魏博士是备受动物们尊敬的“大明星”，作为一位气象专家，他不仅知识渊博，而且对动物们充满关爱，于是求助和交流信件纷纷涌入他的信箱。我们不妨看看来信者都有谁： ? 房地产商人大熊mao为投资决策而烦恼不已； ? 候鸟天鹅被冻在了北方的冰面上； ? 云南小猪被来自西双版纳的亚zhou象突袭； ? 饥饿的北极熊宝宝不得不翻找人类的垃圾桶； ? 考拉宝宝想要寻找将他从森林大火中救出的消防员； ? 每当台风来袭，孟加拉虎就要做好战斗的准备； ? 为圣诞老人拉雪橇的驯鹿常常感到有气无力； ? ………… 在给动物的回信中，魏博士抽丝剥茧，耐心地帮助动物们分析他们的处境，为他们提供切实可行的建议。而说起导致动物们烦恼的背后原因，大多与全球气候变化密切相关…… 有一天，魏博士想到一个好主意。他决定选出具有代表性的62封来信，连同回信一起，按照信件发出地，结集成4本书。据魏博士说，他在书中悄悄告诉读者，真正能帮助动物们的，是我们每个人的力量。

编辑推荐： ★ 推理小说中的圣经！ ★ 每一个推理爱好者的案头书！ ★ 读希区柯克，就像在做一道高难的智力题，读者永远也不知道下一步等待着他的将是什么。 ★ 爱伦?坡的作品情节诡秘奇幻，气氛恐怖灵异，构筑了现当代西方恐怖灵异小说的基础，值得喜爱恐怖灵异小说的读者们细细品味。 ★ 卢布朗的小说以构思新颖、布局巧妙见长，通篇自始至终笼罩着一种神秘感。作者并不在语言方面过分雕琢，而是力求文字简洁平实，情节曲折跌宕，结局往往出人意料。 ★ 狄更斯在故事中插入代表性的诡异喜剧情节，安排难忘的角色登场，包括人和鬼，让这些故事跃然纸上。 内容介绍： 《经典悬念探案小说大合集（套装共36册）》收录了希区柯克、爱伦?坡、柯南道尔、卢布朗、狄更斯等多名世界著名作家的经典悬念推理故事，不读到后，读者永远不会知道下一步等待着他的是什么。那些藕断丝连的蛛丝马迹，巧妙地穿插在人物的对话之中，在读者还迷失其中之时，慢慢织就一张巨大的网，还原出事情的本来面目。 本套书选取的希区柯克悬念故事中的精彩篇目，绝大多数故事以人的紧张、焦虑、窥探、恐惧等为叙事主题，设置悬念，情节惊险曲折，引人人胜，令人拍案叫绝。 柯南道尔的小说结构严谨，情节离奇曲折、引人人胜。他塑造的文学形象个性鲜明，写作中把病理学、心理学等融人到侦探艺术中，形成了侦探小说独特的风格。 爱伦?坡用逻辑严谨、设身处地的推理构成破案过程，然后有条不紊地迫使罪犯就范归案，后再由主人公滔滔不绝地解释其全过程，而这也形成了爱伦?坡特有的心理分析风格。 卢布朗的小说以构思新颖、布局巧妙见长，通篇自始至终笼罩着一种神秘感。卢布朗并不在语言方面过分雕琢，而是力求文字简洁平实，情节曲折跌宕，结局往往出人意料。读者一旦开卷，便有一口气看完的欲望。 狄更斯具有恐怖小说的天份。尽管有些故事读来让人不寒而栗，但也有些故事带有喜剧色彩。狄更斯在故事中插入代表性的诡异喜剧情节，安排难忘的角色登场，包括人和鬼，让这些故事跃然纸上，成为一幅幅独具诙谐风格的浮世绘。 作者介绍： 【美】阿尔弗雷德?希区柯克：原籍英国，被公认为有史以来伟大的电影导演之一，尤其擅长于拍摄惊悚悬疑片。在长达60年的艺术生涯中，希区柯克共拍摄了超过50部电影，且主要以悬疑电影为主。1940年，他导演的《吕贝卡》获奥斯卡影片奖；1979年，美国电影艺术与科学学院授予他终身成就奖。希区柯克的主要作品有：《群鸟》《西北偏北》《三十九级台阶》等。 【美】埃德加?爱伦?坡：十九世纪美国诗人、小说家和文学评论家，在世时长期担任报刊编辑工作。其作品是在任何时代都是“独一无二”的风格。语言和形式精致、优美，内容多样。他同时还是侦探小说鼻祖、科幻小说先驱之一、恐怖小说大师。 【英】阿瑟?柯南道尔：世界著名小说家。因成功地塑造了大侦探歇洛克?福尔摩斯的形象而成为侦探小说历重要的小说家之一。除此之外，他还写过多部其他类型的作品，如科幻小说、悬疑小说、历史小说、爱情小说、戏剧和诗歌等。 【法】莫里斯?卢布朗：著名小说家，曾获法国政府小说写作勋章。一生产量颇丰，著有二十部长篇小说和五十篇以上的短篇小说，尤以侠盗“亚森?罗宾”系列受欢迎，是世界悬疑小说的大师级人物。 【英】查尔斯?狄更斯：19世纪英国批判现实主义小说家。他尤其注意描写生活在英国社会底层小人物的生活，他的作品深刻地反映了当时英国的社会现实，为英国批判现实主义文学的开拓和发展作出了卓越的贡献。他的作品至今依然盛行，对英国文学的发展有着深远的影响。狄更斯的主要作品有：《匹克威克外传》、《雾都孤儿》、《艰难时世》等。本书所选的篇目是狄更斯的鬼魅小说，这是他在文学创作上的一次大胆尝试。

The Second City has launched the careers of celebrated comic performers such as Tina Fey and Stephen Colbert and produced award-winning content. But it's the actual improvisational process developed and honed over the years by The Second City that has become its legacy. Players master an ability to co-create in ensembles, using philosophies that celebrate a "Yes, And" approach. They embrace authenticity and failure, and espouse the idea of "following the follower," which allows any member of the team to assume a leadership role. For more than two decades, The Second City has taken these same principles in thousands of corporate clients, showing leaders how to apply the tools of improv to common business challenges. Here, for the first time, Second City executives Kelly Leonard and Tom Yorton describe how you can use the same skills that thrill audiences around the world to improve your emotional intelligence, increase creativity, and learn to pivot out of tight and uncomfortable situations. In this engaging, often humorous, and highly practical book, you will learn how to become a more compelling leader and a more collaborative follower by employing the seven elements of improv: Yes, And, by which you give every idea a chance to be acted on; Ensemble, reconciling the needs of individuals with those of the broader team; Co-creation, which highlights the importance of dialogue in creating new products, processes, and relationships; Authenticity, or being unafraid to speak truth to power, challenge convention, and break the rules; Failure, teaching us that not only is it okay to fail, but we should always include it as part of our process; Follow the Follower, which gives any member of the group the chance to assume a leadership role; Listening, in which you learn to stay in the moment, and know the difference between listening to understand and listening merely to respond. When we are fiercely following the tenets of improvisation, we generate ideas both quickly and efficiently, we weather storms with more aplomb, and we don't work burdened by a fear of failure. Even better, these qualities are fully transferable to our lives outside the office. More people are beginning to recognize what The Second City has known for a long time: In the midst of a revolution in how we learn, communicate, and work, professional success often rests on the same pillars that form the foundation of great comedy: Creativity, Communication, and Collaboration. That's where improvisation comes in.

女性陷入了一个困境：要友善，但不能太友善，要成功，但不能太成功，无论如何，必须招人喜欢。而这一点，阻碍了女性成功的协商薪资、要求升职和工作态度强硬，因为这些总会让人不那么受人喜爱。本书深入探讨了这一偏见和束缚，并提供了现实的办法来帮助解决这个阻碍。 Be nice, but not too nice. Be successful, but not too successful. Just be likeable. Whatever that means?Women are stuck in an impossible bind. At work, strong women are criticized for being cold, and warm women are seen as pushovers. An award-winning journalist examines this fundamental paradox and empowers readers to let go of old rules and reimagine leadership rather than reinventing themselves.Consider that even competent women must appear likeable to successfully negotiate a salary, ask for a promotion, or take credit for a job well done—and that studies show these actions usually make them less likeable. And this minefield is doubly loaded when likeability intersects with race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, and parental status. Relying on extensive research and interviews, and carefully examined personal experience, The Likeability Trap delivers an essential examination of the pressure put on women to be amiable at work, home, and in the public sphere, and explores the price women pay for internalizing those demands. Rather than advising readers to make themselves likeable, Menendez empowers them to examine how they perceive themselves and others and explores how the concept of likeability is riddled with cultural biases. Our demands for likeability, she argues, hinder everyone’s progress and power.Inspiring, thoughtful and often funny, The Likeability Trap proposes surprising, practical solutions for confronting the cultural patterns holding us back, encourages us to value unique talents and styles instead of muting them, and to remember that while likeability is part of the game, it will not break you.

This special digital edition of Rookie Smarts includes 13 videos of leadership expert Liz Wiseman outlining her ground-breaking principles and guiding viewers through exercises that bring fresh perspective, open minds to innovation, and jumpstart a spirit of naive inquiry and constant learning.Is it possible to be at your best even when you are underqualified or doing something for the first timeIs it still possible, even after decades of experience, to recapture the enthusiasm, curiosity, and fearlessness of youth to take on new challengesWith the right mindset with Rookie Smarts you can.In a rapidly changing world, experience can be a curse. Careers stall, innovation stops, and strategies grow stale. Being new, na?ve, and even clueless can be an asset. For today's knowledge workers, constant learning is more valuable than mastery.In this essential guide, leadership expert Liz Wiseman explains how to reclaim and cultivate the curious, flexible, youthful mindset called Rookie Smarts. Wiseman reveals the different modes of the rookie mindset that lead to success: Backpacker: Unencumbered, rookies are more open to new possibilities, ready to explore new terrain, and don't get stuck in yesterday's best practices. Hunter-Gatherer: Rookies seek out experts and return with ideas and resources to address the challenges they face. Firewalker: Lacking situational confidence, rookies take small, calculated steps, moving fast and seeking feedback to stay on track. Pioneer: Keeping things simple and focusing on meeting core needs, rookies improvise and work tirelessly while pushing boundaries. Rookie Smarts addresses the questions every experienced professional faces: Will my knowledge and skills become obsolete and irrelevantWill a young, inexperienced newcomer upend my company or meHow can I keep upThe answer is to stay fresh, keep learning, and know when to think like a rookie.

这是一个侦探、探险故事：探险家27岁的儿子独自去科尔科瓦杜国家公园——一片未开垦的热带雨林探险，临行前告知父亲将探险4-5天。儿子未能如约归来，探险家十分担忧他遭遇不测，因此出发寻找。他在雨林中穿梭，采访当地人，追查线索，希望得到真相... “A brave and marvelous book. A page-turner that will rip your heart out.”—Jon KrakauerIn the tradition of?Into the Wild?comes an instant classic of outdoor literature, a riveting work of uncommon depth.?The Adventurer’s Son?is Roman Dial’s?extraordinary account of his two-year quest to unravel the mystery of his son’s fate.In the predawn hours of July 10, 2014, the?twenty-seven-year-old?son of preeminent Alaskan scientist and National Geographic Explorer Roman Dial, walked alone into Corcovado National Park, an untracked rainforest along Costa Rica’s remote Pacific Coast that shelters miners, poachers, and drug smugglers. He carried a light backpack and machete. Before he left,?Cody Roman Dial?emailed his father: “I am not sure how long it will take me, but I’m planning on doing 4 days in the jungle and a day to walk out. I’ll be bounded by a trail to the west and the coast everywhere else, so it should be difficult to get lost forever.”They were the last words Dial received from his son.As soon as he realized Cody Roman’s return date had passed, Dial set off for Costa Rica. As he trekked through the dense jungle, interviewing locals and searching for clues—the authorities suspected murder—the desperate father was forced to confront the deepest questions about himself and his own role in the events. Roman had raised his son to be fearless, to be at home in earth’s wildest places, travelling together through rugged Alaska to remote Borneo and Bhutan. Was he responsible for his son’s fate? Or, as he hoped, was Cody Roman safe and using his wilderness skills on a solo adventure from which he would emerge at any moment?Part detective story set in the most beautiful yet dangerous reaches of the planet, The Adventurer’s Son emerges as a far deeper tale of discovery—a journey to understand the truth about those we love the most.? The Adventurer’s Son?includes fifty black-and-white photographs.

The New York Times bestselling author of The Price of Privilege and Teach Your Children Well explores how today’s parenting techniques and our myopic educational system are failing to prepare children for their certain-to-be-uncertain future—and how we can reverse course to ensure their lasting adaptability, resilience, health and happiness.In The Price of Privilege, respected clinician, Madeline Levine was the first to correctly identify the deficits created by parents giving kids of privilege too much of the wrong things and not enough of the right things. Continuing to address the mistaken notions about what children need to thrive in Teach Your Children Well, Levine tore down the myth that good grades, high test scores, and college acceptances should define the parenting endgame. In Ready or Not, she continues the discussion, showing how these same parenting practices, combined with a desperate need to shelter children from discomfort and anxiety, are setting future generations up to fail spectacularly.Increasingly, the world we know has become disturbing, unfamiliar, and even threatening. In the wake of uncertainty and rapid change, adults are doubling-down on the pressure-filled parenting style that pushes children to excel. Yet these daunting expectations, combined with the stress parents feel and unwittingly project onto their children, are leading to a generation of young people who are overwhelmed, exhausted, distressed—and unprepared for the future that awaits them. While these damaging effects are known, the world into which these children are coming of age is not. And continuing to focus primarily on grades and performance are leaving kids more ill-prepared than ever to navigate the challenges to come.But there is hope. Using the latest developments in neuroscience and epigenetics (the intersection of genetics and environment), as well as extensive research gleaned from captains of industry, entrepreneurs, military leaders, scientists, academics, and futurists, Levine identifies the skills that children need to succeed in a tumultuous future: adaptability, mental agility, curiosity, collaboration, tolerance for failure, resilience, and optimism. Most important, Levine offers day-to-day solutions parents can use to raise kids who are prepared, enthusiastic, and ready to face an unknown future with confidence and optimism.

A brilliant, soulful, and timely portrait of a two-hundred-year-old crabbing community in the middle of the Chesapeake Bay as it faces extinction. A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: Washington Post, NPR, Outside, Smithsonian, Bloomberg, Science Friday, Christian Science Monitor, Chicago Review of Books, and Kirkus "BEAUTIFUL, HAUNTING AND TRUE." — Hampton Sides •  “GORGEOUS. A TRULY REMARKABLE BOOK.” — Beth Macy • "GRIPPING. FANTASTIC." — Outside • "CAPTIVATING." — Washington Post • "POWERFUL." — Bill McKibben • "VIVID. HARROWING AND MOVING." — Science • "A MASTERFUL NARRATIVE." — Christian Science Monitor • "THE BEST NONFICTION BOOK OF THE YEAR."  — Stephen L. Carter/BloombergA Washington Post bestseller • An Indie Next List selection • An NPR All Things Considered and Axios "Book Club" pick Tangier Island, Virginia, is a community unique on the American landscape. Mapped by John Smith in 1608, settled during the American Revolution, the tiny sliver of mud is home to 470 hardy people who live an isolated and challenging existence, with one foot in the 21st century and another in times long passed. They are separated from their countrymen by the nation’s largest estuary, and a twelve-mile boat trip across often tempestuous water—the same water that for generations has made Tangier’s fleet of small fishing boats a chief source for the rightly prized Chesapeake Bay blue crab, and has lent the island its claim to fame as the softshell crab capital of the world.Yet for all of its long history, and despite its tenacity, Tangier is disappearing. The very water that has long sustained it is erasing the island day by day, wave by wave. It has lost two-thirds of its land since 1850, and still its shoreline retreats by fifteen feet a year—meaning this storied place will likely succumb first among U.S. towns to the effects of climate change. Experts reckon that, barring heroic intervention by the federal government, islanders could be forced to abandon their home within twenty-five years. Meanwhile, the graves of their forebears are being sprung open by encroaching tides, and the conservative and deeply religious Tangiermen ponder the end times.    Chesapeake Requiem is an intimate look at the island’s past, present and tenuous future, by an acclaimed journalist who spent much of the past two years living among Tangier’s people, crabbing and oystering with its watermen, and observing its long traditions and odd ways. What emerges is the poignant tale of a world that has, quite nearly, gone by—and a leading-edge report on the coming fate of countless coastal communities.

The bestselling author of The Sellout tells the explosive story of the government’s crackdown on insider-trading networks an investigation that has already racked up more than 60 convictions.In Circle of Friends, award-winning journalist Charles Gasparino one of Wall Street's most knowledgeable observers follows government investigators and prosecutors as they pursue one of the most aggressive and broad-reaching series of insider-trading cases in the nation's history. A richly textured page-turner of investigative journalism based on extensive reporting, Circle of Friends chronicles the massive federal crackdown that has already put some of the biggest names on Wall Street behind bars, including Raj Rajaratnam, founder of the Galleon Group, and Rajat Gupta, a former CEO of consulting giant McKinsey & Co. Other similarly sized targets are still waiting nervously, including the biggest one of them all financial impresario Steve Cohen of SAC Capital, the giant hedge fund that has confounded regulators for years by cranking out a steady stream of market-busting returns.Gasparino goes behind the headlines to reveal how the government makes its case, using every tool at its disposal and at great expense to taxpayers to supposedly make the investing world safer for average Americans. Gasparino asks why federal officials are so eager to prosecute these cases: What is the real damage to individualsDo average investors really careHe explores why insider trading is all the rage these days when the U.S. government has failed to bring a single criminal case against the culprits who caused the 2008 financial crisis. Circle of Friends is not a defense of insider trading, but it does offer an account of the politics of Wall Street crime fighting, revealing the behind-the-scenes ambitions that motivate headlines and burnish political careers. A riveting work of narrative nonfiction, as engrossing and explosive as fictional thrillers of the finest magnitude, Circle of Friends is a wakeup call to the investing public.

Ask a member of the middle class what it takes to become wealthy, and she'll tell you it takes a bold new idea. Tell that to a self-made millionaire, and he'll vehemently disagree. What explains the difference in mind-set between the self-made wealthy and the rest of usIt not what you think, as journalist and entrepreneur Lewis Schiff convincingly illustrates through groundbreaking research and compelling storytelling. For decades, the middle class has believed that the road to success meant working hard and playing by rules passed down from previous generations. But as the 2008 economic crisis has made clear, the old rules no longer apply. While household net worth has declined for most, self-made business leaders entrepreneurially minded individuals born into the middle class who have accumulated significant wealth have prospered. What makes these have-mores financially successful while the rest of us have never felt more uncertain about our professional and financial futuresIn Business Brilliant , Lewis Schiff reveals the eye-opening findings from a national survey of middle-class workers and self-made millionaires, offering practical guidance to show the rest of us what America self-made rich already know. Through his research, he holds a mirror to our most commonly held beliefs about success and then reveals the truth about how wealth is really created by surveying the truly wealthy. In doing so, he explodes the conventional wisdom and identifies the distinct principles practiced by individuals who may or may not be any smarter than the rest of the population but seem to understand instinctively how money is made. They don't employ business-as-usual practices; they adopt a Business Brilliant mind-set. The book illustrates how these self-made millionaires choose their careers, negotiate to win, and leverage social networks to accumulate their wealth. Schiff argues that it is the synergy behind seven uncommon practices, not serendipity or luck, that produces success. He offers a practical four-step program anyone can follow to position themselves to succeed more often and a roadmap to compare your own Business Brilliance to the executives and entrepreneurs who have successfully navigated our rapidly changing economy. While Business Brilliant doesn't promise to make you rich, it can help you achieve better results in your career and accumulate wealth faster.

Pike Logan tracks highly-trained Russian assassins to Brazil in this blistering, action-packed thriller from New York Times bestselling author and former Special Forces Officer Brad Taylor.“It’s an excellent read, and I greatly enjoyed it.” —Nelson DeMillePike Logan and the Taskforce were once the apex predators, an unrivaled hunting machine that decimated those out to harm the United States, but they may have met their match. While Pike Logan and Jennifer Cahill prepare to join their team on a counter-terrorist mission in the triple frontier—the lawless tri-border region where Argentina, Brazil, and Paraguay meet—they are targeted in Charleston, South Carolina. A vicious explosion kills a friend, and the perpetrators have set it up to look like an accident. While the authorities believe this was not foul play, Pike knows the attack was meant for him. When he loses contact with the team in South America, Pike is convinced he and the Taskforce are under assault. His men are the closest thing to family that Pike has, which means he will do anything, even ignore direct orders to stand down, to find them. Pike and Jennifer head to Brazil to investigate their disappearance and run headlong into a crew of Russian assassins. Within days they are entangled in a byzantine scheme involving Brazilian politics and a cut-throat battle for control of offshore oil fields. Forged in combat, the Russians are the equal of anything the Taskforce has encountered before, but they make a mistake in attacking Pike’s team, because Pike has a couple of elite Israeli assassins of his own. And Pike will stop at nothing to protect his family.

In the brutally cold winter of 1919, 5,000 Americans battled the Red Army 600 miles north of Moscow. We have forgotten. Russia has not."AN EXCELLENT BOOK." —Wall Street Journal • "INCREDIBLE." — John U. Bacon • "EXCEPTIONAL.”  — Patrick K. O’Donnell • "A MASTER OF NARRATIVE HISTORY."  — Mitchell Yockelson • "GRIPPING." — Matthew J. Davenport • "FASCINATING, VIVID." — Minneapolis Star Tribune An unforgettable human drama deep with contemporary resonance, award-winning historian James Carl Nelson's The Polar Bear Expedition draws on an untapped trove of firsthand accounts to deliver a vivid, soldier's-eye view of an extraordinary lost chapter of American history—the Invasion of Russia one hundred years ago during the last days of the Great War.In the winter of 1919, 5,000 U.S. soldiers, nicknamed "The Polar Bears," found themselves hundreds of miles north of Moscow in desperate, bloody combat against the newly formed Soviet Union's Red Army. Temperatures plummeted to sixty below zero. Their guns and their flesh froze. The Bolsheviks, camouflaged in white, advanced in waves across the snow like ghosts.The Polar Bears, hailing largely from Michigan, heroically waged a courageous campaign in the brutal, frigid subarctic of northern Russia for almost a year. And yet they are all but unknown today. Indeed, during the Cold War, two U.S. presidents, Ronald Reagan and Richard Nixon, would assert that the American and the Russian people had never directly fought each other. They were spectacularly wrong, and so too is the nation's collective memory.It began in August 1918, during the last months of the First World War: the U.S. Army's 339th Infantry Regiment crossed the Arctic Circle; instead of the Western Front, these troops were sailing en route to Archangel, Russia, on the White Sea, to intervene in the Russian Civil War. The American Expeditionary Force, North Russia, had been sent to fight the Soviet Red Army and aid anti-Bolshevik forces in hopes of reopening the Eastern Front against Germany. And yet even after the Great War officially ended in November 1918, American troops continued to battle the Red Army and another, equally formiddable enemy, "General Winter," which had destroyed Napoleon's Grand Armee a century earlier and would do the same to Hitler's once invincible Wehrmacht.More than two hundred Polar Bears perished before their withdrawal in July 1919. But their story does not end there. Ten years after they left, a contingent of veterans returned to Russia to recover the remains of more than a hundred of their fallen brothers and lay them to rest in Michigan, where a monument honoring their service still stands.In the century since, America has forgotten the Polar Bears' harrowing campaign. Russia, notably, has not, and as Nelson reveals, the episode continues to color Russian attitudes toward the United States. At once epic and intimate, The Polar Bear Expedition masterfully recovers this remarkable tale at a time of new relevance.

The master storyteller’s legacy continues… Glamour and suspense in the bestselling Sidney Sheldon novels from the international superstar Tilly Bagshawe. If Tomorrow Comes Tracy Whitey is on top of the world. Young, beautiful, intelligent, she is about to marry into wealth and glamour – until, betrayed by her own innocence, she finds herself in prison, framed by a ruthless mafia gang and abandoned by the man she loves. Beaten and broken, but surviving with her dazzling ingenuity, Tracy emerges from her savage ordeal – determined to avenge those who have destroyed her life. Nothing Lasts Forever Dr.Paige Taylor: She swore it was euthanasia, but when Paige inherited a million dollars from a patient, the D.A. called it murder. Dr. Kat Hunter: She vowed never to let another man too close again-until she accepted the challenge of a deadly bet. Dr. Honey Taft:To make it in medicine, she knew she'd need something more than the brains God gave her. Racing from the life-and-death decisions of a big major hospital to the tension-packed fireworks of a murder trial, Nothing Lasts Forever lays bare the ambitions and fears of healers and killers, lovers and betrayers. The Best Laid Plans: The explosive story of the beautiful and ambitious Leslie Stewart, who learns that for some men power is the greatest aphrodisiac; and of Oliver Russell, the handsome governor of a small southern state, who finds out why hell has no fury like a woman scorned. They both should have known that even the best laid plans can go dangerously astray…in a deadly dangerous way.

A masterpiece of satire, this classic has entertained and enlightened readers the world over with its sly and ironic portrayal of human life from the vantage point of Screwtape, a senior tempter in the service of Our Father Below. At once wildly comic, deadly serious, and strikingly original, C. S. Lewis gives us the correspondence of the worldly-wise old devil to his nephew Wormwood, a novice demon in charge of securing the damnation of an ordinary young man. The Screwtape Letters is the most engaging and humorous account of temptation and triumph over it ever written. Now, for the first time, The Screwtape Letters is presented with its full text alongside helpful annotations provided by Lewis enthusiast and dramatist Paul McCusker. The notes include literary, theological, and biographical information to enhance Lewis core themes and demystify complex ideas. McCusker also guides readers to concepts and references from the beloved author other treasured volumes to deepen and enrich this timeless classic. The annotated edition is the ultimate guide for understanding the heavenly truths buried in these epistles from below.

For years experts have been telling Americans what to eat and what not to eat. Fat, they told us, was the enemy. Then it was salt, then sugar, then cholesterol... and on it goes. Americans listened and they lost -- but not their excess fat. What they lost was their health and waistlines. Americans are the fattest people on earth... and whyMainly because of the food they eat. In this scientific and revolutionary book, based on Nobel Prize-winning research, medical visionary and former Massachusetts Institute of Technology researcher Dr. Barry Sears makes peak physical and mental performance, as well as permanent fat loss, simple for you to understand and achieve. With lists of good and bad carbohydrates, easy-to-follow food blocks and delicious recipes, The Zone provides all you need to begin your journey toward permanent fat loss, great health and all-round peak performance. In balance, your body will not only burn fat, but you'll fight heart disease, diabetes, PMS, chronic fatigue, depression and cancer, as well as alleviate the painful symptoms of diseases such as multiple sclerosis and HIV. This Zone state of exceptional health is well-known to champion athletes. Your own journey toward it can begin with your next meal. You will no longer think of food as merely an item of pleasure or a means to appease hunger. Food is your medicine and your ticket to that state of ultimate body balance, strength and great health: the Zone.

Two experts who have summited the tallest mountain on each of the seven continents and scaled the highest peaks in corporate sales and business examine what it takes to achieve success.In making the grueling journey to the top of Mount Everest, Susan Ershler and John Waechter joined the elite group of climbers who had conquered the Seven Summits the tallest mountains on each of the seven continents. This same determination has made them star performers in corporate sales and established them as business leaders. And both of them cherish the deep sense of satisfaction that comes from attaining a seemingly impossible goal through focus and persistence.In this unique guide, Susan and John draw on concrete experience to inspire sales professionals as well as all team members to overcome limitations and reach new heights of success, illustrating how anyone can achieve peak performance. They will show you how to define your goals clearly, commit to a vision, "choose the right sherpa" (build the right team), "travel light" (manage time), and "measure the mountain" (track progress).Weaving together stories from harrowing climbs and lessons of indomitable perseverance with actual tested methods for high achievement in sales, business, and life, Conquering the Seven Summits of Sales proves that anyone can overcome limitations and accomplish something real and meaningful in business and in life.

Whether you live below the Mason Dixon Line or just wish you did, The Southerner’s Handbook is your guide to living the good life. Curated by the editors of the award-winning Garden & Gun magazine, this compilation of more than 100 instructional and narrative essays offers a comprehensive tutorial to modern-day life in the South. From Food and Drink to Sporting & Adventure; Home & Garden to Style, Arts & Culture, you'll discover essential skills and unique insight from some of the South’s finest writers, chefs, and craftsmen—including the secret to perfect biscuits, how to wear seersucker, and to the right way to fall off of a horse. You'll also find: Roy Blount Jr. on telling a great story; Julia Reed on the secrets of throwing a great party; Jonathan Miles on drinking like a Southerner; Jack Hitt on the beauty of cooking a whole hog; John T Edge on why Southern food matters; and much more. As flavorful, authentic, and irresistible as the land and the people who inspire it, The Southerner's Handbook is the ultimate guide to being a Southerner (no matter where you live).

《清王朝的后十年：拉里贝的实景记录》是作者在法国公使馆内负责安全保卫工作期间拍摄的摄影集，拍摄地主要在北京及周边地区，这些照片记录了1900年到1910年之间清末中国的各种人物、家具、服饰、戏剧、建筑、街道、佛像、石刻等。透过这些不可多得的珍贵历史资料，我们可以看到一个百年前真实存在过的中国。这些照片不仅是19世纪末中国的面貌，也是更长的时间跨度内、甚至在某些方面数千年都鲜有改变的中国的侧写。 《晚清中国的光与影：杜德维的影像记忆（1876-1895）》是作者在中国任职期间拍摄的摄影集，记录了1876-1895年间北京、福建、江浙沪、广州、香港、澳门等地的人物、风光、建筑、物什及作者家人和朋友，这230多幅照片记录下了作者眼中落后腐朽与求变图强并存的中国，是晚清重要的实景资料。这些照片不仅是19世纪末中国的面貌，也是更长的时间跨度内、甚至在某些方面数千年都鲜有改变的中国的侧写。透过西方人探寻的目光，我们看到了一个近150年前真实存在过的中国，也看到了今天的中国从哪里走来。 《街头巷尾：十九世纪中国人的市井生活》整理自一组绘于19世纪的中国外销画，作者已不可考。书选择了一百四十多幅描绘当时社会生活场景及各行业人物的图画，全书分为“玩物杂耍”“民风民俗”“行业生计”三个部分，以鲜活生动、真实质朴的画面和简单易懂的文字说明再现了十九世纪中国人的日常市井生活状态。随着时代的变迁，这些原本是向西方世界介绍古老中国社会风情与文化的重要媒介，对于当代国人了解和传承传统文化同样有着重要意义、独特的史料和文化价值。 《万国来朝：<职贡图>里的古代中国与世界》以现藏于法国国家图书馆、清乾隆时期描绘海外诸国及国内各民族的画册《职贡图》为基础，解读画册中各使者形象背后的国名、方位、山川道里、风土人情等，展示了二百年前清王朝与周边地区及国家的政治、经济、文化关系及往来情形。惟妙惟肖的彩绘图为今天的人们了解当时世界各国的服饰、风俗、特产及生活状态等留下了珍贵资料。 《辫子与小脚：清都风物志》精选自由法国人（佚名）绘制的一组清国京城市井人物水粉彩画，绘制时间应在1800年前后。本书中的人物涉及王公贵胄、公主命妇、满汉官员、兵弁杂役、官员车马、社交礼仪、民间交通、佛僧道士、外藩异族、四时服装、街尾巷头的把式艺人、走街串巷的游商小贩。全书共235帧彩绘，参照原法文注释，由文博研究馆员韩炜炜为每帧图绘做了凝练的注解。

《刑法学讲义》 全网爆红的“法律男神”罗翔教授为每一位普通读者写的刑法普及讲义。 刑法与每个人的生活都密不可分，家庭、校园、职场、人际关系、经济活动处处都有违法犯罪行为，相应地，每个人都需要学习刑法。 罗翔让本来枯燥专业的刑法课变得“津津有味”，读者直呼上头，“根本停不下来”。刑法常识结合法理精神，兼具法律与人文的力量。本书为读者提供了相对完整的刑法学习体系，涵盖刑法演变、犯罪论、刑罚论，以及具体罪名的定罪量刑。全书通过分析真实刑法案件、张三的犯罪行为，激发读者用独立、睿智的法学思维去看待生活，提高法律感知能力。后，每一位读者都能带着法学思维回归到工作、生活中去。 《刑罚的历史》 中国政法大学罗翔教授，历数古代酷刑，讲述刑罚从残酷走向人道的过程。 中国古代的法律以刑法为基础，其主要的法律后果就是刑罚。成文刑法自产生以来，一直试图约束刑罚权。但是人治传统决定这一目的不可能真正实现“法有限，而情无穷”的刑罚思想导致酷刑泛滥，法外之刑五花八门。直到20世纪初，罪刑法定原则的出现，才将曾经无限膨胀的刑罚权，束缚在法律的轨道之内。 刑罚的历史并不单纯是对旧闻掌故的叙述。从奴隶制五刑到封建制五刑，直至近现代五刑，中国法律的发展历程漫长而艰难，折射出人类从野蛮到文明的嬗变，也让法治背景下的自由价值显得尤为珍贵。 《刑法中的同意制度》 中国政法大学教授罗翔，法律文化研究著作，全面审视性同意标准，以及包裹在“性”周围的权力、道德和文化。 有的男性认为女性穿着暴露、与男性单独共处一室、在男性面前喝醉酒、双方有亲密肢体接触等等行为就是女性暗示与男性发生性行为。但这些“我以为”真的意味着“她同意”吗？ 同意问题是性侵犯罪的核心，对“性同意”的讨论，不止于性行为发生需要得到许可，还包括围绕着“性”的性别、权力、道德和文化的重新审视，性同意年龄、厌女情节、社会风俗、完美受害者、亲密关系、婚内强奸…… 清楚认知法律中的同意制度，对男女双方都是纠偏的过程。正确表达不同意，是每位女性自我保护的关键；尊重她人的“不”，也是每位男性行为自由的边界。 世界并不完美，但法律可以持守正义，坚守善道，让人心在浊世中有对良善的信心与盼望。

  三国时代风云变幻，英雄辈出。关于这一时期的正史记录、野史传说、演义小说层出不穷，是非真假难以辨别，三国的真面目也逐渐被读者忽视。本书是《大唐兴亡三百年》（原《血腥的盛唐》）作者王觉仁全新力作，力求解历史事件的背后之谜，还原从东汉末年到吴国灭亡这一百年的真实三国历史。 刘关张桃园结义是个美好的虚构故事 《三国演义》：刘备、关羽、张飞三人意气相投，在桃园里结拜为兄弟。那句“不求同年同月同日生，只愿同年同月同日死”不知感动了多少后人，也写尽了中国人特有的“忠”与“义”。 《三国不演义》：史料中并没有出现过这个热血的故事，它只是罗贯中的艺术虚构。但不论是否结义，历史上的刘、关、张的确亲如兄弟。《三国志·关羽传》就称三人“寝则同床，恩若兄弟”，寥寥数语，道尽三人深厚的感情。   陈宫之所以背叛曹操，与曹操杀吕伯奢一家无关 《三国演义》：曹操杀吕伯奢一家后毫无悔意，对身旁的陈宫说：“宁教我负天下人，休教天下人负我”。陈宫无法容忍曹操的残忍，恨他是“狼心之徒”，终选择背叛离。 《三国不演义》：陈宫之所以背叛曹操，是因为一个叫边让的人。曹操诛杀了多次讥讽自己的边让一家，这件事激起了陈宫的愤怒。再加上陈宫本人性格正直刚烈，他担心自己迟早会得罪曹操，便与其他同样看不惯曹操的人一拍即合，共同推吕布上位。   关羽的“千里走单骑”“过五关斩六将”纯属虚构 《三国演义》：白马之战取胜之后，关羽拒绝了曹操的所有赏赐，决定北上寻找刘备。离曹营后，关羽跨越“千里”，上演了一段“过五关斩六将”的经典情节。 《三国不演义》：得知关羽离后，曹操只是叹了口气说“勿追也”，并未派兵追赶。此外，当时的袁绍大军与曹营所在的官渡，距离也就一百多里。关羽要去找刘备何须“千里走单骑”？还要“过五关斩六将”那么辛苦？ 翻本书，还原历史上真实的曹操、刘备、诸葛亮……  

《完全图解——果壳宇宙：讲述宇宙的前世今生》 在茫茫宇宙之中，我们赖以生存的地球中是微不足道的一颗小小天体。渺小的人类一始就对广袤的宇宙产生了浓厚的兴趣，逐渐描绘出宇宙过去、现在和未来的图景。本书将为您介绍历史上不同时期出现的各种宇宙观，并着重对以宇宙膨胀为基础的大爆炸理论予以阐述，为读者勾画出一幅关于宇宙起源、发展和终结的速写。 　　本书运用现代编辑手法，尽量将艰涩难懂的术语解释得简洁明了，在不失信息量的同时，坚持简便易读的行文风格。同时，以插图、图解的方式，使相关的知识更加直明朗地呈现到读者面前，给您以轻松愉快的阅读体验。 　　宇宙的中心在哪里？宇宙的边缘离我们有多远？ 　　宇宙的终结，是热寂还是大坍塌，抑或再发生一次爆炸而重生？ 　　神秘的黑洞、暗物质、暗能量到底是什么？ 《完全图解——野外求生宝典：日本受欢迎、使用率的生存手册》 本书不仅是本野外求生指南，还是本野外生活趣味大全；不仅教你解决野外的衣食住行问题，让你的野外之行畅通无阻，还带你领略野趣野味，体会大自然的神秘。本书破野外生存手册复杂的传统讲解方式，以明了易懂的图解形式使枯燥的求生技能简单化、趣味化。详细介绍了分辨方向、找水、生火、觅食、安营、求救的方法，以及常见病的预防和治疗等基本知识，还介绍了诸多妙趣横生的小窍门，用手表辨别方向，用头发预测天气，用镜子通讯，用竹竿制作野外生活用品，用杂草做鞋，用绳结和毛巾急救疗伤。更教你如何观察动物、如何捕捉昆虫等使野外生活增添色彩的技能。 本套书还包括：《完全图解——人脑使用手册：掌握正确的用脑方法》、《完全图解——不可思议的人体：深度解读人体密码》、《完全图解——达尔文化论：揭生命演变的秘密》、《完全图解——不可不知的天灾地变：中国人的灾难求生宝典》。