*Now with a new afterword containing never-before-seen research on the identity of the spy ring’s most secret member, Agent 355 “This is my kind of history book. Get ready. Here’s the action.” —BRAD MELTZER, bestselling author of The Fifth Assassin and host of Decoded When George Washington beat a hasty retreat from New York City in August 1776, many thought the American Revolu...(展开全部)

Throughout the world, football is a potent force in the lives of billions of people. Focusing national, political and cultural identities, football is the medium through which the world's hopes and fears, passions and hatreds are expressed. Simon Kuper travelled to 22 countries from South Africa to Italy, from Russia to the USA, to examine the way football has shaped them. ...(展开全部)

Levi wrote of the moral collapse that occurred in Auschwitz and the fallibility of human memory that allows such atrocities to recur. Levi's last book published before his death in 1987.

On a late September day in 480 B.C., Greek warships faced an invading Persian armada in the narrow Salamis Straits in the most important naval battle of the ancient world. Overwhelmingly outnumbered by the enemy, the Greeks triumphed through a combination of strategy and deception. More than two millennia after it occurred, the clash between the Greeks and Persians at Salamis r...(展开全部)

《1984》描写了未来社会即1984年大洋国一个普通人的日常生活。在大洋国，权力高度集中在“党”英社的手中，到处张贴着党的领袖老大哥的画像，几乎到处都安有电屏幕，思想警察神出鬼没，人们主要指党员，无时无刻不在被监视、被监听，连自由地思想都是一种罪。主人公温斯顿·史密斯在真理部从事篡改历史的工作，他对所处的社会和老大哥渐渐地产生了怀疑，在与另一名党员朱莉雅秘密恋爱后，逐渐成为思想犯，被思想警察逮捕……全书文笔犀利冷峻，以惊人的敏锐洞察力、严密的逻辑推理和丰富的想象力刻画了未来极权主义社会的面貌，警醒世人提防这种预想中的黑暗成为现实。

西蒙娜•薇依(Simone Weil,1909-1943)，20世纪法国哲学家、社会活动家、神秘主义思想大师。薇依一生写了一本又一本的笔记，内容涉及哲学、宗教、历史、政治……西蒙娜拥有特立独行，自甘苦行、永远站在穷苦人民一边的“圣女”人格和感人生平，她的思想充满智慧。 吴雅凌，上海社科院宗教研究所副研究员，法国巴黎第三大学比较文学博士，目前从事比较古典学研究，著译有《神谱笺释》（2010年）、《劳作与时日笺释》（2014年）、《柏拉图对话中的神》（2012年）、《黑暗中的女人：作为古典肃剧英雄的女人类型》（2016年）等。

Three terrible things happen in a single day. Essun, a woman living an ordinary life in a small town, comes home to find that her husband has brutally murdered their son and kidnapped their daughter. Meanwhile, mighty Sanze -- the world-spanning empire whose innovations have been civilization's bedrock for a thousand years -- collapses as most of its citizens are murdered to se...(展开全部)

Three terrible things happen in a single day. Essun, a woman living an ordinary life in a small town, comes home to find that her husband has brutally murdered their son and kidnapped their daughter. Meanwhile, mighty Sanze -- the world-spanning empire whose innovations have been civilization's bedrock for a thousand years -- collapses as most of its citizens are murdered to se...(展开全部)

★村上春树以《1Q84》向本书致敬 ★著名学者刘绍铭经典译本内地首次出版 ★62种文字风靡110个国家，全球销量超过5000万册 ★《时代周刊》“最好的100本英语小说” ★兰登书屋“100本20世纪最佳英语小说” ★入选英美中学生必读书书目 1936年以来，我所写的每 一部严肃作品，都是直接或间接地反对极权主义，支持我所理解的民主社会主义。 ——乔治•奥威尔（《我为何写作》） 《1984》是一部杰出的政治寓言小说，也是一部幻想小说。作品刻画了人类在极权主义社会的生存状态，有若一个永不褪色的警示标签，警醒世人提防这种预想中的黑暗成为现实。历经几十年，其生命力益显强大，被誉为20世纪影响最为深远的文学经典之一。

As literary political fiction, 1984 is considered a classic novel of the social science fiction subgenre. Since its publication in 1949, many of its terms and concepts, such as Big Brother, doublethin