The phone messages waiting for Henry Pierce clearly aren't for him: "Where is Lilly? This is her number. It's on the site." Pierce has just moved into a new apartment, and he's been "chasing the dime"--doing all it takes so his company comes out first with a scientific breakthrough worth millions. But he can't get the messages for Lilly out of his head. As Pierce tries to help ...(展开全部)

Beloved number one internationally bestselling author Sidney Sheldon introduced the glamorous, scheming Blackwell family and its unforgettable matriarch, Kate Blackwell, in his worldwide bestseller "Master of the Game." Now a generation has passed, and as the world has changed, so too has America's own royal family. Yet the intervening years have not lessened the Blackwells' dr...(展开全部)

At the turn of the twentieth century, soybeans grew on so little of America’s land that nobody bothered to track the total. By the year 2000, they covered upward of 70 million acres, second only to corn, and had become the nation’s largest cash crop. How this little-known Chinese transplant, initially grown chiefly for forage, turned into a ubiquitous component of American farm...(展开全部)

阿莱霍·卡彭铁尔（1904-1980），古巴著名小说家、新闻记者、音乐理论家、文学批评家、外交官，拉丁美洲文坛巨匠。他将超现实主义和本地化融为一体，全面地反映了拉美大陆的现状，对拉美文学的发展起过巨大的推动作用，被尊为拉丁美洲小说的先行者。 卡彭铁尔1904年生于瑞士洛桑，在哈瓦那度过童年后，去巴黎读中学，再回到古巴，在哈瓦那大学攻读音乐和建筑学，在文学、历史、哲学、音乐、建筑、绘画方面皆有颇高造诣，是拉丁美洲文学界少有的百科全书式作家。1927年，卡彭铁尔因反对马查多独裁统治而被捕，在短暂的坐牢期间，他开始写作第一部长篇小说《埃古-扬巴-奥》。出狱后，他被迫流亡法国十载。 1939年，卡彭铁尔回到古巴，执教于哈瓦那大学，后曾旅居于委内瑞拉、海地等国，1959年古巴革命胜利后再次回国，成为古巴文学艺术界的领军人物。他创作的长篇小说《消逝的足迹》、《人...(展开全部)

Review "Along the way are examples from recent history that may surprise the reader. At the very least, every member of Congress and the State Department should study this report." (Book News Inc, November 2010) Review "A very impressive book. The most systematic, thorough, and informative review of contemporary scientific theories on the causes of war in print. Highly recommen...(展开全部)

Draws on a wide range of new sources, from welfare and medical files to private diaries, letters and drawings, evoking the individual voices of children under Nazi rule, to produce a challenging new historical interpretation of the Second World War.

尼古拉斯·斯塔加特（Nicholas Stargardt），父亲是德国犹太人，母亲是澳大利亚人，本人出生于墨尔本，在澳大利亚、日本和英国长大。他是牛津大学莫德林学院的现代欧洲史教授，也是英国皇家历史学会会员。

Children were at the center of the Nazi ideology; now we have their history of those years. In this groundbreaking study–based on a wide range of new sources–Nicholas Stargardt details what happened to children of all nationalities and religions living under the Nazi regime. Their stories open a world we have never seen before. As the Nazis overran Europe, children were saved o...(展开全部)

Written in 1932, just before the fall of the Weimar Republic and on the eve of the Nazi accession to power, Ernst Junger's The Worker: Dominion and Form articulates a trenchant critique of bourgeois liberalism and seeks to identify the form characteristic of the modern age. Junger's analyses, written in critical dialogue with Marx, are inspired by a profound intuition of the mo...(展开全部)

阿莱霍·卡彭铁尔（1904-1980），古巴著名小说家、新闻记者、音乐理论家、文学批评家、外交官，拉丁美洲文坛巨匠。他将超现实主义和本地化融为一体，全面地反映了拉美大陆的现状，对拉美文学的发展起过巨大的推动作用，被尊为拉丁美洲小说的先行者。 卡彭铁尔1904年生于瑞士洛桑，在哈瓦那度过童年后，去巴黎读中学，再回到古巴，在哈瓦那大学攻读音乐和建筑学，在文学、历史、哲学、音乐、建筑、绘画方面皆有颇高造诣，是拉丁美洲文学界少有的百科全书式作家。1927年，卡彭铁尔因反对马查多独裁统治而被捕，在短暂的坐牢期间，他开始写作第一部长篇小说《埃古-扬巴-奥》。出狱后，他被迫流亡法国十载。 1939年，卡彭铁尔回到古巴，执教于哈瓦那大学，后曾旅居于委内瑞拉、海地等国，1959年古巴革命胜利后再次回国，成为古巴文学艺术界的领军人物。他创作的长篇小说《消逝的足迹》、《人...(展开全部)