Long known for her insightful and thought-provoking political journalism, author Elizabeth Kolbert now tackles the controversial and increasingly urgent subject of global warming. In what began as groundbreaking three-part series in the" New Yorker," for which she won a National Magazine Award in 2006, Kolbert cuts through the competing rhetoric and political agendas to elucida...(展开全部)

An argument for the urgent danger of global warming in a book that is sure to be as influential as Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring. Known for her insightful and thought-provoking journalism, New Yorker writer Elizabeth Kolbert now tackles the controversial subject of global warming. Americans have been warned since the late nineteen-seventies that the buildup of carbon dioxide i...(展开全部)

Once in a great while, as the New York Times noted recently, a naturalist writes a book that changes the way people look at the living world. John James Audubon’s Birds of America, published in 1838, was one. Roger Tory Peterson’s 1934 Field Guide to the Birds was another. How does such insight into nature develop? Pioneering a new niche in the study of plants and animals in th...(展开全部)

Revolutions, droughts, famines, invasions, wars, regicides – the calamities of the mid-seventeenth century were not only unprecedented, they were agonisingly widespread. A global crisis extended from England to Japan, and from the Russian Empire to sub-Saharan Africa. North and South America, too, suffered turbulence. The distinguished historian Geoffrey Parker examines first-...(展开全部)

Winner of the coveted China Times Novel Prize, this postmodern, first-person tale of a contemporary Taiwanese gay man reflecting on his life, loves, and intellectual influences is among the most important recent novels in Taiwan. The narrator, Xiao Shao, recollects a series of friends and lovers, as he watches his childhood friend, Ah Yao, succumb to complications from AIDS. ...(展开全部)

杰弗里·帕克（Geoffrey Parker） 历史学家，现任美国俄亥俄州立大学安德烈亚斯·多帕伦欧洲史教授、莫尚国际安全研究中心成员，英国学术院院士，曾获得2012年喜力历史（Heineken Prize for History），2014年凭《全球危机》获得英国学术院奖章（British Academy Medal）。另著有《腓力二世的大战略》《军事革命》《莽撞的国王》《皇帝》等书。

Carolyn Merchant offers a wide-ranging and accessible exploration of the ways science, technology, and the humanities create awareness of human impacts on the environment. Focusing on history, art, literature, religion, philosophy, and ethics, Merchant traces developments in the humanities throughout the Anthropocene era, and their potential impact on sustainability in the futu...(展开全部)

陀思妥耶夫斯基（1821-1881），与大文豪列夫·托尔斯泰、屠格涅夫等人齐名，是俄国文学的卓越代表，他走的是一条极为艰辛、复杂的生活与创作道路，是俄国文学史上最复杂、最矛盾的，作家之一。他的创作独具特色，在群星灿烂的19世纪俄国文坛上独树一帜，占有着十分特殊的地位。主要作品有《穷人》、《被侮辱与被损害的》、《死屋手记》、《罪与罚》、《白痴》、《群魔》、《卡拉马佐夫兄弟》等。

陀思妥耶夫斯基（1821-1881），与大文豪列夫·托尔斯泰、屠格涅夫等人齐名，是俄国文学的卓越代表，他走的是一条极为艰辛、复杂的生活与创作道路，是俄国文学史上最复杂、最矛盾的，作家之一。他的创作独具特色，在群星灿烂的19世纪俄国文坛上独树一帜，占有着十分特殊的地位。主要作品有《穷人》、《被侮辱与被损害的》、《死屋手记》、《罪与罚》、《白痴》、《群魔》、《卡拉马佐夫兄弟》等。

此書是作者九○年代的不列顛獨行回顧。 記錄了作者對於居住在不列顛島上長達二?年的生活點滴。以其風趣幽默的筆調，讓讀者瞭解當地的風俗民情以及其經歷的各種奇特有趣的生活。文中對於人、事、物荒謬面的細膩觀察與生動的刻畫，引得書迷捧腹大笑不已。