Daily life in the age of the Black Death was anything but normal. During the second pandemic of bubonic plague, from 1348 to 1722, Europeans were regularly assaulted by deadly epidemics. When plague hit a community, every aspect of life was turned upside down, from relations within families to the whole social, political and economic structure. Theatres emptied, graveyards fill...(展开全部)

Joseph P. Byrne, The Black Death (Greenwood Guides to Historic Events of the Medieval World) Greenwood Press | ISBN 0313324921 | 2004 | PDF | 1 MB | 263 pages The Black Death, by Joseph Byrne, isolates the event of the epidemic of bubonic plague in 1347–52 as having had a signal impact on medieval Europe. It was, however, only the first of many related such episodes involving v...(展开全部)

A vivid, new portrait of Irish migration through the letters and diaries of those who fled their homeland during the Great Famine The standard story of the exodus during Ireland’s Great Famine is one of tired clichés, half-truths, and dry statistics. In The Coffin Ship, a groundbreaking work of transnational history, Cian T. McMahon offers a vibrant, fresh perspective on an oft...(展开全部)

One of Jacques Derrida’s richest and most provocative works, Life Death challenges and deconstructs one of the most deeply rooted dichotomies of Western thought: life and death. Here Derrida rethinks the traditional philosophical understanding of the relationship between life and death, undertaking multi-disciplinary analyses of a range of topics, including philosophy, linguist...(展开全部)

It is a classical anthropological paradox that symbols of rebirth and fertility are frequently found in funerary rituals throughout the world. The original essays collected here re-examine this phenomenon through insights from China, India, New Guinea, Latin America, and Africa. The contributors, each a specialist in one of these areas, have worked in close collaboration to pro...(展开全部)

In the grand tradition of Paul Kennedy s The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers comes this provocative history of world democracy, which begins with the ancient Myceans and ends in our fractious present. Overturning long-cherished notions, John Keane poses challenging questions: Did democracy actually begin in ancient Greece or earlier in Mesopotamia? Do the American and British...(展开全部)

The Life and Death of Democracy will inspire and shock its readers. Presenting the first grand history of democracy for well over a century, it poses along the way some tough and timely questions: how did democratic ideals and institutions come to have the shape they do today? Given all the recent fanfare about democracy promotion, why are many people now gripped by the feeling...(展开全部)

迈克尔•罗伯森 1960年生于澳大利亚新南威尔士州，1979年进入悉尼《太阳报》成为一名记者。在新闻业沉浮14年后，改行做匿名写手，先后替15位艺术、政治、军事和体育名人执笔自传，其中有12本登上《星期日泰晤士报》畅销榜。经过十年为人作嫁，开始用本名写小说。 首部心理惊悚小说《嫌疑人》在英国狂销20万册，被翻译成24种语言。之后陆续写出多部佳作。2008年出版的《死亡来电》获多项大奖，高踞德国畅销书排行榜达九个月。《越狱者》是罗伯森的新作，击败了包括斯蒂芬•金在内的诸多热门人选获得2015年CWA“金匕首奖”，入围2016美国推理作家协会“爱伦•坡奖”短名单。