罗伊·彼得·克拉克（Roy Peter Clark），在美国佛罗里达州波因特学院（Poynter）教授写作，培养了包括托马斯·弗兰奇（Thomas French）、戴安娜·萨格（Diana Sugg）等一批普利策奖获奖作家。1977年他被《圣彼得堡时报》（St. Petersburg Press）聘请为美国最早的写作指导之一，与“美国报纸编辑协会”合作一道提升全美报纸的写作水平，被誉为“全美写作指导老师”。他曾入选名人堂，与同行安·兰德斯（Ann Landers）共享殊荣。他曾是美国瓦萨学院（Vassar College）的明星驻校作家，获得了与比利·柯林斯（Billy Collins）、萨尔曼·鲁西迪（Salman Rushdie）等作家同样的头衔。

In HOW TO WRITE SHORT, Roy Peter Clark turns his attention to the art of painting a thousand pictures with just a few words. Short forms of writing have always existed--from ship logs and telegrams to prayers and haikus. But in this ever-changing Internet age, short form writing has become an essential skill. Clark covers how to write effective and powerful titles, headlines, e...(展开全部)

在线阅读本书 Edited with an Introduction and Notes by Kate Flint.

Hard Times is Dickens's shortest novel, and arguably his greatest triumph. A useful appendix of the author's working notes, together with an enlightening introduction and full explanatory notes, will ensure that this edition becomes the obvious choice for anyone studying the novel. Paul Schlike is Lecturer in English at the University of Aberdeen. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 10...(展开全部)

In Time's Arrow the doctor Tod T. Friendly dies and then feels markedly better, breaks up with his lovers as a prelude to seducing them, and mangles his patients before he sends them home. And all the while Tod's life races backward toward the one appalling moment in modern history when such reversals make sense. "The narrative moves with irresistible momentum.... [Amis is] a ...(展开全部)

在线阅读本书 Edited with an Introduction and Notes by Kate Flint.

Hard Times is Dickens's shortest novel, and arguably his greatest triumph. A useful appendix of the author's working notes, together with an enlightening introduction and full explanatory notes, will ensure that this edition becomes the obvious choice for anyone studying the novel. Paul Schlike is Lecturer in English at the University of Aberdeen. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 10...(展开全部)

Reason, Facts, and statistics... Dickensa scathing portrait of Victorian industrial society and its misapplied utilitarian philosophy, "Hard Times" features schoolmaster Thomas Gradgrind, one of his most richly dimensional, memorable characters. Filled with the details and wonders of small-town life, it is also a daring novel of ideasaand ultimately, a celebration of love, hop...(展开全部)

In Time's Arrow the doctor Tod T. Friendly dies and then feels markedly better, breaks up with his lovers as a prelude to seducing them, and mangles his patients before he sends them home. And all the while Tod's life races backward toward the one appalling moment in modern history when such reversals make sense. "The narrative moves with irresistible momentum.... [Amis is] a ...(展开全部)

Daniel Kahneman, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences for his seminal work in psychology challenging the rational model of judgment and decision making, is one of the world's most important thinkers. His ideas have had a profound impact on many fields-including business, medicine, and politics-but until now, he has never brought together his many years of research ...(展开全部)