Art of living

作者：  梁实秋，舒婷等著

出版社：光明日报出版社,2005

简介：豆腐是我们中国食品中的瑰宝。豆腐之法，是否始于汉淮南王刘安，没 有关系，反正我们已经吃了这么多年，至今仍然在吃。在海外留学的人，到 唐人街杂碎馆打牙祭少不了要吃一盘烧豆腐，方才有家乡风味。有人在海外 由于制豆腐而发了财，也有人研究豆腐而得到学位。 关于豆腐的事情，可以编写一部大书，现在只是谈谈几项我个人所喜欢 的吃法。 凉拌豆腐，最简单不过。买块嫩豆腐，冲洗干净，加上一些葱花，撒些 盐，加麻油，就很好吃。若是用红酱豆腐的汁浇上去，更好吃。至不济浇上 一些酱油膏和麻油，也不错。我最喜欢的是香椿拌豆腐。香椿就是庄子所说 的“以八千岁为春，以八千岁为秋”的椿。取其吉利，我家后院植有一棵不 大不小的椿树，春发嫩芽，绿中微带红色，摘下来用沸水一烫，切成碎末， 拌豆腐，有奇香。可是别误摘臭椿，臭椿就是樗，本草李时珍日：其叶臭恶 ，歉年人或采食。近来台湾也有香椿芽偶然在市上出现，虽非臭椿，但是嫌 其太粗壮，香气不足。在北平，和香椿拌豆腐可以相提并论的是黄瓜拌豆腐 ，这黄瓜若是冬天温室里长出来的，在没有黄瓜的季节吃黄瓜拌豆腐，其乐 也何如?比松花拌豆腐好吃得多。“鸡刨豆腐”是普通家常菜，可是很有风 味。一块老豆腐用铲子在炒锅热油里戳碎，戳得乱七八糟，略炒一下，倒下 一个打碎了的鸡蛋，再炒，加大量葱花。养过鸡的人应该知道，一块豆腐被 鸡刨了是什么样子。 锅塌豆腐又是一种味道。切豆腐成许多长方块，厚薄随意，裹以鸡蛋汁 ，再裹上一层芡粉，入油锅炸，炸到两面焦，取出。再下锅，浇上预先备好 的调味汁，如酱油料酒等，如有虾子羼入更好。略烹片刻，即可供食。虽然 仍是豆腐，然已别有滋味。台北天厨陈万策老板，自己吃长斋，然喜烹调， 推出的锅塌豆腐就是北平作风。 沿街担贩有卖“老豆腐”者。担子一边是锅灶，煮着一锅豆腐，久煮成 蜂窝状，另一边是碗匙佐料如酱油、醋、韭菜末、芝麻酱、辣椒油之类。这 样的老豆腐，自己在家里也可以做。天厨的老豆腐，加上了鲍鱼火腿等，身 分就不一样了。 担贩亦有吆喝“卤煮啊，炸豆腐!”者，他卖的是炸豆腐，三角形的， 间或还有加上炸豆腐丸子的，煮得烂，加上些佐料如花椒之类，也别有风味 。 一九二九年至一九三。年之际，李璜先生宴客于上海四马路美丽川(应 该是美丽川菜馆，大家都称之为美丽川)，我记得在座的有徐悲鸿、蒋碧微 等人，还有我不能忘的席中的一道“蚝油豆腐”。事隔五十余年，不知李幼 老还记得否。蚝油豆腐用头号大盘，上面平铺着嫩豆腐，一片片的像瓦垄然 ，整齐端正，黄橙橙的稀溜溜的蚝油汁洒在上面，亮晶晶的。那时候四川菜 在上海初露头角，我首次品尝，诧为异味，此后数十年间吃过无数次川菜， 不曾再遇此一杰作。我揣想那一盘豆腐是摆好之后去蒸的，然后浇汁。 厚德福有一道名菜，尝过的人不多，因为非有特殊关系或情形他们不肯 做，做起来太麻烦，这就是“罗汉豆腐”。豆腐捣成泥，加芡粉以增其粘性 ，然后捏豆腐泥成小饼状，实以肉馅，和捏汤团一般，下锅过油，再下锅红 烧，辅以佐料。罗汉是断尽三界一切见思惑的圣者，焉肯吃外表豆腐而内含 肉馅的丸子，称之为罗汉豆腐是有揶揄之意，而且也没有特殊的美味，和“ 佛跳墙”同是噱头而已。 冻豆腐是广受欢迎的，可下火锅，可做冻豆腐粉丝熬白菜(或酸菜)。有 人说，玉泉山的冻豆腐最好吃，泉水好，其实也未必。凡是冻豆腐，味道都 差不多。我常看到北方的劳苦人民，辛劳一天，然后拿着一大块锅盔，捧着 一黑皮大碗的冻豆腐粉丝熬白菜，唏哩呼噜的吃，我知道他自食其力，他很 快乐。

全球城市 地方商街：从纽约到上海的日常多样性

作者：  （美）莎伦·佐金，（美）菲利普·卡辛尼兹，（美）陈向明　主编，张伊娜，杨紫蔷　译

出版社：同济大学出版社 2016年09月

简介：作者简介 莎伦，佐金（Sharon Zukin）是纽约城市大学布鲁克 林学院和研究生中心社会学教授，2010-2011年 任阿姆斯特丹大学城市研究中心访问教授。已出版 ‘阁楼生活）（Loft Living）、‘城市文化>、 ‘裸 城：原真性城市场所的生与死）( Naked City: The Death and Life of Authentic Urban Places)三本关于 纽约的书，以及 （The Urban Ethnography Reader）。他还是‘传承城市： 移民二代达到法定年纪>（Inheriting the City: The Children of Immigrants Come of Age）的合著者，该 书获2010年美国社会学协会(American Sociological Association)杰出出版物奖。 陈向明（Xiangmi，q Chen）是美国康涅狄格州三一学院 城市和全球化研究中心的院长和主任，全球化城市研 究和社会学保罗，瑞泽( Paul E．Raether)杰出讲座 教授，同时担任上海复旦大学社会发展与公共政策学 院特聘教授和上海社会科学院研究生院兼职教授。参 与创作和编辑的书包括： （英中文版）， 《重思全 球化的都市生活：中等城市的比较视角）（Rethinking Global Urbanism: Comparative Insights from Seconda～ Cities)，以及‘城市：人类活动的地点和空间） (Introduction to Cities: How Place and Space Shape Human Experience、。

The Last Song 绝唱

作者：  Sparks

出版社：Hachette 2009年10月

简介：
#1 bestselling author Nicholas Sparks's new novel is at once a compelling family drama and a heartrending tale of young love.Seventeen year old Veronica "Ronnie" Miller's life was turned upside-down when her parents divorced and her father moved from New York City to Wilmington, North Carolina. Three years later, she remains angry and alientated from her parents, especially her father...until her mother decides it would be in everyone's best interest if she spent the summer in Wilmington with him. Ronnie's father, a former concert pianist and teacher, is living a quiet life in the beach town, immersed in creating a work of art that will become the centerpiece of a local church.The tale that unfolds is an unforgettable story of love on many levels--first love, love between parents and children -- that demonstrates, as only a Nicholas Sparks novel can, the many ways that love can break our hearts...and heal them.

VELOCITY 英文原版

作者：  Dean

出版社：Random House US 2006年04月

简介：

　　Book De*ion
Dean Koontz’s uniquetalent for writing terrifying thrillers with a heart and soul isnowhere more evident than in this latest suspense masterpiece thatpits one man against the ultimate deadline. If there were speedlimits for the sheer pulse-racing excitement allowed in one novel,Velocity would break them all. Get ready for the ride of yourlife.
　　From Publishers Weekly
　　Starred Review. A diabolic killer plays a harrowing game of catand mouse with a reclusive bartender in Koontz's latest grippingsuspense thriller. Billy Wiles, a 30-something bartender and formerwriter, is content with his solitary Napa County existencelistening to "beer-based psychoanalysis" from tavern regulars;visiting his hospitalized, comatose fiancée, Barbara; and carvingwood sculptures. But the simple life gets mighty complicated whenhe finds a note with a deadly, time-sensitive ultimatum: he mustchoose between the death of a young schoolteacher or an elderlyhumanitarian in six hours. Reluctant local sheriff Lanny Olsendismisses it as a joke until a comely teacher is found strangledand another threatening note appears—offering even less time forBilly to decide the fate of two more people. Who would have guessedthat one of those people would be Olsen? After his friend's murder,Billy finds that the cunning killer has gained access to everyaspect of his life as the ultimatums grow increasingly morepersonal. Suppressing horrific childhood memories, Billy scramblesto bury grisly incriminating evidence the murderer has deviouslyplanted. More gruesome deaths and shaky suspicions trap Billy rightin the demented killer's lair for just the beginning of Koontz'sserpentine showdown. Graphic, fast-paced action, well-developedcharacters and relentless, nail-biting scenes show Koontz at thetop of his game. (May 24)
　　From Booklist
　　Billy Wiles tends bar in a tavern in his small Californiahometown, from which he has never moved despite the horrific nightwhen he became an orphan at 14 and its equally horrific aftermath.Some 15 years later, he published a well-received book of storiesand met Barbara. They were about to be married when botulism incanned vichyssoise put her in a coma, and Billy more or less onhold, living on the hope that she will revive some day. Some fiveyears further on, Billy finds, under the windshield wiper of hiscar, a note offering him a hideous decision. If he doesn't go tothe police, "a lovely blond schoolteacher" will be killed; if hedoes, "an elderly woman" will be murdered. Billy doesn't exactly gothe police. He shows the note to a cop who is probably his onlyreal friend and who seconds his conjecture that the note is just anexceedingly tasteless prank. Of course, it isn't, and for the restof an exceedingly tightly wound thriller stubbornly focused on him,Billy struggles to discover the identity of the soon-serial killer,who plants evidence incriminating Billy on his (her? their?)victims. Eventually and all too soon, Barbara is threatened, andBilly's subsequent suicide predicted, in the murderer's ostensiblyfinal note. Not as moving as Odd Thomas (2003), as creepy as TheTaking(2004), as darkly funny as Life Expectancy (2004), or asthought-provoking as any of them, Velocity is, however, moresuspenseful and more grueling--genuinely terrific.
　　Ray Olson
　　From School Library Journal
　　Adult/High School–Bartender Billy Wiles's life spirals out ofcontrol after he finds a note on his windshield telling him that hehas a choice: involve the police, and a lovely blonde schoolteacherdies. Do nothing, and an elderly woman active in charity work dies.His options only become harder once the killer targets people whomBilly knows and plants circumstantial evidence tying him to thecrimes. His greatest fear is for his comatose fiancée, and he worksfrantically to find the murderer before Barbara is hurt. Koontzkeeps the plot moving at an accelerating pace, and there are enoughtwists and turns to keep the story from being predictable. Billyisn't a hero in the traditional sense, but he is a sympatheticprotagonist, an average man pushed to his limits by an implacablefoe. Although there is a great deal of violence and an impressivebody count, the worst of it occurs off-screen. The themes aren'tsubtle, but they are worth considering--the importance ofconnection and community, the enduring power of love, and thevalidity of modern art. Velocity is a fast, entertainingread.
　　–Susan Salpini, TASIS–The American School in England
　　From AudioFile
　　Billy Wiles has been forced into a game of moral jeopardy by alurid serial killer who forces him to choose the next victim. Thegame accelerates, the deadlines grow tighter, the killer becomesbolder and crueler with every communication, the mutilations evermore grotesque, the decisions intensely personal . . . until theyfinally involve Barbara, Billy's fiancée, who is helpless in abotulism-induced coma. Michael Hayden is masterful at creating thevibrato of beer-based psychoanalysis, the garbled quality oftalking around a toothbrush, and the exquisite timing of a winchline turning on a drum, a sound that pulls the listener further andfurther into this impossible-to-wake-up-from nightmare. Prepareyourself for a Machiavellian extravaganza. K.A.T.
　　About Author
　　When he was a senior in college, Dean Koontz won an AtlanticMonthly fiction competition. He has been writing ever since. Hisbooks are published in 38 languages; worldwide sales are over 300million copies.
　　Ten of his novels have risen to number one on the New York Timeshardcover best-seller list (The Husband, One Door Away From Heaven,From The Corner Of His Eye, Midnight, Cold Fire, Hideaway, DragonTears, The Bad Place, Intensity, and Sole Survivor). Thirteen ofhis books have risen to the number one position in paperback.
　　Several of his books have been adapted into feature films and TVminiseries, including the highly rated “Intensity” on the FoxNetwork. The Husband is currently in development as a major motionpicture by Focus Features/Random House Films.
　　The New York Times has called his writing "psychologicallycomplex, masterly and satisfying." The New Orleans Times-Picayunesaid Koontz is "lyrical without ever being naive or romantic. [Hecreates] a grotesque world, much like that of Flannery O'Connor orWalker Percy ... scary, worthwhile reading." The London Timescalled him "a literary juggler," and Publishers Weekly recentlystated in a starred review that Koontz "gives readers bright hopein a dark world. He is a true original."
　　Dean Koontz was born and raised in Pennsylvania. He graduatedfrom Shippensburg State College (now Shippensburg University), andhis first job after graduation was with the Appalachian PovertyProgram, where he was expected to counsel and tutor underprivilegedchildren on a one-to-one basis. His first day on the job, hediscovered that the previous occupier of his position had beenbeaten up by the very kids he had been trying to help and hadlanded in the hospital for several weeks. The following year wasfilled with challenge but also tension, and Koontz was more highlymotivated than ever to build a career as a writer. He wrote nightsand weekends, which he continued to do after leaving the povertyprogram and going to work as an English teacher in a suburbanschool district outside Harrisburg. After he had been a year and ahalf in that position, his wife, Gerda, made him an offer hecouldn't refuse: "I'll support you for five years," she said, "andif you can't make it as a writer in that time, you'll never makeit." By the end of those five years, Gerda had quit her job to runthe business end of her husband's writing career. Dean and GerdaKoontz live in southern California with their golden retriever,Trixie, who herself has written two successful books—Life Is Goodand Christmas Is Good.
　　Book Dimension
　　Height (mm) 176 　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　 Width (mm) 106

Diana's boys : William and Harry and the mother they loved / 1st ed.

作者：  Christopher Andersen.

出版社：

简介：Five years after Diana's death, Prince William and his brother Prince Harry -- "the heir and the spare," as Fleet Street dubbed them -- are the planet's two most photographed, written-about, and speculated-about young men. People everywhere feel an intense affection for Wills and Harry, and wonder if, without their mother to guide them, they are withering or flourishing in the House of Windsor. In this much anticipated sequel to his New York Times#1 bestseller The Day Diana Died,Christopher Andersen draws on important sources -- many of whom have agreed to speak here for the first time -- to paint this sympathetic, yet often startling portrait of William and Harry, and reveal how their mother remains a constant presence in their lives. Here is a story of a mother who died too young, and the beloved sons who are her living legacy.

Hotel Office Park Shopping mall Convention Apartment

作者：  香港理工国际出版社编著

出版社：天津大学出版社,2011

简介： HOPSCA is a totally new city conformation which combines facilities like hotel style management, office, park, shopping, convention and apartment together. As the symbol of a high-level and magnificent lifestyle, HOPSCA is the result of comprehensive developing model which comes from the scientific features and ties of these six city resources --business, office, commerce, landscape, recreation and entertainment,and living. HOPSCA is becoming an ideal home in which the lifestyle could be freely switched among living, business and recreation and entertainment. Being multi-functional, HOPSCA manages to make the most benefits of the city. Meanwhile, by utilizing advanced hightechnology in planning and design, it is able to be ecological, energy-saving, secure and quick information exchanging.

$100 startup:reinvent the way you make a living, do what you love, and create a new future

作者：  (美)克里斯·吉尔博著;彭璐译

出版社：中信出版社,2014

简介：《魔力创业》里讲的就是这样一群人的创业故事——他们的经验教训，他们的心得体验。为了完成此书，长期创业者兼环球旅行家克里斯?吉尔博寻访了全球十多个国家、63个城市的100多位小成本创业者。他依此也在《魔力创业》中揭示了小成本创业成功的关键——找到我们的兴趣和对他人有价值事情的交集。 这不是一本商业书，而是一本有关自由的书，它是为那些想要逃离机械式生活并开创自主人生的勇敢者所写。吉尔博的真正目的是，引导人们通过小成本创业，开启充满新奇、意义非凡且目标明确的人生，让人们做能做自己所爱，同时拥有自由和价值。当金钱让我们感到焦虑时，或许正是一个让我们从中逃离的契机。在世界各个角落，都有这样一些“小成本创业者”，他们不在拥挤的环境中工作，不需和同事竞争，而其创业风险也刚好在能承受的范围内。这份小成本的事业让他们年收入丰厚，还让他们享受着自由无拘束的生活。你或许想不到，他们大多并没有经商经验，没有MBA学位；他们的产品或服务也并不需要高科技或专业背景，也不需要长达65页的商业计划书；他们甚至不需要借钱或贷款。他们在自己的兴趣或特长的基础上，用小成本就重塑了自己的谋生方式，走向了自由和富有价值的人生。

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简介："Imagine living in 1958, and knowing that the integrated circuit--the microchip--was about to be invented, and would revolutionize the world. Or imagine 1992, when the Internet was about to transform virtually every aspect of our lives. Incredibly, this book argues that we stand at such a moment right now--and not just in one field, but in many. In 2030 , authors Rutger van Santen, Djan Khoe, and Bram Vermeer interview over two dozen scientific and technological experts on themes of health, sustainability and communication, asking them to look forward to the year 2030 and comment on the kind of research that will play a necessary role. If we know what technology will be imperative in 2030, the authors reason, what can we do now to influence future breakthroughs? Despite working in dissimilar fields, the experts called upon in the book - including Hans Blix (Head of the UN investigation in Iraq), Craig Venter (explorer of the human DNA), and Susan Greenfield (a leading world authority on the human brain), among many others - all emphasize the interconnectedness of our global networks in technology and communication, so tightly knit that the world's major conflicts are never isolated incidents. A fresh understanding of the regularities underlying these complex systems is more important than ever. Using bright, accessible language to discuss topics of universal interest and relevance, 2030 takes the position that we can, in fact, influence the course of history. It offers a new way of looking forward, a fresh perspective on sustainability, stability and crisis-prevention. For anyone interested in modern science, this book will showcase the technologies that will soon change the way we live."--pub. desc.

Moneyless man:a year of freeconomic living

作者：  马克·博伊尔(Mark Boyle)著;墨轩译

出版社：中国友谊出版公司,2011

简介：2008年11月29日，这天是“国际无消费日”，爱尔兰的马克·博伊尔选中这个特殊的日子开始了他的计划--不花钱过一年。为了这个计划，他准备了几个月，并与自己约定了一些规则。在一年的时间里，他住在一辆破旧的大篷车里，利用太阳能板洗澡和为手机、笔记本电脑充电；以自己种植的土豆和从超市垃圾箱捡到的快过期食品为食；靠打零工换取免费无线上网时间；出门徒步或骑自行车；手机只接听不打出；衣服来自废物箱或免费回收网站；烧火靠捡柴禾；牙膏则用清洗过的乌贼骨和野茴香籽制成；对于日常生活最常用的手纸，马克也有办法解决。废旧报纸成了他的主要选择。虽然报纸不像手纸那样柔软，但他很快就习惯了……在这一年里，马克遇到了我们想象得到和想象不到的各种困难，但他不但顺利解决还能乐在其中，像趣事一样娓娓道来。他认为不花钱的生活“是真正的解放。尽管的确存在许多挑战，但也告别了银行存款、账单、交通堵塞以及过去经常困扰自己的工作压力”。马克这样做并非为了让人们放弃金钱，而是倡导一种简单生活的理念，希望人们不再过度消费，珍爱地球，珍惜资源。简单生活不仅仅是一种生活概念，还是一种环保概念。这种意识会让你更有责任感，进而影响你整个生活方式、态度和处事哲学。简单生活，简单的不仅仅是生活，还有我们的灵魂。

Numerical analysis in modern scientific computing现代科学计算中的数据分析

作者：  Peter Deuflhard　著

出版社： 2003-1-1

简介：This introductory book directs the reader to a selection of useful elementary numerical algorithms on a reasonably sound theoretical basis, built up within the text. The primary aim is to develop algorithmic thinking -- emphasizing long living computational concepts over fast changing software issues. The guiding principle is to explain modern numerical analysis concepts applicable in complex scientific computing at much simpler model problems. For example, the two adaptive techniques in numerical quadrature elaborated here carry the germs for either extrapolation methods or multigrid methods in differential equations, which are not treated here. The presentation draws on geometrical intuition wherever appropriate, supported by a large number of illustrations. Numerous exercises are included for further practice and improved understanding. This text will appeal to undergraduate and graduate students as well as researchers in mathematics, computer science, science, and engineering. At the same time it is addressed to practical computational scientists who, via self-study, wish to become acquainted with modern concepts of numerical analysis and scientific computing on an elementary level. Sole prerequisite is undergraduate knowledge in Linear Algebra and Calculus.

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简介：Survey of paintings, sculptures, and folk art by 20th c. black artists living in the United States and the Caribbean whose works reflect African cultural traditions and iconography. Catalogue includes an introduction by David C. Driskell, an essay by the exhibition’s chief curator, Alvia J. Wardlaw, as well as essays by Edmund Barry Gaither, Regenia A. Perry, William Ferris, Ute Stebich, and Robert Farris Thompson.

Psychology for living

作者：  (美)卡伦·达菲(Karen Duffy)，(美)伊斯特伍德·阿特沃特(Eastwood Atwater)著;邹丹，张莹等译

出版社：世界图书出版公司北京公司,2011,2013重印)

简介：《心理学改变生活(第9版)》写给那些有兴趣在生活中应用心理学的知识和原理，从而更好地认识自己、更好地生活的读者。为了这个目的，我在书中收入了心理学的几个主要观点，包括心理动力学、认知与行为主义心理学以及人文主义心理学等。为了使《心理学改变生活(第9版)》更丰富、全面，我又借鉴了临床心理学、人格心理学、社会心理学、发展心理学以及认知心理学、生理心理学和健康心理学等重要领域的研究成果。在《心理学改变生活(第9版)》中，我给读者呈现针对同一问题的不同观点，并设计了一些题目来激发读者的批判性思考。我撰写《心理学改变生活(第9版)》的目的在于提高读者对个人调整的理解和认识，这样读者就可以独立地继续学习了。

Chaos and order:the complex structure of living system

作者：  (德)弗里德里希·克拉默(Friedrich Cramer)著;柯志阳，吴彤译

出版社：上海科技教育出版社,2010

简介：　　 最近在生命科学中取得的进展，已经在我们对自然的认识方面产生了 　　意义深远的影响。对远离平衡态的非线性系统和自组织的深入研究，已被 　　纳入科学视界。因分子生物学领域的卓越贡献而著称的克拉默教授，以其 　　独特的洞见致力于展现一幅整体图景，回答长期以来一直强烈吸引着人类 　　的重大问题——生命是什么。 　　 克拉默教授探究了耗散结构理论、超循环理论、混沌理论和突变论等 　　自组织理论，剖析了生命结构的有序与混沌，基因治疗的可行性，物种进 　　化和进化主义，树与闪电的相似形态，三体问题，天体结构，分形艺术， 　　大爆炸，衰老与死亡，由此建立了事物的根本复杂性的概念和相关理论。 　　 本书每一章皆以一段哲理性对话开篇，以一首抒情诗作结，旨在以这 　　种别出心裁的结构，架起沟通科学技术与哲学人文“两种文化”的桥梁。 　　

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简介：      在线阅读本书          Book Description     A man with a faded, well-worn notebook open in his lap. A woman experiencing a morning ritual she doesn't understand. Until he begins to read to her. The Notebook is an achingly tender story about the enduring power of love, a story of miracles that will stay with you forever. Set amid the austere beauty of coastal North Carolina in 1946, The Notebook begins with the story of Noah Calhoun, a rural Southerner returned home from World War II. Noah, thirty-one, is restoring a plantation home to its former glory, and he is haunted by images of the beautiful girl he met fourteen years earlier, a girl he loved like no other. Unable to find her, yet unwilling to forget the summer they spent together, Noah is content to live with only memories....until she unexpectedly returns to his town to see him once again. Allie Nelson, twenty-nine, is now engaged to another man, but realizes that the original passion she felt for Noah has not dimmed with the passage of time. Still, the obstacles that once ended their previous relationship remain, and the gulf between their worlds is too vast to ignore. With her impending marriage only weeks away, Allie is forced to confront her hopes and dreams for the future, a future that only she can shape. Like a puzzle within a puzzle, the story of Noah and Allie is just the beginning. As it unfolds, their tale miraculously becomes something different, with much higher stakes. The result is a deeply moving portrait of love itself, the tender moments and the fundamental changes that affect us all. Shining with a beauty that is rarely found in current literature, The Notebook establishes Nicholas Sparks as a classic storyteller with a unique insight into the only emotion that really matters. "I am nothing special, of this I am sure. I am a common man with common thoughts and I've led a common life. There are no monuments dedicated to me and my name will soon be forgotten, but I've loved another with all my heart and soul, and to me, this has always been enough." And so begins one of the most poignant and compelling love stories you will ever read....The Notebook          Amazon.com     "Somewhere," muses Noah Calhoun, while sitting on his porch in the moonight, "there were people making love." The Notebook, a Southern-fried story of love-lost-and-found-again, revolves around a single time-honored romantic dilemma: will beautiful Allison Nelson stay with Mr. Respectability (to whom she happens to be engaged), or will she choose Noah, the romantic rascal she left so many years ago?          From Publishers Weekly     In 1932, two North Carolina teenagers from opposite sides of the tracks fall in love. Spending one idyllic summer together in the small town of New Bern, Noah Calhoun and Allie Nelson do not meet again for 14 years. Noah has returned from WWII to restore the house of his dreams, having inherited a large sum of money. Allie, programmed by family and the "caste system of the South" to marry an ambitious, prosperous man, has become engaged to powerful attorney Lon Hammond. When she reads a newspaper story about Noah's restoration project, she shows up on his porch step, re-entering his life for two days. Will Allie leave Lon for Noah? The book's slim dimensions and cliche-ridden prose will make comparisons to The Bridges of Madison County inevitable. What renders Sparks's (Wokini: A Lakota Journey of Happiness and Self-Understanding) sentimental story somewhat distinctive are two chapters, which take place in a nursing home in the '90s, that frame the central story. The first sets the stage for the reading of the eponymous notebook, while the later one takes the characters into the land beyond happily ever after, a future rarely examined in books of this nature. Early on, Noah claims that theirs may be either a tragedy or a love story, depending on the perspective. Ultimately, the judgment is up to readers?be they cynics or romantics. For the latter, this will be a weeper. Major ad/promo; first serial to Good Housekeeping; movie rights to New Line Cinema; Warner Audio; Literary Guild and Doubleday Book Club main selections.          From Library Journal     Here is a first novel that many people are banking on: the Literary Guild and Doubleday Book Club are featuring it as a main selection and film, foreign, and serial rights are already sold. At 80, Noah Calhoun reads daily from a notebook containing the love story of Noah and Allie. We learn of the teenaged lovers, their 14-year separation and reunion in New Bern, North Carolina, just weeks before Allie is to marry another man. Back in the present, we learn that Noah and Allie did marry and were happy for more than 40 years. Now, they are residents of a nursing home, separated both by rooms and, more profoundly, by Allie's Alzheimer's. Noah's daily reading from the notebook is not to himself; he reads aloud to Allie, hoping that the power of their love story will reach her. Noah's coping mechanisms as an old man are exceptional, and the novel's format, focusing just on the dual beginnings of their love story and its denouement, is intriguing. This is a more romantic testament to love's enduring miracle than Robert James Waller's The Bridges of Madison County (LJ 3/1/92) because the Calhouns chose the rigors of daily domestic life over a dream of four days. For all popular collections.     -?Rebecca S. Kelm, Northern Kentucky Univ. Lib., Highland Heights          From Booklist     With a huge first printing and a major advertising campaign, Warner is clearly hoping that Sparks' first novel will duplicate the success of Robert James Waller's Bridges of Madison County. Written in the opaque language of a fable, the novel opens in a nursing home as 80-year-old Noah Calhoun, "a common man with common thoughts," reads a love story from a notebook; it is his own story. In 1946, Noah, newly returned from the war, is trying to forget a long-ago summer romance with Allie Nelson, the daughter of a powerful businessman. Allie, soon to be married, feels compelled to track Noah down. One steamed-crab dinner and a canoe ride later, they fall madly in love again. We then learn that Noah, now aged and infirm, is reading his notebook to Allie in an attempt to jog her memory, severely impaired by Alzheimer's disease, and, miraculously, he succeeds, much to the amazement of the hospital staff. There is something suspect about a romantic relationship that reaches its acme when one of the partners is in the throes of dementia, but then, this is well within the confines of the romance genre--love conquers all, even Alzheimer's, leaving the medical experts (and this reviewer) confounded. If you want to read a novel in which the romance is grounded in something real, and the magic is truly magical, read the work of Alice Hoffman. If you want to read an upscale Harlequin romance with great crossover appeal, then read The Notebook.     Joanne Wilkinson          From AudioFile     Two ordinary people are rendered extraordinary by the strength, power and beauty of true love; each brings out the best in the other, and their pure love endures. The dual performance of Kate Nelligan and Campbell Scott enhances this smooth abridgment of Sparks's lyrical novel. With the perspectives of both characters presented, one has a sense of hearing the whole story. Nelligan's genteel, Southern tones blend perfectly with Scott's straightforward, gentle, often sensuous baritone. The readers deliver strong characterizations of both the younger, passionate lovers and the matured, easily fatigued, nursing home residents they become. Allie and Noah's heartrending story will touch the heart and soul of any listener who has ever loved a kindred spirit. J.H.B.An AUDIOFILE Earphones Award winner.          From Kirkus Reviews     Sparks's debut is a contender in the Robert Waller book-sweeps for most shamelessly sentimental love story, with honorable mention for highest octane schmaltz throughout an extended narrative. New Bern is the Carolina town where local boy Noah Calhoun and visitor Allison Nelson fall in love, in 1932, when Noah is 17 and Allie 15 (``as he . . . met those striking emerald eyes, he knew . . . she was the one he could spend the rest of his life looking for but never find again''). Allie's socially prominent mom, however, sees their Romeo-and-Juliet affair differently, intercepting Noah's heartrendingly poetic love-letters, while Allie, sure he doesn't love her, never even sends hers. Love is forever, though, and in 1946 Allie sees a piece in the paper about Noah (he's back home after WW II, still alone, living in a 200-year-old house in the country) and drives down to see him, telling the socially prominent lawyer she's engaged to that she's gone looking for antiques (`` `And here it will end, one way or the other,' she whispered''). And together again the lovers come indeed, during a thunderstorm, before a crackling fire, leaving the poetic Noah to reflect that ``to him, the evening would be remembered as one of the most special times he had ever had.'' So, will Allie marry her lawyer? Will Noah live out his life alone, rocking on his porch, paddling up the creek, ``playing his guitar for beavers and geese and wild blue herons''? Suffice it to say that love will go on, somehow, for 140 more pages, readers will find out what the title means and may or may not agree with Allie, of Noah: ``You are the most forgiving and peaceful man I know. God is with you, He must be, for you are the closest thing to an angel that I've ever met.'' An epic of treacle, an ocean of tears, made possible by a perfect, ideal, unalloyed absence of humor. Destined, positively, for success. (First serial to Good Housekeeping; film rights to New Line Cinema; Literary Guild selection)          Book Dimension     length: (cm)17.1 width:(cm)11.3

Random House Webster’s dictionary of American English

作者：  (美)Gerard M. Dalgish主编

出版社：外语教学与研究出版社,2006

简介：N韦伯斯特1828年编纂出版了著名的《美国英语大词典》，从而开启了韦氏词典的历史。现在，韦氏词典早已成长为著名的词典品牌，被全世界的英语学习者公认为学习美式英语必用的词典。这部《韦氏高阶美语英汉双解词典》秉承韦氏词典的一贯特色，全面真实地反映了美式英语的面貌。 根据著名的兰登书屋Living Dictionary DatabaseTM语料库编纂而成，收录单词和短语60，000余条。数万条例证讲解典型用法，语法标注丰富、详细，且清晰易懂。真实反央美式英语的特点，同时兼顾英语式英语。高有“用法说明”、“同义词”、“相关词”专栏，帮助拓展对英语的深层次把握。

Make a living by asking questions

作者：  杨澜著

出版社：明窗出版社,1998

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How I trade for a living

作者：  加里·史密斯(Gary Smith)著;张轶译

出版社：万卷出版公司,2009,2010重印)

简介：　　 加里·史密斯是全职的居家交易者，也是《实现赚钱的日内交易梦想 　　》的作者，该书被列为最好的日内交易书籍。《期货》杂志和《股票和期 　　货技术分析》都对加里做过报道，他还经常出席一些交易研讨会并发表演 　　讲。 　　 加里·史密斯在14岁时就迷上了交易，并开始研究如何在家做交易赚 　　钱，对其他的都不感兴趣。他在1966年读大二时第一次买股票，随后的20 　　年他一直在追求孩提时代的梦想，但是并没有成功。 　　 加里·史密斯在1985年几乎要破产了，正准备放弃交易时他突然顿悟 　　了，—切就此改变了——从那以后他每年都赚钱，几乎每个月都赚钱。他 　　的交易账户从2200美元增至近100万美元。加里在1985年那个改变命运的日 　　子里发现了什么？他是如何实现连续15年赢利，并成为全世界闻名的最成 　　功的居家交易者之一的？你可以在《我如何以交易为生》中找到答案。 　　

World architecture.10,Senior living

作者：  佳图文化编

出版社：华南理工大学出版社,2013

简介：本书精选了来自法国、意大利、荷兰、奥地利、日本和中国等国家极具代表性的养老项目，从不同的方面展现了当今养老养护体系在规划及设计上的突出特点和独到的设计思路。

1995 Britannica book of the year /

作者：  [Charles P. Trumbull, editor].

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简介： ~ am not one of those who can easily tell<br > the difference be~ een year and year??? like<br > a meteorologist with reliable charts to go<br > by. I am not even one who can refer to a<br > kind of event or quirk of fashion as ~p-<br > icany 70s or 80s. All I am capable of is<br > sensing the prevalent groundswells of life<br > and registering??? on occasion??? the undertow.<br > which is often contradictory.<br > We are in the midst of an enormous rev-<br > olution in collective behaviour??? one which<br > is too often judged by old criteria. It all<br > began??? within living memory??? with the sud-<br > ~ den dissolution of one of the most rigidly<br >controlled autocracies the world has ever known??? the Soviet<br >Union. It was as if the nation had responded to some<br >physical law??? like the boiling point??? and simply vanished.<br >Abruptly??? in a world which had obeyed a general tendency<br >to unify and coalesce??? a large number of new republics were<br >born??? all enjoying a precarious independence as though they<br >had found themselves in the middle of thc last century.<br > The example was followed by others who felt cheated of<br >their m6ment of self-identity in history. Slovakia decided to<br >secede from its Czech sister??? and the horror of Yugoslavia<br >must be invoked as the most lamentable example of blood<br >carelessly and brutally spilled during these enormous up-<br >heavals. I would go as far as to say that in Prague??? suddenly<br >released from the doctrinaire bonds of communism??? the<br >mob reacted??? perhaps for the first time in history??? with the<br >intelligence of an individual. There were no excesses; no<br >proof was needed of what was happening; joy and relief<br >created their own congenial climate.<br > Mikhail Gorbachev will certainly go down in history as<br >the great pioneer who made this extraordinaD reassess-<br >ment possible. It matters little that he is suffering from a<br >temporary eclipse in his own country. He launched a new<br >way of thinking of which we all are the beneficiaries??? and<br >nothing parochial politics can do is capable of tarnishing his<br >example. There will always be those of limited vision who<br >believe that the Cold War was won by the West and that<br >it constituted a victory over the heresy of communism??? to<br >be celebrated as such. To be so shortsighted would be to<br >judge by outmoded standards??? as 1 have mentioned above.<br >Gorbachev s importance was not merely to re-create Russia<br >out of the embers of the Soviet Union but actually to be<br >the first to hazard the opinion that the nuclear deterrent???<br >so favoured by hawks in both camps??? was a lunacy and an<br >odious reflection on the humanity of all nations.<br > Chernobyl was a frightening warning. The idea of millions<br >of deliberate Chernobyls??? killing and distorting life on a<br >huge scale??? was an idea too horrible to contemplate??? and yet<br >its possibility had been entertained by rational people. The<br >automatic result of this renunciation of the advantages of<br >nuclear weaponry by the major powers??? and the beginning<br >

A history of English literature. V.1 = 英国文学史 /

作者：  by Chen Jia.

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简介：This is an attempt to write a history of English literature admittedly with an innovative approach. The traditional as well as the more modern views in the West on literary movements， schools， traditions and influences in the field of English literature and on individual English authors and their major and minor works are here given due respect and serious consideration， but with the reservation sometimes to differ and occasionally to introduce new and totally contrary judgments from the viewpoint of historical materialism i.e.， the writers and their writings are to be given their proper places in each case in accordance with the roles， healthful or otherwise， that they play in the progress of history， social and literary. Of course，whether or how far have I succeeded in these pages in living up to the theory advanced above awaits judgment from my readers. 　　This history is written primarily for Chinese readers， in particular for Chinese college students majoring in English language and literature， with the aim to give them a historical survey of English literature from its earliest beginnings down to the 20th century. As many college students in China today are being introduced for the first time to English literature in any systematic way， biographical sketches of the major writers and rather detailed resumes of their major works are generally provided in this history， before I enter into any serious discussions on the authors and their writings. 　　A companion-book providing students with selections from representative works of representative English authors， arranged chronologically and accompanied with introductory remarks and notes， is expected to appear at the same time as this history. It is hoped that the two books together， this history and “Selected Readings in English Literature”， will give the students a rudimentary knowledge of English literature in its historical development. 　　In view of the vastly different levels of proficiency in the English language among English majors in Chinese colleges and universities today， a shorter history than this， written in simpler language， seems also necessary for the present. Such a book is now being prepared.