《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…

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An unusual and authoritative 'natural history of languages' that narrates the ways in which one language has superseded or outlasted another at different times in history.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)

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)

Today both reality and entertainment crowd our fields of vision with brutal imagery. The pervasiveness of images of torture, horror, and war has all but demolished the twentieth-century hope that such imagery might shock us into a less alienated state, or aid in the creation of a just social order. What to do now? When to look, when to turn away? Genre-busting author Maggie Nel...(展开全部)

Born out of violence and the aspirations of its early settlers, the United States of America has become one of the world's most powerful nations. The book begins in colonial America as the first Europeans arrived, lured by the promise of financial profit, driven by religious piety and accompanied by diseases which would ravage the native populations. It explores the tensions in...(展开全部)

Born out of violence and the aspirations of its early settlers, the United States of America has become one of the world's most powerful nations. The book begins in colonial America as the first Europeans arrived, lured by the promise of financial profit, driven by religious piety and accompanied by diseases which would ravage the native populations. It explores the tensions in...(展开全部)

理查德•罗斯坦（Richard Rothstein） 美国历史学家、学者，美国经济政策研究所副研究员、全美有色人种协进会法律辩护基金会瑟古德•马歇尔研究所名誉高级研究员、加利福尼亚大学伯克利分校法学院哈斯研究所高级研究员。曾于1999—2002年间担任《纽约时报》国民教育专栏作家。 罗斯坦的学术研究重点是美国住房政策和教育领域的种族隔离史，曾广泛发表以种族平等和教育为主题的演讲。已出版《我们曾走之路：美国学生成绩的假与真》《阶级与学校：以社会、经济和教育改革缩小“黑”“白”学生之成绩差距》《评分制教育：取得问责权》等多部著作，最新力作《法律的颜色：一段被遗忘的美国政府种族隔离史》于2017年入围美国国家图书奖非虚构类长名单。

In this groundbreaking history of the modern American metropolis, Richard Rothstein, a leading authority on housing policy, explodes the myth that America’s cities came to be racially divided through de facto segregation―that is, through individual prejudices, income differences, or the actions of private institutions like banks and real estate agencies. Rather, The Color of La...(展开全部)