Illustrated profiles of fifty pioneering female athletes

It’s a scientific fact: Women rock! A charmingly illustrated and educational book, New York Times best seller Women in Science highlights the contributions of fifty notable women to the fields of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) from the ancient to the modern world. Full of striking, singular art, this fascinating collection also contains infographics a...(展开全部)

Why do sports captivate people? They allow us to watch human beings achieve peak performance, but, beyond physical strength and skill, what's really impressive is an athlete's mental prowess -- their will to succeed, engagement with their environment, and self-confidence. In Life as Sport, sport psychologist Dr. Jonathan Fader shares the skills that he teaches professional athl...(展开全部)

Mikael Blomkvist, crusading journalist and publisher of the magazine Millennium, has decided to run a story that will expose an extensive sex trafficking operation between Eastern Europe and Sweden, implicating well-known and highly placed members of Swedish society, business, and government. But he has no idea just how explosive the story will be until, on the eve of public...(展开全部)

斯蒂格·拉森(Stieg Larsson)(1954－2004)，瑞典作家与新闻记者。曾任职于瑞典中央新闻通讯社，并于工作之余投身反法西斯主义的活动。 一九九五年，他创办了Expo基金会，并自一九九九年开始担任基金会同名杂志主编。由于他长期致力于揭发瑞典极右派组织的不法行为，多年来一直受到程度或轻或重的死亡恐吓与威胁。这部小说中总是积极捍卫社会正义、不求个人名利的男主角，几乎就是拉森本人的化身。 拉森从二○○一年开始撰写“千禧年”系列小说，二○○四年完成三部曲后，竟不幸于十一月因心脏病突发辞世，来不及看见首曲《龙文身的女孩》在二○○五年出版，以及此系列小说售出全球四十四国版权、轰动全欧的盛况。 随着第二部和第三部的出版，“千禧年”系列引发阅读热潮，雄踞欧洲各国畅销书排行榜，且历久不坠。 此外，《龙文身的女孩》在二○○六年夺得北欧犯罪小说协会最佳犯罪小...(展开全部)

Mikael Blomkvist, crusading journalist and publisher of the magazine Millennium, has decided to run a story that will expose an extensive sex trafficking operation between Eastern Europe and Sweden, implicating well-known and highly placed members of Swedish society, business, and government. But he has no idea just how explosive the story will be until, on the eve of public...(展开全部)

斯蒂格·拉森(Stieg Larsson)(1954－2004)，瑞典作家与新闻记者。曾任职于瑞典中央新闻通讯社，并于工作之余投身反法西斯主义的活动。 一九九五年，他创办了Expo基金会，并自一九九九年开始担任基金会同名杂志主编。由于他长期致力于揭发瑞典极右派组织的不法行为，多年来一直受到程度或轻或重的死亡恐吓与威胁。这部小说中总是积极捍卫社会正义、不求个人名利的男主角，几乎就是拉森本人的化身。 拉森从二○○一年开始撰写“千禧年”系列小说，二○○四年完成三部曲后，竟不幸于十一月因心脏病突发辞世，来不及看见首曲《龙文身的女孩》在二○○五年出版，以及此系列小说售出全球四十四国版权、轰动全欧的盛况。 随着第二部和第三部的出版，“千禧年”系列引发阅读热潮，雄踞欧洲各国畅销书排行榜，且历久不坠。 此外，《龙文身的女孩》在二○○六年夺得北欧犯罪小说协会最佳犯罪小...(展开全部)

玛格达琳娜·耶希尔(Magdalena Yesil)，连续创业者、风险投资家，众多世界顶级科技公司的董事会成员。 她的职业生涯起步于美国风险投资公司（US Venture Partners），后成为赛富时（Salesforce）的第一位投资人和创始董事会成员，亚马逊的早期发展也有她的热情助力。作为科技行业的先驱，她一手创办了三家公司，致力于互联网接入、电子商务基础设施和电子支付的商业化。 她还是百老汇天使（Broadway Angels）的创始人，该公司主要由女性天使投资人组成。

Unabridged CDs • 9 CDs, 11 hours The story of the most important political campaign in modern times, by the man who went through it side by side with President Obama.

A titan of modern media, Viacom Chair-man Sumner Redstone reveals how he battled his way to become the head of one of the world's great media empires, and the richest man in entertainment. In one of the most fascinating business autobiographies of this or any other year, Sumner Redstone tells the unvarnished story of how he overcame every obstacle to build a vast media and e...(展开全部)