Returning to his hotel room after a late-night flirtation with a cabaret dancer at an Istanbul b™ite, Graham is surprised by an intruder with a gun. What follows is a nightmare of intrigue for the English armaments engineer as he makes his way home aboard an Italian freighter. Among the passengers are a couple of Nazi assassins intent on preventing his returning to England with...(展开全部)

加文·德·贝克尔，生长在一个充满暴力的家庭，特殊的经历却练就了他洞察危险的能力。凭借首创的危险预测法，贝克尔三度被美国司法部任命为总统顾问委员会委员，曾担任布什、克林顿和里根总统的安全顾问，还为麦当娜、汤姆·汉克斯等公众人物提供暴力预测服务。贝克尔不仅是危险预测专家，还是杰出的人性大师，他以自己多年研究暴力的经验，剖析出识别危险信号的方法，并致力于将全部心得普及给普通民众，包括如何远离家暴、骚扰、凶杀等侵害。在贝克尔的指导下，很多人得以辨识出身边的危险，并由此获得安全。

There is fear. Fear is never an actuality; it is either before or after the active present. When there is fear in the active present, is it fear? It is there and there is no escape from it, no evasion possible. There, at that actual moment, there is total attention at the moment of danger, physical or psychological. When there is complete attention there is no fear. But t...(展开全部)

Modernity was supposed to be the period in human history when the fears that pervaded social life in the past could be left behind and human beings could at last take control of their lives and tame the uncontrolled forces of the social and natural worlds. And yet, at the dawn of the twenty-first century, we live again in a time of fear. Whether its the fear of natural disaster...(展开全部)

Modernity was supposed to be the period in human history when the fears that pervaded social life in the past could be left behind and human beings could at last take control of their lives and tame the uncontrolled forces of the social and natural worlds. And yet, at the dawn of the twenty-first century, we live again in a time of fear. Whether its the fear of natural disaster...(展开全部)

【作者简介】 基思·罗威（Keith Lowe），全职作家和历史学家，被公认为二战史权威。其作品《火焰地狱：1943年汉堡灭顶之灾》《野蛮大陆》被翻译成20种语言，后者曾荣获赫塞尔-蒂尔特曼历史奖（Hessell-Tiltman Prize for History，2013）和意大利凯拉斯科历史奖（Cherasco History Prize，2015）。他是全世界许多杂志和报纸的撰稿人，经常在英国和美国的电视广播上发表意见。他与家人目前生活在北伦敦。 【译者简介】 朱邦芊，毕业于中国农业大学和多伦多大学，曾主持国家级翻译数据库建设与数据管理。已出版多部中英文译著，中文译著有《性、谋杀及生命的意义》《移动风暴》《最后的十字军东征》等，英文译著《宋辽西夏金社会生活史》（A Social History of Medieval China）已由英国剑桥大...(展开全部)

Bestselling historian Keith Lowe's The Fear and the Freedom looks at the astonishing innovations that sprang from WWII and how they changed the world. The Fear and the Freedom is Keith Lowe's follow-up to Savage Continent. While that book painted a picture of Europe in all its horror as WWII was ending, The Fear and the Freedom looks at all that has happened since, focusing on ...(展开全部)

【作者简介】 基思·罗威（Keith Lowe），全职作家和历史学家，被公认为二战史权威。其作品《火焰地狱：1943年汉堡灭顶之灾》《野蛮大陆》被翻译成20种语言，后者曾荣获赫塞尔-蒂尔特曼历史奖（Hessell-Tiltman Prize for History，2013）和意大利凯拉斯科历史奖（Cherasco History Prize，2015）。他是全世界许多杂志和报纸的撰稿人，经常在英国和美国的电视广播上发表意见。他与家人目前生活在北伦敦。 【译者简介】 朱邦芊，毕业于中国农业大学和多伦多大学，曾主持国家级翻译数据库建设与数据管理。已出版多部中英文译著，中文译著有《性、谋杀及生命的意义》《移动风暴》《最后的十字军东征》等，英文译著《宋辽西夏金社会生活史》（A Social History of Medieval China）已由英国剑桥大...(展开全部)

The photographs by Annie Leibovitz in Women, taken especially for the book, encompass a broad spectrum of subjects: a rap artist, an astronaut, two Supreme Court justices, farmers, coal miners, movie stars, showgirls, rodeo riders, socialites, reporters, dancers, a maid, a general, a surgeon, the First Lady of the United States, the secretary of state, a senator, rock stars, pr...(展开全部)