An acclaimed bestseller and international sensation, Patrick Suskind's classic novel provokes a terrifying examination of what happens when one man's indulgence in his greatest passion—his sense of smell—leads to murder. In the slums of eighteenth-century France, the infant Jean-Baptiste Grenouille is born with one sublime gift-an absolute sense of smell. As a boy, he lives to...(展开全部)

An acclaimed bestseller and international sensation, Patrick Suskind's classic novel provokes a terrifying examination of what happens when one man's indulgence in his greatest passion—his sense of smell—leads to murder. In the slums of eighteenth-century France, the infant Jean-Baptiste Grenouille is born with one sublime gift-an absolute sense of smell. As a boy, he lives to...(展开全部)

Paper Knowledge is a remarkable book about the mundane: the library card, the promissory note, the movie ticket, the PDF (Portable Document Format). It is a media history of the document. Drawing examples from the 1870s, the 1930s, the 1960s, and today, Lisa Gitelman thinks across the media that the document form has come to inhabit over the last 150 years, including letterpres...(展开全部)

贝蒂娜·施汤内特，德国独立哲学家，曾在汉堡大学攻读哲学。她编辑并评论康德的宗教著作，针对18世纪反犹太主义的历史进行撰述，同时研究国家社会主义哲学和阿道夫·艾希曼。2000年，其“康德哲学中的反犹太主义”相关研究在科隆获颁哲学政治学会（PPA）一等奖。《耶路撒冷之前的艾希曼》荣获北德广播电视台非小说类图书奖。 周全，台大历史系毕业、德国哥廷根大学西洋史硕士及博士候选人，通六国语言，曾旅居欧美20年。译作有《一个德国人的故事》《破解希特勒》《趣味横生的时光》《从俾斯麦到希特勒》《比利牛斯山的城堡》《不含传说的普鲁士》《说谎者雅各》《德意志：一个国家的记忆》等。

贝蒂娜·施汤内特，德国独立哲学家，曾在汉堡大学攻读哲学。她编辑并评论康德的宗教著作，针对18世纪反犹太主义的历史进行撰述，同时研究国家社会主义哲学和阿道夫·艾希曼。2000年，其“康德哲学中的反犹太主义”相关研究在科隆获颁哲学政治学会（PPA）一等奖。《耶路撒冷之前的艾希曼》荣获北德广播电视台非小说类图书奖。 周全，台大历史系毕业、德国哥廷根大学西洋史硕士及博士候选人，通六国语言，曾旅居欧美20年。译作有《一个德国人的故事》《破解希特勒》《趣味横生的时光》《从俾斯麦到希特勒》《比利牛斯山的城堡》《不含传说的普鲁士》《说谎者雅各》《德意志：一个国家的记忆》等。

A total and groundbreaking reassessment of the life of Adolf Eichmann—a superb work of scholarship that reveals his activities and notoriety among a global network of National Socialists following the collapse of the Third Reich and that permanently challenges Hannah Arendt’s notion of the “banality of evil.” Smuggled out of Europe after the collapse of Germany, Eichmann manage...(展开全部)

Manchu is the most important Tungistic language, a vital resource for all scholars who work on the Altaic language family. This book is the first English-language Manchu textbook in more than a century. It offers students of Chinese history and comparative literature the means to master documentary Manchu and will prove useful for those interested in the various branches of l...(展开全部)

In the modern era, the archive--official or personal--has become the most significant means by which historical knowledge and memory are collected, stored, and recovered. The archive has thus emerged as a key site of inquiry in such fields as anthropology, critical theory, history, and, especially, recent art. Traces and testimonies of such events as World War II and ensuing co...(展开全部)