A classic mystery for the festive season: mulled wine, mince pies...and murder. Mordecai Tremaine, former tobacconist and perennial lover of romance novels, has been invited to spend Christmas in the sleepy village of Sherbroome at the country retreat of one Benedict Grame. Arriving on Christmas Eve, he finds that the revelries are in full flow - but so too are tensions amongst...(展开全部)

A classic mystery for the festive season: mulled wine, mince pies...and murder. Mordecai Tremaine, former tobacconist and perennial lover of romance novels, has been invited to spend Christmas in the sleepy village of Sherbroome at the country retreat of one Benedict Grame. Arriving on Christmas Eve, he finds that the revelries are in full flow - but so too are tensions amongst...(展开全部)

This is a comprehensive study on the social history of China during the first half of the 20th century. It draws on abundant sources and studies which have appeared in the People's Republic of China since the early 1980sand which have not been systematically used in Western historiography.

This is a comprehensive study on the social history of China during the first half of the 20th century. It draws on abundant sources and studies which have appeared in the People's Republic of China since the early 1980sand which have not been systematically used in Western historiography.

裴宜理（Elizabeth J. Perry）是著名的中国学家，也是有影响的上海问题研究专家。1948年，她出生于上海。父母都是传教士，1931年到上海，执教于上海的圣约翰大学。1949年中华人民共和国成立，裴宜理父母携家离开上海。隔年即1951年迁居日本东京。裴宜理父母继续在一所教会大学担任教授。裴宜理也在日本长大。后归国。裴宜理在威廉·史密斯学院、1华盛顿大学、密歇根大学分别获得了政治学的学士、硕士和博士学位。她的教学生涯是从1972年开始的，先后美国多所大学执教，而担任教授职务已有十多年。为了中国学研究，裴宜理曾在中国大陆、台湾、日本从事专业学习、研究和讲学多年。 关于中国学研究的缘起，裴宜理回忆说，开始进学院时，还没有想到过要进行东亚问题研究和政治学研究。但当卷入学生反对越南战争的汹涌浪潮后，开始对亚洲的革命和政治感兴趣了。于是，决定到台湾学...(展开全部)

The Human-Covenant war rages on as the alien juggernaut sweeps inexorably toward its final goal: destruction of all human life! Halo has been destroyed, and the threat it posed to sentient life, neutralized. But victory has come at a terrible cost for the UNSC. Thousands of valiant soldiers fell in the battle to prevent the alien construct from falling into the enemy’s clutche...(展开全部)

约翰•韦恩（John Wain，1925—1994），英国小说家、评论家、诗人。1946年毕业于牛津约翰学院，1947—1955年在里丁大学任英国文学讲师，后成为专业作家，从事文学创作。1953年其成名作《每况愈下》成功塑造了一个愤怒青年的人物形象。此后陆续发表了《竞争者》、《年轻的来访者》、《小小的天地》、《山里的冬天》等作品。《打死父亲》是他的代表作之一，作品通过父与子的冲突，表现了青年一代与传统、权威、规范等价值标准进行决裂的态度。

Beginning with Yuka, a 39,000 year old mummified woolly mammoth recently found in the Siberian permafrost, each of the 16 essays in Animals Strike Curious Poses investigates a different famous animal named and immortalized by humans. Modeled loosely after a medieval bestiary, these witty, playful, whipsmart essays traverse history, myth, science, and more, bringing each beast v...(展开全部)

Beginning with Yuka, a 39,000-year-old mummified woolly mammoth recently found in the Siberian permafrost, each of the sixteen essays in Animals Strike Curious Poses investigates a different famous animal named and immortalised by humans. Here are the starling that inspired Mozart with its song, Darwin’s tortoise Harriet, and in an extraordinary essay, Jumbo the elephant (and h...(展开全部)

Another title from series favourite John Dickson Carr, writing under pseudonym Carter Dickson, first published in 1934. One of the top novels from one of the top writers of Golden Age mysteries, The White Priory Murders features an impossible puzzle and the Crime Classics series’ first outing for one of Dickson/Carr’s great series detectives, Sir Henry Merrivale. Set at Christm...(展开全部)