Its story of passion and despair is based on Dostoevsky's own experience as a compulsive gambler but Dostoevsky was able to break away, whereas Alexei vows to quit as soon as he breaks even an event, it is clear, that will never happen. Like so many other characters in Dostoeveky's novels, Alexei is trying to break through the wall of the established order and the human conditi...(展开全部)

Its story of passion and despair is based on Dostoevsky's own experience as a compulsive gambler but Dostoevsky was able to break away, whereas Alexei vows to quit as soon as he breaks even an event, it is clear, that will never happen. Like so many other characters in Dostoeveky's novels, Alexei is trying to break through the wall of the established order and the human conditi...(展开全部)

The Dice Man is a semi-comedic[citation needed] novel published in 1971 by George Cockcroft under the pen name Luke Rhinehart and tells the story of a psychiatrist who begins making life decisions based on the casting of dice. Cockcroft wrote the book based on his own experiences of using dice to make decisions while studying psychology.[1] The novel is noted for its subversivi...(展开全部)

Plot summary The book tells the story of a psychiatrist named Luke Rhinehart who, feeling bored and unfulfilled in life, starts making decisions about what to do based on a roll of a die. Along the way, there is sex, rape, murder, "dice parties", breakouts by psychiatric patients, and various corporate and governmental machines being put into a spin. There is also a description...(展开全部)

How did a piece of wood lead investigators in the Lindbergh kidnapping case to Bruno Hauptmann? Who, besides O. J. Simpson, knows something about the death of his ex-wife? And just who was the "Vampire of Dusseldorf"? These are just some of the questions Mark Benecke explores in this compelling and surprising history of criminal investigative methods and techniques. Benecke, a ...(展开全部)

How did a piece of wood lead investigators in the Lindbergh kidnapping case to Bruno Hauptmann? Who, besides O. J. Simpson, knows something about the death of his ex-wife? And just who was the "Vampire of Dusseldorf"? These are just some of the questions Mark Benecke explores in this compelling and surprising history of criminal investigative methods and techniques. Benecke, a ...(展开全部)

Joseph P. Byrne, The Black Death (Greenwood Guides to Historic Events of the Medieval World) Greenwood Press | ISBN 0313324921 | 2004 | PDF | 1 MB | 263 pages The Black Death, by Joseph Byrne, isolates the event of the epidemic of bubonic plague in 1347–52 as having had a signal impact on medieval Europe. It was, however, only the first of many related such episodes involving v...(展开全部)

理查德•阿尔德里奇 华威大学国际安全教授，战争和情报领域的定期评论员，《标准晚报》《卫报》《泰晤士报》《每日电讯》撰稿人。2007年9月加入公共事务情报服务部（PAIS），其研究专注于情报与安全机构。在数个英国政府部门担任档案管理、档案解密、公司记忆库等方面的顾问；2015—2016年，协助德国联邦议院调查了美国国家安全局的斯诺登事件。 在过去的数年中，阿尔德里奇主导了名为“秘密景观：1947—2001中央情报局及美国外交政策中的争议性记录”的研究项目，并获得资金支持。出版过数本图书，包括“唐纳图书奖”获奖作品《看不见的手：英国、美国和冷战时的秘密情报组织》。 罗里•科马克 新一代情报史专家中的佼佼者，专业领域为英国秘密行动和秘密外交政策——这或许是英国情报史上最激动人心，目前还未得到充分研究的领域。科马克出版了大量关于安全问题的作品，并且经常出现在...(展开全部)