陀思妥耶夫斯基（1821-1881），与大文豪列夫·托尔斯泰、屠格涅夫等人齐名，是俄国文学的卓越代表，他走的是一条极为艰辛、复杂的生活与创作道路，是俄国文学史上最复杂、最矛盾的，作家之一。他的创作独具特色，在群星灿烂的19世纪俄国文坛上独树一帜，占有着十分特殊的地位。主要作品有《穷人》、《被侮辱与被损害的》、《死屋手记》、《罪与罚》、《白痴》、《群魔》、《卡拉马佐夫兄弟》等。

An argument for the urgent danger of global warming in a book that is sure to be as influential as Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring. Known for her insightful and thought-provoking journalism, New Yorker writer Elizabeth Kolbert now tackles the controversial subject of global warming. Americans have been warned since the late nineteen-seventies that the buildup of carbon dioxide i...(展开全部)

陀思妥耶夫斯基（1821-1881），与大文豪列夫·托尔斯泰、屠格涅夫等人齐名，是俄国文学的卓越代表，他走的是一条极为艰辛、复杂的生活与创作道路，是俄国文学史上最复杂、最矛盾的，作家之一。他的创作独具特色，在群星灿烂的19世纪俄国文坛上独树一帜，占有着十分特殊的地位。主要作品有《穷人》、《被侮辱与被损害的》、《死屋手记》、《罪与罚》、《白痴》、《群魔》、《卡拉马佐夫兄弟》等。

此書是作者九○年代的不列顛獨行回顧。 記錄了作者對於居住在不列顛島上長達二?年的生活點滴。以其風趣幽默的筆調，讓讀者瞭解當地的風俗民情以及其經歷的各種奇特有趣的生活。文中對於人、事、物荒謬面的細膩觀察與生動的刻畫，引得書迷捧腹大笑不已。

From perfectly formed potatoes to adulterous US presidents, and from domestic upsets to millennial fever, Bill Bryson just cannot resist airing his opinions and standing up for his (mostly) law-abiding fellow American citizens. But of course after twenty years in England, he is now back on the other side of the pond, and is obviously having a little trouble finding his true Ame...(展开全部)

After nearly two decades in Britain, Bill Bryson took the decision to move back to the States for a while, to let his kids experience life in another country, to give his wife the chance to shop until 10 p.m. seven nights a week, and, most of all, because he had read the 3.7 million Americans believed that they had been abducted by aliens at one time or another, and it was thus...(展开全部)

Shrill is an uproarious memoir, a feminist rallying cry in a world that thinks gender politics are tedious and that women, especially feminists, can't be funny. Coming of age in a culture that demands women be as small, quiet, and compliant as possible--like a porcelain dove that will also have sex with you--writer and humorist Lindy West quickly discovered that she was anythin...(展开全部)

Shrill is an uproarious memoir, a feminist rallying cry in a world that thinks gender politics are tedious and that women, especially feminists, can't be funny. Coming of age in a culture that demands women be as small, quiet, and compliant as possible--like a porcelain dove that will also have sex with you--writer and humorist Lindy West quickly discovered that she was anythin...(展开全部)

"I am a sick man . . . I am a spiteful man," the irascible voice of a nameless narrator cries out. And so, from underground, emerge the passionate confessions of a suffering man; the brutal self-examination of a tormented soul; the bristling scorn and iconoclasm of alienated individual who has become one of the greatest antiheroes in all literature. Notes From Underground , ...(展开全部)

(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed)Dostoevsky’s most revolutionary novel, Notes from Underground marks the dividing line between nineteenth- and twentieth-century fiction, and between the visions of self each century embodied. One of the most remarkable characters in literature, the unnamed narrator is a former official who has defiantly withdrawn into an underground existence. In...(展开全部)