雅尼斯•瓦鲁法克斯（Yanis Varoufakis），希腊经济学家。1961年生于雅典，在英国接受高等教育并取得经济学博士学位。后长期在英国、澳大利亚、希腊和美国的大学任教。2015年参加希腊议会选举，当选议员后于当年1月到7月任财政部长，负责处理本国主权债务危机。2018年，创立希腊反对党欧洲现实不服从阵线（MeRA25，现为希腊议会席位数排名第六的政党），自任党首。

雅尼斯•瓦鲁法克斯（Yanis Varoufakis），希腊经济学家。1961年生于雅典，在英国接受高等教育并取得经济学博士学位。后长期在英国、澳大利亚、希腊和美国的大学任教。2015年参加希腊议会选举，当选议员后于当年1月到7月任财政部长，负责处理本国主权债务危机。2018年，创立希腊反对党欧洲现实不服从阵线（MeRA25，现为希腊议会席位数排名第六的政党），自任党首。

"Varoufakis has written one of the greatest political memoirs of all time [and] one of the most accurate and detailed descriptions of modern power ever written" (Guardian) "An important, terrifying must-read. In particular, it anatomises the way in which EU leaders operate with a brutal clarity … shocking and ultimately tragic … He gets to the heart of their failure more acutel...(展开全部)

Until 1989 most Soviet Jews wanting to immigrate to the United States left on visas for Israel via Vienna. In Vienna, with the assistance of American aid organizations, thousands of Soviet Jews transferred to Rome and applied for refugee entry into the United States. The Struggle for Soviet Jewry in American Politics examines the conflict between the Israeli government and the ...(展开全部)

Until 1989 most Soviet Jews wanting to immigrate to the United States left on visas for Israel via Vienna. In Vienna, with the assistance of American aid organizations, thousands of Soviet Jews transferred to Rome and applied for refugee entry into the United States. The Struggle for Soviet Jewry in American Politics examines the conflict between the Israeli government and the ...(展开全部)

The fable of the Emperor's New Clothes is a classic example of a conspiracy of silence, a situation where everyone refuses to acknowledge an obvious truth. But the denial of social realities--whether incest, alcoholism, corruption, or even genocide--is no fairy tale. In The Elephant in the Room, Eviatar Zerubavel sheds new light on the social and political underpinnings of sile...(展开全部)

Featured as one of "Six Books to Help Understand Trump's Win" by The New York Times --- A Fareed Zakaria GPS Book of the Week: "An intelligent guide to a phenomenon by no means over." -- Fareed Zakaria, CNN --- "Well-written and well-researched, powerfully argued and perfectly timed." ― The Economist --- Named one of the Best Books of 2016 by Bloomberg --- "Far and away the mos...(展开全部)

When we look at a photograph we see a moment that is no more. Photographs place reality into the past tense, representing not memory but memory's loss. They are not conduits for the return of memory, but "memento mori: reminders of the fact of death itself. And it is in this, Jay Prosser tells us, that we find the gift of photography. Engaging the photographic reflections of fi...(展开全部)

When South African conservationist Lawrence Anthony was asked to accept a herd of 'rogue' elephants on his reserve at Thula Thula, his commonsense told him to refuse. But he was the herd's last chance of survival--notorious escape artists, they would all be killed if Lawrence wouldn't take them. He agreed, but before arrangements for the move could be completed the animals brok...(展开全部)