What if you could live again and again, until you got it right? On a cold and snowy night in 1910, Ursula Todd is born to an English banker and his wife. She dies before she can draw her first breath. On that same cold and snowy night, Ursula Todd is born, lets out a lusty wail, and embarks upon a life that will be, to say the least, unusual. For as she grows, she also dies,...(展开全部)

What if you could live again and again, until you got it right? On a cold and snowy night in 1910, Ursula Todd is born to an English banker and his wife. She dies before she can draw her first breath. On that same cold and snowy night, Ursula Todd is born, lets out a lusty wail, and embarks upon a life that will be, to say the least, unusual. For as she grows, she also dies,...(展开全部)

In his introduction, veteran biographer Chernow is clear about his goals. Using the recent "explosion of research," he wants to render George Washington "real" and "credible," to replace "frosty respect" with "visceral appreciation." In many respects, Chernow succeeds. He gives us a Washington who starts with limited education and means and, through a remarkable combination of ...(展开全部)

"King is a major achievement. With eloquence, compassion, and grace, Jonathan Eig offers a stirringly contemporary and complex portrait of a fully human―and humane―King . . . A resounding triumph." ―Peniel E. Joseph, author of The Sword and the Shield "Eig has pulled off a kind of miracle. Here is the King we know, think we know and ought to know. Here is the leader, the preach...(展开全部)

詹姆斯·戴森 戴森创始人兼首席工程师。戴森以革命性的气旋吸尘器和Supersonic吹风机闻名，旗下各品类产品以创新的技术、设计和效能享誉全球，销往世界各地。 詹姆斯·戴森1947年出生于英国诺福克，曾在伦敦皇家艺术学院学习设计，随后加入罗托克公司，与杰里米·弗莱一起设 计和制造海上卡车。 詹姆斯·戴森相信，工程师和创业家可以改变世界。他创设了戴森工程技术学院、詹姆斯·戴森基金会和戴森设计大奖，支持和鼓励更多人加入这个事业。

Dyson has become a byword for high-performing products, technology, design, and invention. Now, James Dyson, the inventor and entrepreneur who made it all happen, tells his remarkable and inspirational story in Invention: A Life. Famously, over a four-year period, James Dyson made 5,127 prototypes of the cyclonic vacuum cleaner that would transform the way houses are cleaned ar...(展开全部)

V.S.奈保尔（V.S.Naipaul） 英国著名作家。1932年生于特立尼达岛上一个印度移民家庭，1950年进入牛津大学攻读英国文学，毕业后迁居伦敦。50年代开始写作，作品以小说、游记、文论为主，主要有《毕司沃斯先生的房子》、《米格尔街》、《自由国度》、《河湾》与“印度三部曲”等。作品在全球享有盛誉，半个世纪里，将里斯奖、毛姆奖、史密斯奖、布克奖、大卫•柯恩文学奖等一一收入囊中。1990年，被英女王封为爵士。2001年，荣获诺贝尔文学奖。同年《半生》出版。

In a narrative that moves with dreamlike swiftness from India to England to Africa, Nobel Laureate V. S. Naipaul has produced his finest novel to date, a bleakly resonant study of the fraudulent bargains that make up an identity. The son of a Brahmin ascetic and his lower-caste wife, Willie Chandran grows up sensing the hollowness at the core of his father's self-denial and vo...(展开全部)

乔弗里•梅耶斯（Jeffrey Meyers） 皇家文学学会会员，在世界各地演讲，并经常出现在电视节目中。他四十五部关于文学、电影与艺术的书，已被译成十一种语言，包括凯瑟琳•曼斯菲尔德、温德汉姆•刘易斯、海明威、洛威尔、劳伦斯、康拉德、坡、菲茨杰拉德、埃德蒙•威尔逊、弗洛斯特、鲍嘉、库珀、埃洛尔•弗林和西恩•弗林、萨默塞特•毛姆等人的传记，以及四位印象派画家。最近他被美国艺术文学院授予文学奖项，目前正在撰写萨缪尔•约翰逊的传记。

在线阅读本书 Nobel Prize winner Nadine Gordimer follows the inner lives of characters confronted by unforeseen circumstances. Paul Bannerman, an ecologist in South Africa, believes he understands the trajectory of his life, with the usual markers of vocation and marriage. But when he??s diagnosed with thyroid cancer and, after surgery, prescribed treatment that will leave him radioa...(展开全部)