Adam Lang has been Britain's longest serving and most controversial prime minister of the last half century. And now that he's left office, he's accepted one of history's largest cash advances to compose a tell-all (or at least, tell-some) memoir of his life and years of power. As pressure mounts for Lang to complete this magnum opus, he hires a professional ghostwriter to fini...(展开全部)

迈克尔·道布斯，1948年出生于英国赫特福德郡，毕业于牛津大学。他在政治、广告和文学领域都取得了出色的成就。 道布斯纵横英国政坛三十余年，曾任政府特别顾问和撒切尔政府幕僚长，后来于保守党副主席的职位上退休，2010年被英王室册封为男爵。 作为畅销书作家的道布斯共著有十余部畅销作品。1989年，他讲述英国官场故事的处女作小说《纸牌屋》大获好评，次年被BBC改编成电视剧，风靡全球。

From one of Britain's finest authors, a wry, shocking and beautifully-written memoir of childhood, ghosts (real and metaphorical), illness and family. 'Giving up the Ghost' is award-winning novelist Hilary Mantel's uniquely unusual five-part autobiography. Opening in 1995 with 'A Second Home', Mantel describes the death of her stepfather which leaves her deeply troubled by th...(展开全部)

In postwar rural England， Hilary Mantel is a fierce， self-possessed child， schooling herself in "chivalry， horsemanship， and swordplay" and convinced that she will become a boy at age four. Catholic school comes as a rude distraction from her rich inner life. At home， where fathers and stepfathers come and go at strange， overlapping intervals， the keeping of secrets becomes a w...(展开全部)

In postwar rural England, Hilary Mantel grew up convinced that the most improbable of accomplishments, including "chivalry, horsemanship, and swordplay," were within her grasp. Once married, however, she acquired a persistent pain that led to destructive drugs and patronizing psychiatry, ending in an ineffective but irrevocable surgery. There would be no children; in herself s...(展开全部)

New York Times bestselling author Hilary Mantel, two-time winner of the Man Booker Prize, is one of the world’s most accomplished and acclaimed fiction writers. Giving Up the Ghost, is her dazzling memoir of a career blighted by physical pain in which her singular imagination supplied compensation for the life her body was denied. Selected by the New York Times as one of the 50...(展开全部)

Mechanism design is an analytical framework for thinking clearly and carefully about what exactly a given institution can achieve when the information necessary to make decisions is dispersed and privately held. This analysis provides an account of the underlying mathematics of mechanism design based on linear programming. Three advantages characterize the approach. The first i...(展开全部)

Named by Moscow Times "the History Book of the Year," The Ghost of Freedom combines riveting storytelling with insightful analysis, in the first general history of the modern Caucasus, stretching from the beginning of Russian imperial expansion up to the rise of new countries after the Soviet Union's collapse. In evocative and accessible prose, Charles King reveals how tsars, h...(展开全部)

译者：熊亭玉，大学英语讲师。已出版《人类的故事》《奥兹国的滴答人》、《高老头》《神马和男孩》（以上为独译）。《孤独星球·土耳其》《孤独星球·欧洲》、《安徒生童话精选》《东南亚研究》《牛虻》等图书。韩素音翻译大赛英译汉优秀奖获得者。 史蒂芬·约翰逊是八本书的作者，涵盖科学、技术、个人理念各个方面。他同时也是三个有影响力网站的联合创始人：在线杂志网站 FEED，荣获威比奖（Webby Awards）网站Plastic.com，以及超本地（ hyperlocal ）媒体网站 http://outside.in/ 。他是《连线》的编辑，他经常为《纽约时报》《华尔街日报》《金融时报》以及其他杂志撰稿。乔森还为一些互联网相关的企业担任咨询顾问，包括Medium，Atavist，Meetup.com, Betaworks, 与 Patch.com。 他是Where...(展开全部)