" Breaking Night reads more like an adventure story than an addiction-morality tale. It's a white-knuckle account of survival. . . . By age 6, Murray knew how to mainline drugs (though she never took them) and how to care for her strung-out parents. She showed uncanny maturity, even as a child, and later managed to avoid that malady of teenagers and memoir writers, self-pity. ...(展开全部)

Few people have witnessed more scenes of chaos and conflict around the world than Anderson Cooper, whose groundbreaking coverage on CNN has changed the way we watch the news. In this gripping, candid, and remarkably powerful memoir, he offers an unstinting, up-close view of the most harrowing crises of our time, and the profound impact they have had on his life. </p> Afte...(展开全部)

Few people have witnessed more scenes of chaos and conflict around the world than Anderson Cooper, whose groundbreaking coverage on CNN has changed the way we watch the news. In this gripping, candid, and remarkably powerful memoir, he offers an unstinting, up-close view of the most harrowing crises of our time, and the profound impact they have had on his life. </p> Afte...(展开全部)

Few people have witnessed more scenes of chaos and conflict around the world than Anderson Cooper, whose groundbreaking coverage on CNN has changed the way we watch the news. After growing up on Manhattan's Upper East Side, Cooper felt a magnetic pull toward the unknown. If he could keep moving, and keep exploring, he felt he could stay one step ahead of his past, including...(展开全部)

In 2005, two tragedies--the Asian tsunami and Hurricane Katrina--turned CNN reporter Anderson Cooper into a media celebrity. Dispatches from the Edge, Cooper's memoir of "war, disasters and survival," is a brief but powerful chronicle of Cooper's ascent to stardom and his struggle with his own tragedies and demons. Cooper was 10 years old when his father, Wyatt Cooper, died dur...(展开全部)

安德森·库珀在CNN的那些震撼人心的报道，改变了我们看世界的方式。很少有人能像他一样，在世界各地亲眼见证过那么多的冲突与灾难。从斯里兰卡的海啸到伊拉克战争，从尼日尔的饥荒到侵袭新奥尔良和密西西比的卡特里娜飓风。 在这本坦率诚恳、因强大的情感力量而扣人心弦的书中，库珀毫无保留地为我们近距离展示了这个时代最严峻的几场灾难的面貌，并揭示了它们在他生命中留下的深刻影响。真诚、震撼、读来异常有趣——这本由美国最勇敢可信的先锋记者写下的《边缘信使》令人难以忘怀。 此外，童年时父亲的病故和青春期时哥哥的自杀，在库珀的生命记忆中刻下深痕。每一次在异国的死亡和告别中穿梭，库珀始终感知到亲人离逝留给心灵的巨大力量。在直视深渊的追问下，他以极致的真诚、敏感和温柔，为人类的情感描绘出最真实的细密针脚。

In Recollections of My Nonexistence, Rebecca Solnit describes her formation as a writer and as a feminist in 1980s San Francisco, in an atmosphere of gender violence on the street and throughout society and the exclusion of women from cultural arenas. She tells of being poor, hopeful, and adrift in the city that became her great teacher; of the small apartment that, when she wa...(展开全部)

The dark side of "On the Road" instead of seeking kicks, the French narrator travels the globe to find an ever deeper disgust for life.Louis-Ferdinand Celine's revulsion and anger at what he considered the idiocy and hypocrisy of society explodes from nearly every page of this novel. Filled with slang and obscenities and written in raw, colloquial language, "Journey to the End ...(展开全部)

The dark side of "On the Road" instead of seeking kicks, the French narrator travels the globe to find an ever deeper disgust for life.Louis-Ferdinand Celine's revulsion and anger at what he considered the idiocy and hypocrisy of society explodes from nearly every page of this novel. Filled with slang and obscenities and written in raw, colloquial language, "Journey to the End ...(展开全部)

丹尼尔·李布斯金（Daniel Libesdind），犹太裔波兰人，1946年生于波兰中部的罗兹，父母是大屠杀的幸存者。1957年举家迁往以色列，1959年定居美国纽约。从小音乐造诣颇高，擅长演奏手风琴。后来立志成为建筑师。建筑作品遍布世界各地，有柏林犹太博物馆、奥斯纳布吕克的努斯鲍姆美术馆、曼彻斯特帝国战争博物馆、丹佛美术馆、多伦多皇家博物馆；进行中的博物馆兴建方案有旧金山当代犹太博物馆等；在瑞士、意大利、德国、英国都有文化及商业设计项目。1990年创立李布斯金工作室（Studio Daniel Libeskind），并担任首席设计师。2003年2月获选为纽约世界贸易中心重建项目的总体规划建筑师。