迪克·威尔逊（Dick Wilson），国外研究当代中国问题的知名学者。早年就读于英国牛津大学及美国加州大学，获文学、法学硕士，后在研究中国问题的专业性刊物《中国季刊》担任主编。 威尔逊在研究当代中国历史和人物方面有一定造诣，其主要著述有：《毛泽东传》、《周恩来传》、《长征，1935年》、《亚洲的觉醒》、《人类的四分之一》等。

威廉·斯泰隆（William Styron），一九二五年生于弗吉尼亚州，毕业于杜克大学，曾在美国海军陆战队服役，被誉为继海明威和福克纳之后最伟大的作家之一。一九五一年，长篇小说处女作《躺在黑暗中》一问世就获得美国文学艺术学会的大奖。一九六七年的《纳特·特那的自白》为其赢得当年的普利策文学奖。一九七八年由著名的兰登书屋出版的《苏菲的选择》成为美国当代小说的经典之作，被誉为“西方小说史上的里程碑作品”，为斯泰隆摘得了当年的美国国家图书奖。其小说惯于将死亡与性，残酷与激情融为一体。另著有《漫长的行程》、《纵火焚屋》、《静静的灰尘》和《看得见的黑暗》等。

#1 New York Times bestseller Nicholas Sparks turns his unrivaled talents to a new tale about love found and lost, and the choices we hope we'll never have to make. Travis Parker has everything a man could want: a good job, loyal friends, even a waterfront home in small-town North Carolina. In full pursuit of the good life - boating, swimming , and regular barbecues with his ...(展开全部)

Travis Parker has everything a man could want: a good job; loyal friends; his dream home in small-town North Carolina. In full pursuit of the good life, he believes that a serious relationship with a woman would only cramp his style. That is until Gabby Holland moves in next door. Despite Travis's attempts to be friendly, she seems to have a chip on her shoulder about him. But ...(展开全部)

丹尼斯·C.缪勒，维也纳大学经济学教授，以前多年从教于马里兰大学

威廉·斯泰隆（William Styron），一九二五年生于弗吉尼亚州，毕业于杜克大学，曾在美国海军陆战队服役，被誉为继海明威和福克纳之后最伟大的作家之一。一九五一年，长篇小说处女作《躺在黑暗中》一问世就获得美国文学艺术学会的大奖。一九六七年的《纳特·特那的自白》为其赢得当年的普利策文学奖。一九七八年由著名的兰登书屋出版的《苏菲的选择》成为美国当代小说的经典之作，被誉为“西方小说史上的里程碑作品”，为斯泰隆摘得了当年的美国国家图书奖。其小说惯于将死亡与性，残酷与激情融为一体。另著有《漫长的行程》、《纵火焚屋》、《静静的灰尘》和《看得见的黑暗》等。

The People’s Choice is a landmark psychological and statistical study of American voters during the 1940 and 1944 presidential elections, originally published in 1948. Amid a burgeoning interest in statistics and population sampling, it constituted the first systematic effort to trace voters’ behavior across the duration of a presidential campaign and to follow up on this data ...(展开全部)

This is one of the very first classic books on voting behavior. Here, the focus is the 1940 presidential election in Erie County, Ohio. The work explores what factors shape vote choice. A number of key concepts were developed, such as the two step flow of communication. The book examines other key issues such as social differences between Republicans and Democrats ideological d...(展开全部)

Upon its original publication, Plagues and Peoples was an immediate critical and popular success, offering a radically new interpretation of world history as seen through the extraordinary impact--political, demographic, ecological, and psychological--of disease on cultures. From the conquest of Mexico by smallpox as much as by the Spanish, to the bubonic plague in China, to ...(展开全部)

Upon its original publication, Plagues and Peoples was an immediate critical and popular success, offering a radically new interpretation of world history as seen through the extraordinary impact--political, demographic, ecological, and psychological--of disease on cultures. From the conquest of Mexico by smallpox as much as by the Spanish, to the bubonic plague in China, to ...(展开全部)