这是一本薄薄的小书。首版于1918年由纽约一家出版社出版。作者William Strunk,康耐尔大学英语教授，E.B.怀特对此书加以了修正。此书短小精悍，容量巨大。涵盖了母语英语的人写作和用法上常出的错误，也清晰地解释了一些语法书中很难找到的语言现象。虽然是为说英语的学生所写,但对于任何需要进一步了解英文用法，进而学习书写英文的人，这本书必不可少的。

作者以饱满真挚的感情、平实顺畅的文宇叙述了他所认识的特定时期的各种人物，他亲身经历的社会政治事件，他对那个动荡不安的时代的感受，记录了当时欧洲从一战前夜到二战欧洲危局的社会现实，批露了世界文化名人鲜为人知的生活轶事，同时穿插了作者各种细腻的心迹。...

A comprehensive history of Argentina, including its origins, culture, and future.
Argentina has a population that ranks among the most educated and skilled in Latin America. Illiteracy scarcely exists among even the poor and working-class citizens, and Argentina's middle class has historically been large and politically engaged. Yet this country remains mired in economic instability, chronic unemployment, strict class divisions, and political corruption. Juan Peron's attempts to establish a democracy were all but erased during the militaristic Dirty War, and the last three elected presidents did little to raise the morale of their country. Still, Argentine citizens refuse to accept their current conditions. Prosecutors, victims, and families of victims remain determined to address the injustices and tyranny that occurred during the Dirty War and the two-decade silence that followed. Additionally, in a significant demonstration of progress, Argentines elected a woman president for the first time in October 2007.
Spanning more than 12,000 years of history, A Brief History of Argentina, Second Edition thoroughly and comprehensively explores these issues and discusses how they will affect Argentina's future.
Coverage includes:
-A comprehensive summary of Argentina's diverse geography and its varied natural resources
-The origins of the deep-seated practices of discrimination, which continue today
-The effects of neoliberalism on Argentina's large working class and urban poor, culminating in the caserola movement, the piqueteros movement, and the birth of the cartoneros
-The impact a changing global economy has had within Argentina's borders
-The rich culture of Argentina, which has created five Nobel laureates, vibrant cities that draw millions of tourists annually, and sports teams that have won multiple world championships.

Most people are both repelled and intrigued by the images of cold-blooded, conscienceless murderers that increasingly populate our movies, television programs, and newspaper headlines. With their flagrant criminal violation of society's rules, serial killers like Ted Bundy and John Wayne Gacy are among the most dramatic examples of the psychopath. Individuals with this personality disorder are fully aware of the consequences of their actions and know the difference between right and wrong, yet they are terrifyingly self-centered, remorseless, and unable to care about the feelings of others. Perhaps most frightening, they often seem completely normal to unsuspecting targets.Presenting a compelling portrait of these dangerous men and women based on 25 years of distinguished scientific research, Dr. Robert D. Hare vividly describes a world of con artists, hustlers, rapists, and other predators who charm, lie, and manipulate their way through life. Are psychopaths mad, or simply bad? H

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie burst onto the literary scene with her remarkable debut novel, Purple Hibiscus, which critics hailed as “one of the best novels to come out of Africa in years” (Baltimore Sun ), with “prose as lush as the Nigerian landscape that it powerfully evokes” ( The Boston Globe ); The Washington Post called her “the twenty-first-century daughter of Chinua Achebe.” Her award-winning Half of a Yellow Sun became an instant classic upon its publication three years later, once again putting her tremendous gifts—graceful storytelling, knowing compassion, and fierce insight into her characters’ hearts—on display. Now, in her most intimate and seamlessly crafted work to date, Adichie turns her penetrating eye on not only Nigeria but America, in twelve dazzling stories that explore the ties that bind men and women, parents and children, Africa and the United States.
In “A Private Experience,” a medical student hides from a violent riot with a poor Muslim woman whose dignity and faith force her to confront the realities and fears she’s been pushing away. In “Tomorrow is Too Far,” a woman unlocks the devastating secret that surrounds her brother’s death. The young mother at the center of “Imitation” finds her comfortable life in Philadelphia threatened when she learns that her husband has moved his mistress into their Lagos home. And the title story depicts the choking loneliness of a Nigerian girl who moves to an America that turns out to be nothing like the country she expected; though falling in love brings her desires nearly within reach, a death in her homeland forces her to reexamine them.
Searing and profound, suffused with beauty, sorrow, and longing, these stories map, with Adichie’s signature emotional wisdom, the collision of two cultures and the deeply human struggle to reconcile them. The Thing Around Your Neck is a resounding confirmation of the prodigious literary powers of one of our most essential writers.
From the Hardcover edition.

Amazon Best Books of the Month, September 2012

Pulitzer Prize-winner Junot Díaz’s first book, Drown, established him as a major new writer with “the dispassionate eye of a journalist and the tongue of a poet” (Newsweek). His first novel, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, was named #1 Fiction Book of the Year” by Time magazine and spent more than 100 weeks on the New York Times bestseller list, establishing itself – with more than a million copies in print – as a modern classic. In addition to the Pulitzer, Díaz has won a host of major awards and prizes, including the National Book Critic’s Circle Award, the PEN/Malamud Award, the PEN/O. Henry Prize, the Dayton Literary Peace Prize, and the Anisfield-Wolf Award.

Now Díaz turns his remarkable talent to the haunting, impossible power of love – obsessive love, illicit love, fading love, maternal love. On a beach in the Dominican Republic, a doomed relationship flounders. In the heat of a hospital laundry room in New Jersey, a woman does her lover’s washing and thinks about his wife. In Boston, a man buys his love child, his only son, a first baseball bat and glove. At the heart of these stories is the irrepressible, irresistible Yunior, a young hardhead whose longing for love is equaled only by his recklessness--and by the extraordinary women he loves and loses: artistic Alma; the aging Miss Lora; Magdalena, who thinks all Dominican men are cheaters; and the love of his life, whose heartbreak ultimately becomes his own. In prose that is endlessly energetic, inventive, tender, and funny, the stories in the New York Times-Bestselling This Is How You Lose Her lay bare the infinite longing and inevitable weakness of the human heart. They remind us that passion always triumphs over experience, and that “the half-life of love is forever.”

Produced in a pocket-sized, jacketed-paperback format, Phaidon's miniature editions make ideal gifts and desirable possessions. Each book features a wealth of finely reproduced colour images.

Throughout history, some books have changed the world. They have transformed the way we see ourselves and each other. They have inspired debate, dissent, war and revolution. They have enlightened, outraged, provoked and comforted. They have enriched lives and destroyed them. Now Penguin brings you the works of the great thinkers, pioneers, radicals and visionaries whose ideas shook civilization, and helped make us who we are.

Hailed as "original and unsettling, an Animal Farm for the new century" (The Wall Street Journal), this first novel lingers long after the last page has been turned. Described as a "fascinating psychological thriller" (The Baltimore Sun), this entrancing novel introduces Isserley, a female driver who picks up hitchhikers with big muscles. She, herself, is tiny-like a kid peering up over the steering wheel. Scarred and awkward, yet strangely erotic and threatening, she listens to her hitchhikers as they open up to her, revealing clues about who might miss them if they should disappear. At once humane and horrifying, Under the Skin takes us on a heart-thumping ride through dangerous territory-our own moral instincts and the boundaries of compassion. A grotesque and comical allegory, a surreal representation of contemporary society run amok, Under the Skin has been internationally received as the arrival of an exciting talent, rich and assured.

Fragmented Land, Divided Society is a comprehensive history of the third most populous country of Latin America. It offers the most extensive discussion available in English of the whole of Colombian history-from pre-Columbian times to the present. The book begins with an in-depth look at the earliest years in Colombia's history, emphasizing the role geography played in shaping Colombia's economy, society, and politics and in encouraging the growth of distinctive regional cultures and identities. It includes a thorough discussion of Colombian politics that looks at the ways in which historical memory has affected political choices, particularly in the formation and development of the country's two traditional political parties. The authors explore the factors that have contributed to Colombia's economic troubles, such as the delay in its national economic integration and its relative ineffectiveness as an exporter. The three concluding chapters offer an authoritative
and up-to-date examination of the impact of coffee on Colombia's economy and society, the social and political effects of urban growth, and the multiple dimensions of the violence that has plagued the country since 1946. Written in clear, vigorous prose, Fragmented Land, Divided Society is essential for students of Latin American history and politics, and for anyone interested in gaining a deeper understanding of the history of this fascinating and tumultuous country.

★ 马尔克斯唯一正式授权，首次出版
★ 从写《枯枝败叶》的那一刻起，我所要做的唯一一件事，便是成为这个世界上最好的作家，没有人可以阻拦我。 ——加西亚•马尔克斯
★《百年孤独》序篇 ：“ 马孔多的礼拜三，正是埋葬魔鬼的好日子。 ”
《枯枝败叶》是加西亚·马尔克斯的成名作，描述了马孔多镇一家祖孙三代在一个大夫死后为其收殓的半小时内发生的故事，被视为“已具备《百年孤独》的雏形”，也开启了马尔克斯日后魔幻现实主义的创作道路。

本书收入了帕斯各个时期创作的优秀诗篇一百余篇，包括他的著名诗集《语言下的自由》、奇特散文集《鹰还是太阳？》和伟大的抒情长诗《太阳石》等。帕斯采用电影蒙太奇技巧，打乱时空限制，将历史和现实、神话和梦幻、回忆和憧憬熔为一炉，将西班牙文化，现代西方文化和拉美大陆的史前及现代文化融为一体，激情洋溢，视野开阔，表现了诗人对诗歌艺术的独特理解和深厚的文学造诣。

This book shares large full-color images and profiles each of the high profile, amazingly talented artists that discuss their sketchbooks and how they use them. People are fascinated by artist's sketchbooks. They offer a glimpse into private pages where artists brainstorm, doodle, develop and work on ideas, and keep track of their musings. Artists use these journals to document their daily lives, produce their initial ideas for bigger projects, and practice their skills. Using a variety of media from paint to pencil to collage, these pages can become works of art themselves. They often feel fresh and alive because they are first thoughts and often not reworked. These pages capture the artist's personalities along with glimpses of their process of working and inspirations.

◎《2666》作者波拉尼奥首部短篇小说集
◎令人着迷、苦寻的答案。挫败，但并非失败的旅程。
◎《2666》屡获2012年各项读书大奖：深圳读书月年度十大好书；《中华读书报》年度十大好书，是惟一入选的外国小说；《中国图书商报》年度影响力图书；入围新浪读书年度十大好书等。
◎波拉尼奥在短篇小说领域展现出来的纯熟技巧，堪与卡夫卡和博尔赫斯媲美。
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《地球上最后的夜晚》由十四个故事组成，大部分故事的主人公是“B”：一个智利流亡者，在南美和欧洲漫无目的地游荡，串起了他同时代的其他人的故事，几乎都是在流亡生活中理想破灭的一代人，如何挣扎于边缘，困于梦魇。这些人犹如在一场梦中，在不同的故事中不断改换着形象、名字或背景。评论家们普遍认为，波拉尼奥在短篇小说领域展现出来的纯熟技巧，堪与卡夫卡和博尔赫斯媲美。

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“不管喜欢还是不喜欢，目前我已经置身于这‘1Q84年’。我熟悉的那个1984年已经无影无踪，今年是1Q84年。空气变了，风景变了。我必须尽快适应这个带着问号的世界。像被 放进陌生 森林中的动物一样，为了生存下去，得尽快了解并顺应这里的规则。”
《1Q84》写一对十岁时相遇后便各奔东西的三十岁男女，相互寻觅对方的故事，并将这个简单故事变成复杂的长篇。我想将这个时代所有世态立体地写出，成为我独有的“综合小说”。超越纯文学这一类型，采取多种尝试。在当今时代的空气中嵌入人类的生命。——村上春树

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今年夏天，属于1Q84年。
在1984年，他们连相遇的机会都没有，只能一面思念着对方，一面孤独地远去。
在1Q84年，他们却决定拯救彼此……
“不管喜欢还是不喜欢，目前我已经置身于这‘1Q84年’。我熟悉的那个1984年已经无影无踪，今年是1Q84年。空气变了，风景变了。我必须尽快适应这个带着问号的世界。像被放进陌生森林中的动物一样，为了生存下去，得尽快了解并顺应这里的规则。”
《1Q84》写一对十岁时相遇后便各奔东西的三十岁男女，相互寻觅对方的故事，并将这个简单故事变成复杂的长篇。我想将这个时代所有世态立体地写出，成为我独有的“综合小说”。超越纯文学这一类型，采取多种尝试。在当今时代的空气中嵌入人类的生命。——村上春树