The Green Berets—a legendary corps of soldiers whose exploits made military history. But now, their very identity and role as a fighting force may be forever changed… Until the war in Iraq, Special Forces were the military’s counterinsurgency experts. Their specialty was going behind enemy lines and training insurgent forces. In Afghanistan, they toppled the Taliban by transf...(展开全部)

迈克尔·夏邦（Michael Chabon，1963年—），当代美国作家，被誉为“塞林格接班人”。1963年生于华盛顿特区犹太裔家庭，先后就读于卡内基梅隆大学和匹兹堡大学，并在加州大学欧文分校获得创意写作硕士学位。夏邦集普利策小说奖得主，星云、雨果、轨迹、侧面四项科幻大奖得主，好莱坞编剧于一身，曾任电影《蜘蛛侠2》与《异星战场》的编剧。 首部长篇小说《匹兹堡的秘密》（The Mysteries of Pittsburgh）创下当时新人小说作品预付版税纪录的新高，1988年出版后，在《纽约时报》排行榜上连续停留十二周。1992年，夏邦出版小说集《大千世界》（A Model World and Other Stories），收录了发表于《纽约客》等刊物上的短篇作品。随后《奇迹小子》（Wonder Boys）的出版，确立了夏邦在美国文坛的地位。2000年出...(展开全部)

GENTLEMEN OF THE ROAD is set in the Kingdom of Arran, in the Caucasus Mountains, between the Black Sea and the Caspian Sea, A.D. 950. It tells the tale of two wandering adventurers and unlikely soulmates, variously plying their trades as swords for hire, horse thieves and con artists - until fortune entangles them in the myriad schemes and battles that follow a bloody coup in t...(展开全部)

Now in paperback—the internationally acclaimed novel by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay.

London, 1898. The Victorian Era draws to a close and the twentieth century approaches. It is a time of great change and an age of stagnation, a period of chaste order and ignoble chaos. It is an era in need of champions. In this amazingly imaginative tale, literary figures from throughout time and various bodies of work are brought together to face any and all threats to Britai...(展开全部)

Meet the economic gangster. He's the United Nations diplomat who double-parks his Mercedes on New York City streets at rush hour because the cops can't touch him--he has diplomatic immunity. He's the Chinese smuggler who dodges tariffs by magically transforming frozen chickens into frozen turkeys. The dictator, the warlord, the unscrupulous bureaucrat who bilks the developing w...(展开全部)

Meet the economic gangster. He's the United Nations diplomat who double-parks his Mercedes on New York City streets at rush hour because the cops can't touch him--he has diplomatic immunity. He's the Chinese smuggler who dodges tariffs by magically transforming frozen chickens into frozen turkeys. The dictator, the warlord, the unscrupulous bureaucrat who bilks the developing w...(展开全部)

Demon warrior puppets, sword-wielding Taoist priests, spirit mediums lacerating their bodies with spikes and blades—these are among the most dramatic images in Chinese religion. Usually linked to the propitiation of plague gods and the worship of popular military deities, such ritual practices have an obvious but previously unexamined kinship with the traditional Chinese martia...(展开全部)

Statesmen and Gentlemen is an important study of the way in which, during the twelfth- and thirteenth-centuries, China's ruling meritocracy was transformed into a locally rooted elite whose principal aim was the consolidation of their power, wealth and influence on a local as opposed to a national and dynastic basis. Professor Hymes offers a remarkable picture of the institutio...(展开全部)

【作者介绍】 伊恩·布鲁玛（Ian Buruma），生于荷兰海牙。曾担任《远东经济评论》和《旁观者》杂志记者，为《纽约时报》《新闻周刊》等报刊撰写关于亚洲的政治和文化评论，并曾任教于牛津、哈佛、普林斯顿、格罗宁根等大学。现为《纽约书评》主编、纽约巴德学院保罗·威廉斯教席之民主、人权和新闻学教授。出版的著作有《零年：1945现代世界诞生的时刻》《罪孽的报应：德国和日本的战争记忆》《创造日本：1853—1964》等。2008年被授予“伊拉斯谟奖”以表彰他“在欧洲对文化、社会或社会科学做出的重要贡献”，同年以其卓越的著作帮助美国读者理解亚洲的复杂性而获得“肖伦斯特新闻奖”。2008年和2010年被《外交政策》杂志列入“全球顶尖思想家”。 【译者介绍】 倪韬，1985年出生，毕业于复旦大学国际政治系，法学学士，现从事新闻工作，任英文报纸Shanghai Da...(展开全部)