One of the most feared weapons of World War II, the Tiger tank was a beast of a machine which dominated the battlefields of Europe with its astonishing size, speed and firepower. It continues to fascinate more than 70 years after it was first designed, and a comprehensive, illustrated history such as this is long overdue. Revealing its design and development history, Thomas And...(展开全部)

Claudia Hampton, a beautiful, famous writer, lies dying in hospital. But, as the nurses tend to her with quiet condescension, she is plotting her greatest work: a history of the world and in the process, my own'. Gradually she re-creates the rich mosaic of her life and times, conjuring up those she has known. There is Gordon, her adored brother; Jasper, the charming, untrustwor...(展开全部)

Als Kind immer wieder sexueller Gewalt ausgesetzt, erzählt Neige Sinno von einem Familienleben, das um Lügen und Täuschungen herum gebaut ist. Und von den vielen Facetten von Erinnerung, den vielen Gesichtern eines Menschen in Ungeheuerlichkeit und Banalität. Wie werden wir zu denen, die wir sind? Kommt vor Gericht zur Sprache, was in Familien ungesagt bleibt?

Sad Tiger is built on the facts of a series of devastating events. Neige Sinno was 7 years old when her stepfather started sexually abusing her and at 14 or 15 the abuse stopped. At 19, she decided to break the silence that is so common in all cultures around sexual violence. This led to a public trial and prison for her stepfather and Sinno started a new life in Mexico. Throug...(展开全部)

Claudia Hampton, a beautiful, famous writer, lies dying in hospital. But, as the nurses tend to her with quiet condescension, she is plotting her greatest work: a history of the world and in the process, my own'. Gradually she re-creates the rich mosaic of her life and times, conjuring up those she has known. There is Gordon, her adored brother; Jasper, the charming, untrustwor...(展开全部)

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)