"The most powerful book of its kind I've ever read.... Extraordinary powers of observation, generalization, and depth."—Oliver Sacks, author of The Man Who Mistook His Wife For a Hat Winner of the Columbia University Lionel Trilling Award. Robert Murphy was in the prime of his career as an anthropologist when he felt the first symptom of a malady that would ultimately tak...(展开全部)

"The most powerful book of its kind I've ever read.... Extraordinary powers of observation, generalization, and depth."—Oliver Sacks, author of The Man Who Mistook His Wife For a Hat Winner of the Columbia University Lionel Trilling Award. Robert Murphy was in the prime of his career as an anthropologist when he felt the first symptom of a malady that would ultimately tak...(展开全部)

Who prepares the exams for foreign high-schoolers who want to go to college in England? Why, the five executives of Oxford's Foreign Exams Syndicate, of course, one of whom, deaf bachelor Nicholas Quinn, is found dead of cyanided sherry. Chief Inspector Morse suspects that Nicholas stumbled (via lip-reading) onto a security leak (the selling of forthcoming test questions to oil...(展开全部)

柯林•德克斯特（Colin Dexter ，1930— ） 德克斯特生于林肯郡的斯坦福德，就读于斯坦福德中学。完成了皇室通信兵团的服役期之后，他到剑桥大学基督学院攻读古典学，并于一九五八年获得荣誉硕士学位。毕业后，他在东米德兰兹郡开始了自己的教师生涯，一九六六年，他开始受到耳聋的困扰，不得不离开了教师岗位，接受了牛津大学地方考试院高级助理秘书官的职务——他后来一直担任这项职务，直到一九八八年退休。 他从一九七三年开始写推理小说，《开往伍德斯托克的末班车》于一九七五年出版，把莫尔斯探长这一角色介绍给了世人，这位暴躁易怒的侦探醉心于填字游戏、英国文学、桶装鲜啤酒和瓦格纳的音乐，而这些其实就是德克斯特自己的嗜好。主人公莫尔斯探长是英国泰晤士河谷警察局的高级警官，工作地点位于牛津，年龄约五十多岁，单身。从社会政治角度看，莫尔斯探长是一个有趣而复杂的人物，在一...(展开全部)

Who prepares the exams for foreign high-schoolers who want to go to college in England? Why, the five executives of Oxford's Foreign Exams Syndicate, of course, one of whom, deaf bachelor Nicholas Quinn, is found dead of cyanided sherry. Chief Inspector Morse suspects that Nicholas stumbled (via lip-reading) onto a security leak (the selling of forthcoming test questions to oil...(展开全部)

柯林•德克斯特（Colin Dexter ，1930— ） 德克斯特生于林肯郡的斯坦福德，就读于斯坦福德中学。完成了皇室通信兵团的服役期之后，他到剑桥大学基督学院攻读古典学，并于一九五八年获得荣誉硕士学位。毕业后，他在东米德兰兹郡开始了自己的教师生涯，一九六六年，他开始受到耳聋的困扰，不得不离开了教师岗位，接受了牛津大学地方考试院高级助理秘书官的职务——他后来一直担任这项职务，直到一九八八年退休。 他从一九七三年开始写推理小说，《开往伍德斯托克的末班车》于一九七五年出版，把莫尔斯探长这一角色介绍给了世人，这位暴躁易怒的侦探醉心于填字游戏、英国文学、桶装鲜啤酒和瓦格纳的音乐，而这些其实就是德克斯特自己的嗜好。主人公莫尔斯探长是英国泰晤士河谷警察局的高级警官，工作地点位于牛津，年龄约五十多岁，单身。从社会政治角度看，莫尔斯探长是一个有趣而复杂的人物，在一...(展开全部)

It was traditionally said that 'clothes maketh the man'. But what codes and meanings are associated with dress in a society that consists of divisions between class, race, gender, family status and religion? Is social and cultural life still fundamentally themed by the clothes that we wear? If so, how should we read these codes and themes in order to decipher their relation to ...(展开全部)

In another feat of hypnotic storytelling, Anne Rice continues the extraordinary Vampire Chronicles that began with the now classic Interview with the Vampire and continued with The Vampire Lestat and The Queen of the Damned. Lestat speaks. Vampire-hero, enchanter, seducer of mortals. For centuries he has been a courted prince in the dark and flourishing universe of the living d...(展开全部)

In another feat of hypnotic storytelling, Anne Rice continues the extraordinary Vampire Chronicles that began with the now classic Interview with the Vampire and continued with The Vampire Lestat and The Queen of the Damned. Lestat speaks. Vampire-hero, enchanter, seducer of mortals. For centuries he has been a courted prince in the dark and flourishing universe of the living d...(展开全部)