吉姆·兰德尔(Jim Randel)，现年60岁，毕业于哥伦比亚大学法学院。他是一位企业家——购买和销售商业地产，同时拓展新业务。作为一名致力于投资和企业家精神领域的讲演者，兰德尔已经在全美许多场馆作过演讲.其中包括哈佛大学和纽约大学商学院。兰德尔学习和研究成功这一主题长达30年之久。除了阅读所有他能找到的有关这一主题的资料以外，他还不厌其烦地向成功人士请教.了解他们的成功之道(直到他们找理由回绝)。因此，这本书的结论是多年研究、个人试验和向他人学习的结果。兰德尔得出的结论是：成功的秘密就是欲望、努力、钻研、决心和坚持…而这些都需要毅力和自律能力。兰德尔相信，如果你愿意付出代价，一切都是可能的。

Young Jane Young's heroine is Aviva Grossman, an ambitious Congressional intern in Florida who makes the life-changing mistake of having an affair with her boss‑‑who is beloved, admired, successful, and very married‑‑and blogging about it. When the affair comes to light, the Congressman doesn’t take the fall, but Aviva does, and her life is over before it hardly begins. She bec...(展开全部)

Young Jane Young's heroine is Aviva Grossman, an ambitious Congressional intern in Florida who makes the life-changing mistake of having an affair with her boss‑‑who is beloved, admired, successful, and very married‑‑and blogging about it. When the affair comes to light, the Congressman doesn’t take the fall, but Aviva does, and her life is over before it hardly begins. She bec...(展开全部)

Manchester, 1976, Tony Wilson is an ambitious but frustrated local TV news reporter looking for a way to make his mark. After witnessing a life-changing concert by an unknown band called the Sex Pistols, he persuades his station to televise one of their performances. Soon Manchester's punk groups are clamouring for him to manage them. Riding the wave of a musical revolution, Wi...(展开全部)

Manchester, 1976, Tony Wilson is an ambitious but frustrated local TV news reporter looking for a way to make his mark. After witnessing a life-changing concert by an unknown band called the Sex Pistols, he persuades his station to televise one of their performances. Soon Manchester's punk groups are clamouring for him to manage them. Riding the wave of a musical revolution, Wi...(展开全部)

CAN SHE ESCAPE THE PERSON SHE ONCE LOVED? Beth Murphy is on the run… For nearly a year, Beth has been plotting to leave her abusive husband. This is her one chance at freedom—one that requires a new look, new name and new city. Each part of her plan has to be carefully thought out, because one small slip and her violent husband will find her. Sabine Hardison is missing… A coupl...(展开全部)

科蒂斯·希登弗尔德，因长篇小说处女作《奥尔特校园手记》（PREP）而声名鹊起的美国才女型作家，一九七六年出生，十六岁时在《十七岁》杂志举办的小说大赛中胜出。一九九八年，她在《密西西比评论》的年度小说比赛中获奖。他的作品曾发表在《纽约时报》、《华盛顿邮报》、《沙龙》等报纸杂志上，还曾在公共电台“美国生活”栏目中播出。她是斯坦福大学的毕业生和爱荷华作家协会的成员，曾获得哥白尼社团的美国奖。《奥尔特校园手记》当选为《纽约时报》二00五年十佳图书之一，并入围英国的奥兰治奖。他的第二部长篇小说《致我的青蛙王子》。（The Man of my Drdam）也颇受好评。《美国夫人》（American Wife）是希登费尔德的第三部长篇小说，被《纽约时报》评选为二00九年值得关注的图书，同时被亚马逊网上书店、《芝加哥论坛报》、《娱乐》周刊、美国公共广播电台、《人物》...(展开全部)

In the year 2000, in the closest election in American history, Alice Blackwell's husband becomes president of the United States. Their time in the White House proves to be heady, tumultuous, and controversial. But it is Alice's own story - that of a kind, bookish, only child born in the 1940s Midwest who comes to inhabit a life of dizzying wealth and power - that is itself rema...(展开全部)

The provocative classic work newly updated An intimate personal odyssey across America's changing sexual landscape When first published, Gay Talese's 1981 groundbreaking work, Thy Neighbor's Wife , shocked a nation with its powerful, eye-opening revelations about the sexual activities and proclivities of the American public in the era before AIDS. A marvel of journal...(展开全部)

That saying? Behind every famous man ...? From Mrs Midas to Queen Kong, from Elvis' twin sister to Pygmalion's bride, they're all here, in Carol Ann Duffy's inspired and inspirational collection, "The World's Wife". Witty and thought-provoking, this is a tongue-in-cheek, no-holds-barred look at the real movers and shakers across history, myth and legend. If you have ever wonder...(展开全部)