From the former secretary of defense, a strikingly candid, vividly written account of his experience serving Presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama during the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Before Robert M. Gates received a call from the White House in 2006, he thought he’d left Washington politics behind: after working for six presidents in both the CIA and the National Sec...(展开全部)

The House of Wittgenstein is the grand saga of a brilliant and tragic Viennese family whose members included a famous philosopher and the world's greatest one-handed classical pianist. The Wittgenstein family was one of the wealthiest, most talented, and most eccentric in European history, held together by a fanatical love of music yet torn apart by money, madness, conflicts ...(展开全部)

Traces the triumphs and vicissitudes of a family held together by a love of music yet torn apart by money, madness, conflicts of loyalty and the cataclysmic upheaval of two world wars.

The Memoirs of a Polar Bear has in spades what Rivka Galchen hailed in the New Yorker as “Yoko Tawada’s magnificent strangeness”―Tawada is an author like no other. Three generations (grandmother, mother, son) of polar bears are famous as both circus performers and writers in East Germany: they are polar bears who move in human society, stars of the ring and of the literary worl...(展开全部)

A compelling vision of a disorietating and barbaric future from Doris Lessing, Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature 2007. Many years in the future, city life has broken down, communications have failed and food supplies are dwindling. From her window a middle-aged woman - our narrator - watches things fall apart and records what she witnesses: hordes of people migrating to...(展开全部)

In a beleaguered city where rats and roving gangs terrorize the streets, where government has broken down and meaningless violence holds sway, a woman -- middle-aged and middle-class -- is brought a twelve-year-old girl and told that it is her responsibility to raise the child. This book, which the author has called "an attempt at autobiography," is that woman's journal -- a gl...(展开全部)

A superb autobiography by one of the great literary figures of the twentieth century, Simone de Beauvoir 's Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter offers an intimate picture of growing up in a bourgeois French family, rebelling as an adolescent against the conventional expectations of her class, and striking out on her own with an intellectual and existential ambition exceedingly rar...(展开全部)

The Memoirs of a Polar Bear has in spades what Rivka Galchen hailed in the New Yorker as “Yoko Tawada’s magnificent strangeness”―Tawada is an author like no other. Three generations (grandmother, mother, son) of polar bears are famous as both circus performers and writers in East Germany: they are polar bears who move in human society, stars of the ring and of the literary worl...(展开全部)

克劳德·梅尼瓦尔（1778-1850）是拿破仑最知名的第一秘书，从小由英国保姆带大，因此熟练掌握了英语。在英法就《亚眠和约》谈判时作为拿破仑兄长约瑟夫·波拿巴的秘书担任了翻译工作。此后与波拿巴家族一直关系密切，成为拿破仑本人和拿破仑的第二任妻子玛丽·路易莎皇后的私人秘书。他的长子在日后拿破仑三世建立法兰西第二帝国所发动的政变中立下功劳。在法兰西第一帝国及第二帝国期间，梅尼瓦尔家族一直享有世袭帝国男爵的封号 译者简介 徐晓飞，1995年生于广东省佛山市。美国威斯康辛州立大学麦迪逊分校历史学学士，芝加哥大学欧洲史硕士，法国巴黎政治经济学院新闻学硕士。现居巴黎，从事新闻工作。

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