From the author of lnsectopedia, a powerful exploration of loss, grief, endurance, and the absences that permeate the present. Unconformities are gaps in the geological record, physical evidence of breaks in time. For Hugh Raffles, these holes in history are also fissures in feeling, knowledge, memory, and understanding. In this endlessly inventive, riveting book, Raffles enter...(展开全部)

From the author of lnsectopedia, a powerful exploration of loss, grief, endurance, and the absences that permeate the present. Unconformities are gaps in the geological record, physical evidence of breaks in time. For Hugh Raffles, these holes in history are also fissures in feeling, knowledge, memory, and understanding. In this endlessly inventive, riveting book, Raffles enter...(展开全部)

Before The Firm and  The Pelican Brief made him a superstar,  John Grisham wrote this riveting story of  retribution and justice -- at last it's available in a  Doubleday hardcover edition. In this searing courtroom  drama, best-selling author John Grisham probes the  savage depths of racial violence...as he delivers  a compelling tale of uncertain justice in a small  southern ...(展开全部)

在线阅读本书 In this rich and riveting narrative, a writer's search for the truth behind his family's tragic past in World War II becomes a remarkably original epic—part memoir, part reportage, part mystery, and part scholarly detective work—that brilliantly explores the nature of time and memory, family and history.

'A gripping detective story, a stirring epic, a tale of ghosts and dark marvels, a thrilling display of scholarship, a meditation on the unfathomable mystery of good and evil, "The Lost" is as complex and rich with meaning and story as the past it seeks to illuminate. A beautiful book, beautifully written.' Michael Chabon 'The Lost' is the story of an odyssey in search of six ...(展开全部)

The acclaimed editor of The New York Times Book Review takes readers on a nostalgic tour of the pre-Internet age, offering powerful insights into both the profound and the seemingly trivial things we've lost. "A deft blend of nostalgia, humor and devastating insights."--People Remember all those ingrained habits, cherished ideas, beloved objects, and stubborn preferences from t...(展开全部)

The acclaimed editor of The New York Times Book Review takes readers on a nostalgic tour of the pre-Internet age, offering powerful insights into both the profound and the seemingly trivial things we've lost. "A deft blend of nostalgia, humor and devastating insights."--People Remember all those ingrained habits, cherished ideas, beloved objects, and stubborn preferences from t...(展开全部)

After two years at the Russian front, Ernst Graeber finally receives three weeks' leave. But since leaves have been canceled before, he decides not to write his parents, fearing he would just raise their hopes. Then, when Graeber arrives home, he finds his house bombed to ruin and his parents nowhere in sight. Nobody knows if they are dead or alive. As his leave draws to a clo...(展开全部)

伊安•莫蒂默，英国著名畅销书作家，著有《漫游中世纪的英格兰》，在各大学学术报刊发表多篇以14-18世纪英格兰历史为主题的学术文章。1998年，获选为英国皇家历史学会资深会员。2004年，获英国皇家历史学会颁发的亚历山大奖。2011年，埃克塞特大学授予其高级博士学位。 成一农，北京大学历史系博士。曾在中国社会科学院历史研究所工作。现任云南大学历史与档案学院研究员、历史地理研究所所长。主要从事历史地理、中国传统舆图、城市史以及史学理论的研究。曾主持国家社科基金项目2项，现主持国家社科基金重大招标项目1项。著有《古代城市形态研究方法新探》《空间与形态――三至七世纪中国历史城市地理研究》《“非科学”的中国传统舆图》和《中国古代舆地图研究》等专著6部。译有《帝国晚期的江南城市》《所有可能的世界—地理学思想史(第四版）》《城市形态史—工业革命之前》《近代中国的条...(展开全部)

伊安•莫蒂默，英国著名畅销书作家，著有《漫游中世纪的英格兰》，在各大学学术报刊发表多篇以14-18世纪英格兰历史为主题的学术文章。1998年，获选为英国皇家历史学会资深会员。2004年，获英国皇家历史学会颁发的亚历山大奖。2011年，埃克塞特大学授予其高级博士学位。 成一农，北京大学历史系博士。曾在中国社会科学院历史研究所工作。现任云南大学历史与档案学院研究员、历史地理研究所所长。主要从事历史地理、中国传统舆图、城市史以及史学理论的研究。曾主持国家社科基金项目2项，现主持国家社科基金重大招标项目1项。著有《古代城市形态研究方法新探》《空间与形态――三至七世纪中国历史城市地理研究》《“非科学”的中国传统舆图》和《中国古代舆地图研究》等专著6部。译有《帝国晚期的江南城市》《所有可能的世界—地理学思想史(第四版）》《城市形态史—工业革命之前》《近代中国的条...(展开全部)