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《Apropos of Nothing》是伍迪·艾伦的自传，详细记录了他的个人生活和职业生涯‌。这本书涵盖了伍迪·艾伦在电影、戏剧、电视、夜总会和出版等多个领域的工

书名：More Than I Imagined: What a Black Man Discovered About the White Mother He Never Knew

作者：John K. Blake

简介：An award-winning journalist tells the story o

书名：The Passage of Power(The Years of Lyndon Johnson #4)《权力更迭》

作者：Robert A. Caro

简介：The Passage of Power follows Lyndon Johnson through both the most

书名：Master of the Senate(The Years of Lyndon Johnson #3)《参议院之王》

作者：Robert A. Caro

简介：Master of the Senate, Book Three of The Years of Lyndon Johnson,

书名：Means of Ascent(The Years of Lyndon Johnson #2)《进阶之梯》

作者：Robert A. Caro

简介：In Means of Ascent, Book Two of The Years of Lyndon Johnson, Robert A.

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Praise for A Man for All Markets

"In A Man for All Markets, [Thorp] delightfully recounts his progress (if that is the word) from college teacher to gambler to

书名：The Warrior's Heart: Becoming a Man of Compassion and Courage《战士之心》

作者：Eric Greitens

简介：In this adaptation of his best-selling book, The Heart

书名：The Heart and the Fist: The Education of a Humanitarian, the Making of a Navy SEAL《心与拳》

作者：Eric Greitens

简介：“Meet my hero—Eric Greitens

书名：After the Falls《灭亡之后》

作者：Catherine Gildiner

简介：Catherine Gildiner recounts her remarkable coming-of-age in the 1960s with the same wit, candour an

书名：Too Close to the Falls: A Memoir

作者：Catherine Gildiner

简介：Welcome to the childhood of Catherine McClure Gildiner. It is the mid-1950s in Lewiston, New Y

书名：Good Morning, Monster: A Therapist Shares Five Heroic Stories of Emotional Recovery《早安,我心中的怪物》

作者：Catherine Gildiner

简介：In this fascinating na

书名：Once Upon Atari: How I made history by killing an industry

作者：Howard Scott Warshaw

简介；Video games set the world on fire, and Atari lit the match. This i

书名：Victor Hugo: A Biography《维克多·雨果》

作者：Graham Robb

简介：Victor Hugo was the most important writer of the nineteenth century in France: leader o

文化：Rimbaud: A Biography《兰波传》

作者：Graham Robb

简介：Unknown beyond the avant-garde at the time of his death, Arthur Rimbaud (1854-1891) has been one of the

书名：Do I Dare Disturb the Universe?

作者：Madeleine L'Engle

简介："Do I Dare Disturb the Universe?" is Madeleine L'Engle's spirited defense of the res

Acclaimed historian David Oshinsky's chronicling of the life of Senator Joe McCarthy has been called both "nuanced" and "masterful." In this new paperback edition Oshinsky presents us with a work heralded as the finest account ava

As a young physicist, Leonard Mlodinow looked for guidance from his mentor, the Nobel Prize-winning physicist Richard Feynman. Drawing on transcripts from their meetings during their time together at Cal Tech, Mlodinow shares Feynman's provocative th

作者：Raymond Carver

书名：Carver Country: The World of Raymond Carver

简介：Carver Country is a new updated edition of a 1990 classic. Adelman’s evocative du

Written in the splendid bareness of her late style, these pages are Marguerite Duras's theory of literature: comparing a dying fly to the work of style; remembering the trance and incurable disarray of writing; recreating the last moments of a Britis

For millions of people, the great soprano Maria Callas (1923-1977) remains the focus of such unparalleled fascination that there is still no higher praise for singers than "...the best since Callas." In this biography, Callas' career is bro

It's time to get serious with Britain's favourite funny man - Camp David, by David Walliams.

David Walliams has been the camp aide to the Prime Minister, the rubbish transvestite and the long-suffering wheelchair pusher for an able-bodied man

As a young professor at MIT in the 1920s, Vannevar Bush (1890-1974) did seminal work on analog computing and was a cofounder of Raytheon, whose initial success was based on long-lasting radio tubes. But he is best known for his role in Washington during W

The definitive companion to the POIROT novels, films and TV appearances.

‘My name is Hercule Poirot and I am probably the greatest detective in the world.'

The dapper, moustache-twirling little Belgian with the egg-shaped head, curious manneris

The Pulitzer prize-winning newsman's analysis of Kennedy's ideological journey toward increasing radicalism and a personal account of his subsequent successes (and single major defeat) along the campaign trail. Halberstam shows how Kennedy in hi

In The Amateurs, David Halberstam once again displays the unique brand of reportage, both penetrating and supple, that distinguished his bestselling The Best and the Brightest and October 1964. This time he has taken for his subject the dramatic and speci

Pulitzer Prize-winner David Halberstam's bestseller takes you inside the football genius of Bill Belichick for an insightful profile in leadership. Bill Belichick's thirty-one years in the NFL have been marked by amazing success--most recently w

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - From a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist comes "the best Jordan book so far" (The Washington Post), the story of Michael Jordan's legendary years with the Chicago Bulls, capped by the 1998 NBA Finals and the team

Meet the man behind the board games: Milton Bradley.

Born in Maine in 1836, Milton Bradley moved with his family to the working-class city of Lowell, Massachusetts, at age 11. His early life consisted of several highs and lows, from graduating high sch

By popular demand, the 100th Who Was...? subject is Steve Irwin!

Steve Irwin did not have a typical childhood. Born in Melbourne, Australia, on February 22, 1962, he was raised on the wildlife park his parents owned. He cared for the animals and especi

Born the eighth of seventeen children in Philadelphia, Betsy Ross lived in a time when the American colonies were yearning for independence from British rule. Ross worked as a seamstress and was eager to contribute to the cause, making tents and repairing

Though much of his early life remains a mystery, Blackbeard most likely began his life as Edward Teach in the sailing port of Bristol, England. He began his career as a hired British sailor during Queen Anne’s War. He eventually settled in the Bahamas und

Learn how a Prussian princess grew up to be Russia's longest-ruling female leader!

Born in 1729, Princess Sophie of Anhalt-Zerbs was never supposed to come to power. But at age sixteen, she married the heir to the Russian throne. By 1762, Sophie,

Learn how Lady Diana Spencer became the People's Princess as she takes her place in the ranks of the Who Was? series.

A shy twenty-year-old girl stepped out of a horse-drawn coach and into the world spotlight, capturing the imagination of millions

Alexander the Great conquers the New York Times best-selling Who Was...? series!

When Alexander was a boy in ancient Macedon, he already had grand ambitions. He complained that his father, the great king of Macedon, wasn't leaving anything for him

Just in time for baseball season!

Babe Ruth came from a poor Baltimore family and, as a kid, he was a handful. It was at a reform school that Babe discovered his talent for baseball, and by the age of nineteen, he was on his way to becoming a sports le

Called the "Great Pathfinder", Daniel Boone is most famous for opening up the West to settlers through Kentucky. A symbol of America's pioneering spirit Boone was a skilled outdoorsman and an avid reader although he never attended school. S

Born in Wisconsin in 1867, Frank Lloyd Wright became obsessed with a set of building blocks his mother had given to him on his ninth birthday. He grew up to become the father of organic architecture and the greatest American architect of all time, having

Every kid has heard of Harry Houdini, the famous magician who could escape from handcuffs, jail cells, and locked trunks. But do they know that the ever-ambitious and adventurous Houdini was also a famous movie star and the first pilot to fly a plane in A

Davy Crockett, the King of the Wild Frontier, is a man of legend.

He is said to have killed his first bear when he was three years old. His smile alone killed another, and he skinned a bear by forcing him to run between two trees. Fact or fiction?

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