Written in 1914 but not published until 1925, a year after Kafka’s death, The Trial is the terrifying tale of Josef K., a respectable bank officer who is suddenly and inexplicably arrested and must defend himself against a charge about which he can get no information. Whether read as an existential tale, a parable, or a prophecy of the excesses of modern bureaucracy wedded to...(展开全部)

Written in 1914 but not published until 1925, a year after Kafka’s death, The Trial is the terrifying tale of Josef K., a respectable bank officer who is suddenly and inexplicably arrested and must defend himself against a charge about which he can get no information. Whether read as an existential tale, a parable, or a prophecy of the excesses of modern bureaucracy wedded to...(展开全部)

在线阅读本书 A terrifying psychological trip into the life of one Joseph K., an ordinary man who wakes up one day to find himself accused of a crime he did not commit, a crime whose nature is never revealed to him. Once arrested, he is released, but must report to court on a regular basis--an event that proves maddening, as nothing is ever resolved. As he grows more uncertain of his...(展开全部)

埃里克·方纳 埃里克•方纳是哥伦比亚大学德威特•克林顿历史学教授，美国最杰出的历史学家之一。他在哥伦比亚大学获得博士学位，师从理查德•霍夫斯塔特。方纳教授的著作集中关注思想史、政治史和社会史的交汇，以及美国种族关系史。 译者：于留振，重庆大学人文社会高等研究院史学研究中心讲师，中美富布赖特项目哥伦比亚大学访问博士生。

埃里克·方纳 埃里克•方纳是哥伦比亚大学德威特•克林顿历史学教授，美国最杰出的历史学家之一。他在哥伦比亚大学获得博士学位，师从理查德•霍夫斯塔特。方纳教授的著作集中关注思想史、政治史和社会史的交汇，以及美国种族关系史。 译者：于留振，重庆大学人文社会高等研究院史学研究中心讲师，中美富布赖特项目哥伦比亚大学访问博士生。

"Our attempt at a new understanding of the trial of Socrates will also become a fresh look at classical antiquity. It is our yesterday and we cannot understand ourselves without it." Thus Izzy Stone approaches the death of a secular saint and the decline of democracy in Athens four centuries before Christ. Stone brings to his penetrating documentation of the missing prosecution...(展开全部)

The remarkable new account of an essential piece of American mythology—the trial of Lizzie Borden—based on twenty years of research and recently unearthed evidence. The Trial of Lizzie Borden tells the true story of one of the most sensational murder trials in American history. When Andrew and Abby Borden were brutally hacked to death in Fall River, Massachusetts, in August 189...(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)

Adults and children the world over have fallen in love with Beagle's timeless classic, The Last Unicorn. Now, in this historic publication, Beagle's richly inventive novel springs to life in beautifully rendered illustrations that perfectly evoke the mystery and magic of one of man's favorite myths.

在线阅读本书 "We cannot change the cards we are dealt, just how we play the hand." --Randy Pausch A lot of professors give talks titled " The Last Lecture ." Professors are asked to consider their demise and to ruminate on what matters most to them. And while they speak, audiences can't help but mull the same question: What wisdom would we impart to the world if we knew it was o...(展开全部)