The varied forms of Leonard Bernstein's musical creativity have been recognized and enjoyed by millions. These lectures, Mr. Bernstein's most recent venture in musical explication, will make fascinating reading as well. Virgil Thomson says of the lectures: "Nobody anywhere presents this material so warmly, so sincerely, so skillfully. As musical mind-openers they are first clas...(展开全部)

Julian Treslove, a professionally unspectacular and disappointed BBC worker, and Sam Finkler, a popular Jewish philosopher, writer and television personality, are old school friends. Despite a prickly relationship and very different lives, they've never quite lost touch with each other - or with their former teacher, Libor Sevcik, a Czechoslovakian always more concerned with th...(展开全部)

霍华德•雅各布森，英国犹太裔小说家、专栏作家以及电台主持人。雅各布森曾在悉尼大学授课三年，回到英国后，在剑桥大学塞尔文学院任教。其主要作品有：《强大的华尔泽》、《此刻谁抱歉？》、《卡鲁奇之夜》（入围2006年布克奖长名单）、《爱情迫害狂》等。2010年凭喜剧小说《芬克勒问题》摘得布克奖。雅各布森最擅长描写犹太裔英国人的困境，并以此题材创作喜剧小说而出名，他的写作风格睿智幽默，辛辣讽刺，自诩为 “犹太裔的简•奥斯丁”。

Nina Pelikan Straus explores Dostoevsky's major works with a focus on his women characters, his references to rape and men's abuse of females, and his construction of 'the feminine'. Intended not to impose feminist ideology upon the writer, but rather to enlarge feminist discourse through Dostoevsky, the chapters explore new readings with a sense of their positioning at the end...(展开全部)

In this book, Jonathan Spence tells the story of a man called John Hu, who accompanied a French missionary returning from Canton to France in 1722. Jonathan Spence has written several books including, "The Gates of Heavenly Peace" and "The Memory Palace of Matteo Ricci".

The Question of Bruno is a novella and stories that are linked by characters, by locations, by interwoven substories, and by a literary voice so strong and sensitive that no matter how many guises it adopts, the stories cannot help but gather momentum and join together as a powerfully inventive whole. Set in Chicago and Sarajevo, it is a book about the trauma of war, about how ...(展开全部)

In this rich and riveting narrative, a writer's search for the truth behind his family's tragic past in World War II becomes a remarkably original epic—part memoir, part reportage, part mystery, and part scholarly detective work—that brilliantly explores the nature of time and memory, family and history.

杰罗姆•卡拉贝尔，生于1950年，美国社会学家，政治及社会评论家，加州大学伯克利分校社会学教授，其笔触以全面的视角，广泛涉及美国高等教育机构及社会政策和历史的方方面面。他致力于对教育的社会学研究，探求美国高等教育中关于精英、机遇、晋升途径与文化资本的内涵，以及教育系统在使现有社会秩序合法化中所扮演的角色。