The pretty young prostitute is dead. Her alleged murderer--a minister's son--hanged himself in his jail cell. The case is closed. But the dead girl's fatherhas come to Matthew Scudder for answers, sending the unlicensed private investigator in search of terrible truths about a life that was lived and lost in a sordid world of perversion and pleasures.

Labyrinth of the Past is a collection of short stories that explore the lives of young women raised by single mothers in China, a country that is unforgiving to unmarried women and their children. A dark, yet engrossing look at the lives of these girls, each story examines their personal struggles with family and the greater world around them. Coping with the stigma of being th...(展开全部)

扎卡里·赛尔·席夫曼（Zachary Sayre Schiffman），美国当代著名历史学家，1980年毕业于芝加哥大学历史系，获博士学位。1987年至今一直任教于美国东北伊利诺伊大学历史系，现担任该系伯纳德J.布勒梅尔杰出研究教授。研究重点：文艺复兴和近代早期欧洲历史，在法国启蒙运动史方面着力尤多。先后出版四部著作，其中影响大的就是《过去的诞生》，该书奠定了其在美国史学界的重要地位。 梅义征，安徽省太湖县人，历史学博士，现居上海市。历年在期刊、报纸发表各类论文近30篇，出版专著2本，译著2本，主编著作1本，参与编写著作1本。

Editorial Reviews Review Combining erudition with theoretical intelligence, Zachary Schiffman distills a theme, the discovery of 'the past,' that sheds new light on the history of western historical thinking from Herodotus to the eighteenth century. Some readers will disagree with some of Schiffman’s interpretations. All, however, will be stimulated and enlightened. (Allan Megi...(展开全部)

A satisfactory comprehensive history of the social and economic development of pre-modern China, the largest country in the world in terms of population, and with a documentary record covering three millennia, is still far from possible. The present work is only an attempt to disengage the major themes that seem to be of relevance to our understanding of China today. In particu...(展开全部)

伊懋可（Mark Elvin，1938— ），剑桥大学博士，澳大利亚国立大学历史系荣休教授，当代著名历史学家。主要研究领域为：中国经济史、文化史、环境史。代表作有：《中国的历史之路》（另译《中国历史的模式》）、《大象的退却》等。

Profound family trauma, sometimes stretching back three or more generations, can silently damage otherwise healthy individuals. "The Healing Power of the Past presents "Family Constellation" therapy -- a radical, increasingly popular approach to resolving these long-standing family problems. The book explains how readers can use this 20-year-old psychological therapy to uncover...(展开全部)

Life coach, inspirational speaker, and leadership trainer John Schuster offers a systematic guide to leveraging the biggest, most accessible, and most under-utilized resource for self-improvement: your past.

曼利奥·贝洛莫（Manlio Bellomo），意大利法律史学者，意大利卡塔尼亚大学法律史教授。曾在罗马大学跟随弗朗切斯科·卡拉索（Francesco Calasso）学习，在欧洲法律史领域，他撰写了大量的著作和论文。1987年，贝洛莫和斯蒂芬·库特纳（Stephan Kuttner）共同成立了共同法国际学院，并担任该学院的联合院长。 高仰光，中国人民大学法学院法律史教研室副教授，瑞士苏黎世大学法学院访问学者，长期从事欧洲法律史的研究，具体包括古希腊法、罗马法、西欧中世纪城市法与封建法、近代德国法等领域。

For thousands of years, thinkers and scientists have tried to understand what the brain does. Yet, despite the astonishing discoveries of science, we still have only the vaguest idea of how the brain works. In The Idea of the Brain, scientist and historian Matthew Cobb traces how our conception of the brain has evolved over the centuries. Although it might seem to be a story of...(展开全部)