Late one winter night, a father and child go owling. The trees stand still as statues and the world is as silent as a dream. Whoo-whoo-whoo, they call to the mysterious nighttime bird. But there is no answer. Wordlessly the two companions walk along, for when you go owling, you don't need words. You don't need anything but hope. Sometimes there isn't an owl, but sometimes t...(展开全部)

With a new afterword by the author, this classic analysis of Western liberal capitalist society contends that capitalism?and the culture it creates?harbors the seeds of its own downfall by creating a need among successful people for personal gratification?a need that corrodes the work ethic that led to their success in the first place. With the end of the Cold War and the emerg...(展开全部)

在线阅读本书 Book Description It shook up the world of marketing with all the force of a 20-megaton bomb, and now, two decades later, Positioning is still as fresh and, perhaps, even more relevant, for advertisers in the New Economy. To commemorate the 20th anniversary of the classic book that changed an industry, McGraw-Hill has reunited mavens of marketing Al Ries and Jack Trout ...(展开全部)

大卫•福斯特 • 华莱士（David Foster Wallace, 1962—2008）美国作家，出生于纽约州伊萨卡市，在中西部地区长大。父亲是哲学教授，母亲是英语教授，他们会互相给对方读《尤利西斯》，给幼年的华莱士和他妹妹读《白鲸》，在家庭环境的熏陶下，华莱士自幼就对语言及写作充满兴趣。少年时热衷于网球运动，进入大学后专心研究数学逻辑和语义学，1985 年以优异成绩毕业于阿默斯特学院，获哲学和英语双学位，毕业论文之一是他的小说处女作《系统的扫帚》。1987 年获亚利桑那大学艺术硕士学位，后入哈佛大学攻读哲学博士学位，但因健康原因中途放弃。 1996年出版《无尽的玩笑》，上市一个月内即加印6次，至今畅销不衰。1993 年至 2002年间在伊利诺伊大学任英语副教授，2002年开始在加州波莫纳学院教授创意写作。2008年，在与抑郁症做了多年抗争后，华莱...(展开全部)

Boy Wonder No More! Fired by Batman, Dick Grayson is adrift. Donning a brand-new uniform, he takes a new name and charts a course that makes the Boy Wonder a man. The acclaimed Batgirl: Year One and Robin: Year One writing team reunites with Nightwing penciller Scott McDaniel to tell the story of Nightwing: Year One. This 20th Anniversary Deluxe Edition collects the entire saga...(展开全部)

Boy Wonder No More! Fired by Batman, Dick Grayson is adrift. Donning a brand-new uniform, he takes a new name and charts a course that makes the Boy Wonder a man. The acclaimed Batgirl: Year One and Robin: Year One writing team reunites with Nightwing penciller Scott McDaniel to tell the story of Nightwing: Year One. This 20th Anniversary Deluxe Edition collects the entire saga...(展开全部)

大卫•福斯特 • 华莱士（David Foster Wallace, 1962—2008）美国作家，出生于纽约州伊萨卡市，在中西部地区长大。父亲是哲学教授，母亲是英语教授，他们会互相给对方读《尤利西斯》，给幼年的华莱士和他妹妹读《白鲸》，在家庭环境的熏陶下，华莱士自幼就对语言及写作充满兴趣。少年时热衷于网球运动，进入大学后专心研究数学逻辑和语义学，1985 年以优异成绩毕业于阿默斯特学院，获哲学和英语双学位，毕业论文之一是他的小说处女作《系统的扫帚》。1987 年获亚利桑那大学艺术硕士学位，后入哈佛大学攻读哲学博士学位，但因健康原因中途放弃。 1996年出版《无尽的玩笑》，上市一个月内即加印6次，至今畅销不衰。1993 年至 2002年间在伊利诺伊大学任英语副教授，2002年开始在加州波莫纳学院教授创意写作。2008年，在与抑郁症做了多年抗争后，华莱...(展开全部)

The Cluetrain Manifesto began as a Web site (cluetrain.com) in 1999 when the authors, who have worked variously at IBM, Sun Microsystems, the Linux Journal , and NPR, posted 95 theses about the new reality of the networked marketplace. Ten years after its original publication, their message remains more relevant than ever. For example, thesis no. 2: Markets consist of human b...(展开全部)

Bilbo Baggins enjoys a quiet and contented life, with no desire to travel far from the comforts of home; then one day the wizard Gandalf and a band of dwarves arrive unexpectedly and enlist his services -- as a burglar -- on a dangerous expedition to raid the treasure-hoard of Smaug the dragon. Bilbo′s life is never to be the same again. THE HOBBIT became an instant success whe...(展开全部)

Everyone is certain it won't grow, but a little boy remains confident in his carrot seed's potential. Watch as he carefully plants, tend s to, and eventually harvests a carrot whose size is in direct proportion to his unflappable faith in it.