罗迪•道伊尔是爱尔兰当代最杰出的作家之一，被誉为爱尔兰的“桂冠小说家”“伟大的喜剧作家”。道伊尔擅写都柏林普通人的生活，作品极富爱尔兰风情，被《时代》杂志誉为“充满凯尔特式的黑色幽默”。1993年凭借《童年往事》获布克文学奖。除此以外，道伊尔长期活跃于国际文学、戏剧、影视界，根据其“巴里镇三部曲”之一的小说《承诺》（The Commitments)改编的电影获得英国电影和电视艺术学院奖（BEFTA Award）“最佳编剧奖”，短篇小说《新兴男孩》(New Boy）搬上银幕后入围奥斯卡最佳短片。

Synopsis It is 1968. Patrick Clarke is ten. He loves Geronimo, the Three Stooges, and the smell of his hot water bottle. He can’t stand his little brother Sinbad. His best friend is Kevin, and their names are all over Barrytown, written with sticks in wet cement. They play football, lepers, and jumping to the bottom of the sea. But why didn’t anyone help him when Charles Leavy ...(展开全部)

WINNER OF THE BOOKER PRIZE 1993 Paddy Clarke is ten years old. Paddy Clarke lights fires. Paddy Clarke's name is written in wet cement all over Barrytown. Paddy Clarke's heroes are Father Damien (and the lepers), Geronimo and George Best. Paddy Clarke knows the exact moment to knock a dead scab from his knee. Paddy Clarke hates his brother Francis because that’s the rule. Paddy...(展开全部)

"I want to teach you how to cook good food at home. By stripping away all the hard graft and complexity, anyone can produce mouth-watering recipes. Put simply, I'm going to show you how to cook yourself into a better cook." GORDON RAMSAY Gordon Ramsay's Ultimate Cookery Course is about giving home cooks the desire, confidence and inspiration to hit the stoves and get cooking, w...(展开全部)

"I want to teach you how to cook good food at home. By stripping away all the hard graft and complexity, anyone can produce mouth-watering recipes. Put simply, I'm going to show you how to cook yourself into a better cook." GORDON RAMSAY Gordon Ramsay's Ultimate Cookery Course is about giving home cooks the desire, confidence and inspiration to hit the stoves and get cooking, w...(展开全部)

What if the woods were full of them? And of course they were, the woods were full of everything you didn't like, everything you were afraid of and instinctively loathed, everything that tried to overwhelm you with nasty, no-brain panic. The brochure promised a "moderate-to-difficult" six-mile hike on the Maine-New Hampshire branch of the Appalachian Trail, where nine-year-o...(展开全部)

特里·欧文（Terry Irving），澳大利亚激进左翼学者，伍伦贡大学荣誉教授。专注澳大利亚劳工运动史研究，延续了始于柴尔德的激进传统，以阶级为中心，支持大众民主，反对帝国主义。1957年4月25日，悉尼大学授予柴尔德荣誉博士学位时，欧文曾亲临现场。 王艺，中国社会科学院古代史研究所助理研究员。

迈克尔•马隆 （Michael Malone） ●美国著名的科技记者，长期关注硅谷发展动态，报道硅谷和高科技企业超过30年，两次被《圣何塞信使报》提名普利策调查性报道奖。 ●在圣克拉拉大学获得学士和工商管理硕士学位，后担任该校客座教授。在牛津大学赛德商学院担任副研究员，曾获得“牛津杰出友人奖”。 ●著有十多本获奖图书，包括《虚拟公司》（The Virtual Corporation）和《未来在昨天已经到来》（The Future Arrived Yesterday），定期为《华尔街日报》撰写社论。

迈克尔•马隆 （Michael Malone） ●美国著名的科技记者，长期关注硅谷发展动态，报道硅谷和高科技企业超过30年，两次被《圣何塞信使报》提名普利策调查性报道奖。 ●在圣克拉拉大学获得学士和工商管理硕士学位，后担任该校客座教授。在牛津大学赛德商学院担任副研究员，曾获得“牛津杰出友人奖”。 ●著有十多本获奖图书，包括《虚拟公司》（The Virtual Corporation）和《未来在昨天已经到来》（The Future Arrived Yesterday），定期为《华尔街日报》撰写社论。