Like many Southern California millionaires, Ralph Sampson keeps odd company. There's the sun-worshipping holy man whom Sampson once gave his very own mountain; the fading actress with sidelines in astrology and SandM. Now one of Sampson's friends may have arranged his kidnapping. As Lew Archer follows the clues from the canyon sanctuaries of the megarich to jazz joints where yo...(展开全部)

罗斯•麦克唐纳（Ross MacDonald，1915-1983） 罗斯•麦克唐纳，本名肯尼斯•米勒，生于美国加州，是著名的高学历作家，拥有文学博士头衔。他曾服役于美国海军情报局，退役后在母校密歇根大学执教。二十三岁时，麦克唐纳与著名的侦探小说家玛格丽特•米勒结为夫妇。受妻子影响，他开始涉足犯罪小说的创作。前四部作品均以本名发表，第五部长篇小说《移动飞靶》发表时，取笔名为罗斯•麦克唐纳。 麦克唐纳幼年丧父，唯一的女儿又因脑出血离世，因此他笔下的故事总被浓郁的悲伤气氛所笼罩，“亲子分离”也是他擅长描写的主题。其作品文笔优美，心理描写细腻深刻，用词简约，韵味悠长。在处理犯罪的心理层面上，若说他是最写实、并对后代作家最具启发性的侦探小说大师，并不为过。他的角色心理深度超越了所有同类型的作品；对各种角色的处理不像钱德勒那样爱下结论，他总是留给角色一些“不解...(展开全部)

Ricardo Piglia (Adrogué, 1941-Buenos Aires, 2017) es unánimemente considerado un clásico de la literatura actual en lengua española. Publicó en Anagrama sus cinco novelas, Respiración artificial, La ciudad ausente, Plata quemada (llevada al cine por Marcelo Piñeyro; Premio Planeta Argentina), Blanco nocturno (Premio de la Crítica, Premio Rómulo Gallegos, Premio Internacional de...(展开全部)

The dramatic account of one of America’s most celebrated―and controversial―military campaigns: the Doolittle Raid. In December 1941, as American forces tallied the dead at Pearl Harbor, President Franklin Roosevelt gathered with his senior military counselors to plan an ambitious counterstrike against the heart of the Japanese Empire: Tokyo. Four months later, on April 18, 1942...(展开全部)

The first behind--the--scenes look at the stunning success of Americaa s hippest discount retailer Founded in 1962 by Minnesota--based department store Daytona s, Target has grown to become Americaa s second most profitable retailer behind Wal--Mart. On Target is the first in--depth look at the business leaders and strategies that made Target such a runaway success. The company...(展开全部)

The first behind-the-scenes look at the stunning success of America's hippest discount retailer Founded in 1962 by Minnesota-based department store Dayton's, Target has grown to become America's second most profitable retailer behind Wal-Mart. On Target is the first in-depth look at the business leaders and strategies that made Target such a runaway success. The company's easil...(展开全部)

威廉﹒恩道尔，美国著名经济学家、地缘政治学家，长期旅居德国。从事国际政治、经济、世界新秩序研究已逾36年。美国普林斯顿大学政治学学士、瑞典斯德哥尔摩大学比较经济学硕士。 威廉·恩道尔作为独立经济学家和新闻调查记者，先后在美国和欧洲工作。他的研究涵盖领域极为广泛，除金融、能源和地缘政治外，还包括世界农业问题、粮食交易垄断、关贸总协定、世界贸易组织、国际货币基金组织、世界银行、第三世界债务、对冲基金和亚洲金融危机等。威廉·恩道尔还经常应邀在一些有关地缘政治、经济、金融、农业、能源问题的国际会议上发表演讲；定期为全球化研究中心及许多国际出版物撰写文章；并经常为欧洲主要银行和私募基金经理提供咨询。 曾出版的《石油战争》一书创造了近30万册的销量，引领了图书市场石油话题类图书的出版潮流；《粮食危机》一书也销量突破10万，为国内民众敲响转基因食品潜藏巨大危害的警...(展开全部)

理查德·鲍威尔斯(Richard Powers)是美国后现代派小说家的后起之秀，他的信息小说(Infofiction)反映了这样一个现实：当代科技给人类带来日新月异变革的同时也招致了毁灭性的灾难。小说以其超大的信息容量、非凡的想象力和独特的后现代主义表现手法赢得了广大读者的喜爱和评论家的赞赏。 《葛拉蒂2.2》讲述了一个现代版的皮格马利翁故事，认知神经学教授菲利普·兰茨与年轻的小说家理查德·鲍威尔斯合作，试图运用计算机解读经典文学作品。

Martin Heidegger once wrote that the world had, in the age of modern science, become a world picture. For Rey Chow, the world has, in the age of atomic bombs, become a world target, to be attacked once it is identified, or so global geopolitics, dominated by the United States since the end of the Second World War, seems repeatedly to confirm. How to articulate the problematics ...(展开全部)