This detailed and harrowing study of a single group of mostly middle-aged policemen from provincial Germany has achieved classic status among histories of the Holocaust. Far from being demonic and hate-filled sadists, most of the group had no history of anti-semitism or of far right politics. Browning explores the motivation of these men and the horribly familiar mechanisms of ...(展开全部)

The shocking account of how a unit of average middle-aged Germans became the cold-blooded murderers of tens of thousands of Jews.

In this compelling new book, published to coincide with the sixtieth anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz, highly acclaimed author and broadcaster Laurence Rees tells the definitive history of the most notorious Nazi institution of them all. We discover how Auschwitz evolved from a concentration camp for Polish political prisoners into the site of the largest mass murder ...(展开全部)

The documents emerging from the secret police archives of the former Soviet bloc have caused scandal after scandal, compromising revered cultural figures and abruptly ending political careers. Police Aesthetics offers a revealing and responsible approach to such materials. Taking advantage of the partial opening of the secret police archives in Russia and Romania, Vatulescu foc...(展开全部)

The documents emerging from the secret police archives of the former Soviet bloc have caused scandal after scandal, compromising revered cultural figures and abruptly ending political careers. Police Aesthetics offers a revealing and responsible approach to such materials. Taking advantage of the partial opening of the secret police archives in Russia and Romania, Vatulescu foc...(展开全部)

Through a series of readings in the work of the decisive triumvirate of Victorian fiction, Dickens, Trollope and Wilkie Collins, Miller investigates the novel as an oblique form of social control. From the Inside Flap With the appearance of D.A. Miller's remarkable book, the Victorian novel has its most dazzling critic in years. . . . Miller's subject is not so much the police ...(展开全部)

In 2012, Ben Bernanke, chairman of the U.S. Federal Reserve, gave a series of lectures about the Federal Reserve and the 2008 financial crisis, as part of a course at George Washington University on the role of the Federal Reserve in the economy. In this unusual event, Bernanke revealed important background and insights into the central bank's crucial actions during the worst f...(展开全部)

作者简介 格桑·卡纳法尼，巴勒斯坦著名作家和民族解放运动的领导人之一。1936生于巴勒斯坦加沙市。1956 年他到科威特教书谋生，同时积极从事文学创作活动。他的早期小说《被偷去的衬衫》，获科威特短篇小说征文一等奖。1963年，他写出了巴勒斯坦文学史上里程碑式的作品《阳光下的人们》。1972年7月8日被暗杀，成了巴勒斯坦、以至阿拉伯文学史上把文学与革命事业紧紧联系在一起直至献身的一个范例。格桑·卡纳法尼也曾来中国访问，写过关于中国的游记，对中国人民怀有友好的感情。 译者简介 郅溥浩，笔名亚尼、沙联。中国社科院外国文学研究所研究员。1964 年毕业于北京大学东语系，先后在大马士革大学、开罗大学进修。曾任中国社科院外文研究所东方文学室主任，北京大学东方文学研究中心兼职教授，突尼斯“全国翻译、研究、文献整理学会”会员，中国阿拉伯文学研究会副会长，中国作家协会...(展开全部)

Anne Carson has been acclaimed by her peers as the most imaginative poet writing today. In a recent profile, The New York Times Magazine paid tribute to her amazing ability to combine the classical and the modern, the mundane and the surreal, in a body of work that is sure to endure. In Men in the Off Hours , Carson offers further proof of her tantalizing gifts. Reinventi...(展开全部)