温斯顿·邱吉尔（1874-1968）毕业于英国哈罗公学和桑赫斯特军事学院，在军中服役数年后，做了一名报纸记者，随后成为议员。1940年5月张伯伦政府倒台后，邱吉尔组建了联合政府，并在第二次世界大战期间担任了英国的战时首相。他在1945年7月的大选中败北，成为反对党领袖，并于1951年再度当选首相。在他生命的最后岁月中，他经常被称为”尚健在的最伟大的英国人”。他于1953年被封为爵士，并获得了当年的诺贝尔文学奖。他的孙子温斯顿·S·邱吉尔（生于1940年），也是一位作家、记者和政治人物。

inston Churchill was the most eloquent and expressive statesman of his time. It was as an orator that Churchill became most completely alive, and it was through his oratory that his words made their greatest and most enduring impact. While the definitive collection of Churchill's speeches fills eight volumes, here for the first time, his grandson, Winston S. Churchill, has put ...(展开全部)

Decline can be avoided. Decline can be detected. Decline can be reversed. Amidst the desolate landscape of fallen great companies, Jim Collins began to wonder: How do the mighty fall? Can decline be detected early and avoided? How far can a company fall before the path toward doom becomes inevitable and unshakable? How can companies reverse course? In How the Mighty ...(展开全部)

The Winston Effect is an in-depth look at the development of some of cinamatography's greatest sci-fi characters. from Jurassic Park, to Terminator, Preditor and more, this book shows you a ton of behind the scenes photos, sketches, and techniques that are very inspiring for anyone interested in this type of work. If you like concept development, or are a sci-fi movie enthusias...(展开全部)

The Market Wizards are back! Unknown Market Wizards continues in the three-decade tradition of the hugely popular Market Wizards series, interviewing exceptionally successful traders to learn how they achieved their extraordinary performance results. The twist in Unknown Market Wizards is that the featured traders are individuals trading their own accounts. They are unknown to ...(展开全部)

Even the best cat in the world doesn't live forever, and Victor is very sad when his beloved cat, Charlie, dies. His mother suggests getting a new cat, but Victor isn't so sure. Finally, when the vet tells Victor she has another cat that really needs a home, Victor agrees to give the new cat a chance. But the new cat, Shelley, isn't like Charlie. She doesn't look like Charli...(展开全部)

Hal Clement, one of the all-time greats of science fiction, was defining hard science fiction before such distinctions were even being thought of. He once described his approach to writing: "[T]he rules must be quite simple. They are; for the reader of a science-fiction story, they consist of finding as many as possible of the author's statements or implications which conflict ...(展开全部)

The Best of Greg Egan contains twenty stories and novellas arranged in chronological order, and each of them is a brilliantly conceived, painstakingly developed gem. The book opens with “Learning to be Me,” about a society in which the organic human brain can be replaced by a miraculous piece of technology called “the jewel,” a “mock brain” that confers, among other things, a k...(展开全部)

The Best of Greg Egan contains twenty stories and novellas arranged in chronological order, and each of them is a brilliantly conceived, painstakingly developed gem. The book opens with “Learning to be Me,” about a society in which the organic human brain can be replaced by a miraculous piece of technology called “the jewel,” a “mock brain” that confers, among other things, a k...(展开全部)