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)

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)

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)

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.

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.

在线阅读本书 In sumptuous and illuminating detail, Simon Winchester, the bestselling author of The Professor and the Madman ("Elegant and scrupulous"— New York Times Book Review ) and Krakatoa ("A mesmerizing page-turner"— Time ) brings to life the extraordinary story of Joseph Needham, the brilliant Cambridge scientist who unlocked the most closely held secrets of China, long...(展开全部)

沃尔特·特维斯（Walter Tevis, 1928—1984） 美国小说家、作家协会会员。生于旧金山，11岁被父母托管于斯坦福儿童康复中心，一年后与父母团聚于肯塔基州。在小镇中学任教期间，开始创作短篇小说，发表于《周六晚报》《花花公子》等报刊。曾在俄亥俄大学长期执教。后死于肺癌。共创作6部长篇及多部短篇，作品被翻译成近40种语言，改编为多部影视作品，广受好评。 译者简介： 易真 自由译者，译有《心灵之歌》《天外来客》、《我们是幸运的》《归来记》（即将出版）等。