简介:Sometime in the near future, paraplegic prison inmate Matt Mills meets "The Board" of Satoshi-Telefair Industries, who thank him for joining the Program. Under pressure and with a promise to make him walk again, Mills agrees to volunteer. He is injected with a synthetic nanomaterial and suffocated, only to wake up with restored use of his legs, yet alone in a steel cell in the first spoke of an experimental apparatus - The Wheel. A series of assailants inflict a multitude of damage to Mills' body and torment his mind, yet the synthetic nanomaterial not only restores his damaged organs, it re-engineers his strength. The experiment might be designed to kill, but Mills is determined to survive - and get back to his daughter before The Board finds her first.
简介: 本片用迷幻的影像和摇滚乐讲述了一个非典型乐队主唱的成长史。儿时,平克(鲍勃•吉尔道夫 Bob Geldof 饰)的父亲在二战中身亡,母亲与家庭医生关系暧昧,这让他幼小心灵备受创伤。在学校,他对呆板的填鸭教育深恶痛绝,时刻准备着绝地反击。成年后,他在泡吧时结识了风骚的舞女,并与之发生了关系。然而,性欲的满足感并没有维持太久,他就厌倦了这种不靠谱的感情,特别是他对于女人的怀疑和嫉妒达到了无以复加的地步,因此当对方再度示好投怀送抱的时候,他便歇斯底里地爆发了,仿佛要把全世界都砸碎了才算安心。在此期间,他还表达了强烈的反战情绪和愤世嫉俗的观念,在物质丰富的生活中,他的精神生活极度匮乏,在工业化大行其道的环境里,他还固守着梦想的断壁残垣……
简介:Young, bestselling author Eryn Bellow concludes her bookstore tour with her agent selling film rights and closing a six figure advance for her follow-up. Headwinds arise as critics get offended by the claims that Eryn is being declared a living literary legend.77mi.cc The storm gathers force as the assaults gravitate from bad reviews to a fake-memoir designed to obliterate her from the field. Through the noise, Eryn attempts to write her way out of the public fray, and reclaim her voice in the minds of her readers. Along the way, she hopes to prove a happy ending is not always a bad thing.
简介:位于美国北卡罗莱纳州温斯顿沙兰市(Winston Salem)的RJR纳贝斯克饼干公司股 东们,虽然受到全球瞩目,金钱不断涌入,光是在2月底的邮件中,就收到总数达20 亿美圆的支票,但很少有股东对公司的高级执行总裁罗斯.强生(Ross Johnson)心存 感激。现在,温斯顿沙兰市也变成前所未有的百万富翁市。所有与RJR公司有关的华尔街 大亨都想从中分到一点好处,于是罗斯找来财务专家亨利和彼得来为他效力。接下来上演的便是一出充满贪婪、背叛、尔虞我诈和高风险赌注的华尔街风云。
根据布莱恩.巴勒和约翰.海勒撰写的《Barbarians at the Gate: The Fall of RJR Nabisco》中文译名:《门口的野蛮人:RJR纳贝斯克的陨落》改编。
该书描写了1988年美国第二大烟草公司RJR融资收购饼干生产商Nabisco的交易。即使如今看来,这笔总额达250亿美元的收购也十分惊人,不禁让人对有关人物的行动产生 疑虑。当时,这也是华尔街历史上最大的收购资金。而1989年美国Kohlberg KravisRoberts 公司又以314亿美元的价格刷新了此纪录,其收购对象就是RJR Nabisco公司。
读过此书,你会惊奇地发现网络和个人对世界商业和经济的操纵力有多大。它向我 们揭示了CEO被给予的巨大权利和机会,从中你会懂得谁才是真正的"玩家"。 该书被《福布斯》杂志评选为20年来美国最具影响力的20本商业书籍之一。也被选择摘编到里奥·高夫的投资经典著作《一次读完25本投资经典》中。