From freezing infantrymen huddled in bloodied trenches on the front lines to intricate political maneuvering and tense strategy sessions in European capitals, noted historian John Toland tells of the unforgettable final year of the First World War. As 1918 opened, the Allies and Central Powers remained locked in a desperate, bloody stalemate, despite the deaths of millions of s...(展开全部)

约翰·托兰 美国著名历史学家，1912年出生于威斯康星州，参加过第二次世界大战。著有《希特勒传——从乞丐到元首》《最后一百天：希特勒第三帝国覆亡记》等作品。因撰写《日本帝国衰亡史》，揭示日本对美作战起因，荣获普利策奖。 作为一名历史的写作者，托兰在着笔叙述某一历史事件之前，会对数以百计的事件亲历者进行采访，多方面铺陈展开，力图揭示该历史事件对知名人物与普通大众的不同影响，从而使其作品具有区别传统史学著作的鲜明特点。

约翰·托兰 美国著名历史学家，1912年出生于威斯康星州，参加过第二次世界大战。著有《希特勒传——从乞丐到元首》《最后一百天：希特勒第三帝国覆亡记》等作品。因撰写《日本帝国衰亡史》，揭示日本对美作战起因，荣获普利策奖。 作为一名历史的写作者，托兰在着笔叙述某一历史事件之前，会对数以百计的事件亲历者进行采访，多方面铺陈展开，力图揭示该历史事件对知名人物与普通大众的不同影响，从而使其作品具有区别传统史学著作的鲜明特点。

From freezing infantrymen huddled in bloodied trenches on the front lines to intricate political maneuvering and tense strategy sessions in European capitals, noted historian John Toland tells of the unforgettable final year of the First World War. As 1918 opened, the Allies and Central Powers remained locked in a desperate, bloody stalemate, despite the deaths of millions of s...(展开全部)

The year is 1858. Thomas Glover is a restless young man with dreams of escaping Aberdeen. Abandoning his childhood sweetheart, he takes a posting as a trader in Japan. Within ten years he amasses a great fortune, learns the ways of the samurai and helps overthrow the Shogun - a rapid rise from lowly shipping clerk to millionaire industrialist. Yet behind Glover's astonishing su...(展开全部)

The year is 1858. Thomas Glover is a restless young man with dreams of escaping Aberdeen. Abandoning his childhood sweetheart, he takes a posting as a trader in Japan. Within ten years he amasses a great fortune, learns the ways of the samurai and helps overthrow the Shogun - a rapid rise from lowly shipping clerk to millionaire industrialist. Yet behind Glover's astonishing su...(展开全部)

The final, previously unpublished novel by the author of All Quiet on the Western Front - a dreamlike, powerfully moving account of an emigrant's experience of New York during World War II. From the detention centre on Ellis Island, Ludwig Somner looks across a small stretch of water to the glittering towers of New York, which whisper seductively of freedom after so many years ...(展开全部)

Originally published in Portuguese in 1943 as Terras do sem fim by Livraria Martins Editoria, Brazil. In this short novel, the aristocratic Badaros family is pitted against the middle-class planter Colonel Horacio Silveira in a struggle to obtain a crucial piece of land for the growing of cacao. Amado's true subject—and one he frequently comes back to—is the effect of the Bahia...(展开全部)

Originally published in Portuguese in 1943 as Terras do sem fim by Livraria Martins Editoria, Brazil. In this short novel, the aristocratic Badaros family is pitted against the middle-class planter Colonel Horacio Silveira in a struggle to obtain a crucial piece of land for the growing of cacao. Amado's true subject—and one he frequently comes back to—is the effect of the Bahia...(展开全部)

Today only about a thousand giant pandas survive in the wild. Dependent on a shrinking supply of bamboo on the one hand and threatened by human greed on the other, the panda is at extreme risk. Here, acclaimed naturalist George B. Schaller uses his evocative powers and the insight gained by four years in the forests of the Wolong and Tangjiahe panda reserves to document the pli...(展开全部)