Paul G. Hewitt， 美国概念物理教学的先驱，是美国多所大学、中学的客座教师。其编写的教材深受广大读者欢迎。

Paul G. Hewitt， 美国概念物理教学的先驱，是美国多所大学、中学的客座教师。其编写的教材深受广大读者欢迎。

A Pulitzer prize-winning journalist spends a year immersed in the high-pressure world of a competitive public high school—where teens chase 4.0 grades point averages, survive on as little as four hours of sleep, and chug lattes like water—and discovers the human story of what it takes to be a top student in America. Humes introduces a cast of passionate students, and touches on...(展开全部)

The pressure to succeed in our nation's most competitive public high schools is often crushing. Striving to understand this insular world, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Edward Humes spent a year at California's Whitney High, a school so renowned that parents move across town-and across the world-hoping to enroll their children. That's because schools like Whitney deliver ev...(展开全部)

Janey lived in the locked room.Twice a day the Persian slave trader came in and taught her be a whore.Otherwise ther was nothing.One day she found a pencial stub and scrap of paper in a forgotten corner of the room. She began to write down her life, starting with "Parents stink"(her father,who is also her boyfriend,has fallen in love with another woman and is about to leave her...(展开全部)

(加) 埃米莉·圣约翰·曼德尔Emily St. John Mandel 埃米莉·圣约翰·曼德尔1979年出生于不列颠哥伦比亚省西海岸的一个小岛，18岁时离家远赴多伦多舞蹈学院学习现代舞，毕业后成为职业舞蹈演员。目前与丈夫生活在纽约。 曼德尔2002年开始文学创作，短篇作品曾被许多选集收录。2009年起，她陆续创作发表了三部长篇小说《蒙特利尔的最后一夜》《歌手的枪》和《洛拉的四重奏》，均列入美国独立书商协会推荐榜单。 曼德尔2014年的作品《第十一站》备受瞩目，不仅被美国亚马逊网站列为当年度最佳科幻图书，而且入围了美国国家图书奖的决选名单，并在2015年夺得了由英国科幻协会颁发的阿瑟·C.克拉克奖。这部作品也将改编成电影登上大银幕。

在线阅读本书 A new, international bestseller by the author of The Alchemist tells the story of Maria, a young girl from a Brazilian village, whose first innocent brushes with love leave her heartbroken. At a tender age, she becomes convinced that she will never find true love, instead believing that "Love is a terrible thing that will make you suffer . . ." A chance meeting in Rio...(展开全部)

保罗・科埃略，1947年生于巴西里约热内卢市。他是当今世界最具影响力的作家之一。其作品已被译成56种文字，在150多个国家和地区出版、发行，共售出5100余万册。他的文学作品已为国际评论界所承认，并屡获奖项。其中有《女性》杂志读者奖(法国，1995)、金书奖(南斯拉夫，1995-2000，2004)、克林扎内・卡沃尔奖(意大利，1996)、弗拉亚诺奖(意大利，1996)。他曾被法国政府授予“国家荣誉勋位团骑士勋章”(1999)，还获世界经济论坛水晶奖章(1999)、第13届国际弗雷杰内奖(意大利，2001)、年度班比文学奖(德国，2001)。另外，他的《牧羊少年奇幻之旅》(原著名《炼金术士》)获得了德国最佳小说奖(2002)。2002年，保罗・科埃略当选为巴西文学院院士。

A new, international bestseller by the author of The Alchemist tells the story of Maria, a young girl from a Brazilian village, whose first innocent brushes with love leave her heartbroken. At a tender age, she becomes convinced that she will never find true love, instead believing that "Love is a terrible thing that will make you suffer . . ." A chance meeting in Rio takes h...(展开全部)