Highly acclaimed for The End of Eddy, Edouard Louis in Who Killed My Father rips into France’s long neglect of the working class and its overt contempt for the poor, accusing the complacent French—at the minimum—of negligent homicide. “Racism,” he quotes Ruth Gilmore, “is the exposure of certain groups to premature death.” And Louis goes to visit the ugly gray town of his child...(展开全部)

What is trauma? How does it change the way our brains work? And how can we overcome it? When something traumatic happens to us, we dissociate and our bodies shut down their normal processes. This unique comic explains the strange nature of trauma and how it confuses the brain and affects the body. With wonderful artwork, cat and mouse metaphors, essential scientific facts, and ...(展开全部)

Highly Commended in the 2018 British Medical Association Book Awards What is the difference between fear and excitement and how can you tell them apart? How do the mind and body make emotions? When can anxiety be good? This science-based graphic book addresses these questions and more, revealing just how strange anxiety is, but also how to unravel its mysteries and relieve its ...(展开全部)

After well over a decade’s absence, Yoichi Yamashita journeys back to his hometown to attend his father’s funeral. As the relatives gather and the stories flow alongside the drinks, Yoichi’s childhood starts to resurface. The spring afternoon playing on the floor of his father’s barber shop, the fire that ravaged the city and his family home, his parents’ divorce and a new ‘mot...(展开全部)

For almost twenty years, two men from Georgia dominated the Russians and its empire: Stalin and Beria as head of what was to become the KGB. This book is a memoir of the daily life of these two men who sent millions to their graves. It paints Stalin's increasingly psychotic nature, but also the incomprehensible loyalty that Stalin inspired among women including the author's own...(展开全部)

谢尔戈·拉夫连季耶维奇·贝利亚(谢·阿·格格奇科里)，1924年11月24日生于第比利斯市。1941年在莫斯科第172中学毕业后，被苏联内务部中央无线电技术实验室录用。战争初期，他作为志愿者被共青团区委推荐到情报学校学习。结业后，以中尉技术员的军衔开始在军队服役。 1942年10月国防人民委员部派遣谢尔戈·贝利亚入列宁格勒布琼尼军事通讯学院学习。学习期间他曾多次奉最高统帅和总参谋部之命执行特别秘密任务。曾获“保卫高加索”奖章和红星勋章。 1947年，军事学院毕业之后，政府决定派遣谢尔戈·贝利亚到计划设计部门工作，信箱为1323(即后来著名的第一设计局)，在那里直到1953年7月担任主任工程师、主任设计师之职，曾荣获列宁勋章和苏联国家奖金。1952年通过博士论文答辩。 受其父拉夫连季·贝利亚“案件”牵连，他于1953年7月被捕，到1954年年底，先后被...(展开全部)

George W. Bush, the 43rd President of the United States, has authored a personal biography of his father, George H. W. Bush, the 41st President. Forty-three men have served as President of the United States. Countless books have been written about them. But never before has a President told the story of his father, another President, through his own eyes and in his own words. ...(展开全部)

A number one bestseller in Britain, Stephen Fry's astonishingly frank, funny, wise memoir is the book that his fans everywhere have been waiting for. Since his PBS television debut in the Blackadder series, the American profile of this multitalented writer, actor and comedian has grown steadily, especially in the wake of his title role in the film Wilde , which earned hi...(展开全部)

At once a fiendishly devious mystery, a beguiling love story, and a brilliant symposium on the power of art, My Name Is Red is a transporting tale set amid the splendor and religious intrigue of sixteenth-century Istanbul, from one of the most prominent contemporary Turkish writers. The Sultan has commissioned a cadre of the most acclaimed artists in the land to create a great ...(展开全部)

作者简介： 安•布拉谢尔：美国人，《纽约时报》畅销书作者，《牛仔裤的夏天》系列小说的作者。安∙布拉谢尔是个狂热的书迷，2001年她创作了小说《牛仔裤的夏天》，全球销量5000万册，该书稳居《纽约时报》畅销书排行榜，成为席卷全美国的文化热潮，赢得了读者和评论界的一致好评。