On 16 May 1940 an emergency meeting of the French High Command was called at the Quai d'Orsay in Paris. The German army had broken through the French lines on the River Meuse at Sedan and elsewhere, only five days after launching their attack. Churchill, who had been telephoned by Prime Minister Reynaud the previous evening to be told that the French were beaten, rushed to Pari...(展开全部)

[英]朱利安·杰克逊（Julian Jackson） 伦敦大学历史学教授，英国科学院和皇家历史学会院士，法国史研究权威。凭借《法兰西的陷落》一书获得2004年历史学殿堂级奖项——沃尔夫森奖。

作者伊斯玛伊尔·卡达莱（Ismail Kadare），阿尔巴尼亚当代著名作家、诗人。1936年卡达莱生于阿尔巴尼亚南部城市纪诺卡斯特。1954年他以诗集《青春的热忱》初登文坛，此后创作了《群山为何沉思》《山鹰高高飞翔》《六十年代》等，在诗坛独领风骚。1963年，他的首部小说《亡军的将领》问世，在法国名声大振。之后创作了《雨鼓》《石头城纪事》《破碎的四月》《梦幻宫殿》《阿伽门农的女儿》等代表作。迄今为止，他的作品共被翻译成40多种文字，并获得了多项国际著名文学奖，包括2005年的首届布克国际文学奖、2009年西班牙阿斯图里亚斯亲王奖、2015年以色列耶路撒冷奖、2019年纽斯塔特国际文学奖等，也是诺贝尔文学奖的热门人选之一。 译者郑恩波，作家、翻译家、记者，辽宁盖州市人，北京大学俄罗斯语言文学系毕业，先后留学阿尔巴尼亚、南斯拉夫，精通阿尔巴尼亚语，并多...(展开全部)

作者伊斯玛伊尔·卡达莱（Ismail Kadare），阿尔巴尼亚当代著名作家、诗人。1936年卡达莱生于阿尔巴尼亚南部城市纪诺卡斯特。1954年他以诗集《青春的热忱》初登文坛，此后创作了《群山为何沉思》《山鹰高高飞翔》《六十年代》等，在诗坛独领风骚。1963年，他的首部小说《亡军的将领》问世，在法国名声大振。之后创作了《雨鼓》《石头城纪事》《破碎的四月》《梦幻宫殿》《阿伽门农的女儿》等代表作。迄今为止，他的作品共被翻译成40多种文字，并获得了多项国际著名文学奖，包括2005年的首届布克国际文学奖、2009年西班牙阿斯图里亚斯亲王奖、2015年以色列耶路撒冷奖、2019年纽斯塔特国际文学奖等，也是诺贝尔文学奖的热门人选之一。 译者郑恩波，作家、翻译家、记者，辽宁盖州市人，北京大学俄罗斯语言文学系毕业，先后留学阿尔巴尼亚、南斯拉夫，精通阿尔巴尼亚语，并多...(展开全部)

著者简介： 西蒙•克里切利（Simon Critchley） 纽约社会研究新学院哲学教授，洛杉矶盖蒂研究院访问学者。他继承欧陆哲学的研究传统，研究方向涵盖哲学史、政治理论、宗教学、美学等领域，著有《不过如此》（Things Merely Are）与《无尽的索求》（In finitely Demanding）等。 译者简介： 王志超 历史学博士，研究方向为古希腊罗马史。目前任教于山西师范大学历史系。著有《德摩斯梯尼与雅典对外政策》。 黄超 文学硕士，目前任教于天津外国语大学欧洲语言文化学院。

“To philosophize is to learn how to die.” —Cicero; assassinated by order of Mark Antony “One who no longer is cannot suffer.” —Lucretius; suicide, allegedly driven mad by a love potion “Life is solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short.” —Hobbes; died in bed, age 91 In this collection of brief lives (and deaths) of nearly two hundred of the world's greatest thinkers, noted p...(展开全部)

This provides brief accounts of the way the great philosophers of the Western tradition died. It in the course of this provides very incidental and also brief accounts of aspects of their respective philosophies. It does not claim to be a comprehensive scholarly work. In fact Critchley makes the point that the purely academic philosophers especially of the positivist tradition ...(展开全部)

In the midst of the 1980s, an unexplained phenomenon has arisen to terrify the United States. The dead have started coming back to life. As the world grapples with a revival of the Middle Ages ideology of “Memento Mori” (“Remember Death”), a series of bizarre murders occurs in a rural town in New England. In this strange town, a family of funeral directors holds sway over every...(展开全部)

Ernie Zelinski has taught more than 150,000 people what THE JOY OF NOT WORKING is about: learning to live every part of your life—work and play, employment, and retirement alike—to the fullest. In this completely revised and expanded edition, you’ll learn how to create an excellent work/life balance by working less, producing more, and being more leisurely; how to gain the cour...(展开全部)

On May 1, 1915, with WWI entering its tenth month, a luxury ocean liner as richly appointed as an English country house sailed out of New York, bound for Liverpool, carrying a record number of children and infants. The passengers were surprisingly at ease, even though Germany had declared the seas around Britain to be a war zone. For months, German U-boats had brought terror to...(展开全部)