Neighbors is a contemplative picture book about the lives of our neighbors―who are all around us and ever-present, yet somehow surprisingly elusive. They're everywhere: next door, above, and even below. More often than not, they are a mystery, a presence suggested by low hums, footfalls, or perhaps a slammed door. This book explores the ways that we think about those we exist a...(展开全部)

The provocative classic work newly updated An intimate personal odyssey across America's changing sexual landscape When first published, Gay Talese's 1981 groundbreaking work, Thy Neighbor's Wife , shocked a nation with its powerful, eye-opening revelations about the sexual activities and proclivities of the American public in the era before AIDS. A marvel of journal...(展开全部)

盖伊•特立斯（Gay Talese, 1932年2月7日— ），美国著名作家、记者，“新新闻主义”代表人物，曾任职《纽约时报》十年，长期为《纽约客》（The New Yorker）、《时尚先生》（Esquire）等杂志撰稿。 特立斯的雄心是“将非虚构写作提升到前人未至之境，一探虚构作家之禁脔，与同侪菲利普•罗斯、厄普代克一较短长”，不仅将文学技巧引入纪实书写，更对美国社会作了切片般的精准分析。 他受《时尚先生》之邀采写的特稿《弗兰克•辛纳屈感冒了》是新新闻风格的代表性作品，被誉为“二十世纪最伟大的非虚构书写”、“有史以来最具影响力的美国杂志文章之一”、“《时尚先生》刊登过的最好文章”，并收录进“企鹅现代经典”。《王国与权力》位列“关于新闻业，五本最好的书”；《被仰望与被遗忘的》《邻人之妻》等作品也无愧时代经典。在他笔下，没有失败者、小人物、零余人，所...(展开全部)

盖伊•特立斯（Gay Talese, 1932年2月7日— ），美国著名作家、记者，“新新闻主义”代表人物，曾任职《纽约时报》十年，长期为《纽约客》（The New Yorker）、《时尚先生》（Esquire）等杂志撰稿。 特立斯的雄心是“将非虚构写作提升到前人未至之境，一探虚构作家之禁脔，与同侪菲利普•罗斯、厄普代克一较短长”，不仅将文学技巧引入纪实书写，更对美国社会作了切片般的精准分析。 他受《时尚先生》之邀采写的特稿《弗兰克•辛纳屈感冒了》是新新闻风格的代表性作品，被誉为“二十世纪最伟大的非虚构书写”、“有史以来最具影响力的美国杂志文章之一”、“《时尚先生》刊登过的最好文章”，并收录进“企鹅现代经典”。《王国与权力》位列“关于新闻业，五本最好的书”；《被仰望与被遗忘的》《邻人之妻》等作品也无愧时代经典。在他笔下，没有失败者、小人物、零余人，所...(展开全部)

The provocative classic work newly updated An intimate personal odyssey across America's changing sexual landscape When first published, Gay Talese's 1981 groundbreaking work, Thy Neighbor's Wife , shocked a nation with its powerful, eye-opening revelations about the sexual activities and proclivities of the American public in the era before AIDS. A marvel of journal...(展开全部)

As Katherine Verdery observes, "There's nothing like reading your secret police file to make you wonder who you really are." In 1973 Verdery began her doctoral fieldwork in the Transylvanian region of Romania, ruled at the time by communist dictator Nicolae Ceausescu. She returned several times over the next twenty-five years, during which time the secret police—the Securitate—...(展开全部)

Chepstow's location by a crossing of the River Wye, close to the Severn Estuary, has meant that the Monmouthshire town has always occupied a strategically important position. A Norman castle still sta

The sprawling urban conurbation that is Swindon began life as an Anglo-Saxon defensible settlement atop a limestone hill. Old Swindon would likely have remained a sleepy market town were it not for th

The job was too good. There had to be a problem - and there was. John Duncan was an honest man, but he needed money. He had children to look after. He was ready to do anything, and his bosses knew it. They gave him the job because he couldn't say no; he couldn't afford to be honest. And the job was like a poison inside him. It changed him and blinded him, so that he couldn't se...(展开全部)

Cambridge has a world-famous university, but the town's long history predates the coming of the scholars, beginning with the Romans, who first identified this as a good spot for a settlement. It was a