A great book. Its dead level honesty, its passion, its exalted purpose will make it stand as a monument to the most painful truth. THE NATION This hardcover edition of the modern classic, THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF MALCOLM X, is the result of a unique collaboration between Alex Haley and Malcolm X, whose voice and philosophy resonate from every page, just as his experience and his in...(展开全部)

From hustling, drug addiction and armed violence in America's black ghettos Malcolm X turned, in a dramatic prison conversion, to the puritanical fervour of the Black Muslims. As their spokesman he became identified in the white press as a terrifying teacher of race hatred; but to his direct audience, the oppressed American blacks, he brought hope and self-respect. This autobio...(展开全部)

In the 40s radio was the medium for news and entertainment and it's no surprise that many mystery authors used the radio studio as the ideal place for murder and mayhem, such as Norman Berrow's 1946 thriller, Words Have Wings. But nine years earlier, an Australian author who really knew radio wrote this locked room masterpiece, featuring his favorite amateur sleuth, Jeffery Bla...(展开全部)

With its first great victory in the landmark Supreme Court decision, Brown vs. Board of Education in 1954, the Civil Rights movement gained the powerful momentum it needed to sweep forward into its crucial decade, the 1960s. As voices of protest and change rose above the din of history and false promises, one sounded more urgently, more passionately than the rest. Malcolm X - o...(展开全部)

丹尼洛·契斯（Danilo Kiš，1935—1989） 二十世纪南斯拉夫最重要的作家。契斯出生于南斯拉夫的苏博蒂察市，“二战”期间，他的父亲在纳粹集中营遇害，母亲带着他和姐姐逃难到黑山，直到战争结束才回到南斯拉夫。他在贝尔格莱德大学比较文学系毕业后开始文学生涯，作品有《花园，灰烬》《沙漏》《达维多维奇之墓》《死亡百科全书》等，曾获得塞尔维亚NIN 文学奖、美国布鲁诺·舒尔茨奖等诸多文学奖项,并被授予法国文学艺术骑士勋章。他的作品虽受到国际瞩目，在本国出版时却常引起奇特的骚动：《达维多维奇之墓》被诬蔑抄袭了索尔仁尼琴、乔伊斯、曼德尔施塔姆、博尔赫斯、梅德韦杰夫兄弟等作家，布罗茨基对此评论说：“一位作者若能在一本135页的小说里模仿这么多位风格迥异的作者，那么怎样赞美他都不为过。”他还称扬契斯是“一位独具风格的作家，他的作品几乎重新定义了悲剧”。197...(展开全部)

In The Dominion of the Dead, Robert Pogue Harrison explores the many places where the dead cohabit the world of the living - the graves, images, literature, architecture, and monuments that house the dead in their afterlife among us. This elegantly conceived work devotes particular attention to the practice of burial. Harrison contends that we bury our dead to humanize the land...(展开全部)

莉莎·费德曼·巴瑞特（Lisa Feldman Barrett） 目前担任美国心理科学协会（Association for Psychological Science，简称APS）主席。巴瑞特教授还是美国东北大学心理学系知名教授，美国艺术与科学学院院士，加拿大皇家学会院士，TED演讲人。她还在哈佛大学医学院及马萨诸塞州总医院任职，负责精神病和放射病方面的治疗研究。 巴瑞特教授专注于情绪的开创性研究，她在《科学》(Science)、《自然神经科学》（Nature Neuroscience）等专业期刊上发表了200多篇论文，并在吉尔福德出版社（Guilford Press）出版了六卷学术著作。巴瑞特教授因其在情绪方面的革命性研究荣获美国国立卫生研究院“先锋奖”。

莉莎·费德曼·巴瑞特（Lisa Feldman Barrett） 目前担任美国心理科学协会（Association for Psychological Science，简称APS）主席。巴瑞特教授还是美国东北大学心理学系知名教授，美国艺术与科学学院院士，加拿大皇家学会院士，TED演讲人。她还在哈佛大学医学院及马萨诸塞州总医院任职，负责精神病和放射病方面的治疗研究。 巴瑞特教授专注于情绪的开创性研究，她在《科学》(Science)、《自然神经科学》（Nature Neuroscience）等专业期刊上发表了200多篇论文，并在吉尔福德出版社（Guilford Press）出版了六卷学术著作。巴瑞特教授因其在情绪方面的革命性研究荣获美国国立卫生研究院“先锋奖”。