1930-something: a professional hunter is passing through an unnamed Central European country that is in the thrall of a vicious dictator. The hunter wonders whether he can penetrate undetected into the dictator’s private compound. He does. He has the potential target in his sites and is wondering whether to pull the trigger when security catches up with him. Imprisoned, torture...(展开全部)

Rogue Male is one of the classic thrillers of the 20th century. An Englishman plans to assassinate the dictator of a European country. But he is foiled at the last moment and falls into the hands of ruthless and inventive torturers. They devise for him an ingenious and diplomatic death but, for once, they bungle the job and he escapes. But England provides no safety from his pu...(展开全部)

Rogue Male is one of the classic thrillers of the 20th century. An Englishman plans to assassinate the dictator of a European country. But he is foiled at the last moment and falls into the hands of ruthless and inventive torturers. They devise for him an ingenious and diplomatic death but, for once, they bungle the job and he escapes. But England provides no safety from his pu...(展开全部)

故事背景發生於一九三○年代，歐洲政局詭譎，戰爭一觸即發。一名英國獵人密謀暗殺歐洲某國獨裁領袖，卻在最後一刻事跡敗露而落入敵軍手中，慘遭刑求審訊，終在敵人的策劃失誤中生還，展開跨國界脫險行動。獵人無從獲得政府援護，被迫離開社會，在環境嚴峻的鄉間繼續逃亡，他必須擺脫身份與文明的束縛，以生存本能支撐自己—獵人已然成為被追獵的野獸，在他為自己挖掘的洞穴裡重生。 本書為具有哲學性的懸疑故事，當獵人面對土地、萬物之互動牽引，彷彿生命與自然的融鑄與辯證，為跌宕起伏的情節，增添了雋永的詩意。特別在追緝與逃亡、光與暗、搜索與隱藏等等各種二元對立的情節下，無論動作、認知與記憶，皆能巧妙將正反方做出對位情緒轉換。作者以精準篇幅描述了一場懸念充滿的獵逃，更處處顯見文本核心—偽裝與掩護之堆砌，從角色動機到身份與去向，藉由節制的文字，營造高度張力，除了絕佳的驚悚橋段，對於暴力的...(展开全部)

In this eagerly anticipated memoir, Palin paints an intimate portrait of growing up in the wilds of Alaska; meeting her lifelong love; her decision to enter politics; the importance of faith and family; and the unique joys and trials of life as a high-profile working mother. She also opens up for the first time about the 2008 presidential race, providing a rare, mom's-eye view ...(展开全部)

In the summer of 1941, at the height of the war in the Western Desert, a bored and eccentric young officer, David Stirling, came up with a plan that was radical and entirely against the rules: a small undercover unit that would inflict mayhem behind enemy lines. Despite intense opposition, Winston Churchill personally gave Stirling permission to recruit the toughest, brightest ...(展开全部)

Ballantine paperback, 1973; previously serialized in Worlds of If Magazine (1968). Third in the STARCHILD TRILOGY, which also includes "The Reefs of Space" (1964) and "Starchild" (1965). Here, a future is depicted wherein mankind is ruled by a brutal authoritarian totalitarian government known as the Plan of Man, enforced by a computerized surveillance state.

Summary An examination of how nonprofessional archivists, especially media fans, practice cultural preservation on the Internet and how “digital cultural memory” differs radically from print-era archiving. The task of archiving was once entrusted only to museums, libraries, and other institutions that acted as repositories of culture in material form. But with the rise of digit...(展开全部)

Economics is not widely considered to be one of the sexier sciences. The annual Nobel Prize winner in that field never receives as much publicity as his or her compatriots in peace, literature, or physics. But if such slights are based on the notion that economics is dull, or that economists are concerned only with finance itself, Steven D. Levitt will change some minds. In Fre...(展开全部)

First introduced in Freakonomics , here is the full story of Sudhir Venkatesh, the sociology grad student who infiltrated one of Chicago's most notorious gangs The story of the young sociologist who studied a Chicago crack-dealing gang from the inside captured the world's attention when it was first described in Freakonomics . Gang Leader for a Day is the fascinating fu...(展开全部)