How do you defend a city surrounded by enemies and riddled with traitors, when your allies can by no means be trusted, and your predecessor vanished without a trace? It’s enough to make a torturer want to run—if he could even walk without a stick – and Superior Glokta needs answers before the Gurkish army comes knocking at the gates. Northmen have spilled over the border of Ang...(展开全部)

Bitter and merciless war is coming to the frozen north. It's bloody and dangerous and the Union army, split by politics and hamstrung by incompetence, is utterly unprepared for the slaughter that's coming. Lacking experience, training, and in some cases even weapons the army is scarcely equipped to repel Bethod's scouts, let alone the cream of his forces. In the heat-ravaged so...(展开全部)

Bitter and merciless war is coming to the frozen north. It's bloody and dangerous and the Union army, split by politics and hamstrung by incompetence, is utterly unprepared for the slaughter that's coming. Lacking experience, training, and in some cases even weapons the army is scarcely equipped to repel Bethod's scouts, let alone the cream of his forces. In the heat-ravaged so...(展开全部)

'It was like walking along the knife-edge of the highest possible mountain range, seeing life on one side and death on the other in the form of two deep, gorgeous and gleaming seascapes.' This astonishing novella from 1908, newly translated for Little Black Classics by War and Peace translator Anthony Briggs, probes the emotions and experiences of seven people condemned to deat...(展开全部)

罗伯特·T. 清崎（Robert T. Kiyosaki）：生在夏威夷，长在夏威夷，是第四代日裔美国人。高中毕业以后，罗伯特在纽约接受教育，大学毕业后加入了美国海军陆战队，作为军官和舰载武装直升机驾驶员，被派往越南战场。 从战场上归来后，罗伯特开始了自己的商业生涯。1977年他创立了一家公司，首次将用尼龙和“维可牢”搭链制成的“冲浪者”钱包投放市场，后来这一产品在世界范围内成长为价值数百万美元的产业。他和他的产品在《赛马世界》、《绅士季刊》、《成功杂志》、《新闻周刊》上被广泛介绍。 1985年，清崎离开商界，与别人共同创建了一家国际教育公司。这家公司在七个国家设有办事处，向成千上万的学生教授商业和投资课程。他主持的长达一年的节目在全美播放，传播他的教育理论。 罗伯特在47岁时退休，做起他最喜欢的事情——投资。深感“有产者”与“无产者”之间不断扩大的鸿...(展开全部)

Tim O'Brien's modern classic that reset our understanding of fiction, nonfiction, and the way they can work together, as well as our understanding of the Vietnam war and its consequences, The Things They Carried now has well over a million copies in print.

蒂姆·奥布莱恩，美国作家。生于美国明尼苏达州沃辛顿，1968年毕业于圣保罗的麦卡莱斯特学院。1966至1970年，他作为步兵在越南服役。战后，他在哈佛大学攻读政府学研究生课程，后担任《华盛顿邮报》的国家事务记者。现居于马萨诸塞。 奥布莱恩的作品主要反映他在越战中的经历以及战争给美国士兵带来的巨大影响。1979年，《追寻卡奇亚托》荣获美国国家图书奖。1994年《湖畔迷网》被《纽约时报书评》评为年度最佳图书，亦被《时代周刊》评为年度最佳小说。1998年，《恋爱中的雄猫》一经出版立刻成为全美畅销书。

Amazon.com "They carried all the emotional baggage of men who might die. Grief, terror, love, longing--these were intangibles, but the intangibles had their own mass and specific gravity, they had tangible weight. They carried shameful memories. They carried the common secret of cowardice.... Men killed, and died, because they were embarrassed not to." A finalist for both the...(展开全部)

Amazon.com "They carried all the emotional baggage of men who might die. Grief, terror, love, longing--these were intangibles, but the intangibles had their own mass and specific gravity, they had tangible weight. They carried shameful memories. They carried the common secret of cowardice.... Men killed, and died, because they were embarrassed not to." A finalist for both the...(展开全部)

Perhaps Studs Terkel’s best-known book, Working is a compelling, fascinating look at jobs and the people who do them. Consisting of over one hundred interviews conducted with everyone from gravediggers to studio heads, this book provides a timeless snapshot of people’s feelings about their working lives, as well as a relevant and lasting look at how work fits into American life...(展开全部)