In the Swiss Alps a teenage girl is thrown from a helicopter and her boyfriend is brutally abducted to Trieste, a city filled with undercurrents of past hatreds. Ruari, son of Irish media owner J J Breslin, is in desperate danger, at the mercy of ruthless kidnappers making impossible demands. His terrified mother contacts the only person she knows can help her son: Harry Jones...(展开全部)

In the Swiss Alps a teenage girl is thrown from a helicopter and her boyfriend is brutally abducted to Trieste, a city filled with undercurrents of past hatreds. Ruari, son of Irish media owner J J Breslin, is in desperate danger, at the mercy of ruthless kidnappers making impossible demands. His terrified mother contacts the only person she knows can help her son: Harry Jones...(展开全部)

迈克尔·道布斯，1948年出生于英国赫特福德郡，毕业于牛津大学。道布斯纵横英国政坛三十余年，初涉政坛便很快崭露头角，被称为“威斯敏斯特的娃娃脸杀手”；后任政府特别顾问和撒切尔政府幕僚长，最终于保守党副主席的职位上退休，2010年被英王室册封为男爵。 作为畅销书作家的道布斯共著有十余部畅销作品。1989年，他讲述英国官场故事的处女作小说《纸牌屋》大获好评，次年被BBC改成电视剧，风靡全球。 继《纸牌屋》中老谋深算的弗朗西斯·厄克特之后，道布斯又于2012年创作了哈里·琼斯这一孤胆政客角色，“哈里·琼斯政治冒险系列小说”也迅速成为他文学创作上的又一座里程碑。这一系列包含了《老牌政敌》《叛国者》等五本政治冒险佳作，一上市就引发热议，并获得众多英国主流媒体的广泛赞誉，频获“五星级好书”荣誉。

Because of the difficulty posed by the contrast between the search for truth and truth itself, Michael Polanyi believes that we must alter the foundation of epistemology to include as essential to the very nature of mind, the kind of groping that constitutes the recognition of a problem. This collection of essays, assembled by Marjorie Grene, exemplifies the development of Pola...(展开全部)

Essential texts on the work of the influential artist Michael Snow: essays and interviews spanning more than four decades. Few filmmakers have had as large an impact on the recent avant-garde film scene as Canadian Michael Snow (b. 1928). His works in a range of media—film, installation, video, painting, sculpture, sound, photography, drawing, writing, and music—address the fun...(展开全部)

这是一部描写在日常生活中猫与人类之间相互关系的幽默故事， 我们的主人公麦克，毫无疑问是只猫， 但故事同样也反映了人类的态度。 在故事中，猫似乎成了反映人类着“超级物种”的一面镜子。 一天，麦克出现在漫画家小林的家中。 即使从那一天起，小林和他的妻子便开始尽力与麦克相处， 猫想上他自己的事情，而人类则时时要改变它，这便是故事矛盾的主线。 麦克仅是一只不同的猫。 自由，冷漠而懒散，身边围绕着那些来去匆匆的人类。 而作为猫，他也有自己的事情要处理，与凶猛的母猫猫斯拉相处就是一个例子。 猫斯拉甚至连狗都惧怕她三分，更不要说麦克了。 但麦克还有他惟恐避之不及的事情，那就是孩子的玩弄。 故事当中有很多情节都将猫拟人化，例如，我们经常可以看到他们在一起开会或踢球等等……

Set in Jerusalem at the time of the Suez crisis, this is a study of a woman's retreat from an unhappy marriage into a private world of fantasy and repressed desires. Her subsequent mental breakdown is mirrored in the local scenes of disruption and violence caused by the coming war.

威廉·布莱兹（William Blades，1824—1890），英国著名的印刷商、藏书家、书目学家，热衷于收藏旧书与版画。出于对印刷的兴趣，布莱兹对英国印刷出版界名人卡克斯顿出版的作品颇有研究，对英国早期的印刷历史也了如指掌。代表作有《书之大敌》《威廉·卡克斯顿的生平与印刷术》等。

拉斐尔•谢克生于德国弗赖堡，毕业于苏黎世大学和美国布兰代斯大学。自1994年以来，一直在美国科尔比学院（Colby College）教授现代欧洲和德国历史，并担任了七年的历史系主任和犹太研究项目主任。著有：《希特勒的非洲受害者》《二战中被德国俘获的法国殖民地士兵》等。

"The highway became the Red Sea.We moved through the storm like a sheer valley.You drove; I looked at you with love.""--from "Storm" "One of the most gifted and readable poets of his time, Adam Zagajewski is proving to be a contemporary classic. Few writers in either poetry or prose can be said to have attained the lucid intelligence and limpid economy of style that have become...(展开全部)