In 1787, the twenty-eighth year of the reign of King George III, the British Government sent a fleet to colonize Australia...An epic description of the brutal transportation of men, women and children out of Georgian Britain into a horrific penal system which was to be the precursor to the Gulag and was the origin of Australia. The Fatal Shore is the prize-winning, scholarly, b...(展开全部)

Amazon.com An extraordinary volume--even a masterpiece--about the early history of Australia that reads like the finest of novels. Hughes captures everything in this complex tableau with narrative finesse that drives the reader ever-deeper into specific facts and greater understanding. He presents compassionate understanding of the plights of colonists--both freemen and ...(展开全部)

俄罗斯小说家、戏剧家，长篇小说《大师和玛格丽特》是其最重要的作品，另有中篇小说《狗心》《不祥的蛋》等。

Amazon.com An extraordinary volume--even a masterpiece--about the early history of Australia that reads like the finest of novels. Hughes captures everything in this complex tableau with narrative finesse that drives the reader ever-deeper into specific facts and greater understanding. He presents compassionate understanding of the plights of colonists--both freemen and ...(展开全部)

In 1787, the twenty-eighth year of the reign of King George III, the British Government sent a fleet to colonize Australia...An epic description of the brutal transportation of men, women and children out of Georgian Britain into a horrific penal system which was to be the precursor to the Gulag and was the origin of Australia. The Fatal Shore is the prize-winning, scholarly, b...(展开全部)

Hayek gives the main arguments for the free-market case and presents his manifesto on the "errors of socialism." Hayek argues that socialism has, from its origins, been mistaken on factual, and even on logical, grounds and that its repeated failures in the many different practical applications of socialist ideas that this century has witnessed were the direct outcome of these e...(展开全部)

Highly readable and controversial, a work of considerable scholarship and energy, The Fatal Conceit will greatly advance our understanding of the economic and political issues confronting the world.

The humming noise of the automatic elevator stopped and the hall porter glanced idly toward the bronze doors. Twenty minutes later, when no one had emerged, the porter became uneasy and forced the doors open. Inside he found Sir Ernest Tallant, dead! Shot through the heart in a hermetically sealed elevator! It looked like the perfect crime - until Dr. Horatio Glass, in his blun...(展开全部)

让·波德里亚（Jean Baudrillard，1929—2007），法国哲学家、社会学家、后现代理论家。先后任教于巴黎十大和巴黎九大，撰写了一系列分析当代社会文化现象、批判当代资本主义的著作，产生了广泛的世界性影响。其代表作主要有《物体系》《消费社会》《生产之镜》《象征交换与死亡》《论诱惑》《美国》《完美的罪行》及系列随笔《冷记忆》等。

露丝·斯科尔（Ruth Scurr），1971年生，曾在牛津大学和剑桥大学求学，获剑桥大学政治学博士学位，现在剑桥大学讲授政治学和历史学课程。她还是一位出色的文化批评家，是《纽约书评》《泰晤士报文学副刊》撰稿人。本书一经出版即得到知识界关注，引起热烈反响。