Based on 60 interviews with physicists at Universities across the United States, from young graduate students to older professionals well into their careers, this text offers an accou t of the worlds in which scientists work. These scientists reveal their dreams of fame and glory whilst also discussing the meaning of success and failure. Their stories are of aspiration and anxi...(展开全部)

Winner of the Whitbread Prize for best first fiction, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit is a coming-out novel from Winterson, the acclaimed author of The Passion and Sexing the Cherry. The narrator, Jeanette, cuts her teeth on the knowledge that she is one of God’s elect, but as this budding evangelical comes of age, and comes to terms with her preference for her own sex, the pecu...(展开全部)

Lk mos people I lived for a long time with my mother and<br > ~her liked to watch the wrestling， my mother liked<br > My<br > father<br > tow~stle;it didn t matter what. She was n he wh e corner and<br > that was that.<br > She hung out the largest sheets on the windiest days. She<br > ~n ed the Mormons to knock on the door. At electi...(展开全部)

Winner of the Whitbread Prize for best first fiction, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit is a coming-out novel from Winterson, the acclaimed author of The Passion and Sexing the Cherry. The narrator, Jeanette, cuts her teeth on the knowledge that she is one of God’s elect, but as this budding evangelical comes of age, and comes to terms with her preference for her own sex, the pecu...(展开全部)

Lk mos people I lived for a long time with my mother and<br > ~her liked to watch the wrestling， my mother liked<br > My<br > father<br > tow~stle;it didn t matter what. She was n he wh e corner and<br > that was that.<br > She hung out the largest sheets on the windiest days. She<br > ~n ed the Mormons to knock on the door. At electi...(展开全部)

Innovative in style, its humour by turns punchy and tender, Jeanette Winterson’s first novel, Oranges are Not the Only Fruit is a few days ride into the bizarre outposts of religious excess and human obsession. It’s a love story, too. Winterson’s adaptation of the novel was an internationally acclaimed television drama awarded a BAFTA for best drama and an RTS award in the sa...(展开全部)

An inspiring and epic tale of loss and redemption about two American servicemen: a Marine Corps pilot who was shot down in WWII and the modern-day soldier determined to bring home his remains six decades later Major George Eyster V comes from a long line of military officers, dating back to the Revolutionary War. Army service was George's family legacy, but his tour of...(展开全部)

New York Times Bestseller: Brilliant but nave country doctor David Newcome courts tragedy when he invites a stranger into his home.In the English factory town of Calderbury, few figures are as respect

New York Times Bestseller: Brilliant but nave country doctor David Newcome courts tragedy when he invites a stranger into his home.In the English factory town of Calderbury, few figures are as respect

You probably know someone like Shay Miller She wants to find love, but it eludes her. She wants to be fulfilled, but her job is a dead end. She wants to belong, but her life is becoming increasingly isolated. You probably don't know anyone like the Moore sisters They have an unbreakable circle of friends. They live a life of glamour and perfection. They always get what they des...(展开全部)