The rollicking adventures of the Stone family on a tour of the Solar System. It all started when the twins, Castor and Pollux Stone, decided that life on the Lunar colony was too dull and decided to buy their own spaceship and go into business for themselves. Their father thought that was a fine idea, except that he and Grandma Hazel bought the spaceship and the whole Stone fam...(展开全部)

It doesn’t seem likely for twins to have the same middle name. Even so, it’s clear that Castor and Pollux Stone both have "Trouble" written in that spot on their birth certificates. Of course, anyone who’s met their grandmother Hazel would know that they came by it honestly… Join the Stone twins as they connive, cajole, and bamboozle their way across the Solar System in the com...(展开全部)

"In January 1980 when I visited Beijing, Professor Z X Wang, my MSc thesis advisor of many years ago, gave me a copy of his book with Mr D R Guo on Special Functions. On many occasions in the later years, I had consulted the book for various things such as the hypergeometric series and the elliptic functions. The book is systematic, clear and to the point, as one would expect f...(展开全部)

Sahara Jones is going into fifth grade-again. Although she won't be "Sahara Special" anymore (special needs, that is), she doesn't expect this year to be any better than last year. Fifth grade is going to be different, though, because Sahara's class is getting a new teacher: Miss Pointy. From her eggplant-colored lipstick to the strange subjects she teaches, like "Puzzling" a...(展开全部)

兩百年前，惡魔賜予鍊金術師們不死之酒，誕生了不死之人。 而喝了惡魔之酒得到永生的男人—— 這個可悲男人將經歷的，是孤獨又寂寞的故事…… 兩百年後，在黑道盛行，執行禁酒令時代的紐約—— 即將升職的黑道少年、異想天開的鴛鴦大盜、 遇到麻煩的黑手黨三兄弟、忠於職務的助理巡官， 以及野心不曾潰散的練金術師。 這些仍然沒有任何關聯的人，將因「不死之酒」現身而開始蠢動！

理查德·耶茨（Richards Yates，1926—1992）是“焦虑时代的伟大作家”。作为二十世纪中叶的美国主流生活的忠实记录者，批评家们将他与契诃夫、菲茨杰拉德、约翰·契弗相提并论。他的处女作长篇小说《革命之路》甫一推出即获成功，获得美国国家图书奖提名。1962年他的第一部短篇小说集《十一种孤独》出版，更被誉为“纽约的《都柏林人》”。耶茨的作品曾获《纽约时报书评》、《君子》、《华盛顿邮报》等媒体的好评，并有四本小说入选“每月一书俱乐部”。此外他还拥有一大批作家拥趸，其中不乏著名作家，如库尔特·冯古内特、安德烈·杜波依斯，他的作品也影响了许多作家，如雷蒙德·卡佛，他被誉为“作家中的作家”。

Robert Prentice has spent all his life attempting to escape his mother's stifling presence. His mother, Alice, for her part, struggles with her own demons as she attempts to realize her dreams of prosperity and success as a sculptor. As Robert goes off to fight in Europe, hoping to become his own man, Richard Yates portrays a soldier in the depths of war striving to live up to ...(展开全部)

Robert Prentice is eighteen, and his boyhood dreams have disintegrated on the battlefields of Europe. At home, his mother, Alice, wraps herself in fantasy against the relentless disappointments of life. From his compelling portraits of these two damaged souls, Richard Yates creates a brilliant novel of post-war America, at odds with its own identity, striving to combine prosper...(展开全部)