Internationally acclaimed photographer Sally Mann offers a five-part meditation on mortality.

Internationally acclaimed photographer Sally Mann offers a five-part meditation on mortality.

In Strength in What Remains , Tracy Kidder gives us the story of one man’s inspiring American journey and of the ordinary people who helped him, providing brilliant testament to the power of second chances. Deo arrives in the United States from Burundi in search of a new life. Having survived a civil war and genocide, he lands at JFK airport with two hundred dollars, no Englis...(展开全部)

特雷西•基德尔（Tracy Kidder），1945年出生于美国纽约，毕业于哈佛大学英文系，是一位优秀的非虚构类文学作家。他的代表作《新机器的灵魂》（The Soul of a New Machine）获得了非凡的成功，荣获了普利策非虚构类大奖、美国国家图书非虚构类大奖等奖项，并受到了批评家与媒体人的极大好评。此外，他的《学童之中》（Among Schoolchildren）曾获得肯尼迪图书奖、美国学会大使图书奖。《山外有山》（Mountains Beyond Mountains）也于2004年斩获了国际报告文学奖。本书是他的最新著作。

In 1941, the first Neumann family member was taken by the Nazis, arrested in German-occupied Czechoslovakia for bathing in a stretch of river forbidden to Jews. He was transported to Auschwitz. Eighteen days later his prisoner number was entered into the morgue book. Of thirty-four Neumann family members, twenty-five were murdered by the Nazis. One of the survivors was Hans Neu...(展开全部)

In 1941, the first Neumann family member was taken by the Nazis, arrested in German-occupied Czechoslovakia for bathing in a stretch of river forbidden to Jews. He was transported to Auschwitz. Eighteen days later his prisoner number was entered into the morgue book. Of thirty-four Neumann family members, twenty-five were murdered by the Nazis. One of the survivors was Hans Neu...(展开全部)

梅爾清（Tobie Meyer-Fong） 美國約翰霍普金斯大學歷史學系教授，東亞研究所主任。主要研究清朝歷史，研究方向包括城市史、文化史、社會史和女性史。曾於2007-2018年擔任《清史問題》（Late Imperial China）期刊主編。曾著有《清初揚州文化》一書。 審訂者簡介 郭劼 美國南卡羅萊納大學語言文學與文化系副教授。 譯者簡介 蕭琪 國立臺灣師範大學歷史學系碩士、國立臺灣大學歷史學系博士候選人。主要研究明代史，研究興趣為性別、禮制、醫療與社會文化史。著有《父母等恩：《孝慈錄》與明代母服的理念及其實踐》、〈評熊秉真，《幼醫與幼蒙：近世中國社會的緜延之道》〉。 蔡松穎 國立臺灣師範大學歷史學系碩士、國立臺灣大學歷史學系博士候選人。把歷史學當作遊戲在玩，努力探究其博大精深中。喜歡邊陲、少數，以及勇於和高牆對抗的雞蛋們。

The Taiping Rebellion was one of the costliest civil wars in human history. Tens of millions of people lost their lives, as Chinese rebels, imperial armies, and local militias clashed across the Yangzi Delta. Yet while the Rebellion has been intensely studied, we still know little of how individuals coped with these cataclysmic events. Drawing upon a rich array of primary sourc...(展开全部)

The Taiping Rebellion was one of the costliest civil wars in human history. Tens of millions of people lost their lives, as Chinese rebels, imperial armies, and local militias clashed across the Yangzi Delta. Yet while the Rebellion has been intensely studied, we still know little of how individuals coped with these cataclysmic events. Drawing upon a rich array of primary sourc...(展开全部)

An elderly butler is on a five-day motoring trip through the West Country in the 1950s. The climax of his journey is to be a reunion with his former housekeeper. This 1989 Booker Prize-winner attempts to capture a period in British history and draw a portrait of a man in old age.