In 1649, no lawyer in the country would accept the brief of prosecuting Charles I, except one — John Cook, the bravest of barristers, who was killed as punishment for sending the King to the scaffold. From the Hardcover edition.

杰弗里•罗伯逊（Geoffrey Robertson QC） 英国王室法律顾问，国际著名人权律师，联合国塞拉利昂特别法庭法官。他曾在英国中央刑事法院的诸多著名案件中担任辩护律师，在英国、欧洲和马来西亚、斐济、澳大利亚等英联邦国家的最高法院为公民自由而辩护，赢了很多具标志性意义的官司。他参与了起诉皮诺切特和海斯廷斯•卡穆祖•班达（Hastings Kamuzu Banda)的案件，也参与对审判萨达姆•侯赛因的法官的培训。他的著作《反人类罪》（Crimes Against Humanity）启发了全球的正义运动，作品《正义的游戏》（The Justice Game ）与被当作教科书的《媒体法》（Media Law）出版后均引起巨大反响。 杰弗里•罗伯逊现与妻子凯西•乐蒂（Kathy Lette）及两个孩子居住在伦敦。他创办了道迪街律师事务所（Dought...(展开全部)

Charles I waged civil wars that cost one in ten Englishmen their lives. But in 1649 Parliament was hard put to find a lawyer with the skill and daring to prosecute a king who claimed to be above the law. In the end, they chose the radical lawyer John Cooke, whose Puritan conscience, political vision, and love of civil liberties gave him the courage to bring the king to trial. A...(展开全部)

Charles I waged civil wars that cost one in ten Englishmen their lives. But in 1649 Parliament was hard put to find a lawyer with the skill and daring to prosecute a King who claimed to be above the law: in the end the man they briefed was the radical lawyer John Cooke. His Puritan conscience, political vision, and love of civil liberties gave him the courage to bring the King’...(展开全部)

The world-famous cosmologist and #1 bestselling author of A Brief History of Time leaves us with his final thoughts on the biggest questions facing humankind. Stephen Hawking was the most renowned scientist since Einstein, known both for his groundbreaking work in physics and cosmology and for his mischievous sense of humor. He educated millions of readers about the origins of ...(展开全部)

Stephen Hawking was the most renowned scientist since Einstein, known both for his groundbreaking work in physics and cosmology and for his mischievous sense of humor. He educated millions of readers about the origins of the universe and the nature of black holes, and inspired millions more by defying a terrifying early prognosis of ALS, which originally gave him only two years...(展开全部)

Stephen Hawking was the most renowned scientist since Einstein, known both for his groundbreaking work in physics and cosmology and for his mischievous sense of humor. He educated millions of readers about the origins of the universe and the nature of black holes, and inspired millions more by defying a terrifying early prognosis of ALS, which originally gave him only two years...(展开全部)

The world-famous cosmologist and #1 bestselling author of A Brief History of Time leaves us with his final thoughts on the biggest questions facing humankind. Stephen Hawking was the most renowned scientist since Einstein, known both for his groundbreaking work in physics and cosmology and for his mischievous sense of humor. He educated millions of readers about the origins of ...(展开全部)

A magnet for trade and travellers from all over the world, stylish, cosmopolitan Amsterdam is a city not only of dreams and nightmares, of grand civic architecture and legendary beauty, but also of civil wars, bloody religious purges, and the tragedy of Anne Frank. In this fascinating examination of the city's soul, part history, part travel guide, Geert Mak imaginatively recre...(展开全部)

The Poet Laureate's clear and entertaining account of how poetry works. "Poetry is a vocal, which is to say a bodily, art," Robert Pinsky declares in "The Sounds of Poetry." "The medium of poetry is the human body: the column of air inside the chest, shaped into signifying sounds in the larynx and the mouth. In this sense, poetry is as physical or bodily an art as dancing." As ...(展开全部)