Synopsis Born in a village in heartland India, the son of a rickshaw puller, Balram is taken out of school by his family and put to work in a teashop. As he crushes coals and wipes tables, he nurses a dream of escape - of breaking away from the banks of Mother Ganga, into whose depths have seeped the remains of a hundred generations. The White Tiger is a tale of two Indias. Bal...(展开全部)

Synopsis Born in a village in heartland India, the son of a rickshaw puller, Balram is taken out of school by his family and put to work in a teashop. As he crushes coals and wipes tables, he nurses a dream of escape - of breaking away from the banks of Mother Ganga, into whose depths have seeped the remains of a hundred generations. The White Tiger is a tale of two Indias. Bal...(展开全部)

★比尔•克林顿（Bill Clinton） 1992年当选为美国总统，他一直任职到2001年。在离开白宫后，他建立了克林顿基金会，帮助改善全球健康状况，为女童和妇女创造更多机会，减少儿童肥胖和可预防疾病，创造经济机会，促进经济增长，并解决气候变化的影响。他创作了许多非小说 作品，包括国际畅销书《我的生活》。本书是他的第一部小说。 ★詹姆斯•帕特森（James Patterson） 获得过国家图书基金会颁发的美国文学界杰出服务文学奖。他拥有《纽约时报》最畅销书籍的吉尼斯世界纪录，他的书在世界范围内已经卖出了超过3.75亿本。帕特森孜孜不倦地捍卫书籍和阅读的力量，他创建了吉米•帕特森儿童图书出版公司，其使命很简单：“我们想让每一个孩子读完一本吉米公司出版的书，还可以说，‘请再给我一本。’”

The publishing event of 2018: Bill Clinton and James Patterson's The President Is Missing is a superlative thriller . . . one that can really happen, and one that must not be missed. The President Is Missing confronts a threat so huge that it jeopardizes not just Pennsylvania Avenue and Wall Street, but all of America. Uncertainty and fear grip the nation. There are whispers of...(展开全部)

白修德 Theodore H. White (1915-1986)，美国著名政治记者、历史学家和小说家。1915年出生于波士顿，1938年毕业于哈佛大学，师从费正清，之后受聘《时代周刊》担任驻东亚记者，报道了举世震惊的1942年河南大饥荒，1945年任中国分社社长。这一经历为他的首部著作《中 国的惊雷》（Thunder Out of China，与贾安娜合著）提供了素材。在短期担任《新共和》（The New Republic）杂志编辑期间，白修德编辑出版了《史迪威日记》（The Stilwell Papers）。1948年，他移居欧洲，驻欧洲记者的经历为1953年出版的《浴火重生》（Fire in the Ashes）提供了素材。同年，他回到美国先后担任《记者报》（The Reporter）和科利尔杂志（Collier’s Magazine）的国内记...(展开全部)

The greatest political story ever told—the epic clash between John F. Kennedy and Richard M. Nixon, as captured in Theodore White's dramatic and groundbreaking chronicle The Making of the President 1960 is the book that revolutionized—even created—modern political journalism. Granted intimate access to all parties involved, Theodore White crafted an almost mythic story of...(展开全部)

Jack Havoc, jail-breaker and knife artist, is on the loose. It falls to Albert Campion to pit his wits against the killer and hunt him down through the city’s November smog before it is too late.

玛格丽．艾林翰（Margery Allingham），笔下侦探为坎本恩，出现的作品有《甜蜜的危险》、《烟中之虎》等

This original and wide-ranging work examines historical perceptions of nature in China and the relationship between insider and outsider, state and village, top-down conservation policy and community autonomy. After an introduction to the history of wildlife conservation and nature reserve management in China, the book places recent tiger conservation efforts in the context of ...(展开全部)

Born to a father who described him as the chosen one” and a mother who called him the universal child,” Tiger Woods was groomed for the fame and influence that his parents believed was his destiny. At age twenty, he made his debut in a Nike commercial. Hello, world,” he said. Are you ready for me?” The world was ready. For the next thirteen years, Tiger nearly lived up to his...(展开全部)