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The Servant
James C. Hunter 试读
In this absorbing tale, you watch the timeless principles of servant leadership unfold through the story of John Daily, a businessman whose outwardly successful life is spiraling out of control. He is failing miserably in each of his leadership roles as boss, husband, father, and coach. To get his life back on track, he reluctantly attends a weeklong leadership retreat at a remote Benedictine monastery.
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All Quiet on the Western Front
Erich Maria Remarque 试读
Paul Baumer enlisted with his classmates in the German army of World War I. Youthful, enthusiastic, they become soldiers. But despite what they have learned, they break into pieces under the first bombardment in the trenches. And as horrible war plods on year after year, Paul holds fast to a single vow: to fight against the principles of hate that meaninglessly pits young men of the same generation but different uniforms against each other--if only he can come out of the war alive.
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The Da Vinci Code
Dan Brown 试读
The elderly curator of the Louvre has been murdered inside the museum, his body covered in baffling symbols. As Langdon and gifted French cryptologist Sophie Neveu sort through the bizarre riddles, they are stunned to discover a trail of clues hidden in the works of Leonardo da Vinci—clues visible for all to see and yet ingeniously disguised by the painter.
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Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
Rowling, J.K.;Moss, Olly 试读
"'There will be three tasks, spaced throughout the school year, and they will test the champions in many different ways … their magical prowess - their daring - their powers of deduction - and, of course, their ability to cope with danger.'" The Triwizard Tournament is to be held at Hogwarts. Only wizards who are over seventeen are allowed to enter - but that doesn't stop Harry dreaming that he will win the competition. Then at Hallowe'en, when the Goblet of Fire makes its selection, Harry is amazed to find his name is one of those that the magical cup picks out. He will face death-defying tasks, dragons and Dark wizards, but with the help of his best friends, Ron and Hermione, he might just make it through - alive!
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Super Thinking
Gabriel Weinberg 试读
The world's greatest problem-solvers, forecasters, and decision-makers all rely on a set of frameworks and shortcuts that help them cut through complexity and separate good ideas from bad ones. They're called mental models, and you can find them in dense textbooks on psychology, physics, economics, and more
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The Last Kids on Earth
Max Brallier 试读
Ever since the monster apocalypse hit town, average thirteen year old Jack Sullivan has been living in his tree house, which he's armed to the teeth with catapults and a moat, not to mention video games and an endless supply of Oreos and Mountain Dew scavenged from abandoned stores. But Jack alone is no match for the hordes of Zombies and Winged Wretches and Vine Thingies, and especially not for the eerily intelligent monster known only as Blarg.
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Fairy Mom and Me #1
Sophie Kinsella 试读
Ella Brook can't wait to grow up, because one day she will become a fairy and have her own sparkly wings and a teacher on Fairy Tube, just like her mom! Until then, Ella has to learn by watching.
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The Mysterious Island
Jules Verne 试读
Based on the true story of Alexander Selkirk, who survived alone for almost five years on an uninhabited island off the coast of Chile, The Mysterious Island is considered by many to be Jules Verne’s masterpiece. “Wide-eyed mid-nineteenth-century humanistic optimism in a breezy, blissfully readable translation by Stump” (Kirkus Reviews), here is the enthralling tale of five men and a dog who land in a balloon on a faraway.
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Great Dialogues of Plato
Plato 试读
Written in the form of debates,Great Dialogues of Plato comprises the most influential body of philosophy of the Western world—covering every subject from art and beauty to virtue and the nature of love.
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Sherlock Holmes: The Complete Novels and Stories Volume I
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle 试读
Since his first appearance in Beeton’s Christmas Annual in 1887, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes has been one of the most beloved fictional characters ever created. Now, in two paperback volumes, Bantam presents all fifty-six short stories and four novels featuring Conan Doyle’s classic hero--a truly complete collection of Sherlock Holmes’s adventures in crime!
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Difficult Conversations
Douglas Stone 试读
From the Harvard Negotiation Project, the organization that brought you Getting to Yes, Difficult Conversations provides a step-by-step approach to having those tough conversations with less stress and more success.
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High Output Management
Andrew S. Grove 试读
In this legendary business book and Silicon Valley staple, the former chairman and CEO of Intel shares his perspective on how to build and run a company. A practical handbook for navigating real-life business scenarios and a powerful management manifesto with the ability to revolutionize the way we work.
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When Genius Failed
Roger Lowenstein 试读
When it was founded in 1993, Long-Term was hailed as the most impressive hedge fund in history. But after four years in which the firm dazzled Wall Street as a 100 billion moneymaking juggernaut, it suddenly suffered catastrophic losses that jeopardized not only the biggest banks on Wall Street but the stability of the financial system itself.
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The Dollmaker of Krakow
R. M. Romero 试读
Karolina is a living doll whose king and queen have been overthrown. But when a strange wind spirits her away from the Land of the Dolls, she finds herself in Kraków, Poland, in the company of the Dollmaker, a man with an unusual power and a marked past.
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Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore(The Complete Screenplay)
Rowling J.K. 试读
Professor Albus Dumbledore knows the powerful Dark wizard Gellert Grindelwald is moving to seize control of the wizarding world. Unable to stop him alone,he entrusts Magizoologist Newt Scamander to lead an intrepid team of wizards,witches,and one brave Muggle baker on a dangerous mission, where they encounter old and new beasts and clash with Grindelwald's growing legion of followers. But with the stakes so high,how long can Dumbledore remain on the sidelines?
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A Game of Thrones
乔治·R.R.马丁 试读
There his family dwells in peace and comfort: his proud wife, Catelyn; his sons Robb, Brandon, and Rickon; his daughters Sansa and Arya; and his bastard son, Jon Snow. Far to the north, behind the towering Wall, lie savage Wildings and worse—unnatural things relegated to myth during the centuries-long summer, but proving all too real and all too deadly in the turning of the season.
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Death Comes for the Archbishop 大主教之死(英文版)
薇拉·凯瑟 试读
薇拉·凯瑟的代表作《大主教之死》被视为一部历史题材的传奇小说,也是凯瑟“精心构思的作品”。《大主教之死》讲述了兰塔主教与其助手及友人维勇神父在荒蛮的新墨西哥主教教区传教过程中的传奇经历。两人以真诚的友谊、智力上的伙伴关系以及灵魂中的亲密感,写就了一份毕生的生死盟约。此电子书为全英文版。
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A Farewell to Arms 永别了,武器(英文版)
欧内斯特·海明威 试读
《永别了,武器》描写了一场发生在战争年代的爱情故事,海明威在对战争发起控诉的同时,也毫无保留地表达了自己对人生的深沉思考。一对年轻男女,在战火纷飞的时代相爱,不可避免地经历生死别离,他们一直怀抱着希望等待和平,但战争中无法逃避的宿命却给了他们沉重的打击。此电子书版本为全英文版。
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绿山墙的安妮(英文原版)Anne of Green Gables
露西·莫德·蒙哥玛利 试读
本书讲述了纯真善良、热爱生活的女主人公小安妮,自幼失去父母,11岁时被绿山墙的马修和玛丽拉兄妹领养,但她个性鲜明,富于幻想,而且自尊自强,凭借自己的刻苦勤奋,不但得到领养人的喜爱,也赢得老师和同学的关心和友谊。成长与梦想是全书的主题。
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Junie B. Jones #1: Junie B. Jones and the Stupid Smelly Bus
Barbara Park 试读
Meet the World's Funniest Kindergartner—Junie B. Jones! Remember when it was scary to go to school? In the first Junie B. Jones book, it’s Junie B.'s first day and she doesn't know anything. She's so scared of the school bus and the meanies on it that when it's time to go home, she doesn't.
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Short Stories from Hogwarts of Heroism, Hardship and Dangerous Hobbies
Rowling, J.K. 试读
‘Minerva was the Roman goddess of warriors and wisdom. William McGonagall is celebrated as the worst poet in British history. There was something irresistible to me about his name, and the idea that such a brilliant woman might be a distant relative of the buffoonish McGonagall.’ – J.K. Rowling Pottermore Presents is a collection of J.K. Rowling’s writing from the Pottermore archives: short reads originally featured on pottermore.com with some exclusive new additions. These eBooks, with writing curated by Pottermore, will take you beyond the Harry Potter stories as J.K. Rowling reveals her inspiration, intricate details of characters’ lives and surprises from the wizarding world.These stories of heroism, hardship and dangerous hobbies profile two of the Harry Potter stories’ most courageous and iconic characters: Minerva McGonagall and Remus Lupin. J.K. Rowling also gives us a peek behind the closed curtains of Sybill Trelawney’s life, and you’ll encounter the reckless, magical-beast-loving Silvanus Kettleburn along the way.
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Hogwarts: An Incomplete and Unreliable Guide
Rowling, J.K. 试读
‘The Ministry of Magic felt strongly, however, that to construct an additional wizarding station in the middle of London would stretch even the Muggles’ notorious determination not to notice magic when it was exploding in front of their faces.’ – J.K. Rowling Pottermore Presents is a collection of J.K. Rowling’s writing from the Pottermore archives: short reads originally featured on pottermore.com. These eBooks, with writing curated by Pottermore, will take you beyond the Harry Potter stories as J.K. Rowling reveals her inspiration, intricate details of characters’ lives and surprises from the wizarding world.Hogwarts An Incomplete and Unreliable Guide takes you on a journey to Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. You’ll venture into the Hogwarts grounds, become better acquainted with its more permanent residents, learn more about lessons and discover secrets of the castle . . . all at the turn of a page.
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The Maltese Falcon 马耳他之鹰(英文版)
达希尔·哈米特 试读
达希尔·哈米特所著的《马耳他之鹰》是美国硬汉派侦探推理文学的经典之作,多年来一直深受世界各国读者的喜爱。小说中的主要人物――私家侦探山姆·斯佩德被卷入了一起连环凶杀案,而凶杀案的背后却是对一件价值连城的十六世纪珍宝的嗜血争夺。面对人性的丑陋、贪婪与背叛……斯佩德游走于法律的边缘,孤胆与各派势力进行着巧妙的周旋……《马耳他之鹰》曾数度被好莱坞搬上银幕,尤其是一九四一年的汉弗莱·博加特版,已成为黑白影片的经典。此电子书为全英文版。
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Animal Farm 动物农庄(英文版)
乔治·奥威尔 试读
马诺尔农庄一只名叫老梅杰的猪在提出了“人类剥削动物,动物须革命”的理论之后死去,几个月后,农庄里掀起了一场由猪领导的革命,原来的剥削者——主人琼斯先生被赶走,动物们实现了“当家作主”的愿望,尝到了革命果实的甘美,马诺尔农庄被更名为“动物农庄”,还制定了七戒。然而不久,两只领头的猪为了权力而互相倾轧,胜利的一方宣布另一方是叛徒、内奸,猪们逐渐侵占了其他动物的劳动成果,成为新的特权阶级,“所有动物一律平等”的原则被修正为“但有些动物比其他动物更平等”,动物们又恢复到从前的悲惨状况。
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The Sun Also Rises 太阳照常升起(英文版)
欧内斯特·海明威 试读
《太阳照常升起》以1924年至1925年这一历史时段和名城巴黎为背景。围绕一群在感情或爱情上遭受过严重创伤,或者在战争中落下了严重心理或生理机能障碍的英美男女青年放浪形骸的生活,以及发生在他们之间的情感纠葛而展开。反映了这代人意识觉醒后却又感到无路可走的痛苦、悲哀的心境。在《太阳照常升起》之中海明威尽量采用直截了当的抒情、鲜明的对话、简短句式,用简单易懂的词语把事件、景物、人物的语言、心理描写、行动等呈现在读者眼前。作者借此成为“迷惘的一代”的代言人,并以此书开创了海明威式的独特文风。
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The Lost World 失落的世界(英文原版)
柯南·道尔 试读
19世纪与20世纪之交,车卓教授带领一个科学考察团,离开烟雾弥漫的伦敦,远赴南美雨林寻找时光停滞的传说之地——那里仍有恐龙漫步大地。同行的有车卓教授的学术劲敌萨马里教授、勇敢的猎人罗斯顿勋爵、年轻记者马龙。考察团将经历种种冒险,在失落的世界挣扎求存……
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The Great Gatsby了不起的盖茨比(英文原版)
菲茨杰拉德 试读
《了不起的盖茨比》出版于1925年,是美国作家菲茨杰拉德的代表作,奠定了他20世纪20年代“爵士时代”发言人和“迷惘的一代”代表作家的地位。20世纪末,美国学术界权威在百年英语文学长河中选出百部最优秀的小说,《了不起的盖茨比》高居第二位。故事讲述了银行小职员尼克背井离乡来到纽约,盖茨比夜夜笙歌的奢华生活和神秘的个人背景引发了他的好奇。原来,这位富商出身贫寒却爱上了大家闺秀黛西,世界大战爆发拆散了这对有情人。盖茨比带着功勋从战场归来,等待他的却是心上人嫁作他人妇的消息。伤心欲绝的他不择手段成为富翁,挥金如土,彻夜笙箫,为的就是引起黛西的注意,挽回失去的爱情。 尼克为盖茨比的痴情打动,为两人牵线搭桥。殊不知黛西早已不复当年,而是一副拜金面孔,与盖茨比的重温旧梦不过是她在婚姻外寻求的刺激。一次意外,黛西驾车时撞死了丈夫汤姆的情人威尔逊太太,盖茨比为救心上人决意顶罪,汤姆却借此唆使威尔逊杀死了盖茨比。薄情的黛西没有为盖茨比送葬,而是与丈夫踏上欧洲游玩的旅程。盖茨比草草结束了荒唐悲剧的一生。而目睹了人世间薄情寡义的尼克,也离开了喧嚣、冷漠、空洞、虚假的纽约,黯然回到故乡。
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百年哈佛经典第16卷:天方夜谭(英文原版)
CHARLES W.ELIOT 试读
百年哈佛经典(全套50册)(英文原版)登陆中国,哈佛大学第二任校长查尔斯·爱略特倾心主编。全套50卷,共精选400多位人类史上优秀思想家的136本专著,是国内首套权威的人类文明传世之作。 哈佛大学第二任校长查尔斯·爱略特(CHARLES W.ELIOT)任主编,哈佛大学及其他名校100多位享誉全球的教授任分册编辑,历时数年完成。自1901年问世至今,畅销100多年,成为西方家庭的必备藏书,西方学生接受古代和近代文明教育的读物。引领中国思想家胡适先生进入西方文明殿堂的一块敲门砖。 万卷出版公司与北京神鸟文化发展有限公司倾心5年时间精心打造。
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百年哈佛经典第14卷:唐吉珂德(英文原版)
CHARLES W.ELIOT 试读
百年哈佛经典(全套50册)(英文原版)登陆中国,哈佛大学第二任校长查尔斯·爱略特倾心主编。全套50卷,共精选400多位人类史上优秀思想家的136本专著,是国内首套权威的人类文明传世之作。 哈佛大学第二任校长查尔斯·爱略特(CHARLES W. ELIOT)任主编,哈佛大学及其他名校100多位享誉全球的教授任分册编辑,历时数年完成。自1901年问世至今,畅销100多年,成为西方家庭的必备藏书,西方学生接受古代和近代文明教育的读物。引领中国思想家胡适先生进入西方文明殿堂的一块敲门砖。 万卷出版公司与北京神鸟文化发展有限公司倾心5年时间精心打造。
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Team of Teams
Gen. Stanley McChrystal 试读
As commander of Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC), General Stanley McChrystal discarded a century of management wisdom and pivoted from a pursuit of mechanical efficiency to organic adaptability. In this book, he shows how any organization can make the same transition to act like a team of teams - where small groups combine the freedom to experiment with a relentless drive to share their experience.
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A Little Life
Hanya Yanagihara 试读
A Little Lifefollows four college classmates—broke, adrift, and buoyed only by their friendship and ambition—as they move to New York in search of fame and fortune. While their relationships, which are tinged by addiction, success, and pride, deepen over the decades, the men are held together by their devotion to the brilliant, enigmatic Jude, a man scarred by an unspeakable childhood trauma.
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Economics in One Lesson
Henry Hazlitt 试读
A million copy seller, Henry Hazlitt’s Economics in One Lesson is a classic economic primer. But it is also much more, having become a fundamental influence on modern “libertarian” economics of the type espoused by Ron Paul and others.
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The Talent Code
Daniel Coyle 试读
What is the secret of talent? How do we unlock it? In this groundbreaking work, journalist and New York Times bestselling author Daniel Coyle provides parents, teachers, coaches, businesspeople—and everyone else—with tools they can use to maximize potential in themselves and others.
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Be a Brilliant Business Writer
Jane Curry 试读
Jane Curry and Diana Young will show you how to convey your message with clarity and power, increase your productivity by reducing rewrites, and provide just the right tone for navigating the minefield of office politics. With its smart, savvy advice, Be a Brilliant Business Writer will help you write to boost the bottom line, win professional accolades, and gain greater job security.
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Positive Discipline
Jane Nelsen Ed.D. 试读
For twenty-five years, Positive Discipline has been the gold standard reference for grown-ups working with children. Now Jane Nelsen, distinguished psychologist, educator, and mother of seven, has written a revised and expanded edition. The key to positive discipline is not punishment, she tells us, but mutual respect.
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The All Souls Real-time Reading Companion
Deborah Harkness 试读
A richly illustrated real-time reading guide that brings to life the world created by Deborah Harkness in A Discovery of WitchesandShadow of Night retracing the events of the bestselling novels with illuminating behind-the-scenes details;A world of witches, vampires, and;daemons. A manuscript that holds the secrets of their past and the key to their future.Diana and Matthew—the forbidden love at the heart of the adventure.
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The Science of Getting Rich
Wallace D. Wattles 试读
Wallace D. Wattles spent a lifetime considering the laws of success as he found them in the work of the world's great philosophers. He then turned his life effort into this simple, slender book - a volume that he vowed could replace libraries of philosophy, spirituality, and self-help for the purpose of attaining one definite goal: a life of prosperity.
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Getting Things Done
David Allen 试读
Allen has rewritten the book from start to finish, tweaking his classic text with important perspectives on the new workplace, and adding material that will make the book fresh and relevant for years to come. This new edition of Getting Things Done will be welcomed not only by its hundreds of thousands of existing fans but also by a whole new generation eager to adopt its proven principles.
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Hooked
Nir Eyal 试读
Why do some products capture our attention, while others flop? What makes us engage with certain products out of habit? Is there a pattern underlying how technologies hook us? This book introduces readers to the "Hook Model," a four steps process companies use to build customer habits. Through consecutive hook cycles, successful products reach their ultimate goal of bringing users back repeatedly -- without depending on costly advertising or aggressive messaging.Hooked is a guide to building.
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Night Shift
Stephen King 试读
Stephen King’s first collection of short stories, originally published in 1978, showcases the darkest depths of his brilliant imagination and will "chill the cockles of many a heart" (Chicago Tribune). Night Shift is the inspiration for over a dozen acclaimed horror movies and television series, including Children of the Corn , Chapelwaite, and Lawnmower Man.
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A Field Guide to Getting Lost
Rebecca Solnit 试读
Whether she is contemplating the history of walking as a cultural and political experience over the past 200 years (Wanderlust), or using the life of photographer Eadweard Muybridge as a lens to discuss the transformations of space and time in late 19th-century America (River of Shadows), Rebecca Solnit has emerged as an inventive and original writer whose mind is daring in the connections it makes.
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The Power of Habit
Charles Duhigg 试读
A young woman walks into a laboratory. Over the past two years, she has transformed almost every aspect of her life. She has quit smoking, run a marathon, and been promoted at work. The patterns inside her brain, neurologists discover, have fundamentally changed.
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Minecraft:The Island
Max Brooks 试读
We need to be very clear: I’m not writing the Minecraft book. I'm writing a Minecraft book. If the folks from Halo called me to write the Halo book, I could do that, but you cannot write the Minecraft Book.
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American Culture, American Tastes
Michael Kammen 试读
In American Culture, American Tastes, Michael Kammen leads us on an entertaining, thought-provoking tour of America's changing tastes, uses of leisure, and the shifting perceptions that have accompani.
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百年哈佛经典第7卷:圣奥古斯丁忏悔录(英文原版)
CHARLES W.ELIOT 试读
百年哈佛经典(全套50册)(英文原版)登陆中国,哈佛大学第二任校长查尔斯·爱略特倾心主编。全套50卷,共精选400多位人类史上优秀思想家的136本专著,是国内首套权威的人类文明传世之作。 哈佛大学第二任校长查尔斯·爱略特(CHARLES W. ELIOT)任主编,哈佛大学及其他名校100多位享誉全球的教授任分册编辑,历时数年完成。自1901年问世至今,畅销100多年,成为西方家庭的必备藏书,西方学生接受古代和近代文明教育的读物。引领中国思想家胡适先生进入西方文明殿堂的一块敲门砖。 万卷出版公司与北京神鸟文化发展有限公司倾心5年时间精心打造。
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百年哈佛经典第9卷:论友谊、论老年及书信集(英文原版)
CHARLES W.ELIOT 试读
百年哈佛经典(全套50册)(英文原版)登陆中国,哈佛大学第二任校长查尔斯·爱略特倾心主编。全套50卷,共精选400多位人类史上优秀思想家的136本专著,是国内首套权威的人类文明传世之作。 哈佛大学第二任校长查尔斯·爱略特(CHARLES W.ELIOT)任主编,哈佛大学及其他名校100多位享誉全球的教授任分册编辑,历时数年完成。自1901年问世至今,畅销100多年,成为西方家庭的必备藏书,西方学生接受古代和近代文明教育的读物。引领中国思想家胡适先生进入西方文明殿堂的一块敲门砖。 万卷出版公司与北京神鸟文化发展有限公司倾心5年时间精心打造。
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百年哈佛经典第32卷:文学和哲学名家随笔(英文原版)
CHARLES W.ELIOT 试读
百年哈佛经典(全套50册)(英文原版)登陆中国,哈佛大学第二任校长查尔斯·爱略特倾心主编。全套50卷,共精选400多位人类史上优秀思想家的136本专著,是国内首套权威的人类文明传世之作。 哈佛大学第二任校长查尔斯·爱略特(CHARLES W. ELIOT)任主编,哈佛大学及其他名校100多位享誉全球的教授任分册编辑,历时数年完成。自1901年问世至今,畅销100多年,成为西方家庭的必备藏书,西方学生接受古代和近代文明教育的读物。引领中国思想家胡适先生进入西方文明殿堂的一块敲门砖。 万卷出版公司与北京神鸟文化发展有限公司倾心5年时间精心打造。
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AS I LAY DYING 我弥留之际(英文版)
威廉·福克纳 试读
《我弥留之际》是福克纳代表作之一,也是他的“约克纳帕塔法世系”的重要作品。 全篇讲述了美国南方农民本德伦为遵守对妻子的承诺,率全家将妻子的遗体运回家乡安葬的“苦难历程”,多视角的叙述和意识流手法使其成为现代主义小说的经典之作,对后世作家影响巨大,被誉为20世纪美国长篇小说出色的开篇。
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The Bluest Eye
Toni Morrison 试读
In Morrison’s acclaimed first novel, Pecola Breedlove—an 11-year-old Black girl in an America whose love for its blond, blue-eyed children can devastate all others—prays for her eyes to turn blue: so that she will be beautiful, so that people will look at her, so that her world will be different. This is the story of the nightmare at the heart of her yearning, and the tragedy of its fulfillment.
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The Hidden Reality
Brian Greene 试读
Using his trademark wit and precision, Greene presents a thrilling survey of cutting-edge physics and confronts the inevitable question: How can fundamental science progress if great swaths of reality lie beyond our reach? The Hidden Reality is a remarkable adventure through a world more vast and strange than anything we could have imagined.
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Dear Life
Alice Munro 试读
In story after story in this brilliant new collection, Alice Munro pinpoints the moment a person is forever altered by a chance encounter, an action not taken, or a simple twist of fate. Her characters are flawed and fully human: a soldier returning from war and avoiding his fiancée, a wealthy woman deciding whether to confront a blackmailer, an adulterous mother and her neglected children, a guilt-ridden father, a young teacher jilted by her employer.
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Beloved
Toni Morrison 试读
Sethe was born a slave and escaped to Ohio, but eighteen years later she is still not free. Sethe has too many memories of Sweet Home, the beautiful farm where so many hideous things happened. And Sethe’s new home is haunted by the ghost of her baby, who died nameless and whose tombstone is engraved with a single word: Beloved.
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The Magic of Thinking Big
David J. Schwartz 试读
"Believe Big," says Schwartz. "The size of your success is determined by the size of your belief. Think little goals and expect little achievements. Think big goals and win big success. Remember this, too! Big ideas and big plans are often easier -- certainly no more difficult - than small ideas and small plans."
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100 Successful College Application Essays (Second Edition)
Harvard Independent 试读
The largest collection of successful college application essays available in one volume. These are the essays that helped their authors gain admission to Harvard, Yale, Brown, Columbia, Wellesley, Colby, and other outstanding schools—followed by invaluable comments by experts in admissions, placement, and college counseling at some of the best learning institutions around the country.
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The Upside of Stress
Kelly McGonigal 试读
More than forty-four percent of Americans admit to losing sleep over stress. And while most of us do everything we can to reduce it, Stanford psychologist and bestselling author Kelly McGonigal, Ph.D., delivers a startling message: Stress isn’t bad. In The Upside of Stress, McGonigal highlights new research indicating that stress can, in fact, make us stronger, smarter, and happier—if we learn how to embrace it.
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Reading in the Brain
Stanislas Dehaene 试读
How can a few black marks on a white page evoke an entire universe of sounds and meanings? In this riveting investigation, Stanislas Dehaene provides an accessible account of the brain circuitry of reading and explores what he calls the ?reading paradox? Our cortex is the product of millions of years of evolution in a world without writing, so how did it adapt to recognize words?
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101 Things I Learned® in Engineering School
John Kuprenas 试读
Why shouldn't soldiers march across a bridge? Why do buildings want to float and cars want to fly? What is the difference between thinking systemically and thinking systematically? This informative resource will appeal to students, general readers, and even experienced engineers, who will discover within many provocative insights into familiar principles.
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Junie B. Jones #2: Junie B. Jones and a Little Monkey Business
Barbara Park 试读
Meet the World’s Funniest Kindergartner—Junie B. Jones! In the second Junie B. Jones book, it’s pooey on B-A-B-I-E-S until Junie B. finds out that her new dumb old baby brother is a big fat deal. Her two bestest friends are giving her everything they own just to see him. And guess what else? Maybe she can bring him to school on Pet Day.
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Good Morning, Gorillas
Mary Pope Osborne 试读
Gentle giants or giant monsters? That's the question Jack and Annie have about gorillas when the Magic Tree House sweeps them to the mountains of Africa. There they meet a group of amazing and sometimes frightening mountain gorillas. Annie knows how to play with the creatures right away. But Jack is left out. Will the gorillas be able to teach him some special magic?