阿娜伊丝·宁，20世纪著名西方女性文学作家、精神分析学家，生于法国巴黎近郊的纳伊市，后加入美国籍。她在1930-1940年居留巴黎期间，同美国作家亨利·米勒及其夫人琼·曼斯菲尔德过从甚密。1966年，63岁的宁将这段早年生活的日记改编成小说《亨利和琼》，文坛一度将此书誉为“本世纪最有价值的忏悔录”，作者也被誉为20世纪最重要的女作家之一。

Drawn from journals, this book is an account of a woman's sexual awakening, covering a single momentous year - 1931-32, in Paris, when June fell in love with Henry Miller, undermining her own idealized marriage. The question of the outcome of June Miller's return to Paris dominates her thoughts.

This bestseller covers a single momentous year during Nins life in Paris, when she met Henry Miller and his wife, June. Closer to what many sexually adventuresome women experience than almost anything Ive ever read....I found it a very erotic book and profoundly liberating (Alice Walker). The source of a major motion picture from Universal. Preface by Rupert Pole; Index.

罗伯特•哈钦森是英国国家通讯社的防务记者，后成为《简氏防务周刊》的出版总监，负责图书、报刊出版和电子出版。哈钦森同时是一位充满热情的历史学家和考古学家。他是伦敦古文物协会会员、苏塞克斯大学教会考古学方面的助理导师、宗教改革时期考古学专家，在2008年新年受勋名册上被授予英帝国勋章。 哈钦森相信英国历史中的真实故事比任何电视节目或银幕作品都更富戏剧性和感染力。在他获得高度赞誉的作品如“都铎王朝”系列中，他尽可能多地在探索研究中使用原始资料，因为“阅读人物自身在那个时代说出的特定语言，是十分有益的”。哈钦森拥有强大的叙事能力，“让叙事本身独立而纯粹”是哈钦森的写作理念，他的作品正文均一气呵成，不需要读者做出停顿，读之令人酣畅淋漓。

David Hume's great, enduring reputation in philosophy tends to obscure the fact that, among his contemporaries, his history of England was a more successful work. The history covers almost 1800 years. Hume saw English history as an evolution from a government of will to a government of law. Advanced in Hume's masterly prose, this argument continues to make the "History" a valua...(展开全部)

Originally published in 1902, Heart of Darkness remains one of this century's most enduring - and harrowing - works of fiction. Written several years after Conrad's grueling sojourn in the Belgian Congo, the novel tells the story of Marlow, a seaman who undertakes his own journey into the African jungle to find the tormented white trader Kurtz. Rich in irony and spellbinding pr...(展开全部)

Originally published in 1902, Heart of Darkness remains one of this century's most enduring - and harrowing - works of fiction. Written several years after Conrad's grueling sojourn in the Belgian Congo, the novel tells the story of Marlow, a seaman who undertakes his own journey into the African jungle to find the tormented white trader Kurtz. Rich in irony and spellbinding pr...(展开全部)

As a journalist, historian, and novelist born into a family that included two past Presidents, Henry Adams was forever focused on the experiences and expectations unique to America. A prompt bestseller and Pulitzer Prize-winner, The Education of Henry Adams (1918) recounts his own and his country's development from 1838--the year Adams was born--up to 1905, thus incorporating ...(展开全部)

As a journalist, historian, and novelist born into a family that included two past Presidents, Henry Adams was forever focused on the experiences and expectations unique to America. A prompt bestseller and Pulitzer Prize-winner, The Education of Henry Adams (1918) recounts his own and his country's development from 1838--the year Adams was born--up to 1905, thus incorporating ...(展开全部)

Fast paced romp through the world of hedge fund mania "Diaries of a Hedge Fund Manager" is an insider's view of the high stakes money management world. In a distinctly straightforward, and at times humorous narrative, Keith McCullough and Rich Blake take you on the journey of a young and successful hedge fund manager and former junior hockey player from Thunder Bay, Ontario as ...(展开全部)