A remote lodge in upstate New York is the perfect getaway . . . until the bodies start piling up. It's winter in the Catskills and the weather outside is frightful, but Mitchell's Inn is so delightful! The cozy lodge nestled deep in the woods is perfect for a relaxing - maybe even romantic - weekend away. The Inn boasts spacious old rooms with huge wood-burning fireplaces, a we...(展开全部)

加列特·基泽尔 Garret Keizer 自由撰稿人，《哈泼斯杂志》特约编辑，新近成为古根海姆学者。他曾出版六本书，包括广受好评的《帮助》（Help）和《愤怒之谜》（The Enigma of Anger）。他的散文和诗歌散见于《洛杉矶时报》、《琼斯母亲》、《纽约客》、《美国最美散文》和《美国最美诗歌》。

In December 1572 the Mughal emperor Akbar arrived in the port city of Khambayat. Having been raised in distant Kabul, Akbar, in his thirty years, had never been to the ocean. Presumably anxious with the news about the Mughal military campaign in Gujarat, several Portuguese merchants in Khambayat rushed to Akbar's presence. This encounter marked the beginning of a long, complex,...(展开全部)

The powerfully told story of a group of German Jews desperately seeking American visas to escape Nazi Germany, and an illuminating account of America's response to the refugee crisis of the 1930's and 40's. This book complements the exhibition The Americans and the Holocaust that is now on view at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, DC In October 1940 the...(展开全部)

作者简介： 迈克尔·多布斯（Michael Dobbs） 生于北爱尔兰首府贝尔法斯特，毕业于约克大学，曾获普林斯顿大学和哈佛大学的研究资助。曾任《华盛顿邮报》记者，任职期间大多奔波于国外。现任职于美国犹太人大屠杀纪念馆。他著有Down with Big Brother: The Fall of the Soviet Empire（美国笔会非小说类入围作品）、《午夜将至：核战边缘的肯尼迪、赫鲁晓夫与卡斯特罗》（《华盛顿邮报》《圣路易斯邮报》年度最佳图书）、《1945年的六个月：从盟友到对抗》等。 译者简介： 夏文钊，毕业于伦敦政治经济学院人类学系，致力于追寻真诚而有意义的对话。

The powerfully told story of a group of German Jews desperately seeking American visas to escape Nazi Germany, and an illuminating account of America's response to the refugee crisis of the 1930's and 40's. This book complements the exhibition The Americans and the Holocaust that is now on view at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, DC In October 1940 the...(展开全部)

作者简介： 迈克尔·多布斯（Michael Dobbs） 生于北爱尔兰首府贝尔法斯特，毕业于约克大学，曾获普林斯顿大学和哈佛大学的研究资助。曾任《华盛顿邮报》记者，任职期间大多奔波于国外。现任职于美国犹太人大屠杀纪念馆。他著有Down with Big Brother: The Fall of the Soviet Empire（美国笔会非小说类入围作品）、《午夜将至：核战边缘的肯尼迪、赫鲁晓夫与卡斯特罗》（《华盛顿邮报》《圣路易斯邮报》年度最佳图书）、《1945年的六个月：从盟友到对抗》等。 译者简介： 夏文钊，毕业于伦敦政治经济学院人类学系，致力于追寻真诚而有意义的对话。

Like Edward Tenner’s Why Things Bite Back: The Revenge of Unintended Consequences (1996), this engaging book explores the unforeseen (and sometimes unwanted) side effects of our inventive natures. We usually use the word noise as a pejorative, a term denoting unwanted sound: somebody’s loud music, a blaring car alarm, the din from a nearby airport. But, as Keizer points out, no...(展开全部)

Noise is usually defined as unwanted sound: loud music from a neighbor, the honk of a taxicab, the roar of a supersonic jet. But as Garret Keizer illustrates in this probing examination, noise is as much about what we want as about what we seek to avoid. In a journey that leads us from the primeval Tanzanian veldt to wind farms in Maine, Keizer invites us to listen to noise in ...(展开全部)