A young musician finds himself locked inside a gas station bathroom in the middle of the night by an unseen assailant, caught between the horrors on the other side of the door and the horrors rapidly skittering down the walls inside.

Mum and Dad decide it's time to tell their children the facts of life. But do they dare - and do they even really know them?

Mum and Dad decide it's time to tell their children the facts of life. But do they dare - and do they even really know them?

He wanted power. Oliver Russell is fated to rise to the pinnacle of power, the office of President of the United States. She wanted revenge. Leslie Stewart is his betrayed fiancee, a woman dedicated to a single purpose-the downfall of Oliver Russell. Amassing her own media empire, marshaling all her forces against him, she stands poised to destroy Russell on the eve of his most...(展开全部)

In John Updike's fourth and final novel about ex-basketball player Harry "Rabbit" Angstrom, the hero has acquired heart trouble, a Florida condo, and a second grandchild. His son, Nelson, is behaving erratically; his daughter-in-law, Pru, is sending out mixed signals; and his wife, Janice, decides in mid-life to become a working girl. As, though the winter, spring, and summer o...(展开全部)

In John Updike's fourth and final novel about ex-basketball player Harry "Rabbit" Angstrom, the hero has acquired heart trouble, a Florida condo, and a second grandchild. His son, Nelson, is behaving erratically; his daughter-in-law, Pru, is sending out mixed signals; and his wife, Janice, decides in mid-life to become a working girl. As, though the winter, spring, and summer o...(展开全部)

From Publishers Weekly Starred Review. Ross, the classical music critic for the New Yorker, leads a whirlwind tour from the Viennese premiere of Richard Strauss's Salome in 1906 to minimalist Steve Reich's downtown Manhattan apartment. The wide-ranging historical material is organized in thematic essays grounded in personalities and places, in a disarmingly comprehensive style ...(展开全部)

亚历克斯·罗斯（Alex Ross） 1990年毕业于哈佛大学，1996年起为《纽约时报》撰写乐评，著有《余下只有噪音》（The Rest Is Noise，2007）和《倾听》（Listen to This，2010）。《余下只有噪音》荣获2007年美国国家评论奖、《卫报》优秀图书奖，当选《纽约时报》《时代周刊》年度十佳和《华盛顿邮报》年度最佳图书，并入围普利策奖决选名单。罗斯获颁美国艺术与文学学院的艺术与文学奖，以及新英格兰音乐学院和曼哈顿音乐学院的荣誉博士学位。 郭建英 1953年8月生于北京。先后在清华大学和北京大学获得计算机科学学士学位与硕士学位。现居美国旧金山湾区。除在信息产业从事研发、管理工作外，长年对音乐艺术与其他人文领域持有深厚兴趣，受教于多位音乐家、诗人、哲学家。曾与其他译者合作翻译出版《瓦格纳与哲学》。

A sweeping musical history that goes from the salons of pre-war Vienna to Velvet Underground shows in the sixties. In The Rest is Noise, Alex Ross, music critic of the New Yorker, gives us a riveting tour of the wild landscape of twentieth-century classical music: portraits of individuals, cultures, and nations reveal the predicament of the composer in a noisy, chaotic century...(展开全部)

18 easy ways to ensure consumers choose your product over the competition’s The world of consumer business is always hit hardest during a recession. But that doesn’t mean you can’t still drive sales and growth for your own organization. All it takes to come out on top, even in the toughest economies, is a keen understanding of consumer psychology and the right strategy. Written...(展开全部)