Earthbound

Written by master historian and authorized Churchill biographer Martin Gilbert, this masterful single-volume work weaves together the detailed research from the author's eight-volume biography of the elder statesman, and features new information unavailable at the time of the original work's publication. Spanning Churchill's youth, education and early military career, his journalistic work, and the arc of his political leadership, Churchill: A Life details the great man's indelible contribution to Britain's foreign policy and internal social reform.Offering eyewitness accounts and interviews with Churchill's contemporaries, including friends, family members, and career adversaries, this book provides a revealing picture of the personal life, character, ambitions, and drives of one of the world's most influential and remarkable leaders.

The ghost story "The Signal-Man" is written in 1866, which concerns a spectre seen beside a tunnel entrance. The signal-man of the title tells the narrator of a ghost that has been haunting him. Each spectral appearance precedes, and is a harbinger of, a tragic event on the railway on which the signalman works. The signalman's work is at a signalbox in a deep cutting near a tunnel entrance on a lonely stretch of the line, and he controls the movements of passing trains. When there is danger, his fellow signalmen alert him via telegraph and alarms. Three times, he receives phantom warnings of danger when his bell rings in a fashion that only he can hear. Each warning is followed by the appearance of the spectre, and then by a terrible accident. The first accident involves a terrible collision between two trains in the tunnel. Dickens may have based this incident on the Clayton Tunnel rail crash that occurred in 1861.

The title character was given the name that her father had intended to give a son. Before the publication of the novel, Shirley was an uncommon – but distinctly male – name and would have been an unusual name for a woman. Today it is regarded as a distinctly female name and an uncommon male name. Shirley, A Tale is an 1849 social novel by the English novelist Charlotte Bront?. It was Bront?'s second published novel after Jane Eyre (originally published under Bront?'s pseudonym Currer Bell). Set in Yorkshire during the time of the Luddite unrest—a labor movement that began in 1811-1812 in an effort to protect the interests of the working class—the novel consists of two narrative strands woven together, one involving the struggles of workers against mill owners, and the other involving the romantic entanglements of the two heroines. The novel's popularity led to Shirley's becoming a woman's name.

Rap songs are famous for their double entendres, clever turns of phrase, and general ingenuity, but that doesn't mean things always make sense the first time around. Enter Understand Rap, a very funny pop-cultural reference book based on the website of the same name, which precisely explains the confusing lyrics and terms used in rap songs using language that even the most un-hip person can understand. The juxtaposition of a dry, academic tone with hip-hop terminology results in a book that's as entertaining as it is informative.

Privatization has been on the right-wing agenda for pgsk.com make a powerful case that the market is not the measure of all things, and that a vital public sector is an indispensable component of a healthy democracy.

古老的异世界大陆，由鹦喙花王朝所统治的封建社会，那里的奴隶与女仆是最低贱的东西，那里的平民没有信仰，那是只有贵族才能拥有的奢侈存在。这样的黑暗中，滋生出了人类难以想像的可怕存在，它们以人为食，却又藏匿于闹市，它们中有的比人类更为高贵，有的却比城市下水道里的老鼠更为肮脏，他们有个共同的名字——不死生物。生活在遥远未来的懵懂少女，骤然来到这个黑暗的社会，遭遇到那个外表绅士却善于蛊惑人心的魔鬼，她是否会上钩呢？少女与魔鬼的第一次见面：“你……你是谁？”清辉的声音嘶哑而颤抖。“是谁……如果是名字的话，在下刚刚好像已经告知了”，“车夫”笑弯了眼，这个表情放在任何人脸上都是一个温和的男青年，但是此时的清辉仿佛被恐惧的手掌攥住了心脏，“那么你想知道的是……我是什么吧。”“啊！”清辉终于尖叫起来，因为“车夫”尾音落在了她的耳畔，那个不知名的，不可称之为人的家伙又出现在了清辉另一侧，将头搁在清辉的肩膀上。清辉能感受到它呼出的微弱气流喷在她耳畔，像是蝮蛇潜行时的喷气声一样令人提心吊胆。

英雄联盟真的只是一款游戏吗？当一道道伟岸的英雄虚影在你身后浮现时，你就会明白英雄联盟是一场残酷的诸神之战！当人类能够召唤英雄时，这个世界又会变成什么样？是沉？是浮？emmm王宇也正在考虑中。。。。

这是属于四个人的故事，我们四个同一姓，性别，不同年龄但是因为奶奶家在一起，所以熟知

无论是魔幻般的大卫·科波菲尔，还是有着“魔术师中的魔术师”之称的布莱特·丹尼尔斯，或者是那个无人不知的刘谦，一位又一位的魔术大师给我们带来了无限的欢乐：惊险刺激的逃脱，在魔法下消失的“自由女神”，超人般的空中飞行，鸡蛋中出现的戒指，都让我们为之惊叹。掌握这本书里简单易学的小魔术，即使你不能像职业魔术师那样令世人瞩目，至少也可以在朋友的聚会上逗大家一乐。随手可变的小魔术，让你的生活像魔术一样充满惊喜。

青涩蜕变，如今她是能独当一面的女boss，爱了冷泽聿七年，也同样花了七年时间去忘记他。以为是陌路，他突然向他表白，扬言要娶她，她只当他是脑子抽风，他的殷勤她也全都无视。他帮她查她父母的死因，赶走身边情敌，解释当初拒绝她的告别，和故意对她冷漠都是无奈之举。突然爆出她父母的死居然和冷家有丝毫联系，还莫名跳出个公爵未婚夫，扬言要与她履行婚约。峰回路转，破镜还能重圆吗？ PS:我又开新文了，每逢假期必书荒，新文《有你的世界遇到爱》，喜欢我的文的朋友可以来看看，这是重生类现言，对这个题材感兴趣的一定要收藏起来。

黑色或彩色的世界，到底什么是真相。苦苦追求维护的是一个骗局？还是...什么穿过一座又一座遗迹，找寻这个世界的秘密。水晶骷髅的低声密语，被人皮缝补拼凑出的未知生物。是谁支配着这一切。而我又是谁...

桃花庵歌明.唐寅桃花坞里桃花庵，桃花庵下桃花仙。桃花仙人种桃树，又折花枝当酒钱。酒醒只在花前坐，酒醉还须花下眠。花前花后日复日，酒醉酒醒年复年。不愿鞠躬车马前，但愿老死花酒间。车尘马足贵者趣，酒盏花枝贫者缘。若将富贵比贫贱，一在平地一在天。若将贫贱比车马，他得驱驰我得闲。世人笑我忒疯癫，我笑世人看不穿。记得五陵豪杰墓，无酒无花锄作田。

天堂之上，上帝和天使正在讨论一件十分恐怖的事情。“做菜就能把全世界的女人收入后宫？这种事情怎么可能办到……”插着翅膀的天使不屑地笑了笑。上帝吸了一口烟，平静地说道：“上一个提出这种疑惑的人，现在已经在床上哭着喊着叫了一个星期那位大人的名..

《论语》是儒家思想的经典著作，儒家思想的由近及远、由小及大、由己及人的思维方式正好符合现代企业经营管理的理念。在《论语》中、我们不但能找出许多高效率的管理方式，而且还能找到许多现代企业管理所必不可少的管理方式和方法。

秦朝大将军沈君宁，喜好战场，性刚烈，色倾城，善长剑。皇上一纸婚书，赐婚于一直爱慕已久的轩王爷。青梅竹马，诺言互许。原想这纸婚书成就了良缘。“我娶你不过为了牵制沈家势力！你不必妄想替代心儿的位置！”她觉悟了，放手了.......“秦轩，我只求你一纸休书，放我纵马天涯。”可是到最后，为何是他慌了神，失了心？