Primo Levi, author of Survival in Auschwitz and The Periodic Table, wrote books that have been called the essential works of humankind. Yet he lived an unremarkable existence, remaining until his death in the house in which he'd been born; managing a paint and varnish factory for thirty years; and tending his invalid mother to the last. Now, in a matchless account, Ian Thomson ...(展开全部)

Primo Levi wrote books that have been called "the essential works of humankind," including Survival in Auschwitz and The Periodic Table. Yet he lived an unremarkable existence, remaining to his death in the house in which he'd been born; managing a paint and varnish factory for thirty years; and tending his invalid mother to the end. Now, in a matchless account, Ian Thomson unr...(展开全部)

【作者简介】 伊恩·汤姆森（Ian Thomson） 自由作家、记者，最后采访莱维的几位记者之一，也是第一位开始为莱维立传的作家，作品另有《南意大利》《你好，布莱克：海地之旅》。 ··· 【译者简介】 杨晨光 辽宁沈阳人，译作另有《休战》《被淹没与被拯救的》《最后的猎巫人》等。

李维 • 平福德，英国插画大师，擅长将记忆与想象相结合进行创作。他的处女作《五弦琴》曾荣获英国图书信托基金会幼儿读物奖“最佳插画新秀奖”。他的第二部作品《大黑狗》于2013年荣获了插画界重量级奖项——英国凯特•格林纳威奖。 约翰 • 豪，杰出的幻想艺术家之一，他凭借为《魔戒》三部曲、《纳尼亚传奇》《霍比特人》等作品创作的一系列奇幻风格插画享誉世界。 安娜 • 杨 • 吉尔伯特，素有“英国彩铅女神”之称，她华丽而精细的画风受到各界赞誉。她的许多作品被私人收藏，其中包括阿诺德•施瓦辛格和英国已故的玛格丽特公主。目前她已创作出版了《令人吃惊的德古拉》，并且还为“神秘日志”系列中的《吸血鬼的故事》《海盗传奇》《预言家的魔法》等图书担任美术指导及插画工作。

Virginia Woolf's exuberant `biography' tells the story of the cross-dressing, sex-changing Orlando who begins life as a young noble in the sixteenth century and moves through numerous historical and geographical worlds to finish as a modern woman writer in the 1920s. The book is in part a happy tribute to the `life' that her love for Vita Sackville-West had breathed into Virgin...(展开全部)

Global thinker, public intellectual and world-famous theorist of ‘liquid modernity’, Zygmunt Bauman (1925-2017) was a scholar who, despite forced migration, built a very successful academic career and, after retirement, became a prolific and popular writer and an intellectual talisman for young people everywhere. He was one of those rare scholars who, grey-haired and in his eig...(展开全部)

Revolutionary practitioner, theorist, factional chief, sparkling writer, 'ladies' man' (e.g., his affair with Frieda Kahlo), icon of the Revolution, anti-Jewish Jew, philosopher of everyday life, grand seigneur of his household, father and hunted victim, Trotsky lived a brilliant life in extraordinary times. Robert Service draws on hitherto unexamined archives and on his profou...(展开全部)

在线阅读本书 By the time Henry Kissinger was made secretary of state in 1973, he had become, according to the Gallup Poll, the most admired person in America and one of the most unlikely celebrities ever to capture the world's imagination. Yet Kissinger was also reviled by large segments of the American public, ranging from liberal intellectuals to conservative activists. Kissinge...(展开全部)

Kershaw's writing is masterly, and the individual works making up the biography, _Hubris_ and _Nemesis_, each deserve five stars. My three-star rating is aimed specifically at this one-volume edition: neither the jacket copy nor Amazon's description makes it clear that this is an abridgement, omitting ~650 pages from the original volumes and dropping all the endnotes. If you wa...(展开全部)

Book Description As his parents finished packing the few personal belongings they were permitted to take out of Germany, the bespectacled 15-year-old stood in the corner of the apartment memorizing the details of the scene. He was a bookish and reflective child, with that odd mixture of ego and insecurity that can come from growing up smart yet persecuted. "I'll be back someda...(展开全部)