Fourteen-year-old Pearl France lives in the front seat of a broken down car and her mother Margot lives in the back. Together they survive on a diet of powdered milk and bug spray, love songs and stolen cigarettes. Life on the edge of a Florida trailer park is strange enough, but when Pastor Rex’s ‘Guns for God’ programme brings Eli Redmond to town Pearl’s world is upended. Eli...(展开全部)

Raven is an ugly man dedicated to ugly deeds. His cold-blooded killing of a European Minister of War is an act of violence with chilling repercussions, not just for Raven himself but for the nation as a whole. The money he receives in payment for the murder is made up of stolen notes. When the first of these is traced, Raven is a man on the run. As he tracks down the agent ...(展开全部)

Raven is an assassin, a hired killer, and his brutal murder of the Minister of War raises the spectre of war across Europe.

The cat walked through the world, with its whiskers, ears, and paws . . . In this glorious celebration of observation, curiosity, and imagination, Brendan Wenzel shows us the many lives of one cat, and how perspective shapes what we see. When you see a cat, what do you see?

摄影师张晓说：这是个并不真实的世界，我喜欢他们。他们在某个时刻的状态已经超越了现实的自己，像是在梦游。我拍照片时很少和他们对话，只是眼神的交流，更多的时候是迅速按下快门，快门声伴随着刺眼的闪光灯直射过去，他们这才如梦初醒地诧异地看着我，等他们回过神来，我已经匆匆离开。因为他们的眼神很多是我所不敢面对的。我像是在逃避，正如逃避镜子中的我自己。

Psychoanalysis is less merciful than Christianity. Where God the Father forgives our ignorance, psychoanalysis holds out no such hope. Ignorance is not a sufficient ground for forgiveness since it masks enjoyment; an enjoyment which erupts in those black holes in our symbolic universe that escape the Father's prohibition. Today, with the disintegration of state socialism, we a...(展开全部)

In a “ripping spoof of the spy genre” ( Vanity Fair ), Hugh Laurie tells the tale of a former Scots Guard-turned-hired gun, a freelance soldier of fortune, who also happens to be one hell of a nice guy. Thomas Lang is a James Bond for the 1990s, with the same ingredients, but brought bang up-to-date, and with much better jokes. Cold-blooded murder just isn’t Thomas Lang’s cup ...(展开全部)

休·劳里，著名演员、配音演员、作家和音乐家，一九五九年生于英国牛津，毕业于伊顿公学与剑桥大学。早年获英格兰国家杯双人艇青年组冠军，并代表英格兰青年队参加世界锦标赛。在主演福克斯电视台的热播剧《豪斯医生》后，劳里成了美国家喻户晓的艾美奖提名演员，《西雅图时报》直言，看《豪斯医生》有三个理由：休·劳里、休·劳里、休·劳里。他导演过5部影视作品，出演过69部电影电视，担任过6部电影的编剧。

Hugh Laurie concocts an uproarious cocktail of comic zingers and over-the-top action in this "ripping spoof of the spy genre" "(Vanity Fair)" -- the irresistible tale of a former Scots Guard-turned-hired gun, a freelance soldier of fortune who also happens to be one heck of a nice guy.Cold-blooded murder just isn't Thomas Lang's cup of tea. Offered a bundle to assassinate an Am...(展开全部)

杰拉尔德·格拉夫（Gerald Graff） 曾任美国现代语言协会主席，伊利诺伊大学芝加哥分校英语教授与教育学教授，常年从事本科和研究生的写作教学工作。出版过多部对教师影响巨大的书籍，包括《从制度视角看文学史》《超越文化战争：直面冲突，复兴美国教育》《学术迷途：僵化教育对智识生活的桎梏》。 凯茜· 比肯施泰因（Cathy Birkenstein） 伊利诺伊大学讲师，发表过多篇关于写作的论文，曾与格拉夫合著多篇文章发表于《高等教育年鉴》《大学写作与沟通》等期刊。她与格拉夫在多所高中、本科院校和学术会议中举行过百余次有关写作指导的讲座。