When Ray turns up to visit his old university friends Charlie and Emily, he's given a special task: to be so much his useless self that he makes Charlie look good by comparison. But Ray has his own buried feelings to contend with. Decades earlier, he and Emily would listen to jazz when they were alone, and now, as Sarah Vaughan sings through the speakers, he struggles to contro...(展开全部)

Once, a long time ago, I walked down a night-darkened road called Firefly Lane, all alone, on the worst night of my life, and I found a kindred spirit. That was our beginning. More than thirty years ago. TullyandKate. You and me against the world. Best friends forever. But stories end, don't they? You lose the people you love and you have to find a way to go on. . . . Tully Har...(展开全部)

Kingdom Come is a four-issue comic book mini-series published in 1996 by DC Comics under their Elseworlds imprint. It was written by Alex Ross and Mark Waid and painted in gouache by Ross, who also developed the concept from an original idea. This Elseworlds story is set in a future that deals with a growing conflict between "traditional" superheroes, such as Superman, Wonder W...(展开全部)

马克•怀德（Mark Waid） 美国漫画编剧、编辑。曾担任DC多种漫画的编辑，并为DC和漫威创作多部漫画。编剧作品包括《闪电侠》《美国队长》《正义联盟》等多部漫画，曾获艾斯纳奖和哈维奖。 亚历克斯•罗斯（Alex Ross） 美国知名漫画家、插画家。擅长超级写实主义风格，以《终结者：燃烧地球》出道，先后创作《惊奇》《天国降临》《正义》等漫画，并从事封面和海报绘画。 江业华 致力于美国漫画翻译与研究多年，著有《今夜拯救世界》《超人会不会飞》《生为传奇》等美漫专著，翻译《蝙蝠侠：第一年》《蝙蝠侠：黑暗骑士归来》等。

马克•怀德（Mark Waid） 美国漫画编剧、编辑。曾担任DC多种漫画的编辑，并为DC和漫威创作多部漫画。编剧作品包括《闪电侠》《美国队长》《正义联盟》等多部漫画，曾获艾斯纳奖和哈维奖。 亚历克斯•罗斯（Alex Ross） 美国知名漫画家、插画家。擅长超级写实主义风格，以《终结者：燃烧地球》出道，先后创作《惊奇》《天国降临》《正义》等漫画，并从事封面和海报绘画。 江业华 致力于美国漫画翻译与研究多年，著有《今夜拯救世界》《超人会不会飞》《生为传奇》等美漫专著，翻译《蝙蝠侠：第一年》《蝙蝠侠：黑暗骑士归来》等。

In November of 1991 Robert Frank went to Beirut on a commission to photograph the city's devastated downtown in the aftermath of the Lebanese civil war (1975-1990). Much of the work he did there, together with that of five other photographers with whom he shared the assignment, was put together in Beirut City Centre by Editions du Cypres in 1992. Alongside that commissioned wor...(展开全部)

A Walk on the Widers Side Other people die of mumps Or general decay, Of fevers, chills or other ills But Wilders walk away. That's the little ditty they all sing in the quaintly picturesque New England village of Wilders Lane. That's part of the mystery too, of course. You see from pre-Revolutionary War times on, members of the Wilder family never die; they walk way-disappear ...(展开全部)

Jonathan Franzen’s Freedom was the runaway most-discussed novel of 2010, an ambitious and searching engagement with life in America in the twenty-first century. In The New York Times Book Review, Sam Tanenhaus proclaimed it “a masterpiece of American fiction” and lauded its illumination, “through the steady radiance of its author’s profound moral intelligence, [of] the world we...(展开全部)

A Walk on the Widers Side Other people die of mumps Or general decay, Of fevers, chills or other ills But Wilders walk away. That's the little ditty they all sing in the quaintly picturesque New England village of Wilders Lane. That's part of the mystery too, of course. You see from pre-Revolutionary War times on, members of the Wilder family never die; they walk way-disappear ...(展开全部)

A former captain in the Marines First Recon Battalion， who fought in Afghanistan and Iraq， reveals how the Corps trains its elite and offers a point-blank account of twenty-first-century battle.If the Marines are "the few， the proud，" Recon Marines are the fewest and the proudest. Only one Marine in a hundred qualifies for Recon， charged with working clandestinely， often behin...(展开全部)