罗伯特·斯基德尔斯基1934年7月19日出生在中国哈尔滨一个俄籍犹太富商家庭，婴儿时就同父母一起被日本关东军拘押在日本一年。战后由于无法拿回在哈尔滨的巨大家产，移居英国，六十多年后才重新访问幼时的故园(2005年9月曾来华讲学). 他的《凯恩斯传》使他成为“20世纪最伟大的传记作家之一”，享誉国际学术界，并被英国女王封为勋爵。这本积三十年功力的著作只有一个中心思想：经济学不是“科学”，而是伦理学的一种应用，经济学家首先应该具有文化和道德观。

Spacious and affordable homes used to be the hallmark of American prosperity. Today, however, punishing rents and the increasingly prohibitive cost of ownership have turned housing into the foremost symbol of inequality and an economy gone wrong. Nowhere is this more visible than in the San Francisco Bay Area, where fleets of private buses ferry software engineers past the tarp...(展开全部)

'The loveliest -- and certainly the most human -- book about pop music I've ever read ! A delightful and humane soap opera, a real page-turner, full of rounded and entirely recognisable characters.' Jon Ronson, Daily Telegraph THE DEFINITIVE HISTORY OF BRITPOP -- BLUR, OASIS, ELASTICA, SUEDE & TONY BLAIR Beginning in 1994 and closing in the first months of 1998, the UK passe...(展开全部)

An international bestseller and the novel of the year, 'Freedom' is an epic of contemporary love and marriage. This is the story of the Berglunds, their son Joey, their daughter Jessica and their friend Richard Katz. It is about how we use and abuse our freedom; about the beginning and ending of love; teenage lust; the unexpectedness of adult life; why we compete with our frien...(展开全部)

From Cutie Honey and Sailor Moon to Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind, the worlds of Japanese anime and manga teem with prepubescent girls toting deadly weapons. Sometimes overtly sexual, always intensely cute, the beautiful fighting girl has been both hailed as a feminist icon and condemned as a symptom of the objectification of young women in Japanese society. In Beautiful F...(展开全部)

柏娜黛．麥當勞Bernadette McDonald 知名加拿大山岳文學作家，亦為登山家、電影製作人、策展人。她是班夫藝術與文化中心創始副總裁，班夫山岳影展總監，也是班夫山岳書展的創辦總監。她的著作豐富，包括：《繩索兄弟：查爾斯．休士頓傳》（Brotherhood of the Rope：The Biography of Charles Houston）、《我在加德滿都打電話給你：伊莉莎白．賀蕾的故事》（I’ll Call You in Katmandu: The Elizabeth Hawley Story）等，亦贏得無數獎項，包括義大利的伊塔斯山岳寫作獎（ITAS Prize for Mountain Writing）、印度的刻苦．奈洛基山岳文學獎（Kekoo Naoroji Award for Mountain Literature）；也曾獲頒...(展开全部)

柏娜黛．麥當勞Bernadette McDonald 知名加拿大山岳文學作家，亦為登山家、電影製作人、策展人。她是班夫藝術與文化中心創始副總裁，班夫山岳影展總監，也是班夫山岳書展的創辦總監。她的著作豐富，包括：《繩索兄弟：查爾斯．休士頓傳》（Brotherhood of the Rope：The Biography of Charles Houston）、《我在加德滿都打電話給你：伊莉莎白．賀蕾的故事》（I’ll Call You in Katmandu: The Elizabeth Hawley Story）等，亦贏得無數獎項，包括義大利的伊塔斯山岳寫作獎（ITAS Prize for Mountain Writing）、印度的刻苦．奈洛基山岳文學獎（Kekoo Naoroji Award for Mountain Literature）；也曾獲頒...(展开全部)

Between 1980 and 1989, Polish climbers were giant, world-wide leaders as high-altitude climbers, especially in the Himalayas. This volume documents those charismatic leaders and their iconic climbs in a defining chapter of Himalayan climbing history. The book tells the story of a group of extraordinary Polish adventurers who emerged from under the blanket of oppression followin...(展开全部)

丹尼尔•丹内特（Daniel C.Dennett），哲学家、认知科学家，塔夫茨大学教授兼认知研究中心主任。专注于心智哲学和生物学哲学，尤其是意志、自由意志和泛进化论等主题。 著有《头脑风暴》(Brain Storm，1978)，《活动余地》(Elbow Room，1984)，《意向立场》(The Intentional Stance，1987)，《意识的解释》(Consciousness Explained，1991)，《达尔文的危险观念》(Darwin’s Dangerous Idea，1995，获美国国家图书奖和普利策奖提名)，《心智种种》(Kinds of Minds，1996)等。