Review Beautifully woven ― Sunday Times Extraordinary city stories ... ambitious and entertaining ... [Taylor] does a fine job of telling the New York story -- Hari Kunzru ― Guardian As gorgeous, cacophonous and shocking as New York itself. Like those great oral historians Studs Terkel and Ronald Blythe, Craig Taylor has the gift of drawing out the most idiosyncratic confidence...(展开全部)

THIS COLLECTION OF SHORT STORIES AND VIGNETTES MARKED ERNEST HEMINGWAY'S AMERICAN DEBUT AND MADE HIM FAMOUSWhen "In Our Time" was published in 1925, it was praised by Ford Madox Ford, John Dos Passos, and F. Scott Fitzgerald for its simple and precise use of language to convey a wide range of complex emotions, and it earned Hemingway a place beside Sherwood Anderson and Gertrud...(展开全部)

THIS COLLECTION OF SHORT STORIES AND VIGNETTES MARKED ERNEST HEMINGWAY'S AMERICAN DEBUT AND MADE HIM FAMOUSWhen "In Our Time" was published in 1925, it was praised by Ford Madox Ford, John Dos Passos, and F. Scott Fitzgerald for its simple and precise use of language to convey a wide range of complex emotions, and it earned Hemingway a place beside Sherwood Anderson and Gertrud...(展开全部)

Lewis Mumford's massive historical study brings together a wide array of evidence--from the earliest group habitats to medieval towns to the modern centers of commerce (as well as dozens of black-and-white illustrations)--to show how the urban form has changed throughout human civilization. His tone is ultimately somewhat pessimistic: Mumford was deeply concerned with what he v...(展开全部)

The rise of artificial intelligence has rekindled a long-standing debate regarding the impact of technology on employment. This is just one of many areas where exponential advances in technology signal both hope and fear, leading to public controversy. This book shows that many debates over new technologies are framed in the context of risks to moral values, human health, and e...(展开全部)

在线阅读本书 The first example of the psychological novel in Russia, A Hero of Our Time influenced Tolstoy, Dostoyevsky, and Chekhov, and other great nineteenth-century masters that followed. Its hero, Pechorin, is Byronic in his wasted gifts, his cynicism, and his desire for any kind of action-good or ill-that will stave off boredom. Outraging many critics when it was first pub...(展开全部)

A delectable collection of Theroux’s recent writing on great places, people, and prose In the spirit of his much-loved Sunrise with Seamonsters and Fresh Air Fiend, Paul Theroux’s latest collection of essays leads the reader through a dazzling array of sights, characters, and experiences, as Theroux applies his signature searching curiosity to a life lived as much in reading as...(展开全部)

提摩西．賈頓艾許（Timothy Garton Ash） 獲獎無數的英國史學家、公共識分子，牛津大學教授、史丹佛大學胡佛研究所資深研究員，以對當代歐洲的研究與報導書寫著稱。海內外學生無數，包括《血色大地》作者提摩希．史奈德（Timothy Snyder）。著有《檔案羅密歐》（新版譯名為《檔案：一部個人史》）、《事實即顛覆》等書。 十七歲時英國加入歐洲共同體，六十四歲時英國退出歐洲聯盟，五十年間都生活在「歐洲」之中，親身參與戰後歐洲最重大的幾項歷史事件，採訪大量歷史見證者，分析歐洲各地普通人的生活如何改變。2017年因其對歐洲整合的貢獻而獲頒查理曼獎章（Charlemagne Prize）。 2024年獲頒加拿大吉爾伯圖書獎，將獎金五萬元加幣悉數捐給烏克蘭，購買無人機設備以對抗俄羅斯的入侵。 閻紀宇 臺大中文研究所碩士，曾任《風傳媒》執行副總編輯、《中...(展开全部)

提摩西．賈頓艾許（Timothy Garton Ash） 獲獎無數的英國史學家、公共識分子，牛津大學教授、史丹佛大學胡佛研究所資深研究員，以對當代歐洲的研究與報導書寫著稱。海內外學生無數，包括《血色大地》作者提摩希．史奈德（Timothy Snyder）。著有《檔案羅密歐》（新版譯名為《檔案：一部個人史》）、《事實即顛覆》等書。 十七歲時英國加入歐洲共同體，六十四歲時英國退出歐洲聯盟，五十年間都生活在「歐洲」之中，親身參與戰後歐洲最重大的幾項歷史事件，採訪大量歷史見證者，分析歐洲各地普通人的生活如何改變。2017年因其對歐洲整合的貢獻而獲頒查理曼獎章（Charlemagne Prize）。 2024年獲頒加拿大吉爾伯圖書獎，將獎金五萬元加幣悉數捐給烏克蘭，購買無人機設備以對抗俄羅斯的入侵。 閻紀宇 臺大中文研究所碩士，曾任《風傳媒》執行副總編輯、《中...(展开全部)

Father is missing! His top secret job as a physicist for the government has taken him away--but where?--and how? Meg and her younger brother, Charles Wallace, set out with their friend Calvin on an exciting adventure through time and space to search for him. With the help of the mysterious Mrs. Whatsit, Mrs. Who and Mrs. Which, the youngsters learn to expect the unexpected as t...(展开全部)