安东尼·伯克莱（1893－1971） 推理小说史上的先知。1922年，他开始创作高水准的古典推理小说，并一手创建了著名的“侦探俱乐部”。在古典推理大行其道之时，伯克莱反而预测：“纯粹以解谜为主，重视情节却忽略人物塑造、缺乏文风和幽默感的传统推理小说时日不多。未来的推理小说，心理成分在吸引读者方面将超过数学成分。”而今，这一预言自是全部命中。1939年，伯克莱宣布停止推理小说的创作，但依然活跃于评论界，直至1971年去世。

Written in 1914 but not published until 1925, a year after Kafka’s death, The Trial is the terrifying tale of Josef K., a respectable bank officer who is suddenly and inexplicably arrested and must defend himself against a charge about which he can get no information. Whether read as an existential tale, a parable, or a prophecy of the excesses of modern bureaucracy wedded to...(展开全部)

Written in 1914 but not published until 1925, a year after Kafka’s death, The Trial is the terrifying tale of Josef K., a respectable bank officer who is suddenly and inexplicably arrested and must defend himself against a charge about which he can get no information. Whether read as an existential tale, a parable, or a prophecy of the excesses of modern bureaucracy wedded to...(展开全部)

在线阅读本书 A terrifying psychological trip into the life of one Joseph K., an ordinary man who wakes up one day to find himself accused of a crime he did not commit, a crime whose nature is never revealed to him. Once arrested, he is released, but must report to court on a regular basis--an event that proves maddening, as nothing is ever resolved. As he grows more uncertain of his...(展开全部)

Leszek Kolakowski delves into some of the most intellectually vigorous questions of our time in this remarkable collection of essays garnished with his characteristic wit. Ten of the essays have never appeared before in English. "Exemplary. . . . It should be celebrated". --Arthur C. Danto, "New York Times Book Review" "This book . . . express[es] Kolakowski's thought on God,...(展开全部)

福雷斯特·斯图尔特 现为斯坦福大学社会学教授，斯坦福民族志实验室主任，城市研究项目主任，麦克阿瑟研究员，社会研究学会会员。著有《子弹之歌》（Ballad of the Bullet）。 他用城市民族志的方法做研究，采用田野调查和档案研究等质性研究方法探索城市贫困的成因、现状和后果。他延续芝加哥社会学派的方法，观察个人和社群如何理解自身所处的社会世界，提倡公共社会学的理念，期望社群成员也成为知识的生产者。 2020年，获得麦克阿瑟天才奖。

福雷斯特·斯图尔特 现为斯坦福大学社会学教授，斯坦福民族志实验室主任，城市研究项目主任，麦克阿瑟研究员，社会研究学会会员。著有《子弹之歌》（Ballad of the Bullet）。 他用城市民族志的方法做研究，采用田野调查和档案研究等质性研究方法探索城市贫困的成因、现状和后果。他延续芝加哥社会学派的方法，观察个人和社群如何理解自身所处的社会世界，提倡公共社会学的理念，期望社群成员也成为知识的生产者。 2020年，获得麦克阿瑟天才奖。

In a landmark work of deep scholarship and insight, Eric Foner gives us a life of Lincoln as it intertwined with slavery, the defining issue of the time and the tragic hallmark of American history. As the nation expanded into new western territories and economic pursuits, the continuing strength of slavery spawned a new and divisive politics. Lincoln navigated this dynamic poli...(展开全部)

“A masterwork [by] the preeminent historian of the Civil War era.”— Boston Globe Selected as a Notable Book of the Year by the New York Times Book Review , this landmark work gives us a definitive account of Lincoln's lifelong engagement with the nation's critical issue: American slavery. A master historian, Eric Foner draws Lincoln and the broader history of the period into...(展开全部)

埃里克·方纳 埃里克•方纳是哥伦比亚大学德威特•克林顿历史学教授，美国最杰出的历史学家之一。他在哥伦比亚大学获得博士学位，师从理查德•霍夫斯塔特。方纳教授的著作集中关注思想史、政治史和社会史的交汇，以及美国种族关系史。 译者：于留振，重庆大学人文社会高等研究院史学研究中心讲师，中美富布赖特项目哥伦比亚大学访问博士生。