George Bowling, the hero of this comic novel, is a middle-aged insurance salesman who lives in an average English suburban row house with a wife and two children. One day, after winning some money from a bet, he goes back to the village where he grew up, to fish for carp in a pool he remembers from thirty years before. The pool, alas, is gone, the village has changed beyond rec...(展开全部)

George Bowling, the hero of this comic novel, is a middle-aged insurance salesman who lives in an average English suburban row house with a wife and two children. One day, after winning some money from a bet, he goes back to the village where he grew up, to fish for carp in a pool he remembers from thirty years before. The pool, alas, is gone, the village has changed beyond rec...(展开全部)

Coming Up for Air is a novel by George Orwell, first published in June 1939, shortly before the outbreak of World War II. It combines premonitions of the impending war with images of an idyllic Thames

《Coming Up for Air上来透口气 英文原版》是乔治·奥威尔的力作，以其深刻的主题和精湛的笔触描绘了一个中年保险推销员保灵的荒诞回乡之旅。小说通过保灵对逝去童年的追忆与现实生活的碰撞，展现了战争阴霾下普通人的生存困境与精神挣扎。情节引人深思，语言幽默而尖刻，是一部充满人性洞察与社会批判的文学经典。

The 2008-2009 market meltdown and house price collapse has reset the credit and property cycles, and smart investors are now looking for the upside. But Where Will the Next Bull Runs Come From, and How Can Investors Take Advantage? The world is now facing staggering change, including exponential performance growth in many technologies. We can expect computers that a...(展开全部)

The 2008-2009 market meltdown and house price collapse has reset the credit and property cycles, and smart investors are now looking for the upside. But Where Will the Next Bull Runs Come From, and How Can Investors Take Advantage? The world is now facing staggering change, including exponential performance growth in many technologies. We can expect computers that a...(展开全部)

When Jon Krakauer reached the summit of Mt. Everest in the early afternoon of May 10, 1996, he hadn't slept in fifty-seven hours and was reeling from the brain-altering effects of oxygen depletion. As he turned to begin his long, dangerous descent from 29,028 feet, twenty other climbers were still pushing doggedly toward the top.  No one had noticed that the sky had begun to fi...(展开全部)

萨姆·哈里斯（Sam Harris） ● 名校毕业，哲学神经学双料博士 斯坦福大学哲学博士，加州大学洛杉矶分校神经科学博士。 ● 一举成名，佳作频频，引发热议 至今共出版5部著作，首部作品即斩获2005年美国笔会非虚构奖；5部作品全数荣登《纽约时报》畅销榜，并被翻译成超过20种语言，引发学界内外的热议。 ● 国际学者，科普红人，广受赞誉 与理查德·道金斯、克里斯托弗·希钦斯、丹尼尔·丹尼特并称为“新无神论四骑士”，并被道金斯评价为“甚为勇敢的高智识者”。常与许多知名人士进行公开交流，其中，与“龙虾教授”乔丹·彼得森围绕“何为真理”“神话原型与科学理论孰优孰劣”等尖锐话题进行过多场售票式对谈，座无虚席、火爆异常。此外，其主持的科普/思辨类播客还受到悉达多·穆克吉、贾雷德·戴蒙德、奈尔·德葛拉司·泰森、亚当·格兰特、斯蒂芬·弗莱等各界大咖的赞誉和喜爱，并...(展开全部)

萨姆·哈里斯（Sam Harris） ● 名校毕业，哲学神经学双料博士 斯坦福大学哲学博士，加州大学洛杉矶分校神经科学博士。 ● 一举成名，佳作频频，引发热议 至今共出版5部著作，首部作品即斩获2005年美国笔会非虚构奖；5部作品全数荣登《纽约时报》畅销榜，并被翻译成超过20种语言，引发学界内外的热议。 ● 国际学者，科普红人，广受赞誉 与理查德·道金斯、克里斯托弗·希钦斯、丹尼尔·丹尼特并称为“新无神论四骑士”，并被道金斯评价为“甚为勇敢的高智识者”。常与许多知名人士进行公开交流，其中，与“龙虾教授”乔丹·彼得森围绕“何为真理”“神话原型与科学理论孰优孰劣”等尖锐话题进行过多场售票式对谈，座无虚席、火爆异常。此外，其主持的科普/思辨类播客还受到悉达多·穆克吉、贾雷德·戴蒙德、奈尔·德葛拉司·泰森、亚当·格兰特、斯蒂芬·弗莱等各界大咖的赞誉和喜爱，并...(展开全部)

CHARLES MURRAY is the W. H. Brady Scholar at the American Enterprise Institute. He first came to national attention in 1984 with Losing Ground. His subsequent books include In Pursuit, The Bell Curve (with Richard J. Herrnstein), What It Means to Be a Libertarian, Human Accomplishment, In Our Hands, and Real Education. He received a bachelor's degree in history from Harvard and...(展开全部)