In a “ripping spoof of the spy genre” ( Vanity Fair ), Hugh Laurie tells the tale of a former Scots Guard-turned-hired gun, a freelance soldier of fortune, who also happens to be one hell of a nice guy. Thomas Lang is a James Bond for the 1990s, with the same ingredients, but brought bang up-to-date, and with much better jokes. Cold-blooded murder just isn’t Thomas Lang’s cup ...(展开全部)

休·劳里，著名演员、配音演员、作家和音乐家，一九五九年生于英国牛津，毕业于伊顿公学与剑桥大学。早年获英格兰国家杯双人艇青年组冠军，并代表英格兰青年队参加世界锦标赛。在主演福克斯电视台的热播剧《豪斯医生》后，劳里成了美国家喻户晓的艾美奖提名演员，《西雅图时报》直言，看《豪斯医生》有三个理由：休·劳里、休·劳里、休·劳里。他导演过5部影视作品，出演过69部电影电视，担任过6部电影的编剧。

Hugh Laurie concocts an uproarious cocktail of comic zingers and over-the-top action in this "ripping spoof of the spy genre" "(Vanity Fair)" -- the irresistible tale of a former Scots Guard-turned-hired gun, a freelance soldier of fortune who also happens to be one heck of a nice guy.Cold-blooded murder just isn't Thomas Lang's cup of tea. Offered a bundle to assassinate an Am...(展开全部)

A little baby sleeps through everything from a beeping car and a barking dog to a ringing telephone, but when a tiny buzzing fly disturbs his slumber, the baby cannot be lulled back to sleep by anything but a kiss by his big sister.

作者簡介 凱倫．布萊爾（Karen Pryor） 作家、動物行為學家、也是揚名國際的科學家，專精行為心理學和海洋哺乳動物生物學。她創立了美國夏威夷的「海洋生物世界」（Sea Life Park），是引領海豚訓練的先驅，她在該處結識了知名心理學家史金納（B. F. Skinner）博士及動物行為學家勞倫茲（Konrad Lorenz），並與二人共事。 布萊爾女士曾任美國政府指派的「海洋哺乳動物委員會」（Marine Mammal Commission）委員，並擔任過美國太空總署及國家動物園等多個組織機構的顧問，提供有關人類、動物之行為和學習的諮詢，曾任「劍橋行為科學研究中心」（the Cambridge Center for Behavioral Sciences）的理事之一。 她的第一本著作《為寶貝哺乳》（Nursing Your Baby）已銷售兩...(展开全部)

"Whatever the task, whether keeping afour-year-old quiet in public, housebreaking a puppy,coaching a team, or memorizing a poem, it will gofast, and better, and be more fun, if you know howto use reinforcement."--KarenPryor. Now Karen Pryor clearly explains theunderlying principles of behavioral training and throughnumerous fascinating examples reveals how this artcan be appli...(展开全部)

Is there a method to our madness when it comes to shopping? Hailed by the San Francisco Chronicle as "a Sherlock Holmes for retailers," author and research company CEO Paco Underhill answers with a definitive "yes" in this witty, eye-opening report on our ever-evolving consumer culture. Why We Buy is based on hard data gleaned from thousands of hours of field research -- in ...(展开全部)

Revolutionary retail guru Paco Underhill is back with a completely revised edition of his classic, witty bestselling book on our ever-evolving consumer culture -- full of fresh observations and important lessons from the cutting edge of retail, which is taking place in the world's emerging markets. New material includes: • The latest trends in online retail -- what retailers ar...(展开全部)

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說故事的人和聽故事的人之間 擁有最純真、最深摯的關係── 一方沉醉地訴說； 一方殷殷傾聽，並將故事珍藏於心底。 能與最喜愛自己作品的頭號讀者陷入熱戀， 對作家而言是再幸福不過的事了。 原以為他們會相互扶持、一起慢慢變老。 直到那一天，尖銳的電話鈴聲劃破祥和平靜的早晨 她害怕，害怕「成為作家」和「邂逅丈夫」這兩件事已用掉她所有好運氣…… 本書特色 a story for you... 《Story Seller - 故事販賣者》緣起於「小說新潮」編輯，曾廣邀作家以『販賣有趣的故事』的理念執筆創作，集結成合集。有川浩接受邀約時，合集書名給予她豐富的靈感，遂醞化為Side:A一文；在出版單行本之際，則寫下新的篇章Side:B。兩篇故事相呼應下產生了完整的《Story Seller - 故事販賣者》。 此外，在達文西雜誌將此書選為年度戀愛小說第一名後，有川浩...(展开全部)