To save their marriage and their sanity, the author and his wife sold their belongings, packed up their two-year-old son, and moved to a rundown farmhouse in the country without any plans past surviving the year. Living as though it were the year 1900, they struggled with recalcitrant livestock, garden-destroying bugs, rain that would not come, and their own insecurities, to ul...(展开全部)

From Publishers Weekly Manhattan freelance writer Ward and his wife, Heather, faced a steep learning curve when they abandoned harried, technology-driven lives for a year not just in the country but in the country as it was a century ago. Their mantra was, If it didn't exist in 1900, we will do without, and they did—no electricity, no telephone, no computer. This breezy account...(展开全部)

Do you want to know what life has in store? It's all here in this book. All the little things we learn in the course of our lives. A page a year, from nought to a hundred. 5: You learn that boys and girls fall in love. Incredible! 13: When will your parents learn? Not in front of your friends. 36: A dream came true, but it feels different than you thought. 45: Do you like yours...(展开全部)

Do you want to know what life has in store? It's all here in this book. All the little things we learn in the course of our lives. A page a year, from nought to a hundred. 5: You learn that boys and girls fall in love. Incredible! 13: When will your parents learn? Not in front of your friends. 36: A dream came true, but it feels different than you thought. 45: Do you like yours...(展开全部)

卡罗琳·阿巴特（Carolyn Abbate） 美国音乐学家，哈佛大学“凯瑟琳和保罗·布滕维瑟”校级教授，被《哈佛公报》（Harvard Gazette）誉为“当今世界上成就空前、受到无数赞誉的音乐历史学家之一”，研究领域包括歌剧、音乐哲学、电影及声音研究等，著有《未唱出的声音》（Unsung Voices）、《追寻歌剧》（In Search of Opera）等，其著作被翻译成多种文字。她还作为剧院的编剧和导演，活跃于学术界之外。 罗杰·帕克（Roger Parker） 英国音乐学家，伦敦国王学院“瑟斯顿·达尔特”音乐学教授、英国国家学术院院士、瑞典皇家音乐学院成员，曾获“朱塞佩·威尔第奖”“古根海姆学者奖”及英国皇家音乐协会“登特奖章”等；研究领域主要集中在歌剧上，特别是19世纪意大利歌剧。他是盖塔诺·多尼采蒂歌剧获得普遍认可的修订本的主编，参与...(展开全部)

卡罗琳·阿巴特（Carolyn Abbate） 美国音乐学家，哈佛大学“凯瑟琳和保罗·布滕维瑟”校级教授，被《哈佛公报》（Harvard Gazette）誉为“当今世界上成就空前、受到无数赞誉的音乐历史学家之一”，研究领域包括歌剧、音乐哲学、电影及声音研究等，著有《未唱出的声音》（Unsung Voices）、《追寻歌剧》（In Search of Opera）等，其著作被翻译成多种文字。她还作为剧院的编剧和导演，活跃于学术界之外。 罗杰·帕克（Roger Parker） 英国音乐学家，伦敦国王学院“瑟斯顿·达尔特”音乐学教授、英国国家学术院院士、瑞典皇家音乐学院成员，曾获“朱塞佩·威尔第奖”“古根海姆学者奖”及英国皇家音乐协会“登特奖章”等；研究领域主要集中在歌剧上，特别是19世纪意大利歌剧。他是盖塔诺·多尼采蒂歌剧获得普遍认可的修订本的主编，参与...(展开全部)

"In America" is a kaleidoscopic portrait of America on the cusp of modernity. As she did in her enormously popular novel "The Volcano Lover," Susan Sontag casts a story located in the past in a fresh, provocative light to create a fictional world full of contemporary resonance. In 1876 a group of Poles led by Maryna Zalezowska, Poland's greatest actress, emigrate to the United ...(展开全部)

The initial volume of what will become a multi-volume social history of the United States, this book treats the transmission of English culture to America. Fischer argues that during the period 1629 to 1775 the United States was settled by four large waves of English-speaking immigrants from different parts of Britain. These groups had many qualities in common; but what Fischer...(展开全部)

Eighty percent of Americans have no British ancestors. According to David Hackett Fischer, however, their day-to-day lives are profoundly influenced by folkways transplanted from Britain to the New World with the first settlers. Residual, yet persistent, aspects of these 17th Century folkways are indentifiable, Fischer argues, in areas as divers as politics, education, and atti...(展开全部)

The initial volume of what will become a multi-volume social history of the United States, this book treats the transmission of English culture to America. Fischer argues that during the period 1629 to 1775 the United States was settled by four large waves of English-speaking immigrants from different parts of Britain. These groups had many qualities in common; but what Fischer...(展开全部)