Zhang Shenfu, a founder of the Chinese Communist party, participated in all the major political events in China for four decades following the Revolution of 1919. Yet Zhang had become a forgotten figure in China and the West--a victim of Mao's determined efforts to place himself at the center of China's revolution--until Vera Schwarcz began to meet with him in his home on Wang ...(展开全部)

Zhang Shenfu, a founder of the Chinese Communist party, participated in all the major political events in China for four decades following the Revolution of 1919. Yet Zhang had become a forgotten figure in China and the West--a victim of Mao's determined efforts to place himself at the center of China's revolution--until Vera Schwarcz began to meet with him in his home on Wang ...(展开全部)

In his customary pose as the grumpiest of grumpy old men, Raymond Briggs contemplates old age and death… and doesn’t like them much. Illustrated with Briggs’s inimitable pencil drawings, Time for Lights Out is a collection of short pieces, some funny, some melancholy, some remembering his wife who died young, others about the joy of grandchildren, of walking the dog… He looks b...(展开全部)

The Time Is Out of Joint handles the Shakespearean oeuvre from a philosophical perspective, finding that Shakespeare's historical dramas reflect on issues and reveal puzzles which were taken up by philosophy proper only in the centuries following them. Shakespeare's extraordinary handling of time and temporality, the difference between truth and fact, that of theory, and that o...(展开全部)

This volume is a record of journalist Gabriele ten Hovel's probing interview with Bert Hellinger. In it Hellinger sheds new light on his unique use of family constellations to reveal hidden, often destructive family dynamics and to activate healing resources.

作者简介 乔伊斯·阿普尔比，美国加州大学洛杉矶分校历史学教授。著有《历史想像中的自由主义与共和政治：1790年代的杰弗逊式看法》、《17世纪英国的经济思想与意识形态》。曾于1991—1992年担任美国历史学会主席。 林恩·亨特，美国宾州大学安柏格历史讲座教授，新文化史运动的主要倡导者和领导者之一。著有《法国大革命的家族传奇》、《法国大革命的政治、文化与阶级》，曾主编《新文化史》以及《色情之发明：诲淫与现代性之起源,1500—1800年》。 玛格丽特·雅各布，美国社会研究新学院的历史学教授。著有《启蒙时代的生活：18世纪欧洲的共济会与政治》、《激进的启蒙运动：泛神论者、共济会员与共和党人》、《牛顿主义者与英国革命，1689—1720年》、《科学革命的文化意义》。 译者简介 刘北成 清华大学历史系系主任，著名学者、翻译家。译有《历史研究》《疯癫与文明》...(展开全部)

"A fascinating historiographical essay. . . . An unusually lucid and inclusive explication of what it ultimately at stake in the culture wars over the nature, goals, and efficacy of history as a discipline."— Booklist

Frances is twenty-one years old, cool-headed and observant. A student in Dublin and an aspiring writer, at night she performs spoken word with her best friend Bobbi, who used to be her girlfriend. When they are interviewed and then befriended by Melissa, a well-known journalist who is married to Nick, an actor, they enter a world of beautiful houses, raucous dinner parties and ...(展开全部)

From one of the Observer's Rising Stars of 2017, a high-risk, highbrow and intimate novel – and one of the most anticipated works of fiction this year. Features Frances, Bobbi, Nick and Melissa, four characters who ask each other endless questions. As their relationships unfold, in person and online, they discuss sex and friendship, art and literature, politics and gender, and,...(展开全部)

A memoir by the former vice president of Yugoslavia describing three visits to Moscow and his encounters there with Stalin. Index. Translated by Michael B. Petrovich.