As their holiday unfolds, Colin and Maria are locked into their own intimacy. They groom themselves meticulously, as though someone is waiting for them who cares deeply about how they appear. When they meet a man with a disturbing story to tell, they become drawn into a fantasy of violence and obsession.

The diversity of contemporary London is extraordinary, and begs to be better understood. Never before have so many people from such diverse backgrounds been free to mix and not to mix in close proximity to each other. But increasingly people's lives take place behind the closed doors of private houses. How can we gain an insight into what those lives are like today? Not televis...(展开全部)

【作者简介】 叶礼庭（Michael Ignatieff, 1947- )，当今世界极具影响力的政治家、知识分子。叶礼庭曾任教于剑桥大学、多伦多大学、哈佛大学等校，也曾担任战地记者和政治评论员多年，出任多国政府顾问，提供人权、民主、公共安全和国际事务方面的深刻洞见。其文章多见于《纽约书评》《金融时报》《新共和》等媒体，另著有《伯林传》《血缘与归属》《战士的荣耀》《火与烬》《痛苦的正当尺度》等作品。 1987年，他的家族回忆录《俄罗斯相册》获得加拿大文学最高荣誉——总督奖； 2001年，获乔治·奥威尔奖； 2003年，获汉娜·阿伦特奖； 2016年11月，获得加拿大平民最高荣誉——加拿大勋章； 2016年至今，担任中欧大学校长。 ··· 【译者简介】 陈晓静，女，浙江舟山人，所学为对外汉语专业，曾从事文宣等工作。

This thought provoking book uncovers a crisis in the political imagination, a wide-spread failure to provide the passionate sense of community "in which our need for belonging can be met." Seeking the answers to fundamental questions, Michael Ignatieff writes vividly both about ideas and about the people who tried to live by them-- from Augustine to Bosch, from Rosseau to Simon...(展开全部)

What do we need in order to survive? Whose needs do we have a right to speak for? Which needs can be satisfied through political actions, and which cannot? To answer these vital questions, Michael Ignatieff returns to the ancient languages of religion, art, and tragedy—and to important texts by Shakespeare, St. Augustine, and the great writers of the Enlightenment. Drawing on t...(展开全部)

This is Alan Hollinghurst's first novel since "The Line of Beauty", winner of the 2004 Man Booker Prize. In the late summer of 1913 the aristocratic young poet Cecil Valance comes to stay at 'Two Acres', the home of his close Cambridge friend George Sawle. The weekend will be one of excitements and confusions for all the Sawles, but it is on George's sixteen-year-old sister Dap...(展开全部)

This widely acclaimed history traces every facet of the hospital's social and professional transformations. Many of today's obsessions with technology, rigid bureaucracy, and uncontrolled cost can be found in hospitals more than half a century ago. Illustrated.

Dear Reader is a moving, funny and joyous exploration of how books can change the course of your life, packed with recommendations from one reader to another. For as long as she can remember, Cathy Rentzenbrink has lost and found herself in stories. Growing up she was rarely seen without her nose in a book and read in secret long after lights out. When tragedy struck, books kep...(展开全部)

Dear Reader is a moving, funny and joyous exploration of how books can change the course of your life, packed with recommendations from one reader to another. For as long as she can remember, Cathy Rentzenbrink has lost and found herself in stories. Growing up she was rarely seen without her nose in a book and read in secret long after lights out. When tragedy struck, books kep...(展开全部)

What caused physicians in the USA to confront committees, forms, and active patients? Tracing the revolution that transformed the doctor-patient relationship, this book takes the reader into the laboratory and the examining room, tracing the development of new technologies and social attitudes.