Dennis Rodman shoots from the lip as he talks about everythingfrom the NBA and his game, his sexuality, dating, his wild flingwith superstar Madonna, and morality. Reprint."

Einstein believed in humanity, in a peaceful world of mutualhelpfulness, and in the high mission of science. Intended as a pleafor these beliefs, this book, like no other provides a complete keyto the understanding of this distinguished man's personality.

In his first-ever work of nonfiction, Graham Swift—BookerPrize-winning author of Waterland and Last Orders—gives us a highlypersonal book: a singular and open-spirited account of a writer’slife. Here Kazuo Ishiguro advises on how to choose a guitar; SalmanRushdie arrives for Christmas under guard; Caryl Phillips shares abeer with the author at a nightclub in Toronto. There are privatemoments with Swift’s father and with his own younger self, as wellas musings—on history, memory, and imagination—that illuminate hiswork. As generous in its scope as it is acute in its observations,Making an Elephant brings together a richly varied selection ofessays, portraits, poetry and interviews, full of insights intoSwift’s passions and motivations, and wise about the friends,family and other writers who have mattered to him over theyears.

Paul Newman, the Oscar-winning actor with the legendary blueeyes, achieved superstar status by playing charismatic renegades,broken heroes, and winsome antiheroes in such revered films as TheHustler, Cool Hand Luke, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, TheVerdict, The Color of Money, and Nobody’s Fool. But Newman was alsoan oddity in Hollywood: the rare box-office titan who cared aboutthe craft of acting, the sexy leading man known for the stayingpower of his marriage, and the humble celebrity who madephilanthropy his calling card long before it was cool. The son of a successful entrepreneur, Newman grew up in aprosperous Cleveland suburb. Despite fears that he would fail tolive up to his father’s expectations, Newman bypassed the familysporting goods business to pursue an acting career. Afterstruggling as a theater and television actor, Newman saw his starrise in a tragic twist of fate, landing the role of boxer RockyGraziano in Somebody Up There Likes Me when James Dean was killedin a car a

As news of the 50-year-old pop superstar's demise spread around the world, there were tears, shock and surprise: a hero was dead. One of the greatest pop music icons the world has ever seen, Michael Jackson had millions of fans all around the world and had an undeniable influence upon fashion, music and popular culture. It contains: never-before-published photographs from the set of "Thriller" by hugely famous celebrity photographer Douglas Kirkland. It features photos by some of the greatest music photographers in the business, including Lynn Goldsmith, Kevin Mazur, Neal Preston, Laura Levine and Steve Schapiro. It includes family photographs of Michael, Debbie Rowe and their two children that have never before been published in book form.

First U.S. Publication A major literary event--the complete, uncensored journals of SylviaPlath, published in their entirety for the first time. Sylvia Plath's journals were originally published in 1982 in aheavily abridged version authorized by Plath's husband, Ted Hughes.This new edition is an exact and complete tran*ion of thediaries Plath kept during the last twelve years of her life. Sixtypercent of the book is material that has never before been madepublic, more fully revealing the intensity of the poet's personaland literary struggles, and providing fresh insight into both herfrequent desperation and the bravery with which she faced down herdemons. The complete Journals of Sylvia Plath is essentialreading for all who have been moved and fascinated by Plath's lifeand work. First U.S. Publication A major literary event--the complete, uncensored journals of SylviaPlath, published in their entirety for the first time. Sylvia Plath's journals were originally published in 1982 in aheavily abridged ve

Warren Buffett is the most successful investor of all time. His ability to consistently find undervalued companies has made him one of the world's richest men. Yet while his track record is hard to argue with, the Buffett way isn't the only way, nor is it always the best way, to invest. Even Buffett Isn't Perfect dispels many myths about Buffett and his "solid as a rock" style. It shows readers how to learn from the master's best moves while avoiding strategies that don't apply to small investors -- and avoiding Buffett's mistakes, such as sometimes riding his winners too long.

在线阅读本书 Book De*ion An American classic rediscovered by each generation, The Storyof My Life is Helen Keller’s account of her triumph overdeafness and blindness. Popularized by the stage play and movie TheMiracle Worker, Keller’s story has become a symbol of hope forpeople all over the world. This book–published when Keller was only twenty-two–portrays thewild child who is locked in the dark and silent prison of her ownbody. With an extraordinary immediacy, Keller reveals herfrustrations and rage, and takes the reader on the unforgettablejourney of her education and breakthroughs into the world ofcommunication. From the moment Keller recognizes the word “water”when her teacher finger-spells the letters, we share her triumph as“that living word awakened my soul, gave it light, hope, joy, setit free!” An unparalleled chronicle of courage, The Story of MyLife remains startlingly fresh and vital more than a centuryafter its first publication, a timeless testament to an indo

With the Rolling Stones, Keith Richards created the riffs, thelyrics and the songs that roused the world, and over four decadeshe lived the original rock and roll life: taking the chances hewanted, speaking his mind, and making it all work in a way that noone before him had ever done. Now, at last, the man himself tellsus the story of life in the crossfire hurricane. And what a life.Listening obsessively to Chuck Berry and Muddy Waters records as achild in post-war Kent. Learning guitar and forming a band withMick Jagger and Brian Jones. The Rolling Stones' first fame andsuccess as a bad-boy band. The notorious Redlands drug bust andsubsequent series of confrontations with a nervous establishmentthat led to his enduring image as outlaw and folk hero. Creatingimmortal riffs such as the ones in 'Jumping Jack Flash' and 'StreetFighting Man' and 'Honky Tonk Women'. Falling in love with AnitaPallenberg and the death of Brian Jones. Tax exile in France,wildfire tours of the US, 'Exile on Main Street' and 'So

With the first publication, in this edition, of all thesurviving letters of Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961), readers will forthe first time be able to follow the thoughts, ideas and actions ofone of the great literary figures of the twentieth century in hisown words. This first volume encompasses his youth, his experiencein World War I and his arrival in Paris. The letters reveal a morecomplex person than Hemingway's tough guy public persona wouldsuggest: devoted son, affectionate brother, infatuated lover,adoring husband, spirited friend and disciplined writer. Unguardedand never intended for publication, the letters record experiencesthat inspired his art, afford insight into his creative process andexpress his candid assessments of his own work and that of hiscontemporaries. The letters present immediate accounts of eventsand relationships that profoundly shaped his life and work. Adetailed introduction, notes, chronology, illustrations and indexare included.

From this book's first chapter: "To be able to float free, with gravity exerting no impact. To live in Neverland. To be idolized-to be loved-by millions around the world. "These seem completely unreasonable dreams. But from a boy from Gary, Indiana, who was special from the first, they became more than dreams. They became fundamental needs. And they were achieved during a lifetime that was stunning in its highs and lows, and that was, ultimately, far, far too short. "Far too short and, more sadly still, perhaps poised for a triumphant next chapter. We will never know." While that is true-we will never know-we can revisit and celebrate that extraordinary life, and we do so in words and pictures in this special commemorative book. Although Michael Jackson lived just 50 years, he spent the great majority of that time in the public eye. We loved his as a boy, radiating joy and dancing up a storm in the Jackson 5, his falsetto tenor pouring forth from car radios coast to coast. We were subsequent

In the tradition of our best-selling Secret Lives of the U.S.Presidents (120,000 copies in print), here are outrageous anduncensored profiles of the world's greatest artists, complete withhundreds of little-known, politically incorrect, and downrightbizarre facts. Consider: Michelangelo had such repellant body odorthat his assistants couldn't stand working for him. Pablo Picassodid jail time for ripping off several statues from the Louvre.Gabriel Dante Rossetti's favorite pet was a wombat that slept onhis dining room table. Vincent van Gogh sometimes ate paintdirectly from the tube. Georgia O'Keeffe liked to paint in thenude. Salvador Dal concocted a perfume from dung to attract theattention of his future wife. With outrageous anecdotes abouteveryone from Leonardo (accused sodomist) to Caravaggio (convictedmurderer) to Edward Hopper (alleged wife beater), Secret Lives ofGreat Artists is an art history lesson you'll never forget

Finally an expansive biography of one of the twentiethcentury’s greatest music and cultural icons From noted author and rock ’n’ roll journalist Marc Spitz comes amajor David Bowie biography to rival any other. Following Bowie’slife from his start as David Jones, an R B—loving kid fromBromley, England, to his rise to rock ’n’ roll aristocracy as DavidBowie, Bowie recounts his career but also reveals how much hismusic has influenced other musicians and forever changed thelandscape of the modern era. Along the way, Spitz reflects on howgrowing up with Bowie as his soundtrack and how writing thisdefinitive book on Bowie influenced him in ways he never expected,adding a personal dimension that Bowie fans and those passionateabout art and culture will connect with and that no other bio onthe artist offers. Bowie takes an in-depth look at the culture of postwar England inwhich Bowie grew up, the mod and hippie scenes of swinging Londonin the sixties, the sex and drug

Gandhi's non-violent struggles against racism, violence, andcolonialism in South Africa and India had brought him to such alevel of notoriety, adulation that when asked to write anautobiography midway through his career, he took it as anopportunity to explain himself. He feared the enthusiasm for hisideas tended to exceed a deeper understanding of his quest fortruth rooted in devotion to God. His attempts to get closer to thisdivine power led him to seek purity through simple living, dietarypractices, celibacy, and a life without violence. This is not astraightforward narrative biography, in The Story of My Experimentswith Truth, Gandhi offers his life story as a reference for thosewho would follow in his footsteps.

If you had to give America a voice, it’s been said more thanonce, that voice would be Willie Nelson’s. For more than fiftyyears, he’s taken the stuff of his life—the good and the bad—andmade from it a body of work that has become a permanent part of ourmusical heritage and kept us company through the good and the badof our own lives. So it’s fitting, and cause for celebration, thathe has finally set down in his own words a book that does justiceto his great gifts as a storyteller. In The Facts of Life ,Willie Nelson reflects on what has mattered to him in life and whathasn’t. He also tells some great dirty jokes. The result is a bookas wise and hilarious as its author.

He squared off against Caesar and was friends with youngBrutus. He advised the legendary Pompey on his somewhat botchedtransition from military hero to politician. He lambasted MarkAntony and was master of the smear campaign, as feared for his witas he was for exposing his opponents? sexual peccadilloes.Brilliant, voluble, cranky, a genius of political manipulation butalso a true patriot and idealist, Cicero was Rome?s most fearedpolitician, one of the greatest lawyers and statesmen of all times.Machiavelli, Queen Elizabeth, John Adams and Winston Churchill allstudied his example. No man has loomed larger in the politicalhistory of mankind. In this dynamic and engaging biography, Anthony Everittplunges us into the fascinating, scandal-ridden world of ancientRome in its most glorious heyday. Accessible to us through hislegendary speeches but also through an unrivaled collection ofunguarded letters to his close friend Atticus, Cicero comes to lifein these pages as a witty and cunning political ope

Call Me Anna is an American success story that grew out of abizarre and desperate struggle for survival. A harrowing,ultimately triumphant story told by Patty Duke herself--wife,mother, political activist, President of The Screen Actors Guild,and at last, a happy, fulfilled woman whose miracle is her ownlife. (Nonfiction)

They called him Neutron Jack. They called him the world's toughest boss. And then Fortune called him "The Manager of the Century." In his twenty-year career at the helm of General Electric, Jack Welch defied conventional wisdom and turned an aging behemoth of a corporation into a lean, mean engine of growth and corporate innovation. In this remarkable autobiography--now updated with a special new afterword by the author--Jack Welch takes us on the rough-and-tumble ride that has been his remarkable life. From his working-class childhood to his early days in G.E. Plastics to his life at the top of the world's most successful company, JACK is ultimately a story about people--from a man who based his career on demanding only the best from others and from himself. ... 作者简介： "JACK is about something so rarely encountered in American life today. That something is called getting it right The point of this book is to help us understand how Jack Welch got it done."--Michael M. Thomas, Financial Obse

The Outsider is an unsentimental yet profoundly moving look atone family’s experience with mental illness. In 1978, CharlesLachenmeyer was a happily married professor of sociology who livedin the New York suburbs with his wife and nine-year-old son,Nathaniel. But within a few short years, schizophrenia–adevastating mental illness with no known cure–would cost himeverything: his sanity, his career, his family, even the roof overhis head. Upon learning of his father’s death in 1995, Nathanielset out to search for the truth behind his father’s haunted,solitary existence. Rich in imagery and poignant symbolism, TheOutsider is a beautifully written memoir of a father’s struggle tosurvive with dignity, and a son’s struggle to know the father helost to schizophrenia long before he finally lost him todeath. The Outsider is a recipient of the Kenneth Johnson MemorialResearch Library Book Award and is the winner of the 2000 Bell ofHope Award, presented annually by the Mental Health Associatio

Amusing, irreverent, sophisticated and highly accessible,Einstein for Beginners is the perfect introduction to Einstein'slife and thought. Reaching back as far as Babylon (for the origins of mathematics)and the Etruscans (who thought they could handle lightning), thisbook takes us through the revolutions in electrical communicationsand technology that made the theory of relativity possible. In theprocess, we meet scientific luminaries and personalities ofimperial Germany, as well as Galileo, Faraday, and Newton; learnwhy moving clocks run slower than stationary ones, why nothing cango faster than the speed of light; and follow Albert's thought ashe works his way toward E = mc2, the most famous equation of thetwentieth century.