An award-winning, internationally acclaimed Chinese bestseller, originally banned in China but recently named one of the last decade’s ten most influential books there, To Live tells the epic story of one man’s transformation from the spoiled son of a rich landlord to an honorable and kindhearted peasant. After squandering his family’s fortune in gambling dens and brothels...(展开全部)

(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed) Joan Didion’s incomparable and distinctive essays and journalism are admired for their acute, incisive observations and their spare, elegant style. Now the seven books of nonfiction that appeared between 1968 and 2003 have been brought together into one thrilling collection. Slouching Towards Bethlehem captures the counterculture of the sixtie...(展开全部)

(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed) Joan Didion’s incomparable and distinctive essays and journalism are admired for their acute, incisive observations and their spare, elegant style. Now the seven books of nonfiction that appeared between 1968 and 2003 have been brought together into one thrilling collection. Slouching Towards Bethlehem captures the counterculture of the sixtie...(展开全部)

瓦连京·格里戈里耶维奇·拉斯普京（1937~），俄罗斯作家。生于西伯利亚。大学毕业后担任报社编辑。1961年开始发表作品，1967年他的成名作《为玛丽娅借钱》问世，1974年发表长篇小说《活下去，并且要记住》，获1997年苏联国家奖金。此外，《最后的期限》（1970）、《别了，马焦拉》（1976）等作品吼曾引起评论界的普遍关注。1985年出版的小说《火灾》于次年再次荣获苏联国家奖金，从而确立了他在俄罗斯文学中的重要地位，享誉世界文坛。

An anatomy of human life, vividly illustrated. . . . Awe-inspiring [and] sublimely uplifting. --Time Having won the National Book Award for How We Die, his best-selling inquiry into the causes and modes of death, Sherwin Nuland now turns his attention to the miraculous resiliency of human life. For this lucid, wonderful, and wonder-filled new book explores the body's mysteri...(展开全部)

瓦连京·格里戈里耶维奇·拉斯普京（1937~），俄罗斯作家。生于西伯利亚。大学毕业后担任报社编辑。1961年开始发表作品，1967年他的成名作《为玛丽娅借钱》问世，1974年发表长篇小说《活下去，并且要记住》，获1997年苏联国家奖金。此外，《最后的期限》（1970）、《别了，马焦拉》（1976）等作品吼曾引起评论界的普遍关注。1985年出版的小说《火灾》于次年再次荣获苏联国家奖金，从而确立了他在俄罗斯文学中的重要地位，享誉世界文坛。

'I am most grateful for two things: that I was born in North Korea, and that I escaped from North Korea.' Yeonmi Park was not dreaming of freedom when she escaped from North Korea. She didn't even know what it meant to be free. All she knew was that she was running for her life, that if she and her family stayed behind they would die - from starvation, or disease, or even execu...(展开全部)

在线阅读本书 'Trollope did not write for posterity,' observed Henry James. 'He wrote for the day, the moment; but these are just the writers whom posterity is apt to put into its pocket.' Considered by contemporary critics to be Trollope's greatest novel, The Way We Live Now is a satire of the literary world of London in the 1870s and a bold indictment of the new power of specul...(展开全部)

在线阅读本书 'Trollope did not write for posterity,' observed Henry James. 'He wrote for the day, the moment; but these are just the writers whom posterity is apt to put into its pocket.' Considered by contemporary critics to be Trollope's greatest novel, The Way We Live Now is a satire of the literary world of London in the 1870s and a bold indictment of the new power of specul...(展开全部)

A transformative guide to rethinking our approach to goals, creativity, and life itself from a neuroscientist and entrepreneur, and the creator of the popular Ness Labs newsletter "I loved this profound, practical, and generous book."—Oliver Burkeman "A thought-provoking guide to doing more trials and making fewer errors."—Adam Grant "One of the best productivity books that I'v...(展开全部)