E.B.怀特（E.B.White，1899—1985） “二十世纪最伟大的美国随笔作家”，曾获得美国“国家文学奖章”，入选“美国文学艺术学院50名永久院士”。作为《纽约客》主要撰稿人的怀特一手奠定了影响深远的“《纽约客》文风”。怀特对尘世上的一切都怀着“面对复杂，保持欢喜”的态度，其人格魅力与文字修养一样山高水长。 除了他终生挚爱的随笔，他还为孩子们写了三本书：《精灵鼠小弟》、《夏洛的网》与《吹小号的天鹅》，被誉为“二十世纪读者最多、最受爱戴的童话”。 《纽约时报》为怀特逝世发表的讣告中称“如同宪法第一修正案一样，E.B.怀特的原则与风范长存”。

Too personal for an almanac, too sophisticated for a domestic history, and too funny and self-doubting for a literary journal, One Man's Meat can best be described as a primer of a countryman's lessons a timeless recounting of experience that will never go out of style.

E.B.怀特（E.B.White，1899—1985） “二十世纪最伟大的美国随笔作家”，曾获得美国“国家文学奖章”，入选“美国文学艺术学院50名永久院士”。作为《纽约客》主要撰稿人的怀特一手奠定了影响深远的“《纽约客》文风”。怀特对尘世上的一切都怀着“面对复杂，保持欢喜”的态度，其人格魅力与文字修养一样山高水长。 除了他终生挚爱的随笔，他还为孩子们写了三本书：《精灵鼠小弟》、《夏洛的网》与《吹小号的天鹅》，被誉为“二十世纪读者最多、最受爱戴的童话”。 《纽约时报》为怀特逝世发表的讣告中称“如同宪法第一修正案一样，E.B.怀特的原则与风范长存”。

Too personal for an almanac, too sophisticated for a domestic history, and too funny and self-doubting for a literary journal, One Man's Meat can best be described as a primer of a countryman's lessons a timeless recounting of experience that will never go out of style.

In this book, Lee draws on that wealth of experience and depth of insight to offer his views on today’s world and what it might look like in 20 years. This is no dry geopolitical treatise. Nor is it a thematic account of the twists and turns in global affairs. Instead, in this broad-sweep narrative that takes in America, China, Asia and Europe, he parses their society, probes t...(展开全部)

In this book, Lee draws on that wealth of experience and depth of insight to offer his views on today’s world and what it might look like in 20 years. This is no dry geopolitical treatise. Nor is it a thematic account of the twists and turns in global affairs. Instead, in this broad-sweep narrative that takes in America, China, Asia and Europe, he parses their society, probes t...(展开全部)

In the visionary tradition of Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring, One Square Inch of Silence alerts us to beauty that we take for granted and sounds an urgent environmental alarm. Natural silence is our nation’s fastest-disappearing resource, warns Emmy-winning acoustic ecologist Gordon Hempton, who has made it his mission to record and preserve it in all its variety—before these ...(展开全部)

丁乐梅（Edwin John Dingle，1881年4月6日—1972年1月27日）是英国的一名新闻记者，从小就对中国怀有浓厚的兴趣，多年之后，为自己取了中文名字“丁乐梅”。1909年3月4日，他首次进入中国旅行。他从上海出发，途经南京、汉口、宜昌、重庆、四川宜宾、云南昭通、昆明、楚雄、大理、腾冲等地，于1910年2月14日进入缅甸。此后他多次进入中国，并作为记者亲历了中国的辛亥革命，在汉口、北京等地采访到了黎元洪和袁世凯等人。丁乐梅一生著作颇丰，大部分都与中国相关，包括《1911-1912亲历中国革命》《徒步穿越中国》《我在西藏的生活》等，为西方人了解中国做出了很大贡献。

Part legal drama, part political procedural, Abolition is above all a passionate argument against the death penalty and the rare story of politicians' willingness to fight for their principles, even against the popular will. Horrified by the guillotine execution of one of his clients in 1972, Robert Badinter dedicated his life to the abolition of the death penalty. Here, he rec...(展开全部)

As aces and jokers throughout the country gather in Atlanta for a crucial Democratic convention (Ace in the Hole: Wild Cards, 6, LJ 2/15/90 ), a private investigator and a vigilante in New York City stalk the elusive killer of the notorious joker known as Chrysalis. Continuing the saga of a modern world profoundly changed by the "wild card virus," this novel blends fast-moving ...(展开全部)