对意大利人的个性以及他们怎样安排自己的生活和国家有入木三分的刻划。

路易吉·巴尔齐尼（Luigi Barzini，1908-1984），意大利著名记者、作家，被誉为 “哲学家兼英语语言大师”；年轻时随父迁居美国，从哥伦比亚大学新闻专业毕业后成为美国《晚邮报》最有名的驻外记者，二战结束后返回意大利，成为几家报社的主编，1958-1972年任意大利众议院议员。

对意大利人的个性以及他们怎样安排自己的生活和国家有入木三分的刻划。

路易吉·巴尔齐尼（Luigi Barzini，1908-1984），意大利著名记者、作家，被誉为 “哲学家兼英语语言大师”；年轻时随父迁居美国，从哥伦比亚大学新闻专业毕业后成为美国《晚邮报》最有名的驻外记者，二战结束后返回意大利，成为几家报社的主编，1958-1972年任意大利众议院议员。

In recent decades, America has been waging a veritable war on fat in which not just public health authorities, but every sector of society is engaged in constant “fat talk” aimed at educating, badgering, and ridiculing heavy people into shedding pounds. We hear a great deal about the dangers of fatness to the nation, but little about the dangers of today’s epidemic of fat talk ...(展开全部)

In recent decades, America has been waging a veritable war on fat in which not just public health authorities, but every sector of society is engaged in constant “fat talk” aimed at educating, badgering, and ridiculing heavy people into shedding pounds. We hear a great deal about the dangers of fatness to the nation, but little about the dangers of today’s epidemic of fat talk ...(展开全部)

在线阅读本书 Winner of The Independent Foreign Fiction Award, this “hauntingly beautiful novel, written by a North Vietnamese Army veteran, manages to humanize completely a people who up until now have usually been cast as robotic fanatics.” — Sunday Times

The night after a shooting star is seen streaking through the sky from Mars, a cylinder is discovered on Horsell Common in London. At first, naive locals approach the cylinder armed just with a white flag only to be quickly killed by an all-destroying heat-ray, as terrifying tentacled invaders emerge. Soon the whole of human civilisation is under threat, as powerful Martians bu...(展开全部)

The night after a shooting star is seen streaking through the sky from Mars, a cylinder is discovered on Horsell Common in London. At first, naive locals approach the cylinder armed just with a white flag only to be quickly killed by an all-destroying heat-ray, as terrifying tentacled invaders emerge. Soon the whole of human civilisation is under threat, as powerful Martians bu...(展开全部)

马丁·多尔蒂，男，著有《维京人——挪威人和凯尔特人的历史》，也写过不少军事技术图书，如《中世纪的武器和作战技巧》，并参与《古代战争》和《中世纪战争》的编写，曾担任国防顾问，也著有自卫及现代军事技术相关的图书。