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)

In the immediate aftermath of September 11, 2001, in his fourteenth year as Chairman of the Federal Reserve Board, Alan Greenspan took part in a very quiet collective effort to ensure that America didn't experience an economic meltdown, taking the rest of the world with it. There was good reason to fear the worst: the stock market crash of October 1987, his first major crisis a...(展开全部)

Alan Greenspan conveys the education of a lifetime.

The Age Of Turbulence is Alan Greenspan’s incomparable reckoning with the contemporary financial world, channeled through his own experiences working in the command room of the global economy longer and with greater effect than any other single living figure. Following the arc of his remarkable life’s journey through his more than eighteen-year tenure as chairman of the Federa...(展开全部)

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莫里斯·梅洛-庞蒂，法国20世纪最重要的哲学家、思想家之一。他在存在主义盛行年代与萨特齐名，是法国存在主义的杰出代表，也是法国现象学运动的奠基人之一。

作者： 卡洛·科洛迪（1826—1890），原名卡洛·罗伦齐尼，19世纪意大利作家、记者、幽默大师。他出生于意大利的一个厨师家庭。在教会学校毕业后，开始给地方报纸供稿，后逐渐转向儿童文学创作。科洛迪精通法文，曾将法国童话翻译成意大利语，广受小读者喜爱。科洛迪一生中，写过许多短篇小说、随笔、评论，然而最受欢迎的还是童话故事，其中最负盛名的作品就是《木偶奇遇记》。 绘者： 米娜利马（MinaLima），世界知名的平面设计工作室，在电影领域成果丰硕。它的创始人是米拉波拉·米娜（Miraphora Mina）和爱德华多•利马（Eduardo Lima）。他们为《哈利·波特》系列电影工作了十年，打造了一种独特的视觉图像风格。此外，还曾参与电影《理发师陶德》（Sweeney Todd，2007年）、《金色罗盘》（The Golden Compass，2007年）...(展开全部)