提姆•凯乐（Timothy Keller） 1950年出生于美国宾夕法尼亚州，戈登康维尔神学院（Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary）道学硕士，威斯敏斯特神学院（Westminster Theological Seminary）教牧学博士。他和妻子凯西及三个儿子住在纽约市。 提姆•凯乐的著作还包括《为何是他》（The Reason for God）、《诸神的面具》（Counterfeit Gods）等。他的第一本书《为何是他》，在2008年刚出版即荣登《纽约时报》畅销书排行榜非小说类第七名。 《新闻周刊》在介绍提姆•凯乐时，称他为“21世纪的路易斯（C. S. Lewis）”。

When we claim our place at the fire, we enter into the circle of vital elders who have been the source of wisdom in society since time immemorial. This book provides a new model for vital aging. It shows you how to age successfully by living on purpose.

Newsweek called renowned minister Timothy Keller “a C. S. Lewis for the twenty-first century” in a feature on his first book, The Reason for God . In that book, he offered a rational explanation of why we should believe in God. Now, in The Prodigal God , he uses one of the best-known Christian parables to reveal an unexpected message of hope and salvation. Taking his trade...(展开全部)

At an early age, Ruth Reichl discovered that "food could be a way of making sense of the world. . . . If you watched people as they ate, you could find out who they were." Her deliciously crafted memoir, Tender at the Bone , is the story of a life determined, enhanced, and defined in equal measure by a passion for food, unforgettable people, and the love of tales well told.Beg...(展开全部)

Most eight-year-olds are about five times as tall as this book . . . but only half as tall as an ostrich, which is half as tall as a giraffe . . . twenty times smaller than a California Redwood! How do they compare to the tallest buildings? To Mt. Everest? To stars, galaxy clusters, and . . . the universe?

'So it happens, therefore, that every element says something to someone' Inspired by the rhythms of the "Periodic Table", Primo Levi assesses his life in terms of the chemical elements he associates with his past. From his birth into an Italian Jewish family through his training as a chemist, to the pain and darkness of the Holocaust and its aftermath, Levi reflects on the diff...(展开全部)

迈克尔•翁达杰Michael Ondaatje（1943— ） 加拿大小说家、诗人。生于斯里兰卡，十一岁随母亲来到英国，十九岁移居加拿大，现居多伦多。迄今为止，翁达杰共出版了六部长篇小说、十余部诗集及非虚构作品。其中，《英国病人》（1992）获布克奖，后被改编成同名电影，大获成功；《菩萨凝视的岛屿》（2000）获吉尔奖和美第奇奖；《遥望》（2007）获加拿大总督文学奖。迈克尔•翁达杰的文字富于想象，兼具视觉和听觉效果，为诗歌和小说两个领域都注入了新的生机。

迈克尔•翁达杰Michael Ondaatje（1943— ） 加拿大小说家、诗人。生于斯里兰卡，十一岁随母亲来到英国，十九岁移居加拿大，现居多伦多。迄今为止，翁达杰共出版了六部长篇小说、十余部诗集及非虚构作品。其中，《英国病人》（1992）获布克奖，后被改编成同名电影，大获成功；《菩萨凝视的岛屿》（2000）获吉尔奖和美第奇奖；《遥望》（2007）获加拿大总督文学奖。迈克尔•翁达杰的文字富于想象，兼具视觉和听觉效果，为诗歌和小说两个领域都注入了新的生机。

In the early 1950s, an eleven-year-old boy in Colombo boards a ship bound for England. At mealtimes he is seated at the “cat’s table”—as far from the Captain’s Table as can be—with a ragtag group of “insignificant” adults and two other boys, Cassius and Ramadhin. As the ship makes its way across the Indian Ocean, through the Suez Canal, into the Mediterranean, the boys tumble f...(展开全部)