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)

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)

Did you ever wish your best friend—the person you would trust with your innermost secrets, the person whose wisdom and comfort you seek in times of stress or self-doubt—could draw? Like Mindy Kaling meets Hyperbole and a Half, I Really Didn’t Think This Through gets at the heart of what makes life both so challenging and so joyful—figuring out how to be a person in the world. A...(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)

Volumes I & II in paperback of this 1992 Pulitzer Prize-winning illustrated narrative of Holocaust survival.

Do you practise meditation because you want to feel good? Or to help you relax and be “happy”? Then frankly, according to Dzongsar Jamyang Khyentse, you are far better off having a full-body massage than trying to practise the Dharma. Genuine spiritual practice, not least the Ngöndro preliminaries, will not bring the kind of comfort and ease most worldly people crave. Quite the...(展开全部)

简介：原名《MC：请和我交往》原创女主 一对多主互动向  ˶╹ꇴ╹˶  封面上这些就是暂定男主们啦副cp：303×202

This book began as a list designer Stefan Sagmeister made in his diary under the title Things I have learned in my life so far , which includes statements such as "Worrying solves nothing" and "Trying to look good limits my life." The list reveals something that is profoundly true: Although human beings have been pursuing happiness for countless generations, it is not so easil...(展开全部)