普利策奖得主约瑟夫·艾利斯（Joseph J. Ellis）的著述是近年来最为畅销的华盛顿传记

约瑟夫·J·埃利斯（Joseph J. Ellis）美国著名历史学家和畅销书作家，撰写了一系列脍炙人口的美国建国史作品。他的《美国的斯芬克斯：杰弗逊传》和《建国兄弟：革命世代》分别荣获美国国家图书奖和美国普利策历史奖。 埃利斯早年曾就读于威廉-玛丽大学和耶鲁大学，并在美国军中服役，军衔达到陆军上尉。1972年，他在西点军校任教两年。1974年，他在马萨诸塞州大学任教，1979年被任命为全职教授。同时他是福特基金会的教授。 埃利斯是一位美国建国史领域的权威学者。他的研究工作集中在美国的开国元勋，为乔治·华盛顿、约翰·亚当斯、托马斯·杰斐逊、本杰明·富兰克林等人一一立传，作品广受读者的好评。

By far the most important figure in the history of the United States, George Washington liberated the thirteen colonies from the superior forces of the British Empire against all military odds, and presided over the production and ratification of a constitution that (suitably amended) has lasted for more than two hundred years. Yet today Washington remains a distant figure to m...(展开全部)

George Mikes has written many successful books on a variety of interesting subjects, but one so successful as those on the subject most central to his own experience: his adopted country. The first of these came out in 1946: the ever famous "How to be an Alien". Later he enlarges the picture with "How to be Inimitable" and "How to be Decadent". All three books were illustrated ...(展开全部)

George Mikes has written many successful books on a variety of interesting subjects, but one so successful as those on the subject most central to his own experience: his adopted country. The first of these came out in 1946: the ever famous "How to be an Alien". Later he enlarges the picture with "How to be Inimitable" and "How to be Decadent". All three books were illustrated ...(展开全部)

Turn disagreements and conflicts into opportunities for growth, compassion, and reconciliation. The sixth book in the bestselling Mindfulness Essentials series, a back-to-basics collection from world-renowned Zen master Thich Nhat Hanh that introduces everyone to the essentials of mindfulness practice. Nhat Hanh brings his signature clarity, compassion, and humor to the ways we...(展开全部)

Bestselling author Wayne W. Dyer reveals a three-step plan for finding joy and taking strength from ourselves. In this liberating and enriching book, Wayne W. Dyer teaches us: To tap into the power of our higher selves To live each day, regardless of what we do, with a greater sense of peace and fulfillment To develop a sense of satisfaction with ourselves and others To...(展开全部)

Be Free Where You Are is a compendium of the core teachings of Thich Nhat Hanh, based on a talk given at a prison. It shows how mindfulness practice can cultivate freedom no matter where you are, and summarizes for the first time all of Thich Nhat Hanh's core teachings making it an outstanding introduction to the ideas and practices of one of the foremost Buddhist teachers aliv...(展开全部)

Winner of the 2013 Women's Prize for Fiction—A darkly comic novel of twenty-first-century domestic life and the possibility of personal transformation Harold Silver has spent a lifetime watching his younger brother, George, a taller, smarter, and more successful high-flying TV executive, acquire a covetable wife, two kids, and a beautiful home in the suburbs of New York City. B...(展开全部)