A new edition of a modern classic of photography. Martin Parr is Europe's premier contemporary photographer, and The Last Resort is the book that is considered to have launched his career. Taken at the height of the Thatcher years, it depicts the "great British seaside" in all its garish glory. Described by some as cruel and voyeuristic and by others as a stunning satire on t...(展开全部)

A new edition of a modern classic of photography. Martin Parr is Europe's premier contemporary photographer, and The Last Resort is the book that is considered to have launched his career. Taken at the height of the Thatcher years, it depicts the "great British seaside" in all its garish glory. Described by some as cruel and voyeuristic and by others as a stunning satire on t...(展开全部)

With his more than forty years’ experience observing people and politicians in our nation's capital–ten of those years on Hardball , five nights a week–Chris Matthews has learned from the pros what it takes to be a success. Now Matthews shows us what we can learn from the world’s most accomplished people and, more important, how we can emulate their best habits to improve our ...(展开全部)

In this extraordinary memoir, John F. Kennedy's closest advisor recounts in full for the first time his experience counseling Kennedy through the most dramatic moments in American history. Illuminating, revelatory, and gripping, Counselor is the brilliant, long-awaited memoir from the remarkable man who shaped the presidency and the legacy of one of the greatest leaders Ameri...(展开全部)

In this gripping memoir, John F. Kennedy's closest advisor recounts in full for the first time his experience counseling Kennedy through the most dramatic moments in American history. Sorensen returns to January 1953, when he and the freshman senator from Massachusetts began their extraordinary professional and personal relationship. Rising from legislative assistant to spe...(展开全部)

With his more than forty years’ experience observing people and politicians in our nation's capital–ten of those years on Hardball , five nights a week–Chris Matthews has learned from the pros what it takes to be a success. Now Matthews shows us what we can learn from the world’s most accomplished people and, more important, how we can emulate their best habits to improve our ...(展开全部)

This magisterial work is the first comprehensive study of the ethics of killing, where the moral status of the individual killed is uncertain. Drawing on philosophical notions of personal identity and the immorality of killing, McMahan looks carefully at a host of practical issues, including abortion, infanticide, the killing of animals, assisted suicide, and euthanasia.

In September 1913, Mieczysław Wojnicz, a student suffering from tuberculosis, arrives at Wilhelm Opitz’s Guesthouse for Gentlemen, a health resort in what is now western Poland. Every day, its residents gather in the dining room to imbibe the hallucinogenic local liqueur, to obsess over money and status, and to discuss the great issues of the day: Will there be war? Monarchy or...(展开全部)

这位诺贝尔奖得主的新杰作！ 以一战前夕的一家疗养院为背景，探究了我们神圣的思想背后隐藏的恐怖 1913 年 9 月。一位患有肺结核的波兰年轻人来到西里西亚山区疗养胜地戈尔伯斯多夫村威廉·奥皮茨的绅士宾馆。每天晚上，居民们聚集在一起，喝着当地致幻的利口酒，讨论当今的重大问题：君主制还是民主制？魔鬼存在吗？女人生来就低人一等吗？战争还是和平？与此同时，宾馆和周围的山丘上发生了令人不安的事情。似乎有人——或什么东西——在监视，试图渗透到这个与世隔绝的世界。当这位新来者试图解开自己内心的真相和外面邪恶势力的秘密时，他几乎没有意识到，他们已经选择了下一个目标。 《The Magic Mountain》出版一个世纪后，奥尔加·托卡尔丘克以其独特的大胆、创造、幽默和勇敢，重访了托马斯·曼的领域并宣称拥有该领域。 The Nobelist’s latest mast...(展开全部)

In 2010, scientists led by J. Craig Venter became the first to successfully create 'synthetic life' -- putting humankind at the threshold of the most important and exciting phase of biological research, one that will enable us to actually write the genetic code for designing new species to help us adapt and evolve for long-term survival. The science of synthetic genomics will h...(展开全部)