《黑奴未竟之旅》(How the Word is Passed)从个人家族遭遇谈起，作者克林特·史密斯（Clint Smith）本身是作家兼诗人，从自己的家乡新奥尔良作为起点，带领读者走读一趟令人难忘的旅程，旅程经过新奥尔良的多座碑石、景点，这些遗物的存在诚实地展露过去，述说着一个世代相传的故事，故事的主题——奴隶制，贯穿着黑人运命、潜移默化地留存在整个国家的血液里。 奴隶制的存在持续在美国社会留下一道道伤痕，那些真实存在在南方的种植园、监狱里的事件，形塑成现代美国人的日常，例如纪念奴隶制结束的六月节、充满黑人文化的曼哈顿下城区。在这些看似稀松平常的小事里，隐藏着黑奴被作为物品交易、毫无自由与尊严的悲痛历史，仅管奴隶制度已经废除，但这些伤痛和阴影仍持续往下一个黑人世代烙印着…

《黑奴未竟之旅》(How the Word is Passed)从个人家族遭遇谈起，作者克林特·史密斯（Clint Smith）本身是作家兼诗人，从自己的家乡新奥尔良作为起点，带领读者走读一趟令人难忘的旅程，旅程经过新奥尔良的多座碑石、景点，这些遗物的存在诚实地展露过去，述说着一个世代相传的故事，故事的主题——奴隶制，贯穿着黑人运命、潜移默化地留存在整个国家的血液里。 奴隶制的存在持续在美国社会留下一道道伤痕，那些真实存在在南方的种植园、监狱里的事件，形塑成现代美国人的日常，例如纪念奴隶制结束的六月节、充满黑人文化的曼哈顿下城区。在这些看似稀松平常的小事里，隐藏着黑奴被作为物品交易、毫无自由与尊严的悲痛历史，仅管奴隶制度已经废除，但这些伤痛和阴影仍持续往下一个黑人世代烙印着…

An unusual and authoritative 'natural history of languages' that narrates the ways in which one language has superseded or outlasted another at different times in history. The story of the world in the last five thousand years is above all the story of its languages. Some shared language is what binds any community together, and makes possible both the living of a common histo...(展开全部)

Nicholas Ostler's Empires of the Word is the first history of the world's great tongues, gloriously celebrating the wonder of words that binds communities together and makes possible both the living of a common history and the telling of it. From the uncanny resilience of Chinese through twenty centuries of invasions to the engaging self-regard of Greek and to the struggles t...(展开全部)

Nicholas Ostler's Empires of the Word is the first history of the world's great tongues, gloriously celebrating the wonder of words that binds communities together and makes possible both the living of a common history and the telling of it. From the uncanny resilience of Chinese through twenty centuries of invasions to the engaging self-regard of Greek and to the struggles t...(展开全部)

An unusual and authoritative 'natural history of languages' that narrates the ways in which one language has superseded or outlasted another at different times in history. The story of the world in the last five thousand years is above all the story of its languages. Some shared language is what binds any community together, and makes possible both the living of a common histo...(展开全部)

The definitive history of Asian Americans by one of the nation’s preeminent scholars on the subject. In the past fifty years, Asian Americans have helped change the face of America and are now the fastest growing group in the United States. But as award-winning historian Erika Lee reminds us, Asian Americans also have deep roots in the country. The Making of Asian America tells...(展开全部)

A “comprehensive…fascinating” (The New York Times Book Review) history of Asian Americans and their role in American life, by one of the nation’s preeminent scholars on the subject. In the past fifty years, Asian Americans have helped change the face of America and are now the fastest growing group in the United States. But much of their long history has been forgotten. “In her...(展开全部)

SHE PLANNED HER OWN FUNERAL. BUT DID SHE ARRANGE HER OWN MURDER?New York Times bestselling author of Magpie Murders and Moriarty, Anthony Horowitz has yet again brilliantly reinvented the classic crime novel, this time writing a fictional version of himself as the Watson to a modern-day Holmes.One bright spring morning in London, Diana Cowper – the wealthy mother of a famous ac...(展开全部)

One bright spring morning in London, Diana Cowper – the wealthy mother of a famous actor - enters a funeral parlor. She is there to plan her own service. Six hours later she is found dead, strangled with a curtain cord in her own home. Enter disgraced police detective Daniel Hawthorne, a brilliant, eccentric investigator who’s as quick with an insult as he is to crack a case. H...(展开全部)