Alexis de Tocqueville, a young aristocratic French lawyer, came to the United States in 1831 to study its penitentiary systems. His nine-month visit and subsequent reading and reflection resulted in Democracy in America (1835–40), a landmark masterpiece of political observation and analysis. Tocqueville vividly describes the unprecedented social equality he found in America a...(展开全部)

布莱森是英国国宝级作家，著名非虚构作家，英国皇家学会荣誉院士，詹姆斯·乔伊斯奖、塞缪尔·约翰逊奖等多个文学奖获得者。 他曾任英国杜伦大学校长，取得两所大学的文学博士学位、九所英国知名大学的荣誉博士学位。早年曾供职于《泰晤士报》《独立报》，同时也为《纽约时报》《国家地理杂志》等撰文。 他尤其擅长人文历史、科普、游记类的写作，代表作有 《万物简史》《人体简史》 等。其中，科普巨著《万物简史》全球销量超千万册，简体中文版销量破百万册；中文版《人体简史》荣获2021年第十六届文津图书奖。

Alexis de Tocqueville (1805-59) came to America in 1831 to see what a great republic was like. What struck him most was the country's equality of conditions, its democracy. The book he wrote on his return to France, Democracy in America, is both the best ever written on democracy and the best ever written on America. It remains the most often quoted book about the United States...(展开全部)

在线阅读本书 Fascimile Edition of Tintin's Travel to America.

Alexis de Tocqueville, a young aristocratic French lawyer, came to the United States in 1831 to study its penitentiary systems. His nine-month visit and subsequent reading and reflection resulted in Democracy in America (1835–40), a landmark masterpiece of political observation and analysis. Tocqueville vividly describes the unprecedented social equality he found in America a...(展开全部)

A groundbreaking, urgent report from the front lines of "dirty work"―the work that society considers essential but morally compromised Drone pilots who carry out targeted assassinations. Undocumented immigrants who man the “kill floors” of industrial slaughterhouses. Guards who patrol the wards of the United States’ most violent and abusive prisons. In Dirty Work, Eyal Press of...(展开全部)

Over the past half-century, think tanks have become fixtures of American politics, supplying advice to presidents and policymakers, expert testimony on Capitol Hill, and convenient facts and figures to journalists and media specialists. But what are think tanks? Who funds them? What kind of "research" do they produce? Where does their authority come from? And how did they becom...(展开全部)

A novel which is both playful and serious, hilarious and melancholy. It takes a journey which starts at the foot of the Benjamin Franklin statue in Washington Square, San Francisco, and wanders through the wonders of America's rural waterways.

▼作者简介 理查德•布劳提根 Richard Gary Brautigan 美国诗人、小说家、后垮掉派代表作家。他的作品中大量充斥着戏仿、讽喻与黑色幽默，小说代表作为《在美国钓鳟鱼》（1967）与《在西瓜糖中》（1968），诗歌代表作为《搁大理石茶》（1959）《避孕药与春山矿难》（1968）。他最初以诗歌创作登上文坛，第一本诗集出版于1957年，其后曾参加过“垮掉派”的活动，其后凭借着《在美国钓鳟鱼》的出版名声大噪，嬉皮士一度奉他为偶像，将其视为“爱之夏”运动的代言人。1984年，布劳提根于加州家中自杀身亡。 ▼译者简介 ☆ 陈汐 1992年生于浙江建德，先后就读于复旦大学翻译系、香港中文大学翻译系，主编并出版有诗文集《在复旦写诗》。 ☆ 肖水 1980 年生于湖南郴州，先后就读于复旦大学法学院、中文系，出版诗集《失物认领》《中文课》《艾草：新绝句...(展开全部)