Revolt and upheaval in medieval Britain by a brilliant new narrative historian, 'Summer of Blood' breaks new ground in its portrayal of the personalities and politics of the bloody days of June 1381. The Peasants' Revolt of 1381 is one of the most dramatic and bloody events in English history. Starting with village riots in the Essex countryside, chaos rapidly spread across mu...(展开全部)

Social upheaval in early 20th-century Europe is the historical setting for this seminal study by the Spanish philosopher, José Ortega y Gasset. Continuously in print since 1932, Ortega's vision of Western culture as sinking to its lowest common denominator and drifting toward chaos brought its author international fame and has remained one of the influential books of the 20th c...(展开全部)

In the summer of 1381, ravaged by poverty and oppressed by taxes, the people of England rose up and demanded that their voices be heard. A ragtag army, led by the mysterious Wat Tyler and the visionary preacher John Ball, rose up against the fourteen-year-old Richard II and his most powerful lords and knights, who risked their property and their lives in a desperate battle to s...(展开全部)

In Japanese folklore, a ghost that arise from the burial of a pregnant woman is an Ubume . The Summer of Ubume is the first of Japan's hugely popular Kyogokudo series, which has 9 titles and 4 spinoffs thus far. Akihiko "Kyogokudo" Chuzenji, the title's hero, is an exorcist with a twist: he doesn't blieve in ghosts. To circumnavigate his clients' inability to come to gri...(展开全部)

Potent and vividly emotional, Simone de Beauvoir’s captivating novel questions freedom and individual responsibility in the face of brutality ‘These carefree faces, on which we allowed our smiles to spread, were for others the mask of tragedy.’ Jean Blomart, patriot leader against the German forces of occupation, waits throughout an endless night for his wounded lover, Hélène, ...(展开全部)

In this challenging work, Christopher Lasch makes his most accessible critique yet of what is wrong with the values and beliefs of America's professional and managerial elites. The distinguished historian argues that democracy today is threatened not by the masses, as Jose Ortega y Gasset (The Revolt of the Masses) had said, but by the elites. These elites - mobile and increasi...(展开全部)

威廉·哈维，英国伟大的生理学家和胚胎学家。 田洺，中国科学院科学传播中心主任、中国科学院自动化研究所科学艺术研究中心首席科学家顾问，曾任中国科学院研究生院教授。

【作者简介】 S. C. 格温（S. C. Gwynne）, 曾任《时代》杂志分社社长、驻外通讯员和高级编辑。他后来担任《得克萨斯月刊》的执行主编。他在普林斯顿大学主修历史，1974年毕业。他还在约翰斯·霍普金斯大学主修创意写作硕士课程，获得了研究生奖学金，并师从小说家约翰·巴特。他与妻子和女儿住在德克萨斯州的奥斯汀。 【译者简介】 卢树群 新闻编辑、战地记者，长期从事国际新闻采写、编译工作，曾驻阿富汗、缅甸。

【作者简介】 S. C. 格温（S. C. Gwynne）, 曾任《时代》杂志分社社长、驻外通讯员和高级编辑。他后来担任《得克萨斯月刊》的执行主编。他在普林斯顿大学主修历史，1974年毕业。他还在约翰斯·霍普金斯大学主修创意写作硕士课程，获得了研究生奖学金，并师从小说家约翰·巴特。他与妻子和女儿住在德克萨斯州的奥斯汀。 【译者简介】 卢树群 新闻编辑、战地记者，长期从事国际新闻采写、编译工作，曾驻阿富汗、缅甸。

Moments of humour, surreal fantasy, and the sometimes devastating ways we interact with the people we love the most, are presented in Shaun Tan’s typical thought-provoking style. RULES OF SUMMER, is a deceptively simple story about two boys, one older and one younger, and the kind of ‘rules’ that might govern any relationship between close friends or siblings. Rules that are of...(展开全部)