The definitive work on Stalin's purges, Robert Conquest's The Great Terror was universally acclaimed when it first appeared in 1968. Edmund Wilson hailed it as "the only scrupulous, non-partisan, and adequate book on the subject." George F. Kennan, writing in The New York Times Book Review, noted that "one comes away filled with a sense of the relevance and immediacy of old que...(展开全部)

First published in 1968 to universal critical acclaim, this definitive account of Stalin’s Terror is reissued with a new introduction which revisits the book in light of glasnost. When first published in 1968, The Great Terror was universally acclaimed as one of the most important books ever written about the Soviet Union. Now, in this revised and updated edition, Robert Conque...(展开全部)

Upon its publication in 1968, Conquest's The Great Terror: Stalin's Purge of the Thirties ( LJ 12/1/68) received wide acclaim for its broad, well-documented portrayal of the death of millions in Stalin's peacetime consolidation of power. A generation later, the collection of samizdat literature and the openness of glasnost have permitted access to better information, thereby al...(展开全部)

Masturbation: The History of a Great Terror is a funny and frightening look at the attitudes towards masturbation throughout history and how they have affected the sex lives of anyone living and breathing today. The French biologist, Tissot, was the original spoil-sport who turned masturbation into the scourge of young men everywhere. Saying that a little self-induced pleasure ...(展开全部)

The fate of Sir John Franklin's last expedition remains one of the great mysteries of Arctic exploration. What we know, more or less, is this: In the balmy days of May 1845, 129 officers and men aboard two ships -- Erebus and Terror -- departed from England for the Canadian Arctic in search of a Northwest Passage to the Pacific. They were never heard from again. Between 1847 an...(展开全部)

埃勒里•奎因（Ellery Queen），推理小说史上一个非凡的名字，实指弗雷德里克•丹奈（Frederic Dannay，1905-1982）和曼弗里德•李（Manfred Lee，1905-1971）这对表兄弟作家。他们的创作时间长达半个世纪，作品多达数十部，全球销量约计两亿册；他们曾五获埃德加•爱伦•坡奖；他们的四部“悲剧系列”和九部“国名系列”作品被公认为推理小说史上难以逾越的佳作；他们于1941年创办的《埃勒里•奎因神秘杂志》（EQMM）成为劳伦斯•布洛克、迈克尔•康奈利等推理大家起飞的平台，迄今仍是最专业、最权威的推理文学杂志之一；他们出资设立“密室研讨小组”，定期与约翰•狄克森•卡尔、克莱顿•劳森等推理大师交流、切磋……他们成就的不仅仅是自己，更成就了推理小说的黄金时代。

艾勒里．昆恩送了父親昆恩探長去渡假，而他又正為新作的結局而煩惱。這個時候，花花公子 Grant Ames III 轉交一份稿件給他，上面竟然記載著未刊登過的福爾摩斯作品。而且是關於世上最惡名昭彰的連環兇殺案：開膛手傑克。於是，艾勒里追隨福爾摩斯及華生的足跡，揭開膛手傑克的真正身份。另一方面，他又要找出稿件的物主。