The humming noise of the automatic elevator stopped and the hall porter glanced idly toward the bronze doors. Twenty minutes later, when no one had emerged, the porter became uneasy and forced the doors open. Inside he found Sir Ernest Tallant, dead! Shot through the heart in a hermetically sealed elevator! It looked like the perfect crime - until Dr. Horatio Glass, in his blun...(展开全部)

露丝·斯科尔（Ruth Scurr），1971年生，曾在牛津大学和剑桥大学求学，获剑桥大学政治学博士学位，现在剑桥大学讲授政治学和历史学课程。她还是一位出色的文化批评家，是《纽约书评》《泰晤士报文学副刊》撰稿人。本书一经出版即得到知识界关注，引起热烈反响。

Robespierre was only 36 when he died, sent to the guillotine where he had sent thousands ahead of him. Only a few months before, this pale and fragile man, formal, anxious to the point of paranoia, steeled by deep-held principles, had held centre place in the new Festival of the Supreme Being, wearing his sky-blue coat and decreeing a new religion for France. Robespierre and th...(展开全部)

At Harvard, tenure decisions are a matter of life -- or death. For Dennis Gossen, the economics department whiz kid currently being considered for tenure, it's definitely death. When he's turned down by the high-and-mighty Promotion and Tenure Committee, Gossen commits suicide. A Question of Cost Accounting... Or does he? It's hard to imagine why a young man with a brilliant sc...(展开全部)

The humming noise of the automatic elevator stopped and the hall porter glanced idly toward the bronze doors. Twenty minutes later, when no one had emerged, the porter became uneasy and forced the doors open. Inside he found Sir Ernest Tallant, dead! Shot through the heart in a hermetically sealed elevator! It looked like the perfect crime - until Dr. Horatio Glass, in his blun...(展开全部)

让·波德里亚（Jean Baudrillard，1929—2007），法国哲学家、社会学家、后现代理论家。先后任教于巴黎十大和巴黎九大，撰写了一系列分析当代社会文化现象、批判当代资本主义的著作，产生了广泛的世界性影响。其代表作主要有《物体系》《消费社会》《生产之镜》《象征交换与死亡》《论诱惑》《美国》《完美的罪行》及系列随笔《冷记忆》等。

In his National Book Award-winning novel Augustus, John Williams uncovered the secrets of ancient Rome. With Butcher's Crossing, his fiercely intelligent, beautifully written western, Williams dismantles the myths of modern America. It is the 1870s, and Will Andrews, and#64257;red up by Emerson to seek "an original relation to nature," drops out of Harvard and heads west. He wa...(展开全部)

约翰•威廉斯（John Williams，1922-1994） 美国作家、诗人、学者。辍过学，当过电台播音，从过军。退役后入大学就读并获博士学位，于1954-1985年间在母校丹佛大学教授大学英语及创意写作。曾编选《文艺复兴时期的英语诗歌》，也创作过两本诗集。一生只写了四部小说：《惟有黑夜》（1948）、《屠夫十字镇》（1960）、《斯通纳》（1965）、《奥古斯都》（1973，本书获得当年美国国家图书奖）。 对约翰•威廉斯的写作，英国作家朱利安•巴恩斯评论：“当我称之为‘绝佳’，我的意思是它们（《屠夫十字镇》《斯通纳》）已经超越了各自类型范围内的评价标准。”

In his National Book Award winning novel Augustus, John Williams uncovered the secrets of ancient Rome. With Butcher's Crossing, his fiercely intelligent, beautifully written western, Williams dismantles the myths of modern America. It is the 1870s, and Will Andrews, fired up by Emerson to seek ''an original relation to nature,'' drops out of Harvard and heads west. He washes u...(展开全部)

Six months after the Declaration of Independence, the American Revolution was all but lost. A powerful British force had routed the Americans at New York, occupied three colonies, and advanced within sight of Philadelphia. Yet, as David Hackett Fischer recounts in this riveting history, George Washington--and many other Americans--refused to let the Revolution die. On Christmas...(展开全部)