Spanning four decades and four continents, this magisterial volume brings together the essential shorter works of reflection and reportage by our most sensitive, literate, and undeceivable observer of the post-colonial world. In its pages V. S. Naipaul trains his relentless moral intelligence on societies from India to the United States and sees how each deals with the challeng...(展开全部)

During forty years of travel, V. S. Naipaul has created a wide-ranging body of work, an exceptional and sustained meditation on our world. Now his finest pieces of reflection and reportage many of which have been unavailable for some time are collected in one volume. With an abiding faith in modernity balanced by a sense of wonder about the past, Naipaul has explored an astonis...(展开全部)

本书为公版书，为不受著作权法限制的作家、艺术家及其它人士发布的作品，供广大读者阅读交流。汇聚授权电子版权。

A heartwarming, page-turning adventure about one child's love for his most treasured thing, and how far he will go to find it. A tale for the whole family to fall in love with, from one of the world’s greatest storytellers. One boy and his toy are about to change everything... Jack loves his childhood toy, Dur Pig. DP has always been there for him, through good and bad. Until o...(展开全部)

[美]娜塔莉·戈德堡（Natalie Goldberg） 诗人、画家、作家、书写教练，至今已出版作品14部。 1986年出版代表作《写出我心》，成为北美教授写作及写作治疗的人必读、必引述的经典。而她倡导的“用写作来修行”，使她成为了世界级的写作名师。 她结合禅修和书写开办“真正的秘密”写作营，一教三十余年，学生来自世界各地。她认为写作跟修行一样，都要学会信任自己的心，以专注、创意和开放的态度，回到当下，洞察生活的细节，正视内心真实的模样。

[美]娜塔莉·戈德堡（Natalie Goldberg） 诗人、画家、作家、书写教练，至今已出版作品14部。 1986年出版代表作《写出我心》，成为北美教授写作及写作治疗的人必读、必引述的经典。而她倡导的“用写作来修行”，使她成为了世界级的写作名师。 她结合禅修和书写开办“真正的秘密”写作营，一教三十余年，学生来自世界各地。她认为写作跟修行一样，都要学会信任自己的心，以专注、创意和开放的态度，回到当下，洞察生活的细节，正视内心真实的模样。

约翰•麦克阿瑟（John MacArthur），今日著名的圣经牧师之一，作家。他是美国加州太阳谷“恩典社区教会”的主任牧师，恩主学院及神学院院长，著名的翻译经讲道传道人。继他父亲杰克•麦克阿瑟博士之后, 约翰是他的家族中连续第五代的牧师。他还负责“赐你恩典”机构，该机构事工包括制作全球广播节目，以及文字、录音带、网络圣经教导，该节目广播遍及英语国家，每年约有八百万人聆听学习他讲道的录音带。 他是许多畅销书籍的作者，其中以“麦克阿瑟圣经研究”系列最为著名。所著的《麦克阿瑟新约注释》，内容深入浅出，不仅为牧师、传道人、圣经教师预备讲章必读，也深受信徒喜爱，作为每日灵修的辅助资料。麦克阿瑟著有三十多本新约各书卷之注释、讲道及牧养、辅导等书籍。其中所著《释经讲道再探》（Rediscovering Expository Preaching）曾经被列为美国《传道...(展开全部)

J.R.R.托尔金（J.R.R. Tolkien） 英国文豪，当代奇幻小说鼻祖。他不仅是牛津大学睿智的教授、四个孩子温情的老爸。最重要的身份，托尔金是全球顶礼膜拜的魔幻文学经典《魔戒》（奥斯卡大赢家《指环王三部曲》原著小说）《霍比特人》（2012—2015全球大电影《霍比特人》三部曲原著小说）的原著作者。他的粉丝包括：英国王室、丹麦王室、奥巴马、J.K.罗琳，乔治•马丁，蔡康永，姚晨……其作品系列全球已畅销2.5亿余册。 除《霍比特人》以外，托尔金为自己的孩子创作了《罗佛兰登》（为了安慰失去了心爱玩具的二儿子迈克尔），还将孩子们的玩具熊写进了图文并茂的《幸福先生》。每年圣诞，托尔金为孩子准备礼物之余，更化身圣诞老人寄信给孩子们，勾画北极生活的种种趣事。 最期盼圣诞老爸来信的小儿子克里斯托弗•托尔金（Christopher Tolkien），一生着迷于...(展开全部)

What do sleigh rides, snowmen, and slaughter have in common? The author of The Author is Dead welcomes you to a traditional country-house Christmas – snowed-in with a murderer and a miracle problem to solve. The murder at Whitefell Chimneys had an unimpeachable witness – with unbelievable testimony. The victim’s young daughter was adamant that Father Christmas had come down the...(展开全部)

From the author of record-breaking million copy bestseller and 2018 Book of the Year, This is Going to Hurt Christmas is coming, the goose is getting fat . . . but 1.4 million NHS workers are heading off to work. In this perfect present for anyone who has ever set foot in a hospital, Adam Kay delves back into his diaries for a hilarious and sometimes heart-breaking peek behind ...(展开全部)