Recovering from the brink of death after venting her frustrations about an unjust world, a ninety-two-year-old woman recounts three stages of her painful life.

Noted science writer Chet Raymo explores how we found our place in space and time, and what it has meant to humankind. In "Walking Zero," Chet Raymo uses the Prime Meridian--the line of zero longitude and the standard for all the world's maps and clocks--to tell the story of humandkind's intellectual journey from a cosmos not much larger than ourselves to the universe of the ga...(展开全部)

"Did Mama sing every day?" Caleb asks his sister Anna. "Every-single-day," she answers. "Papa sang, too." Their mother died the day after Caleb was born. Their house on the prairie is quiet now, and Papa doesn't sing anymore. Then Papa puts an ad in the paper, asking for a wife, and he receives a letter from one Sarah Elisabeth Wheaton, of Maine. Papa, Anna, and Caleb write bac...(展开全部)

"Did Mama sing every day?" Caleb asks his sister Anna. "Every-single-day," she answers. "Papa sang, too." Their mother died the day after Caleb was born. Their house on the prairie is quiet now, and Papa doesn't sing anymore. Then Papa puts an ad in the paper, asking for a wife, and he receives a letter from one Sarah Elisabeth Wheaton, of Maine. Papa, Anna, and Caleb write bac...(展开全部)

"Did Mama sing every day?" Caleb asks his sister Anna. "Every-single-day," she answers. "Papa sang, too." Their mother died the day after Caleb was born. Their house on the prairie is quiet now, and Papa doesn't sing anymore. Then Papa puts an ad in the paper, asking for a wife, and he receives a letter from one Sarah Elisabeth Wheaton, of Maine. Papa, Anna, and Caleb write bac...(展开全部)

罗杰·塔厚尔，在书界职业生涯超过二十年，1988年起为《出版新闻》记者，见过作者逾百，参与伦敦城内文学大事无数，本书中一些灵感便来自于此。 罗杰·塔厚尔还是《卫报》、《庞奇》等媒体撰稿人，著有Poems NOT on the Underground。

Walking Literary London presents 25 carefully planned walks that explore London＇s rich literary heritage. You find it packed with stories of the lives, loves, and works of famous novelists, poets, and

In this landmark biography of Winston Churchill based on extensive new material, the true genius of the man, statesman and leader can finally be fully seen and understood--by the bestselling, award-winning author of Napoleon and The Storm of War When we seek an example of great leaders with unalloyed courage, the person who comes to mind is Winston Churchill: the iconic, vision...(展开全部)

弗雷德里克·格鲁（Frédéric Gros），生于1965年，法国哲学家，30岁即成为教授，任职于巴黎政治学院、巴黎十二大等学府，学术研究领域涵盖精神医学史、刑罚哲学、西方战争思想等。他曾负责编辑哲学家米歇尔·福柯在法兰西公学院讲授的几堂课，是法国中生代福柯研究的重要代表。著作包括《福柯与疯狂》《创造与疯狂》《暴力的状态：论战争终结》等。

A tour in words and photographs that presents a completely new way of experiencing the architecture of this modern master. Le Corbusier (1887-1965) is an icon of twentieth-century architecture, his status a reflection of his capacity to endow architecture with an expression that evokes the spirit of his epoch. This book features some of Le Corbusier's most important European...(展开全部)