Over his four-decade career, Sid Meier has produced some of the world’s most popular video games, including Sid Meier’s Civilization, which has sold more than 51 million units worldwide and accumulated more than one billion hours of play. Sid Meier’s Memoir! is the story of an obsessive young computer enthusiast who helped launch a multibillion-dollar industry. Writing with war...(展开全部)

Over his four-decade career, Sid Meier has produced some of the world’s most popular video games, including Sid Meier’s Civilization, which has sold more than 51 million units worldwide and accumulated more than one billion hours of play. Sid Meier’s Memoir! is the story of an obsessive young computer enthusiast who helped launch a multibillion-dollar industry. Writing with war...(展开全部)

Computer games are one of the most exciting and rapidly evolving media of our time. Revenues from console and computer games have now overtaken those from Hollywood movies; and online gaming is one of the fastest-growing areas of the internet. Games are no longer just kids' stuff: the majority of players are now adults, and the market is constantly broadening. The visual style ...(展开全部)

Dugard recounts, in her own words, her story of being kidnapped on June 10, 1991. She was 11 years old.

He was fixture on television for over 30 years, co-hosting Siskel & Ebert at the Movies until Gene Siskel's death in 1999, and then with Richard Roper until 2006. Since 1967, he's been an influential film critic (and was the first to ever win a Pulitzer Prize for film criticism.) In 2006, complications from thyroid-cancer treatment resulted in the loss of ability to eat, drink,...(展开全部)

An intellectual memoir by the author of the acclaimed Imagined Communities Benedict Anderson is one of the leading historians of nationalism and Southeast Asia. His seminal book Imagined Commu-nities has changed the way we think about the reason why people live, die and kill in the name of nation-hood. Born in China, Anderson spent his childhood in California and Ireland, was e...(展开全部)

An intellectual memoir by the author of the acclaimed Imagined Communities Benedict Anderson is one of the leading historians of nationalism and Southeast Asia. His seminal book Imagined Commu-nities has changed the way we think about the reason why people live, die and kill in the name of nation-hood. Born in China, Anderson spent his childhood in California and Ireland, was e...(展开全部)

When she was very young, Baby Halder was abandoned by her mother and left with a cruel, abusive father. She was married off at twelve to a man twice her age who beat her. At fourteen, she was a mother herself. Her early life was marked by overwhelming challenges and heartbreak until, exhausted and desperate, she fled with her three children to Delhi, to work as a maid in some o...(展开全部)

贝碧·哈尔德，1974年出生于查谟，悲惨凄凉的命运笼罩了整个童年。四岁时，母亲离家出走，父亲和继母给予的只是冷漠与打骂。十二岁时，在父亲的包办下，天真懵懂的贝碧嫁给了比她大十四岁的暴虐成性的男子。婚后的生活充满暴力与虐待，苦不堪言的贝碧终于带着三个孩子逃离夫家，远赴德里，去寻找她绝望茫然的未来……

本尼迪克特•安德森（Benedict Richard O'Gorman Anderson，1936—2015），全球知名学者，民族主义研究、比较政治学、东南亚研究专家，康乃尔大学荣休教授。1936年出生于中国昆明；1953年进入剑桥大学主修西方古典研究和英法文学；1958年赴美国康奈尔大学专攻东南亚区域研究；1967年获政治学博士学位；1983年发表代表作《想象的共同体：民族主义的起源与散布》。安德森的研究为民族与民族主义的研究开拓了新局面，影响遍及几乎所有人文社会学科，是理解当代社会的必读经典。 徐德林（译者），北京大学比较文学与比较文化研究所博士，曾先后工作于四川外语学院、英国桑德兰大学、北京大学，现为中国社会科学院外国文学研究所理论室研究员。译著《原型与集体无意识》《罪与美：时尚女王与法国大革命》《人文学的历史：被遗忘的科学》。