阿瑟·黑利（Arthur Hailey），1920出生于英格兰贝德福德郡卢顿区，1939年第二次世界大战爆发后，加入英国空军，直至1947年定居加拿大。他所出版的作品在欧美国家获得了巨大的成功。他的11部作品被翻译成40种文字，总印数超过1.7亿册。阿瑟•黑利称自己的大脑“无时无刻不在编织故事”，他擅长把日常的故事写成引人入胜的小说。他常以美国社会中的一些重要行业为故事背景，如金融业、交通运输、新闻传媒等。故事情节多半围绕先进与落后、革新与保守之间的斗争展开，主人公多为精通技术、事业心强、果敢坚决的知识分子。他的作品在欧美国家获得了巨大的成功，其中《大饭店》甚至成了酒店管理学科学生必读的“教科书”。

In this frank and witty memoir, Ken Ilgunas lays bare the existential terror of graduating from the University of Buffalo with $32,000 of student debt. Ilgunas set himself an ambitious mission: get out of debt as quickly as possible. Inspired by the frugality and philosophy of Henry David Thoreau, Ilgunas undertook a 3-year transcontinental jour¬ney, working in Alaska as a tour...(展开全部)

The bicycle is one of mankind's greatest inventions - and the most popular form of transport in history. Robert Penn has ridden one most days of his adult life. In his late 20s, he pedalled 40,000 kilometres around the world. Yet, like cyclists everywhere, the utilitarian bikes he currently owns don't even hint at this devotion. Robert needs a new bike, a bespoke machine that r...(展开全部)

Bouncy illustrations, innovative die cutting and popular rhymes make Books with Holes a must for every child. Complete with Audio CD.

Bouncy illustrations, innovative die cutting and popular rhymes make Books with Holes a must for every child. Complete with Audio CD.

波丽•邓巴（Polly Dunbar）今日英国人气儿童插画家和作家。16岁就出版了两本著作。后来不断努力，被推选为英国十大插画家之一。这位才女还是Long Nose Puppets剧团的创办人，看剧团的名字就知道，她还喜欢制作木偶。

在《達文西密碼》（The Da Vinci Code）還未竄上暢銷榜之前，Dan Brown的舊作一直不能算是熱門書。Angles & Demons可以說是《達文西密碼》的前傳，也是他所有的書中科幻味最重的一本。他的主角也就是出現在《達文西密碼》中的符號學家蘭登，只不過蘭登這次要破的案子，可不是跟名畫有關的，而是瑞典實驗室的一位頂尖的物理學家被謀殺，他的突破性成果——一個能量可與核能相比的物質被偷，抽絲剝繭竟然發現這是一樁與梵蒂崗有關的陰謀……

Cynical, quick-on-the-trigger Takeshi Kovacs, the ex-U.N. envoy turned private eye, has changed careers, and bodies, once more . . . trading sleuthing for soldiering as a warrior-for-hire, and helping a far-flung planeta (TM)s government put down a bloody revolution.

Cynical, quick-on-the-trigger Takeshi Kovacs, the ex-U.N. envoy turned private eye, has changed careers, and bodies, once more . . . trading sleuthing for soldiering as a warrior-for-hire, and helping a far-flung planeta (TM)s government put down a bloody revolution.

"Welcome back to the brash, brutal new world of the twenty-fifth century: where global politics isn't just for planet Earth anymore; and where death is just a break in the action, thanks to the techno-miracle that can preserve human consciousness and download it into one new body after another. "Cynical, quick-on-the-trigger Takeshi Kovacs, the ex-U.N. envoy turned private eye,...(展开全部)