October 1991. It was "the perfect storm"--a tempest that may happen only once in a century--a nor'easter created by so rare a combination of factors that it could not possibly have been worse. Creating waves ten stories high and winds of 120 miles an hour, the storm whipped the sea to inconceivable levels few people on Earth have ever witnessed. Few, except the six-man crew of ...(展开全部)

埃格尔博士是一位杰出的心理学家，也是奥斯维辛集中营的幸存者之一，现任美国加利福尼亚大学圣迭戈分校心理学教授，定期在国内外举行个人演讲。她还曾与退伍军人、美国海军陆战队战后创伤患者、身心受创的患者一起工作，帮助患者走出阴霾，选择并找到快乐。 埃格尔博士曾多次登上荧屏，参加奥普拉脱口秀、纪念奥斯维辛集中营解放节目以及荷兰国家电视台播出的大屠杀纪录片，与大家分享集中营创伤治愈，希望大家摆脱过去、拥抱自己，并通过回顾历史来守望和平。由于埃格尔博士的突出贡献，她被评为美国年度心理学突出教师，获得加州参议院颁发的人道主义奖。 这部书是埃格尔博士的处女作，她完整地回顾了在集中营的时光以及战后的生活，记录了自己在人生关口的每一个选择。拥抱人生，皆有可能。

埃格尔博士是一位杰出的心理学家，也是奥斯维辛集中营的幸存者之一，现任美国加利福尼亚大学圣迭戈分校心理学教授，定期在国内外举行个人演讲。她还曾与退伍军人、美国海军陆战队战后创伤患者、身心受创的患者一起工作，帮助患者走出阴霾，选择并找到快乐。 埃格尔博士曾多次登上荧屏，参加奥普拉脱口秀、纪念奥斯维辛集中营解放节目以及荷兰国家电视台播出的大屠杀纪录片，与大家分享集中营创伤治愈，希望大家摆脱过去、拥抱自己，并通过回顾历史来守望和平。由于埃格尔博士的突出贡献，她被评为美国年度心理学突出教师，获得加州参议院颁发的人道主义奖。 这部书是埃格尔博士的处女作，她完整地回顾了在集中营的时光以及战后的生活，记录了自己在人生关口的每一个选择。拥抱人生，皆有可能。

Marco was never in a Nazi concentration camp. And perhaps the rest of his past was fabricated, too, a combination of his delusions of grandeur and his compulsive lying. In this hypnotic narrative, which combines fiction and nonfiction, detective story and war story, biography and autobiography, Javier Cercas sets out to unravel Marco’s enigma. With both profound compassion and ...(展开全部)

For decades, Enric Marco was revered as a veteran of the Spanish Civil War, a crusader for justice, and a Holocaust survivor. But in May 2005, at the height of his renown, he was exposed as a fraud: Marco was never in a Nazi concentration camp. And perhaps the rest of his past was fabricated, too, a combination of his delusions of grandeur and his compulsive lying. In this hypn...(展开全部)

From an award-winning New York Times investigative reporter comes an outrageous story of greed, corruption, and conspiracy—which left the FBI and Justice Department counting on the cooperation of one man . . . It was one of the FBI's biggest secrets: a senior executive with America's most politically powerful corporation, Archer Daniels Midland, had become a confidential gover...(展开全部)

[National Bestseller] Soon to be a major motion picture from Warner Bros., starring Matt Damon. In The Informant, award-winning investigative reporter and New York Times bestselling author Kurt Eichenwald tells the outrageously true story of greed, corruption, and conspiracy that left the FBI and Justice Department counting on the cooperation of one man. Now headed for ...(展开全部)

Written as the ludicrous and disturbing ramblings of an errant, pseudo-intellectual urbanite secluding himself from the underworld in an impoverished coastal village of Taiwan in the early 1960s, this novel prompted the first critical discussion of postmodernism in Chinese fiction and still stands as the most provocative and innovative narrative published in Taiwan over the pas...(展开全部)

The first history of the epic defeat of Napoleon's empire told from the Russian perspective. Though much has been written about Napoleon's doomed invasion of Russia and the collapse of the French Empire that ensued, virtually all of it has been from the Western perspective. Now, taking advantage of never- before-seen documents from the Russian archives, Dominic Lieven upen...(展开全部)

A major new history of the Russian conflict immortalized by Tolstoy in War and Peace Russia's expulsion of Napoleon's Grande Armée in 1812 is considered one of the most dramatic events in European history. However, Tolstoyan myth and an imbalance of British and French interpretations have clouded most Westerners' understanding of Russia's role in the defeat of Napoleon. ...(展开全部)