It was a great adventure--the emigration in the 1880s of two million Jews from East Europe to the United States. Many settled in New York, where they attempted to maintain their own Yiddish culture even while making their way into American society. Howe tells the story of these people--from sweatshop to Hollywood studio, from yeshiva to university, every aspect of Jewish life i...(展开全部)

"World of Our Fathers" traces the story of Eastern Europe's Jews to America over four decades. Beginning in the 1880s, it offers a rich portrayal of the East European Jewish experience in New York, and shows how the immigrant generation tried to maintain their Yiddish culture while becoming American. It is essential reading for those interested in understanding why these forebe...(展开全部)

The profession of peddling has until now received only slight and fragmentary scholarly attention. Usually treated in an anecdotal fashion, the pedlar has generally been thought of as a marginal figure, closer in character to a vagabond than a trader. In this first sustained account of the profession in Europe, Laurence Fontaine argues that peddling, particularly as a means of ...(展开全部)

盖伊·加夫里尔·凯，加拿大小说家，被誉为“托尔金的传人”，曾整理过托尔金遗作《精灵宝钻》，后创作出大获成功的“费奥纳瓦织锦”三部曲。盖伊擅长“架空历史奇幻小说”，近期以中国历史为背景的小说《天下》《星河》分别入围IMPAC都柏林文学奖及轨迹奖决选名单，并在国际上获得了众多读者的一致好评。

'Philosophy, from the earliest times, has made greater claims, and acheived fewer results than any other branch of learning ...I believe that the time has now arrived when this unsatisfactory state of affairs can be brought to an end' - Bertrand Russell So begins Our Knowledge of the Eternal World, Bertrand Russell's classic attempt to show by means of examples, the nature, ca...(展开全部)

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Senator John McCain learned about life and honor from his grandfather and father, both four-star admirals in the U.S. Navy. Both their careers and their courage helped prepare McCain for the biggest challenge of his life when, as a naval aviator, he was shot down over Hanoi in 1967 and seriously injured. When his captors realized McCain's impressive military legacy, they offere...(展开全部)