"Remarkable….Ekirch has emptied night's pockets, and laid the contents out before us."—Arthur Krystal, The New Yorker Bringing light to the shadows of history through a "rich weave of citation and archival evidence" (Publishers Weekly), scholar A. Roger Ekirch illuminates the aspects of life most often overlooked by other historians—those that unfold at night. In thi...(展开全部)

"Remarkable….Ekirch has emptied night's pockets, and laid the contents out before us."—Arthur Krystal, The New Yorker Bringing light to the shadows of history through a "rich weave of citation and archival evidence" (Publishers Weekly), scholar A. Roger Ekirch illuminates the aspects of life most often overlooked by other historians—those that unfold at night. In this...(展开全部)

Ann Anagnost is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Washington.

达洛芙·伊普卡（1917— ）美国著名的艺术家、插画家、绘本创作家。出生于佛蒙特州，自小在艺术氛围浓厚的格林威治村长大。达洛芙的父亲是著名的雕刻家威廉·佐拉屈，母亲是艺术大师玛格丽特·佐拉屈，他们都是美国现代艺术史上重要的人物。 二十一岁时，达洛芙便得以在现代艺术博物馆举行她的第一场个人展览。她的部分作品也被永久地收藏在大都会艺术博物馆、惠特尼博物馆和布鲁克林博物馆等处。1940年代是达洛芙事业的转折期，当时一家纽约出版社询问她是否有意愿与玛格丽特·怀兹·布朗共同创作绘本《小渔夫》，她本来几乎要放弃写童书和画插图，在事业挣扎中的她把握住了这次机会。1945年《小渔夫》出版后，达洛芙开始了长达六十年的绘本创作。达洛芙是一位多产的绘本创作家。六十年间，她创作了近四十本儿童绘本。 1972年，达洛芙·伊普卡接受了缅因州政府颁发的“在艺术和人类领域对缅因州的...(展开全部)

In a sleepy, secluded Alaska town called Barrow, the sun sets and doesn't rise for over thirty consecutive days and nights. From the darkness, across the frozen wasteland, an evil will come that will bring the residents of Barrow to their knees. The only hope for the town is the Sheriff and Deputy, husband and wife who are torn between their own survival and saving the town the...(展开全部)

Pulitzer Prize winner Sheri Fink’s landmark investigation of patient deaths at a New Orleans hospital ravaged by Hurricane Katrina – and her suspenseful portrayal of the quest for truth and justice In the tradition of the best writing on medicine, physician and reporter Sheri Fink reconstructs five days at Memorial Medical Center and draws the reader into the lives of those...(展开全部)

Pulitzer Prize winner Sheri Fink’s landmark investigation of patient deaths at a New Orleans hospital ravaged by Hurricane Katrina – and her suspenseful portrayal of the quest for truth and justice In the tradition of the best writing on medicine, physician and reporter Sheri Fink reconstructs five days at Memorial Medical Center and draws the reader into the lives of those...(展开全部)

Elderly widow Addie Moore pays a visit to her aging widower neighbor, Louis Waters. They were never close, just knew each other peripherally, which makes the reason for this social call all the more intriguing. Addie would like to know if Louis is interested in sleeping with her. Now, now, this scenario was conceived by the late, great Kent Haruf—Our Souls at Night is no 50 Sha...(展开全部)

A spare yet eloquent, bittersweet yet inspiring story of a man and a woman who, in advanced age, come together to wrestle with the events of their lives and their hopes for the imminent future. In the familiar setting of Holt, Colorado, home to all of Kent Haruf's inimitable fiction, Addie Moore pays an unexpected visit to a neighbor, Louis Waters. Her husband died years ago, a...(展开全部)

Inspired by the process of creating a library for his fifteenth-century home near the Loire in France, Alberto Manguel, the acclaimed writer on books and reading, has taken up the subject of libraries. 'Libraries', he says, 'have always seemed to me pleasantly mad places, and for as long as I can remember I've been seduced by their labyrinthine logic'. In this personal, deliber...(展开全部)