A Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize Winner of the Kirkus Prize for Fiction • From a Recipient of the Windham-Campbell Prize for Fiction • A Finalist for the James Tait Black Prize for Fiction • A Finalist for the Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction • A Finalist for the Rathbones Folio Prize • Longlisted for an Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence • A New York Times Book Review Nota...(展开全部)

C.E.摩根，出生于1976年，美国青年作家。摩根在伯里亚学院学习英语，之后去哈佛神学院学习文学和宗教，在哈佛学习期间她完成《生活之歌》的创作。2009年，她成为美国国家图书基金会评选的年度三十五岁以下五位作家之一；2016年，她获得了“科克斯文学奖”和“温德姆-坎贝尔文学奖”；2017年，作品《赛马》入围普利策奖

The Hidden Mathematics of Sport takes a novel and intriguing look at sport, by exploring the mathematics behind the action. Discover the best tactics for taking a penalty, the pros and cons of being a consistent golfer, the surprising link between boxing and figure skating, the unusual location of England's earliest 'football' game (in a parish church), and the formula for a...(展开全部)

THE SECRET HISTORY OF SPORT This work explores the two centuries of history behind the Mohamed Alis, Pelés and Federers. These seldom mentioned shadowy figures ~~ agents, managers, coaches, entrepreneurs, financiers, journalists, bookmakers, dealers – have had more influence than anyone else on the evolution and practices of the sports industry. Figures like Horst Dassler, ex-o...(展开全部)

The Hidden Mathematics of Sport takes a novel and intriguing look at sport, by exploring the mathematics behind the action. Discover the best tactics for taking a penalty, the pros and cons of being a consistent golfer, the surprising link between boxing and figure skating, the unusual location of England's earliest 'football' game (in a parish church), and the formula for a...(展开全部)

The 1960s. Philip Dean, a footloose Yale dropout, is touring provincial France and sometimes Paris in a borrowed, once elegant car. He begins a mismatched affair with a young shop girl named Anne-Marie. Together they burn in an everyday but stunningly sensual paradise. A Sport and a Pastime is a seductive classic that established James Salter’s reputation as one of the finest w...(展开全部)

Touring Paris and provincial France in a handsome borrowed car, Philip Dean, Yale dropout, has an affair with a young French woman named Anne-Marie. Their liaison is imagined with candour and sensitivity by an unnamed narrator, whose fantasies become compellingly and hauntingly real. A Sport and A Pastime has been hailed as a watershed in American fiction of the 1960s: remarkab...(展开全部)

A little rabbit greets each day and says good night to the familiar things outside.

菲克•梅杰（Fik Meijer），现任荷兰阿姆斯特丹大学古代史教授，荷兰著名的历史学家、作家和翻译家。著名作品包括《圣保罗去罗马的海上长路》、《古罗马帝王之死》和《角斗士：历史上最致命的游戏》等。他还以翻译犹太历史学家约瑟夫的全集闻名于世。

菲克•梅杰（Fik Meijer），现任荷兰阿姆斯特丹大学古代史教授，荷兰著名的历史学家、作家和翻译家。著名作品包括《圣保罗去罗马的海上长路》、《古罗马帝王之死》和《角斗士：历史上最致命的游戏》等。他还以翻译犹太历史学家约瑟夫的全集闻名于世。