In 1940s Shanghai, beautiful young Jiazhi spends her days playing mahjong and drinking tea with high society ladies. But China is occupied by invading Japanese forces and things are not always what they seem in wartime. Jiazhi's life is a front. A patriotic student radical, her mission is to seduce a powerful employee of the occupying government and lead him to the assassin's b...(展开全部)

One of the most terrifying stories of the twentieth century, Shirley Jackson’s “The Lottery” created a sensation when it was first published in The New Yorker in 1948. "Power and haunting," and "nights of unrest" were typical reader responses. Today it is considered a classic work of short fiction, a story remarkable for its combination of subtle suspense and pitch-perfect desc...(展开全部)

伊莱娜·内米洛夫斯基，1903年出生于俄国基辅的一个乌克兰犹太银行家家庭，“十月革命”后，她随家人移居巴黎，入读索邦大学。1929年，她凭借处女作小说《大卫·格德尔》迎来了文学上的成功。内米洛夫斯基活跃于二十世纪三十年代的巴黎文坛。然而，由于她的犹太身份，尽管她于1939年皈依天主教，仍无法获得法国国籍。第二次世界大战的巴黎大逃亡之后，她躲在法国东部一个小镇里，后遭法国宪兵逮捕，于1942年8月17日被杀害于奥维辛集中营。 2004年，内米洛夫斯基的长女德尼斯将母亲遗物中找到的未完成小说《法兰西组曲》整理出版，获得当年度法国雷诺多文学奖，这是该奖历史上第一次颁给一位去世作家。内米洛夫斯基和她的作品重新受到世界的关注。 《星期天》是内米洛夫斯基出版的唯一一部短篇小说集。这些创作于1934年至1942年间的短篇小说，像《法兰西组曲》一样，探究法国各阶层的...(展开全部)

Written between 1934 and 1942, these 10 stories by the author of "Suite Francaise" mine the same terrain as her bestselling novels. Nemirovsky achieves her penetrating insights with Flaubertian objectivity.--"The Washington Post Book World."

Most textbooks on regression focus on theory and the simplest of examples. Real statistical problems, however, are complex and subtle. This is not a book about the theory of regression. It is about using regression to solve real problems of comparison, estimation, prediction, and causal inference. Unlike other books, it focuses on practical issues such as sample size and missin...(展开全部)

Most textbooks on regression focus on theory and the simplest of examples. Real statistical problems, however, are complex and subtle. This is not a book about the theory of regression. It is about using regression to solve real problems of comparison, estimation, prediction, and causal inference. Unlike other books, it focuses on practical issues such as sample size and missin...(展开全部)

Most textbooks on regression focus on theory and the simplest of examples. Real statistical problems, however, are complex and subtle. This is not a book about the theory of regression. It is about using regression to solve real problems of comparison, estimation, prediction, and causal inference. Unlike other books, it focuses on practical issues such as sample size and missin...(展开全部)

Published by "Drawn and Quarterly "in 2007, "Exit Wounds"--a tale at once mystery and romance--introduced North American readers to the colorful and tightly woven narrative by Rutu Modan and was included in "Time "and "Entertainment Weekly"'s "best of" lists. "Jamilti and Other Stories "collects the cartoonist's short works, which lead the reader through unexpected turns of plo...(展开全部)

Octavia E. Butler once gleefully described her eerie novella "Bloodchild", the title piece of Bloodchild and Other Stories as her "pregnant man story". "Bloodchild" explores the paradoxes of power and inequality and starkly portrays the experience of a class who, like women throughout most of history, are valued chiefly for their reproductive capacities. After it appeared in Is...(展开全部)

Octavia Butler is the author of eleven novels, including <i>Kindred</i>, <i>Dawn</i>, and <i>Parable of the Sower</i>. Recipient of a MacArthur Foundation "genius" grant, the Nebula Award, the Hugo Award and numerous other literary awards, she has been acclaimed for her lean prose, strong protagonists, and social observations that range from the distant past to the far future.