【英】马丁•吉尔伯特（Martin Gilbert） 著 著名历史学家，牛津大学默顿学院研究员。他是28卷本官方丘吉尔传记作者，曾因人类历史研究领域的杰出成就获2012年丹•大卫奖，并连续入选六界英国首相智囊团，是英国政府首席政策顾问。代表作品有《丘吉尔传》《五千年犹太文明史》《以色列：一部历史》《来自地球的尽头：二十世纪的犹太人》《永不再来：一部纳粹大屠杀的历史》等。

【英】马丁•吉尔伯特（Martin Gilbert） 著 著名历史学家，牛津大学默顿学院研究员。他是28卷本官方丘吉尔传记作者，曾因人类历史研究领域的杰出成就获2012年丹•大卫奖，并连续入选六界英国首相智囊团，是英国政府首席政策顾问。代表作品有《丘吉尔传》《五千年犹太文明史》《以色列：一部历史》《来自地球的尽头：二十世纪的犹太人》《永不再来：一部纳粹大屠杀的历史》等。

Why is life the way it is? Bacteria evolved into complex life just once in four billion years of life on earth - and all complex life s hares many strange properties, from sex to ageing and death. If life evolved on other planets, would it be the same or completely different? In The Vital Question, Nick Lane radically reframes evolutionary history, putting forward a cogent solu...(展开全部)

Lucas knows the perfect night entails just three things: video games, wine, and pad thai. Peanuts are a must! Other people? Not so much. Why complicate things when he’s happy alone? Then one day the apartment board, a vexing trio of authority, rings his doorbell. And Lucas’s solitude takes a startling hike. They demand to see his frying pan. Someone left one next to the recycli...(展开全部)

Theodor Adorno is a widely-studied figure, but most often with regard to his work on cultural theory, philosophy and aesthetics. The Sociology of Theodor Adorno provides the first thorough English-language account of Adorno's sociological thinking. Matthias Benzer reads Adorno's sociology through six major themes: the problem of conceptualising capitalist society; empirical res...(展开全部)

It is what it is (or...Are we done yet?) What’s your deliverable? It’s a common question, as crass as it is self-evident. We deliver Design…24/7. But it’s a strange word – deliverable – with so many embedded assumptions. Someone else demands, requires, needs, wants, and ultimately pays (or doesn’t), but we always deliver. The verb makes sense, it’s the noun that’s the problem: ...(展开全部)

Elizabeth Bishop dedicated her poetry to telling 'what really happened'. Yet what really happened in the life on one of the twentieth century's finest and most beloved American poets has eluded readers for years. In this first full biography, Brett Miller pieces together the compelling and painful story of Bishop's life and traces the writing of her brilliantly crafted poems.

Back in 1984, a rebellious,17-year-old, punked-out Ulli Lust set out for a wild hitchhiking trip across Italy, from Naples through Verona and Rome and ending up in Sicily. Twenty-five years later, this talented Austrian cartoonist has looked back at that tumultuous summer and delivered a long, dense, sensitive,and minutely observed autobiographical masterpiece. Miraculously com...(展开全部)

美国当代电影理论家和作家，为威斯康辛-麦迪逊大学（UW-Madison）传播学院退休名誉教授，目前仍担任法国电影资料馆的顾问。著有《世界电影史》、《电影风格史》等重要的学术著作。其著作包括《世界电影史》（Film History:An Introduction）、《娱乐王国：香港电影的秘密》（Planet Hong Kong:Popular Cinema and the Art of Entertainment）

Informal, friendly, and humorous, this little book has inspired thousands since its 1925 publication. Its practical examples show how positive attitudes can make you a "winner" in life. Self-improvement expert Norman Vincent Peale endorsed it as an essential guide, helping readers to "find prosperity, solve problems, have better health."