As the climbers of the 1996 Mt. Everest disaster vanished into thin air, one man had the courage to bring them down alive....On May 10, 1996, two commercial expeditions headed by expert leaders attempted to scale the world's largest peak. But things went terribly wrong. Crowded conditions, bad judgement, and a bitter storm stopped many climbers in their tracks. Others were left...(展开全部)

"Life is both fleeting and dangerous, and there is no point in denying yourself pleasure, or being anything other than what you are." Beloved author Elizabeth Gilbert returns to fiction with a unique love story set in the New York City theater world during the 1940s. Told from the perspective of an older woman as she looks back on her youth with both pleasure and regret (but mo...(展开全部)

"Life is both fleeting and dangerous, and there is no point in denying yourself pleasure, or being anything other than what you are." Beloved author Elizabeth Gilbert returns to fiction with a unique love story set in the New York City theater world during the 1940s. Told from the perspective of an older woman as she looks back on her youth with both pleasure and regret (but mo...(展开全部)

"Life is both fleeting and dangerous, and there is no point in denying yourself pleasure, or being anything other than what you are." Beloved author Elizabeth Gilbert returns to fiction with a unique love story set in the New York City theater world during the 1940s. Told from the perspective of an older woman as she looks back on her youth with both pleasure and regret (but mo...(展开全部)

"Life is both fleeting and dangerous, and there is no point in denying yourself pleasure, or being anything other than what you are." Beloved author Elizabeth Gilbert returns to fiction with a unique love story set in the New York City theater world during the 1940s. Told from the perspective of an older woman as she looks back on her youth with both pleasure and regret (but mo...(展开全部)

加思·里斯克·霍尔伯格（Garth Risk Hallberg） 美国作家、评论家。华盛顿大学文学学士，纽约大学艺术硕士。出版有中篇小说《北美家庭图鉴》（A Field Guide to the North American Family），短篇故事和批评散文多发表于《纽约时报》《纽约时报书评》《卫报》等媒体。 加思·里斯克·霍尔伯格耗时七年完成《燃烧之城》。这部近千页的处女作以两百万美元的竞价震惊欧美文坛，成为2015年当之无愧的话题之书。

加思·里斯克·霍尔伯格（Garth Risk Hallberg） 美国作家、评论家。华盛顿大学文学学士，纽约大学艺术硕士。出版有中篇小说《北美家庭图鉴》（A Field Guide to the North American Family），短篇故事和批评散文多发表于《纽约时报》《纽约时报书评》《卫报》等媒体。 加思·里斯克·霍尔伯格耗时七年完成《燃烧之城》。这部近千页的处女作以两百万美元的竞价震惊欧美文坛，成为2015年当之无愧的话题之书。

Evocative and incisive, Bangkok Found looks deep within traditional culture to discover how Bangkok is like no other contemporary city. It's the book you read after you've seen the temples and enjoyed the nightlife - and then start to wonder where the mysterious appeal of Bangkok really lies. With wit and a wealth of anecdotes from Kerr's thirty years of experience in Thailand,...(展开全部)

刘凤云，哈尔滨人，毕业于中国人民大学清史研究所，历史学博士，现系中国人民大学清史研究所教授、博士研究生导师。从事清代政治史、明清城市史等相关研究。主要学术著作有《清代三藩研究》《明清城市空间的文化探析》《北京与江户：17—18世纪的城市空间》《权力运行的轨迹：17—18世纪中国官僚的政治》等，发表学术论文数十篇。 江晓成，湖北丹江口人，现为中国人民大学清史研究所博士研究生，从事清代政治史研究。 张一弛，北京人，现为中国人民大学清史研究所博士研究生，从事清代政治史研究。

The city is Beszel, a rundown metropolis on the eastern edge of Europe. The other city is Ul Qoma, a modern Eastern European boomtown, despite being a bit of an international pariah. What the two cities share, and what they don't, is the deliciously evocative conundrum at the heart of China Mieville's The City & The City. Mieville is well known as a modern fantasist (and urbani...(展开全部)