Written in Lord Denning's familiar vivid, staccato style, Landmarks in the Law discusses cases and characters whose names will be known to all readers, grouped together under headings such as High Treason, Freedom of the Press, and Murder. Thus, for example, the chapter on High Treason tells the stories of Sir Walter Raleigh, Sir Roger Casement, and William Joyce - three very d...(展开全部)

Robert Macfarlane is a British nature writer and literary critic. Educated at Nottingham High School, Pembroke College, Cambridge and Magdalen College, Oxford, he is currently a Fellow of Emmanuel College, Cambridge, and teaches in the Faculty of English at Cambridge.

A joyous meditation on words, landscape and the relationship between the two, travelling from Cumbria to the Cairngorms, and exploring the landscapes of Roger Deakin, J.A. Baker, Nan Shepherd, and others. From Robert Macfarlane, the bestselling author of The Old Ways.

A joyous meditation on words, landscape and the relationship between the two, travelling from Cumbria to the Cairngorms, and exploring the landscapes of Roger Deakin, J.A. Baker, Nan Shepherd, and others. From Robert Macfarlane, the bestselling author of The Old Ways.

An award-winning, internationally acclaimed Chinese bestseller, originally banned in China but recently named one of the last decade’s ten most influential books there, To Live tells the epic story of one man’s transformation from the spoiled son of a rich landlord to an honorable and kindhearted peasant. After squandering his family’s fortune in gambling dens and brothels...(展开全部)

(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed) Joan Didion’s incomparable and distinctive essays and journalism are admired for their acute, incisive observations and their spare, elegant style. Now the seven books of nonfiction that appeared between 1968 and 2003 have been brought together into one thrilling collection. Slouching Towards Bethlehem captures the counterculture of the sixtie...(展开全部)

(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed) Joan Didion’s incomparable and distinctive essays and journalism are admired for their acute, incisive observations and their spare, elegant style. Now the seven books of nonfiction that appeared between 1968 and 2003 have been brought together into one thrilling collection. Slouching Towards Bethlehem captures the counterculture of the sixtie...(展开全部)

瓦连京·格里戈里耶维奇·拉斯普京（1937~），俄罗斯作家。生于西伯利亚。大学毕业后担任报社编辑。1961年开始发表作品，1967年他的成名作《为玛丽娅借钱》问世，1974年发表长篇小说《活下去，并且要记住》，获1997年苏联国家奖金。此外，《最后的期限》（1970）、《别了，马焦拉》（1976）等作品吼曾引起评论界的普遍关注。1985年出版的小说《火灾》于次年再次荣获苏联国家奖金，从而确立了他在俄罗斯文学中的重要地位，享誉世界文坛。

An anatomy of human life, vividly illustrated. . . . Awe-inspiring [and] sublimely uplifting. --Time Having won the National Book Award for How We Die, his best-selling inquiry into the causes and modes of death, Sherwin Nuland now turns his attention to the miraculous resiliency of human life. For this lucid, wonderful, and wonder-filled new book explores the body's mysteri...(展开全部)