The Culture - a humanoid/machine symbiotic society - has thrown up many great Game Players. One of the best is Jernau Morat Gurgeh, Player of Games, master of every board, computer and strategy. Bored with success, Gurgeh travels to the Empire of Azad, cruel & incredibly wealthy, to try their fabulous game, a game so complex, so like life itself, that the winner becomes emperor...(展开全部)

苏珊·柯林斯（Suzanne•Collins）： 1991年就开始儿童电视剧创作。她为尼科罗登儿童台创作的《克拉丽莎都知道》《谢尔比·吴的神秘档案》系列剧，获得了艾美奖。畅销系列小说“地底纪事”（Underl and Chronicles）初试啼声即备受赞誉。“饥饿游戏”系列更成为其突破性的作品，第一部自2008年9月在美国出版以来，畅销不衰，佳评如潮，屡获大奖。 . 译者： 耿芳：邯郸人，现任中国传媒大学外国语学院副教授，长期从事英语语言教学，研究兴趣为英语语言文学，曾发表《简·爱与女性社会价值》《英汉诗歌中修辞的运用》等多篇论文，译著有《战争与和平——俄罗斯帝国》《饥饿游戏》。

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"The Graham Greene of Uruguay . . . foreshadowing the work of Beckett and Camus."-"The Sunday Telegraph"Medina lives across the river from Santa Maria, a town he is not allowed to enter and therefore wishes to destroy. "Let the Wind Speak" sees Juan Carlos Onetti coming to terms with his exclusion from the Santa Marias of his childhood, his first sexual conquests, his first cig...(展开全部)

伊冯·乔伊纳德（Yvon Chouinard） 巴塔哥尼亚公司创始人。该公司是世界顶级户外品牌，被誉为“户外 Gucci”，在美国户外零售店及美国最大的户外零售连锁店 REI 销售量第一。户外运动的先行者。20世纪50年代，他以设计、制造、销售登山装备开始了商业征程。他借鉴法式攀冰技术，改良了冰镐，这一工艺成为现代冰镐的设计基础。除了攀岩，他还特别擅长冲浪、皮划艇和垂钓等运动。他鼓励自己的员工当浪来了的时候，放下手中的工作去冲浪。

巴塔哥尼亚公司创始人伊冯•乔伊纳德是如何爱上户外活动并将其变成一项令人称羡的生意的“在死亡的星球上是没有生意可做的。” 在颠覆了所有传统的行业规则乃至行业价值之后，你还有可能将自己的公司带到行业的顶峰吗？ Yes！如果你是伊冯•乔伊纳德 (Yvon Chouinard)的话。 2007年，乔伊纳德登上了《财富》杂志的封面，他所领导的巴塔哥尼亚(Patagonia)公司被称为“地球上最酷的公司”。公司总部办公室就在加州文图拉的海边，风起了，浪头来了，所有的员工都可以放下工作去冲浪。 难以置信，“员工随时都可以翘班去冲浪”竟是巴塔哥尼亚公司人事部的最高指导原则。在这家最酷的公司里，员工们除了可以随时冲浪、利用午休时间滑雪，领着公司的薪水去环保团体做义工之外，甚至还可以带着自己的孩子一起去上班，而且不必准时出货…… 无论从哪个角度来看，巴塔哥尼亚都像是商界...(展开全部)

The Culture - a human/machine symbiotic society - has thrown up many great Game Players, and one of the greatest is Gurgeh. Jernau Morat Gurgeh. The Player of Games. Master of every board, computer and strategy. Bored with success, Gurgeh travels to the Empire of Azad, cruel and incredibly wealthy, to try their fabulous game...a game so complex, so like life itself, that the wi...(展开全部)

Against all odds, Katniss Everdeen has survived the Hunger Games twice. But now that she's made it out of the bloody arena alive, she's still not safe. The Capitol is angry. The Capitol wants revenge...This thrilling final instalment of this ground-breaking trilogy promises to be one of the most talked-about books of the year.

When a bus driver takes a break from his route, a very unlikely volunteer springs up to take his place-a pigeon! But you've never met one like this before. As he pleads, wheedles, and begs his way through the book, children will love being able to answer back and decide his fate. In his hilarious picture book debut, popular cartoonist Mo Willems perfectly captures a preschooler...(展开全部)