This is the fascinating inside story of one of the best-known and most influential corporations, an object lesson in corporate success and endurance.

A magical train ride on Christmas Eve takes a boy to the North Pole to receive a special gift from Santa Claus.

Through every family run memories which bind it together - despite everything. The Tulls of Baltimore were no exception. Abandoned by her salesman husband, Pearl is left to bring up her three children alone - Cody, a flawed devil, Ezra, a flawed saint, and Jenny, errant and passionate. Now as Pearl lies dying, stiffly encased in her pride and solitude, the past is unlocked and ...(展开全部)

Returning home from work, Rinko is shocked to find that her flat is empty. Gone are her TV set, fridge, and furniture, gone are all her kitchen tools, including the old Meiji mortar she has inherited from her grandmother and the Le Creuset casserole she has bought with her first salary. Gone, above all, is her Indian boyfriend, the maitre d' of the restaurant next door to the o...(展开全部)

本书系统地讲解了使用Express开发动态Web应用的流程和步骤。作者不仅讲授了开发公共站点及REST API的基础知识，还讲解了构建单页、多页及混合Web应用的规划方式及最佳实践。为了适应中间件及相关工具在过去几年里的变化，第2版更侧重于Express作为提供API的后端服务器，并新增了单页应用的示例。

本书涵盖Express 4.0，系统地讲解了利用Express（Node/JavaScript开发栈中的重要组件）开发动态Web应用的流程和步骤。作者Ethan Brown通过开发一个示例应用讲授了开发公共网站和REST API的基础知识。此外还介绍了设计与实现Web架构的最佳实践，帮你用Express构建单页、多页以及混合Web应用。Express在根本没有框架和有一个健壮的框架之间找到了平衡，让你自由选择架构。通过本书，熟悉JavaScript的前端和后端工程师会发现一种新的Web开发视角。

Just after midnight, the famous Orient Express is stopped in its tracks by a snowdrift. By morning, the millionaire Samuel Ratchett lies dead in his compartment, stabbed a dozen times, his door locked from the inside. One of his fellow passengers must be the murderer. Isolated by the storm and with a killer in their midst, detective Hercule Poirot must find the killer amongst a...(展开全部)

"A book that should join those few that every literate person will have to read." THE BOSTON GLOBE Pearl Tull is nearing the end of her life but not her memory. Ever since 1944 when her husband left her, she has raised her three very different children on her own. Now grown, they have gathered together--with anger, with hope, and with a beautiful, harsh, and dazzling story to t...(展开全部)

"A book that should join those few that every literate person will have to read." THE BOSTON GLOBE Pearl Tull is nearing the end of her life but not her memory. Ever since 1944 when her husband left her, she has raised her three very different children on her own. Now grown, they have gathered together--with anger, with hope, and with a beautiful, harsh, and dazzling story to t...(展开全部)

格雷厄姆•格林（Graham Greene，1904—1991） 21次诺贝尔文学奖提名的传奇大师。67年写作生涯，创作超过25部小说，被誉为20世纪大师级作家。1950年，初次获得诺贝尔奖提名。1976年，获美国推理作家协会大师奖。1981年，获耶路撒冷文学奖。1986年，由英女王伊丽莎白二世授予功绩勋章。 格林一生游历于墨西哥、西非、南非、越南、古巴、中东等战乱之地，曾任职于英国军情六处，从事间谍工作，并以此为背景创作小说，关注人灵魂深处的挣扎与救赎、内心的道德和精神斗争，被誉为20世纪人类意识和焦虑的卓越记录者。 至今，每年格林生日期间，在格林出生地——英国赫特福德郡，都会举办为期四天的格雷厄姆•格林国际艺术节，世界各地的格林粉丝齐聚这里参加纪念格林的活动。