相關資訊】 作者出生英國， 擁有物理學和物理理論雙學位，1982年畢業於劍橋大學後旋及進入英國安達信公司﹝Arthur Andersen ﹞，先後任職英國倫敦和澳洲，1980年代後期派駐香港，從此與中國結下不解之緣，著迷於中國文化和中國市場的發展潛力，作者舉家搬遷落腳中國北京，現任職於高盛銀行(Goldman Sachs)北京辦事處。 對世界各地的投資人來說，中國代表的是龐大的商機，本書作者以親身經驗寫下了自己的中國經驗，深入剖析在中國經商的困難度和複雜度，為近來的中國淘金熱提出建言，直指西方人士投資中國市場的盲點與困境。作者於90年代開始接觸中國與中國文化，在因緣際會下結識了共赴中國開創投資事業的夥伴，兩人懷抱無比熱忱和信念一頭栽進了經濟正要開始起飛的中國市場，然而肇因於文化差異的不同處世原則卻使得兩人在中國各地到處碰壁，經歷無數磨難，作者才認知...(展开全部)

When he was a student in Paris, Truong Nhu Tang met Ho Chi Minh. Later he fought in the Vietnamese jungle and emerged as one of the major figures in the "fight for liberation" -- and one of the most determined adversaries of the United States. He became the Vietcong's Minister of Justice, but at the end of the war he fled the country in disillusionment and despair. He now lives...(展开全部)

In a memoir hailed for its searing candor and wit, Alice Sebold reveals how her life was utterly transformed when, as an eighteen-year-old college freshman, she was brutally raped and beaten in a park near campus. What propels this chronicle of her recovery is Sebold's indomitable spirit-as she struggles for understanding ("After telling the hard facts to anyone, from lover to ...(展开全部)

Finalist for the 2009 National Book Award and finalist for two 2010 Will Eisner Comic Industry Awards: the prize-winning children’s author depicts a childhood from hell in this searing yet redemptive graphic memoir. One day David Small awoke from a supposedly harmless operation to discover that he had been transformed into a virtual mute. A vocal cord removed, his throat slashe...(展开全部)

The childhood of Patricia Lockwood, the poet dubbed "The Smutty-Metaphor Queen of Lawrence, Kansas" by The New York Times, was unusual in many respects. There was the location: an impoverished, nuclear waste-riddled area of the American Midwest. There was her mother, a woman who speaks almost entirely in strange koans and warnings of impending danger. Above all, there was her g...(展开全部)

The powerful and moving memoir of a fearless political opposition leader who paid the ultimate price for his beliefs. Alexei Navalny began writing Patriot shortly after his near-fatal poisoning in 2020. It is the full story of his life: his youth, his call to activism, his marriage and family, his commitment to challenging a world super-power determined to silence him, and his ...(展开全部)

在线阅读本书 Book Description Frank McCourt's glorious childhood memoir, Angela's Ashes, has been loved and celebrated by readers everywhere for its spirit, its wit, and its profound humanity. It won the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Los Angeles Times Book Award, and the Pulitzer Prize. And now we have 'Tis, the story of Frank's American journey from impoverished immigra...(展开全部)

Frank McCourt's glorious childhood memoir, Angela's Ashes, has been loved and celebrated by readers everywhere for its spirit, its wit and its profound humanity. A tale of redemption, in which storytelling itself is the source of salvation, it won the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Los Angeles Times Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize. Rarely has a book so swiftly found ...(展开全部)