Vivian Barrera, a professional woman focused on her company's success, doesn't know what to think when her sometimes-lover and long-time business partner Jack hires someone without her permission. The only thing she does know is that she doesn't like the newcomer. April Hawkins is determined to make her new job work. Left as the sole provider for her niece, she just wants to ke...(展开全部)

米克洛什•班菲Miklós Bánffy（1873—1950） 出身于特兰西瓦尼亚的匈牙利贵族世家，曾担任外交官、国会议员和匈牙利外交部长。1916年，他负责策划侄子——哈布斯堡王朝最后一位君主卡尔一世的加冕典礼。1921—1922年，他参加过争取匈牙利加入国际联盟的谈判。 班菲伯爵既是目光长远的政治家，也是学识渊博的艺术家、小说家。他不仅无惧当时的社会压力，迎娶演员为妻，第一次世界大战期间，还主持了布达佩斯国家剧院。1926年，他结束在布达佩斯的公众生活，定居班菲家族的邦齐达堡。从那以后直到去世，他都全身心地投入到文学和艺术创作中，并创办出版社，鼓励和帮助年轻作家们写作。 班菲伯爵一生著作颇丰，而最为经典隽永的，便是这套奥匈帝国命运三部曲。 . 英文版译者 帕特里克•瑟斯菲尔德Patrick Thursfield 生于1923年，曾就读于查特豪斯公...(展开全部)

The tale of the two Transylvanian cousins, their loves, and their very different fortunes continues in this second volume of the Transylvanian trilogy. Balint Abady is forced to part from the beautiful and unhappily married Adrienne Uzdy, while Lazlo Gyeroffy is rapidly heading for self-destruction through excessive drinking and his own fecklessness. Politicians, quarreling amo...(展开全部)

She’s living a perfect life – so why does Laurence feel so torn? Weekends in the country, weekdays in Paris – Laurence’s life features all the trappings of 1960s French bourgeoisie. She has money, a handsome husband, two daughters and a lover. She also has a successful career as an advertising copywriter, though her mind writes copy while she’s at home, and dreams of domesticit...(展开全部)

Simone de Beauvoir’s gripping classic of a woman striving for perfection Laurence lives what appears to be an ideal existence. Her life features the trappings of 1960s Parisian bourgeoisie: money, a handsome husband, two daughters, and a lover. She also has a successful career as an advertising copywriter, though she can’t stop thinking about work while she’s at home and she d...(展开全部)

Laurence is a woman who appears to live an ideal life. Weekends in the country, weekdays in Paris – her life features all the trappings of 1960s French bourgeoisie. She has money, a handsome husband, two daughters and a lover. She also has a successful career as an advertising copywriter, though her mind unbidden writes copy while she’s at home, and dreams of domesticity in the...(展开全部)

Anyone who has wondered if free will is just an illusion or has asked 'could I have chosen otherwise?' after performing some rash deed will find this book an absorbing discussion of an endlessly fascinating subject. Daniel Dennett, whose previous books include Brainstorms and (with Douglas Hofstadter) The Mind's I, tackles the free will problem in a highly original and witty ma...(展开全部)

* Financial Times Business Book of the Month * Next Big Idea Club Nominee * A groundbreaking exploration of why we want what we want, and a toolkit for freeing ourselves from chasing unfulfilling desires. Gravity affects every aspect of our physical being, but there’s a psychological force just as powerful―yet almost nobody has heard of it. It’s responsible for bringing groups ...(展开全部)

Anyone who has wondered if free will is just an illusion or has asked 'could I have chosen otherwise?' after performing some rash deed will find this book an absorbing discussion of an endlessly fascinating subject. Daniel Dennett, whose previous books include Brainstorms and (with Douglas Hofstadter) The Mind's I, tackles the free will problem in a highly original and witty ma...(展开全部)

* Financial Times Business Book of the Month * Next Big Idea Club Nominee * A groundbreaking exploration of why we want what we want, and a toolkit for freeing ourselves from chasing unfulfilling desires. Gravity affects every aspect of our physical being, but there’s a psychological force just as powerful―yet almost nobody has heard of it. It’s responsible for bringing groups ...(展开全部)