This is not a book about the decline of America, but rather about the rise of everyone else. So begins Fareed Zakaria s blockbuster on the United States in the twenty-first century, and the trends he identifies have proceeded faster than anyone anticipated. How might the nation continue to thrive in a truly global era? In this fully updated 2.0 edition, Zakaria answers these qu...(展开全部)

法里德·扎卡利亚，一位拥有耶鲁大学、哈佛大学教育背景的国际趋势分析权成，一位针砭时事的国际专家，一位被公认为最有影响力的公共知识分子，一个敢于直言的新闻工作者。常常发表精辟犀利的国际关系分析，连美国前国务卿赖斯也赞誉他“熟悉世界每个地方”。 他是《新闻周刊》国际版的主编，还受邀在《纽约时报》、《华尔街日报》等多家媒体刊物撰写文尊，是美国舆论界非常最重要的人物。

"This is not a book about the decline of America, but rather about the rise of everyone else." So begins Fareed Zakaria's important new work on the era we are now entering. Following on the success of his best-selling The Future of Freedom, Zakaria describes with equal prescience a world in which the United States will no longer dominate the global economy, orchestrate geopolit...(展开全部)

Review: "The smallest details of staid coupledom duel it out with a lusty alternate reality that begins when a woman passes up an opportunity to cheat on her longtime boyfriend in Shriver's latest (after the Orange Prize — winning We Need to Talk About Kevin). Irina McGovern, a children's book illustrator in London, lives in comfortable familiarity with husband-in-everything-bu...(展开全部)

American children's book illustrator Irina McGovern enjoys a secure, settled life in London with her smart, loyal, disciplined partner, Lawrence--until the night she finds herself inexplicably drawn to kissing another man, a passionate, extravagant, top-ranked snooker player. Two competing alternate futures hinge on this single kiss, as Irina's decision--to surrender to temptat...(展开全部)

莱昂内尔·施赖弗 Lionel Shriver 英国作家。《华尔街日报》、《卫报》和《独立报》的撰稿人，现居伦敦。 代表作：《我们得谈谈凯文的事》（橘子文学奖作品）《双重错误》《完美好家庭》《游戏掌控》《平凡而正派的罪犯》《查克与自行车乐队》《人类的女性》《生日后的世界》等。 译者王睿已翻译作品多部，文风细腻、流畅，译作《海》曾获得爱尔兰文学基金会翻译奖。

The new novel from the Orange Prize winning author of We Need to Talk About Kevin It all hinges on one kiss. Whether Irina McGovern does or does not lean in to a specific pair of lips in London will determine whether she stays with her disciplined, intellectual partner Lawrence or runs off with Ramsey, a hard-living snooker player. Using a parallel universe structure, we follo...(展开全部)

American children's book illustrator Irina McGovern enjoys a secure, settled life in London with her smart, loyal, disciplined partner, Lawrence--until the night she finds herself inexplicably drawn to kissing another man, a passionate, extravagant, top-ranked snooker player. Two competing alternate futures hinge on this single kiss, as Irina's decision--to surrender to temptat...(展开全部)

莱昂内尔·施赖弗 Lionel Shriver 英国作家。《华尔街日报》、《卫报》和《独立报》的撰稿人，现居伦敦。 代表作：《我们得谈谈凯文的事》（橘子文学奖作品）《双重错误》《完美好家庭》《游戏掌控》《平凡而正派的罪犯》《查克与自行车乐队》《人类的女性》《生日后的世界》等。 译者王睿已翻译作品多部，文风细腻、流畅，译作《海》曾获得爱尔兰文学基金会翻译奖。

Review: "The smallest details of staid coupledom duel it out with a lusty alternate reality that begins when a woman passes up an opportunity to cheat on her longtime boyfriend in Shriver's latest (after the Orange Prize — winning We Need to Talk About Kevin). Irina McGovern, a children's book illustrator in London, lives in comfortable familiarity with husband-in-everything-bu...(展开全部)