辛西娅•斯托克斯•布朗（Cynthia Stokes Brown） 历史学家，国际大历史协会（IBHA）创会委员，公认的“讲述大历史的大师”。 早年在杜克大学获得历史学本科学位，在约翰•霍普金斯大学获得硕士和博士学位。著有《与过去联结》等多部历史作品，她的写作兼具文采与才气，曾三次荣获美国图书奖。 她长期致力于“大历史”的研究与普及工作，和国际大历史协会创会主席大卫•克里斯蒂安一起，历时近30年让大历史风靡全球。 在她的支持和鼓励下，多米尼加大学成为第一所将大历史课程作为大一新生必修课的大学。在总结20多年教学实践基础上，她和大卫•克里斯蒂安、克雷格•本杰明合著了大历史的第一本大学教材《大历史：从虚无到万物》，这本书已经成为近百所欧美大学指定教材。2012年比尔•盖茨斥资千万美元，在全球范围推广“大历史教学项目”（Big History Projec...(展开全部)

On the eve of International Women’s Day in 2015, the Chinese government arrested five feminist activists and jailed them for thirty-seven days. The Feminist Five became a global cause célèbre, with Hillary Clinton speaking out on their behalf and activists inundating social media with #FreetheFive messages. But the Five are only symbols of a much larger feminist movement of civ...(展开全部)

In the distant future, humans are on the verge of extinction and have settled in small tribes across the planet under the observation and care of the Mothers. Some children are made in factories, from cells of rabbits and dolphins; some live by getting nutrients from water and light, like plants. The survival of the race depends on the interbreeding of these and other alien bei...(展开全部)

In the distant future, humans are on the verge of extinction and have settled in small tribes across the planet under the observation and care of the Mothers. Some children are made in factories, from cells of rabbits and dolphins; some live by getting nutrients from water and light, like plants. The survival of the race depends on the interbreeding of these and other alien bei...(展开全部)

玛丽•安•格伦顿，1938年10月生于马萨诸塞州的皮茨菲尓德，分别于1959年、1961年、1963年取得芝加哥大学文学学士、法学学士（J.D.）和比较法硕士学位。1986年开始任哈佛大学法学教授，1993年起任勒尼德.汉德法学讲席教授（Learned Hand Professor of Law）。研究兴趣主要集中于欧美比较宪法、法理学和国际人权。1998年曾被美国“国家法学”杂志评为“全美最具影响力的50位女性法律人士之一”。2005年获得美国国家艺术奖章。 代表作《比较法律传统》和《权力话语——穷途末路的政治言辞》已经被翻译为中文，本书是她的又一部力作。

In this succinct yet ample work, Zhao Tingyang, one of China’s most distinguished intellectuals, provides a profoundly original philosophical interpretation of China’s story and also develops a Chinese worldview for the future. Over the past few decades, the question Where did China come from? has absorbed the thoughts of many of China's best historians. Zhao, keenly aware of t...(展开全部)

A brilliantly original and funny novel about a sex therapist’s transcriptionist who falls in love with a client while listening to her sessions. When they accidentally meet in real life, an explosive affair ensues. Greta lives with her friend Sabine in an ancient Dutch farmhouse in Hudson, New York. The house, built in 1737, is unrenovated, uninsulated, and full of bees. Greta ...(展开全部)

A brilliantly original and funny novel about a sex therapist’s transcriptionist who falls in love with a client while listening to her sessions. When they accidentally meet in real life, an explosive affair ensues. Greta lives with her friend Sabine in an ancient Dutch farmhouse in Hudson, New York. The house, built in 1737, is unrenovated, uninsulated, and full of bees. Greta ...(展开全部)

In this powerful novel by one of Israel's most prominent writers, Momik, the only child of Holocaust survivors, grows up in the shadow of his parents' history. Determined to exorcise the Nazi "beast" from their shattered lives and prepare for a second holocaust he knows is coming, Momik increasingly shields himself from all feeling and attachment. But through the stories his gr...(展开全部)

Geoffrey Firmin, a former British consul, has come to Quauhnahuac, Mexico. His debilitating malaise is drinking, an activity that has overshadowed his life. On the most fateful day of the consul's life--the Day of the Dead, 1938--his wife, Yvonne, arrives in Quauhnahuac, inspired by a vision of life together away from Mexico and the circumstances that have driven their relation...(展开全部)