Women over the age of 40, as they move towards menopause, usually experience an increasing waistline and multiplying fat cells!no matter how much they exercise. Hormonal changes start to affect your weight when your 30 billion fat cells detect a slightly lower oestrogen reading and come to your aid to produce oestrogen for you. And the fat cells in your waist grow the largest ...(展开全部)

A devastating collection of stories from one of the twentieth century’s finest writers. In the stories that compose this collection, Maeve Brennan writes about the daily lives of three Dublin families. Brennan turns her anatomist’s eye to the resentment, rivalry, and hatred that teem beneath the surface of family life – always doing so, however, with an attention to detail that...(展开全部)

The Battle is the book Balzac always wanted to write and, beginning his story with Balzac's own words ('On Tuesday 16th May 1809 ...'), Rambaud has finally achieved his predecessor's dream. The eponymous battle now commonly described as Napoleon's first major defeat on land in Europe took place at Essling, near Vienna; forty thousand men died in forty-eight hours. With vivid de...(展开全部)

The winner of the Prix Goncourt and Grand Prix du Roman de l'Academie Francaise, The Battle is a brilliant, compelling novelization of the battle of Essling, Napoleon's first major defeat. The battle of Essling has long been overlooked by historians and novelists, but Rambaud, relying on research notes compiled by Honore de Balzac, has re-created the confrontation with exceptio...(展开全部)

罗杰·克劳利（Roger Crowley） 历史学家。他出生于英格兰，剑桥大学毕业后，曾久居伊斯坦布尔，并对土耳其的历史产生了浓厚的兴趣。他花费数年时间广泛游历了地中海世界，这使他拥有对地中海的渊博的历史和地理知识。 著有“地中海史诗三部曲”：《1453》《海洋帝国》《财富之城》。

罗杰·克劳利（Roger Crowley） 历史学家。他出生于英格兰，剑桥大学毕业后，曾久居伊斯坦布尔，并对土耳其的历史产生了浓厚的兴趣。他花费数年时间广泛游历了地中海世界，这使他拥有对地中海的渊博的历史和地理知识。 著有“地中海史诗三部曲”：《1453》《海洋帝国》《财富之城》。

A highly infectious, deadly virus from the central African rain forest suddenly appears in the suburbs of Washington, D.C. There is no cure. In a few days 90 percent of its victims are dead. A secret military SWAT team of soldiers and scientists is mobilized to stop the outbreak of this exotic "hot" virus. "The Hot Zone" tells this dramatic story, giving a hair-raising account ...(展开全部)

阎连科，1958年出生于河南嵩县，1978年应征入伍，1985年毕业于河南大学政教系、1991年毕业于解放军艺术学院文学系。1979年开始写作，主要作品有长篇小说《情感狱》、《日光流年》、《坚硬如水》、《受活》、《风雅颂》、《四书》等十部，中、短篇小说集《年月日》、《黄金洞》、《耙耧天歌》、《朝着东南走》等十余部，散文、言论集十二部；另有《阎连科文集》十六卷。曾先后获第一、第二届鲁迅文学奖，第三届老舍文学奖和其他国内外文学奖项20余次。 入围2013年度英国曼布克奖短名单，并获得第十二届马来西亚“花踪世界华文文学奖”。其作品被译为日、韩、越、法、英、德、意大利、荷兰、挪威、以色列、西班牙、塞尔维亚等20种语言，在20多个国家和地区出版。现供职于中国人民大学文学院，为教授、驻校作家。

Once again Vivian Paley takes us into the inquiring minds and dramatic worlds of young children learning in the kindergarten classroom. As she enters her final year of teaching, Paley tells in this book a story of farewell and a story of self-discovery - through the thoughts and blossoming spirit of Reeny, a little girl with a fondness for the color brown and an astonishing sen...(展开全部)