In his follow-up to the Pulitzer Prize–winning The Metaphysical Club, Louis Menand offers a new intellectual and cultural history of the postwar years The Cold War was not just a contest of power. It was also about ideas, in the broadest sense—economic and political, artistic and personal. In The Free World, the acclaimed Pulitzer Prize–winning scholar and critic Louis Menand t...(展开全部)

特里•普拉切特Terry Pratchett （1948—2015 ） 获得“卡内基大奖”“世界奇幻终身成就奖”“轨迹奖”“普罗米修斯奖”“星云奖” 作品全球销量过8500万册，被翻译成37种语言出版 经典奇幻《碟形世界》系列是他的代表作 因文学成就两次获得大英帝国爵士称号 大师级奇幻作家、儿童文学作家，1948年出生于英国白金汉郡。他被称为“我们时代的托尔金”。 普拉切特认为奇幻小说的重点不是魔法，而是以另一种角度看世界。他的作品不同于以托尔金为代表的“严肃奇幻”，常打破常规，从经典文学、民间故事或童话中汲取灵感，并进行荒诞的、幽默且具有现实意义的再创作。他的代表作《碟形世界》被认为是这类幽默奇幻的代名词。《卫报》评价他的作品“不是在创造另一个世界，而是在重新想象我们的世界”，并盛赞其“发现了高于文学的事物”。 普拉切特也是当代成功的畅销书作家，作...(展开全部)

‘The brown bears paced, brushing their thick coats against the bars; their heads swayed low to the ground, in rhythm with some ritual of stealth they were born knowing and pointlessly never forgot’ It is 1967 and two Viennese university students decide to liberate the Vienna Zoo, as was done after World War II. The eccentric duo, Graff and Siggy, embark on an adventure-fi...(展开全部)

It is 1967 and two Viennese university students want to liberate the Vienna Zoo, as was done after World War II. But their good intentions have both comic and gruesome consequences, in this first novel written by a twenty-five year old John Irving, already a master storyteller. From the Paperback edition.

这是一个关于一座城市的故事，这是一个关于都市传说的故事。我究竟可以信赖何人？少女提出疑问。我究竟能知道什么？少年发出感想。一场伴随着戏谑的游戏，就这样开始。

这是一个关于一座城市的故事，这是一个关于都市传说的故事。我究竟可以信赖何人？少女提出疑问。我究竟能知道什么？少年发出感想。一场伴随着戏谑的游戏，就这样开始。

The attempt to reduce the role of the state in the market through tax cuts, decreases in social spending, deregulation, and privatization—“neoliberalism”—took root in the United States under Ronald Reagan and in Britain under Margaret Thatcher. But why did neoliberal policies gain such prominence in these two countries and not in similarly industrialized Western countries such ...(展开全部)

本书为公版书，为不受著作权法限制的作家、艺术家及其它人士发布的作品，供广大读者阅读交流。汇聚授权电子版权。

Drawing upon research carried out in several different languages and across a variety of disciplines, The Mongol World documents how Mongol rule shaped the trajectory of Eurasian history from Central Europe to the Korean Peninsula, from the thirteenth century to the fifteenth century. Contributing authors consider how intercontinental environmental, economic, and intellectual t...(展开全部)