(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed) With a new Introduction by Tim Hilton As a memoir elevated to the level of fine art, John Ruskin’s Praeterita stands alongside The Education of Henry Adams and the confessions of Augustine, Rousseau, and Tolstoy. A luminous account of his childhood and youth, Praeterita is the last major work of the revolutionary nineteenth-century critic. Wri...(展开全部)

赫尔岑（1812—1870），俄国思想家、作家、革命家。少年时代受十二月党人思想影响，立志走反对沙皇专制制度的道路。1829 年进入莫斯科大学数理系。1835 年，他以“对社会有极大危险的自由思想者”的罪名被流放。1842 年回到莫斯科，立即重新投入战斗，并受到迫害。1847 年初，赫尔岑携家到达欧洲，成为流亡者，从此再未返回俄国。1848 年欧洲革命的失败，使赫尔岑思想上发生危机，触发他重新思考社会根本问题。1852 年他来到伦敦，随后建立了“自由俄罗斯印刷所”，出版了《北极星》和《警钟》两种刊物，登载揭露沙皇专制制度的文学作品和各种文章。这些刊物当时被大量秘密运回俄国，促进了解放运动的发展。1870 年 1 月，赫尔岑病逝于巴黎。 其代表作有《谁之罪》《科学中的一知半解态度》《关于研究自然的信》《法意书简》《来自彼岸》《论俄国革命思想的发展》《往...(展开全部)

赫尔岑（1812—1870），俄国思想家、作家、革命家。少年时代受十二月党人思想影响，立志走反对沙皇专制制度的道路。1829 年进入莫斯科大学数理系。1835 年，他以“对社会有极大危险的自由思想者”的罪名被流放。1842 年回到莫斯科，立即重新投入战斗，并受到迫害。1847 年初，赫尔岑携家到达欧洲，成为流亡者，从此再未返回俄国。1848 年欧洲革命的失败，使赫尔岑思想上发生危机，触发他重新思考社会根本问题。1852 年他来到伦敦，随后建立了“自由俄罗斯印刷所”，出版了《北极星》和《警钟》两种刊物，登载揭露沙皇专制制度的文学作品和各种文章。这些刊物当时被大量秘密运回俄国，促进了解放运动的发展。1870 年 1 月，赫尔岑病逝于巴黎。 其代表作有《谁之罪》《科学中的一知半解态度》《关于研究自然的信》《法意书简》《来自彼岸》《论俄国革命思想的发展》《往...(展开全部)

When the official history of twentieth-century Wall Street is written, it will certainly contain more than a few pages on Michael Steinhardt. One of the most successful money managers in the history of "The Street," Steinhardt far outshone his peers by achieving an average annual return of over thirty percent-significantly greater than that of every market benchmark. During his...(展开全部)

With the death of her aunt, Maria Stepanova is left to sift through an apartment full of faded photographs, old postcards, letters, diaries, and heaps of souvenirs: a withered repository of a century of life in Russia. Carefully reassembled with calm, steady hands, these shards tell the story of how a seemingly ordinary Jewish family somehow managed to survive the myriad persec...(展开全部)

With the death of her aunt, the narrator is left to sift through an apartment full of faded photographs, old postcards, letters, diaries, and heaps of souvenirs: a withered repository of an entire century of life in Russia. Carefully reassembled with calm, steady hands, these shards tell the story of an ordinary family that somehow managed to survive the myriad persecutions and...(展开全部)

" Out of My Life and Thought shatters the old myth and allows us to glimpse the real Albert Schweitzer, a man whose moral example is as relevant and compelling in the 1990s as it was in the 1930s on first publication. Eloquent and heartfelt."-- Los Angeles Times</P> Of the many highly esteemed books Albert Schweitzer penned in his life, he valued his autobiography the most. ...(展开全部)

When the official history of twentieth-century Wall Street is written, it will certainly contain more than a few pages on Michael Steinhardt. One of the most successful money managers in the history of "The Street," Steinhardt far outshone his peers by achieving an average annual return of over thirty percent-significantly greater than that of every market benchmark. During his...(展开全部)