A lavish look at the real world--both the secret history and the behind-the-scenes drama--of the spellbinding Emmy Award-winning Masterpiece TV series "Downton Abbey""" "April 1912. The sun is rising behind Downton Abbey, a great and splendid house in a great and splendid park. So secure does it appear that it seems as if the way it represents will last for another thousand yea...(展开全部)

A lavish look at the real world--both the secret history and the behind-the-scenes drama--of the spellbinding Emmy Award-winning Masterpiece TV series Downton Abbey April 1912. The sun is rising behind Downton Abbey, a great and splendid house in a great and splendid park. So secure does it appear that it seems as if the way it represents will last for another thousand years. ...(展开全部)

Downton Abbey has captured the imagination of the nation. Written by Oscar-winning writer Julian Fellowes the show has become the benchmark for quality drama, and a commentary on all things British. Downton Abbey portrays a world of elegance and decadence, a world of duty and obedience and a world of romance and rivalry: this companion book, full of rich historical detail, take...(展开全部)

康拉德•M. 阿伦斯伯格（Conrad M. Arensberg），著名美国人类学家。他为20世纪30至40年代人类学研究对象的转型——从所谓原始社会的初民群体到包括西方现代复杂社会的人群——做出了实践上和理论上的开创性贡献。同时，他也是应用人类学最早的倡导者和组织者之一。阿伦斯伯格1945-1946年当选美国应用人类学学会主席。1991年获该学会马林诺夫斯基奖。1980年当选美国人类学学会主席。 乐梅，人类学博士、博士后，在联合国世界粮食计划署工作多年。

丹尼洛·契斯（Danilo Kiš，1935—1989） 二十世纪南斯拉夫最重要的作家。契斯出生于南斯拉夫的苏博蒂察市，“二战”期间，他的父亲在纳粹集中营遇害，母亲带着他和姐姐逃难到黑山，直到战争结束才回到南斯拉夫。他在贝尔格莱德大学比较文学系毕业后开始文学生涯，作品有《花园，灰烬》《沙漏》《达维多维奇之墓》《死亡百科全书》等，曾获得塞尔维亚NIN 文学奖、美国布鲁诺·舒尔茨奖等诸多文学奖项,并被授予法国文学艺术骑士勋章。他的作品虽受到国际瞩目，在本国出版时却常引起奇特的骚动：《达维多维奇之墓》被诬蔑抄袭了索尔仁尼琴、乔伊斯、曼德尔施塔姆、博尔赫斯、梅德韦杰夫兄弟等作家，布罗茨基对此评论说：“一位作者若能在一本135页的小说里模仿这么多位风格迥异的作者，那么怎样赞美他都不为过。”他还称扬契斯是“一位独具风格的作家，他的作品几乎重新定义了悲剧”。197...(展开全部)

In these stories Kis depicts human relationships, encounters, landscapes -- the multitude of details that make up a human life.

From America s # 1 bestselling crime writer comes the extraordinary new Dr. Kay Scarpetta novel. The "book of the dead" is the morgue log， a ledger in which all cases are entered by hand. For Kay Scarpetta， however， it is about to take on a new meaning. Fresh from her bruising battle with a psychopath in Florida， Scarpetta decides it s time for a change of pace， not only per...(展开全部)

The Dead of Jericho, published in 1981, is a work of English detective fiction by Colin Dexter. It is the fifth novel in the Inspector Morse series. In 1987 it was adapted as the first episode of the highly successful television series inspired by the novels, also called Inspector Morse. Plot summary: Detective Chief Inspector E. Morse of the Thames Valley Police meets Anne Sco...(展开全部)

A contemporary version of the Cain and Abel story, this novel was greeted with widespread praise when it was first published in Iran in 1989. Set in the northern town of Ardabil in the aftermath of the Second World War, the story begins as Urhan Urkhani, a prominent citizen of the town, sets out to find his brother in a midwinter snowstorm. Over the course of that day-long sear...(展开全部)