作者： 罗伯特·M.奇蒂诺（Robert M. Citino）：军事历史作家，“德国战争方式”研究领域的泰斗人物，在研究二战与德国作战方式对现代作战理论的影响方面有杰出成就。曾在西点军校（United States Military Academy at West Point）、美国陆军战争学院（the United States Army War College）等高校担任学术职位，现任美国陆军部历史咨询委员会（the Historical Advisory Subcommittee of the Department of the Army）主席。 他的作品获得了美国历史协会（American Historical Association）、美国军事历史学会（American Society for Military History）和纽约军事研...(展开全部)

安德鲁·纳戈尔斯基(Andrew Nagorski) 曾任《新闻周刊》 (Newsweek) 驻香港、莫斯科、罗马、波恩、华沙和柏林等记者站站长，撰写了大量文章,出版了包括《纳粹猎人》 (The Nazi Hunters) 、《最伟大的战役》 (The Greatest Battle) 等多部著作。

安德鲁·纳戈尔斯基(Andrew Nagorski) 曾任《新闻周刊》 (Newsweek) 驻香港、莫斯科、罗马、波恩、华沙和柏林等记者站站长，撰写了大量文章,出版了包括《纳粹猎人》 (The Nazi Hunters) 、《最伟大的战役》 (The Greatest Battle) 等多部著作。

Praise for Korea: The First War We Lost "This.fast-moving study is the first to be written by a professional army historian.superb.capably challenges many of the traditional interpretations." -Library Journal "The best overview of the Korean conflict since Fehrenbach's This Kind of War...a balanced, perceptive accounting..." -Kirkus Review "A desirable acquisition for most mili...(展开全部)

Drawing on recently declassified documents and extensive interviews with Soviet and American policy-makers, among them several important figures speaking for public record for the first time, Ned Lebow and Janice Stein cast new light on the effect of nuclear threats in two of the tensest moments of the Cold War: the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962 and the confrontations arising ou...(展开全部)

In this addictive and spectacularly imagined debut, a female apothecary secretly dispenses poisons to liberate women from the men who have wronged them—setting three lives across centuries on a dangerous collision course Rule #1: The poison must never be used to harm another woman. Rule #2: The names of the murderer and her victim must be recorded in the apothecary’s register. ...(展开全部)

Thomas Wolfe's "The Lost Boy" is a captivating and poignant retelling of an episode from Wolfe's childhood. The story of Wolfe's brother Grover and his trip to the 1904 St. Louis World's Fair is told from four perspectives, each articulating the sentiments of a different family member. "The Lost Boy" also captures beautifully the experiences of growing up at the turn of the cen...(展开全部)

- 作者简介 - 托马斯·沃尔夫（Thomas Wolfe，1900—1938），美国小说家，与海明威、菲茨杰拉德齐名（他们是传奇编辑珀金斯职业生涯中最重要的三位作家），《天使，望故乡》和《时间与河流》是其代表作。沃尔夫以抒情诗般的文风和自传体式的笔法闻名，福克纳称其为同辈中最具天分的作家，其影响广及“垮掉的一代”，甚至菲利普·罗斯和雷·布莱伯利等当代名家。 - 译者简介 - 陈婉容，曾任英文教科书编辑，现为自由译者，译有《世界就是这样结束的》等书。

作者简介 奥兰多·费吉斯（Orlando Figes），英国人，生于1959年，剑桥大学三一学院博士，现任英国伦敦大学伯贝克学院历史学教授。俄国生活的方方面面，不论是文学艺术，还是政治经济，他都烂熟于心，无人能出其右。他的一系列解读沙俄及苏联历史的著作如《耳语者：斯大林时代苏联的私人生活》《娜塔莎之舞：俄罗斯文化史》等都取得了非凡的成就，是当今英语世界俄罗斯研究的一流大家。作品曾获沃尔夫森奖、NCR图书奖，并入围萨缪尔·约翰逊奖、达夫·库珀奖等，已被翻译成二十多种文字出版。 译者简介 吕品，香港科技大学细胞生物学博士，在英国学术、新闻及商业机构工作多年，曾担任英国《卫报》中文版主编及英文评论版编辑。目前在英国从事卫生经济学领域的循证医疗传播工作。 朱珠，英国纽卡斯尔大学翻译学博士，现任英国爱丁堡大学亚洲学系中文教学主任，研究领域涉及翻译学、心理语言学...(展开全部)

In 2007, when a new edition of the Oxford Junior Dictionary ― widely used in schools around the world ― was published, a sharp-eyed reader soon noticed that around forty common words concerning nature had been dropped. Apparently they were no longer being used enough by children to merit their place in the dictionary. The list of these “lost words” included acorn, adder, bluebe...(展开全部)