Old friends and lovers reunite for a weekend in a secluded country home after spending decades apart. They plumb their memories of each other and pass quiet judgements on the life decisions each has made since their youth. This isn't, however, just any old reunion, and their conversations of the old days aren't typical reminiscences. After 24 years, Joerg - a convicted murderer...(展开全部)

In a world where most people are plugged into brain-drain entertainment systems epileptic teenager Spaz is a rare human being who can see life for what it really is. When he meets an old man called Ryter, he begins to learn about earth and its past. With Ryter as his companion, Spaz sets off on an unlikely quest to save his dying sister and in the process, perhaps the world....(展开全部)

Here is the story of Anna Blume, a woman who has come to an unnamed city in search of her brother. Her notebook recounts her quest in this cruel modern landscape, and through her anguished narrative, Auster presents a frightening vision of the future.

在线阅读本书 In this novel Paul Auster offers a haunting picture of a devastated world - a futuristic world - but one which may be seen to shadow our own. Auster's other work includes "The New York Trilogy" and "Hand to Mouth", and the screenplays "Smoke" and "Blue in the Face".

周策纵（1916—2007） 著名历史学家。抗战时期在中央政治大学获得学士学位，战后赴美国，获密歇根大学硕士、博士学位，美国威斯康星大学东亚系终身教授。曾担任哈佛大学访问学者、研究员，哈佛大学、哥伦比亚大学荣誉研究员，以及香港中文大学、新加坡国立大学、斯坦福大学客座教授。曾获美国福特基金会学术奖、美国卡耐基基金会学术奖、美国古根汉学术奖、美国科学院学术奖，专长研究中国哲学、五四运动史等领域。

周策纵（1916—2007） 著名历史学家。抗战时期在中央政治大学获得学士学位，战后赴美国，获密歇根大学硕士、博士学位，美国威斯康星大学东亚系终身教授。曾担任哈佛大学访问学者、研究员，哈佛大学、哥伦比亚大学荣誉研究员，以及香港中文大学、新加坡国立大学、斯坦福大学客座教授。曾获美国福特基金会学术奖、美国卡耐基基金会学术奖、美国古根汉学术奖、美国科学院学术奖，专长研究中国哲学、五四运动史等领域。

塞缪尔·莫恩，哈佛大学法学与历史学教授，曾任哥伦比亚大学历史系詹姆斯·布赖斯讲座教授，于2000年和2001年分别获得加州大学伯克利分校历史学博士和哈佛大学法律博士。主要研究欧洲现代思想史，偏重政治与法律思想、史学理论和犹太研究，近年来关注人权的历史研究。2008年获古根海姆奖金。参与编辑《人文》、《现代思想史》等学术杂志。著有《他者的起源》、《辩论大屠杀》、《最后的乌托邦》等。

Human rights offer a vision of international justice that today’s idealistic millions hold dear. Yet the very concept on which the movement is based became familiar only a few decades ago when it profoundly reshaped our hopes for an improved humanity. In this pioneering book, Samuel Moyn elevates that extraordinary transformation to center stage and asks what it reveals about t...(展开全部)

On April 30, 1945, in a bunker deep beneath the Old Reich Chancellery, Adolf Hitler and his newly wedded wife, Eva Braun, killed themselves. But Nazi Germany lived on, however briefly. The subsequent eight days were among the most turbulent in history, witnessing not only the final battles of World War II and the collapse of the Wehrmacht, but the near-total disintegration of t...(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)