A huge international bestseller, this ambitious novel plumbsthe depths of our shared humanity to offer up a breathtakinginsight into life, love, and literature itself. A major hit inGermany that went on to become one of Europe’s biggest literaryblockbusters in the last five years, Night Train to Lisbon is anastonishing novel, a compelling exploration of consciousness, thepossibility of truly understanding another person, and the abilityof language to define our very selves. Raimund Gregorius is a Latinteacher at a Swiss college who one day -- after a chance encounterwith a mysterious Portuguese woman -- abandons his old life tostart a new one. He takes the night train to Lisbon and carrieswith him a book by Amadeu de Prado, a (fictional) Portuguese doctorand essayist whose writings explore the ideas of loneliness,mortality, death, friendship, love, and loyalty. Gregorius becomesobsessed by what he reads and restlessly struggles to comprehendthe life of the author. His investigations lead him all over

In this widely hailed book, NPR correspondent Tom Gjeltenfuses the story of the Bacardi family and their famous rum businesswith Cuba's tumultuous experience over the last 150 years toproduce a deeply entertaining historical narrative. The companyFacundo Bacardi launched in Cuba in 1862 brought worldwide fame tothe island, and in the decades that followed his Bacardidescendants participated in every aspect of Cuban life. With hisintimate account of their struggles and adventures across fivegenerations, Gjelten brings to life the larger story of Cuba'sfight for freedom, its tortured relationship with America, the riseof Fidel Castro, and the violent division of the Cuban nation.

A man went to knock at the king's door and said, Give me aboat. The king's house had many other doors, but this was the doorfor petitions. Since the king spent all his time sitting at thedoor for favors (favors being offered to the king, you understand),whenever he heard someone knocking at the door for petitions, hewould pretend not to hear . . ." Why the petitioner required aboat, where he was bound for, and who volunteered to crew for him,the reader will discover in this delightful fable, a philosophiclove story worthy of Swift or Voltaire.

The combination of cartoons with sharp wit is what makes this book so uniquely special.' Books Quaterly (Waterstones) '... full of charm ... imaginative and bursting with inventive, off-the-wall humour, making them great stories to be read aloud.' Waterstones Books Quarterly 'another triumph from the creative pen of Cressida Cowell.' Writeaway.org '... inspired series ... its enchantment lies primarily in the comical, affectionate and often irritable relationship between Hiccup (the only nerd in the violent Viking Hooligan tribe) and his runty little dragon Toothless.' Amanda Craig, The Times Fiercely exciting and laugh-aloud funny, it is as full of joy for children of 7+ who have given up reading as for those who love it. Amanda Craig, The Times CHILDREN'S BOOK OF THE WEEK: This book is great fun and has a Blackadderish sense of humour ... full of the sort of jokes that will make schoolboys snigger. Nicolette Jones, The Sunday Times How to Train Your Dragon is a delightful narrative caper... It offers

Seventeenth-century pirate genius William Dampier sailedaround the world three times when crossing the Pacific was a majorfeat, was the first explorer to visit all five continents, andreached Australia eighty years before Captain Cook. His exploitscreated a sensation in Europe. Swift and Defoe used his experiencesin writing Gulliver's Travels and Robinson Crusoe. Darwinincorporated his concept of "sub-species" into the theory ofevolution. Dampier's de*ion of breadfruit was the impetus forCaptain Bligh's voyage on the Bounty. He was so influential thattoday he has more than one thousand entries in the Oxford EnglishDictionary, including such words as chopsticks, barbecue, andkumquat. Anthropologists still use his work.

Reginald Rose s landmark American drama was a critically acclaimed teleplay, and went on to become a cinematic masterpiece in 1957 starring Henry Fonda, for which Rose wrote the adaptation. A blistering character study and an examination of the American melting pot and the judicial system that keeps it in check, Twelve Angry Men holds at its core a deeply patriotic belief in the U.S. legal system. The story s focal point, known only as Juror Eight, is at first the sole holdout in an 11-1 guilty vote. Eight sets his sights not on proving the other jurors wrong but rather on getting them to look at the situation in a clear-eyed way not affected by their personal biases. Rose deliberately and carefully peels away the layers of artifice from the men and allows a fuller picture of America, at its best and worst, to form.

What is it about bread? Why am I, here in the middle of mylife, so enamored of French loaves? Two images kept cropping up:two French people sitting in a café for a long afternoon of eatingthick hunks of bread and drinking cups of coffee, and a Frenchmanon a bicycle with a loaf slung across his handlebars. These visionsseemed to depict lives soaked in leisure, where there was time forthe good things. . . . Then this thought ambled forth: It's thedailiness of bread, like a reliable friend. . . . My plan starts tobillow forth. My project, as I imagine it, will be a naturalhistory, an ecology of bread. The story of a loaf. Overcome by a passion for French bread, Sara Mansfield Tabertravels to Brittany in search of a loaf, which like the lifestylethat must surely accompany it, is perfect in its simplicity. Aftermany months of seeking, she tears off a hunk of pain troisrivières, made by Gold Medal baker Monsieur Jean-Claude Choquet ofBlain, Loire-Atlantique. It "smelled like heaven and tasted a miled

A look at the events surrounding the incarceration of nativeAmerican activist Leonard Peltier elucidates the traditional Indianconcept of the sacred inviolability of the earth and presents newevidence supporting Peltier's claims of innocence, arguing for anew trial. Reprint.

Peter Pan, the "boy who would not grow up," originally appearedas a baby living a magical life among birds and fairies in J.M.Barrie’s sequence of stories, Peter Pan in KensingtonGardens . His later role as flying boy hero was brought to thestage by Barrie in the beloved play Peter Pan , which openedin 1904 and became the novel Peter and Wendy in 1911. In anarrative filled with vivid characters, epic battles, pirates,fairies, and fantastic imagination, Peter Pan’s adventures capturethe spirit of childhood— and of rebellion against the role ofadulthood in conventional society. This edition includes the novel and the stories, as well as anintroduction by eminent scholar Jack Zipes. Looking at the manbehind Peter Pan and sifting through the psychologicalinterpretations that have engaged many a critic, Zipes explores thelarger cultural and literary contexts in which we should appreciateBarrie’s enduring creation and shows why Peter Pan is a worknot for children but for adults seeking to reconnect

In Storybrooke, Maine, Emma Swan and Mary Margaret Blanchardare friends and roommates. They're united in their mission to makelife better for Henry, Emma's young son, who has been raised byStorybrooke's vicious mayor, Regina Mills. Henry is convinced thatMary Margaret and Emma are more than just roommates, however. Hebelieves they're family-mother and daughter fairy-tale charactersexiled from their enchanted forest by an evil curse. And he'sright: Mary Margaret is Snow White, and Emma is her daughter. In this companion book to the hit ABC television show Once Upon ATime, Emma and Snow tell their own stories, in their own words, forthe first time. With Emma relating her time in Storybrooke and Snownarrating the events of fairytale land, present and future fans ofthe show will get a whole new look at their favorite characters andstories. Show de*ion from ABC: "From the inventive minds of Lost executive producers AdamHorowitz and Edward Kitsis, the show is a bold new

Amazon Best of the Month, August 2010: "The awful thing about life is this:" says Octave to the Marquis in Renoir's Rules of the Game. "Everyone has his reasons." That could be a motto for novelists as well, few more so than Jonathan Franzen, who seems less concerned with creating merely likeable characters than ones who are fully alive, in all their self-justifying complexity. Freedom is his fourth novel, and, yes, his first in nine years since The Corrections. Happy to say, it's very much a match for that great book, a wrenching, funny, and forgiving portrait of a Midwestern family (from St. Paul this time, rather than the fictional St. Jude). Patty and Walter Berglund find each other early: a pretty jock, focused on the court and a little lost off it, and a stolid budding lawyer, besotted with her and almost burdened by his integrity. They make a family and a life together, and, over time, slowly lose track of each other. Their stories align at times with Big Issues--among them mountaintop removal, war pro

二十一岁的巴特与十八岁的新兵莫菲，於美国出兵伊拉克前夕于军中相识，两人一见如故，巴特答应莫菲母亲，会平安带著她儿子归来，但二○○五年，只剩巴特独自一人退伍返国。莫菲在伊拉克战场上因饱受死亡威胁，精神崩溃逃出军营，巴特与士官长施大林发现他时，莫菲已遭不明人士虐杀，全身赤裸，不仅眼睛被挖出，耳朵、鼻子被割掉，生殖器也几乎被切断，两人在怕事的心态下将莫菲丢入河中佯装失踪，巴特事后假扮莫菲写了封信给莫菲之母。然而等到巴特退伍回国后，莫菲的尸体浮现在底格里斯河与幼发拉底河的汇流处…… A novel written by a veteran of the war in Iraq, The YellowBirds is the harrowing story of two young soldiers trying to stayalive. "The war tried to kill us in the spring." So begins thispowerful account of friendship and loss. In Al Tafar, Iraq,twenty-one-year old Private Bartle and eighte

Set in Cairo around the end of World War I, as Egypt, a Britishprotectorate, clamors for independence, 1988 Nobel Prize-winnerMahfouz's epic family drama explores deep fissures in thepatriarchal structure of one household. Prosperous merchant AhmadAbd al-Jawad, a tyrant at home, roams Cairo's tawdry entertainmentdistrict by night seeking illicit pleasures. His submissive wifeAmina is chained to the house; he throws her out on the streetafter she commits the sin of going outdoors for a walk. His twodaughters constantly bicker, and his three sons are beyond hiscontrol: Yasin commits sexual assaults on servants; Fahmy becomesan activist in the nationalist movement, while Kamal befriendsBritish soldiers. The first volume in Mahfouz's Cairo Trilogy(1956-57), this dense novel charts an Egypt lurching into themodern age. Mahfouz is a master at building up dramatic scenes andat portraying complex characters in depth. Copyright 1989 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This textrefers to an out of print or unavailable

赵进顺、倪春辉主编的《预防医学医学统计学和流行病学（英文版）》是在中国大陆出版的《预防医学、医学统计学和流行病学》英语版教科书，由浙江省和江苏省五所高等院校以及美国德克萨斯大学等有关单位的预防医学专家编著而成。本书分为预防医学、医学统计学和流行病学三个部分，主要介绍生活环境、职业环境以及食品营养因素对健康的影响·健康与疾病统计分析研究中常用的医学统计学和流行病学方法。附录部分包括医学统汁方法常用附表，供使用者参考或查阅。 《预防医学医学统计学和流行病学（英文版）》内容简明、新颖，实用性强，可作为临床医学及相关专业留学生的本科、专科或研究生教材，同时也是疾病防治和临床医务工作者有用的参考书。

Newsweek calls him "an extraordinarily canny and empatheticobserver." In bestseller after bestseller, Turow uses hisbackground as a lawyer to create suspense fiction so authentic itreads with the hammering impact of fact. But before he became aworldwide sensation, Scott Turow wrote a book that is entirelytrue, the account of his own searing indoctrination into the fieldof law called ... The first year of law school is an intellectualand emotional ordeal so grueling that it ensures only the fittestsurvive. Now Scott Turow takes you inside the oldest and mostprestigious law school in the country when he becomes a "One L," asentering students are known at Harvard Law School. In a book thatbecame a national bestseller, a law school primer, and a classicautobiography, he brings to life the fascinating, shocking realityof that first year. Provocative and riveting, One L reveals theexperience directly from the combat zone: the humiliations,triumphs, hazings, betrayals, and challenges that will make him alawye

Slapstick presents an apocalyptic vision seen through the eyesof the current King of Manhattan (and last President of the UnitedStates), a wickedly irreverent look at the all-too-possible resultsof today's follies. But even the end of life-as-we-know-it istransformed by Vonnegut's pen into hilarious farce (a finalslapstick that may be the Almighty's joke on us all.) "Vonnegut'songoing puppet show...that fabulous is reborn."--John Updike "Bothfunny and sad...just about perfect "--"Los AngelesTimes""Imaginative and hilarious...a brilliant vision of ourwrecked, wacked-out future."--"Hartford Courant "*"The New YorkTimes"

Published in 1782, this collection of stories includes a vividportrait of the American scene, from New England seafaring life toSouthern plantation culture. The second collection of storiesexplores some of the unpleasant truths about America's birthpangs.

“尽管他们的责任巨大，时刻面对激烈的争论甚至暴力冲突，在美国历史上也仅有4位联邦法官在任上被谋杀.雷蒙德法官却成为了第五位。他的尸体在用来度假的湖边自建小屋中被发现。他未能出现在周一法庭上，工作人员报警了，不久人们就找到了谋杀现场。那里没有强行进入或挣扎的痕迹，仅有的只是两具尸体—法官大人和他的秘书。我不认识法官大人，但我知道谁为什么杀了他。我是个律师，我被关押在监，这可说来话长了。” 马尔科姆·班尼斯特（MalcolmBannister）是一名正在监狱服刑的前任律师。他知道谁是杀害一位联邦法官的幕后黑手。不过美国联邦调查局想要从他口中换取线索，就得满足他所提出的条件：用情报换自由。 Given the importance of what they do, and the controversies thatoften surround them, and the violent people they sometimesconfront, it is remarkable that in the history of the