The battle of Verdun lasted ten months. It was a battle in which at least 700,000 men fell, along a front of fifteen miles. Its aim was less to defeat the enemy than bleed him to death and a battleground whose once fertile terrain is even now a haunted wilderness. Alistair Horne's classic work, continuously in print for over fifty years, is a profoundly moving, sympathetic stud...(展开全部)

杰弗里·阿切尔生于1940年。迄今为止，他已经有25部作品出版，累积销量超过1.3亿。他曾11次荣登《星期日泰晤士报》畅销作者排名榜第一位，他的作品为他带来了巨大的经济收益和声誉，是国际知名畅销书作家。杰弗里·阿切尔还有非常传奇的个人经历，他曾经在政治上辉煌一时，又曾亲历四年的牢狱生涯，1992年女王诞辰纪念日，阿切尔还受封为爵位不能世袭的终身贵族，本身就可谓就是一个传奇人物。　　事实上，《华盛顿邮报》称他为“可以与亚历山大·大仲马相提并论的叙事者”，《星期日邮报》则评价他为“我们这个时代最伟大的叙事者和小说家。”

Some people have dreams that are so magnificent that if they were to achieve them, their place in history would be guaranteed. But what if one man had such a dream...and once he'd fulfilled it, there was no proof that he had achieved his ambition?This is the story of such a man: George Mallory. He once told an American reporter that he wanted to climb Mt. Everest "because it's ...(展开全部)

杰弗里·阿切尔生于1940年。迄今为止，他已经有25部作品出版，累积销量超过1.3亿。他曾11次荣登《星期日泰晤士报》畅销作者排名榜第一位，他的作品为他带来了巨大的经济收益和声誉，是国际知名畅销书作家。杰弗里·阿切尔还有非常传奇的个人经历，他曾经在政治上辉煌一时，又曾亲历四年的牢狱生涯，1992年女王诞辰纪念日，阿切尔还受封为爵位不能世袭的终身贵族，本身就可谓就是一个传奇人物。　　事实上，《华盛顿邮报》称他为“可以与亚历山大·大仲马相提并论的叙事者”，《星期日邮报》则评价他为“我们这个时代最伟大的叙事者和小说家。”

Hailed by The New York Times as "powerful and important," this national bestseller is already changing America's view of motherhood In the pathbreaking tradition of Backlash and The Second Shift, this provocative book shows how mothers are systematically disadvantaged and made dependent by a society that exploits those who perform its most critical work. Drawing on hundreds of ...(展开全部)

"A how-to manual for a local or state government that wants to redesign its budget to emphasize and maximize results" ( Minneapolis Star-Tribune ) Already adopted by city governments across the country, this long-awaited paperback edition puts David Osborne and Peter Hutchinson's renowned guide into the hands of all state and local governments facing fiscal crisis. In a time ...(展开全部)

Trapped in a boring, dead-end day job in a department store, stage designer Therese Belivet finds her life forever changed when she encounters--and falls in love with--Carol Aird, an alluring suburban housewife in the midst of a divorce, as they set out on a cross-country odyssey, pursued by a private investigator who forces Carol into choosing between her daughter and her love...(展开全部)