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乔治•奥威尔可谓是20世纪最发人深省且文笔最为生动的随笔作家之一，他以过人的精力和毫不妥协的语言，用笔和纸与其时代的偏见进行抗争，也因此而闻名于世。 本书收纳作者经典随笔《我为什么要写作》《绞刑》两篇。对初涉奥威尔的读者而言，本书是一部极好的入门读本；而对奥威尔烂熟于胸的读者来说，《我为什么写作》将是一部珍贵的合集。

Mary Oliver has been writing poetry for nearly five decades, and in that time she has become America's foremost poetic voice on our experience of the physical world. This collection presents forty-seven new poems, all written within the last two years, and each exhibiting the power and grace that have become the hallmarks of Oliver's work. The volume includes poems on crickets...(展开全部)

Buddhism has become a uniquely favored religion in our modern age. A burgeoning number of books extol the scientifically proven benefits of meditation and mindfulness for everything ranging from business to romance. There are conferences, courses, and celebrities promoting the notion that Buddhism is spirituality for the rational; compatible with cutting-edge science; indeed, “...(展开全部)

The forty-seven new works in this volume include poems on crickets, toads, trout lilies, black snakes, goldenrod, bears, greeting the morning, watching the deer, and, finally, lingering in happiness. Each poem is imbued with the extraordinary perceptions of a poet who considers the everyday in our lives and the natural world around us and finds a multitude of reasons to wake ea...(展开全部)

An industry insider explains why there is so much bad software—and why academia doesn't teach programmers what industry wants them to know.

In Crunch he responds to dozens of questions he has fielded from working Americans, questions that directly relate to the bottom-line, dollars-and-cents concerns of real people. Chances are if there’s a stumper you’ve always wanted to ask an economist, it’s solved in this book.

Here is a book as joyous and painful, and as mysterious and memorable, as childhood itself. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings captures the longing of lonely children, the brute insult of bigotry, and the wonder of words that can make the world right. Maya Angelou’s first memoir, published in 1969 is a modern American classic beloved worldwide. Sent by their mother to their dev...(展开全部)

In Crunch he responds to dozens of questions he has fielded from working Americans, questions that directly relate to the bottom-line, dollars-and-cents concerns of real people. Chances are if there’s a stumper you’ve always wanted to ask an economist, it’s solved in this book.

FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. Alfie, an adorable alligator, writes a litter to Grandma all by himself. He addresses the letter, stamps it, and mails it. It's so hard to wait for a response. Will Grandma write back?