A woman investigates the mysterious death of her mother in Santa Fe in this New York Times bestseller by a ';master of suspense' (Mary Higgins Clark). Between jobs and relationships, Manhattan illust

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艾伦•麦克法兰（Alan Macfarlane, 1941— ） 英国历史学家、人类学家，剑桥大学国王学院终身院士，英国皇家历史学会院士，皇家人类学会院士，英国科学院欧洲科学院院士。他1941年出生于印度，在英国受教育，先后在牛津大学、伦敦政治经济学院（LSE）和伦敦大学东方和非洲研究学院（SOAS）学习历史和人类学，获博士学位。麦克法兰在喜马拉雅山区(尼泊尔和阿萨姆)有30年田野经验。他还是著名电视节目制作人，在著名的“第四频道”、“世界起飞的那一天”系列节目担任专家顾问。 麦克法兰关注现代世界诸起源及特性之比较研究，研究对象覆盖西欧、喜马拉雅地区和日本等三大文化区域。著有关于英国、尼泊尔、日本及中国人类学及历史研究专著20余部，被翻译成法文、德文、西班牙文、日文、韩文、中文等多种文字在数十个国家出版。包括《英国个人主义的起源》《玻璃的世界》《给莉...(展开全部)

With "House of Glass", the fourth volume in the Buru Quartet, Indonesian writer and dissident Pramoedya Ananta Toer concludes his epic of Indonesian nationhood. Here, the story of Minke, the talented, bold, and imaginative native leader, told in the preceding books--"This Earth of Mankind, Child of All Nations", and "Footsteps"--takes a dramatic new form.

No play in the modern theatre has so captured the imagination and heart of the American public as Tennessee Williams's The Glass Menagerie. Menagerie was Williams's first popular success and launched the brilliant, if somewhat controversial, career of our pre-eminent lyric playwright. Since its premiere in Chicago in 1944, with the legendary Laurette Taylor in the role of Amand...(展开全部)

Paul Madvig was a cheerfully corrupt ward-heeler who aspired to something better: the daughter of Senator Ralph Bancroft Henry, the heiress to a dynasty of political purebreds. Did he want her badly enough to commit murder? And if Madvig was innocent, which of his dozens of enemies was doing an awfully good job of framing him? Dashiell Hammett's tour de force of detective ficti...(展开全部)

A story about difference, exclusion, and ultimately self-acceptance, Child of Glass explores the interplay between inner and outer and the journey we have to go on to become ourselves. Child of Glass is about Gisele, a fragile, strong, transparent girl who denounces the meanness that can mark life in the world. In sparse, poetic language that all of us, however young or old, ca...(展开全部)

Abandoned by her husband, Amanda Wingfield comforts herself with recollections of her earlier, more gracious life in Blue Mountain when she was pursued by 'gentleman callers'. Her son Tom, a poet with a job in a warehouse, longs for adventure and escape from his mother's suffocating embrace, while Laura, her shy crippled daughter, has her glass menagerie and her memories. Amand...(展开全部)

The Mask of Sanity is a book written by Hervey Cleckley, M.D., first published in 1941, describing the clinical interviews of Cleckley with incarcerated psychopaths. It is considered a seminal work and the most influential clinical description of psychopathy in the 20th century. The basic elements of psychopathy outlined by Cleckley are still relevant today.[1] The title refers...(展开全部)

高木彬光Takagi Akimitsu 日本推理小说大师，和横沟正史被并称为“本格推理的巅峰”。 高木彬光一九二〇年九月二十五日出生于青森县青森市一个世代行医的家庭，幼时母亲去世。毕业于京都帝国大学工学部冶金科，后进入中岛飞机公司工作，日本战败后因公司倒闭而失业。 一九四八年，高木彬光发表了推理处女作《刺青杀人事件》，得到江户川乱步赏识，开始了作为职业作家的创作之路。一九五〇年创作的《能面杀人事件》获得了第三届日本推理作家俱乐部奖，一举奠定了其本格推理大师的地位。其后陆续创作了《诅咒之家》、《人偶为何被杀》、《成吉思汗的秘密》、《邪马台国的秘密》等本格推理小说。这些作品至今依然雄踞日本各大本格推理小说榜单前列。高木彬光着力塑造的主人公神津恭介，也成为和横沟正史笔下的金田一耕助齐名的“日本本格推理两大名侦探”。高木彬光后期创作风格有所转变，在注重本格性...(展开全部)