For courses in Twentieth Century Europe. Written by a noted intellectual historian, this concise, interpretive history of twentieth-century European society and civilization surveys the full range of social, political, economic, cultural, and diplomatic events - from pre-World War I to the 1990s.

Europe's social model – its system of welfare and social protection – is regarded by many as the jewel in the crown. It is what helps to give the European societies their distinctive qualities of social cohesion and care for the vulnerable. Over recent years, however, the social model has come under great strain in many states within the European Union – unemployment, for examp...(展开全部)

At the very heart of cities and villages, churches, cathedrals and basilicas have shaped the landscape in Europe to a great extent. Their architecture bears witness to the skills of craftsmen and the mystic fervor that led to their building. It reveals essential details about their architecture and historical meaning.

What has happened to the European radical left after the collapse of the USSR? How has it reacted, reformed, even revived? This new volume is the first to provide an extensive answer. It will focus both on communists and non-communists, and will address their non-parliamentary and international activity through a pan-European perspective. It will be of interest to students and ...(展开全部)

In this, the first sustained account of pedlars and peddling, Laurence Fontaine argues that pedlars and the networks they built up played a crucial role in the birth of the modern European economy.

In this, the first sustained account of pedlars and peddling, Laurence Fontaine argues that pedlars and the networks they built up played a crucial role in the birth of the modern European economy.

Europe's social model – its system of welfare and social protection – is regarded by many as the jewel in the crown. It is what helps to give the European societies their distinctive qualities of social cohesion and care for the vulnerable. Over recent years, however, the social model has come under great strain in many states within the European Union – unemployment, for examp...(展开全部)

'No serious writer of this century has more thoroughly invaded and shaped the public imagination than did Graham Greene' Time WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS Wormold is a vacuum cleaner salesman in a city of power cuts. His adolescent daughter spends his money with a skill that amazes him, so when a mysterious Englishman offers him an extra income he's tempted. In ...(展开全部)

Graham Greeneas classic Cuban spy story, now with a new package and a new introduction First published in 1959, "Our Man in Havana" is an espionage thriller, a penetrating character study, and a political satire that still resonates today. Conceived as one of Graham Greeneas aentertainments, a it tells of MI6as man in Havana, Wormold, a former vacuum-cleaner salesman turned re...(展开全部)

阿拉文德•阿迪加1974年出生于印度海港城市马德拉斯，后移居澳大利亚，求学于哥伦比亚大学与牛津大学。他在长篇小说处女作《白老虎》中，以一位印度班加罗尔的企业家给中国总理温家宝写信讲述自己人生故事的形式，反映了当今印度经济“奇迹”表相下的真实面貌，凭借独一无二的原创性获二○○八年曼布克奖。另外他还出版有短篇小说集《两次暗杀之间》。阿迪加曾任《时代周刊》驻印度通讯记者，并为《纽约客》、《格兰塔》、《金融时报》、《独立报》、《星期日泰晤士报》等媒体撰稿。现居印度。