"This book . . . examines the problem of police corruption . . . in such a way that the stereotype of the crude, greedy cop who is basically a grown-up delinquent, if not an out-and-out robber, yields to portraits of particular men, often of earnest good will and even more than ordinary compassion, contending with an enormously demanding and challenging job."--Robert Coles, "Ne...(展开全部)

汤姆·高尔德（Tom Gauld） 英国漫画家、插画师，生于1976年，在苏格兰的阿伯丁长大，在《卫报》《纽约时报》等拥有自己的漫画专栏，为《纽约客》绘制了多幅精美的封面。他还为健怡可口可乐设计过限量版包装。目前，他与家人住在伦敦。

Hat, ribbon, bird, rose. To the people on the island, a disappeared thing no longer has any meaning. It can be burned in the garden, thrown in the river or handed over to the Memory Police. Soon enough, the island forgets it ever existed. When a young novelist discovers that her editor is in danger of being taken away by the Memory Police, she desperately wants to save him. For...(展开全部)

Hat, ribbon, bird, rose. To the people on the island, a disappeared thing no longer has any meaning. It can be burned in the garden, thrown in the river or handed over to the Memory Police. Soon enough, the island forgets it ever existed. When a young novelist discovers that her editor is in danger of being taken away by the Memory Police, she desperately wants to save him. For...(展开全部)

[英]罗伯特·鲍德温(Robert Baldwin)，伦敦政治经济学院法学教授，研究领域为立法学。 [英]理查德·金西(Richard Kinsey)，爱丁堡大学法学教授，爱丁堡大学犯罪学研究中心、法社会学与法哲学研究中心主任。 杨小虎，重庆大学外国语学院副教授，主要研究领域为法律语言学、话语分析。发表论文20余篇，出版译著8部，主编和参编教材辞典3部，主持和参与国家社科基金项目和省部级项目7项。 杨媚，现供职于武汉经济技术开发区投资促进服务中心，从事商务翻译、绩效管理等工作。

[英]罗伯特·鲍德温(Robert Baldwin)，伦敦政治经济学院法学教授，研究领域为立法学。 [英]理查德·金西(Richard Kinsey)，爱丁堡大学法学教授，爱丁堡大学犯罪学研究中心、法社会学与法哲学研究中心主任。 杨小虎，重庆大学外国语学院副教授，主要研究领域为法律语言学、话语分析。发表论文20余篇，出版译著8部，主编和参编教材辞典3部，主持和参与国家社科基金项目和省部级项目7项。 杨媚，现供职于武汉经济技术开发区投资促进服务中心，从事商务翻译、绩效管理等工作。

The documents emerging from the secret police archives of the former Soviet bloc have caused scandal after scandal, compromising revered cultural figures and abruptly ending political careers. Police Aesthetics offers a revealing and responsible approach to such materials. Taking advantage of the partial opening of the secret police archives in Russia and Romania, Vatulescu foc...(展开全部)

Through a series of readings in the work of the decisive triumvirate of Victorian fiction, Dickens, Trollope and Wilkie Collins, Miller investigates the novel as an oblique form of social control. From the Inside Flap With the appearance of D.A. Miller's remarkable book, the Victorian novel has its most dazzling critic in years. . . . Miller's subject is not so much the police ...(展开全部)