美国犹太裔作家，他的作品记录了东欧犹太生活，以及东欧犹太移民在美国的生活境遇。辛格被欧美评论界称为当代最会讲故事的作家。他的故事叙述生动，文笔轻松幽默，作品中丰富的成语和活泼的句法受到评论界的高度赞扬。

约翰·麦凯恩（John Sidney McCain Ⅲ）美国著名的政治家、共和党人，现为亚利桑那州国会参议员。 麦凯恩一九三六年出生于美国控制的巴拿马运河区域，父亲小约翰·西德尼·麦凯恩和祖父老约翰·西德尼·麦凯恩皆曾任美国海军上将二麦凯恩在弗吉尼亚州亚历山德里亚的圣公会中学和安那波利斯海军学院接受教育。其后他担任海军飞行员，在越南执行战斗任务，被浮后被拘禁长达五年半之久，由此成为全国知名人物。 获释回国后，麦凯恩在一九八二年当选亚利桑那州第一选区的众议员，并在一九八六年当选参议员目前是他作为参议员的第四个任期。 麦凯恩曾在二○○○年美国总统选举中角逐共和党的提名，但被乔治·沃克·布什击败；二○○八年他成为美国总统大选的共和党候选人，最终在与民主党候选人奥巴马参议员的对决中落败。

The Academy-Award winning actress and avid foodie shares a sumptuous collection of recipes and gorgeous photographs celebrating the joy of preparing food for loved ones, a passion she learned from her beloved father. As an actress, author, trendsetter, creator of goop.com, and host of the popular PBS series,Spain: On the Road Again, Gwyneth Paltrow is an icon of style and good ...(展开全部)

Senator John McCain learned about life and honor from his grandfather and father, both four-star admirals in the U.S. Navy. Both their careers and their courage helped prepare McCain for the biggest challenge of his life when, as a naval aviator, he was shot down over Hanoi in 1967 and seriously injured. When his captors realized McCain's impressive military legacy, they offere...(展开全部)

John McCain is one of the most admired leaders in the United States government, but his deeply felt memoir of family and war is not a political one and ends before his election to Congress. With candor and ennobling power, McCain tells a story that, in the words of Newsweek, "makes the other presidential candidates look like pygmies." John McCain learned about life and honor ...(展开全部)

John McCain is one of the most admired leaders in the United States government, but his deeply felt memoir of family and war is not a political one and ends before his election to Congress. With candor and ennobling power, McCain tells a story that, in the words of Newsweek, "makes the other presidential candidates look like pygmies." John McCain learned about life and honor ...(展开全部)

在线阅读本书 THE HOUSE OF SIXTY FATHERS Tien Pao is all alone in enemy territoy. Only a few days before, his family had escaped from the Japanese army, fleeing downriver by boat. Then came the terrible rainstorm. Tien Pao was fast asleep in the little sampan when the boat broke loose from its moorings and drifted right back to the Japanese soldiers. With only his lucky pig for com...(展开全部)

A beautiful, moving collection of short stories, in many of which Updike revisits the haunts of his childhood from the vantage point of old age. In "Fiftieth" old friends reconnect at a class reunion, and one of them is left wondering, 'What does it mean: the enormity of having been children and now being old, living next to death.' In the story "The Full Glass" the protagonist...(展开全部)

John Updike’s first collection of new short fiction since the year 2000, My Father’s Tears finds the author in a valedictory mood as he mingles narratives of his native Pennsylvania with stories of New England suburbia and of foreign travel. “Personal Archaeology” considers life as a sequence of half-buried layers, and “The Full Glass” distills a lifetime’s happiness into on...(展开全部)

"Drinking a toast to the visible world, his impending disappearance from it be damned." That's how John Updike describes an elderly character in his remarkable final collection. He might have been talking about himself. In My Father's Tears, Updike revisits his people, places, and themes--Americans in suburbs, cities, and small towns grappling with faith and infidelity--in vivi...(展开全部)