Austerlitz, Wagram, Borodino, Trafalgar, Leipzig, Waterloo: these are the places most closely associated with the Napoleonic Wars. But how did this period of nearly continuous warfare affect the world beyond Europe? The immensity of the fighting waged by France against England, Prussia, Austria, and Russia, and the immediate consequences of the tremors that spread from France a...(展开全部)

Trade disputes are usually understood as conflicts between countries with competing national interests, but as Matthew C. Klein and Michael Pettis show, they are often the unexpected result of domestic political choices to serve the interests of the rich at the expense of workers and ordinary retirees. Klein and Pettis trace the origins of today’s trade wars to decisions made b...(展开全部)

In Obama's Wars , Bob Woodward provides the most intimate and sweeping portrait yet of the young president as commander in chief. Drawing on internal memos, classified documents, meeting notes and hundreds of hours of interviews with most of the key players, including the president, Woodward tells the inside story of Obama making the critical decisions on the Afghanistan War, ...(展开全部)

Roth's award-winning first book instantly established its author's reputation as a writer of explosive wit, merciless insight, and a fierce compassion for even the most self-deluding of his characters. Goodbye, Columbus is the story of Neil Klugman and pretty, spirited Brenda Patimkin, he of poor Newark, she of suburban Short Hills, who meet one summer break and dive into an af...(展开全部)

一九九七年，菲利普•罗斯凭《美国牧歌》获得普利策奖。一九九八年，他荣获白宫颁发的美国国家艺术奖章，并于二〇〇二年获得美国艺术与人文学院最高奖——小说金奖，之前获奖者包括约翰•多斯•帕索斯、威廉•福克纳、索尔•贝娄等。他曾分别两度获得美国国家图书奖、美国笔会/福克纳奖和美国书评协会奖。 二〇〇五年，《反美阴谋》一书荣获二〇〇三至二〇〇四年度美国历史学家协会奖，被该协会誉为“一部反映美国主题的历史小说杰作”，并被《纽约时报•书评周刊》、《旧金山纪事报》、《波士顿环球报》、《芝加哥太阳时报》、《洛杉矶时报•书评周刊》、《华盛顿邮报•书评世界》、《时代》周刊、《新闻周刊》等许多报刊评选为年度好书。在英国，《反美阴谋》荣获W.H.史密斯年度好书奖，菲利普•罗斯是该奖设立四十六年来第一位两度获奖的作家。 二〇〇五年，罗斯成为第三位在世时被收入“美国文库”出版作品...(展开全部)

【作者简介】 维克托·戴维斯·汉森(Victor Davis Hanson)，美国军事历史学家，现任斯坦福大学胡佛研究院、马丁和伊莉·安德森基金会高级研究员，专注于古典历史和军事历史研究。著有《杀戮与文化》（2016年由甲骨文推出中文版）等。现居住于美国加利福尼亚州塞尔马。 【译者简介】 张炜晨，武汉作家协会、摄影家协会会员，爱好文学、旅游、摄影的理性派工科男。著有《战场决胜者：史上最不可思议的战役复盘》（1—3册）、《战场决胜者：统帅、战士和罪魁》（上下册）等，译有《美国独立战争军服、武器图解百科1775—1783》、《西班牙摩尔人和地中海巴巴里海盗的故事》（合译）等。

This is an account of the schism that developed in linguistics during the 1960s and 70s, between Noam Chomsky with his revolutionary ideas about mental structure and universal grammar, and his disciples who took his ideas in a direction he was unhappy with. The repercussions of this divisive and acrimonious dispute remain in the ways that linguists look at language and the mind...(展开全部)

This Newbery Honor tale is now in paperback Holling Hoodhood is really in for it. He's just started seventh grade with Mrs. Baker, a teacher he knows is out to get him. Why else would she make him read Shakespeare . . . outside of class? The year is 1967, and everyone has bigger things than homework to worry about. There's Vietnam for one thing, and then there's the family bus...(展开全部)

关于作者 丹尼尔 • 凯斯 Daniel Keyes，1927-2014 年 1927 年生于纽约。他曾在杂志社工作（即后来的漫威漫画），在转行任中学老师时，开始从事小说创作。因《献给阿尔吉侬的花束》荣获“雨果奖”和“星云奖”。拥有心理学背景的丹尼尔 • 凯斯，擅长在小说中探讨人类最精微、最深层的心理问题。他在俄亥俄大学任教时，便开始以多重人格为创作的方向，1981 年出版的《24 个比利》，让他的名字与“精 神分析小说”划上等号。2014 年 6 月 15 日丹尼尔 • 凯斯因肺炎并发症于佛罗里达州南部的家中去世。 关于比利 威廉 • 斯坦利 • 米利根 William Stanley Milligan, 1955-2014 年 又被称为比利 • 米利根（Billy Milligan），1955年生于迈阿密。他于 1977 年因在俄亥俄州立大学犯下...(展开全部)

In this newly revised and updated edition of his essential work, John Prados adds his concluding findings on U.S. covert operations in Angola, Afghanistan, Nicaragua, and the Persian Gulf. Acclaimed as a landmark book about U.S. intelligence agencies in the postwar era, Presidents' Secret Wars describes the secret warfare mounted by the president, the CIA, and the Pentagon_oper...(展开全部)