1945年10月，美国战略轰炸调查团到日本调查太平洋战争的作战，调查团里有一位29岁的海军少校詹姆斯?菲尔德。菲尔德少校是文学博士，哈佛大学历史学讲师，莱特湾海战时是第七舰队第七十七特遣舰队第四群护卫航母部队第三集团克里夫顿?斯普拉格少将手下的一名参谋。他到东京后传唤了联合舰队司令长官丰田副武大将、参谋长草鹿龙之介少将、第三舰队司令长官小泽治三郎中将、参谋长大林末雄少将、第二舰队司令长官栗田健男中将、参谋长小柳富次少将和其他所有能找到的有关司令人员和幕僚。 。。。 菲尔德1947年退役后到大学教美国现代史，同时把他的作战经历和询问记录写成了一本叫做《The Japanese at leyte Gulf》的书。因为莱特湾海战被称为是“人类历史上最后的大海战”，所以描写莱特湾海战的书籍也就汗牛充栋，但这是最早的一本，也几乎是写得最好的一本。看过这本书的日...(展开全部)

瑞士人尼古拉·布维耶（Nicolas Bouvier，1929—1998），法语世界重要的旅行作家之一，代表作《世界之道》在西方旅行文学中占据独特的地位。

金田一春彦，日本语言学泰斗，日本语言学家。曾获紫菱褒章，文化功劳者。创立了动词的四类分法，对日语音韵、语法、语史等方面都有独到的研究。主要著作：《日本语》《明解国语辞典》《辞海》和教科书《中等国语》《高等国语》等。 皮细庚，中国日语专家，上海外国语大学教授，博士导师。中国日语教学研究会副会长。主要著作：《日语该概说》《日语古典语法》《日汉大词典》等。

An important environmental history of the Gulf of Mexico that brings crucial attention to Earth’s 10th-largest body of water, one of the planet’s most diverse and productive marine ecosystems.

The tragic collision between civilization and nature in the Gulf of Mexico becomes a uniquely American story in this environmental epic. When painter Winslow Homer first sailed into the Gulf of Mexico, he was struck by its "special kind of providence." Indeed, the Gulf presented itself as America’s sea―bound by geography, culture, and tradition to the national experience―and ye...(展开全部)

Expanding Verse explores experimental poetic practice at key moments of transition in Japan's media landscape from the 1920s to the present. Andrew Campana centers hybrid poetic forms in modern and contemporary Japan—many of which have never been examined in detail before: the cinepoem, the tape-recorder poem, the protest performance poem, the music-video poem, the online sign-...(展开全部)

Burton Watson and Haruo Shirane, renowned translators and scholars, introduce English-speaking readers to the vivid tradition of early and medieval Japanese anecdotal ( setsuwa) literature. These orally narrated and written tales drew on both local folk tradition and continental sources. Taken from seven major anthologies of anecdotal literature compiled between the ninth and t...(展开全部)

Expanding Verse explores experimental poetic practice at key moments of transition in Japan's media landscape from the 1920s to the present. Andrew Campana centers hybrid poetic forms in modern and contemporary Japan—many of which have never been examined in detail before: the cinepoem, the tape-recorder poem, the protest performance poem, the music-video poem, the online sign-...(展开全部)

Now a major motion picture from USA Films starring Kristin Scott Thomas and Sean Penn, and director Philip Haas (director of Angels and Insects). In Up at the Villa, W. Somerset Maugham portrays a wealthy young English woman who finds herself confronted rather brutally by the repercussions of whimsy. On the day her older and prosperous friend asks her to marry him, Mary Leonard...(展开全部)

In January 1945, in the waning months of World War II, a small group of people begin the longest journey of their lives: an attempt to cross the remnants of the Third Reich, from Warsaw to the Rhine if necessary, to reach the British and American lines. Among the group is eighteen-year-old Anna Emmerich, the daughter of Prussian aristocrats. There is her lover, Callum Finella,...(展开全部)