Anne Rice, creator of the Vampire Lestat, the Mayfair witches and the amazing worlds they inhabit, now gives us the first in a new series of novels linked together by the fledgling vampire David Talbot, who has set out to become a chronicler of his fellow Undead. The novel opens in present-day Paris in a crowded café, where David meets Pandora. She is two thousand years old, a...(展开全部)

In this first of a series, David Talbot, vampire survivor of "Memnoch the Devil", calls forth Pandora, last seen in "Queen of the Damned", to tell her own extraordinary tale. Once a mortal girl in ancient Rome, she was given immortality by Marius, her lover and the dark genius of the Lestat novels.

Anne Rice, creator of the Vampire Lestat, the Mayfair witches and the amazing worlds they inhabit, now gives us the first in a new series of novels linked together by the fledgling vampire David Talbot, who has set out to become a chronicler of his fellow Undead. The novel opens in present-day Paris in a crowded café, where David meets Pandora. She is two thousand years old, a...(展开全部)

Anne Rice, creator of the Vampire Lestat, the Mayfair witches and the amazing worlds they inhabit, now gives us the first in a new series of novels linked together by the fledgling vampire David Talbot, who has set out to become a chronicler of his fellow Undead. The novel opens in present-day Paris in a crowded café, where David meets Pandora. She is two thousand years old, a...(展开全部)

作者简介： 素德•文卡特斯（SudhirVenkatesh，1966—），美国社会学家，哥伦比亚大学教授。他的主要研究领域为城市犯罪组织、毒品交易及卖淫等地下经济现象，有很多关于美国贫困问题的著述，同时还参与了法国和美国郊区贫困的比较研究项目。他自称“有着发育过度的好奇心和发育不良的恐惧感”，常常不顾环境险恶，深入一线进行田野调查，贡献了精彩绝伦的调查笔记。 文卡特斯的代表性著作是《纽约时报》上榜畅销好书《城中城：社会学家的街头发现》（又译《黑帮老大的一天》）。该书还曾获得《经济学人》杂志颁发的年度最佳图书奖。他的作品经常被《纽约时报》《芝加哥论坛报》《华盛顿邮报》等刊载。 译者简介： 李斌，毕业于南京大学，获社会学硕士学位。2004年起创办网站“社会学吧”。该网站坚持以促进中国社会学发展为宗旨，服务于广大社会学师生和爱好者，目前已经发展为国内较大的...(展开全部)

Herman Melville was born in New York City on August 1st, 1819, the third of eight children.At the age of 7 Melville contracted scarlet fever which was to permanently diminish his eyesight.At this time

Every night, a pageant of Greek mythology circles overhead. Perseus flies to the rescue of Andromeda, Orion faces the charge of the snorting Bull, and the ship of the Argonauts sails in search of the Golden Fleece. Constellations are the invention of the human imagination, not of nature. They are an expression of the human desire to impress its own order upon the apparent chaos...(展开全部)

Bannermen Tales is the first book in English to offer a comprehensive study of zidishu (bannermen tales)―a popular storytelling genre created by the Manchus in early eighteenth-century Beijing. Contextualizing zidishu in Qing dynasty Beijing, this book examines both bilingual (Manchu-Chinese) and pure Chinese texts, recalls performance venues and features, and discusses their c...(展开全部)

It is estimated that some three million people died in the Soviet forced-labour camps of Kolyma, in the northeastern area of Siberia. Shalamov himself spent seventeen years there, and in these stories he vividly captures the lives of ordinary people caught up in terrible circumstances, whose hopes and plans extended to further than a few hours. This new enlarged edition combine...(展开全部)

瓦尔拉姆·沙拉莫夫（Варлам Шаламов，1907－1982） 俄苏著名作家，出生于沃洛格达一个神甫家庭。曾因“政治问题”三次遭逮捕判刑，在远北地区的苦寒荒僻之地科雷马度过了十五年劳改生涯。1956年获平反回到莫斯科。1979年健康恶化，住入残老院，失明失聪，直至去世。著有系列作品“科雷马故事”和“科雷马诗抄”等。