Can you ever come to terms with a missing child? Julia Davidsson has not. Her five-year-old son disappeared twenty years previously on the Swedish island of Oland. No trace of him has ever been found. Until his shoe arrives in the post. It has been sent to Julia's father, a retired sea-captain still living on the island. Soon he and Julia are piecing together fragments of the p...(展开全部)

On a gray September day, on an island off the coast of Sweden, six -year -old Jens Davidsson ventured out of his backyard, walked out into a fog, and vanished….Now twenty years have passed, and in this magnificent debut novel of suspense—a runaway bestseller in Sweden—the boy’s mother returns to the place where her son disappeared, drawn by a chilling package sent in the mail… ...(展开全部)

When Jamaican recording engineers Osbourne "King Tubby" Ruddock, Errol Thompson, and Lee "Scratch" Perry began crafting "dub" music in the early 1970s, they were initiating a musical revolution that continues to have worldwide influence. Dub is a sub-genre of Jamaican reggae that flourished during reggae's "golden age" of the late 1960s through the early 1980s. Dub involves rem...(展开全部)

When Jamaican recording engineers Osbourne "King Tubby" Ruddock, Errol Thompson, and Lee "Scratch" Perry began crafting "dub" music in the early 1970s, they were initiating a musical revolution that continues to have worldwide influence. Dub is a sub-genre of Jamaican reggae that flourished during reggae's "golden age" of the late 1960s through the early 1980s. Dub involves rem...(展开全部)

像李黎这样一个旅人，爱文学、爱电影，视人生为不能回头的旅程，最爱读人生这部大书，亦爱观世界各地影像。于是有了这本以旅行与阅读为主线的精选随笔集。 卷一手倦拋书午梦长：是阅读和观影方面的散文。这些散文往往都由一书一事而起，带出如万花筒般的丰盛景象，贯穿其中的是作者深深的文学情意结。幼年爱过的童话、博尔赫斯的图书馆、《红楼梦》中的香气袭人……尽可在她笔下娓娓道来。 卷二众里寻他千百度：是作者多年来不断追寻故事故人的经历。故事故人当然与文学、电影相关。这些追寻有些是为了完成心愿的刻意而为，如刻意寻找法国电影《红气球》的拍摄地，寻找张爱玲旧居乃至重旅三毛曾经的居所等等，有些却是巧合，世界之大，巴黎、威尼斯、旧金山、京都……处处有奇遇。 卷三一朝看尽洛阳花：是作者作为资深旅人，旅游的经历及由此生发的感悟。她乐于与读者分享的不仅仅是风光名胜，更是一些如“威尼斯夜...(展开全部)

Carved into the mountains of northern China, the Buddhist cave temples of Xiangtangshan were the crowning cultural achievement of the sixth-century Northern Qi dynasty. Once home to a magnificent array of limestone sculptures, the caves were heavily damaged during the first half of the twentieth century, and much of the work housed there was lost to the international art market...(展开全部)

埃里克·霍布斯鲍姆（1917—2012），英国著名历史学家，英国皇家科学院院士。1917年生于亚历山大，曾在维也纳、柏林、伦敦和剑桥求学。他在伦敦大学伯贝克学院任教直到退休，此后在纽约新社会研究学院任教，2002年起担任伯贝克学院校长直至过世。 霍布斯鲍姆研究的历史时期以19世纪为主并延伸至17、18和20世纪，研究的地区则从英国、欧洲大陆，扩至拉丁美洲。霍布斯鲍姆一生著作甚丰，在劳工运动、农民叛乱、民族主义和世界史领域的研究堪居当代史家的顶尖水准。他也是英文版《马克思恩格斯全集》的编者。

The city is Macao, the Portuguese settlement on the China Coast, as it was more than 200 years ago. This moving novel that captures the time and place so convincingly is a historical reconstruction of the years 1780 to 1795 and the lives of Martha Merop and her English lover are unique in this period.