杰克·专尔奇在通用电气任CEO时是全世界薪水最高的首席执行官，被誉为全球第一CEO。从他1981年入主通用电气起，20年里，韦尔奇使通用电气的市值达到了4500亿美元，增长30多倍，排名从世界第十位提升到第二位。他所推行的“六西格玛”标准、全球化和电子商务，几乎重新定义了现代企业。同时，这位锐意改革的管理奇才还开创了一种独特的哲学和操作系统，该系统依靠一种扁平的、“无边界”的管理模式，一种对人的热情关注以及一种非正式的、平等交流的风格，帮助庞大多元的商业帝国摆脱成熟企业的痼疾——金字塔式的官僚体制，走上灵活主动、不拘一格的道路。在取得成功的同时，他本人也成为世界上最令人仰慕的商界领袖，CEO们争相效仿的偶像人物。
这本自传是韦尔奇退休前的最后一个大动作，他在书中推心置腹、侃侃而谈，将自己的成长岁月、成功经历及经营理念和盘托出。书的稿酬高达700万美元，被全球翘首以待的经理人奉为“CEO的圣经”。

每一个细腻且充满爱心的女人，都会把一大堆“破铜烂铁”当做宝贝收藏，因为每一件都有着特殊的故事。三毛也是这样的女人，这里有她珍爱的80余件“小东西”的图片，加上三毛娓娓道来的细语，成为一本绝佳的“枕边书”。重读三毛，读到的是浓情蜜意，读她对丈夫的情深意切，读她对父母的依依不舍，读她对友人眷眷情谊……

From Publishers Weekly

Nobody knows for sure what makes our noses work the way they do, not even the $20-billion-a-year perfume industry's legions of chemists, whose jobs depend on appealing to those noses. So what happens when Luca Turin, a likable scientist who happens to possess an unusually sensitive nose, proposes a new theory of smell that promises to unravel the mystery once and for all? That's what readers find out in this often funny, picaresque expos‚ of the closed world of whiffs, aromas and odors-and the people who study them. Burr (A Separate Creation: The Search for the Biological Origins of Sexual Orientation) narrates in depth Turin's efforts to publish in the journal Nature: the maddening peer review process lasts more than a year and ends with smug dismissals by scientists who don't understand his work. Turin, whose urbane personality carries the book, runs into similar brick walls when he tries to sell his ideas to the "Big Boys" of the secretive and byzantine perfume industry. Burr, who is skilled at parsing complex science and smart turns of phrase, enters the story in the first person to describe his own difficulties as a journalist writing about Turin: critics clam up and get hostile when asked about Turin's theory. Burr concludes that the hysterical, often incoherent resistance portrayed here "embodies the failure of the scientific process." Grim words for a book so full of wit.

Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc.

1993年，22岁的摄影记者Dan Eldon在索马里报道饥荒和内战时被杀害。他的日记成为了畅销书《旅程就是目的》的素材。但是他留下来的他一生的探险和经历依然在鼓励着新的行者。《Dan Eldon: 生命的艺术》就是这个不同凡响的年轻人的故事，从中我们可以看到他如何用旅行，摄影，令人难忘的旅程，和希望填满他的世界。

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Cat's Eye is the story of Elaine Risley, a controversial painter who returns to TOronto, the city of her youth, for a retrospective of her art. Engulfed by vivid images of the past, she reminisces about a trio of girls who initiated her into the fierce politics of childhood and its secret world of friendship, longing, and betrayal. Elaine must come to terms with her own identity as a daughter, a lover, an artist, and a woman -- but above all she must seek release from her haunting memories. Disturbing, hilarious, and compassionate, Cat's Eye is a breathtaking novel of a woman grappling with the tangled knot of her life.

建筑学专业的洛克先生从大学开始就因为不遵循传统说教而被开掉，而听话的另一位先生顺利的毕业并且找到一份好差事。所有人都不喜欢洛克先生，甚至专栏作家也时不时的老羞辱他，洛克爱着的姑娘——也不出所料的跟了那位听话的好好先生……洛克先生活着就是麻烦不断。 在一次政府建筑项目中，那位他的同学，听话的好好先生居然同意了洛克先生独立自主的设计。如果洛克先生能因此获得荣誉，获得成功，并获得尊敬，由此改变世界对他的看法，那真是美好的生活啊。可洛克先生并为因此获得好运气：公众一如既往的反对混子洛克设计建设的这个项目，政府也因此推翻了这个项目，而两位设计者也无法控告政府，政府是无权被告的。洛克先生又一次显示了他混子本色，他搞了一些炸药把那做了一半的楼给炸成一堆碎瓦片子。他也因此而上了法庭，对于自己的行为，他是这么说的：创造是自己的私事，是天赋的权利，维护创造也是同样的天赋个人的权力……
Howard Roark is an architect whose genius and integrity will not be comprised. He has ideas that work against conventional standards.

England 1943. Much of the infamous Nazi Enigma code has been cracked. But Shark, the impenetrable operational cipher used by Nazi U-boats, has masked the Germans' movements, allowing them to destroy a record number of Allied vessels. Feeling that the blood of Allied sailors is on their hands, a top-secret team of British cryptographers works feverishly around the clock to break Shark. And when brilliant mathematician Tom Jericho succeeds, it is the stuff of legend...
故事简介：
1943年3月，位于布雷奇利园区的英国破解密码团队-X机密工作站，面临了可怕的梦魘：纳粹德国的U型潜艇，毫无预警地更改了别号「谜」（Enigma）的密码，这是潜艇和德军最高指挥部的通讯密码。正运送一万名乘客及重要补给物资横越大西洋的同盟国护航舰队，此刻危在旦夕，随时都可能遭U型潜艇埋伏攻击。英国当局再度向年轻的天才数学家汤姆·杰瑞柯寻求协助，因为他是解码高手。
不为人知的是，杰瑞柯心中也有另一个无法解开的谜：就在情治单位怀疑布雷奇利园区可能有纳粹间谍渗透的同时，他心爱的女人克莱儿离奇失踪了。为了解开心中的谜团，杰瑞科向克莱儿的好友海丝特求助。他们抢先特情局一步，对克莱儿神秘的生活展开调查。最后他们赫然发现，整个事件的幕后竟牵扯出一连串国际间军事的机密与人心的相互背叛……
《密码迷情》是关于科学家或市井小民的战争，他们成天躲在研究室或机房内，却成为扭转世界大战成败的关键，令人感到不可思议。书中不只一次调侃了这群数学家，例如：「瞧~书呆子一夕间变得炙手可热!」、「密码本是我军弟兄冒生命危险抢救出来的，这里离前线还远的很!」再次显露出了当时军人对文人的歧见与误解。如果你刚好认为自己脑袋比四肢发达，该书铁定能够征服您心。
男主角是位天赋异稟但有轻微精神疾病的数学家，一举一动神情都詮释的唯妙唯肖。我认识一个在数学上极具天份的人，我知道当他们在解题时浑然忘我自得其乐的模样，当一部电影能够观察入微捕捉到这种神情时，令我感到十分神奇。「当你想出一道方程式能够破解世上所有谜题时，那是真正的美丽。玫瑰的美太肤浅了。」对某些人来说，这句话并不矫情。
由真实事件所引申，《密码迷情》塑造了一个人性化的英雄带领观眾揭开历史真相，据说这群解码人员直到三十年后才获得证实，是一群伟大的无名英雄，他们的所作所为当时都是国家最高机密，而屠杀丑闻更是到九十年代才公开道歉。书中富有实事求是的精神，对于查明真相的过程细节刻画不遗余力，同时线索安排面面俱到，并没有欺瞒观众的企图，一定可以满足喜爱推理、解谜的读者，如果翻译成中文版出版的话，一定畅销。

Along the Mediterranean coast, the Roman empire's richest citizens are relaxing in their villas, enjoying the last days of summer. But the gorgeous weather belies impending doom, and only one man is worried. The young engineer Marcus Attilius has taken charge of the Aqua Augusta, the enormous aqueduct that brings fresh water to the people around the Bay of Naples. There is a crisis on Augusta's main line--somewhere north of Pompeii, on the slopes of MOunt Vesuvius. Attilius must repair the aqueduct before the reservoir runs dry. His plan is to organize an expedition in Pompeii, then head out to the place where he believes the fault lies. But Pompeii proves to be a corrupt and violent town, and Attilius soon discovers that there are powerful forces at work--natural and otherwise--threatening to destroy him.

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The ground shifts repeatedly beneath the reader's feet during the course of Salman Rushdie's sixth novel, a riff on the Orpheus and Eurydice myth set in the high-octane world of rock & roll. Readers get their first clues early on that the universe Rushdie is creating here is not quite the one we know: Jesse Aron Parker, for example, wrote "Heartbreak Hotel"; Carly Simon and Guinevere Garfunkel sang "Bridge over Troubled Water"; and Shirley Jones and Gordon McRae starred in "South Pacific." And as the novel progresses, Rushdie adds unmistakable elements of science fiction to his already patented magical realism, with occasionally uneven results.

Rushdie's cunning musician is Ormus Cana, the Bombay-born founder of the most popular group in the world. Ormus's Eurydice (and lead singer) is Vina Apsara, the daughter of a Greek American woman and an Indian father who abandoned the family. What these two share, besides amazing musical talent, is a decidedly twisted family life: Ormus's twin brother died at birth and communicates to him from "the other side"; his older brothers, also twins, are, respectively, brain-damaged and a serial killer. Vina, on the other hand, grew up in rural West Virginia where she returned home one day to find her stepfather and sisters shot to death and her mother hanging from a rafter in the barn. No wonder these two believe they were made for each other.

Narrated by Rai Merchant, a childhood friend of both Vina and Ormus, The Ground Beneath Her Feet begins with a terrible earthquake in 1989 that swallows Vina whole, then moves back in time to chronicle the tangled histories of all the main characters and a host of minor ones as well. Rushdie's canvas is huge, stretching from India to London to New York and beyond--and there's plenty of room for him to punctuate this epic tale with pointed commentary on his own situation: Muslim-born Rai, for example, remarks that "my parents gave me the gift of irreligion, of growing up without bothering to ask people what gods they held dear.... You may argue that the gift was a poisoned chalice, but even if so, that's a cup from which I'd happily drink again." Despite earthquakes, heartbreaks, and a rip in the time-space continuum, The Ground Beneath Her Feet may be the most optimistic, accessible novel Rushdie has yet written. --Alix Wilber--This text refers to the Hardcover edition.

《阿丽思漫游奇境记》是一本斐声世界的儿童读物，故事讲述了英国小女孩阿丽思在兔子洞中梦游的奇遇。作品充满了对童趣的描写，细腻刻画了儿童的心理世界。主人公一会儿掉进兔子洞，一会儿又钻进老鼠的巢穴，一会儿长大，一会儿变小，牢牢地抓住了儿童求新求异的心理特征；充满了超现实的想象，真可谓引人入胜。
这本书从英文原著中选取了数十幅随文彩图，同时配以今人重绘的彩图，用图文并茂的形式给予小读者愉悦和满足。

作为一部自传体小说，《青春》不同凡响，写法也特别。它并非采用这类作品常见的第一人称途述，主人公也是一位名叫约翰的年轻人，但库切总是称之为“他”。这样的口气不大像是一种自述，因而读来自有疑问：“他”就是他自己么？有一点可以肯定，库切本人的年龄和履历都跟书中的主人公相吻合，至于那里头的诸多细节是否也是作者所亲历，想来已难以考证。库切写“他”十九岁到二十四岁几年间的生活经历，一个南非大学生跑到伦敦做了计算机初级程序员，朝九晚五的公司职员，饭碗不用担心，却还是郁闷。这个岁数的年轻人不是意气风发就是躁动不安，却玩不出轰轰烈烈的名堂，由于生性缺少热情，干不成大事也惹不出乱子。他也需要被爱抚的感觉，但性爱从来没有给他带来生命的光辉，只是在吞噬时间和精力……你想，这种内敛的性格，这般平淡无奇的生存状态，还能做出什么样的文章呢？可是，库切就有这样的本事，一段春梦无痕的人生就让他写得楚楚动人。他把年轻时的自己作为他者来观照，再度审视青春的彷徨之途。

故事写的尽是尼古拉日常生活中的点点滴滴，借用第一人称把读者引入孩子的视角，语言非常口语化但决不粗俗。细心的读者，完全可能从尼古拉的故事中读到自己的生活。它虽然搞笑而且浪漫，但绝对不失其真实。这是个法国小顽童的故事，但许多中国读者却惊呼“尼古拉就是小时候的我！”身为爸爸妈妈的读者还会读到更多，从尼古拉的身上读到自己的孩子，从尼古拉的爸爸妈妈身上读到他们自己。所以本书不但值得孩子们读，更值得大人们读。

在那样古老的岁月里，也曾有过同样的故事，那弹箜篌的女子也是十六岁吗。还是说，今夜的我就是那个女子。溪水急着要流向海洋，浪潮却渴望重回土地。在绿树白花的篱前，曾那样轻易地挥手道别。而沧桑的二十后，我们的魂魄却夜夜归来，微风拂过时，便化作满园的郁香。我如何舍得与你重逢，当只有在你心中仍深藏着的我的青春，还正如水般澄澈。

In this touching and atmospheric novel set among the fishermen of Newfoundland, Proulx tells the story of Quoyle. From all outward appearances, Quoyle has gone through his first 36 years on earth as a big schlump of a loser. He's not attractive, he's not brilliant or witty or talented, and he's not the kind of person who typically assumes the central position in a novel. But Proulx creates a simple and compelling tale of Quoyle's psychological and spiritual growth. Along the way, we get to look in on the maritime beauty of what is probably a disappearing way of life. (from Amazon.com)

"I was born twice: first, as a baby girl, on a remarkably smogless Detroit day of January 1960; and then again, as a teenage boy, in an emergency room near Petoskey, Michigan, in August of l974. . . My birth certificate lists my name as Calliope Helen Stephanides. My most recent driver's license...records my first name simply as Cal."
So begins the breathtaking story of Calliope Stephanides and three generations of the Greek-American Stephanides family who travel from a tiny village overlooking Mount Olympus in Asia Minor to Prohibition-era Detroit, witnessing its glory days as the Motor City, and the race riots of l967, before they move out to the tree-lined streets of suburban Grosse Pointe, Michigan. To understand why Calliope is not like other girls, she has to uncover a guilty family secret and the astonishing genetic history that turns Callie into Cal, one of the most audacious and wondrous narrators in contemporary fiction. Lyrical and thrilling, Middlesex is an exhilarating reinvention of the American epic.
Middlesex is the winner of the 2003 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.

Whereas I am the man who fasts until I see what I want.
我是个一直斋戒的人,直到我看到我喜欢的...

I carried Katharine Clifton into the desert, where there is the communal book of moonlight. We were among the rumour of wells. In the palace of winds.
我抱着凯塞琳-克里福藤走入沙漠,那里有苍天下淌满月光的书,我们被关于井的谣言包围着.风的宫殿.

A direct, stylish, and engrossing story of a marvelous life well lived. Markham describes her childhood in Kenya and her experiences as a bush pilot in the 1930s -- evoking the landscapes, people, and wildlife in rich detail.

《鹿鼎记》是金庸创作的最后一部小说，也是他最重要的代表作。
小说讲的是一个从小在扬州妓院长大的小孩韦小宝，他以不会任何武功之姿态闯江湖各大帮会、周旋皇帝朝臣之间并奉旨远征云南、俄罗斯之故事，书中充满精彩的对白及逆思考的事件。
韦小宝笑称自己“不学无术却处处有术”，他靠着这不学之术在太监、钦命大臣、帮会堂主、和尚、甚至七个美女的共同老公这些角色上游刃有余。这个人物挑战了真实的人性，说明武功和权力不是这世上唯一的可取之道。

可怕的外星怪物――虫族越来越严惩地威胁着地球，可是地球各国却把大量金钱和物资花在为小孩子在太空修建游戏基地上，并不断挑选年幼在孩子前往其中进行各种对抗游戏。游戏的难度不断被加大，不断有人被淘汰，教官有意孤立成绩突出的人，优秀的学员不择手段、拼命竞争……这一切的最终目的就是挑选出一个心理状态最稳定、神经最强悍的孩子。地球当局将赌注押在了这个最终的游戏天才身上，此人将获得地球远征舰队的指挥权，与虫族展开决战。 安德・维京成为了这个游戏天才，但是，大决战以他完全没有想到的方式开始了……