New, wicked humor from the author of the bestselling Bunny Suicides books On the heels of his runaway Bunny Suicides books, cartoonist Andy Riley turns his irreverent wit to another group of small creatures that lurk among us seemingly everywhere: children. From the benign (every ant you meet must be named) to the truly cruel (Ronald McDonald is dead!), each hilari...(展开全部)

Ruth Jefferson is a labor and delivery nurse at a Connecticut hospital with more than twenty years’ experience. During her shift, Ruth begins a routine checkup on a newborn, only to be told a few minutes later that she’s been reassigned to another patient. The parents are white supremacists and don’t want Ruth, who is African American, to touch their child. The hospital complie...(展开全部)

Ruth Jefferson is a labor and delivery nurse at a Connecticut hospital with more than twenty years’ experience. During her shift, Ruth begins a routine checkup on a newborn, only to be told a few minutes later that she’s been reassigned to another patient. The parents are white supremacists and don’t want Ruth, who is African American, to touch their child. The hospital complie...(展开全部)

Psychologists William Backus and Marie Chapian explain how wrong thinking leads to unhealthy emotions, including depression, anxiety, and guilt. This is a selection from Dr. Backus's and Dr. Chapian

在线阅读本书 How maverick companies have passed up revenue growthand focused on greatness instead Most books about successful businesses focus on public companies, where the definition for success is steady growth in revenue and profits. Yet there are many excellent, privately held companies marching to the beat of a different drum; they have stricken revenue and profit growt...(展开全部)

It's widely accepted in business that great companies grow their revenues and profits year after year - but bigger is not necessarily better. In "Small Giants", journalist Bo Burlingham takes us deep inside fourteen remarkable privately held companies, from a brewery to a record label, that chose a different path to success. These organizations quietly rejected the pressure of ...(展开全部)

In this long-awaited first volume of a planned trilogy, the most acclaimed and revered living Nobel laureate begins to tell us the story of his life. Like all his work, Living to Tell the Tale is a magnificent piece of writing. It spans Gabriel García Márquez’s life from his birth in 1927 through the start of his career as a writer to the moment in the 1950s when he...(展开全部)

No writer alive today exerts the magical appeal of Gabriel García Márquez. Now, in the long-awaited first volume of his autobiography, he tells the story of his life from his birth in 1927 to the moment in the 1950s when he proposed to his wife. The result is as spectacular as his finest fiction. Here is García Márquez’s shimmering evocation of his childhood home of Aracataca...(展开全部)

《沧桑阅尽话人生》(Living to Tell the Tale） 作者：加西亚•马尔克斯（Gabriel García Márquez） 哥伦比亚大作家、诺贝尔文学奖得主加西亚•马尔克斯计划中三卷本自传的首卷，去年出版后即成为整个西班牙语世界的最畅销书。英文版由伊迪丝•格罗斯曼(Edith Grossman)英译。在各媒体非小说类年度好书榜上，此书的推荐出奇一致。 《纽约时报书评》称，作者在书中忆及的种种古怪之人与事，诸如家宴上的鬼魂，在全国到处撒种、弄出成群私生子的男人，还有一个掘出先人尸骸，随家人不断迁居的家族，凡此种种，无不可据以写出伟大的小说，也令人觉得，他小说中代表性的"魔幻现实主义"也不那么魔幻了。《圣安东尼奥快报》上一位书评者说"这是个极好的迹象：当你阅读前30页时，甚至还没意识到该找个位子坐下来时，你已会惊讶于这本绝顶好书。"《乡...(展开全部)

In this long-awaited first volume of a planned trilogy, the most acclaimed and revered living Nobel laureate begins to tell us the story of his life. Like all his work, Living to Tell the Tale is a magnificent piece of writing. It spans Gabriel García Márquez’s life from his birth in 1927 through the start of his career as a writer to the moment in the 1950s when he...(展开全部)