a wild r...(展开全部)

October 27, 1962, a day dubbed Black Saturday in the Kennedy White House. The Cuban missile crisis is at its height, and the world is drawing ever closer to nuclear apocalypse. As the opposing Cold War leaders, John F. Kennedy and Nikita Khrushchev, mobilize their forces to fight a nuclear war on land, sea and air, the world watches in terror. In Bobby Kennedy's words, 'There w...(展开全部)