Mistrusted and derided, instrumentalised and adored - the story of football in Tsarist and early Soviet Russia is as wild and intriguing as that of the country itself. In many ways it is the same story… Football in the Land of the Soviets offers a fresh perspective on a momentous chapter in modern political history. Carles Viñas shows how the Russian game was transformed in jus...(展开全部)

From the 2015 winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, Svetlana Alexievich, comes the first English translation of her latest work, an oral history of the disintegration of the Soviet Union and the emergence of a new Russia. Bringing together dozens of voices in her distinctive documentary style, Secondhand Time is a monument to the collapse of the USSR, charting the decline of...(展开全部)

From the 2015 winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, Svetlana Alexievich, comes the first English translation of her latest work, an oral history of the disintegration of the Soviet Union and the emergence of a new Russia. Bringing together dozens of voices in her distinctive documentary style, Secondhand Time is a monument to the collapse of the USSR, charting the decline of...(展开全部)

阿绮波德·立德(Archibald Little，1845～926)，英国在华著名商人立德之妻，习称立德夫人。立德夫人1887年到达中国，她与丈夫在中国生活了20年，几乎走遍了中国南方的所有通商口岸。她努力了解中国家庭，研究中国的政治及教育制度。主要著作有：《在中国的婚事》(1899)、《亲密接触中国》(1899)、《穿蓝色长袍的国度》(1901)、《北京指南》(1904)，《李鸿章，他的生平和时代》、《北京我家花园的周围》(1905)等。游历、写作之外，立德夫人还对中国妇女饱受缠足陋习的荼毒极为同情，因而全力投入清末的反缠足运动。 1906年，立德夫妇离开中国，返回英国。1926年，81岁的立德夫人走完了她作为作家、旅游家和社会改革家的一生。

DECEMBER 1962, THE WEST COUNTRY. Local doctor Eric Parry, mulling secrets, sets out on his rounds, while his pregnant wife sleeps on in the warmth of their cottage. Across the field, funny, troubled Rita Simmons is also asleep, her head full of images of a past life her husband prefers to ignore. He's been up for hours, tending to the needs of the small dairy farm where he hope...(展开全部)

【美】约翰·斯坦贝克（John Steinbeck） 美国文学家，1962年获诺贝尔文学奖。 一生共创作27部作品，包括喜剧小说《罐头厂街》、跨类型作品《伊甸之东》、普利策奖获奖作品《愤怒的葡萄》、旅行作品《横越美国》等。 斯坦贝克是地位崇高的文学大师，也是深受读者喜爱的畅销书作家。他1968年过世之后，多部作品持续畅销至今。 ----------------------- 译者：王一凡 文学译者。译有《故园风雨后》《福尔摩斯先生》《接触！一本邂逅之书》《夜幕降临》《无罪的罪人》《请你帮我杀了她》《许愿树》《旅行的意义》《永远的异乡客》等多部作品。

【美】约翰·斯坦贝克（John Steinbeck） 美国文学家，1962年获诺贝尔文学奖。 一生共创作27部作品，包括喜剧小说《罐头厂街》、跨类型作品《伊甸之东》、普利策奖获奖作品《愤怒的葡萄》、旅行作品《横越美国》等。 斯坦贝克是地位崇高的文学大师，也是深受读者喜爱的畅销书作家。他1968年过世之后，多部作品持续畅销至今。 ----------------------- 译者：王一凡 文学译者。译有《故园风雨后》《福尔摩斯先生》《接触！一本邂逅之书》《夜幕降临》《无罪的罪人》《请你帮我杀了她》《许愿树》《旅行的意义》《永远的异乡客》等多部作品。

The great footballers and coaches are rarely glimpsed from up close. They shield themselves from the tabloids, hide their personalities behind professionalism, and in the words of the cliche, 'do their talking on the pitch'. This book gets up close to them. The Football Men is not a series of celebrity profiles, and it doesn't attempt to unearth secrets in the players' private...(展开全部)

Learn to bend it like Beckham and dribble like Ronaldinho with this ultimate visual guide to planet football. Open up the tactile padded cover and experience the excitement, the passion and the glory of arguably the world's greatest sport - football. You'll relive the finest moments of the players, coaches, and teams who have created football history and learn everything from m...(展开全部)

简介：他们来自精神病院，性格各异，但都因自身血脉受到歧视。在那天，一个家喻户晓但有着神秘气息的组织找到他们，从此，他们走上了人生中的隐藏选项…