Praise for America's Corner Store "Who would have thought the story of a drugstore chain could encompass so much vital and fascinating American history? With superb storytelling skills, John Bacon gives us a vivid and insightful chronicle of matters both large and small, from the birth of the milkshake to the rise of America's consumer culture. America's Corner Store is a genu...(展开全部)

P. D. James was a bestselling and internationally acclaimed crime writer. She was the creator of Adam Dalgliesh and Cordelia Gray, and their long and successful series of mysteries. Her works include Cover Her Face (1962), An Unsuitable Job for a Woman (1972), Innocent Blood (1980), Children of Men (1992), and the Jane Austen-inspired Death Comes to Pemberley (2011). James was ...(展开全部)

Willa Cather's best known novel; a narrative that recounts a life lived simply in the silence of the southwestern desert.

A portrait of an enduring friendship, from one of America’s most celebrated novelists. ‘Quite simply a masterpiece’ Daily Telegraph Two priests are despatched from Rome to New Mexico to reinvigorate Catholicism among the locals, knowing little of the challenges that await them. Over almost four decades they encounter a rich variety of people, from rebellious Mexican priests to ...(展开全部)

有“美国建国以来一位最伟大的女作家”之称。著有十二部长篇小说、近六十篇中短篇小说、两部诗集及八部其他著作。获得过普利策奖和美国全国文学艺术学院金质奖章。其笔下美国拓荒时期的西部与福克纳的南方、安德森的小镇、弗罗斯特的新英格兰一起，早已成为美国文学版图上的不朽“圣地”。

"Death Comes for the Archbishop" sprang from Willa Cather's love for the land and cultures of the American Southwest. Published in 1927 to both praise and perplexity, it has since claimed for itself a major place in twentieth-century literature. When Cather first visited the American Southwest in 1912, she found a new world to imagine and soon came to feel that "the story of th...(展开全部)

Prescription for the Future identifies some standout medical organizations that have achieved higher-quality, more patient-focused, and lower-cost care, and from their examples distills twelve transformational practices that could transform the entire healthcare sector. Ezekiel J. Emanuel looks at individual physician practices and organizations who are already successfully dri...(展开全部)

Beloved Buddhist teacher and poet Thich Nhat Hanh offered the world much-needed words of calming wisdom in his previous book, Anger-a coast-to-coast bestseller in both hardcover and paperback. Now, in a book both timely and timeless, he tackles a subject that has been contemplated by Buddhist monks and nuns for twenty-five hundred years-and an eternal mystery that touches us...(展开全部)

荒木经惟1940年出生于东京平民区一个小手工业主的家庭，他从小学时代开始就喜欢上了摄影。1963年，荒木经惟从国立千叶大学工学系摄影专业毕业，进入日本著名的电通广告公司任摄影师。他自1964年获得日本摄影界的殊荣——第一届“太阳奖”。1999年成为太阳奖的评委会主席，三十多年来发表了大量的系列作品，出版了200册以上的专题摄影集。他大胆地向常识和禁忌提出挑战，生动展示了现代日本人与社会的深层意识。

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