Billy Beane, general manager of MLB's Oakland A's and protagonist of Michael Lewis's Moneyball, had a problem: how to win in the Major Leagues with a budget that's smaller than that of nearly every other team. Conventional wisdom long held that big name, highly athletic hitters and young pitchers with rocket arms were the ticket to success. But Beane and his staff, buoyed by massive amounts of carefully interpreted statistical data, believed that wins could be had by more affordable methods such as hitters with high on-base percentage and pitchers who get lots of ground outs. Given this information and a tight budget, Beane defied tradition and his own scouting department to build winning teams of young affordable players and inexpensive castoff veterans. Lewis was in the room with the A's top management as they spent the summer of 2002 adding and subtracting players and he provides outstanding play-by-play. In the June player draft, Beane acquired nearly every prospect he coveted (few of whom were coveted by other teams) and at the July trading deadline he engaged in a tense battle of nerves to acquire a lefty reliever. Besides being one of the most insider accounts ever written about baseball, Moneyball is populated with fascinating characters. We meet Jeremy Brown, an overweight college catcher who most teams project to be a 15th round draft pick (Beane takes him in the first). Sidearm pitcher Chad Bradford is plucked from the White Sox triple-A club to be a key set-up man and catcher Scott Hatteberg is rebuilt as a first baseman. But the most interesting character is Beane himself. A speedy athletic can't-miss prospect who somehow missed, Beane reinvents himself as a front-office guru, relying on players completely unlike, say, Billy Beane. Lewis, one of the top nonfiction writers of his era (Liar's Poker, The New New Thing), offers highly accessible explanations of baseball stats and his roadmap of Beane's economic approach makes Moneyball an appealing reading experience for business people and sports fans alike.

"The Silver Linings Playbook" is the riotous and poignant story of how one man regains his memory and comes to terms with the magnitude of his wife's betrayal.During the years he spends in a neural health facility, Pat Peoples formulates a theory about silver linings: he believes his life is a movie produced by God, his mission is to become physically fit and emotionally supportive, and his happy ending will be the return of his estranged wife, Nikki. When Pat goes to live with his parents, everything seems changed: no one will talk to him about Nikki; his old friends are saddled with families; the Philadelphia Eagles keep losing, making his father moody; and his new therapist seems to be recommending adultery as a form of therapy.When Pat meets the tragically widowed and clinically depressed Tiffany, she offers to act as a liaison between him and his wife, if only he will give up watching football, agree to perform in this year's Dance Away Depression competition, and promise not to tell anyone about their 'contract.' All the while, Pat keeps searching for his silver lining.

There was a time when the world was sweeter....when the women in Beaufort, North Carolina, wore dresses, and the men donned hats.... Every April, when the wind smells of both the sea and lilacs, Landon Carter remembers 1958, his last year at Beaufort High. Landon had dated a girl or two, and even once sworn that he'd been in love. Certainly the last person he thought he'd fall for was Jamie, the shy, almost ethereal daughter of the town's Baptist minister....Jamie, who was destined to show him the depths of the human heart-and the joy and pain of living. The inspiration for this novel came from Nicholas Sparks's sister: her life and her courage. From the internationally bestselling author Nicholas Sparks, comes his most moving story yet....

Eight-time national chess champion and international martial arts champion Josh Waitzkin lays out his battle-tested principles of learning and performance to give readers the same tools for excellence and success--in whatever field they pursue--that have propelled Waitzkin himself to the top of his game.

To five-year-old Jack, Room is the entire world. It is where he was born and grew up; it's where he lives with his Ma as they learn and read and eat and sleep and play. At night, his Ma shuts him safely in the wardrobe, where he is meant to be asleep when Old Nick visits. Room is home to Jack, but to Ma, it is the prison where Old Nick has held her captive for seven years. Through determination, ingenuity, and fierce motherly love, Ma has created a life for Jack. But she knows it's not enough...not for her or for him. She devises a bold escape plan, one that relies on her young son's bravery and a lot of luck. What she does not realize is just how unprepared she is for the plan to actually work. Told entirely in the language of the energetic, pragmatic five-year-old Jack, ROOM is a celebration of resilience and the limitless bond between parent and child, a brilliantly executed novel about what it means to journey from one world to another.

在线阅读本书 Under Andy Grove’s leadership，Intel has become the worlds largest chip maker and one of the most admired companies in the world．In only the Paranoid Survive, Grove reveals his strategy of focusing on a new way of measuring the nightmare moment every leader dreads——when massive change occurs and a company must，yirtually overnight adapt or fall by the wayside．Grove calls such a moment a Strategic Inflection Point，which can be set off by almost anything:mega-competition, a change in regulations, or a seemingly modest change in technology. When a Strategic Inflection Point hits, the ordinary rules of business go out the window. Yet man-aged right, a Strategic Inflection Point can be and opportunity to win in the marketplace and emerge stronger than ever. Grove underscores his message by examining his own record of success and failure, including how he navigated the events of the Pentium flaw, which threatened Intel's reputation in 1994, and how he has dealt with the explosions in growth of the Internet. The work of a lifetime, Only the Paranoid Survive is a classic of managerial and leadership skills. 　　"This book is about one super-important concept. You must learn about Strategic Inflection Points, because sooner or later you are going to live through one."_STEVE JOBS, CEO, PIXAR ANIMATION STUDIOS 　　"Andy explains...with modesty that cannot conceal his brilliance, how he has led Intel through changes and challenges that many companies could not cope with...The country will benefit from his vision."_REED HUNDT, CHAIRMAN, FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION 点击链接进入中文版： 只有偏执狂才能生存:特种经理人的培训手册(新版)

A powerful, blazingly honest memoir: the story of an eleven-hundred-mile solo hike that broke down a young woman reeling from catastrophe—and built her back up again. At twenty-two, Cheryl Strayed thought she had lost everything. In the wake of her mother's death, her family scattered and her own marriage was soon destroyed. Four years later, with nothing more to lose, she made the most impulsive decision of her life: to hike the Pacific Crest Trail from the Mojave Desert through California and Oregon to Washington State—and to do it alone. She had no experience as a long-distance hiker, and the trail was little more than “an idea, vague and outlandish and full of promise.” But it was a promise of piecing back together a life that had come undone. Strayed faces down rattlesnakes and black bears, intense heat and record snowfalls, and both the beauty and loneliness of the trail. Told with great suspense and style, sparkling with warmth and humor, Wild vividly captures the terrors and pleasures of one young woman forging ahead against all odds on a journey that maddened, strengthened, and ultimately healed her.

Crazy Rich Asians is the outrageously funny debut novel about three super-rich, pedigreed Chinese families and the gossip, backbiting, and scheming that occurs when the heir to one of the most massive fortunes in Asia brings home his ABC (American-born Chinese) girlfriend to the wedding of the season. When Rachel Chu agrees to spend the summer in Singapore with her boyfriend, Nicholas Young, she envisions a humble family home, long drives to explore the island, and quality time with the man she might one day marry. What she doesn't know is that Nick's family home happens to look like a palace, that she'll ride in more private planes than cars, and that with one of Asia's most eligible bachelors on her arm, Rachel might as well have a target on her back. Initiated into a world of dynastic splendor beyond imagination, Rachel meets Astrid, the It Girl of Singapore society; Eddie, whose family practically lives in the pages of the Hong Kong socialite magazines; and Eleanor, Nick's formidable mother, a woman who has very strong feelings about who her son should—and should not—marry. Uproarious, addictive, and filled with jaw-dropping opulence, Crazy Rich Asians is an insider's look at the Asian JetSet; a perfect depiction of the clash between old money and new money; between Overseas Chinese and Mainland Chinese; and a fabulous novel about what it means to be young, in love, and gloriously, crazily rich.

Stargirl. From the day she arrives at quiet Mica High in a burst of color and sound, the hallways hum with the murmur of “Stargirl, Stargirl.” She captures Leo Borlock’s heart with just one smile. She sparks a school-spirit revolution with just one cheer. The students of Mica High are enchanted. At first. Then they turn on her. Stargirl is suddenly shunned for everything that makes her different, and Leo, panicked and desperate with love, urges her to become the very thing that can destroy her: normal. In this celebration of nonconformity, Newbery Medalist Jerry Spinelli weaves a tense, emotional tale about the perils of popularity and the thrill and inspiration of first love.

For fans of Tina Fey and David Sedaris—Internet star Jenny Lawson, aka The Bloggess, makes her literary debut. Jenny Lawson realized that the most mortifying moments of our lives—the ones we’d like to pretend never happened—are in fact the ones that define us. In the #1 N ew York Times bestseller, Let’s Pretend This Never Happened , Lawson takes readers on a hilarious journey recalling her bizarre upbringing in rural Texas, her devastatingly awkward high school years, and her relationship with her long-suffering husband, Victor. Chapters include: “Stanley the Magical, Talking Squirrel”; “A Series of Angry Post-It Notes to My Husband”; “My Vagina Is Fine. Thanks for Asking”; “And Then I Snuck a Dead Cuban Alligator on an Airplane.” Pictures with captions (no one would believe these things without proof) accompany the text.

Making money is a knack, a knack that can be acquired. And if someone like me can become rich, then so can you - no matter what your present circumstances. Here is how I did it and what I learned along the way' Felix Dennis believes that almost anyone of reasonable intelligence can become rich, given sufficient motivation and application. How To Get Rich is a distillation of his business wisdom. Primarily concerned with the step-by-step creation of wealth, How To Get Rich ruthlessly dissects the business failures and financial triumphs of 'a South London lad who became rich virtually by accident'. Part manual, part memoir, part primer, this book is a template for those who are willing to stare down failure and transform their lives. Canny, infuriating, cynical and generous by turns, How To Get Rich is an invaluable guide to 'the surprisingly simple art of collecting money which already has your name on it.

在线阅读本书 Book Description A New Translation From The French By Marion Wiesel Night is Elie Wiesel’s masterpiece, a candid, horrific, and deeply poignant autobiographical account of his survival as a teenager in the Nazi death camps. This new translation by Marion Wiesel, Elie’s wife and frequent translator, presents this seminal memoir in the language and spirit truest to the author’s original intent. And in a substantive new preface, Elie reflects on the enduring importance of Night and his lifelong, passionate dedication to ensuring that the world never forgets man’s capacity for inhumanity to man. Night offers much more than a litany of the daily terrors, everyday perversions, and rampant sadism at Auschwitz and Buchenwald; it also eloquently addresses many of the philosophical as well as personal questions implicit in any serious consideration of what the Holocaust was, what it meant, and what its legacy is and will be. From the Inside Flap Born in the town of Sighet, Transylvania, Elie Wiesel was a teenager when he and his family were taken from their home in 1944 to the Auschwitz concentration camp, and then to Buchenwald. Night is the terrifying record of Elie Wiesel's memories of the death of his family, the death of his own innocence, and his despair as a deeply observant Jew confronting the absolute evil of man. This new translation by his wife and most frequent translator, Marion Wiesel, corrects important details and presents the most accurate rendering in English of Elie Wiesel's testimony to what happened in the camps and of his unforgettable message that this horror must never be allowed to happen again. This edition also contains a new preface by the author. Amazon.com In Nobel laureate Elie Wiesel's memoir Night, a scholarly, pious teenager is wracked with guilt at having survived the horror of the Holocaust and the genocidal campaign that consumed his family. His memories of the nightmare world of the death camps present him with an intolerable question: how can the God he once so fervently believed in have allowed these monstrous events to occur? There are no easy answers in this harrowing book, which probes life's essential riddles with the lucid anguish only great literature achieves. It marks the crucial first step in Wiesel's lifelong project to bear witness for those who died. Reviews "What I maintain is that this personal record, coming after so many others and describing an outrage about which we might imagine we already know all that it is possible to know, is nevertheless different, distinct, unique....Have we ever thought about the consequence of a horror that, though less apparent, less striking than the other outrages, is yet the worst of all to those of us who have faith: the death of God in the soul of a child who suddenly discovers absolute evil?" 　Francios Mauriac About Author Elie Wiesel, the author of some forty books, is Andrew W. Mellon Professor in the Humanities at Boston University. He and his family live in New York City. Mr. Wiesel was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1986. Book Dimension : Height (cm) 21 　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　 Width (cm) 14.3

On a frozen night in Peking, in January 1937, British teenager Pamela Werner was brutally murdered, her body dumped in one of the Chinese capital’s ancient alleyways. Her killer escaped justice, disappearing into the chaos of World War II and Japanese invasion—until now. It was a murder that shocked Peking society, and became an instant tabloid sensation. The body of British teenager Pamela Werner was dumped in an alleyway beneath Fox Tower outside the capital’s Legation Quarter, her heart removed and her body mutilated. Fear and rumour spread through a close‐knit international community already made nervous by Japanese troops, poised to invade. Pamela was an ordinary teenager—a Tientsin Grammar School pupil, she played netball and enjoyed ice‐skating with friends at the French Club. British and Chinese detectives followed a wide range of leads, first discounting theories of Triad mafia rituals, vengeful “fox spirits” of ancient lore and Blue Shirt anti‐Japanese assassination squads. Was it a botched hit by anti‐communist elements? Her body was, after all, discovered close to the home of communist sympathizer and Red Star over China author Edgar Snow, and the young girl bore a resemblance to his wife, Helen Foster Snow. As investigations proceeded, a darker society began to emerge from the shadows of the Peking Badlands, populated with colourful characters such as White Russian brothel manager Mme Leschinsky and Shura, a half‐Korean hermaphrodite and Japanese spy. Suspicions quickly rested on three suspects. Pamela’s father, ETC Werner, was a former British diplomat with a reputation as a difficult and moody man, whose own wife’s death was considered suspicious. Tientsin Grammar School headmaster Mr Yeates was suspected of an improper relationship with Pamela, who boarded at his home; he was bundled quietly out of China in the days following her murder, never to return. And then, there was the shocking discovery that American dentist Dr Prentise was, by night, the leader of a sex club that procured young girls for western men. With the invasion of Japanese troops, however an entire society disappeared for ever. Investigations were halted by World War II, and Pamela Werner’s murder has remained unsolved for more than 70 years. Pursuing the killer through exhaustive research that includes Scotland Yard archives and interviews with surviving relatives of Peking society, historian Paul French brings this tragic tale to a thrilling, unexpected and long overdue conclusion. 1937年1月，一位年轻英籍女士被谋杀，此事震惊了整个北平；随后警方就谋杀事件展开调查，但由于此后战乱不断，调查被迫中断。凶手也一直逍遥法外，直至最近，凶手才最终“浮出水面”。 在这宗离奇的谋杀案75年后，保罗•佛伦奇在《北平一夜》中最终揭秘，同时也淋漓尽致地展现了一个时代终结的生动画卷。 1937年，19岁的英国女孩帕米拉在天津上国际学校，爸爸是英国驻华外交官，花样年华，男友英俊，美好的人生就在眼前。 1937年一月的一个傍晚，帕米拉计划和朋友吃下午茶、溜冰，回家吃晚饭，但是她的家人再也没有看到她。 她是一个英国外交官的孩子，家住盔甲厂胡同，在北京站东街附近。傍晚时分，她从这个门出来，踏上了不归之路。 路上要途经船板胡同，当时外国妓女主要营生场所（相当于今天的三里屯）。不是八大胡同哟！八大胡同是中国人去的高级娱乐场所，相当于今天的天上人间。帕米拉途经后沟胡同的北京基督教会崇文门堂。冯玉祥曾经在此洗礼，并举办婚礼。这就是她最后的出现的地方——苏州胡同的法国俱乐部附近。 她和朋友喝了茶，滑了冰，可能还和中国的小伙吃了些晚饭。她的尸体第二天早上被发现在东便门角楼下的绿地上。一个早起遛鸟的老人报了警。她脸上、身上都是刀伤，肋骨外翻，心、肺都不见了，她的女性生殖器也被阉割了。尸体的惨象震惊了整个社会。 1937年的北平是一个错综复杂的社会，活跃着各类角色。中国人杀的？外国人杀的？情杀？仇杀？劫杀？反日？反共？错杀？ 当时北平最好的侦探和英国派到中国的最好的侦探Dennis联手破案。1937年，破案的技术条件很低，不能判断血型，不能做DNA鉴定，连第一犯罪现场都没有找到。 虽然两国政府都说随便找个中国人顶罪吧！但是这两个侦探非常有良知，最后锁定的嫌疑犯都是外国人。两人也结成了终身好友。 嫌犯一：她的父亲：性格古怪的英国外交官，老婆死的不明不白。 嫌犯二：她的校长：她的语言学校的校长，被传和这个小姑娘有不正当关系。凶杀案后，他立即被遣送回国，而且被要求终身不得从事教育行业。 嫌犯三：美国牙医：公开身份是牙医，实际上运营着一个外国妓女俱乐部。后来因为心脏病突死在北京的街头。 还有一种说法呦！斯诺一家就住在帕米拉家旁边，斯诺正在写《红星照耀中国》，帕米拉和斯诺夫人打扮体型都很像。斯诺怀疑是中统本想暗杀斯诺夫人，但是找错对象了。 1937年的北平动荡不安，日本的入侵导致社会的分崩离析，这个凶杀案也就不了了之。三个嫌疑犯背负着世人的怀疑，却无力洗涮，最后相继去世。 70年后的今天，历史学家Paul French历经5年，采访了7位当时的见证者，找到150页当时的侦探笔记，结合历史资料，终于揭开了这个凶杀案的谜底。 这个凶手他住在东交民巷里，房子至今还矗立在小巷中，见证着这段被堙没的历史。

　（按照amazon.com的简介翻译的） 　　“我出生过两次：第一次，作为一个女婴，出生在意外晴朗没有烟雾的底特律一月的一天，1960年；第二次，在 密西根洲，婆透思基城的一个急诊室里，以一个少年男子的身份，1974年八月。” 《Middlesex》如此开头。这是一本令人着迷的史诗型故事，关于一个富有传奇色彩的希腊裔美国家庭。同时又是一本讲述“一个基因在时间隧道里的过山车般的旅途。”Jeffrey Eugenides在1993年发表了他那优雅而且令人难忘的处女作：《处女自杀》，至今名列近来最好的小说之列。大家拭目以待的他的第二本小说是以奇怪但是可信的四十一岁双性人卡尔-思坦分耐笛斯如何被当作珈丽奥佩养大的感人故事为中心。 　　 　　Eugenides把一个带有污点的贯穿80年的家庭史用万花筒般的语言技巧编织起来，从1920年代小亚细亚一个小城镇里的被命运捉弄的乱伦结合开始到禁酒时期的底特律；从福特公司的早期到1967年的种族暴乱；从高尚文雅的底特律郊区GROSSE POINTE里发生的迷惘充满了少年成长之痛的爱情故事到现代的柏林。Eugenides对语言的驾驭能力令人叹为观止。他把卡尔/珈丽奥佩二者交错的叙述平衡得令人信服，把这个奇怪而且常常让人不安的故事用智慧，洞察力，和幽默讲述出来： 　　 　　（以下为引用原书） 　　 情绪，据我所知是不能用一个简单的字来概括的。我不相信“悲伤”，“快乐”，或者“遗憾”这种字眼。。。我喜欢拥有丰富多彩的情绪，好象德国的火车车厢构造，比如说“陪伴着悲剧的快乐”，或者“拥有了梦想之后的失望”，我希望能够有个字眼能够形容“一个失败的餐馆带来的悲伤”，还有“住进一个有小酒巴的房间带来的兴奋”。我从来没有找到合适的语言来形容我的一生，而现在我开始讲我自己的故事，对这些合适的词组的需要就更迫切了。 　　 　　 Emotions, in my experience aren't covered by single words. I don't believe in ”sadness,” ”joy,” or ”regret.” … I'd like to have at my disposal complicated hybrid emotions, Germanic traincar constructions like, say, ”the happiness that attends disaster.” Or: ”the disappointment of sleeping with one's fantasy.” ... I'd like to have a word for ”the sadness inspired by failing restaurants” as well as for ”the excitement of getting a room with a minibar.” I've never had the right words to describe my life, and now that I've entered my story, I need them more than ever.

I Am Zlatan Ibrahimovic is the story of the football player known to fans around the world as Ibra. Get the inside story of his childhood on the wrong side of the tracks in Malmö, Sweden, and his fight against the odds. Here’s Ibra’s take on the clubs, the scandals, and on stars like Ronaldo, Ronaldinho, Patrick Vieira and Lionel Messi. In his own words, Ibra tells us about his time on the Malmö FF youth squad, and about the dads from the nicer part of town who tried to get him kicked off the team. We get the full story about the conflicts in Ajax, the sale to Juventus, his successes in Italy and the scandal that almost ruined his career. He tells us about the wins with Inter Milan, about Mourinho, and about his most famous goals. He tells us about Helena, the kids, and his life off the pitch. And for the first time ever we get the whole truth about what really happened between him and Pep Guardiola in Barcelona. Zlatan Ibrahimovic’s autobiography is a thrilling look behind the scenes of top division football.

在线阅读本书 William Shakespeare, the most celebrated poet in the English language, left behind nearly a million words of text, but his biography has long been a thicket of wild supposition arranged around scant facts. With a steady hand and his trademark wit, Bill Bryson sorts through this colorful muddle to reveal the man himself. Bryson documents the efforts of earlier scholars, from today's most respected academics to eccentrics like Delia Bacon, an American who developed a firm but unsubstantiated conviction that her namesake, Francis Bacon, was the true author of Shakespeare's plays. Emulating the style of his famous travelogues, Bryson records episodes in his research, including a visit to a bunkerlike room in Washington, D.C., where the world's largest collection of First Folios is housed. Bryson celebrates Shakespeare as a writer of unimaginable talent and enormous inventiveness, a coiner of phrases ("vanish into thin air," "foregone conclusion," "one fell swoop") that even today have common currency. His Shakespeare is like no one else's—the beneficiary of Bryson's genial nature, his engaging skepticism, and a gift for storytelling unrivaled in our time.

一个动物会有多大影响力？ 一只猫能感动多少人？ 一只遭遗弃的小猫，如何能改变一个小图书馆，拯救一个典型的美国小镇，最终闻名世界？ 如果没听说衣阿华州斯潘塞镇图书馆小猫杜威的故事，也许根本无从回答。 小猫杜威的故事，说来好似极其不可能。 那年最冷的一个晚上，小猫杜威出生只有几周，就被丢进斯潘塞图书馆的还书箱。图书馆馆长薇奇·麦仑是个单身妈妈，有过一个酒鬼丈夫，遭受着失去家庭农场和罹患乳腺癌的痛苦，但仍然坚强地生活着。第二天早晨，她发现了小猫杜威。 小猫杜威获救后勉强撑起一瘸一拐的腿，以充满感激和温爱的姿势，磨蹭每一只抚摸它的手，赢得了薇奇的心，也赢得了图书馆所有人的心。 在随后的十九年里，小猫杜威用热情、温暖、谦虚，和敏锐的第六感（小猫杜威总是知道谁最需要它），感动和吸引着小镇居民。 小猫杜威的名气，从一个小镇传到另一个小镇，从一个国家到另一个国家，最终闻名世界。小猫杜威不再只是一个朋友，它成为了人们的骄傲，成了逐渐从有史以来最大的危机中恢复过来的小镇的骄傲。