N.K.杰米辛 纽约市布鲁克林人，拥有心理学和教育学学位，作品主题广泛，包括文化冲突与压迫等。她的处女作是2010年的短篇小说《非零概率》，入围雨果奖与星云奖；同年出版第一部长篇小说《十方诸国》，获得雨果奖、世界科幻奖提名，并荣获轨迹奖最佳长篇小说处女作奖。2016年凭借《第五季》成为首位获得雨果奖的黑人女作家，2017年的《方尖碑之门》再次获得雨果奖，使她成为雨果奖史上第二位蝉联最佳长篇小说奖的科幻作家。

在线阅读本书 LTCM was the fund that was too big to fail, the brightest star in the financial world. Built on genius, by legends of Wall Street and two Nobel laureates, it spiralled to ever greater heights, commanding unimaginable wealth. When it fell to earth in Spetember 1998 it shook the world. This is the story of the rise and fall of LTCM and the legends behind it. "Inventing ...(展开全部)

「只要有你的力量──只要你跟我，我們就可以統治整個安塞隆……征服全世界！」 深夜，龍騎將奇蒂拉與她的弟弟雷斯林悄悄地達成協議。 通過試煉，披上黑袍的雷斯林成為克萊恩大陸最令人聞之喪膽的邪惡巫師。但他仍不滿足，為了追求更至高無上的力量，他策劃了一個前所未聞的駭人計畫──回到大災變前、克萊恩最富庶繁華的年代，去實現他的野心。而他野心實現的關鍵，竟是一位帕拉丁的聖潔牧師──神眷之女克麗珊娜。這次可以阻止雷斯林的人，只剩下因親愛弟弟離去而灰心喪志的卡拉蒙．馬哲理，和默默幫助他們的老戰友泰索何夫．柏伏特。面對如此無敵的巫師，接受法師公會請求阻止雷斯林的卡拉蒙，他是否可以拯救神眷之女的生命，喚醒雷斯林的良心？ 在長槍戰役結束後的兩年後，坦尼斯、河風等人再次與卡拉蒙重聚。每個人都感受得到目前的和平或許僅是假象，克萊恩大陸的陰暗處正悄悄地騷動著。雷斯林的野...(展开全部)

在线阅读本书 Book Description McDonald's: it is the world's premier entrepreneurial success story, a company whose growth worldwide continues to be astonishing. In tough financial times, McDonald's proved that ingenuity, trial and error, and gut instinct were the keys to building a service business the entire world has come to admire. In the years since McDonald's: Behind The Arch...(展开全部)

A spring night in a small town in Wisconsin. . . . A call to police emergency from a distant lake house is cut short. . . . A phone glitch or an aborted report of a crime? Off-duty deputy Brynn leaves her family's dinner table and drives up to deserted Lake Mondac to find out. She stumbles onto the scene of a heinous murder. . . . Before she can call for backup, though, she fin...(展开全部)

Three terrible things happen in a single day. Essun, a woman living an ordinary life in a small town, comes home to find that her husband has brutally murdered their son and kidnapped their daughter. Meanwhile, mighty Sanze -- the world-spanning empire whose innovations have been civilization's bedrock for a thousand years -- collapses as most of its citizens are murdered to se...(展开全部)

Three terrible things happen in a single day. Essun, a woman living an ordinary life in a small town, comes home to find that her husband has brutally murdered their son and kidnapped their daughter. Meanwhile, mighty Sanze -- the world-spanning empire whose innovations have been civilization's bedrock for a thousand years -- collapses as most of its citizens are murdered to se...(展开全部)

Myths & Legends retells the stories central to every culture that have been passed down from generation to generation for thousands of years. Coverage extends from the well-known tales of the Ancient Greeks, which hold the key to the origin of such phrases as "Achille's heel," to the lesser-known, but richly colorful, myths of the Americas and the East. Topic spreads explore c...(展开全部)

These folk-tales come from Beijing Legends, compiled by Jin Shousen, a member of the Manchu gentry who lived in Beijing for many years. Based on the tales told by many generations of Beijing story-tellers, they were first published by the People's Publishing House in 1957. Revised edition, with illustrations.