Postcards as a medium of correspondence became popular in the early years of the twentieth century. This soon became a flood as hundreds of thousands of postcards found their way into the postal syste

"Postcards from the Cinema" is the book Serge Daney, one of the greatest of film critics, never wrote. It is based around an interview that was to be the starting point for a book, a project cut short by Daney's death. Postcards turns a history of cinema into a profound meditation on the art and politics of film. Daney's passionate and lucid engagement with film, combined with ...(展开全部)

【英】彼得·哈特（Peter Hart） 英国一战史、军事史、口述史专家。自1981年起任职于帝国战争博物馆。20世纪 80年代至90年代，他采访了英国仅存一批一战老兵，将他们的口述历史保存在了帝国战争博物馆。自仅存几位退伍军人去世后，这些录音成为前线真实声音的罕见的来源之一。哈特的历史研究围绕这些口述材料展开，代表作有《索姆河：西线黑暗的日子》《加里波利》《一战中的战斗故事》等。 译者简介： 徐萍，吉林大学文学院世界史系教授，博士生导师，中国世界现代史学会理事。译有《现代英国的形成》、《大英帝国与第一次世界大战》《地址的故事：地址簿里隐藏的身份、种族、财富与权力密码》。

Since December 2006, The Atlantic Monthly's James Fallows has been writing some of the most discerning accounts of the economic and political transformation occuring in China. The twelve essays collected here cover a wide range of topics: from visionary tycoons and TV-battling entrepreneurs to environmental pollution and how China subsidizes our economy. Fallows expertly and lu...(展开全部)

"The New Yorker" was launched in 1925, and offers reporting, criticism, essays, fiction, poetry, humour, and cartoons. From the very outset, the founders, Harold Ross and Jane Grant, declared that their sophisticated magazine was 'not edited for the old lady in Dubuque'. "The New Yorker" has also offered great literature in short stories from such acclaimed writers as John Chee...(展开全部)

"The New Yorker" was launched in 1925, and offers reporting, criticism, essays, fiction, poetry, humour, and cartoons. From the very outset, the founders, Harold Ross and Jane Grant, declared that their sophisticated magazine was 'not edited for the old lady in Dubuque'. "The New Yorker" has also offered great literature in short stories from such acclaimed writers as John Chee...(展开全部)

The battles fought on the Eastern Front were decisive to the course of the First World War. As well as reconstructing these events, Norman Stone explores the factors that influenced their outcome and draws some unexpected conclusions. Dispelling the popular myth of an economically crippled Russia, he argues that the country was, in fact, going through a period of unprecedented ...(展开全部)

Selected from twenty years' worth of photographs by award-winning Magnum member Larry Towell, "The World From My Front Porch" is a collection of photographs of family life in northern Ontario-a romantic and beautiful rural idyll. This photo-essay is at the heart of a book that also, in separate sections of albums and found objects, explores both the history of Towell's front po...(展开全部)

Selected from twenty years' worth of photographs by award-winning Magnum member Larry Towell, "The World From My Front Porch" is a collection of photographs of family life in northern Ontario-a romantic and beautiful rural idyll. This photo-essay is at the heart of a book that also, in separate sections of albums and found objects, explores both the history of Towell's front po...(展开全部)

The Western Front evokes images of mud-spattered men in waterlogged trenches, shielded from artillery blasts and machine-gun fire by a few feet of dirt. This iconic setting was the most critical arena of the Great War, a 400-mile combat zone stretching from Belgium to Switzerland where more than three million Allied and German soldiers struggled during four years of almost cont...(展开全部)