Bob Slocum is a promising executive and society demands that he should be happy. But his wife is a drunken flirt and his daughter wages her own cunning campaign against him. Slocum's soliloquy moves to a shocking climax as fate hands him a tragic focus for his despair.

Bob Slocum was living the American dream. He had a beautiful wife, three lovely children, a nice house...and all the mistresses he desired. He had it all -- all, that is, but happiness. Slocum was discontent. Inevitably, inexorably, his discontent deteriorated into desolation until...something happened. "Something Happened" is Joseph Heller's wonderfully inventive and controve...(展开全部)

FROM THE AUTHOR OF CATCH-22, SOON TO BE A TV SERIES ON CHANNEL 4 Joseph Heller's other masterpiece - a darkly comic, sometimes tragic satire that does for the American Dream what Catch-22 did for the madness of war 'Joseph Heller's finest achievement' Jonathan Coe Bob Slocum was a promising executive. He had an attractive wife, three children, a nice house, and as many mistress...(展开全部)

A modern adaptation of this favorite Jewish folktale describes how the blanket grandfather had made for young Joseph is transformed ove r the years into a jacket, a button, and, ultimately, a story.

Description: "Gives moms-to-be a big helping of peace of mind!" —Harvey Karp M.D., bestselling author of The Happiest Baby on the Block Pregnancy—unquestionably one of the most profound, meaningful experiences of adulthood—can reduce otherwise intelligent women to, well, babies. Pregnant women are told to avoid cold cuts, sushi, alcohol, and coffee without ever being told why t...(展开全部)

Synopsis It was 1956 and he was in Port Said. About these two facts he was reasonably certain but a murderous attack left him certain about little else – maybe just the conviction that the British usually did the right thing and that to be a crook a man must assume the society he lived in was honest.

Love your work, work for what you love, and change the world—all at the same time. What matters most to you? Should you focus on earning a living, pursuing your passions, or devoting yourself to the causes that inspire you? The surprising truth is that you don’t have to choose—and that you’ll find more success if you don’t. That’s the breakthrough message of TOMS’ One for One...(展开全部)

Translated by Audie E. Bock. "A first rate book and a joy to read.... It's doubtful that a complete understanding of the director's artistry can be obtained without reading this book.... Also indispensable for budding directors are the addenda, in which Kurosawa lays out his beliefs on the primacy of a good script, on scriptwriting as an essential tool for directors, on direct...(展开全部)

20歲的青春洋溢、30歲的矛盾迷惘、40歲的生命精華，三個看似沒有交集的女人成長階段，卻在生命的縱向起了連結。每個女人都會經過這些關卡，在這些關卡中產生不同的生理與心理的變化，無論面對愛情、友情、親情、婚姻、事業都有不同的想法與做法，電影203040提供了女人不同的觀點與想法。這本《203040》集結張艾嘉、李心潔、劉若英、鍾文音、林明謙、紅膠囊、凱西、萬歲少女、恩佐等多位作家，以20歲、30歲、40歲的角度切入，探討女人看女人、男人看女人的各種多面向的觀察，還提供了女人幾個保健方式，藉由這本書讓更多的女人更認識自己，讓更多的男人更了解女人。 ······················· 本書目錄 一、20.30.40 男演員談女性 紅膠囊的圖文 一個女人一個世界／鍾文音 20。30。40／林明謙 恩佐的圖文 二、20歲的女生 不管如何，勇往直前－...(展开全部)

Synopsis It was 1956 and he was in Port Said. About these two facts he was reasonably certain but a murderous attack left him certain about little else – maybe just the conviction that the British usually did the right thing and that to be a crook a man must assume the society he lived in was honest.