Eric Hobsbawm is considered by many to be our greatest living historian. Robert Heilbroner, writing about Hobsbawm’s The Age of Extremes 1914-1991 said, “I know of no other account that sheds as much light on what is now behind us, and thereby casts so much illumination on our possible futures.” Skeptical, endlessly curious, and almost contemporary with the terrible “short ...(展开全部)

Born in 1917, the year of the Russian Revolution, the 85 years of Eric Hobsbawm's life are backdropped by an endless litany of wars, revolutions and counter-revolutions. He has led a remarkably fulfilling and long life; historian and intellectual, fluent in five languages, a member of the Communist Party of Great Britain, until it dissolved itself, and writer of countless volum...(展开全部)

Born in 1917, the year of the Russian Revolution, the 85 years of Eric Hobsbawm's life are backdropped by an endless litany of wars, revolutions and counter-revolutions. He has led a remarkably fulfilling and long life; historian and intellectual, fluent in five languages, a member of the Communist Party of Great Britain, until it dissolved itself, and writer of countless volum...(展开全部)

Eric Hobsbawm is considered by many to be our greatest living historian. Robert Heilbroner, writing about Hobsbawm’s The Age of Extremes 1914-1991 said, “I know of no other account that sheds as much light on what is now behind us, and thereby casts so much illumination on our possible futures.” Skeptical, endlessly curious, and almost contemporary with the terrible “short ...(展开全部)

The first English translation of the classic Japanese novel that has sold over 2 million copies—a childhood favorite of anime master Hayao Miyazaki (Spirited Away, My Neighbor Totoro, Howl’s Moving Castle), with an introduction by Neil Gaiman. First published in 1937, Genzaburō Yoshino’s How Do You Live? has long been acknowledged in Japan as a crossover classic for young read...(展开全部)

莫萨布·阿布·托哈 （Mosab Abu Toha） ·生于1992年，巴勒斯坦诗人、学者和图书管理员，他出生在加沙，并在那里度过了一生中的大部分时光。 ·毕业于英语语言教学和英语文学专业，2016年—2019年在加沙的近东救济工程处(UNRWA)学校教英语，也是加沙第一个英语图书馆爱德华·萨义德图书馆的创始人。 ·于2019—2020年在哈佛大学比较文学系担任访问诗人，并于2022年发表了首部诗集《Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear》，该诗集获得了2022年的巴勒斯坦图书奖、美国图书奖和沃尔科特诗歌奖，并入围了美国国家书评人协会诗歌奖决赛。 ·2023年10月后，诗人带领家人逃出加沙，在边境被以色列国防军士兵拘留，后在朋友的帮助下被释放，顺利离开。以此经历为基础，诗人在《纽约客》杂志上发表了题为《一位巴勒斯坦诗...(展开全部)

Essays on Karl Jaspers, Rosa Luxemburg, Pope John XXIII, Isak Dinesen, Bertolt Brecht, Randall Jarrell, and others whose lives and work illuminated the early part of the century. Index.

杰奎琳·罗斯（Jacqueline Rose）任教于伦敦大学伯贝克学院，《伦敦评论》杂志的常驻作者，致力的领域包括女权主义、文学和心理分析等。 曾在伦敦大学玛丽皇后学院教授英文，曾在剑桥大学进行有关性别的专题研究。代表作：《黑暗时代的她们》《令人难忘的西尔维娅·普拉斯》《夜不能眠》以及小说《阿伯丁》。

Jacqueline Rose's heroines could not appear more different from each other: revolutionary socialist Rosa Luxemburg; German-Jewish painter Charlotte Salomon, persecuted by family tragedy and Nazism; film icon and consummate performer Marilyn Monroe. Yet historically these women have a shared story to tell as they blaze a trail across some of the most dramatic events of the last ...(展开全部)