A history of the postal system that once connected the Ottoman Empire Before the advent of steamships or the telegraph, the premier technology for long-distance communication was the horse-run relay system. Every empire had one—including the Ottoman Empire. In The Sublime Post, Choon Hwee Koh examines how the vast Ottoman postal system worked across three centuries by tracking...(展开全部)

A history of the postal system that once connected the Ottoman Empire Before the advent of steamships or the telegraph, the premier technology for long-distance communication was the horse-run relay system. Every empire had one—including the Ottoman Empire. In The Sublime Post, Choon Hwee Koh examines how the vast Ottoman postal system worked across three centuries by tracking...(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)

一名慘遭不明兇手殺害的流浪漢，留下的唯一線索是一串特殊的七端念珠和一個電話號碼，而這些竟牽連上科幻小說巨擘的繼承人西拉瑞．傅可思；而此時的西拉瑞正遭遇收到下了毒的巧克力、包裹炸彈、利刃刺殺等重重危機，來去無蹤的兇手正虎視眈眈的想要奪取他的性命。 一次次失敗之後，兇手依然鍥而不捨，馬歇爾副隊長要如何在涉有重嫌的西拉瑞家人及好幾名科幻作家之中找出真兇，及時阻止兇手下一次出手呢？ 然而在一場火箭試射會上，兇手終於成功奪取了一條人命！ 正當案情陷入膠著，且又遇上棘手的密室難題時，烏秀拉修女卻帶來一線曙光，難解的謎團終於逐步緩緩解開……

一名慘遭不明兇手殺害的流浪漢，留下的唯一線索是一串特殊的七端念珠和一個電話號碼，而這些竟牽連上科幻小說巨擘的繼承人西拉瑞．傅可思；而此時的西拉瑞正遭遇收到下了毒的巧克力、包裹炸彈、利刃刺殺等重重危機，來去無蹤的兇手正虎視眈眈的想要奪取他的性命。 一次次失敗之後，兇手依然鍥而不捨，馬歇爾副隊長要如何在涉有重嫌的西拉瑞家人及好幾名科幻作家之中找出真兇，及時阻止兇手下一次出手呢？ 然而在一場火箭試射會上，兇手終於成功奪取了一條人命！ 正當案情陷入膠著，且又遇上棘手的密室難題時，烏秀拉修女卻帶來一線曙光，難解的謎團終於逐步緩緩解開……

Radical Inclusion: What the Post-9/11 World Should Have Taught Us About Leadership examines today’s leadership landscape and describes the change it demands of leaders. Dempsey and Brafman persuasively explain that today’s leaders are in competition for the trust and confidence of those they lead more than ever before. They assert that the nature of power is changing and should...(展开全部)