V.S. Naipaul undertook this Caribbean journey at the invitation, in 1960, of Dr Eric Williams, the first Prime Minister of independent Trinidad, the author's birthplace. At that time, the plantation colonies of the region were formed, culturally, in the image of the metropolis. Racial and political assertion had yet to catch up with them in varying ways. In Trinidad, African ra...(展开全部)

Inspired as a boy by the multiple meanings to be found for a single word in the dictionary, Kohei Araki is devoted to the notion that a dictionary is a boat to carry us across the sea of words. But after thirty-seven years creating them at Gembu Books, it’s time for him to retire and find his replacement. He discovers a kindred spirit in Mitsuya Majime—a young, disheveled squar...(展开全部)

保罗·霍尔特，法国当代侦探小说作家，因坚持本格侦探小说创作而被誉为“黄金时代侦探小说最后的捍卫者”。1956年出生于法国东北部的阿尔萨斯省。1987年凭借《第四扇门》一书获得科尼亚克侦探小说大奖后正式出道，之后陆续创作以“阿兰·图威斯特博士”“欧文·伯恩斯”为主人公的系列作品。其代表作有《幻影小巷》《第四扇门》《第七重解答》《恶狼之夜》等。

Inspired as a boy by the multiple meanings to be found for a single word in the dictionary, Kohei Araki is devoted to the notion that a dictionary is a boat to carry us across the sea of words. But after thirty-seven years creating them at Gembu Books, it’s time for him to retire and find his replacement. He discovers a kindred spirit in Mitsuya Majime—a young, disheveled squar...(展开全部)

保罗·霍尔特，法国当代侦探小说作家，因坚持本格侦探小说创作而被誉为“黄金时代侦探小说最后的捍卫者”。1956年出生于法国东北部的阿尔萨斯省。1987年凭借《第四扇门》一书获得科尼亚克侦探小说大奖后正式出道，之后陆续创作以“阿兰·图威斯特博士”“欧文·伯恩斯”为主人公的系列作品。其代表作有《幻影小巷》《第四扇门》《第七重解答》《恶狼之夜》等。

Author James Hollis’s eloquent reading provides the listener with an accessible and yet profound understanding of a universal condition—or what is commonly referred to as the Mid-life crisis. The book shows how we may travel this Middle Passage consciously, thereby rendering our lives more meaningful and the second half of life immeasurably richer.

In 1960 the government of Trinidad invited V. S. Naipaul to revisit his native country and record his impressions. In this classic of modern travel writing he has created a deft and remarkably prescient portrait of Trinidad and four adjacent Caribbean societies–countries haunted by the legacies of slavery and colonialism and so thoroughly defined by the norms of Empire that the...(展开全部)

A bold and beautifully written exploration of the “afterlife” of God, showing how apparently secular habits of mind in fact retain the structure of religious thought. Once in the West, our lives were bounded by religion. Then we were guided out of the darkness of faith, we are often told, by the cold light of science and reason. To be modern was to reject the religious for the ...(展开全部)

When Marines enter an abandoned house in Fallujah, Iraq, and hear a suspicious noise, they clench their weapons, edge around the corner, and prepare to open fire. What they find during the U.S.-led attack on the "most dangerous city on Earth" in late 2004, however, is not an insurgent but a puppy left behind when most of the city's residents fled. Despite military law forbiddin...(展开全部)

杰伊·科普曼是美国海军陆战队的一名上尉，他现在驻扎在加利福尼亚州欧申赛德市的潘德顿基地。杰伊和他的妻子、继子、两只狗（拉瓦和科达）、一只名叫“切达奶酪”的猫一起住在加州拉霍亚。杰伊是一个很有竞争力的自行车手。他妻子是一名人类学者，他们俩都是冲浪运动爱好者。 梅林达·罗斯是一名记者，《和狗交谈的人》一书的作者。