'Will I wake up?' 'There's a 50:50 chance.' Michael Rosen wasn't feeling well. Soon he was struggling to breathe, and then he was admitted to hospital, suffering from coronavirus as the nation teetered on the edge of a global pandemic. What followed was months on the wards: six weeks in an induced coma, and many more weeks of rehab and recovery as the NHS saved Michael's life, ...(展开全部)

'Will I wake up?' 'There's a 50:50 chance.' Michael Rosen wasn't feeling well. Soon he was struggling to breathe, and then he was admitted to hospital, suffering from coronavirus as the nation teetered on the edge of a global pandemic. What followed was months on the wards: six weeks in an induced coma, and many more weeks of rehab and recovery as the NHS saved Michael's life, ...(展开全部)

◎ 作者简介 巴里 • 施特劳斯（Barry Strauss）是美国康奈尔大学历史与西洋古典学教授，古代军事史首屈一指的专家。他撰写或编辑了多部著作，如《萨拉米斯海战》《特洛伊战争》《斯巴达克斯起义》。 ………………………… ◎ 译者简介 苏前辉，男，1959年 7月生，毕业于西南师范大学外语系，获文学学士学位，长期从事英国语言与文学教学工作，研究方向为世界历史与文化，曾赴英国利兹大学英语学院访学，现供职于云南财经大学国际语言文化学院。

◎ 作者简介 巴里 • 施特劳斯（Barry Strauss）是美国康奈尔大学历史与西洋古典学教授，古代军事史首屈一指的专家。他撰写或编辑了多部著作，如《萨拉米斯海战》《特洛伊战争》《斯巴达克斯起义》。 ………………………… ◎ 译者简介 苏前辉，男，1959年 7月生，毕业于西南师范大学外语系，获文学学士学位，长期从事英国语言与文学教学工作，研究方向为世界历史与文化，曾赴英国利兹大学英语学院访学，现供职于云南财经大学国际语言文化学院。

Mislabeled boxes, problems with visiting nurses, confusing notes, an outing to the county fair--such are the obstacles in the way of the unnamed narrator of "The End of the Story "as she attempts to organize her memories of a love affair into a novel. With compassion, wit, and what appears to be candor, she seeks to determine what she actually knows about herself and her past, ...(展开全部)

Editorial Reviews Amazon.com In the past decade Colm Tóibín has garnered international fame for his fiction, reporting, and travel writing. Now, in his new novel, The Story of Night, he breaks new emotional ground with the story of a gay man coming of age in Argentina during the Falklands War. Tóibín weds his two themes--the ongoing Argentinean struggle toward democracy and the...(展开全部)

Mislabeled boxes, problems with visiting nurses, confusing notes, an outing to the county fair--such are the obstacles in the way of the unnamed narrator of "The End of the Story "as she attempts to organize her memories of a love affair into a novel. With compassion, wit, and what appears to be candor, she seeks to determine what she actually knows about herself and her past, ...(展开全部)

The interest earned on a bank account, the arrangement of seeds in a sunflower, and the shape of the Gateway Arch in St. Louis are all intimately connected with the mysterious number e. In this informal and engaging history, Eli Maor portrays the curious characters and the elegant mathematics that lie behind the number. Designed for a reader with only a modest background in mat...(展开全部)

Eli Maor 知名科普作家，以色列理工学院博士，曾在芝加哥洛约拉大学教授数学史课程。著有畅销书《三角之美：边边角角的趣事》、《勾股定理：悠悠4000年的故事》、《无穷之旅：关于无穷大的文化史》等。在各国期刊上发表过大量论文，涉及应用数学、数学史和数学教育等领域。

Originally published to wide critical acclaim in France, where it elicited comparisons to Art Spiegelman's Maus , Persepolis is Marjane Satrapi's wise, funny, and heartbreaking memoir of growing up in Iran during the Islamic Revolution. In powerful black-and-white comic strip images, Satrapi tells the story of her life in Tehran from ages six to fourteen, years that saw the ...(展开全部)