The definitive story of the BBC series updated with over 300 pages of new material! For this new edition of The Writer's Tale, Russell T Davies and Benjamin Cook expand their in-depth discussion of the creative life of Doctor Who to cover Russell's final year as Head Writer and Executive Producer of the show, as well as his work behind the increasingly successful Torchwood and ...(展开全部)

阿瑟·黑利（Arthur Hailey），1920出生于英格兰贝德福德郡卢顿区，1939年第二次世界大战爆发后，加入英国皇家空军，直至1947年定居加拿大。他所出版的作品在欧美国家获得了巨大的成功，被誉为“行业小说之王”。他的11部作品被翻译成40种文字，总印数超过1.7亿册。阿瑟·黑利称自己的大脑“无时无刻不在编织故事”，他擅长把日常的故事写成引人入胜的小说。他常以美国社会中的一些重要行业为故事背景，如金融业、医疗行业、交通运输、新闻传媒等。故事情节多半围绕先进与落后、革新与保守之间的斗争展开，主人公多为精通专业技术、事业心强、果敢坚决的中产阶级知识分子。他的作品在欧美国家获得了巨大的成功，其中《大饭店》甚至成了酒店管理专业学生必读的“教科书”。

New Edition : With a new chapter addressing contemporary issues in end-of-life care A runaway bestseller and National Book Award winner, Sherwin Nuland's How We Die has become the definitive text on perhaps the single most universal human concern: death. This new edition includes an all-embracing and incisive afterword that examines the current state of health care and our...(展开全部)

Brandon Sanderson, fantasy's newest master tale spinner, author of the acclaimed debut "Elantris," dares to turn a genre on its head by asking a simple question: What if the hero of prophecy fails? What kind of world results when the Dark Lord is in charge? The answer will be found in the Mistborn Trilogy, a saga of surprises and magical martial-arts action that begins in "Mist...(展开全部)

One thousand years after the Jupiter mission to explore the mysterious Monolith had been destroyed, after Dave Bowman was transformed into the Star Child, Frank Poole drifted in space, frozen and forgotten, leaving the supercomputer HAL inoperable. But now Poole has returned to life, awakening in a world far different from the one he left behind--and just as the Monolith may be...(展开全部)

One thousand years after the Jupiter mission to explore the mysterious Monolith had been destroyed, after Dave Bowman was transformed into the Star Child, Frank Poole drifted in space, frozen and forgotten, leaving the supercomputer HAL inoperable. But now Poole has returned to life, awakening in a world far different from the one he left behind--and just as the Monolith may be...(展开全部)

Brandon Sanderson, fantasy's newest master tale spinner, author of the acclaimed debut "Elantris," dares to turn a genre on its head by asking a simple question: What if the hero of prophecy fails? What kind of world results when the Dark Lord is in charge? The answer will be found in the Mistborn Trilogy, a saga of surprises and magical martial-arts action that begins in "Mist...(展开全部)

In this compelling new book, published to coincide with the sixtieth anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz, highly acclaimed author and broadcaster Laurence Rees tells the definitive history of the most notorious Nazi institution of them all. We discover how Auschwitz evolved from a concentration camp for Polish political prisoners into the site of the largest mass murder ...(展开全部)

The return of Twin Peaks this May is one of the most anticipated events in the history of television. The subject of endless speculation, shrouded in mystery, fans will come flocking to see Mark Frost and David Lynch’s inimitable vision once again grace the screen. Featuring all the characters we know and love from the first series, as well as a list of high-powered actors in n...(展开全部)

Francis Bacon, one of the greatest painters of the twentieth century, speaks openly to his close friend Archimbaud about his life and art. The interviews took place in Bacon's studio just before his death in 1992. Francis Bacon was a self-taught painter and yet went on to become one of the greatest artists of the twentieth century, his startling studies of distorted figures in ...(展开全部)