Richard Reeves's acclaimed account of a presidency solves the puzzle of Ronald Reagan -- a man of limited breadth and knowledge who was perhaps the most effective superpower president. Using the techniques he employed in his bestselling books on Presidents Kennedy and Nixon, Reeves takes us inside Reagan's Oval Office, where we find a charismatic, crafty, focused politician. A...(展开全部)

理查德·里夫斯（Richard Reeves），知名传记作家，美国南加州大学安嫩伯格传播学院教授，某报业联盟的专栏作家。他写过十多本书，大多是关于美国政治人物的传记，包括《肯尼迪：权力日记》、《尼克松：孤独的白宫主人》、《里根：想象的胜利》等。他凭借《肯尼迪：权力日记》在1993 年获得《时代周刊》年度非虚构类最佳图书奖、《华盛顿月刊》年度图书奖。1998 年，他因为在理解美国政治方面所做出的杰出贡献而获得由美国政治学协会颁发的“凯里· 麦克威廉斯奖”，同年获得美国国家报刊专栏作家协会颁发的终身成就奖。他的电视电影曾经荣获艾美奖、杜邦—哥伦比亚奖和皮迪博奖等奖项。

This classic of film criticism, long considered invaluable for its eloquent study of a problematic period in film history, is now substantially updated and revised by the author to include chapters beyond the Reagan era and into the twenty-first century. For the new edition, Robin Wood has written a substantial new preface that explores the interesting double context within w...(展开全部)

In Dark Star Safari the wittily observant and endearingly irascible Paul Theroux takes readers the length of Africa by rattletrap bus, dugout canoe, cattle truck, armed convoy, ferry, and train. In the course of his epic and enlightening journey, he endures danger, delay, and dismaying circumstances. Gauging the state of affairs, he talks to Africans, aid workers, missionaries,...(展开全部)

Dark Star Safari is a written account of a trip taken by author Paul Theroux from Cairo to Cape Town via trains, planes, buses, cars, and armed convoy. Chapters of Book : 1. Lighting Out 2. The Mother of the World 3. Up and Down the Nile 4. The Dervishes of Omdurman 5. The Osama Road to Nubia 6. The Djibouti Line to Harar 7. The Longest Road in Africa 8. Figawi Safari on the Ba...(展开全部)

在线阅读本书 Paul Theroux sets off for Cape Town from Cairo -- the hard way. Travelling across bush and desert, down rivers and across lakes, and through country after country, Theroux visits some of the most beautiful landscapes on earth, and some of the most dangerous. It is a journey of discovery and of rediscovery -- of the unknown and the unexpected, but also of people and ...(展开全部)

杰夫里•迪弗 一九五〇年出生于芝加哥，十一岁时写出了他的第一本小说，从此笔耕不辍。迪弗毕业于密苏里大学新闻系，后进入福德汉姆法学院研修法律。在法律界实践了一段时间后，他在华尔街一家大律师事务所开始了律师生涯。他兴趣广泛，曾自己写歌唱歌，进行巡演，也曾当过杂志社记者。与此同时， 他开始发展自己真正的兴趣：写悬疑小说。一九九〇年起，迪弗成为一名全职作家。 迄今为止，迪弗共获得六次 MWA（美国推理小说作家协会）的爱伦•坡奖提名、一次尼禄•沃尔夫奖、一次安东尼奖、三次埃勒里•奎因最佳短篇小说读者奖。迪弗的小说被翻译成三十五种 语言，多次登上世界各地的畅销书排行榜。包括名作《人骨拼图》在内，他有三部作品被搬上银幕，同时他也为享誉世界的詹姆斯•邦德系列创作了最新官方小说 《自由裁决》。 迪弗的作品素以悬念重重、不断反转的情节著称，常常在小说的结尾推翻，或者多次...(展开全部)

Twenty-one-year-old Rune is an aspiring filmmaker, but so far her only break has been scoring a job as an underpaid production assistant in Manhattan. Still, she's always on the lookout for the perfect topic for her own film--and she thinks she's found it when she witnesses the bombing of a triple-X movie theater in Times Square. Rune's got a great hook for her documentary: She...(展开全部)

Rune, the quirky, irrepressible heroine of Manhattan Is My Beat, is struggling to become a filmmaker in New York, shooting a documentary about a series of shocking bomb attacks on the adult film industry, seemingly perpetrated by religious terrorists. But when one of these explosions shatters the lives of those close to her, Rune suspects that there's more to the attacks than ...(展开全部)

She calls herself Rune. She lives a downtown life and works running errands for a couple of documentary filmmakers. At twenty-one, she's nowhere, and that's not where she wants to be. So, armed with a borrowed Betacam, she embarks on a freelance career of making movies herself. Unfortunately her first attempt - within the hallowed walls of the XXX Velvet Venus Theatre - was une...(展开全部)