In a memoir hailed for its searing candor and wit, Alice Sebold reveals how her life was utterly transformed when, as an eighteen-year-old college freshman, she was brutally raped and beaten in a park near campus. What propels this chronicle of her recovery is Sebold's indomitable spirit-as she struggles for understanding ("After telling the hard facts to anyone, from lover to ...(展开全部)

In a memoir hailed for its searing candor and wit, Alice Sebold reveals how her life was utterly transformed when, as an eighteen-year-old college freshman, she was brutally raped and beaten in a park near campus. What propels this chronicle of her recovery is Sebold's indomitable spirit-as she struggles for understanding ("After telling the hard facts to anyone, from lover to ...(展开全部)

托马斯·伯根索尔（Thomas Buergenthal），犹太人，1934年生于捷克斯洛伐克，著名国际法学者。“二战”后，于1951年移居美国，他毕业于西弗吉尼亚州的贝瑟尼学院，又进入纽约大学法学院学习，并在哈佛大学法学院获得法学硕士、法学博士学位，先后在美国得克萨斯州 大学法学院、美利坚大学华盛顿法学院、埃莫里大学法学院、乔治•华盛顿大学法学院等校任法学教授，2000年至2010年，出任海牙国际法院法官（美国籍法官），并兼任联合国、国际奥委会等多个国际组织的职务，为国际法研究院院士。 除本书外，还著有Law-Making in the International Civil Aviation Organization，International Protection of Human Rights (with L. B. Sohn,)，Public...(展开全部)

Thomas Buergenthal, now a Judge in the International Court of Justice in The Hague , tells his astonishing experiences as a young boy in his memoir A LUCKY CHILD. He arrived at Auschwitz at age 10 after surviving two ghettos and a labor camp. Separated first from his mother and then his father, Buergenthal managed by his wits and some remarkable strokes of luck to survive ...(展开全部)

托马斯·伯根索尔（Thomas Buergenthal），犹太人，1934年生于捷克斯洛伐克，著名国际法学者。“二战”后，于1951年移居美国，他毕业于西弗吉尼亚州的贝瑟尼学院，又进入纽约大学法学院学习，并在哈佛大学法学院获得法学硕士、法学博士学位，先后在美国得克萨斯州 大学法学院、美利坚大学华盛顿法学院、埃莫里大学法学院、乔治•华盛顿大学法学院等校任法学教授，2000年至2010年，出任海牙国际法院法官（美国籍法官），并兼任联合国、国际奥委会等多个国际组织的职务，为国际法研究院院士。 除本书外，还著有Law-Making in the International Civil Aviation Organization，International Protection of Human Rights (with L. B. Sohn,)，Public...(展开全部)

When he was a student in Paris, Truong Nhu Tang met Ho Chi Minh. Later he fought in the Vietnamese jungle and emerged as one of the major figures in the "fight for liberation" -- and one of the most determined adversaries of the United States. He became the Vietcong's Minister of Justice, but at the end of the war he fled the country in disillusionment and despair. He now lives...(展开全部)

Finalist for the 2009 National Book Award and finalist for two 2010 Will Eisner Comic Industry Awards: the prize-winning children’s author depicts a childhood from hell in this searing yet redemptive graphic memoir. One day David Small awoke from a supposedly harmless operation to discover that he had been transformed into a virtual mute. A vocal cord removed, his throat slashe...(展开全部)

The childhood of Patricia Lockwood, the poet dubbed "The Smutty-Metaphor Queen of Lawrence, Kansas" by The New York Times, was unusual in many respects. There was the location: an impoverished, nuclear waste-riddled area of the American Midwest. There was her mother, a woman who speaks almost entirely in strange koans and warnings of impending danger. Above all, there was her g...(展开全部)

Educated is an account of the struggle for self-invention. It is a tale of fierce family loyalty, and of the grief that comes from severing one’s closest ties. With the acute insight that distinguishes all great writers, Westover has crafted a universal coming-of-age story that gets to the heart of what an education is and what it offers: the perspective to see one’s life throu...(展开全部)

The powerful and moving memoir of a fearless political opposition leader who paid the ultimate price for his beliefs. Alexei Navalny began writing Patriot shortly after his near-fatal poisoning in 2020. It is the full story of his life: his youth, his call to activism, his marriage and family, his commitment to challenging a world super-power determined to silence him, and his ...(展开全部)