罗伯特·格林，著名的畅销书作家和公众演说家。他出生于洛杉矶。毕业于美国加州大学伯克利分校和威斯康星州立大学，曾任著名杂志《纽约客》、《时尚先生》的编辑和自由撰稿人。他精通多国语言。曾旅居世界各地，见多识广。 1998年，格林与图书出版商朱斯特·艾尔弗斯成为搭档，重磅推出《权力的48条法则》一书。本书一经出版便风行世界，被翻译为17种语言，为全球畅销书，被美国《财富》杂志推荐为“75本最使人睿智的必读书”之一。 2001年，格林的第二本书《诱惑的艺术》（The Art of Seduction）出版。这是一本详细记录历史上最伟大诱惑者智慧的书。 2006年1月，备受期待的此系列第三本书《战争的33条战略》（The 33 Strategies of War）问世。此书通过历史上生动的军事战争谋略给世人提供生活中实用的战略智慧。

Seduction, in French thinker Baudrillard's apocalyptic discourse, is a power of attraction and fascination capable of subverting mechanical, orgasm-centered sexuality and reality in general. Two chief obstacles to unleashing the potentially liberating forces of seduction are the women's movement and psychoanalysis, charges the author of America and Forget Foucault. While recogn...(展开全部)

America’s most trusted and best-known film critic Roger Ebert presents one hundred brilliant essays on some of the best movies ever made. For the past five years Roger Ebert, the famed film writer and critic, has been writing biweekly essays for a feature called "The Great Movies," in which he offers a fresh and fervent appreciation of a great film. The Great Movies c...(展开全部)

Alaska, 1974. Unpredictable. Unforgiving. Untamed. For a family in crisis, the ultimate test of survival. Ernt Allbright, a former POW, comes home from the Vietnam war a changed and volatile man. When he loses yet another job, he makes an impulsive decision: he will move his family north, to Alaska, where they will live off the grid in America’s last true frontier. Thirteen-yea...(展开全部)

The Prussian king Frederick II (1712–1786) is perhaps best known for successfully defending his tiny country against the three great European powers of France, Austria, and Russia during the Seven Years’ War (1756–1763), a feat that allowed Great Britain to limit its engagement on the Continent and emerge as the world’s leading colonial power, as summed up in William Pitt’s fam...(展开全部)

WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY KATE WILLIAMS Frederick II of Prussia attempted to escape his authoritarian father as a boy, but went on to become one of history's greatest rulers. He loved the flute, and devoted hours of study to the arts and French literature, forming a long-lasting but turbulent friendship with Voltaire. He was a military genius and enlarged the borders of his empir...(展开全部)

1904年11月28日，南希•米特福德出生于伦敦。她是里兹代尔男爵二世家族的长女，下面有五个妹妹，包括戴安娜•莫斯利夫人、德文郡公爵夫人黛博拉（Deborah）和杰西卡。在自传《荣耀与背叛》（Hons and Rebels）一书中，杰西卡向世人描述了米特福德家族的历史。米特福德姐妹在“咆哮的20年代”（Roaring Twenties）和伦敦的战火中长大成人，并因她们的美貌，她们身上那股上流社会的玩世作风以及政治方面的忠贞不二而闻名于世。南希曾为《女士》（The Lady）和《星期日泰晤士报》（Sunday Times）撰写过专栏文章，也曾创作过一系列流行小说，其中包括《追逐爱情》和《恋恋冬季》。这两部作品详细叙述了拉德利特（Radlett）六姐妹各自的上流社会恋情。在20世纪50年代，南希开始创作历史人物传记。她的作品《太阳王》记述了路易十四的生平...(展开全部)

1904年11月28日，南希•米特福德出生于伦敦。她是里兹代尔男爵二世家族的长女，下面有五个妹妹，包括戴安娜•莫斯利夫人、德文郡公爵夫人黛博拉（Deborah）和杰西卡。在自传《荣耀与背叛》（Hons and Rebels）一书中，杰西卡向世人描述了米特福德家族的历史。米特福德姐妹在“咆哮的20年代”（Roaring Twenties）和伦敦的战火中长大成人，并因她们的美貌，她们身上那股上流社会的玩世作风以及政治方面的忠贞不二而闻名于世。南希曾为《女士》（The Lady）和《星期日泰晤士报》（Sunday Times）撰写过专栏文章，也曾创作过一系列流行小说，其中包括《追逐爱情》和《恋恋冬季》。这两部作品详细叙述了拉德利特（Radlett）六姐妹各自的上流社会恋情。在20世纪50年代，南希开始创作历史人物传记。她的作品《太阳王》记述了路易十四的生平...(展开全部)

Oskar Hedin, head of the fur department of old John McNabb's big store, looked up from his scrutiny of the Russian sable coat spread upon a table before him, and encountered the twinkling eyes of old John himself. "It's a shame to keep this coat here-and that natural black fox piece, too. Who is there in Terrace City that's got thirty thousand dollars to spend for a fur coat, o...(展开全部)