Stop kissing frogs:how to avoid mr wrong and find mr right

作者：  (英)马德琳·洛(Madeleine Lowe)著;刘迎译

出版社：中国市场出版社,2012

简介：无数聪慧、魅力十足、机敏的女人们似乎都跟黏黏糊糊的青蛙扯到了一块，这到底是为什么呢？在找到白马王子之前，也许难免都要亲吻一些青蛙，然而，难道真的要经历过满满一池青蛙之后，才能最终找到幸福吗？马德琳·洛编写的这本《女怕嫁错郎：不要再吻变不成王子的青蛙》风趣、智慧、见解独到，告诉读者，如何努力去发现十种应该避而远之的男人，如何享受单身生活，如何迈向天荒地老的幸福。

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简介：Acclaimed mistress of the bias cut, Madeleine Vionnet won huge praise for her innovative and daring fashion designs in the '20s and '30s. Her remarkable dresses, perfectly geometrical yet apparently limp and shapeless until worn, were first noticed in Paris by the artist Lanthelme, who helped her to establish her own house. Vionnet reached the pinnacle of her enormous success in the early 1930s, with an international clientele and a workforce of 1200 women.

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简介：The townspeople of Les Salants say that if you kiss the feet of their patron saint and spit three times, something you've lost will come back to you. And so Madeleine, who grew up on the island, returns after an absence of ten years spent in Paris. She is haunted by this place, and has never been able to feel at home anywhere else. But when she arrives, she will find that her father -- who once built fishing boats that fueled the town's livelihood -- has become even more silent than ever, withdrawing almost completely into an interior world. And his decline seems reflected in the town itself, for when the only beach in Les Salants washed away, all tourism drifted back to La Houssinire. Madeleine herself has been adrift for a long time, yet almost against her will she soon finds herself united with the village's other lost souls is a struggle for survival and salvation.

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简介：　　Psychologist Madeleine LeBlanc has spent her whole career trying to determine the cause of her father's schizophrenia. She always felt that she could unravel its origins and cure the man who left her and her brother, Marc, to practically raise themselves on the Louisiana Bayou. But when Marc takes his own life on a fishing boat in the middle of Bayou Black, Madeleine embarks on a journey into her family history---to a time when the antebellum era was crumbling, and the line between servant and master was starting to fade. And the more she pries the more she reveals her family's dark past, rife with conjured demons and river magic gone awry. Madeleine's only hope to save herself is to face the ghosts of the past, the dangers of the present, and the twisted ladder that links them all together.　　

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简介：Madeleine Zelin shatters the image of China as a backward empire wracked by corruption and economic stagnation, thrust into the modern world when the western gunboats arrived in the 1840s, by providing an account of the indigenous evolution of the Chinese state. The Magistrate's Taelmakes it possible to judge the impact of the West on modern China's development.

Blind spots:why smart people do dumb things

作者：  (美)玛德莲·赫克(Madeleine L. van Hecke)著;蔺秀云，徐守森译

出版社：金城出版社,2011

简介：　　　　“先入为主”与“思维定势”害我们无意中得罪人？“经验法则”和“ 　　只见树木不见森林”是我们出错的头号敌人！更多时候，原来聪明是件极危 　　险的事！ 　　 我们每个人都有的十大思考及生活盲点，《盲点》(作者玛德莲？赫克) 　　让我们做事少出错、并且减少因为不当与不自知的言行造成的人际误会。 　　 在追求让自己更聪明之外，也了解自己“为什么那里常出错”的背后原 　　因。《盲点》为我们讲述了一个个生动有趣而又深刻的故事，揭示了人类小 　　缺点的奥妙；它帮助我们改善社交生活、增强人际关系；它引导我们透视自 　　我，同时也让我们学会对他人更加宽容。 　　

Mini Shopaholic 小小购物狂 9780593059807

作者：  Sophie

出版社：Penguin Group(USA) 2010年09月

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Madeleine Sophie Wickham (nee Townley), who also writes under the pseudonym Sophie Kinsella, is an English author of chick lit.
　　Educated at Putney High School and New College, Oxford, she worked as a financial journalist before turning to fiction. She is best known for writing the Shopaholic novels series of chick-lit novels, which focus on the misadventures of Becky Bloomwood, a financial journalist who cannot manage her own finances. The series focuses on her obsession with shopping and its resulting complications for her life.
　　The first two Shopaholic books were adapted into a film and released in February 2009, with Isla Fisher playing Becky and Hugh Dancy as Luke Brandon.
　　Her latest novel under the name Sophie Kinsella will be published in 2009 and is set to be called Twenties Girl.

On food and cooking,the science and lore of the kitchen

作者：  哈洛德·马基(Harold McGee)著;蔡承志译

出版社：大家出版社,2009

简介： 食物與廚藝：蔬、果、香料、榖物 ★國際專業廚師學會(IACP)2004年最佳食物類參考書 ★餐飲界權威James Beard Foundation2004年最佳食物類參考書 ★【中文版獨家收錄】越洋專訪作者哈洛德．馬基 「植物是我們最早的食物，也因此是唯一合適的食物。」 蔬菜、果實、穀物和香料 本身就是是芳香美味的食物 還能增添奶、蛋、肉、魚等料理的趣味 這些植物對我們生命有益 同時也向我們開啟一個愉侻繽紛的感官世界。 你知道嗎…… ●香草中的芳香或辛辣物質原本是用來嚇走動物的警訊，人類是如何透過烹調將危險變成情趣？ ●植物的顏色是對生命的禮讚，但如何從紅、橙、綠、紫等不同色彩解讀營養價值？ ●為什麼說菇蕈類並非真正植物？它們比美肉類的濃郁風味與香氣是由何而來？ ●香料、茶與咖啡又是如何改寫人類感官的版圖，帶來餐桌上的革命？ 植物以色彩、味道和氣味來威嚇敵人並吸引朋友，這些化學反應的產物，即為感官的寶庫，喚起我們的視覺美感和味覺愉悅。百萬年來，人類一向以植物為食。我們的祖先以各色果實、葉片和種子等雜食維生：帶土味的根部、苦辣並醒腦的葉片、芳香的花朵、讓人滿口生津的果實、帶堅果風味的種子，還有香甜、嗆酸、辛澀、爽口之苦，以及成千上萬種芳香氣味…… 如今我們得以攝取的植物種類之多，可謂盛況空前。我們和我們所食用的植物，在彼此的演化進程中相互為伴。這是自然和人類合作創造出的迷人遺產，而且還在不斷演化中。在《食物與廚藝：蔬、果、香料、穀物》中，我們將取自植物的食物分門別類，歸入不同範疇，並細細說明它們各自的起源、營養素、風味、特色與烹調、應用。 累積銷售量超過5,000,000本 全球大廚　沒人手上敢不拿著本書！ 25年前(1984)，本書於美國出版，在廚藝界投下一枚震撼彈 5年前(2004)，增修了將近600頁內容，獲得世界級大廚一致推薦 去年(2008)，作者榮登《時代》雜誌百大影響人物 改寫了全球廚房，催生開創性的「分子料理」與「化學廚房」 獲得讚譽：「凡張口吃東西的人，都用得上本書！」 歷經1/4世紀，無書能出其右　連《時代》雜誌亦譽為「小鉅著」 ●改變全球廚房的傳奇之書 25年前，哈洛德．馬基首創以科學探討烹飪，將廚藝由藝術和文化提昇至科學領域，讓《食物與廚藝》甫推出即掀起風潮，席捲並影響美、加、英、法各地，建立民眾對烹飪的新觀念，連電視節目也開始製作廚房科學的節目，不僅帶動「廚房科學」風潮，也催生現今當紅的「分子美食」！ ●四分之一世紀　歷久不衰 如今歷經四分之一世紀，《食物與廚藝》仍是國際三星級大廚奉為圭臬的重要寶典。再沒有哪一本書，將食材描述得如此詳盡精確、將變化講解得這麼深入淺出，並將專業的飲食科學成功轉化為大眾普遍接受和理解的廚房科學知識。人類食物的起源、構成，以及各種食材如何透過廚藝變身為誘人美食的過程，盡收於此。 ●導覽飲食的文明與奧秘 《食物與廚藝》是全世界美食愛好者和職業廚師的「聖經」，連結了烹飪與科學，從各色食材的化學組成，一路探究到滋味、香氣、質地、顏色和營養。從我們未曾想像過的科學之窗窺探廚房實驗室的神奇變化，透視人類歷來飲食的文明，宛如廚房中的羅塞塔石碑，完美呈現了生命延續的無窮奧秘與無邊魅力。 原書厚達近900頁，從人類生命起源的乳汁，到文明發展後的飲料、甜點，各種食材皆有鉅細靡遺的介紹。《食物與廚藝：蔬、果、香料、穀物》以植物類食材為主。現代人飲食講究健康，但蔬果及穀類有如大自然的小工廠，蘊藏了複雜的組織變化，光是了解種類或挑選法，絕不足夠；從「怎麼吃」到「為什麼這麼吃」，從「學會採買烹調」到「了解食物的來龍去脈」──這些最早提供人類生存、繁榮所需一切養分的食材，透過本書，我們得以重新發掘其歷史來源、珍貴價值，以及無限奧秘！ 好評推薦： 國際名廚瘋狂好評，爭相推薦： ★這本書是座金礦，提供了所有食材成分和烹飪過程中的一切資訊，而你對食物會遭遇的所有問題，也都提供了解答。這裡面沒有任何「食譜」，卻是我心目中關於食物最重要的著作之一。－－傑米?奧利佛(Jamie Oliver)，英國電視明星大廚，以烹飪節目聞名全球，著有暢銷系列書《原味主廚》(The Naked Chef) ★在好幾代的主廚間，《食物與廚藝》一直最可靠的資訊來源，而哈洛德?馬基則是個充滿魅力的老師，在我們這個產業中，無人能出其右。在我全部的書籍中，《食物與廚藝》是被我翻閱得最破爛、摺角最多的一本書。－－湯瑪士?凱勒(Thomas Keller)，米其林三星餐廳The French Laundry 以及 Per Se主持兼經營者，唯二拿到米其林六顆星的大廚 ★準備好升級吧！哈洛德?馬基以《食物與廚藝》改變了我們的生活。我們知道在烹飪時，怎樣會成功、怎樣會失敗，但是哈洛德?馬基卻告訴我們原因。這本書是我所見過最完整的食物大全，資訊量極大，但卻好懂得不得了。－－雪莉?歐?蔻瑞荷(Shirley O. Corriher)，著有《烹調巧手》(CookWise)、《烘焙巧手》(BakeWise) ★哈洛德?馬基為我們鑽研了食物的學問。任何和烹飪有關的問題，都可以在《食物與廚藝》找到答案。所有成人會在廚房中問到的「為什麼」，這裡都有解答。－－巴比?弗勒(Bobby Flay)，有「料理鐵人」之稱，知名燒烤餐廳Mesa Grill和Bolo主廚兼經營者 ★無庸置疑，這是關於廚房和人類營養科學的重要著作中，最棒最令人著迷的作品了。－－馬德蓮?卡曼(Madeleine Kamman)，著有《廚師的養成》(The Making of A Cook) ★哈洛德?馬基這本《食物與廚藝》能夠修訂、擴充，真是再好不過了！這部鉅作處理的範圍之廣、內容之翔實，想要了解食物的來源、收成、儲藏、烹調、氣味、口味甚至消化吸收，都要看這本書。不論是專業廚師或是認真的業餘廚師，都能從此書獲益，了解到烹飪時到底發生了什麼事，啟發讀者成為更有想法的採購者、廚師，甚至顧客。本書第一版就已經是我們書店有史以來最暢銷的著作，改版增修之後，簡直更是所有想要了解食物的一切的人的福音。－－納赫?瓦克斯門(Nach Waxman)，紐約市「廚藝和信函書店」(Kitchen Arts & Letters)經營者 ★因為哈洛德?馬基這本書，我在食物和科學中歷經了一趟難以忘懷的旅程……以及不可思議的閱讀體驗。－－寶拉?沃佛特(Paula Wolfert)，著有《地中海烹飪》(Mediterranean Cooking) ★如果不了解基本的食物科學和實際的烹飪技巧，那麼在廚藝上就不可能擁有真正的創意！哈洛德?馬基的《食物與廚藝》絕對是這個主題的專著，是讓專業廚師或家庭煮婦廚藝晉級的必備工具。－－查理?卓特(Charlie Trotter)，全美50最佳餐廳Charlie Trotters主廚兼經營者 ★對於正在廚房學藝的學生而言，《食物與廚藝》是必備之物，綜合了各個科學學門和烹飪傳統的細部知識，在字裡行間激發了讀者對廚藝的想像。哈洛德?馬基同時擁有的兩項專業：科學家的技術和廚師的心腸。－－瑞克?貝雷斯(Rick Bayless)，著有《瑞克．貝雷斯的墨西哥廚房》(Rick Baylesss Mexican Kitchen)、《一次品嚐一道墨西哥菜》(Mexico One Plate at a Time) ★哈洛德?馬基深不可測的知識和無盡的智慧，大大影響了整個美食界。過去我不斷參閱《食物與廚藝》這本食物和科學的權威著作，而且驚奇地發現，我總是還會學到新的東西。－－馬利歐?巴塔利(Mario Batali)，紐約知名餐廳Babbo 和Otto 主廚兼經營者，《煉獄廚房食習日記》中的食神 ★哈洛德?馬基先前那部極具深度的科學性著作，早已是我們開發新食譜的工具，不但告訴我們食材的特性及烹調時的變化細節，並進一步啟發我們在廚藝上更加精進的靈感。哈洛德?馬基真是烹飪界的哲學家皇帝啊！－－蘿絲?賴維?柏瑞寶(Rose Levy Beranbaum)，著有《派及派皮聖經》(The Pie and Pastry Bible) ★過去二十多年來，只要我遇上關於食物化學或烹飪過程中的任何問題，都會去翻閱哈洛德?馬基的《食物與廚藝》。而這個無與倫比、擴增後的新版本，肯定會成為我書架上最重要的用書。－－賈克?裴平(Jacques P?pin)，著有《賈克和茱莉亞居家烹飪》(Jacques and Julia Cooking at Home)以及《學徒：我在廚房裡的生活》(The Apprentice: My Life in the Kitchen) ★《食物與廚藝》是融合了歷史、科學和實用建議的經典著作，這裡有你想得到的廚房相關主題，而且都讓你讀得如癡如醉(真的)。只要是會張口吃東西的人，都用得上這本書。它是家庭必備的工具。－－切瑞?孟德森(Cheryl Mendelson)，著有《家庭的撫慰：持家的藝術和科學》(Home Comforts: The Art and Science of Keeping House) ★充分揉合了食物的科學和歷史，再灑上數千筆烹飪的致勝要訣。－－艾森?貝克(Ethan Becker), 著有《烹飪的喜悅》(Joy of Cooking) ★幾十年前，當我們都還沒成為正式廚師之前，就已經常參考哈洛德?馬基的《食物與廚藝》，一直到現在，仍舊是我們廚房工作者的推薦讀物。這本書現在有更新版本，我們簡直都要為之瘋狂了。－－蘇珊?弗尼格(Susan Feniger) 和瑪莉?蘇?密立根(Mary Sue Milliken)，平價美食餐廳 Border Grills 和Ciudad Restaurant主廚兼經營者 ★哈洛德?馬基在這部令人著迷的作品中，鉅細靡遺地詳盡道出烹飪過程中所有的變化、原理和理由。本書收納了許多實用的甚至不常見的資訊，只要是鍥而不捨、充滿好奇的廚師，都應該擁有一本。－－丹尼爾?包洛德(Daniel Boulud)，紐約知名餐廳Daniel 及Caf? Boulud主廚兼經營者，有紐約食神之稱 < TOP>

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简介：“A remarkable story of adventure and passion, tragedy and courage set against the backdrop of occupied Czechoslovakia and World War II.” —Václav Havel From former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright comes a moving and thoughtful memoir of her formative years in Czechoslovakia during the tumult of Nazi occupation, World War II, fascism, and the onset of the Cold War. An intensely personal journey into the past that offers vital lessons for the future, Prague Winter combines the intimacy of an autobiography with the drama of an exciting and well-told story—all underpinned by the gravity and intelligence of a serious work of history. The result is a highly readable and incisive work filled with tragedy and triumph, a resonant narrative informed by Albright’s remarkable life experience and her characteristic candor in speaking hard truths.

Twentieth century British and Irish poetry : Hardy to Mahon /

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简介：Masakatsu Shibasaki, Motomu Kanai, Shigeki Matsunaga, and Naoya Kumagai: Multimetallic Multifunctional Catalysts for Asymmetric Reactions.- Takao Ikariya: Bifunctional transition metal-based molecular catalysts for asymmetric syntheses.- Chidambaram Gunanathan and David Milstein: Bond Activation by Metal-Ligand Cooperation: Design of 鈥滸reen鈥?Catalytic Reactions Based on Aromatization-Dearomatization of Pincer Complexes.- Madeleine C. Warner, Charles P. Casey, and Jan-E. B盲ckvall: Shvo鈥檚 Catalyst in Hydrogen Transfer Reactions.- Noritaka Mizuno, Keigo Kamata, and Kazuya Yamaguchi: Liquid-Phase Selective Oxidation by Multimetallic Active Sites of Polyoxometalate-Based Molecular Catalysts.- Pingfan Li and Hisashi Yamamoto: Bifunctional Acid Catalysts for Organic Synthesis.- Jun-ichi Ito, Hisao Nishiyama: Bifunctional Phebox Complexes for Asymmetric Catalysis.

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简介：     Dieses Buch führt mit mehr als 200 Abbildungen und kurzen erkl?renden Texten Schritt für Schritt in die sechs wichtigsten Techniken der Modeillustration ein: die Aquarell-, Wachs- und Pastellmalerei, das Zeichnen mit Faser-, Blei- und Buntstift sowie die Collage. Der Leser lernt nicht nur die einzelnen Illustrationstechniken kennen, sondern sie auch miteinander zu kombinieren und mit ihnen zu experimentieren. Die Zeichnungen in diesem Band wurden inspiriert von Entwürfen so bekannter Modedesigner wie Paul Poiret, Madeleine Vionnet, Coco Chanel, Crist?bal Balenciaga oder Frowick Halston. Sie demonstrieren, welche Technik für ein bestimmtes Kleidungsstück optimal eingesetzt werden kann und bieten darüber hinaus einen guten überblick über die Geschichte der Mode im 20. Jahrhundert.

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简介：Hogwarts and Allexplores modern childrens literature from its origins in the nineteenth-century cult of childhood, a cultural movement inseparable from Christian theology. From the Kunstm?rchen(adult fairy tales) of late-eighteenth- and early-nineteenth-century German romanticism through Charles Dickens, J. R. R. Tolkien, and J. K. Rowling, this genre, like all gothic arts, has served as an alternative cultural perspective to that of scientific materialism. Its benignly subversive message is that a civilization that abandons its commitment to the childlike values of wonder, trust, sacrificial love, spontaneity, vulnerability, and faith in radical possibilities for peace, social justice, and human happiness—all qualities endorsed by Ray Bradbury, Susan Cooper, Madeleine LEngle, and other authors discussed in this volume—is a civilization at risk.

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简介：     Combining good taste and audacity is a subtle art that interior designer Jacques Grange has perfected for over four decades. As a young man working for design legends Henri Samuel and then Didier Aaron, his talent was soon recognized by the likes of the Rothschilds, Madeleine Castaing, and the Vicomtesse de Noailles. Unlike many of his contemporaries, Grange is known for being able to disappear behind his designs; he believes an interior décor should serve as a "self-portrait" of the occupant and not the designer. His prestigious commissions in New York, Paris, London, Venice, and Marrakech blend Oriental and North African influences with Western styles, from rococo opulence to modern chic. But, remarkably, Grange is not afraid to strip everything away, and to make space itself the main focus of a room. Always balancing virtuoso flourishes with tasteful understatement, Grange’s touch is unique.

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简介：The Secret Is Out Madeleine Wickham is Sophie Kinsella, and "The Gatecrasher "is just as delicious as her internationally bestselling Shopaholic series. Everything's coming up roses for Fleur Daxeny, as she goes through more rich men than she does designer hats. Beautiful and utterly irresistible, her success at crashing funerals to find wealthy men is remarkable. Fleur wastes no time in seducing her latest conquest, the handsome and rich widower Richard Favour. His children are caught up in a whirlwind as their father's new girlfriend descends on the family estate. Fleur is not one to wear her heart on her Chanel sleeves, but she soon finds herself embracing Richard and his family. But just as Fleur contemplates jumping off the gold-digger train for good, a long-buried secret from her past threatens to destroy her new family. Take a wild and marvelous ride with "The Gatecrasher, "whose clever, chic, and sassy style will leave you desperately wanting more wonderful Wickham

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简介：Since becoming secretary of state in 1997, Madeleine Albright has emerged as one of the most forceful voices in the Clinton administration and the chief architect of American foreign policy in the Balkans. As Michael Dobbs makes clear in this timely and important book, it's impossible to understand Albright without an appreciation of the tumultuous events that have shaped her life, and he traces Albright's progress from a European ghetto to the corridors of power in Washington. As the twentieth century comes to a close, the life of this remarkable woman provides much insight into past events and is an inspirational testimony to how willpower and persistence can triumph over every adversity.

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简介：When feminists argued for political rights in the context of liberal democracy they faced an impossible choice. On the one hand, they insisted that the differences between men and women were irrelevant for citizenship. On the other hand, by the fact that they acted on behalf of women, they introduced the very idea of difference they sought to eliminate. This paradox--the need both to accept and to refuse sexual difference in politics--was the constitutive condition of the long struggle by women to gain the right of citizenship. In this new book, remarkable in both its findings and its methodology, award-winning historian Joan Wallach Scott reads feminist history in terms of this paradox of sexual difference. Focusing on four French feminist activists--Olympe de Gouges, who wrote the Declaration of the Rights of Woman and Citizen during the French Revolution; Jeanne Deroin, a utopian socialist and candidate for legislative office in 1848; Hubertine Auclert, the suffragist of the Third Republic; and Madeleine Pelletier, a psychiatrist in the early twentieth century who argued that women must "virilize" themselves in order to gain equality--Scott charts the repetitions and variations in feminist history. Again and again, feminists tried to prove they were individuals, according to the standards of individuality of their day. Again and again, they confronted the assumption that individuals were men. But when sexual difference was taken to be a fundamental difference, when only men were regarded as individuals and thus as citizens, how could women also be citizens? The imaginative and courageous answers feminists offered to these questions are the subject of this engaging book.

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简介：　　In her 50th bestselling novel, Danielle Steel takes us behind the closed doors of a prominent marriage to explore the private secrets hidden behind public lives. 　　 　　 Journey 　　 　　Everyone in Washington knows Madeleine and Jack Hunter. Maddy is an award-winning TV anchorwoman. Jack is the head of her network, an adviser to the President on media issues. To the world, theirs is a storybook marriage. Two brilliant careers. A long, loving partnership. But behind the locked doors of their lush Georgetown home, a very different story emerges. For as Maddy's career soars, a bitter edge has crept into Jack's words, a pattern of subtle put-downs, control, and jealousy that Maddy has always tried to ignore and deny. For Maddy, there are no bruises, no scars, only the daggers of fear, humiliation, and isolation. Their effect as powerful as the gun, the knife, or the fist, the wounds as deep. Through hard work, long years, and with Jack's help, Maddy has become a role model and a star. It seems impossible to believe that a woman the nation idolizes lives in degradation and fear. Only Maddy knows the terror in her heart. Her secrets are well kept, sometimes even from herself. 　　 　　Maddy's journey to healing begins when the President's wife offers an extraordinary opportunity, the chance to join her newly formed Commission on Violence Against Women. There, Maddy hears chilling stories from terrified wives and girlfriends that sound eerily familiar. And there she comes to know Bill Alexander, a distinguished scholar and diplomat who also works on the commission. Bill suspects that something is terribly wrong in Maddy's marriage and begs her to open her eyes. And as Maddy slowly, painfully takes the first steps toward freedom, as she and Bill grow closer, a remarkable series of events begins to unfold...a stranger from Maddy's past suddenly reappears...White House headlines bring the nation to a standstill...and a devastating tragedy occurs, forcing Maddy to realize just how much she has lost and how much has been taken from her--her confidence, her trust, her self-respect. As she is faced with the most difficult choice of her life, Maddy's extraordinary journey comes to a close, and with it comes a strength she never knew she had and a gift she never could have expected--a gift that will change her life forever. 　　 　　Set against a vivid backdrop of world-shattering events, Journey is a book about abuse, in its subtlest forms. The powerful effects that last a lifetime. With wisdom and compassion, bestselling novelist Danielle Steel reminds us that no one is exempt from the effects of this devastating disease, which crosses social borders, has no respect for money, power, or success. But at its core, Journey is a book about hope, about change, and about daring to be free.　　

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简介：Does America, as George W. Bush has proclaimed, have a special mission, derived from God, to bring liberty and democracy to the world? How much influence does the Christian right have over U.S. foreign policy? And how should America deal with violent Islamist extremists? Madeleine Albright, the former secretary of state and bestselling author of Madam Secretary, offers a thoughtful and often surprising look at the role of religion in shaping America's approach to the world. Drawing upon her experiences while in office and her own deepest beliefs about morality, the United States, and the present state of world affairs, a woman noted for plain speaking offers her thoughts about the most controversial topics of our time. In The Mighty and the Almighty, Madeleine Albright examines the profound impact of religion on America's view of itself, the effect on U.S. policy of the rise of The Christian right, the Bush administration's successes and failures in responding to 9/11, the challenges posed by the war in Iraq, and the importance of understanding Islam. She offers a balanced but, when necessary, devastating analysis of U.S. strategy and condemns those of all faiths who exploit religious fervor to create divisions or enhance their own power. In this illuminating account, she argues that, to be effective, U.S. policy makers must understand the power and place of religion in motivating others and in coloring how American actions are perceived. Defying the conventional wisdom, she suggests not only that religion and politics are inseparable, but that their partnership, when properly harnessed, can be a force for justice and peace. - Dust jacket.

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简介：　　Couture in the 21st Century is a reference book of inspirations, featuring interviews with 30 of the world`s top designers today expressing, in their own words, the importance of the traditions of couture in shaping the future of fashion. This lavishly illustrated book features essays from thirty of the world`s top designers who talk about fashion in the first decade of the 21st Century with its emphasis on craftsmanship and traditional techniques and pay loving homage to the iconic couturiers of the past, expressing how their creativity and attention to detail has forever shaped fashion`s future.The book features the first-ever personal essays on couture by today`s most lauded contemporary designers such as Giorgio Armani and Oscar de la Renta plus the fresh faces who design for the top design houses: Pier Paolo Piccioli and Maria Grazia Chiuri for Valentino, Stefano Pilati for Yves Saint Laurent and Riccardo Tisci for Givenchy. Each designer describes their view of couture and the inspirations drawn from iconic figures such as Christian Dior, Yves Saint Laurent, Elsa Schiaparelli, Coco Chanel, Madeleine Vionnet, Madame Grès and Paul Poiret. Essays are complemented by photographs and fashion illustrations plus an intimate portrait of the designer by photographer Rankin, world renown for capturing the wit and personality of his subjects. Couture in the 21st Century captures the allure of couture in the hands of the world`s best-known designers. It is a must-have for anyone interested in fashion and culture.