托马斯·沃尔夫（Thomas Clayton Wolfe, 1900—1938） 20世纪美国文学最重要的小说家之一。1900年生于北卡罗莱纳州阿什维尔，毕业于北卡罗莱纳州大学，在哈佛大学获得剧本写作硕士学位，后在纽约大学任教。他创作于大萧条时期的作品描述了美国文化的变化和多样。1938年沃尔夫去世后，威廉·福克纳将他列为他们那一代最好的作家，而将自己列在了沃尔夫的后面。“垮掉派”作家杰克·凯鲁亚克也将沃尔夫视为自己的文学偶像。 其代表作有四部自传体长篇小说：《天使，望故乡》（Look Homeward，Angel，1929）、《时间和河流》（Of Time and the River，1935）、《蛛网和岩石》（The Web and the Rock，1939）和《你再也不能回家乡了》（You can’t Go Home Again，1940）。...(展开全部)

虹影 享誉世界文坛的著名女作家。1962年生于重庆。曾在北京鲁迅文学院、上海复旦大学读书。代表作有长篇小说《阿难》、《饥饿的女儿》、《K》、《一个流浪女的未来》，中短篇小说集《脏手指・瓶盖子》，散文集《危险年龄》和诗集《鱼教会鱼歌唱》等。 编著有《海外中国女作家小说精选》和《墓床》等。 曾获“英国华人诗歌一等奖”、中国台湾《联合报》短篇小说奖新诗奖、纽约《特尔菲卡》杂志“中国最优秀短篇小说奖”、三部长篇小说被译成16种文字在欧美、以色列、澳大利亚和日本等国出版。长篇自传体小说《饥饿的女儿》曾获中国台湾1997年《联合报》读书人最佳书奖。被中国权威媒体评为2000年十大人气作家之一。

Stefan Zweig (1881-1942) was a poet, novelist, and dramatist, but it was his biographies that expressed his full genius, recreating for his international audience the Elizabethan age, the French Revolution, the great days of voyages and discoveries. In this autobiography he holds the mirror up to his own age, telling the story of a generation that 'was loaded down with a burden...(展开全部)

作者简介 彼得・梅达沃爵士是他那一时代最伟大的科学 家之一，他是1960年诺贝尔生理学医学奖得主和 1981年荣誉勋章获得者，也是一位杰出的向公众推 介科学的作家。他尤以随笔集《普路托的共和国》、 《给年轻科学家的忠告》和《科学的限度》等著作闻名 于世。

It all began with a dream. A young woman saw a white tiger leap into her lap. It was both auspicious and unlucky—her son, the fortune-teller said, would grow up with no brothers, and his father's health would be endangered by his birth. That son, however, would have a distinguished career, after going through many misfortunes and dangers. The dream was prophetic. The child was ...(展开全部)

Only when one has lost all curiosity about the future has one reached the age to write an autobiography'. Waugh begins his story with heredity, writing of the energetic, literary and sometimes eccentric men and women who, unknown to themselves, contributed to his genius. Save for a few pale shadows, his childhood was warm, bright and serene. The Hampstead and Lancing schooldays...(展开全部)

There's a saying that people don't leave companies, they leave managers. Management is a key part of any organization, yet the discipline is often self-taught and unstructured. Getting to the good solutions of complex management challenges can make the difference between fulfillment and frustration for teams, and, ultimately, the success or failure of companies. Will Larson's A...(展开全部)

From Andre Agassi, one of the most beloved athletes in history and one of the most gifted men ever to step onto a tennis court, a beautiful, haunting autobiography. Agassi’s incredibly rigorous training begins when he is just a child. By the age of thirteen, he is banished to a Florida tennis camp that feels like a prison camp. Lonely, scared, a ninth-grade dropout, he rebels ...(展开全部)