From the senior White House correspondent for The New York Times comes the definitive history of the Bush and Cheney White House—a tour de force narrative of those dramatic and controversial eight years. Taking readers into the offices of the West Wing and the cabins of Air Force One, Peter Baker tells the gripping inside story of the Bush and Cheney era. Theirs was th...(展开全部)

The most important novel of twentieth-century Urdu fiction, Qurratulain Hyder’s River of Fire encompasses the fates of four recurring characters over two and a half millennia. These characters become crisscrossed and strangely inseparable over different eras, forming and reforming their relationships in romance and war, in possession and dispossession. River of Fire interweaves...(展开全部)

Now available as a paperback, the most important novel of twentieth-century Urdu fiction. Now available as a New Directions Paperbook, Qurratulain Hyder's River of Fire makes a bid to be recognized in the West as what it has long been acknowledged in the East: the most important novel of twentieth-century Urdu fiction. First published as Aag ka Darya in 1959, River of Fire enco...(展开全部)

It is 1839 and tension has been rapidly mounting between China and British India following the crackdown on opium smuggling by Beijing. With no resolution in sight, the colonial government declares war. One of the vessels requisitioned for the attack, the Hind, travels eastwards from Bengal to China, sailing into the midst of the First Opium War. The turbulent voyage brings tog...(展开全部)

安德烈·斯帕克沃斯基，波兰著名幻想文学家，全欧洲除已故大师托尔金之外的奇幻第一人，以细腻而幽默的文笔和对“灰色英雄”的独特鉴赏力闻名。《猎魔人》系列是他的成名作，也是整个东欧最有影响力的的文学作品之一。 21世纪初，波兰工作室CDproject穷数年之力，将《猎魔人》改 编为游戏《巫师》系列，轰动全球，曾作为波兰国家国礼赠送给奥巴马总统。

安德烈·斯帕克沃斯基，波兰著名幻想文学家，全欧洲除已故大师托尔金之外的奇幻第一人，以细腻而幽默的文笔和对“灰色英雄”的独特鉴赏力闻名。《猎魔人》系列是他的成名作，也是整个东欧最有影响力的的文学作品之一。 21世纪初，波兰工作室CDproject穷数年之力，将《猎魔人》改 编为游戏《巫师》系列，轰动全球，曾作为波兰国家国礼赠送给奥巴马总统。

Isabel Archer，来自于纽约，应姨母之邀，来伦敦探望她和她的丈夫Daniel的宅邸拜访。后，Isabel的父亲过世。在葬礼期间，她遇到了她的表亲Ralph Touchett，一个友善而病弱的青年，以及Ralph粗鲁的另据Warburton爵爷。Isabel拒绝了Warburton仓促的求婚，同样她也拒绝了Caspar Goodwood的求婚，尽管CG是个富有魅力的人而且是波士顿十分富有的磨坊继承人。尽管Isabel倾心于CG，但是她不希望通过这样的婚姻降低自己的独立性。她觉得，与CG结婚会让她丧失自由。Ralph的父亲年迈重病，要求他的儿子在自己死后把大部分资产留给Isabel。 Isabel周游大陆，在弗洛伦萨遇见了一个被流放的美国人，（当时对于罪行，尤其是宗教或者政治异见者，有流放海外殖民地以及放弃本国国籍的责罚制度。一般流放可以免除拘...(展开全部)

Despite the tremendous shock of the Battle of Kadesh, Ramses has not managed to bring the formidable Hittite might to its knees. Rather than continue the struggle, he decides to engage in negotiation. But more important than anything to Ramses is the love he bears the Great Royal Consort, and he decides to offer Nefertari the most fabulous of gifts: at Abu Simbel two temples w...(展开全部)

"[Bachelard] is neither a self-confessed and tortured atheist like Satre, nor, like Chardin, a heretic combining a belief in God with a proficiency in modern science. But, within the French context, he is almost as important as they are because he has a pseudo-religious force, without taking a stand on religion. To define him as briefly as possible – he is a philosopher, with a...(展开全部)

肯·福莱特（KenFollett，1949－） 通宵小说大师。 爱伦·坡终身大师奖得主，英国皇家文学学会会员。在欧美出版界，肯·福莱特这个名字就是畅销的保证。他的20部小说被译成33种语言，累计总销量已逾1.6亿；代表作《圣殿春秋》以每年百万的销量持续畅销了26年。 1978年，他凭借悬疑小说《针眼》获得了爱伦·坡奖，声名鹊起，从此专职写作。2010年，获得国际惊悚悬疑大师奖。2013年，获得爱伦·坡终身大师奖。2018年，被选为英国皇家文学学会会员，并获得大英帝国司令勋章。 一个拥有柏林墙的作家：柏林市政府为了感谢肯·福莱特写出了《永恒的边缘》，送给他一块柏林墙。 一个铜像成为热门景点的作家：肯·福莱特等身铜像已成为西班牙维多利亚市的热门景点，书迷从世界各地赶来合影。 一个屡屡打破销售记录的作家：肯·福莱特的小说《无尽世界》上市10天就登顶了西班牙...(展开全部)