Upon an immense stretch of flat ground at the mouth of a river bathed in sunlight rises Hyperpolis. It stands there, surrounded by its four asphalt car-parks, to condemn us - a huge enveloping supermarket. Each of us will see ourselves reflected in the characters who move mindlessly about Hyperpolis, but "The Giants" is a call to rebellion. This bold and inventive novel is the ...(展开全部)

Follett takes you to a time long past with brio and razor-sharp storytelling. An epic tale in which you will lose yourself." -The Denver Post on World Without End Ken Follett's World Without End was a global phenomenon, a work of grand historical sweep, beloved by millions of readers and acclaimed by critics as "well-researched, beautifully detailed [with] a terrifica...(展开全部)

Follett takes you to a time long past with brio and razor-sharp storytelling. An epic tale in which you will lose yourself." -The Denver Post on World Without End Ken Follett's World Without End was a global phenomenon, a work of grand historical sweep, beloved by millions of readers and acclaimed by critics as "well-researched, beautifully detailed [with] a terrifica...(展开全部)

彼得·约翰斯顿，哈佛大学MBA,美国顶级谈判大师，美国商界、政界高级谈判顾问，争端斡旋者、调停人。他以自己独特的谈判艺术一一协助处于劣势的小人物或小团体取得谈判胜利而闻名全美，受到各大媒体的关注和追捧。他谈判经验丰富，美国中小企业甚至重大案件的嫌犯都曾经得到过他的帮助,他的社会影响力甚至得到了美国政府的认可。目前为美国政府高级顾问，美国CNH、ABC等长期特邀嘉宾。

《劣势谈判:小人物的谈判策略》：当我们身处劣势，不得不面对与强势者的谈判时，该如何是好？曼德拉身在狱中，能翻手为云、覆手为雨，让欧美大国都惟命是从，令南非政府不得不妥协，最终坐上总统宝座，这是怎样一个劣势者的强势谈判！巴西一个普通的家庭主妇，将媒体、政府拢到身边，从而有资格与超市集团进行价格谈判，这又是怎样的一种劣势策略？注意，她真的只是一名普通的家庭主妇。本书通过各种案例、详细的论据，分类讲述，当作为“小人物”与“大人物”在谈判桌上相遇时，如何巩固自己的防御、避免被巨人击倒；如何着眼于巨人的薄弱点、使双方实力接近平衡；如何用独特的手段最大化自己的影响力，使自己看起来和巨人一样强大；怎么将不可能的交易转化成巨大的机会； 怎么通过谈话的艺术提高自己的社会地位。

Umberto Eco翁贝托•埃科（1932-2016） 欧洲重要的公共知识分子、小说家、符号学家、美学家、史学家、哲学家。 出生于意大利亚历山德里亚，博洛尼亚大学教授。著有大量小说和随笔作品，如《玫瑰的名字》《傅科摆》《昨日之岛》《波多里诺》《洛阿娜女王的神秘火焰》《布拉格公墓》《试刊号》和《密涅瓦火柴盒》等。

A girl named Rose is riding her new bike near her home in Deadwood, South Dakota, when she falls through the earth. She wakes up at the bottom of a square hole, its walls glowing with intricate carvings. But the firemen who come to save her peer down upon something even stranger: a little girl in the palm of a giant metal hand. Seventeen years later, the mystery of the bizarre...(展开全部)

The man on the moon was dead. They called him Charlie. He had big eyes, abundant body hair, and fairly long nostrils. His skeletal body was found clad in a bright red spacesuit, hidden in a rocky grave. They didn't know who he was, how he got there, or what had killed him. All they knew was that his corpse was fifty thousand years old -- and that meant this man had somehow live...(展开全部)

Odd's luck has been bad so far. He lost his father on a Viking expedition, his foot was crushed beneath a tree, and the winter seems to be going on forever. But when Odd flees to the woods and releases a trapped bear, his luck begins to change. The eagle, bear and fox he encounters reveal they're actually Nordic gods, trapped in animal form by the evil Frost Giants who have con...(展开全部)

In this inventive, short, yet perfectly formed novel inspired by traditional Norse mythology, Neil Gaiman takes readers on a wild and magical trip to the land of giants and gods and back. In a village in ancient Norway lives a boy named Odd, and he's had some very bad luck: His father perished in a Viking expedition; a tree fell on and shattered his leg; the endless freezin...(展开全部)