This is a book written for those who come to England from abroad, whether as short-term visitors, to be educated or engage in work, whether they come from the Continent or from other civilisations, especially the Far East. It provides over a hundred short descriptions of prominent English features and then tries to explain their origin and function. Under the first two letters,...(展开全部)

Very few people in the West know much about China. What they think they know is largely based on outdated stereotypes from the mind-twentieth century or earlier. Yet, as China emerges once again as a world super-power and influences lives around the globe, it is important to understand this most ancient and largest of all civilizations. This book is based on seventeen visits to...(展开全部)

The pecuiliarity of the English, a personal view - Alan Macfarlane writes as both an insider (British parents, brought up and educated and living in England, working on English history), and as an outsider (five-eighths Scots, working as an anthropologist in Nepal, Japan and China). The book explains very simply some of the key features that those who wish to understand the Eng...(展开全部)

蒂莫西·加顿艾什（Timothy Garton Ash）：当代西方最重要的政治写作者之一，牛津大学历史学教授、英国《卫报》专栏作家、中东欧当代史专家，著有《波兰革命》、《档案：一部个人史》、《事实即颠覆：无以名之的十年的政治写作》等。

蒂莫西·加顿艾什（Timothy Garton Ash）：当代西方最重要的政治写作者之一，牛津大学历史学教授、英国《卫报》专栏作家、中东欧当代史专家，著有《波兰革命》、《档案：一部个人史》、《事实即颠覆：无以名之的十年的政治写作》等。

本书为公版书，为不受著作权法限制的作家、艺术家及其它人士发布的作品，供广大读者阅读交流。汇聚授权电子版权。

Oe’s most important novel, A Personal Matter, has been called by The New York Times close to a perfect novel.” In A Personal Matter, Oe has chosen a difficult, complex though universal subject: how does one face and react to the birth of an abnormal child? Bird, the protagonist, is a young man of 27 with antisocial tendencies who more than once in his life, when confronted with...(展开全部)

John Berger's writings on photography are some of the most original of the twentieth century. This selection contains many groundbreaking essays and previously uncollected pieces written for exhibitions and catalogues in which Berger probes the work of photographers such as Henri Cartier-Bresson and W. Eugene Smith - and the lives of those photographed - with fierce engagement,...(展开全部)

In this fresh approach to the history of the Black Death, John Hatcher, a world-renowned scholar of the Middle Ages, recreates everyday life in a mid-fourteenth century rural English village. By focusing on the experiences of ordinary villagers as they lived—and died—during the Black Death (1345–50 AD), Hatcher vividly places the reader directly into those tumultuous years and ...(展开全部)