Beginning with a discussion of familiar images of the French Revolution, garnered from Dickens, Baroness Orczy, and Tolstoy, as well as the legends of let them eat cake, and tricolours, Doyle leads the reader to the realization that we are still living with developments and consequences of the French Revolution such as decimalization, and the whole ideology of human rights. Co...(展开全部)

Beginning with a discussion of familiar images of the French Revolution, garnered from Dickens, Baroness Orczy, and Tolstoy, as well as the legends of let them eat cake, and tricolours, Doyle leads the reader to the realization that we are still living with developments and consequences of the French Revolution such as decimalization, and the whole ideology of human rights. Co...(展开全部)

The sixteenth and seventeenth centuries witnessed such fervent investigations of the natural world that the period has been called the 'Scientific Revolution.' New ideas and discoveries not only redefined what human beings believed, knew, and could do, but also forced them to redefine themselves with respect to the strange new worlds revealed by ships and scalpels, telescopes a...(展开全部)

威廉•多伊尔 英国布里斯托大学历史学教授，英国社会科学院院士。著有《欧洲的旧秩序：1660－1800》（第2版，1992）、《法国大革命的起源》（第3版，1999）、《旧制度下的法国》（2001）、《牛津法国大革命史》（第2版，2002）、《贵族及其大革命时期的敌人》（2009）等。

No book has captured the magic and sense of possibility of the first snowfall better than The Snowy Day. Universal in its appeal, the story has become a favorite of millions, as it reveals a child's wonder at a new world, and the hope of capturing and keeping that wonder forever.

No book has captured the magic and sense of possibility of the first snowfall better than The Snowy Day. Universal in its appeal, the story has become a favorite of millions, as it reveals a child's wonder at a new world, and the hope of capturing and keeping that wonder forever.

When Nicki loses the mitten that his grandmother had knitted for him, the woodland animals find it and crawl inside, each one larger than the last, but as the mitten stretches and grows, grandmother's knitting holds fast, until a tiny mouse proves to be too much.

恩里克·维拉-马塔斯，1948年出生于巴塞罗那，西班牙当代著名作家。佛朗哥时期曾被迫流亡法国。1973年，发表第一篇小说《镜前看风景的女人》。自此笔耕不辍，主要作品有《受启发的女凶手》（1977）、《便携式文学掠影》（1985）、《自杀典范》（1991）、《编造的回忆》（1994）、《奇特的生活方式》（1997）、《垂直之旅》（2000）、《巴特比和同伴》（2001）、《蒙塔诺的烦恼》（2002）、《巴黎永无止境》（2003）、《帕萨温托医生》（2005）等。此外还有散文集若干，如《最慢的旅行者》（1992）等。其作品倍受评论界关注，被译为法、英、德、意、俄、中、日等20多种语言，曾获得过委内瑞拉罗慕洛•加拉戈斯奖（2001）、法国梅迪西外国小说奖（2003）、西班牙文学批评奖（2003）等多项重要国际奖项。

Today we live in a world that can no longer be read as a two-dimensional map, but must now be understood as a series of vertical strata that reach from the satellites that encircle our planet to the tunnels deep within the ground. In Vertical, Stephen Graham rewrites the city at every level: how the geography of inequality, politics, and identity is determined in terms of above...(展开全部)

A decade ago, fourteen-year-old Suzanne Lombard, the daughter of Benjamin Lombard—then a senator, now a powerful vice president running for the presidency—disappeared in the most sensational missing-person case in the nation’s history. Still unsolved, the mystery remains a national obsession. For legendary hacker and marine Gibson Vaughn, the case is personal—Suzanne Lombard ha...(展开全部)