In 1915, two spirited Australian sisters join the war effort as nurses, escaping the confines of their father's dairy farm and carrying a guilty secret with them. Used to tending the sick as they are, nothing could have prepared them for what they confront, first in the Dardanelles, then on the Western Front. Yet amid the carnage, Naomi and Sally Durance become the friends they...(展开全部)

In 1915, two spirited Australian sisters join the war effort as nurses, escaping the confines of their father's dairy farm and carrying a guilty secret with them. Used to tending the sick as they are, nothing could have prepared them for what they confront, first in the Dardanelles, then on the Western Front. Yet they find courage in the face of extreme danger and become the fr...(展开全部)

在线试读It was said around the valley that the two Durance girls went off but just the one bothered to come back. People could not have said which one, since both the girls were aloof and looked similar—dark and rather tall. There was confusion even in the local paper. And they weren’t the sort of girls whose names were called across streets—girlfriend hallooing girlfriend in the e...(展开全部)

Lulu and Merry's childhood was never ideal, but on the day before Lulu's tenth birthday their father propels them into a nightmare. He's always hungered for the love of the girls’ self-obsessed mother; after she throws him out, their troubles turn deadly. Lulu had been warned not let her father in, but when he shows up drunk, he's impossible to ignore. He bullies his way past L...(展开全部)

J.M.罗伯茨（1928—2003），英国著名公众史学家，牛津大学历史学教授，著有数十部具有广泛影响力的历史学作品，并曾为BBC《西方的胜利》《人民的世纪》等多个深受欢迎的历史节目系列担任主创、解说或历史顾问。他因“在教育与历史领域的贡献”荣获大英帝国勋章，还曾获得意大利荣誉骑士勋章。他还是《企鹅欧洲史》和《企鹅20世纪世界史》的作者。 O.A.维斯塔德，生于挪威， 1998年起担任伦敦经济学院国际关系史教授。他已出版15部关于现当代国际关系史的著作，其中包括荣获班克罗夫特奖的《全球冷战史》和《决定性的相遇》。他还担任了《剑桥冷战史》的联合主编，以及《冷战史》期刊的编辑。他的最新著作为《不安的帝国：1750年以来的中国与世界》。

Recently voted the greatest fantasy of all time, after The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit, Gene Wolfe's The Book of the New Sun is an extraordinary epic, set a million years in the future, on an Earth transformed in mysterious and wondrous ways, in a time when our present culture is no longer even a memory. Severian, the central character, is a torturer, exiled from his guild...(展开全部)

The distinguished sociologist Richard Sennett surveys major differences between earlier forms of industrial capitalism and the more global, more febrile, ever more mutable version of capitalism that is taking its place. He shows how these changes affect everyday life—how the work ethic is changing; how new beliefs about merit and talent displace old values of craftsmanship and ...(展开全部)

恩里克·莫雷迪（Enrico Moretti） 加州大学伯克利分校经济学教授，《经济展望》杂志主编，旧金山联邦储备银行访问学者。他也是美国国家经济研究局（剑桥）副研究员，经济政策研究中心（伦敦）研究员和劳动研究所（波恩）研究员。 莫雷迪教授的研究涉及劳动经济学和城市经济学领域。他曾获得多个奖项和荣誉，包括劳动经济学家协会的罗森劳动经济学杰出贡献奖、卡洛阿尔贝托奖章、伊扎青年劳动经济学家奖和富布赖特奖学金。