在线阅读本书 In Salthill-on-Hudson, a half-hour train ride from Manhattan, everyone is rich, beautiful, and -- though they look much younger -- middle-aged. But when Adam Berendt, a charismatic, mysterious sculptor, dies suddenly in a brash act of heroism, shock waves rock the town. But who was Adam Berendt? Was he in fact a hero, or someone more flawed and human?

在线阅读本书 In Salthill-on-Hudson, a half-hour train ride from Manhattan, everyone is rich, beautiful, and -- though they look much younger -- middle-aged. But when Adam Berendt, a charismatic, mysterious sculptor, dies suddenly in a brash act of heroism, shock waves rock the town. But who was Adam Berendt? Was he in fact a hero, or someone more flawed and human?

◎ 作者简介 大卫•班布里基（David Bainbridge），英国剑桥大学临床兽医解剖学家，圣凯瑟琳学院（St Catharine’s College）的艺术与人文领域研究员。受过完整兽医师训练，在摄政公园动物学研究中心（Institute of Zoology）、 皇家兽医学院（Royal Veterinary College）、康奈尔大学、悉尼大学和牛津大学做过人类、动物怀孕的研究。曾出版科普作品，以动物学方法研究人类生理特性，包括怀孕、基因和性别、头脑和青春期。 …………………… ◎ 译者简介 周沛郁，台湾森林系硕士。在森林里待了七年之后，还是放不开对文学和语言的热爱，于是投身翻译。

David Bainbridge is a vet with a particular interest in evolutionary zoology - and he has just turned forty. As well as the usual concerns about greying hair, failing eyesight and goldfish levels of forgetfulness, he finds himself pondering some bigger questions: have I come to the end of my productive life as a human being? And what I am now for? By looking afresh at the lates...(展开全部)

This re-issue of F. W. Maitland's translation of a vital section from Otto Gierke's monumental Das Deutsche Genossenschaftsrecht makes available once again one of the seminal texts in the historiography of political thought. Famed, inter alia, for the elegance and lucidity of Maitland's own expository introduction, Political Theories of the Middle Age is concerned in essence wi...(展开全部)

Panda Books Shen Rong At Middle Age--人到中年

The humanities, considered by many as irrelevant for modern careers and hopelessly devoid of funding, seem to be in a perpetual state of crisis, at the mercy of modernizing and technological forces that are driving universities towards academic pursuits that pull in grant money and direct students to lucrative careers. But as Paul Reitter and Chad Wellmon show, this crisis isn’...(展开全部)

The humanities, considered by many as irrelevant for modern careers and hopelessly devoid of funding, seem to be in a perpetual state of crisis, at the mercy of modernizing and technological forces that are driving universities towards academic pursuits that pull in grant money and direct students to lucrative careers. But as Paul Reitter and Chad Wellmon show, this crisis isn’...(展开全部)