Denis Johnson’s The Laughing Monsters is a high-suspense tale of kaleidoscoping loyalties in the post-9/11 world that shows one of our great novelists at the top of his game. Roland Nair calls himself Scandinavian but travels on a U.S. passport. After ten years’ absence, he returns to Freetown, Sierra Leone, to reunite with his friend Michael Adriko. They once made a lot of mon...(展开全部)

Does biology condemn the human species to violence and war? Previous studies of animal behavior incline us to answer yes, but the message of this book is considerably more optimistic. Without denying our heritage of aggressive behavior, Frans de Waal describes powerful checks and balances in the makeup of our closest animal relatives, and in so doing he shows that to humans...(展开全部)

汉斯·摩根索(Hans J. Morgenthau,1904-1980年)，犹太人，美国政治学家，国际法学家，国际关系理论大师，古典现实主义大师，国际法学中"权力政治学派"缔造者。他1904年生于德国，1923-1927年间先后在柏林大学、法兰克福大学和慕尼黑大学攻读哲学、文学和法律，在瑞士日内瓦的国际问题研究生院学习和研究国际政治。1928年在法兰克福大学提交博士论文，笠年获得博士学位，论文亦公开出版。从进入大学到取得博士学位，摩根索仅用了六年时间。博士论文《国际裁判的本质和界限》(Dfe internationale、Rec：htspflege．ihz’Wesen und ihre Grenzen．Leipzig Universit tsvelag VOn Robert Noske，1929)使他在法学界崭露头角，甚至引起了卡尔·施米特的注意。毕...(展开全部)

本书为公版书，为不受著作权法限制的作家、艺术家及其它人士发布的作品，供广大读者阅读交流。汇聚授权电子版权。

Rebus is off the case - literally. A few days into the murder inquiry of an Edinburgh art dealer, Rebus blows up at a colleague. He is sent to the Scottish Police College for 'retraining' - in other words, he's in the Last Chance Saloon. Rebus is assigned to an old, unsolved case, but there are those in his team who have their own secrets - and they'll stop at nothing to protec...(展开全部)

Inspector John Rebus has messed up badly this time, so badly that he is sent to a kind of reform school for damaged cops. While there among the last-chancers known as "resurrection men," he joins a covert mission to gain evidence of a drug heist orchestrated by three of his classmates. But the group has been assigned an unsolved murder that may have resulted from Rebus's own mi...(展开全部)

Inspector John Rebus has messed up badly this time, so badly that he's been sent to a kind of reform school for damaged cops. While there among the last-chancers known as "resurrection men," he joins a covert mission to gain evidence of a drug heist orchestrated by three of his classmates. But the group has been assigned an unsolved murder that may have resulted from Rebus's ow...(展开全部)

Continues the story of Jo March which started in "Little Women". This book tells of the remarkable school that Jo and Professor Bhaer set up at Plumfield. The characters featured include the dishevelled orphan Nat, the spoiled Stuffy and the naughty Nan.

One of the few books to address the horror film from any kind of critical position. Unique - The first history of the horror film to approach it from a queer perspective. Written with detail and thoroughness - covers all eras of the horror film and correlates specific types of movie monsters to the historical social conditions which produced them. Explores how popular culture e...(展开全部)

在线阅读本书 She's a fashion model who has everything: a boyfriend, a career, a loyal best friend. But when a sudden freeway "accident" leaves her disfigured and incapable of speech, she is transformed from the beautiful center of attention to an invisible monster, so hideous that no one will acknowledge she exists. Enter Brandy Alexander, Queen Supreme, one operation away from beco...(展开全部)