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Upon its hardcover publication, renowned author Philip Pullman's The Good Man Jesus and the Scoundrel Christ provoked heated debates and stirred a frenzy of controversy throughout the clerical and literary worlds alike with its bold retelling of the life of Jesus wkkk.net this remarkable piece of fiction, famously atheistic author Philip Pullman challenges the events of the Gospels and puts forward his own compelling and plausible version of the life of Jesus. Written with unstinting authority, The Good Man Jesus and the Scoundrel Christ is a pithy, erudite, subtle, and powerful book by a beloved author, a text to be read and reread, studied and unpacked, much like the Good Book itself.

A Radiant Life presents the unequivocal voice of Nuala O'Faolain tackling a vast range of subjects from Catholicism to feminism, from Sinatra to Africa, and from Irish American culture to Islam and the West. Curious and funny, tender and scathing, O'Faolain's columns were never less than trenchant and were always passionate. "I was blinded by the habit of translating everything into personal terms," she writes apologetically, but this is the power of her journalism. Through the prism of casual, everyday encounters, O'Faolain presses her subject, reaching beyond the prompting of the moment to transcend topicality. The result is a cumulative historical narrative, an inadvertent chronicle of a transformed Ireland by one of its sharpest observers and canniest wkkk.net for A Radiant Life:"This book is a gift." -The Boston Globe

The third in a three-volume series, this edition chronicles the life of noted journalist, historian, and author William Shirer-a witness to the rise of the Third Reich. Here, Shirer recounts his return to Berlin after its defeat, his shocking firing by CBS News, and his final visit to Paris sixty years after he first lived there as a cub reporter in the 1920s. It paints a bittersweet picture of his final decades, friends lost to old age, and a changing world.More personal than the first two volumes, this final installment takes an unflinching look at the author's own struggles after World War II-and his vindication after the publication of The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, his most acclaimed work. It also provides intimate details of his often-troubled marriage. This book gives readers a surprising and moving account of the last years of a true historian-and an important witness to history.

From #1 bestselling author Blake Pierce comes a heart-pounding new mystery series.In the cornfields of Nebraska a woman is found murdered, strung up on a pole, the victim of a deranged killer. It doesn't take long for the police to realize a serial killer is on the loose—and that his spree has just begun.Detective Mackenzie White, young, tough, smarter than the aging, chauvinistic men on her local force, finds herself called in grudgingly to help solve it. As much as the other officers hate to admit it, they need her young, brilliant mind, which has already helped crack cold cases that had left them stumped. Yet even for Mackenzie this new case proves an impossible riddle, something the likes of which she—and the local force—have ever seen.

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即使一切消亡，仍然会有一个作家讲述的世界留存下来，它将完全而且永远属于毛姆。中文世界首个毛姆短篇小说全集计划，全新译本首卷上市！短篇小说在毛姆的创作中占有重要地位，安东尼·伯吉斯就曾评价他写下了“英语文学中最好的短篇故事”。《人性的枷锁》《刀锋》等长篇小说使毛姆名闻世界，而他的短篇则以编织故事的精湛技巧，对人性和社会生活的敏锐洞察，为其赢得了更多读者，成为一种全球现象。毛姆作品中文译本繁多，短篇小说多以精选集形式出版。本次计划推出的《毛姆短篇小说全集》（四卷本）将首次以精彩译文再现毛姆短篇作品的全貌。本书为第一卷。

本书字里行间充满了我对“我”的仇恨和无奈，我和“我”的斗争一直到文章结束才最后结束，“我”原来是作者用文字塑造出来的自己，这个“我”的完美就是杀人的利器。作者通过对两个人物的塑造想真正告诉读者的是“人最大的敌人就是自己。” 本书叙述的故事是矛盾的：假主角扮演着真主角，真主角到最后却不敢承认自己是真的。冒充者身在异地干着卑鄙的勾当，然而当被冒充者举起刀子，却发现冒充者已经和自己合二为一。小说赤裸裸的展现了现代人性格的两面性，对自身的矛盾进行了深刻的反省。

本书着重挑选了各个时代富有故事性的词，做成各个篇章，以现代视角解读爱情与婚姻的各个侧面，引经据典，文风唯美（结合安意如和白落梅的风格），如《醋坛》、《书媒》《维纳斯的特征》、《雨爱》、《西施眼》、《情夜》、《云开了》、《胭脂戏》、《绝情应是多情》分别写了男女吃醋，书作爱情的媒介，爱情的残缺，发生在雨天的爱情故事，情人眼里出西施，爱情里的游戏，由爱生恨等，典型的小清新，小忧伤。

从阴森的牢笼中走出，被训练成杀人的工具，到良知的唤回，真善美的爱情。

扛起中国零售业的大旗的必备书。“超市不超”，“便利店不便”，“专业店不专”……我国零售业正处于这样一种业态特征不突出，竞争能力不强的混乱局面。只有学习先进的东西，对整个零售系统管理的知识有一个全面的掌握，才能在这场零售阻击战中立于不败之地。

初冬的时候，很冷的一天，天黑时分，门口来了个人，大个子，模样古怪，衣着稀奇。赛麦当时在给黑狗喂食，一回头发现门口猛然多了个人。是个黑麻大汉，那双眼正骨碌碌环扫着她家的院子，阴森的目光冷不防就扫到了院角拿着瓦盆发呆的赛麦。赛麦不由得“呀”了一声，奔向厨房，一头撞上正在倒洗锅水的姑姑。狗立时醒悟过来似的，不依不饶地狂叫狂扑起来，扯得脖子下那串铁绳哐啷啷响。谁料想得到呢，那个人竟被爷爷让进了上房，还双手端上盖碗茶，一迭声地喊着让厨房的人快做顿好吃的。结果母亲做了长面。长面是赛麦家待客的上等饭菜。

曾热爱过文学的人，大概都不会忘记欧·亨利、都德、契诃夫、海明威、鲁迅、汪曾琪等作家的短篇作品，即使是“先锋”、“现代”、“后现代”的作家，也不乏短小精致的传世之作。在当下时尚的文学消费潮流中，能够挽回文学精致的写作和阅读，张扬短篇小说大概是有效的方式之一。本书精选了衣向东20篇优秀短篇精华，其中《就告诉你一个人》更是一部显示作家优秀才能的短篇小说。

“很多人都不难发现，自己每天经历的工作和生活，都是由一件件琐碎的小事构成的。因为经历的小事太多，因为小事是那么得不起眼，甚至连探讨的价值都没有，很多人会忽略小事的存在。然而，就是这些容易让人忽略的小事中，恰恰蕴藏着让人难以置信的力量和价值。无数的成功源于小事，无数的失败也源于小事。达芬奇学画画时，他的老师不断地让他练习画鸡蛋，就是要让他看清楚，每一个鸡蛋都存在差别。因为老师知道，只有让他真正地看到这些细微的差别，他才能成为一流的画家。”

本书分哲学遐思、文化断想、读书札记、思想对话、学术演进等，主要内容包括：哲学的位置在哪里；哲学的作用是什么；哲学思维的特点；历史哲学：在哲学和历史学的交叉点上等。