The Marquis de Custine's record of his trip to Russia in 1839 is a brilliantly perceptive, even prophetic, account of one of the world's most fascinating and troubled countries. It is also a wonderful piece of travel writing. Custine, who met with people in all walks of life, including the Czar himself, offers vivid descriptions of St. Petersburg and Moscow, of life at court an...(展开全部)

The Witch is dead. And the discovery of her corpse - by a group of children playing near the irrigation canals - propels the whole village into an investigation of how and why this murder occurred. Rumours and suspicions spread. As the novel unfolds in a dazzling linguistic torrent, with each unreliable narrator lingering on new details, new acts of depravity or brutality, Fern...(展开全部)

The Witch is dead. And the discovery of her corpse—by a group of children playing near the irrigation canals—propels the whole village into an investigation of how and why this murder occurred. Rumors and suspicions spread. As the novel unfolds in a dazzling linguistic torrent, with each unreliable narrator lingering on new details, new acts of depravity or brutality, Melchor e...(展开全部)

Inspired by a real event of the murder of a woman in rural Mexico, Hurricane Season takes place in a world filled with superstitions and violence-violence that poisons everything around. The Witch is dead. After a group of children playing in the murky waters of the irrigation canals discover her decomposing corpse, the village is rife with rumours and suspicions about the murd...(展开全部)

The Witch is dead. And the discovery of her corpse—by a group of children playing near the irrigation canals—propels the whole village into an investigation of how and why this murder occurred. Rumors and suspicions spread. As the novel unfolds in a dazzling linguistic torrent, with each unreliable narrator lingering on new details, new acts of depravity or brutality, Melchor e...(展开全部)

The Witch is dead. And the discovery of her corpse - by a group of children playing near the irrigation canals - propels the whole village into an investigation of how and why this murder occurred. Rumours and suspicions spread. As the novel unfolds in a dazzling linguistic torrent, with each unreliable narrator lingering on new details, new acts of depravity or brutality, Fern...(展开全部)

When Marines enter an abandoned house in Fallujah, Iraq, and hear a suspicious noise, they clench their weapons, edge around the corner, and prepare to open fire. What they find during the U.S.-led attack on the "most dangerous city on Earth" in late 2004, however, is not an insurgent but a puppy left behind when most of the city's residents fled. Despite military law forbiddin...(展开全部)

杰伊·科普曼是美国海军陆战队的一名上尉，他现在驻扎在加利福尼亚州欧申赛德市的潘德顿基地。杰伊和他的妻子、继子、两只狗（拉瓦和科达）、一只名叫“切达奶酪”的猫一起住在加州拉霍亚。杰伊是一个很有竞争力的自行车手。他妻子是一名人类学者，他们俩都是冲浪运动爱好者。 梅林达·罗斯是一名记者，《和狗交谈的人》一书的作者。

威廉·齐默尔曼（William Zimmerman），密歇根大学安娜堡分校政治学名誉教授、社会研究所名誉研究教授。主要研究方向包括两大主题：俄罗斯对市场、民主和外交政策的态度之间的联系，主要基于美国的数据，研究精英和大众对俄罗斯外交政策的影响；俄罗斯过去如何是，或将来如何成为一个“正常”的国家，通过关于苏联政体性质的文献，重新检视这一问题，并评估后苏联时期的转型，将当代俄罗斯置于历史比较中进行研究。著述包括《俄罗斯人和外交政策：俄罗斯精英和大众视角（1993—2000）》《国际关系的苏联视角（1956—1967）》《南斯拉夫政治与文化》等。

Racism, extremism, anti-democratic sentiment – our increasingly polarized world is dominated by a type of thinking that doubts others’ positions but never its own.In a powerful challenge to fundamentalism in all its forms, Carolin Emcke, one of Germany’s leading intellectuals, argues that we can only preserve individual freedom and protect people’s rights by cherishing and cele...(展开全部)