[英]朱利安•费罗斯（Julian Fellowes） 1949年8月17日出生于埃及开罗，毕业于剑桥大学，英国著名作家、编剧、导演、演员、制片人。2010年被女王册封为“终身贵族”。 2002年朱利安•费罗斯凭借《高斯福庄园》获第74届奥斯卡金像奖最佳原创剧本奖、美国作家协会、纽约影评人协会及全国影评人协会最佳剧本奖。 2011年朱利安•费罗斯担任编剧的英剧《唐顿庄园》，获第63届美国电视艾美奖最佳编剧等奖项，亦创下全球收视纪录，超过一亿人观看。

Damian Baxter is very, very rich - and he's dying. He lives alone in a big house in Surrey, looked after by a chauffeur, butler, cook and housemaid. He has but one concern: who should inherit his fortune... PAST IMPERFECT is the story of a quest. Damian Barker wishes to know if he has a living heir. By the time he married in his late thirties he was sterile (the result of adult...(展开全部)

""Damian Baxter was a friend of mine at Cambridge. We met around the time when I was doing the Season at the end of the Sixties. I introduced him to some of the girls. They took him up, and we ran about together in London for a while...." "Nearly forty years later, the narrator hates Damian Baxter and would gladly forget their disastrous last encounter. But if it is pleasant to...(展开全部)

即便是C++阵营里最忠实的信徒，也不得不承认：C++语言并不完美。实际上，世界上也没有完美的编程语言。 　　如何克服C++类型系统的不足？在C++中，如何利用约束、契约和断言来实施软件设计？如何处理被C++标准所忽略的动态库、静态对象以及线程等有关的问题？隐式转换有何替代方案？本书将为你一一解答这些问题。针对C++的每一个不完美之处，本书都具体地分析原因，并探讨实用的解决方案。书中也不乏许多作者创新的、你从未听说过或使用的技术，但这些确实能帮助你成为C++方面的专家。 　　本书适合有一定经验的C++程序员和项目经理阅读，也适合对C++编程的一些专门或高级话题感兴趣的读者参考。

即便是C++阵营里最忠实的信徒，也不得不承认：C++语言并不完美。实际上，世界上也没有完美的编程语言。 　　如何克服C++类型系统的不足？在C++中，如何利用约束、契约和断言来实施软件设计？如何处理被C++标准所忽略的动态库、静态对象以及线程等有关的问题？隐式转换有何替代方案？本书将为你一一解答这些问题。针对C++的每一个不完美之处，本书都具体地分析原因，并探讨实用的解决方案。书中也不乏许多作者创新的、你从未听说过或使用的技术，但这些确实能帮助你成为C++方面的专家。 　　本书适合有一定经验的C++程序员和项目经理阅读，也适合对C++编程的一些专门或高级话题感兴趣的读者参考。

约翰•威尔伍德，芝加哥大学临床心理学博士，美国著名临床心理学家和心理治疗师，自上世纪80年代起成为超个人心理学的前驱。曾与聚焦疗法大师尤金•简德林（Eugene Gendlin）合作，该疗法对西方心理学界有巨大影响；又随西藏上师修学，研习佛法与东方各种禅观传承。在此基础上，他引领风潮，整合西方心理治疗与东方灵修传统，把两种方法共同引入治疗和成长过程，成效卓著。作者目前任教于加州整合学院，同时主持私人心理治疗工作室，并在世界各地带领工作坊。至今已出版8部著作，除本书外，还包括《心灵之旅》（Journey of the Heart）、《爱与觉醒》（Love and Awakening）、《迈向觉醒的心理学》（Toward a Psychology of Awakening）等。

The photographs by Annie Leibovitz in Women, taken especially for the book, encompass a broad spectrum of subjects: a rap artist, an astronaut, two Supreme Court justices, farmers, coal miners, movie stars, showgirls, rodeo riders, socialites, reporters, dancers, a maid, a general, a surgeon, the First Lady of the United States, the secretary of state, a senator, rock stars, pr...(展开全部)

本书为公版书，为不受著作权法限制的作家、艺术家及其它人士发布的作品，供广大读者阅读交流。汇聚授权电子版权。

Excellent Women is one of Barbara Pym's richest and most amusing high comedies. Mildred Lathbury is a clergyman's daughter and a mild-mannered spinster in 1950s England. She is one of those “excellent women,” the smart, supportive, repressed women who men take for granted. As Mildred gets embroiled in the lives of her new neighbors—anthropologist Helena Napier an...(展开全部)

It thrills us and torments us. It controls our thoughts, destroys our lives, and it’s all we live for. Yet we almost never speak of it. And as a buried force in our lives, desire remains largely unexplored—until now. Over the past eight years, journalist Lisa Taddeo has driven across the country six times to embed herself with ordinary women from different regions and backgroun...(展开全部)