Joe Coughlin is nineteen when he meets Emma Gould. A smalltime thief in 1920s Boston, he is told to cuff her while his accomplices raid the casino she works for. But Joe falls in love with Emma - and his life changes for ever. That meeting is the beginning of Joe's journey to becoming one of the nation's most feared and respected gangsters. It is a journey beset by violence, do...(展开全部)

Joe Coughlin is nineteen when he meets Emma Gould. A smalltime thief in 1920s Boston, he is told to cuff her while his accomplices raid the casino she works for. But Joe falls in love with Emma - and his life changes for ever. That meeting is the beginning of Joe's journey to becoming one of the nation's most feared and respected gangsters. It is a journey beset by violence, do...(展开全部)

For the CDT Bookshelf, China Digital Times invites experts on China to recommend a book to CDT readers. This month, Paul G. Pickowicz, Professor of History and Chinese Studies at the University of California, San Diego, recommends "A Daughter of Han: The Autobiography of a Chinese Working Woman" by Ida Pruitt, Stanford University Press, 1967: When the editors of China Digit...(展开全部)

For the CDT Bookshelf, China Digital Times invites experts on China to recommend a book to CDT readers. This month, Paul G. Pickowicz, Professor of History and Chinese Studies at the University of California, San Diego, recommends "A Daughter of Han: The Autobiography of a Chinese Working Woman" by Ida Pruitt, Stanford University Press, 1967: When the editors of China Digit...(展开全部)

Editorial Reviews Amazon.com In the past decade Colm Tóibín has garnered international fame for his fiction, reporting, and travel writing. Now, in his new novel, The Story of Night, he breaks new emotional ground with the story of a gay man coming of age in Argentina during the Falklands War. Tóibín weds his two themes--the ongoing Argentinean struggle toward democracy and the...(展开全部)

The atmosphere of Bleak House, the sensuous thrill of Perfume, and the mystery of Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell all combine in a story of murder, deceit, love, and revenge in Victorian England. "After killing the red-haired man, I took myself off to Quinn's for an oyster supper." So begins the extraordinary story of Edward Glyver—booklover, scholar, and murderer. As a yo...(展开全部)

"Superb.... An engrossing and complicated tale...that touches on every aspect of Victorian society."—Michael Dirda, Washington Post Book World "After killing the red-haired man, I took myself off to Quinn's for an oyster supper." So begins the "enthralling" ( Booklist , starred review) and "ingenious" ( Boston Globe ) story of Edward Glyver, booklover, scholar, and ...(展开全部)

比尔·布龙（Bill Broun） 美国作家、记者，他的作品多次出现在《纽约时报》、《时代》杂志（伦敦）、《华盛顿邮报》和《泰晤士报文学增刊》等报刊杂志，以及诸如《建筑师期刊》和《出版人周刊》等专业刊物中。2002年，他被任命为耶鲁大学常驻研究员，教授小说创作、高级写作和新闻学。目前，比尔·布龙就职于东斯特劳斯堡大学，任英语系副教授。 《夜袭动物园》是比尔·布龙耗时14年构思完成的处女作小说，布龙渴望通过此次书写为现实找到一种寄托和希望。

《剑桥中国秦汉史》（1986年出版，1992年出版中译本）第三章《王莽，汉之中兴，后汉》由毕汉思执笔，主要应用了他自己《汉代的中兴》四卷本（Hans Bielenstein《The Restoration of the Han Dynasty, with Prolegomena on the Historiography of the Hou Han Shu》）的成果，四卷本分别出版于1954，1959，1967，1979，其中第一卷由博士论文改编而成，主要分两大部分，第一部分是对东汉史料的梳理；第二部分切入正题，从王莽改革说起，共分七章，分别是王莽改制、早期叛乱、南阳起事、新市平林下江军、赤眉、王莽败亡，汉代中兴。第四卷实际分成两本书，一是先于1976年出版的《东汉的洛阳》，二是被收入《剑桥文史丛刊》，出版于1980年的《汉代官僚制度》（《The ...(展开全部)