Don and Mimi Galvin seemed to be living the American dream. After World War II, Don's work with the Air Force brought them to Colorado, where their twelve children perfectly spanned the baby boom: the oldest born in 1945, the youngest in 1965. In those years, there was an established script for a family like the Galvins--aspiration, hard work, upward mobility, domestic harmony-...(展开全部)

罗伯特·科尔克（Robert Kolker） 畅销书作家、调查记者，深度报道作品见于《彭博商业周刊》《连线》《纽约时报杂志》等著名媒体。他的调查报道曾获哈里·弗兰克基金会2011年度刑事司法杰出报道奖，另有作品获美国全国杂志奖提名。 由于其调查记者的背景，科尔克的作品擅长营造悬疑感并以人性化的叙事方式打动读者。2020年，他的长篇报道《坏校监》被美国精品电视电影频道HBO改编为电影《坏教育》并获得数十项奖项和提名。他的非虚构类作品《失踪的女孩：一桩仍未解开的美国迷案》在出版后获得各界一致好评，入选《时代》周刊“有史以来最出色的真实犯罪题材图书”书单和《纽约时报》“年度100本值得关注的图书”书单，并在2020年被著名流媒体网飞改编为同名电影。

The heartrending story of a midcentury American family with twelve children, six of them diagnosed with schizophrenia, that became science's great hope in the quest to understand the disease. Don and Mimi Galvin seemed to be living the American dream. After World War II, Don's work with the Air Force brought them to Colorado, where their twelve children perfectly spanned the ba...(展开全部)

The heartrending story of a midcentury American family with twelve children, six of them diagnosed with schizophrenia, that became science's great hope in the quest to understand the disease. Don and Mimi Galvin seemed to be living the American dream. After World War II, Don's work with the Air Force brought them to Colorado, where their twelve children perfectly spanned the ba...(展开全部)

罗伯特·科尔克（Robert Kolker） 畅销书作家、调查记者，深度报道作品见于《彭博商业周刊》《连线》《纽约时报杂志》等著名媒体。他的调查报道曾获哈里·弗兰克基金会2011年度刑事司法杰出报道奖，另有作品获美国全国杂志奖提名。 由于其调查记者的背景，科尔克的作品擅长营造悬疑感并以人性化的叙事方式打动读者。2020年，他的长篇报道《坏校监》被美国精品电视电影频道HBO改编为电影《坏教育》并获得数十项奖项和提名。他的非虚构类作品《失踪的女孩：一桩仍未解开的美国迷案》在出版后获得各界一致好评，入选《时代》周刊“有史以来最出色的真实犯罪题材图书”书单和《纽约时报》“年度100本值得关注的图书”书单，并在2020年被著名流媒体网飞改编为同名电影。

Don and Mimi Galvin seemed to be living the American dream. After World War II, Don's work with the Air Force brought them to Colorado, where their twelve children perfectly spanned the baby boom: the oldest born in 1945, the youngest in 1965. In those years, there was an established script for a family like the Galvins--aspiration, hard work, upward mobility, domestic harmony-...(展开全部)

This "bold...extraordinary...blockbuster..." (Newsweek magazine) begins with a birth in an African village in 1750, and ends two centuries later at a funeral in Arkansas. And in that time span, an unforgettable cast of men, women, and children come to life, many of them based on the people from Alex Haley's own family tree. When Alex Haley was a boy growing up in Tennessee, his...(展开全部)

Nikita Khrushchev was a leader who risked war to get peace during the most dangerous years of the twentieth century. In "Khrushchev's Cold War", Aleksandr Fursenko and Timothy Naftali, authors of the Cuban missile crisis classic "One Hell of a Gamble", bring to life head-to-head confrontations between Khrushchev and Presidents Eisenhower and Kennedy. Drawing from their unrivall...(展开全部)

“Contains unsettling insights into some of the most dangerous geopolitical crises of the time.”— The Economist This acclaimed study from the authors of “One Hell of a Gamble” brings to life head-to-head confrontations between the Soviet premier Nikita Khrushchev and Presidents Eisenhower and Kennedy. Dra...(展开全部)

From Publishers Weekly This revised edition of a 1984 study is long on assertion and short on evidence. Dr. Samenow, a clinical psychologist, is legitimately disdainful of explanations of criminal behavior that blame everyone (society, family, violent television, etc.) but the criminal for his actions, but his counter-arguments will persuade few. He makes frequent sweeping gene...(展开全部)