"Finally the English-speaking world can see what inspired Francois Truffaut to make one of his best films. How wonderful to finally have Henri-Pierre Roche's Two English Girls in translation "

"Finally the English-speaking world can see what inspired Francois Truffaut to make one of his best films. How wonderful to finally have Henri-Pierre Roche's Two English Girls in translation "

The year is 2025 and Otaba General Construction - a firm that has built structures to survive the Antarctic and the Sahara - has received its most daunting challenge yet. Sennosuke Touenji, the chairman of one of the world's largest leisure conglomorates, wants a moon base fit for civilian use, and he wants his granddaughter Tae to be his eyes and ears on the harsh lunar surfac...(展开全部)

Stephen Fry explores the highways and byways of the English language in these four programmes, as heard on BBC Radio 4. "So Wrong It's Right" - Stephen examines how 'wrong' English can become right English. With help from a lexicographer, an educationalist, a "Times" sub-editor and a judge, Stephen examines the way in which usage changes language. "Speaking Proper" - It may be ...(展开全部)

Robert Tombs is Professor of History at Cambridge University. His acclaimed book That Sweet Enemy: The French and the British from the Sun King to the Present was published in 2006. He is one of the leading scholars of Anglo-French relations.

Robert Tombs is Professor of History at Cambridge University. His acclaimed book That Sweet Enemy: The French and the British from the Sun King to the Present was published in 2006. He is one of the leading scholars of Anglo-French relations.

Robert Tombs is Professor of History at Cambridge University. His acclaimed book That Sweet Enemy: The French and the British from the Sun King to the Present was published in 2006. He is one of the leading scholars of Anglo-French relations.

The English first materialized as an idea, before they had a common ruler and before the country they lived in even had a name. From the armed Saxon bands that descended onto Roman-controlled Britain in the fifth century to the travails of the Eurozone plaguing the prime-ministership of today's multicultural England, acclaimed historian Robert Tombs presents a momentous and cha...(展开全部)

(英国)弗雷德里克·威廉·梅特兰 (英国)约翰·汉密尔顿·贝克 译者：易继明 杜颖 弗雷德里克·威廉·梅特兰(Frederic William Maitland)，林肯律师公会律师，法学博士，罗马法法学博士，剑桥大学英格兰法唐宁讲席教授。 约翰·汉密尔顿·贝克爵士(Sir John Hamilton Boker)，剑桥大学英格兰法唐宁讲席教授，不列颠学院院士(FBA)。 易继明，法学博士，北京大学法学院研究员。 杜颖，法学博士，华中科技大学法学院教授。

'Politics and the English Language' is widely considered Orwell's most important essay on style. Style, for Orwell, was never simply a question of aesthetics; it was always inextricably linked to politics and to truth.'All issues are political issues, and politics itself is a mass of lies, evasions, folly, hatred and schizophrenia.When the general atmosphere is bad, language mu...(展开全部)