A Thrilling New Romantic Suspense from the Genre's Newest StarPiper McKenna couldn't be more thrilled that her prodigal brother, Reef, has returned to Yancey, Alaska, after five years. But her happine

Since the mid-1980s, US audiences have watched the majority of movies they see on a video platform, be it VHS, DVD, Blu-ray, Video On Demand, or streaming media. Annual video revenues have exceeded box office returns for over twenty-five years. In short, video has become the structuring discourse of US movie culture. "Killer Tapes and Shattered Screens" examines how prerecorded...(展开全部)

When Jamaican recording engineers Osbourne "King Tubby" Ruddock, Errol Thompson, and Lee "Scratch" Perry began crafting "dub" music in the early 1970s, they were initiating a musical revolution that continues to have worldwide influence. Dub is a sub-genre of Jamaican reggae that flourished during reggae's "golden age" of the late 1960s through the early 1980s. Dub involves rem...(展开全部)

詹姆斯·A. 赖利（James A. Reilly），史学家，多伦多大学历史学教授，毕生专门研究叙利亚城市的社会史。詹姆斯于1981年在贝鲁特美国大学获得文学硕士学位，1987年在美国乔治敦大学获得博士学位。自1987年以来，他一直在多伦多大学教授中东现代史，经常在黎巴嫩和叙利亚生活和研究。他曾于1974~2010年间两次旅居叙利亚，深入了解了当地的社会与文化。其代表作有《叙利亚小镇》（2002）与《奥斯曼帝国时期的黎巴嫩城镇》（2016）。 王静，西安外国语大学英文学院副教授、硕士生导师，本科翻译实践报告优秀指导教师。日本国立广岛大学教育学研究科英语教育学博士，美国加州大学圣塔芭芭拉分校国家公派访问学者，精通中日英三种语言，研究领域为跨文化语用学、二语习得、英语教育学、笔译、口译、复语翻译等，擅长实证研究。近年来从事口译、同传和笔译工作研究，为陕西...(展开全部)

詹姆斯·A. 赖利（James A. Reilly），史学家，多伦多大学历史学教授，毕生专门研究叙利亚城市的社会史。詹姆斯于1981年在贝鲁特美国大学获得文学硕士学位，1987年在美国乔治敦大学获得博士学位。自1987年以来，他一直在多伦多大学教授中东现代史，经常在黎巴嫩和叙利亚生活和研究。他曾于1974~2010年间两次旅居叙利亚，深入了解了当地的社会与文化。其代表作有《叙利亚小镇》（2002）与《奥斯曼帝国时期的黎巴嫩城镇》（2016）。 王静，西安外国语大学英文学院副教授、硕士生导师，本科翻译实践报告优秀指导教师。日本国立广岛大学教育学研究科英语教育学博士，美国加州大学圣塔芭芭拉分校国家公派访问学者，精通中日英三种语言，研究领域为跨文化语用学、二语习得、英语教育学、笔译、口译、复语翻译等，擅长实证研究。近年来从事口译、同传和笔译工作研究，为陕西...(展开全部)

How did the lands that are today Syria survive the vicissitudes of centuries of Ottoman, Egyptian, and French rule, only to stand in ruins today, shattered by a brutal civil war? To provide answers, James Reilly traces five centuries of Syrian history, from the Ottoman period to the present. Reilly brings to life the myriad historical, cultural, social, economic, and political ...(展开全部)

本书作者乔纳森•帕歇尔和安东尼•塔利，两位作者都是美国著名的二战问题专家，对二次世界大战美日间的战争、特别是中途岛海战有着长期的非常严谨的研究。 随着本书在欧美等地区的发行，作者乔纳森•帕歇尔和安东尼•塔利的研究成果逐渐被西方历史学界所肯定，学术界对此战役的认知也因此得到了修正。两位作者也因为本书的出版而被誉为中途岛海战研究领域的权威。

Many consider the Battle of Midway to have turned the tide of the Pacific War. It is without question one of the most famous battles in history. Now, for the first time since Gordon W. Prange’s bestselling Miracle at Midway, Jonathan Parshall and Anthony Tully offer a new interpretation of this great naval engagement. Unlike previous accounts, Shattered Sword makes extensive us...(展开全部)

In the mid 1990s, at a vast hotel complex on a private Florida beach, dozens of bankers from JP Morgan gathered for what was to become a legendary off-site meeting. It was a wild weekend. But among the drinking, nightclubbing and fist-fights lay a more serious purpose - to assess the possibility of building a business around the new-fangled concepts of credit derivatives. The g...(展开全部)