迈克尔•英尼斯（1906-1994） 英国作家、教育家及学者，毕业于牛津大学，主修英国文学，分别以笔名和本名发表长短篇小说、剧本、评论及学术专著等。他在澳大利亚大学任教时，开始创作推理小说。他的作品除了线索众多、充满奇趣的情节设计之外，还涉及丰富的文学典故。 代表作《校长宿舍谋杀案》、《艾伯比的终点》均是推理小说史上的经典。他笔下的侦探艾伯比被认为是史上最博学的侦探。

迈克尔•英尼斯（1906-1994） 英国作家、教育家及学者，毕业于牛津大学，主修英国文学，分别以笔名和本名发表长短篇小说、剧本、评论及学术专著等。他在澳大利亚大学任教时，开始创作推理小说。他的作品除了线索众多、充满奇趣的情节设计之外，还涉及丰富的文学典故。 代表作《校长宿舍谋杀案》、《艾伯比的终点》均是推理小说史上的经典。他笔下的侦探艾伯比被认为是史上最博学的侦探。

Written in Irv Yalom's inimitable story-telling style, "Staring at the Sun" is a profoundly encouraging approach to the universal issue of mortality. In this magisterial opus, capping a lifetime of work and personal experience, Dr. Yalom helps us recognize that the fear of death is at the heart of much of our anxiety. Such recognition is often catalyzed by an "awakening experie...(展开全部)

Sinclair McKay's portrait of Berlin from 1919 forward explores the city's broad human history, from the end of the Great War to the Blockade, rise of the Wall, and beyond. Sinclair McKay's Berlin begins by taking readers back to 1919 when the city emerged from the shadows of the Great War to become an extraordinary by-word for modernity―in art, cinema, architecture, industry, s...(展开全部)

Sinclair McKay's portrait of Berlin from 1919 forward explores the city's broad human history, from the end of the Great War to the Blockade, rise of the Wall, and beyond. Sinclair McKay's Berlin begins by taking readers back to 1919 when the city emerged from the shadows of the Great War to become an extraordinary by-word for modernity―in art, cinema, architecture, industry, s...(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)

Now a major motion picture from USA Films starring Kristin Scott Thomas and Sean Penn, and director Philip Haas (director of Angels and Insects). In Up at the Villa, W. Somerset Maugham portrays a wealthy young English woman who finds herself confronted rather brutally by the repercussions of whimsy. On the day her older and prosperous friend asks her to marry him, Mary Leonard...(展开全部)

In January 1945, in the waning months of World War II, a small group of people begin the longest journey of their lives: an attempt to cross the remnants of the Third Reich, from Warsaw to the Rhine if necessary, to reach the British and American lines. Among the group is eighteen-year-old Anna Emmerich, the daughter of Prussian aristocrats. There is her lover, Callum Finella,...(展开全部)