Legendary comics writer Alan Moore and artist Eddie Campbell have created a gripping, hallucinatory piece of crime fiction about Jack the Ripper. Detailing the events that led up to the Whitechapel murders and the cover-up that followed, From Hell has become a modern masterpiece of crime noir and historical fiction.

Legendary comics writer Alan Moore and artist Eddie Campbell have created a gripping, hallucinatory piece of crime fiction about Jack the Ripper. Detailing the events that led up to the Whitechapel murders and the cover-up that followed, From Hell has become a modern masterpiece of crime noir and historical fiction.

Mention of the American West usually evokes images of rough and tumble cowboys, ranchers, and outlaws. In contrast, "The" Not "So Wild, Wild West" casts America's frontier history in a new framework that emphasizes the creation of institutions, both formal and informal, that facilitated cooperation rather than conflict. Rather than describing the frontier as a place where heroe...(展开全部)

Welcome to one of the most disturbing minds of Japanese manga! Hideshi Hino has long been considered a master of the horror manga genre since his coming out in the late '70s. And the four stories in "Lullabies From Hell" will show you how demented the man can be. The self-titled first tome introduces you to the author himself, a horror quasi-biography of sorts. The second story...(展开全部)

A detailed look at the worst M&A deals ever and the lessons learned from them It's common knowledge that about half of all merger and acquisition (M&A) transactions destroy value for the buyer's shareholders, and about three-quarters fall short of the expectations prevailing at the time the deal is announced. In Deals from Hell, Robert Bruner, one of the foremost thinkers and e...(展开全部)

Toward the end of the thirteenth century, at about the time Marco Polo was being received by the great Khubilai Khan, a Nestorian Christian monk from China called Rabban Sauma was making the reverse journey from the Mongol capital (what is now Beijing) to Jerusalem. Upon reaching Baghdad—the first traveler to arrive from China—Sauma learned that his pilgrimage could not be fulf...(展开全部)

Morris Rossabi is Distinguished Professor of History, City University of New York, and Adjunct Professor of Chinese and Mongolian History at Columbia University. He is the author of many books, including Khubilai Khan: His Life and Times (UC Press).

Toward the end of the thirteenth century, at about the time Marco Polo was being received by the great Khubilai Khan, a Nestorian Christian monk from China called Rabban Sauma was making the reverse journey from the Mongol capital (what is now Beijing) to Jerusalem. Upon reaching Baghdad—the first traveler to arrive from China—Sauma learned that his pilgrimage could not be fulf...(展开全部)

谢丽尔·斯特雷德（Cheryl Strayed） 美国小说家、散文家、专栏作家。其文笔睿智温情，曾三度入选美国年度最佳随笔集（2000、2003、2015）。目前共出版过四本作品，被译成40种语言。《走出荒野》是她的代表作，据斯特雷德26岁那年夏天（1995年）的亲身经历写成。这本书在2012年一出版，便立即登上《纽约时报》畅销榜第一名，连续126周以上盘踞在《纽约时报》畅销榜上，罕见地横扫2012-2015年度17项图书大奖，并被执导过《达拉斯买家俱乐部》《大小谎言》的让-马克·瓦雷拍成高分口碑电影《涉足荒野》。目前，她与丈夫及两个孩子住在美国俄勒冈州波特兰。

A powerful, blazingly honest memoir: the story of an eleven-hundred-mile solo hike that broke down a young woman reeling from catastrophe—and built her back up again. At twenty-two, Cheryl Strayed thought she had lost everything. In the wake of her mother's death, her family scattered and her own marriage was soon destroyed. Four years later, with nothing more to lose, she m...(展开全部)