[英]迈克尔·道布斯，1948年出生于英国赫特福德郡，毕业于牛津大学，1975年步入政坛，开始为保守党议员撰写演讲稿，很快崭露头角，被称为“威斯敏斯特的娃娃脸杀手”，后任政府特别顾问和撒切尔政府幕僚长，最终于保守党副主席的职位上退休，2010年被英王室册封为男爵。 身为政治家的同时，他也是畅销书作家。1989年，道布斯讲述英国官场故事的处女作小说《纸牌屋》大获好评，次年被BBC改成电视剧，风靡全球。他顺势又写出另外两部以厄克特为主角的小说《玩转国王》、《最后一章》，完整交代了这位政坛枭雄的精彩一生，这两部小说也都被BBC改编成电视剧。2013年，好莱坞知名导演大卫·芬奇和奥斯卡影帝凯文·史派西联袂出手，再次将《纸牌屋》搬上荧屏，一经播出，再次火爆全球。

Michael Dobbs returns to the subject that made him a household name - the human drama and scandal in the corridors of power. Ginny is the young wife of an Opposition MP and is entirely content with her life in the constituency home. So when she overhears gossip of her husband's affair, it is a shattering blow. For some women, such revelations become part of the Westminster game...(展开全部)

Set in 1924, Halter’s exceptionally clever... Owen Burns mystery... finds Burns investigating a series of bizarre events in the English village... which has been haunted for centuries by a specter known as the White Lady, whose appearances have always been bad omens... managed to disappear from a room whose one exit was under observation and pass through a solid fence... the lo...(展开全部)

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Isabel Archer，来自于纽约，应姨母之邀，来伦敦探望她和她的丈夫Daniel的宅邸拜访。后，Isabel的父亲过世。在葬礼期间，她遇到了她的表亲Ralph Touchett，一个友善而病弱的青年，以及Ralph粗鲁的另据Warburton爵爷。Isabel拒绝了Warburton仓促的求婚，同样她也拒绝了Caspar Goodwood的求婚，尽管CG是个富有魅力的人而且是波士顿十分富有的磨坊继承人。尽管Isabel倾心于CG，但是她不希望通过这样的婚姻降低自己的独立性。她觉得，与CG结婚会让她丧失自由。Ralph的父亲年迈重病，要求他的儿子在自己死后把大部分资产留给Isabel。 Isabel周游大陆，在弗洛伦萨遇见了一个被流放的美国人，（当时对于罪行，尤其是宗教或者政治异见者，有流放海外殖民地以及放弃本国国籍的责罚制度。一般流放可以免除拘...(展开全部)

Narrating the well-lived life of the "Chinese Madame Curie" - a recipient of the first Wolf Prize in Physics (1978), the first woman to receive an honorary doctorate from Princeton University, as well as the first female president of the American Physics Society - this book provides a comprehensive and honest account of the life of Dr. Chien-Shiung Wu, an outstanding and leadin...(展开全部)

The amusingly odd protagonist and narrator is an academic on sabbatical in Berlin to work on his book about Titian. With his research completed, all he has left to do is sit down and write. He can't decide how to refer to his subject, so instead he starts watching TV continuously, until one day he decides to renounce the most addictive of twentieth-century inventions. As he spe...(展开全部)

In this important new book, Jacques Derrida talks with Bernard Stiegler about the effect of teletechnologies on our philosophical and political moment. Improvising before a camera, the two philosophers are confronted by the very technologies they discuss and so are forced to address all the more directly the urgent questions that they raise. What does it mean to speak of the pr...(展开全部)

Despite the tremendous shock of the Battle of Kadesh, Ramses has not managed to bring the formidable Hittite might to its knees. Rather than continue the struggle, he decides to engage in negotiation. But more important than anything to Ramses is the love he bears the Great Royal Consort, and he decides to offer Nefertari the most fabulous of gifts: at Abu Simbel two temples w...(展开全部)

To admirers， the wife of the Nationalist dictator of China and later Taiwan was a symbol of resistance to Communist tyranny； to detractors， she was a crafty “Dragon Lady” or a quisling of American imperialism。 In this absorbing biography， Li， a former Taiwan correspondent for the Financial Times， manages a balanced portrait that situates Madame Chiang in an uneasy borderland be...(展开全部)