Né en 1968 à Paris, Jérôme Ferrari est professeur de philosophie et conseiller pédagogique au Lycée français d’Abou Dhabi depuis la rentrée, après avoir enseigné au lycée international d’Alger puis au lycée Fesch d’Ajaccio. Ce quadragénaire à la silhouette juvénile et au regard intense, qui refuse de se dire philosophe, a bâti en six romans une oeuvre d’une grande puissance poé...(展开全部)

This sweeping generational novel, which spans the 20th century, begins with an old man considering a photograph of his long-dead siblings and mother. His bitterness about his family, with its absent father and far older brothers and sisters, is painful to him still. Yet this familial bitterness pales when compared with his profound irritation at the recent disappearance of the ...(展开全部)

【作者简介】 马克·辛诺特（Mark Synnott）是《纽约时报》畅销榜作家，大岩壁攀登的先驱者。国际登山向导协会（IFMGA）认证的登山向导，美国空军伞降救援队教练员。于1993年获得哲学学士学位。他热衷对未被攀登和未被开发的岩壁的发起探索挑战，他到过30多个国家或地区，是第一批全面探索加拿大北极地区巴芬岛偏远东海岸的登山者之一。2019年春天，他通过东北山脊登顶珠穆朗玛峰。 马克·辛诺特还是一名出色的记者，为美国《国家地理》杂志定期撰稿，此前的个人经历著作《不可能的攀登》曾登上《纽约时报》畅销榜。 【译者简介】 舍其：译者、作者、教育工作者，热爱读书、写字及户外运动，现居美国。毕业于北京大学，在校期间曾担任北大登山队攀登队长，攀登过多座雪山。毕业后曾骑行青藏，并著有《给我一条地平线》。 【校订者简介】 孙斌：中国登山者，登山向导，攀登教练，国家...(展开全部)

荣赫鹏（1863-1942），英国军官，皇家地理学会珠峰委员会首届主席，攀登珠峰的提倡者和推动者，也是十九世纪最著名的英国探险家之一，旅行范围多在印度北部和中国西藏地区，对地理研究方面贡献良多。二十四岁时只身穿越戈壁沙漠，还发现了一条从中国通往印度的新路径。这位帝国时代的军人也是运动健将，创下三百码短跑世界纪录。他也致力于筹组探险团，从事人类历史上头几次珠峰攀登的尝试。此外，他还是位作家，晚年成为宣扬藏传佛教的神秘主义者。

荣赫鹏（1863-1942），英国军官，皇家地理学会珠峰委员会首届主席，攀登珠峰的提倡者和推动者，也是十九世纪最著名的英国探险家之一，旅行范围多在印度北部和中国西藏地区，对地理研究方面贡献良多。二十四岁时只身穿越戈壁沙漠，还发现了一条从中国通往印度的新路径。这位帝国时代的军人也是运动健将，创下三百码短跑世界纪录。他也致力于筹组探险团，从事人类历史上头几次珠峰攀登的尝试。此外，他还是位作家，晚年成为宣扬藏传佛教的神秘主义者。

How an obscure Puritan sermon came to be seen as a founding document of American identity and exceptionalism “For we must consider that we shall be as a city upon a hill,” John Winthrop warned his fellow Puritans at New England’s founding in 1630. More than three centuries later, Ronald Reagan remade that passage into a timeless celebration of American promise. How were Winthro...(展开全部)

How an obscure Puritan sermon came to be seen as a founding document of American identity and exceptionalism “For we must consider that we shall be as a city upon a hill,” John Winthrop warned his fellow Puritans at New England’s founding in 1630. More than three centuries later, Ronald Reagan remade that passage into a timeless celebration of American promise. How were Winthro...(展开全部)

A brilliant book celebrating improbability as the engine that drives life, by the acclaimed author of The Selfish Gene and The Blind Watchmaker. The human eye is so complex and works so precisely that surely, one might believe, its current shape and function must be the product of design. How could such an intricate object have come about by chance? Tackling this subject--in wr...(展开全部)

A brilliant book celebrating improbability as the engine that drives life, by the acclaimed author of The Selfish Gene and The Blind Watchmaker. The human eye is so complex and works so precisely that surely, one might believe, its current shape and function must be the product of design. How could such an intricate object have come about by chance? Tackling this subject--in wr...(展开全部)

乔莫·肯雅塔(1893-1978)，肯尼亚政治家，1964年任肯尼亚总统，被誉为“肯尼亚国父”。他是一名出色的人类学学者，于1938年完成.人类学著作《面向肯尼亚山》，这是一部当时少有的由非洲人自己写就的民俗专著，由肯雅塔的导师英国人类学家布罗尼斯拉夫-马林诺夫斯基作序。