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。

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)

Bilingual Edition -- German/English Hans Magnus Enzensberger is Germany's most important and influential living poet, a lightning rod in a stormy political and cultural landscape. (Translations of his Kiosk and Selected Poems have also been published by Sheep Meadow.) Having come of age after the Third Reich, Enzensberger builds his poetry upon tradition and titanic German wrec...(展开全部)

梦想是什么？平凡的生活，还是远方的壮阔？爱冒险的男孩长成了赌气小老头，和意外闯入的童子军小胖乘着用生命守护的“气球屋”完成最华丽的冒险，这是最疯狂也是最浪漫的故事。

约翰·伦勒希（John Renesch），是一名成功的企业家，也是一名备受尊敬的商业未来学家，他还是全球商业学会（The World Busniess Academy）的创始人兼董事会成员， Long Now基金会的成员。Long Now 基金会由传奇人物斯图尔特·布兰德（Setwart Brand）于1996年创建，其目的是为传承人类文明，以万年的时间来度量人类。该基金会囊括全球各界精英，凯文·凯利 （Kevin Kelly）、 克里斯·安德森 （Chris Anderson）都是该基金会中的一员。 约翰是一名成功的企业家，他在商界叱诧风云四十余年,他活跃于制造业，广告业，地产投资业。直到上世纪八十年代中期，他对于未来的忧虑促使他进行了一段相当长时间的自省，之后，他踏上了他新的旅途。 在大半个九十年代间 ，约翰担任新型领导者出版社（New Lead...(展开全部)

Whether visiting the King of the Lozis at a bend in the Zambezi river or crossing the United States in a railway car of unsurpassable luxury, relating his experiments with biblical dieting, or detailing the illneses and diseases suffered in half a lifetime of travel, Paul Theroux, the fresh-air fiend himself, is always an entertaining and honest guide. Full of startling encount...(展开全部)