On the evening of April 4 1968, Martin Luther King was in Memphis supporting a workers' strike. By the end of the day, top-level army snipers were in the position to knock him out if ordered. Two military officers were in place on the roof of a fire station near the Lorraine Motel, to photograph the events. Two black firemen had been ordered not to report to duty that day and a...(展开全部)

威廉·F. 佩珀（William F. Pepper），1937年生，英国、美国律师，在国际人权法领域实践颇丰。最著名的成就是为马丁·路德·金被刺案官方认定凶手詹姆斯·厄尔·雷辩护，寻找证据证实其为刺杀案的替罪羊。 王晓平（译者），副教授，硕士生导师，现任教于上海第二工业大学外语与文化传播学院。研究方向为翻译和语言学。翻译作品有《居里夫人的故事》《丘吉尔与希特勒——改变世界的领导力》等。

Martin Luther King Jr was the most powerful and eloquent champion of the poor and oppressed in US history, and at the height of his fame in the mid-sixties seemed to offer the real possibility of a new and radical beginning for liberal politics in the USA. In 1968, he was assassinated; the movement for social and economic change has never recovered.The conviction of James Earl ...(展开全部)

吉尔伯特·阿代尔（1944- ），英国著名作家、影评人、翻译家。曾获授权为经典作品《爱丽丝梦游仙境》和《彼得·潘》撰写续集。他将自己的第一部长篇小说《纯真的圣徒》改编成电影剧本《戏梦巴黎》（又名《梦想家》），由意大利电影大师贝纳尔多·贝托鲁奇拍成电影，为广大影迷、读者所熟悉。他为法国著名先锋作家乔治·佩雷克的代表作《消失》翻译的英文版荣获“斯科特·蒙克里夫法英文学翻译奖”。

Two months after the attacks of 9/11, the Bush administration, in the midst of what it perceived to be a state of emergency, authorized the indefinite detention of noncitizens suspected of terrorist activities and their subsequent trials by a military commission. Here, distinguished Italian philosopher Giorgio Agamben uses such circumstances to argue that this unusual extension...(展开全部)

As Dr. Marina Singh embarks upon an uncertain odyssey into the insect-infested Amazon, she will be forced to surrender herself to the lush but forbidding world that awaits within the jungle. Charged with finding her former mentor Dr. Annick Swenson, a researcher who has disappeared while working on a valuable new drug, she will have to confront her own memories of tragedy and s...(展开全部)