Life at the court of Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette has long captivated readers, drawn by accounts of the intrigues and pageantry that came to such a sudden and unexpected end. Stefan Zweig's Marie Antoinette: The Portrait of an Average Woman is a dramatic account of the guillotine's most famous victim, from the time when as a fourteen-year-old she took Versailles by storm, to ...(展开全部)

In a museum far from home a man stumbles onto a painting of a woman for whom he once, long ago, risked everything and who then mysteriously disappeared from his life. As a young lawyer, the nameless protagonist of "The Woman on the Stairs" became entangled in the affairs of three people mired in a complex and destructive relationship. An artist, the woman whose portrait he had ...(展开全部)

作者簡介 蘇‧勞伊德•羅伯茨（Sue Lloyd-Roberts） 獲獎無數的新聞記者，獲得的榮譽包括歐洲女性成就獎（European Woman of Achievement）、年度國際記者獎（International Reporter of the Year Award）、聯合國「女性行動獎：為女性移民和女性難民而戰」（Move Award），並以紀錄片《深入北韓泡影》（Inside the North Korean Bubble）獲得艾美獎。羅伯茨以其在BBC電視台記者生涯的非凡貢獻與成就於2013年獲頒大英帝國司令勳章一枚。 ●「同世代的電視記者中最為出色的一人。」──休‧愛德華茲（Huw Edwards） ●「才華洋溢、努力不懈。」──傑瑞米‧鮑溫（Jeremy Bowen） ●「她的身上具備著所謂的道德勇氣，並將這項特質傳遞其他的人。」...(展开全部)

Blinded by a concept 11:06 AM PDT, August 31, 2006 The failure of Israel to subdue Hezbollah demonstrates the many weaknesses of the war-on-terror concept. One of those weaknesses is that even if the targets are terrorists, the victims are often innocent civilians, and their suffering reinforces the terrorist cause. In response to Hezbollah's attacks, Israel was justified in at...(展开全部)

The legendary financier-and founder of the Open Society Institute-offers crucial insight into the real meaning of freedom, and how societies can best promote it After reflecting on his support of a losing Democrat for president, George Soros steps back to revisit his views on why George Bush's policies around the world fall short in the arenas most important to Soros: democr...(展开全部)

AN ANGOULEME AWARD WINNER RETURNS WITH A PARABLE ABOUT LIFE IN THE ART WORLD "The Making Of" is the follow-up to international sensation Brecht Evens's Eisner-nominated debut, "The Wrong Place." With lush watercolors and his characteristic wit, Evens details the fumbling, amateurish foibles of the participants of a small art festival in the Flemish countryside. Pieterjan is i...(展开全部)

琳賽・希爾遜（Lindsey Hilsum） 琳賽・希爾遜是英國第四台新聞的國際編輯。她曾報導過去二十五年來眾多重大衝突和國際事件，包括在敘利亞、烏克蘭、伊拉克和科索沃的戰爭；阿拉伯之春；和盧安達的大屠殺。她的作品散見《紐約書評》（The New York Review of Books）、《衛報》和《格蘭塔》（Granta）。她的第一本著作《沙塵暴：革命時代的利比亞》（Sandstorm: Libya in the Time of Revolution）曾進入二○一二年衛報首作獎（Guardian First Book Award）的決選名單。 譯者簡介 黃楷君 政大阿拉伯語文學系、廣播電視學系畢業，曾任出版社編輯，現為書籍譯者。譯有《手寫時代》、《穆罕默德：宣揚謙卑、寬容與和平的先知》、《時光出土：考古學的故事》、《原始富足》、《漁的大歷史》等書...(展开全部)

In October 1839, a Windsor cabinet meeting votes to begin the first Opium War against China. Bureaucratic fumbling, military missteps, and a healthy dose of political opportunism and collaboration followed. Rich in tragicomedy, The Opium War explores the disastrous British foreign-relations move that became a founding myth of modern Chinese nationalism, and depicts China’s hero...(展开全部)

A new and radical reexamination of today's neoliberalist “new economy” through the political lens of the debtor/creditor relation. "The debtor-creditor relation, which is at the heart of this book, sharpens mechanisms of exploitation and domination indiscriminately, since, in it, there is no distinction between workers and the unemployed, consumers and producers, working and no...(展开全部)