Jeremy Waldron here attempts to restore the good name of legislation in political theory. Focused in particular on the writings of Aristotle, Locke and Kant, this book recovers and highlights ways of thinking about legislation that present it as a dignified mode of governance and a respectable source of law. The focus is particularly on legislation by assemblies, large gatherin...(展开全部)

'Monks who cherish Mickey Mouse and collect motorbikes, hardened businessmen who read love poetry and geishas who visit temples'. Such was the paradoxical world that Pico Iyer was confronted with when he spent a year in the ancient Japanese capital of Kyoto.

When Pico Iyer decided to go to Kyoto and live in a monastery, he did so to learn about Zen Buddhism from the inside, to get to know Kyoto, one of the loveliest old cities in the world, and to find out something about Japanese culture today -- not the world of businessmen and production lines, but the traditional world of changing seasons and the silence of temples, of the imag...(展开全部)

Iris Carr, an English girl vacationing in the pre-war Balkans, becomes friendly with Miss Froy, to all appearances an innocent, middle-aged governess. They return to England on the same train, but Miss Froy suddenly disappears from her compartment. A conveniently available doctor tries to convince Iris that she is suffering from hallucinations and that Miss Froy never existed; ...(展开全部)

作者：康奈尔•伍尔里奇（Cornell Woolrich），1903年12月4日生于纽约，美国悬疑小说家，与雷蒙德•钱德勒、詹姆斯.M•凯恩并称“黑色小说三杰”。伍尔里奇的作品皆以紧张的氛围、惊险的情节以及出人意料的逆转取胜，不但小说畅销热卖，还有将近40部作品被改编为 脍炙人口的电影及电视剧集，包括希区柯克执导的《后窗》、特吕弗执导的《黑衣新娘》以及安吉丽娜•朱莉主演的《原罪》。 译者：许言，推理作者，上海大学英语笔译专业硕士，已有各类译作四十余万字。喜欢海外悬疑小说并致力于文学翻译工作，具有深厚的文学功底和敏锐的文化触觉。

Widely acclaimed photographer and writer Chris Arnade shines new light on America's poor, drug-addicted, and forgotten--both urban and rural, blue state and red state--and indicts the elitists who've left them behind. Like Jacob Riis in the 1890s, Walker Evans in the 1930s, or Michael Harrington in the 1960s, Chris Arnade bares the reality of our current class divide in stark p...(展开全部)

法国杰出的小说家、翻译家、编剧，全世界最受欢迎的法国作家之一，被称为法国的格雷厄姆·格林，作品充满浪漫主义色彩，情节曲折离奇，语言细腻，擅写悬疑小说和爱情小说。创作生涯获奖和荣誉不断，年仅十七岁时创作的处女作《出师不利》便获声望极高的“全体”文学评委奖，随后的作品《灰姑娘的陷阱)获法国侦探小说大奖，《车中拿枪戴墨镜的女人》获法国荣誉奖和英国金匕首奖，《夏日谋杀》获法国双叟文学奖和瑞典马丁·贝克奖，《漫长的婚约》获同盟文学奖。《夏日谋杀》和《漫长的婚约》等均被改编成同名电影，分别由阿佳妮和奥黛丽·塔图主演。雅普瑞索还翻译了塞林格的名著《麦田里的守望者》，并创作了《朋友再见》、《视死如归》、《雨中过客》等电影的剧本。

法国杰出的小说家、翻译家、编剧，全世界最受欢迎的法国作家之一，被称为法国的格雷厄姆·格林，作品充满浪漫主义色彩，情节曲折离奇，语言细腻，擅写悬疑小说和爱情小说。创作生涯获奖和荣誉不断，年仅十七岁时创作的处女作《出师不利》便获声望极高的“全体”文学评委奖，随后的作品《灰姑娘的陷阱)获法国侦探小说大奖，《车中拿枪戴墨镜的女人》获法国荣誉奖和英国金匕首奖，《夏日谋杀》获法国双叟文学奖和瑞典马丁·贝克奖，《漫长的婚约》获同盟文学奖。《夏日谋杀》和《漫长的婚约》等均被改编成同名电影，分别由阿佳妮和奥黛丽·塔图主演。雅普瑞索还翻译了塞林格的名著《麦田里的守望者》，并创作了《朋友再见》、《视死如归》、《雨中过客》等电影的剧本。

"P"assion."D"anger."W"itchcraft . . . "The Lady of the Rivers "is #1 "New York Times "bestselling author Philippa Gregory's remarkable story of Jacquetta, Duchess of Bedford, a woman who navigated a treacherous path through the battle lines in the Wars of the Roses. Descended from Melusina, the river goddess, Jacquetta always has had the gift of second sight. As a child visitin...(展开全部)

"P"assion."D"anger."W"itchcraft . . . "The Lady of the Rivers "is #1 "New York Times "bestselling author Philippa Gregory's remarkable story of Jacquetta, Duchess of Bedford, a woman who navigated a treacherous path through the battle lines in the Wars of the Roses. Descended from Melusina, the river goddess, Jacquetta always has had the gift of second sight. As a child visitin...(展开全部)